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This article is about references to MacGyver. For the TV show, see MacGyver (TV series). For the titular character, see Angus MacGyver.

MacGyver is an American action-adventure television series starring Richard Dean Anderson as Angus MacGyver. In The Simpsons, MacGyver is Patty and Selma's favorite TV series.

A reboot series was released in 2016, starring Lucas Till as MacGyver.

References to MacGyver in The Simpsons[edit]

Episodes[edit]

Season	Episode number	Episode name	Reference
3	39	"Bart the Murderer"	Principal Skinner, trapped under a pile of newspapers, manages to escape by combining random objects he finds around him in a similar fashion to MacGyver.
50	"Homer Alone"	Patty and Selma watch MacGyver. Patty refers to the episode as the best ever, and Selma says that Richard Dean Anderson will be in her dreams that night.
56	"Black Widower"	When Selma was engaged to Sideshow Bob, Bob watched an episode of MacGyver with the twins. After the episode, Bob complained about the show. Selma tried to make Bob tell her that he liked the show to save their relationship.
4	72	"Selma's Choice"	When Homer hugged Patty and Selma, Patty told Selma to just close her eyes and think of MacGyver.
5	92	"Homer the Vigilante"	Selma had a lock of MacGyver's hair stolen by Molloy. When he returned it, she added it to a ball of hair.
6	121	"A Star Is Burns"	When Patty and Selma asked Jay Sherman to tell them who in the movie business was gay, Homer told him to say MacGyver. This led to Sherman being hung from the roof by his underpants.
16	347	"Goo Goo Gai Pan"	When Selma started menopause, she decided to adopt a child from China and visited the Consulate of China. Here, she learned from Mr. Zhao that she needed a husband to adopt a child. Selma asked Zhao if he knew who MacGyver was, intending to put down his name, but Zhao knew him. Instead, Selma put Homer down as her husband.
17	373	"Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore"	Patty and Selma kidnapped Richard Dean Anderson when he was in Springfield for a Stargate SG-1 convention, informing him that he was now doing a two-fan MacGyver convention. They tied Anderson to a chair and told him to use his MacGyver skills to escape. Anderson did so, then discovered he liked doing the escape and asked Patty and Selma to tie him up again and again so he could do even more complex escapes. In an ironic turn of events, Anderson ended up becoming a nuisance to Patty and Selma, and they could not wait to be rid of him.
30	647	"Krusty the Clown"	The reboot series of MacGyver is one of the many TV shows listed on screens behind the Google-Disney CEO.
36	774	"Women in Shorts"	A poster of MacGyver is on the wall of Patty and Selma's apartment. Patty cut into it with an axe, revealing cigarettes were hidden behind it.
37	799	"Aunt Misbehavin'"	MacGyver every Sunday was a rule in Patty and Selma's home.

Comics[edit]

Picture	Comic issue	Story name	Reference
Simpsons Comics
	Simpsons Comics #16	Waitresses in the Sky	When Patty and Selma's apartment burns down, they show up at the Simpson house to stay. Selma says that they just need a place to stay for a while, some smokes, and a couch to watch MacGyver.
	Simpsons Comics #118	The "X" Men	When the Springfield Community College collapses, Patty says that she hasn't felt this alive since MacGyver went off the air.
	Simpsons Comics #187	The Dot Com Before the Storm	When Homer accidentally takes the Internet offline, Patty and Selma were streaming an episode of MacGyver.
The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror
	The Simpsons' Treehouse of Horror #18	The Bride!	According to Moe, the monster in The Bride! asks when MacGyver is on as she comes alive, and when she sees her mate, she screams and shouts that he's not MacGyver.
Bart Simpson
	Bart Simpson #63	Model Behavior	Bart says that Super Crazy Gorilla Glue is so strong, even MacGyver's afraid to use it. Milhouse then says that the glue must be "MacGyver old."
The Simpsons Comic Strips
	Springfield Shopper's Don't Doubt It or Do!	Patty and Selma made a life-size sculpture of MacGyver using toenail clippings and used hair removal wax.

Games[edit]

Picture	Game	Reference
	The Simpsons: Tapped Out	In For the Love of Marge Pt. 2, Selma says that the TVs only show the later, post-mullet, episodes of MacGyver.
	In The Way I Wish We Was Pt. 1, Patty says that she and Selma were ousted from the MacGyver Fan Club for indecency.

Common cast[edit]

Name	Role in MacGyver	Role on The Simpsons
Richard Dean Anderson	Played Angus MacGyver.	Voiced himself in the season 17 episode "Kiss Kiss Bang Bangalore".
Ed Asner	Played Saul in the reboot series season 2 episode "Skyscraper – Power".	Voiced the Lifeways editor in the season 11 episode "Guess Who's Coming to Criticize Dinner?".
Michael Paul Chan	Played a banker in the season 2 episode "The Wish Child" and Dahn Nguyen in the reboot series season 5 episode "Banh Bao + Sterno + Drill + Burner + Mason".	Voiced the Chinese spy in the season 22 episode "Homer the Father".
Robert Englund	Played Tim Wexler in the season 1 episode "Flame's End".	Voiced Freddy Krueger in the season 10 episode "Treehouse of Horror IX".
Antonio Fargas	Played Colonel Devraux in the season 7 episode "Walking Dead".	Voiced Huggy Bear in the season 17 episode "Bart Has Two Mommies".
Colm Meaney	Played Dr. Irwin Malcolm in the season 7 episode "Good Knight MacGyver (Part 1)".	Voiced Tom O'Flanagan in the season 20 episode "In the Name of the Grandfather".
Melanie Minichino	Played Simona Amelia Scuro in the reboot series season 5 episode "Barn Find + Engine Oil + La Punzonatura + Lab Rats + Tachometer".	Occasional voice actress.
Joe Pantoliano	Played Eric Andrews in the reboot series season 5 episodes "Eclipse + USMC-1856707 + Step Potential + Chain Lock + Ma" and "Diamond + Quake + Carbon + Comms + Tower".	Voiced Dante Calabresi, Sr. in the season 18 episode "The Mook, the Chef, the Wife and Her Homer".
George Takei	Played Dr. Shen Wei in the season 2 episode "The Wish Child".	Voiced Akira Kurosawa in the season 2 episode "One Fish, Two Fish, Blowfish, Blue Fish", a waiter in the season 13 episode "A Hunka Hunka Burns in Love", Wink in the season 10 episode "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo", a sushi chef in the season 24 episode "What Animated Women Want", and himself in the season 27 episode "The Burns Cage".
Henry Winkler	Played Wilton Newberry in the season 6 episode "Harry's Will" and served as an executive producer for both the original and reboot series.	Voiced Ramrod in the season 11 episode "Take My Wife, Sleaze".
Keone Young	Played Zhao in the season 5 episode "Children of Light" and Chung in the season 7 episode "The Stringer".	Voiced Sakatumi in the season 10 episode "Thirty Minutes Over Tokyo".

External links[edit]

MacGyver at Wikipedia

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