Legacy From a Friend (3.19)

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#51 Post by All About the Stache »

A decent episode, I suppose. Thought the karate chicks were pretty silly, and the ending a bit "easy" so to speak. Other than that I enjoyed it, Janine from Ghostbusters was in it, after all!
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#52 Post by miltontheripper »

Agree with the above comment about the "too easy" ending, a Magnum vs. Rose fight would have been awesome! The female karate beating of Magnum was hilarious! Good overall episode.

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#53 Post by Scooter »

First time poster here...just got finished watching this episode on the DVD.

Count me into the "it was too easy" category along with a bit confusing.

I didn't really understand what happened to Magnum's friend Marcus; Did Rose drown him in the surf after he confronted him about the blackmail?

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#54 Post by MaiTaiMan »

This episode was pretty good...and I rated it as such. I liked the plot of Magnum's volleyball friend getting murdered, and of course he had to figure out who did it. "Magnum, p.i." many times had Magnum's cases being more personal than the usual, as Higgins would say, tawdry divorce case...and this one was no exception. It somehow made it more realistic and you feel you can relate to the characters, and that Magnum truly cared for others.

However, the one downfall to this episode was the annoying as heck, irritating Annie Potts as 'Tracy'!! :? I've never been a huge Annie Potts fan...as her voice (in my opinion) is as annoying as The Nanny's (Fran Drescher's)! :x

I can only handle "stupid" or "dorky" so much...then it isn't funny to me...it's just stupid! To me, this is how I viewed the character of Tracy Spenser. She took too much away from the real plot of the episode! It was like they wrote the episode...then they went back in and added this Tracy, and her bumbling, slap-stick ways for comic relief. :roll: It wasn't that funny, and it seemed really out of place, and/or it just didn't flow with the episode very smoothly. Unfortunately she returned again a few seasons later...but at least she was only in the two episodes.
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#55 Post by Mark R.Y. »

This is one of my favorites of Season 3. It really has the flavor of a traditional "private eye" (sorry, TM, but that's what the genre is called!) tale. Lots of fun, and I laughed out loud at the Sesame Street "Bert" puppet in Marcus' apartment at around the 9:15 point. (Sorry, my computer isn't playing DVDs anymore or else I'd make a screen grab.) There is a "Bert is Evil" website that is devoted to photoshopped pics of Bert appearing with Osama bin Laden and other notorious people. And here he is having a cameo in a Magnum ep! :D

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#56 Post by J.J. Walters »

That's funny Mark! Never noticed 'ol Bert up there. Maybe Bert had something to do with Marcus' death? Maybe he's just a puppet for Rose? :)

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Marcus also has a nice baseball/trucker cap collection.

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#57 Post by Mark R.Y. »

Indeed! lol. Thanks for posting the screen grabs. :D

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#58 Post by Seaver41 »

well, it was an enjoyable ride with a crash at the end. We never did get an explanation as to what happened to Marcus.

Sorry, but for me, Annie Potts is flat out annoying. Never liked her in anything. All I kept thinking was cartoon character with that voice. I'm sure she has done some of that work.

decent episode...nothing more. Season 3 not finishing strong, IMO. Still a few left to see.

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#59 Post by Frodoleader »

Something that struck me as funny is the fact that John Hillerman appeared in the film "The Last Picure Show" by Peter Bogdanovich, in 1971. Annie Potts was in the sequel, "Texasville", from 1992 or so.

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#60 Post by snp389 »

Julia Nickson.......what an absolute babe!!!!
I'll always remember her as Co-Bao, John Rambo's ally in 'Rambo: First Blood 2'

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#61 Post by MaximRecoil »

snp389 wrote:Julia Nickson.......what an absolute babe!!!!
I'll always remember her as Co-Bao, John Rambo's ally in 'Rambo: First Blood 2'
Exactly. I was surprised to see any confusion on the matter in this thread, considering that anyone who has seen Rambo: First Blood Part II should have immediately recognized the street merchant ...

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... as the girl from Rambo. It is not just her face that is immediately recognizable, but her distinctive voice as well. She was even in similar "trashy" makeup during the scene where she pretended to be a "whore from village".

However, I watched Rambo: First Blood Part II probably 50 times when I was a kid, so maybe someone who only saw it once or twice a long time ago wouldn't immediately recognize her, and of course, someone who never saw it ... but how many people around in the '80s never saw that movie? It was huge.

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#62 Post by robburne »

Carol the Dabbler wrote:OK, guys, I think I have this plot straight in my head, but please check me out here.

Mrs. Chase just wanted a fling with Marcus, but he got serious about her and figured she'd love him if he was rich, so he started hawking hot goods for Rose. She took him out in her boat to break up with him in private, but he flew off the handle. One way or another (she claims she was defending herself), he ended up drowning. Rose figured this out and blackmailed her. Magnum knew too much, so Rose was going to bump him off, but Tracy the metermaid saved him and cracked the whole case wide open, possibly winning herself a spot on the police force.

Right? Or what?
The ending also had me scratching my head, it made no sense whatsoever.I watched it several times but could not hear any mention of a drowning and how Rose fit into this I had no idea.

Thanks for the summary. It's shame that the conclusion to many episodes are rushed and make no sense although I suppose that it keeps the forum busy.

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Re: Legacy From a Friend (3.19)

#63 Post by Kalai-pahoa »

Well, I've found the location of the "Rose's Cut Rate Warehouse".
It is on Iwilei Rd, in front of the intersection with Kuwili St.
30 years ago the WH was used for the Rose's shady dealings, but now things have changed and it hosts the 'Salvation Army Family Stores' :shock: (main entrance at the opposite side of the building, on Sumner St).

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Re: Legacy From a Friend (3.19)

#64 Post by charybdis1966 »

Something I noticed watching this the other day was how lax security at Mrs Chase's place was - all TM had to do was to get into a dinghy and walk up the lawn.

Surely rich people like that would have something to keep prying eyes and invaders away from their property ?

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#65 Post by gilb »

... the karate chicks were pretty silly...
I found that an amusing angle to the story. Likely an homage to the duo in the Bond flick Diamonds are Forever :D

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