Out of Sync (7.19)

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#16 Post by J.J. Walters »

I guess it's no surprise this wasn't aired in the UK. This episode has all kinds of weird (violent) stuff going on - girls getting slapped around, guys getting slapped around, snuff film allusions, bondage porn, porn directors, porn video rentals, knives, etc.! :shock:

This episode was pushing some serious boundaries for its time!

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Jay-Firestorm wrote:* I don’t think he is credited, but is the guy on the beach at the beginning Bob Minor (Roger E. Mosley’s stunt double, and who has parts in several episodes?).
No, it's not Bob. They do look similar, though.
Jay-Firestorm wrote:* On the scene on the beach, where Magnum tells Cynthia to just “relax”, does he deliberately mess up the word, or was this a blooper from which her recovered? He says “just ra—relax” and laughs, but they continue.
It's to say for sure, but it appears (to me) to be a (minor) blooper that they decided to just leave in. Pretty cool!
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#17 Post by Italian Ice »

Yes, that does look like a total blooper, how did they miss that?
I guess they decided to run with it, but it went on for about 30 seconds.
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#18 Post by Jay-Firestorm »

James J. Walters wrote:I guess it's no surprise this wasn't aired in the UK. This episode has all kinds of weird (violent) stuff going on - girls getting slapped around, guys getting slapped around, snuff film allusions, bondage porn, porn directors, porn video rentals, knives, etc.! :shock:
I'm trying to find out if it was ever shown on ITV (the channel that had the original rights to MPI in the 1980s / early 1990s).
Five skipped it because it wasn't suitable for their daytime (11 a.m.) slot, but many ITV regions broadcast the episodes later at night.
I'd imagine some of the ITV regions broadcast it at least, but in those days, each region pretty much went under their own rules!).

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#19 Post by Danno »

Ugh. So painful... why, Cynthia, WHY did it have to be this way??!!

The porn video is hilarious. Especially Higgins and Magnum's different reactions.

A great episode, but a real painful one to watch.
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Guy kinda looks like Borat to me.

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#21 Post by J.J. Walters »

LOL! Yeah, he kinda does! :lol:
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#22 Post by Carol the Dabbler »

For those who are worried that Magnum & Cynthia never got the chance to see where their relationship could go -- how do we know that they never did? At the end of this episode, they make tentative plans to visit each other again, so I'd like to think that they were finally able to make an informed decision on the matter. Due to their busy, rather unpredictable lives, however this could easily have taken a year or so of occasional visits -- by which time Magnum had decided to re-up and settle down with his young daughter. Depending on Cynthia's feelings about motherhood, there could very well have been a new Mrs. Magnum at some point after "Resolutions."

Overall, this seemed to me like two fairly thin episodes arbitrarily glued together. I'd rather have seen each one fleshed out into a more satisfying story in itself.

James, a picky correction to Episode Note 7: the girl didn't offer TM half of her sandwich, she asked him for half of his (which he apparently gave her).
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#23 Post by steveadl »

Jaybird wrote:Pretty good episode but with a strange ending. Dana Delaney returns and she and TM have an uncomfortable time. I am disappointed that his engagement to her never went anywhere....or did it?
Yes I quite liked her and the story line in LA - but in this episode both she and the plot line with her were very awkward, forced and just generally uncomfortable. Perhaps that's why they didn't bring her back in the series finale and instead had Linda Lee Ellison reprise her role from 'Forty.'

Though if memory serves me correctly, the series finale and the story line with Linda Lee was also a bit forced, jumpy and odd? I guess the writers wanted to finish with TM staying single and focusing for now on his relationship with his daughter. I like it that way, but I do wonder why they then decided to put these forced relationship scenarios into a few episodes?

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#24 Post by MagnumsLeftShoulder »

This is a funny one! I loved that Thomas tells us the story while in the airport coffee shop and that he tries to keep his proposal to Cynthia a secret from the guys. I always wondered why was Higgins so thrilled that Thomas was possibly getting married? Did he think they would get married and leave the estate or that they would stay at the estate and he liked the idea of having a woman live there? As far as bringing back Cynthia for the finale, I bet they wanted to, but by then she had been cast as Colleen McMurphy on China Beach (another 80s show I watched) on a different network (ABC).

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#25 Post by steveadl »

I'm glad they didn't bring her in for the finale. This episode was awkward enough.

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#26 Post by J.J. Walters »

At 55, Dana Delany just made People magazine's "Most Beautiful People" of 2011.

http://www.people.com/people/package/ga ... l#20936741

http://omg.yahoo.com/photos/the-most-be ... mgPhoid=14

Congrats Dana!

Thomas made a mistake. ;)
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#27 Post by Frodoleader »

J.J. Walters wrote:At 55, Dana Delany just made People magazine's "Most Beautiful People" of 2011.

http://www.people.com/people/package/ga ... l#20936741

http://omg.yahoo.com/photos/the-most-be ... mgPhoid=14

Congrats Dana!

Thomas made a mistake. ;)
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#28 Post by Carol the Dabbler »

J.J. Walters wrote:Thomas made a mistake. ;)
When they make the original-cast Magnum movie, we may find out that Thomas & Cynthia have been married for 20 years or so. Maybe Lily has a little sister -- or a kid brother who'll threaten to beat up on TC's son Bryant and Rick, Jr., if they so much as wink at Lily!
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Loved it

#29 Post by nha trang »

This was a really good Magnum episode...I mean to me it is little wackiness like this that makes MPI what it is!

Yes, Magnum running in an impromptu marathon, hijacking a scooter years before dumb and dumber lol...escaping into the "jungle" tied to a kitchen chair...and through it all Magnum doing his best to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune to make it back to see his lady before she leaves...

and of course, the beaten up but not beaten TSM narrating it all to us over his cup of airport coffee, alone...

And again the camaraderie of his good friends to run interference for him!

rated it 9.5

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#30 Post by Braddah Kimo »

The guy coming home to find Magnum in his house and shooting him, was Clarence Maki. famous surfer and Waikiki beachboy. I interviewed him for one of my Youtube segments. Really nice guy.

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