Tuesday, October 1, 2013

MacGyver Goes Green (With Envy)

Richard Dean Anderson's title character was a bright guy who usually got himself out of jams with as little violence as possible and a wizardlike ability to make common items into just what he needed to dispose of either bombs, traps, bad guys or other imprisoning situations. He always carried a Swiss Army knife, useful because of its many tools combined into a small space.

Were he to have seen this particular 100-function knife created in Germany in 1880, though, he might very well have gone into a funk at all of the different tools, implements and blades it possesses, since it would far outstrip the one he carried. Indeed, he might believe he had found the actual perfect tool except for two small flaws:

1) It contains a gun, and Mac hated guns.

2) It offers no tool to erase MacGruber, the painfully stupid and unfunny character, sketch and movie created by Will Forte, from the space-time continuum and thus improve the entire universe in immeasurable ways.

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