Forty (7.17)

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Re: Forty (7.17)

#51 Post by marlboro »

Milton Collins wrote:

- That little skinny chinese store owner dude severely annoyed me and was completely unbelievable to play as a friend of Magnums (and apparently the other guys too as TC told Magnum to tell him hi after hearing that he was gonna meet with him). Maybe it's just that I don't like that actor and can only picture him as the screaming host at a Chinese restaurant in a Seinfeld episode lol.
Dude, you really need to watch "Big Trouble in Little China."

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marlboro wrote:
Milton Collins wrote:

- That little skinny chinese store owner dude severely annoyed me and was completely unbelievable to play as a friend of Magnums (and apparently the other guys too as TC told Magnum to tell him hi after hearing that he was gonna meet with him). Maybe it's just that I don't like that actor and can only picture him as the screaming host at a Chinese restaurant in a Seinfeld episode lol.
Dude, you really need to watch "Big Trouble in Little China."

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Doc Ibold wrote:
marlboro wrote:
Milton Collins wrote:

- That little skinny chinese store owner dude severely annoyed me and was completely unbelievable to play as a friend of Magnums (and apparently the other guys too as TC told Magnum to tell him hi after hearing that he was gonna meet with him). Maybe it's just that I don't like that actor and can only picture him as the screaming host at a Chinese restaurant in a Seinfeld episode lol.
Dude, you really need to watch "Big Trouble in Little China."

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Yesssss, and a fantastic reminder for me to do so!

I will do so guys and man, I must have been having a bad day as I was way too harsh on him! I watched this again over the weekend and after thinking about it I think he was pretty damn funny! I was too harsh on the episode too, a decent love interest, a trip to the "gentleman's club" with the guys (love how Rick forces TC to go and he responds with "I haven't been to one of these in years!" The end scene with the gorilla mask party for TM was also fun, so I'm going to recant my harsh review :)

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#54 Post by KingKC »

EZiller wrote: I would guess that they intentionally picked someone who hide a slight resemblance to Michelle-part Asian, dark hair, similar figure.
I am kind of glad someone else thought the choice of Patrice Martinez as Linda Lee was intentional to remind TM of Michele. It seemed extremely obvious to me. Other than that I sympathized with TM when he lost the two dollar bill. The longer I have certain things, especially things given to me by special people in my life, the more memorable and precious they get, even if they are inanimate objects. Yes I agree that this could have been a fairly good ending and since I did not realize at the time the show would come back for an eighth season I really thought this was at least a lead up to the end.

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#55 Post by 308GUY »

Just a personal note of "trivia". Has nothing to do with the plot, any of the characters, or even MPI for that matter, not even sure why I felt motivated to post it but..... :magnum:


It struck a very familiar chord when TM lost the bill...why you ask...(or maybe you didn't :lol: ) the reason is that I have been carrying a two dollar bill for about 25 years...when TM lost his and was fairly concerned with getting it back, it just really "hit home" for me.

I never got to see this episode when it first aired back in the 80's, in fact I didn't see much of Magnum at all during it's initial broadcast. From around 1981 to 1989 we lived waaaay out in the country, with no tv reception till I stuck an antenna on an 8 foot pole out in the front yard...then we got one station from Wheeling WV which only came in two or three days a week. So the point is I had never seen this episode or any episodes till I started getting into the DVD's a few years ago.

Like I said, just a bit of personal "trivia" that has nothing to do with much of anything. Guess I just felt like typing this morning! :lol:

Hope everybody has a great day! :magnum:
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#56 Post by ☨magnum.t »

NEW SURF SKI!!! Looks like a brand new ski for his birthday, I guess because the old one was destroyed by Higgins in Paper War lol
That reminds me of the time....

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#57 Post by brianw »

I liked the ep, but missed a lot of it this morning. Been a while since I last saw it. LLE is smoking, yes. And I like the gorilla masks, funny. The later seasons are definitely more dramatic and less comedic.

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☨magnum.t wrote:NEW SURF SKI!!! Looks like a brand new ski for his birthday, I guess because the old one was destroyed by Higgins in Paper War lol
So Higgins bought him a new one for his birthday to replace it? So sweet.
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Carol the Dabbler wrote:
Rutledal wrote:In "Resolutions part 2" you noted that shots of an exposed breast can be seen twice. I'm not a hundred percent sure, because the image quality was kinda poor, but I believe that is the case in this episode too. Except it's only one shot.
...James, one detail you might want to add to Episode Note 2: In the surprise-party scene at the end, when Higgins "returns" Magnum's two-dollar bill, saying that he had found it in the cash register at Wo Fat's, Magnum examines the bill closely and starts to say something like, "This isn't ...." Then he stops himself and says something else. Clearly, the bill that Higgins had found was NOT Magnum's lucky bill -- it had a different serial number. But Magnum was touched that Higgins had gone to the effort of searching Chinatown for his keepsake, so allowed him to believe he had actually found it.
Carol,
It's been a long time since I saw this episode but wasn't Magnum's bill from his service time?
A two dollar bill like Magnum's is a tradition dating back to WW2 and is called a "Short Snorter." Depending on what unit you were in the details vary. In the Air Force if your wing man blew away the Zero that had you cold, when you returned to base you gave the other pilot the biggest bill in your wallet, dating and signing it first. He would then buy a round for the guys with it, a ten spot for one being just enough to buy everyone a shot(short snorter) or two. Or save it as a keepsake, like Magnum and many others, though you then still had to buy a round for the fellas.
It's also a way to acknowledge your buddy's valor on your behalf and not get all sloppy, avoiding the "you saved my life bro!" type stuff they always put in movies today.
Because maybe tomorrow you save the life of the pilot who saved you.
In my uncle's infantry unit in France they traditionally used US $2 bills, invasion script considered not acceptable for this purpose. After his division landed in France everyone in his squad each carried a 2 dollar bill that every member signed and dated. To be used for some good lager when they reached Berlin, though what went unsaid was that they knew full well some of them would only make it as far as a lonely plot of French soil, 6 feet under.
After the Battle of the Hurtgen Forest a few months later my uncle was the only one left in his squad not killed, wounded or captured, he never got to cash in his short snorter.

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#60 Post by LZeitgeist »

It was given to him from his grandfather's collection as a birthday gift because the serial number on the bill matched the date of his birthday.

The source of TM's bill is explained clearly by him early in the episode.

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#61 Post by Luther's nephew Dobie »

LZeitgeist wrote:It was given to him from his grandfather's collection as a birthday gift because the serial number on the bill matched the date of his birthday.
The source of TM's bill is explained clearly by him early in the episode.
Thank you for clearing that up. Like I said I hadn't seen the episode in a long time. And at times we can all be victimized by a poor editing job
by whatever network is rerunning Magnum. Hallmark has made some curious choices in what it edits out. When it had Cheers it seemed like
little 90 year old ladies with blue hair and wearing tennis shoes were in charge. The characters audio was constantly deleted if a off color
inference was made, "damn" was a no-no and they chopped out many of the classic Norm Entrance scenes in favor of the(by the 5th season)
never ending tedious Diane tantrums at Sam and the bar flies.
I am hoping MeTV gets the Magnum reruns, they even leave in the infamous nude painting scenes in an episode of the Flintstones.
Hallmark would have had a fit and deep sixed the entire episode.

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#62 Post by LZeitgeist »

Luther's nephew Dobie wrote:
LZeitgeist wrote:It was given to him from his grandfather's collection as a birthday gift because the serial number on the bill matched the date of his birthday.
The source of TM's bill is explained clearly by him early in the episode.
Thank you for clearing that up. Like I said I hadn't seen the episode in a long time. And at times we can all be victimized by a poor editing job
by whatever network is rerunning Magnum. Hallmark has made some curious choices in what it edits out. When it had Cheers it seemed like
little 90 year old ladies with blue hair and wearing tennis shoes were in charge. The characters audio was constantly deleted if a off color
inference was made, "damn" was a no-no and they chopped out many of the classic Norm Entrance scenes in favor of the(by the 5th season)
never ending tedious Diane tantrums at Sam and the bar flies.
I am hoping MeTV gets the Magnum reruns, they even leave in the infamous nude painting scenes in an episode of the Flintstones.
Hallmark would have had a fit and deep sixed the entire episode.
Sorry, I didn't mean that to come across as though you weren't paying attention, just that it was clearly explained so there was no question. Apologies if I came across as harsh.

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LZeitgeist wrote:
Luther's nephew Dobie wrote:
LZeitgeist wrote:It was given to him from his grandfather's collection as a birthday gift because the serial number on the bill matched the date of his birthday.
The source of TM's bill is explained clearly by him early in the episode.
Thank you for clearing that up. Like I said I hadn't seen the episode in a long time. And at times we can all be victimized by a poor editing job
by whatever network is rerunning Magnum. Hallmark has made some curious choices in what it edits out. When it had Cheers it seemed like
little 90 year old ladies with blue hair and wearing tennis shoes were in charge. The characters audio was constantly deleted if a off color
inference was made, "damn" was a no-no and they chopped out many of the classic Norm Entrance scenes in favor of the(by the 5th season)
never ending tedious Diane tantrums at Sam and the bar flies.
I am hoping MeTV gets the Magnum reruns, they even leave in the infamous nude painting scenes in an episode of the Flintstones.
Hallmark would have had a fit and deep sixed the entire episode.
Sorry, I didn't mean that to come across as though you weren't paying attention, just that it was clearly explained so there was no question. Apologies if I came across as harsh.
Hi LZeitgeist,
No worries pal.

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LZeitgeist wrote:
Luther's nephew Dobie wrote:
LZeitgeist wrote:It was given to him from his grandfather's collection as a birthday gift because the serial number on the bill matched the date of his birthday.
The source of TM's bill is explained clearly by him early in the episode.
Thank you for clearing that up. Like I said I hadn't seen the episode in a long time. And at times we can all be victimized by a poor editing job
by whatever network is rerunning Magnum. Hallmark has made some curious choices in what it edits out. When it had Cheers it seemed like
little 90 year old ladies with blue hair and wearing tennis shoes were in charge. The characters audio was constantly deleted if a off color
inference was made, "damn" was a no-no and they chopped out many of the classic Norm Entrance scenes in favor of the(by the 5th season)
never ending tedious Diane tantrums at Sam and the bar flies.
I am hoping MeTV gets the Magnum reruns, they even leave in the infamous nude painting scenes in an episode of the Flintstones.
Hallmark would have had a fit and deep sixed the entire episode.
Sorry, I didn't mean that to come across as though you weren't paying attention, just that it was clearly explained so there was no question. Apologies if I came across as harsh.
Hi LZeitgeist,
No worries pal.

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IKnowWhatYoureThinking wrote: Mon Dec 08, 2008 5:17 pm I think you are correct as well Carmen, and doing a surf ski race with a full sack of beer is the only way to go!
Wouldn’t that beer have been awful warm by the time TM cracks that one open while stalking, er, watching Linda Lee on the beach? He had them in a canvas satchel, not much insulation there in the Hawaiian heat.
J.J. Walters wrote: Fri Mar 19, 2010 5:26 am
Rutledal wrote:In "Resolutions part 2" you noted that shots of an exposed breast can be seen twice. I'm not a hundred percent sure, because the image quality was kinda poor, but I believe that is the case in this episode too. Except it's only one shot.
When they first enter the strip club there is a shot of a big breasted dancer with a clear tan line, just making sure you know which one I'm talking about, then there is a shot of the guys and then we return to the dancer, who in this shot pulls down her bra, or top, I'm not completly sure if it actually qualifies as a bra. Well anyways I'm fairly sure that she reveals enough of her breast for it to be a "no-no" on a syndicated show.
Rutledal, I looked at the bar scene several times. The, ah, well-endowed exotic dancer never reveals her breasts, at least not the parts that are not allowed to be seen on television.
I hate to disagree with you, dear Founder, and you are technically correct when viewed at full speed, but clearly, the producers (and CBS censors) weren’t thinking far enough ahead in terms of what technology would be capable of in the future. I watched it frame-by-frame several times (for academic purposes only, I assure you) and there is definitely enough nipple revelation to make Elaine Benes cringe. I suppose it’s silly of me in an era when any 12 year old can get all the porn they want on their cell phone, but I won’t post the pictures here, just the links, so only my fellow deviants can see what modern tech hath revealed:

https://imgur.com/HkULbBi
https://imgur.com/QsA9iQu
https://imgur.com/2w9vL2g
https://imgur.com/vEITCTq

Also, even in real time, I think there’s a healthy sliver of nipple on the left breast after she covers the right one back up:

https://imgur.com/GSIdk2U
https://imgur.com/u59XVEZ

But enough of this imprudence...perhaps the producers were just hearkening back to From Moscow to Maui and trying to fix Yuri’s problem. You will remember how he stated his vehement opposition to impotence….
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