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MacGyver's main asset
is his practical application of scientific
knowledge and inventive use of common items –
along with his ever-present swiss army
knife and duct tape, and the usual
coincidence of being locked up in a room full of
useful materials. The clever solutions MacGyver
implemented to seemingly intractable problems —
often in life-or-death situations requiring him to
improvise complex devices in a matter of
minutes
In the rare cases where
MacGyver used household chemicals to
create poision or explosives or other
things deemed dangerous to describe accurately on
television, details were intentionally fudged or
altered.The use of mundane items to build
jury-rigged devices and has entered U.S
popular culture and are referred to as
"macgyverisms".
During
his extensive career MacGyver has developed a
number of lessons these must be learned by all
agents to see the list of lessons click here
MacGyver
can also be used as a verb meaning to fix, repair,
rig, solve, build, invent, or otherwise save the
day, as MacGyver did.
Here are some
things that most people dont know know about
macgyver
- He repeatedly says
that he "hates" heights.
- MacGyver's friends
often met with an untimely death.
- Even when he wasn't
on an assignment, MacGyver often finds
people who need his help.
- He fired a gun
once
- he lived in the
Griffith Observatory. (For a time)
- MagGyver is a
vegetarian.
- however,
he once tried cooked lizard
- Mac always has
whipped bean curd in his fridge and sings the
praises of alfalfa sprouts.
- Mac describes his
mother as "one of the great kitchen
experimenters."
- Of his past, Mac
says that he "started out in Minnesota."
- As a child, Mac was
in the Boy Scouts.
- Mac says he'll never
forget the motto his den mother taught them: be
prepared.
- Mac is the only
person who calles Dr. Alden "Charlie."
- Charlie was the
second friend Mac lost.
- The first friend Mac
lost was Nikolai Grotsky, who was hit by a
truck.
- Mac says that he has
a habit of not drinking too much.
- When Mac was young,
his father once took him to his favorite fishing
hole: Sparrow Lake.
- Mac lived in a
Venice Beach apartment with a balcony
overlooking a beach.
- Mac may have run a
coffee shop/hotdog stand at the front of the
beach apartment building, because he told a guy
that he forgot to pay for his coffee.
- Mac's landlady is
named Susan.
- Mac says that he
hasn't seen his grandfather since he was
ten.
- Mac calls his
grandfather "Harry." Harry calls Mac "Bud."
- Harry lives in a
small town in Colorado.
- After Mac's mother
died, Harry avoided seeing Mac because he didn't
want to be reminded of the loss.
- Mac recalls that
Harry would take him out to pick a tree for
Christmas.
- When he was "about
ten" Mac made a duck call for Harry, who says it
still works well.
- Mac says that when
he was a kid, he chewed pine pitch like it was
gum.
- Mac served in
Vietnam as part of a bomb-diffusing team, with a
man named Charlie Robinson.
- Charlie Robinson is
the third friend that Mac lost
- Mac first rode a
merry-go-round when he was six or seven years
old.
- Mac can fly a
jet.
- Mac has run the
South Bay Marathon twice.
- Mac dreamed of
playing professional hockey.
- Mac loves green
olives with pimentos.
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