The TWSS Archives: The MacGyver Moment
Date: February 20, 1989
Time: 8PM
Location: American Broadcasting Company
Description: On popular television show, MacGyver, main character--a resourceful special agent with extensive bomb-making capabilities--introduces new character for single-episode story arc. New character is a small child. TWSS, as spoken in expository voice-over by main character, suggests that main character is a pedophile, which goes against image of main character as ingenious, courageous hero. Pedophiles are, according to most reports, cowards. (They are, however, resourceful, much like main character, and similarly they are clever about certain things--things mostly having to do with pedophilia.) File Under: FICTIONAL PEDOPHILES.
Posted by Gabe at 6:00 PM in TWSS Archives
Tags: Children | MacGyver
Stunned. Silence.
Score = 5
congratulations Onion t-shirt guy, you figured out how to get the internet to look at your face
Score = 24
Onion t-shirt guy got wet, too. Around his armpits and his neck.
Score = -1
I promise I'll stop with the anecdotal comments after this (I probably won't), BUT this is my favorite TWSS ever, and also pedophilia related. At a christening for my friend's daughter, the priest stuck his fingers in the baby's mouth and announced to the 40ish people in attendance, "Don't worry, 99 per cent of babies love the taste of Father Paul." Oh, and it's on tape. That's it now.
Score = 43
"Dad, what's the point of this story?"
"I like stories."
No really, I do. Please don't stop (TWSS).
Score = 8
"MacGyver told me I have AIDS and that taking baths with him will cure it."
- Tommy Giordano
Score = 16
i don't think SHE said anything this time around.
:/
Score = 10
Thanks for posting this; I had forgotten that MacGyver was played by one of the puppets from "The Dark Crystal."
Score = 3
You know what'd be cool? If every time you switched something off the record scratch fx played.
Score = 12
Bath time was the best time when MacGyver was around. The things that guy could do with an ordinary bar of soap, a car battery, and couple of alligator clamps were nothing short of inspired. Ah, memories.
Score = 14
This reminds me of my french coworker's persistence on adding a 'Richard Dean Anderson' reference to every conversation we have. Because I'm American and would thus enjoy constant MacGyver quips concerning the jammed photocopier, or brewing some coffee, or sending a fax, or maybe just shut le fuck up, Stéphane!! (I déteste mon job.)
Score = 15
"Haha, I em goeeng to need to tern eento Megyvehr to feex thees photocopeeaiir!! Sahmone else should be doeeng thees eenstead, who's ze boss arahnd heere anywaaay? Thees ees sahm reesky businass, em I raght? Tom Cruise een hees undarwear?"
Score = 9
This is in jest, but also painfully VERY ACCURATE. Just can't stop won't stop references to Starsky & Hutch, Santa Barbara (?) and yes, tom cruuuz frahm zey 'reesqué beeznass' -- all for the "amusement" of la petite américaine.
Score = 2
nice one
Score = -1
The best part is the implication that MacGyver has a vagina.
Score = 5
Well not exactly. You see Theo when a man becomes excited...
Score = 8
Explains why his knees are together like that...
Score = 0
There's a bomb in this child's pants. To defuse it, I will need lube, a camera, and for all of you to leave the room.
Score = 8
and by the way, his son's not gay...
Score = -1
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Score = -4
Score = 6
meh
Score = 2