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March 01, 2005

Where's MacGyver?

One of the nicest parts of the move to Houston has been that, since our apartment is directly across the street from my office, I usually have time in the morning to get something to eat and enjoy a cup of coffee before running out to work. While this doesn't make up from not being able to oblige my normal ritual of stopping by Dunkin' Donuts on the way to work, it is still nice.

To complement this, I've been able to flip on the TV at 8 and catch the first half hour of a classic episode of MacGyver while sipping coffee. Besides the blast from the past - the taking me back to those simpler times when really tall blond spiky hair and mock collared shirts were acceptable out of a grown man - it provides me with a valuable opportunity to impress my future bride with my MacGyver trivia prowess.

For instance, when she asks what this MacGyver character's first name is, I can quickly tell her that it is Angus and provide her details about the two-episode dream sequence in which Mac goes back in time to the Middle Ages, joins up with the knights of the round table and is able to uncover his first name from a message left by one of his ancestors on a dungeon wall. Or I can regal her with information like that both Brandon Walsh & Blossom of TV's Blossom got there start on MacGyver episodes. Or that Teri Hatcher's protrayal of the recurring character Penny Parker is not at all sexist or simplistic typecasting of a female character, but rather that her simplicity of thought (some call it ditziness) is the perfect vehicle to bring out the inner complexity of this man MacGyver (after all, he eschews guns because his childhood friend was accidently killed while they were playing with a handgun in the woods, and even though an 8 year old Mac transformed his bike into a combination bike/stretcher and was able to get him to the hospital he still died, or that he was set to make the olympic hockey team in his youth but had his chances cut short by injury, this is a man with issues! And that is the paradox of MacGyver, he can handle the most complex problems of other people, but cannot seem to do the same with his own prolems.) Anyway, I feel that these conversations have brought Sara and I closer together, or at the very least they have given Sara an opportunity to hone her snide comment making.

So yesterday I tuned in at 8, just like I always do, and there was some silly NASCAR show on. Same thing this morning. The only conclusion I can draw here is that the formerly fine folks over at Spike TV (TV for men) are not at all interested in helping strengthen the matrimonial bonds of it's audience members. I am beginning to think that the are only interested in ratings!

Posted by stan at March 1, 2005 10:31 AM

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