I like the Two Percent Solution where he was being gassed to death and pulled the gas tube on through the wall, poked a hole in the door, stuck the gas line in the hole, and allowed the door to fill with gas. Then, of course, he busted the light bulb against the door, shattering the bulb and igniting the gas inside the door, blasting his way out to safety. Always will be my favorite. Pretty rough on the SAK, btw >_>

My favorites are his timing devices, such as the one in Bushmaster with the machine gun. They are all about the same. I also like the one where he started a hovercraft with 2 bags of water and a couple of pieces of wood.

Favorite MacGyverism?

Probably Partners where Mac and we first meet Murdoc and then Mac uses a paper clip, a monkey wrench, a shoelace and Jack's cab to take out Murdoc's cronies who had bazookas.

Using the blood pressure cuff and the alarm clock to make a lie dectetor.

the bamboo ultra light in The legend of the holy rose part one

I just realized that I haven't actually come up with an answer to this question yet, so after having had some time to think about it...

That scene in Lost Love where MacGyver sprinkles cleaning powder over the laser beams so he could climb in between them.

That whole scene epitomizers MacGyver for me.

I like the credit card making the traffic lights go nuts in "The Thief of Budapest."

The one where he uses the barrel of a ball point pen to fix a brake line. This one saved my hide once. Except I wasn't hanging on to the front of a speeding car when I did it.

I like the jet powered jeep in Lost Treasure of Atlantis. How Mac was able to steer that thing I'll never know. But it was a cool trick.

made an arc welder from car antenna, jumper cables, some wire and car battery
in the widowmaker

He's MacGyver, he can do anything.

I don't think it was as easy to drive as he made it out to be.

This post has been edited by MacNymph on 14 June 2009 - 09:04 AM

Judging by the look on his face it wasn't easy! But I stick to my word, he is MacGyver and he can do anything!

Was there an instance where he's tied up, one hand loose and he opens the SAK one-handed? I was told he does that once, but I never managed to pinpoint what episode.

That alone is mega-cool in my book!

He does that in the Golden Triangle episode. When's he tied up on the rake, the kids gives him his SAK and he has to open it in one hand.

Very hard thing to do. I'm not even sure it's actually possible.

Neither was MacGyver I don't think.

He used the pen to fix a fuel line in Hell Fire and didn't he swap the oil leads around while hanging on the front of the car in The Enemy Within episode?

Definitely the hot-air balloon in the episode GX-1. As they were working on it's construction, it took me a bit to realize what they were making. When I did, I was incredulous!

Yeah I watched Mybusters last night which was a trubute to MacGyver and MacGyverisms and they tried to recreate the ultra light bamboo plane using the same stuff that Mac did----and flying it off a cliff ----without live human passengers---good thing too because it crashed!!! LOL.

Id you'd like a demonstration, I'd happily oblige

And now that you mention it, I think that is my favorite scene as well- I wore that tape OUT- everything from the tape/knife trick over the vent getting in, to the remote winch, to the dust and lasers, to the picking the lock with a SAK(with the sole appearance of the Sportsman), to the huffing on the glass and writing numbers in it- that whole scene probably takes the cake for me too. The classic caper scenario, as only MacGyver could do it.

Oh, and speaking of that, I have something to add to the Mac/M:I thread

I think we'd all like to see that.

This is a really difficult question.

1. The Bamboo Ultralight Plane - Legend of Holy Rose
2. Flying Machine - Wasteland
3. Periscope from Rear view mirror and compact - The Gauntlet
4. Made bomb with camera flash - The Gauntlet
5. Defused bomb by vaporizing mercury with current - Hell Week

There were so many great ones, this list doesn't even do justice

EDIT: Nearly forgot the Explosive Nitroglycerin Paste in "For Love or Money"

This post has been edited by Meok on 14 December 2009 - 09:16 AM

The one where he took off his pants. Forget what it was and what it accomplished, but who cares?

To answer seriously, I'd say the tear gas hot water bottle from Blowout was too cool.

He does that again in Deadly Silents.

Making a canon from a muffler in Three For The Road is also one of my favourites.

when he made the jet pack thing outta a fan

You’ve all come up with so good ones! The way he used the map in “The Gauntlet” is absolutely fabulous. And it’s so cool how he could turn the situation and use the gas that was supposed to kill them in “The Ten Percent Solution” to instead save them.

I like the ones when he uses simple things, like someone’s earrings or his precious duct tape. Especially I like when Mac stops the bomb from going off with his ticket in “Phoenix Under Siege”. His situation gets so hilarious; should he take his ticket and follow his grandpa to watch the ice hockey game, but risk blowing up the building, or just leave the ticket there and miss the game?

Top 20 Favorite MacGyverisms:

1. Hershey bars to stop the acid leak in The pilot
2. The map in The Gauntlet
3. The escape from the car in Partners using shoelaces, a monkey wrench and a paper clip
4. The SOS call in the Widowmaker using Nikki braclet and the phone wire
5. Messed up traffic signal with slices of credit card from Thief of Budapest
6. Parachuting car from The Heist
7. Mac's plan to get him and Pete out of the pit in Survivors with the rope and hammer
8. Bed slingshot from Nightmares
9. The plane with bamboo, duct tape in Legend of the Holy Rose
10. Termite torch from Last Stand
11. Finding hidden laser with cleaning spray in Lost Love Part. 1
12. Used cylinder of compressed gas to escape from boat in Pirates
13. Knocked out lights with window cleaner spay from Murderer's Sky
14. Compressed nitrogen escape from Obsessed
15. Used rifle to prop up booby trap wires in Strictly Business
16. Explosive & detonator from grenade to blow out door in Easy Target
17. Repelled snakes using kerosene in Halloween Knights
18. Used flare, oxygen, and wire to escape from submarine in Deep Cover
19. Uzi wrench from Tough Boys
20. Disarm missile with paperclip in The Pilot

-Parker

"Every Time She Smiles", when and Penny stretched the clothes hangers into multiple figure eights and then lassoed the conveyer belt to escape from the holding room in the Bulgarian airport.

I like that MacGyverism to MacFan092985.

What always gets me about that particular MacGyverism is the force at which the chair breaks through the wall does not match the speed or force the moving conveyer belt would generate.

I guess you could argue that the pressure/force would have built up as the conveyer belt pulled harder and harder until the wall gave way.

Although I personally think the belt would have just stopped moving. Those belts only work on tension against the drive rollers I think so if something obstructs it the belt stops but the drive rollers can keep turning.