Mythbusters tackles MacGyver

[TheEnforcer]

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I watch Mythbusters on ocassion and used to watch MacGyver when I was younger and they are gonna check on some of his miraculous escapes and see if they really can be done.

http://www.zap2it.com/tv/zap-story-m...,1424924.story


Can 'MacGyver' Escape the 'Mythbusters'?
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Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman on 'Mythbusters'Back in the late '80s and early '90s, budding science geeks everywhere plopped down in front of "MacGyver" on ABC, to watch resourceful secret agent Angus MacGyver (Richard Dean Anderson) escape from bad guys, foil evil plots and basically save the world with a Swiss Army knife, duct tape and whatever happened to be lying around.

On Wednesday, Feb. 20, at 9 p.m. ET/PT, cable television's reigning science geeks, Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman of Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters," decide to put some of MacGyver's more creative escapes to the test, in the show's landmark 100th episode.

"It's a natural for us," says Savage. "It took a while for us to work out the various details with the original 'MacGyver' producers, but 'Mythbusters' and 'MacGyver' have always been two peas in a pod, at least philosophically."

"In a way," says Hyneman, "we're the real deal, where a lot of the stuff that 'MacGyver' did -- and that's what the myth is about -- maybe is not necessarily realistic."

[Evil Chris]

I've watched that show a few times, but I've never seen McGyver.

[Kenny B]

Myth Busters is great, they do a great job on that show.

[TheEnforcer]

Originally Posted by Evil Chris

I've watched that show a few times, but I've never seen McGyver.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacGyver

The series revolved around Angus MacGyver (known to his friends as MacGyver or "Mac") who favored brain over brawn in order to solve desperate problems. 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. 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—were a major attraction of the show, which was praised for generating interest in engineering[1] as well as providing entertaining storylines.