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#41 Post by Magnum T. »

Miss Barbara Terranova hires Magnum to find her husband-to-be Roger in just 24 hours (she can afford Magnum's services for one day only).
While investigating, Magnum is "forced" to enter the "Iron Man", a sport competition for... aspiring suicides.

A funny episode to watch (as I said, I like the ones with a light mood).
The plot is a little... thin but, as usual, Magnum/Higgins interaction is worth the price of the ticket (so to speak).
Some scenes are pretty predictable (like Babs kicking Magnum's butt at Honolulu Lulu's) but the training scenes are nice and the triathlon segment with Magnum at the mercy of his... team is quite hilarious.

Plus: enjoyable episode with some very funny moments.
Minus: not one of the most intriguing plots.
Best line:
Higgins: You realize, of course, you have no chance of winning.
(Magnum looks at the gun he's holding)

Notes:
- team ring on left hand
- the bicycle has been identified as a Bianchi on the episode guide page. I am no racing-bicycles expert, but I can clearly see on the front of the bike the logo of Piaggio, an Italian motorcycles manufacturer, worldwide known for its iconic scooter Vespa.
- in a 3/4 front shoot of Magnum and Babs into the Ferrari, chased by the guy in the sedan, they don't look like Tom Selleck and Marcia Wallace.
- Louise Lewis will return in "Ghost Writer" (2.12); Curtis Credel has already appeared uncredited in "Adelaide" (1.14).

Funny thing: when Magnum emerges from the sea at the end of the swimming segment of the "Iron Man", there is a woman... not in the best of her shape, slightly ahead of him! :lol:
"Zeus, Apollo, get out of my Ferrari!"
"Mr. Masters' Ferrari"

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#42 Post by Styles Bitchley »

I've always liked this episode.
"How fiendishly deceptive of you Magnum. I could have sworn I was hearing the emasculation of a large rodent."

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#43 Post by rubber chicken »

Concerning the Bianchi / Piaggio point, from what I've found on the web Piaggio owned Bianchi from 1980 to 1984. It's noted in the right column under Team Name History here, and also talked about here among other places on the web. Calling it a Bianchi is correct, as Bianchi was the actual maker of the bikes. Bianchi Piaggio or Piaggio Bianchi is also used for referring to Bianchi bikes from those years, such as this one from 1983. That bike looks like Magnum's as far as I can tell from screenshots. Nowadays paint designs change yearly, but I guess they didn't change as often back then, since the Magnum bike would probably have been a 1980 or 81 model.

To compare to the linked bike, here's the bike in this episode:
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and The Jororo Kill (2.13):
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David Bannister must have picked it up second-hand. ;)

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#44 Post by Styles Bitchley »

Funny how it doesn't say Bianchi on the side. Would it have been painted over on purpose?
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#45 Post by Magnum T. »

rubber chicken wrote:Concerning the Bianchi / Piaggio point, from what I've found on the web Piaggio owned Bianchi from 1980 to 1984.
I had figured out something like that but didn't had the time to check.
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#46 Post by rubber chicken »

It looks to me like they put black tape over where Bianchi would be on the down tube and seat tube.

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#47 Post by Visiting Stewardess »

Yes, it really looks like tape over the company logo.
I am training for a triathlon at the moment, and I don't think Magnum looks as if he is suffering enough! My bike sessions are one long stretch of horror! :wink:

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#48 Post by Styles Bitchley »

Visiting Stewardess wrote:I am training for a triathlon at the moment, and I don't think Magnum looks as if he is suffering enough! My bike sessions are one long stretch of horror! :wink:
That's the joke about this episode... I mean, I know that Magnum is a fit guy who runs on the beach and takes his surfski out regularly, but actually competing in an Ironman (2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike and a marathon (26.2 miles) run? That's a whole different ballgame.

Still, for some reason it doesn't detract from the episode.
"How fiendishly deceptive of you Magnum. I could have sworn I was hearing the emasculation of a large rodent."

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#49 Post by ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan) »

I think I found a mistake. I noticed that here on MAGNUM MANIA Winrich Kolbe is listed as the director of this episode. But on IMDB Ray Austin is listed as the director. Also as I watched the episode on Hulu it also showed Ray Austin as the director.

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#50 Post by J.J. Walters »

IvanTheTerrible wrote:I think I found a mistake. I noticed that here on MAGNUM MANIA Winrich Kolbe is listed as the director of this episode. But on IMDB Ray Austin is listed as the director. Also as I watched the episode on Hulu it also showed Ray Austin as the director.
Oops! Not sure how that happened!? :oops:

I've corrected it. Thanks!
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#51 Post by ZelenskyTheValiant (Ivan) »

J.J. Walters wrote:Oops! Not sure how that happened!? :oops:

I've corrected it. Thanks!
No problem :)

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#52 Post by Visiting Stewardess »

I rated this a 9. One of the best shows of the season. And I also liked the Iron Man theme.
I personally have given up on the triathlon. I just cannot do the bike part. I am too scared of going fast! I just concentrate on my running.

But as I have been there myself, I know what Magnum is going through. And I also know it would be impossible to compete in an Iron Man (or even a Marathon) with only a couple of weeks' training. And in this episode he can't have had much more than a few weeks. So the whole thing's a flub.

The "heavy woman" coming out of the water ahead of Magnum can also be seen at the beach before the start. There she startled me for the first time.

But then again, when I ran a Marathon 2 weeks ago, I have seen women way heavier than me. I don't know if they finished the race though. :wink:

Also it was funny to see how few people participated in those days. These days there are about 2000 athletes taking part.

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#53 Post by mandolabar »

Jay-Firestorm wrote:I love the briefly insane look Magnum, with gun in hand, gives Higgins.
This brief interchange--Higgins coming up with "there's no way you'll win," blithely ignorant of all the other goings-on, and Magnum's wordless-but-so-clear thought process as he looks at Higgins in disbelief, then at the gun, and back....I laughed so hard the first time I saw that, I missed the rest of the scene and had to go back. And I still laugh, every time. That is my Absolute Favorite Scene (so far) in the entire series.

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#54 Post by Bes »

Classic Magnum episode - rewatched it on Saturday. The looking at the gun moment is hilarious!

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#55 Post by Braddah Kimo »

Magnum is a terrible pool player. Well aside from his not getting a chance to get a shot. He never allows the shooter room for a shot. he's like a bump on a log. It was fun to see the back of Ala moana shopping center back in the day. Scene when they on dabus. NO such b.g. noise here as represented in the scene. They do not honk all the time, or anywhere near that. If at all. exept in waiks. and ya know why.
Boy. barbara was an ijit. "But i dont HAVETA go to the bathroom!" Waidaminnit! The tailers car was not on jacks until the last moment! he walks back to his car and we see plain as day ALL four tires making contact with the asphalt. Cut to mag. Cut to the tailer in the car, pull back as he attempts to pull away, we see the 2 back tires NOW suddenly elevated by two hydraulic floorjacks. He kicks the tire and comically, the car drops to the ground, but jacks hold a car's weight fully with no drop at all, unless a stagehand is out of frame twisting the handle lever on the small diameter pressure piston, releasing hydraulic pressure in the jack.

"I'm at ... honolulu lulu's pool hall. corner of Ka'ula and Hanaliki."
First off, NO pool hall was EVER. Nor would one have been, EVER called anything close to that. this sounds like a tikki tacky teekee bar made for tourists only in waikiki. Secondly, no such street names exist as those quoted.
"dumpster in front of "Honolulu Lulu's" identifies its location as Pearl City. I could be wrong, but I believe this is the only known (identified) filming location to take place in Pearl City." This doesn't identify the filming location as IN Pearl City. This was filmed mauka of ala Moana shopping center, in Honolulu. Not pearl city. The refuse company just happens to be centralized in Pearl City. And they offer service all throughout 'Oahu. Mag COULD have asked higgy to have the ferarri dropped off at Sears Ala Moana, mauka parking lot. As he was RIGHT there. But then that would not have made as comical a scene.

I remember those old Diamond Head soda cans from the 80's seen in Mag's reefer... Propmaster put it upside down to prevent too obvious an "accidental product placement" I always love seeing that Tongan tapa on Mag's wall. No one walks around kama'aina homes, even guest quarters in their shoes. Ya ALLLways hemo da shoes before entering da hale. Nice b.g. shot of the Makapu'u lighthouse as he goes to the estate. The lady dissuading them from the chapel who then photographs the newly weds who happen to be obviously Kanaka maoli, and who obviously have surnames that the haole woman cannot pronounce, as she only says "ok you stand here missis... and you stand there mister... uh..." Jeeeez. The bruddah at da race, i think Num. 68, was also an extra on dabus next to Babs.
"rejoice, rejoice. then fell dead. there's a lesson there"; Mag's look on his face!
great reaction scene when Mag turns around on the bike!
"bougainvillea pricilla" uh i don't think that exists. AND.. the haole pronounces it wrong. It is bow, gunn veeyuh.
NOT bouganvillia. he just read the script without knowing what he was saying. chump. huhuuuh. Actually, There are at least six legitimate ways to pronounce this plant name. But the haole way is the most jejune.
Higgybaby observes in the gardens...
"Heliconia caribaea commonly called lobster claw." (Actually, Heliconia rostrata and Heliconia bihai are known as lobster claw)
(The Marks' estate is covered with that. It's like a weed, it is so pervasive and almost invasive.)
"alparia (or did Higgy say alcaria..) indigenous to new quinea". never heard of it.
"alpinia oceania. spendid." (There is such a plant as Alpinia galanga... It is from the ginger family and used in cooking.
And then the money shot. "You know of course, you have no chaunce of winning." Mag looks at higgy, with appropriate incredulity, then the gun, and contemplates... hahahaaah!

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