Saturday, December 17, 2011
Boob Tube Tales, #1
I was a child of the nineties: nineties Manila, to be exact.
Cable was a luxury back then, so we had to make do with reruns of TV shows from the eighties and beyond.
During weekend nights I remember my aunts watching the original Mission Impossible series. We enjoyed Knight Rider--I thought David Hasselhoff the most handsome man in the world ( insert shudder, haha). Those were okay, and my five-year-old mind was properly impressed with KITT.
Our personal favorite, though, was McGyver.
He's the nerdy Chuck Norris--sort of. The basic premise is that McGyver is a special agent who refuses to use guns and instead makes do with whatever's handy, like paperclips and such. So from episode to another, he defeats the bad guys with tubes, lighters, ice, metal, emergency flares...you get the idea. The parents let us watch him because he's a genius, and a non-violent man to boot! No guns or knives, or blood! Punches are done only when deemed necessary!
Plus one disturbing fact: it's Terrorism 101.
If I knew, I would've taken notes. To illustrate how simple it is to create a fertilizer bomb, he showed me a McGyver episode. AND IT WAS EFFING ACCURATE. McGyver used the bomb (he was in a farm at the time) to distract some kidnappers. And according to one web result, such a bomb could have a range of 500 feet.
In the same episode, he demonstrated how bike rust and a highway flare could be used to open a locked armored van. He also escaped from a meat freezer using a frozen beef carcass, ice, and a steel tube.If all geeks had enemies, I bet McGyver could show them how to exact revenge in the cheapest, most innocent way possible.
Too bad shows nowadays are not that realistic, like crimes in CSI getting resolved in a matter of days.
Who says the latest is always the coolest?
Cable was a luxury back then, so we had to make do with reruns of TV shows from the eighties and beyond.
During weekend nights I remember my aunts watching the original Mission Impossible series. We enjoyed Knight Rider--I thought David Hasselhoff the most handsome man in the world ( insert shudder, haha). Those were okay, and my five-year-old mind was properly impressed with KITT.
Our personal favorite, though, was McGyver.
He's the nerdy Chuck Norris--sort of. The basic premise is that McGyver is a special agent who refuses to use guns and instead makes do with whatever's handy, like paperclips and such. So from episode to another, he defeats the bad guys with tubes, lighters, ice, metal, emergency flares...you get the idea. The parents let us watch him because he's a genius, and a non-violent man to boot! No guns or knives, or blood! Punches are done only when deemed necessary!
Plus one disturbing fact: it's Terrorism 101.
If I knew, I would've taken notes. To illustrate how simple it is to create a fertilizer bomb, he showed me a McGyver episode. AND IT WAS EFFING ACCURATE. McGyver used the bomb (he was in a farm at the time) to distract some kidnappers. And according to one web result, such a bomb could have a range of 500 feet.
In the same episode, he demonstrated how bike rust and a highway flare could be used to open a locked armored van. He also escaped from a meat freezer using a frozen beef carcass, ice, and a steel tube.If all geeks had enemies, I bet McGyver could show them how to exact revenge in the cheapest, most innocent way possible.
Too bad shows nowadays are not that realistic, like crimes in CSI getting resolved in a matter of days.
Who says the latest is always the coolest?
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