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Well, I don't know if I'm exactly in agreement with Patty and Selma that this series is the greatest thing next to sliced bread, and watching this show most certainly does not make me want to light up a cigarette afterwards. I honestly can't remember the last time I willingly watched a whole episode of it. Then again, on the other side, I won't go as far as Sideshow Bob does by saying "this is me lying: that was a well plotted piece of non-claptrap that never made me want to retch." And despite what Jay Sherman says, I'm pretty sure MacGyver isn't gay. Yes, this is a show that has spawned pretty damn good one liners in some of my favorite cartoon series, so for that I've gotta commend the thing.

And despite the fact that the show is so far fetched and outrageous that it makes Sylvester Stallone movies look like Ken Burns documentaries in comparison, it's actually got some interesting things throughout it. Such as MacGyver using duct tape to make a helicopter explode, or a lead pipe and carseat lining used to make a grenade launcher, plus using a credit card to create a traffic jam, or a light bulb to get through locked doors (even though those last two items could be reversed for the same purpose). I'm actually surprised MacGyver DID'T use the moon's gravitational pull to get out of a situation.

I also like how MacGyver is this super secret agent, and yet they give him a very human quality of being afraid of heights. I really really dig that about the series, mainly because I have a fear of heights myself. My fear of heights is so bad that I refuse to ever set foot inside of a sky scraper, so I'm actually worse that MacGyver (that, and I can't turn a cell phone into a tazer). You never see a super secret agent with that kind of drawback, so my hat's off to the creators of this series.

But where they absolutely lost me was how they made MacGyver a secret agent who never ever uses a gun. Yeah, that seems like a clever idea for the writers to make sure that he keeps coming up with all these gadgets made from scrap, but if it were real life, there would certainly be one situation where MacGyver could not use one of the rings of Saturn to save himself; causing him to have to pull a gun out and shoot a guy. I don't care if you know how to turn kitty litter into plastique, you need a gun at some point!

Episodes in Season 3 include the two part season opener called "Lost Love." In this episode one of MacGyver's ex girlfriends, a Soviet dissident, shows back up and begs him for help, before ultimately being kidnapped by the KGB. In "Ghost Ship," MacGyver finds a deserted ship, and a lost little girl informed him that the crew was drivin away by Bigfoot (too bad it wasn't the Boggy Creek monster). "TJ Hooker" creator Rick Husky wrote "Fire and Ice," where MacGyver seeks revenge against a jewel thief who kills his friend. The twist is that the jewel thief has diplomatic immunity. In the season finale, MacGyver befriends a Chinese teenager and goes up against some very crooked businessmen wanting to put the kid's grandfather out of business.

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