To be dead honest, the scene in this episode where he eats the ice-cream (and mostly because it was in the credits), is the scene I recognize the most from when I was a kid. I remember because my mom and I would argue over what type of ice-cream it was... I said chocolate, she said coffee. XD She liked coffee ice-cream. And when I was a kid, the reshooting of that scene for the beginning credits always baffled me, but I didn't care because it looked like strawberry, which, at the time, was my favorite flavor.

Wow... the things you remember... XD To this day, it's still an iconic scene for me. Mac eating ice-cream.

And I agree with you about Mac's outfit. At the time, Indiana Jones was big in my family. My Dad idolized Harrison Ford, so he'd often ware a similar outfit. I call it dress/casual "dad" wear. lol And speaking of Mac's bomber jacket... my sister just recently found two of them in storage. Sadly they were in bad shape and were too small for me, so she donated them to Goodwill.

Are we talking about the actual Chevignon jackets here? I think I'm going to save my change for a couple of years and have one tailor-made by Magnoli. The ones you can occasionally find on ebay are totally overpriced and not in the best of conditions - even for a 30-year old jacket. So I might just as well get a repro and wear the hell out of it myself.

I don't think they were the actual Chevignon jackets, but I can ask her. I'm going to see her for lunch in about an hour. But she did admit that she had a thing for MacGyver back in the day, so it's possible she bought the real deal.

Nice of her sending them to goodwill-stores, when she could have made a lot of cash on ebay...

How do you know that's the place?

Yes, you're right. It's the classic adventure look. I think it stems from the old Bomber Pilots uniforms and was pretty much immortalized by Indiana Jones.

Well, some guy from one filming location page was collected actual locations from that Italian Job movie, where those some scenes are stolen to MacGyver, so found the source from there.

How do you know that's the place?

Yes, you're right. It's the classic adventure look. I think it stems from the old Bomber Pilots uniforms and was pretty much immortalized by Indiana Jones.

Well, some guy from one filming location page was collected actual locations from that Italian Job movie, where those some scenes are stolen to MacGyver, so found the source from there.

Is that whole scene from the Italian job or have they inter-cut it with their own bits? Does the original movie have the scenes of closing the gate down on the tunnel?

The whole scene is from Italian Job movie. When the camera shooting the last blue mini which coming from sewer and when the view moves to left when we see all minis driving away, we see flash from a bus which standing on bridge, left up corner. The bus was in the italian job movie. You maybe little see that the camera is starting to zoom toward the bus as it happens in the actual movie, but the scene is cutted then.

The Episodes section of MacGyveronline is awesome!

I think the point is that the system creates these people in the first place. Societies that are too repressive and unjust will always drive people into crime who might otherwise be straight. And even the most hard-assed law and order conservatives will usually agree that Eastern Europe under communism fit that bill.

On top of that, those are Gypsies. So take all the regular crap that comes from living under communism, and throw in being at the absolute bottom of the pecking order and having been there for six hundred years. Like they said about black people in America - Gypsies are the guys everyone else looked at and said "well, life sucks, but at least I'm not one of them." Point being, yeah, Yana and the others live on the fringes and earn a living dishonestly, but that doesn't come out of nowhere. (As you see throughout the episode).

Just finished this episode again. LMAO, I forgot that it ended with the KGB agent screaming "MACGYVEEER!!!" and beginning a tradition of villains doing that when they've lost.

One thing I never understood

Why does he throw away the ice cream cream cone. Seems an unnatural thing to do.

Not, if it tastes awful...

Usually those ice cream cones which been sold in kiosks, tastes like cardboard, if those aren't made from original waffle.

In this interview with Kelly McClain (who now goes by the name of Kora Cypress) she says her voice was dubbed over because no-one told her she was supposed to be speaking with a gypsy accent so she spoke all her lines in her normal American accent.

You would have thought that someone would have pointed it out to her instead of letting her do the full week of shooting and not saying anything, unless it was an after thought?

It was probably an afterthought. Or it could have even been an oversight!

This is my son's favorite episode. I have to say I miss the Eastern European bad guys....they had a great knack for being the bad guys! And besides, Mini Coopers and coffee ice c ream? Who can top that!

I really like this episode.so great...