Squeeze Play (4.7)

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#111 Post by thechickinthemiddle »

What's funny to me in the opening scene is that Taphie saying "Five years of high school for nothing." is supposed to denote an airhead personality, but technically the joke only works in places where there are middle/junior high schools with grades going to 6-9, etc.. In places without them, high schools usually go from grades 8-12, probably making a few people wonder what the joke is. :P

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#112 Post by Milton Collins »

I think this is a fun episode but have a question I'm hoping someone can clear up for me.

I see at least 2 scenes in this one that are also in the opening show introduction which started in season 1. How can this be?

Higgins in the beginning picking up the rubber chicken when talking to Magnum about the softball game and Robin and Buzzes bet.

TC playing first base and smacking his glove.

These are both definitely in the intro which started after the first few episodes of season 1. Were they shot way back then and simply re used in these episodes? Or perhaps were also used in other, earlier episodes? Not sure but just confuses me time wise.

Anyway, fun episode. Love the bet, the Robin scenes, Buzz and his Buzzetes (wow!) and Mickey cracked me up as well. I love seeing Magnum in action, you can tell he was a stud player! And making Higgins the coach and Rick an awful player was hilarious as well. I love all the sports themed episodes other than season 3's Basket Case with basketball playing Willie which I find to be awful.

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#113 Post by thechickinthemiddle »

Milton Collins wrote:I think this is a fun episode but have a question I'm hoping someone can clear up for me.

I see at least 2 scenes in this one that are also in the opening show introduction which started in season 1. How can this be?

Higgins in the beginning picking up the rubber chicken when talking to Magnum about the softball game and Robin and Buzzes bet.

TC playing first base and smacking his glove.

These are both definitely in the intro which started after the first few episodes of season 1. Were they shot way back then and simply re used in these episodes? Or perhaps were also used in other, earlier episodes? Not sure but just confuses me time wise.
If you saw this on TV, it's probably a syndicated print (with Magnum font), which uses the intro from I believe season seven, with the scenes you describe above. :) Having watched it in syndication for many years, it's still a little weird to see scenes in the intros on DVD that I never remember from before. :P

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#114 Post by Algernon Farnsworth »

Not sure if anyone noticed, but American Needle re-made the orange D cap: https://americanneedle.com/product/400- ... gers-1982/

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#115 Post by K Hale »

In honor of this episode... the cap flick signal.

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#116 Post by J.J. Walters »

K Hale wrote:In honor of this episode... the cap flick signal.

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LOL! So awesome!! LOVE it! :)
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#117 Post by Mr. Nice Guy »

Is a ''crossover'' information:


In Episode J. ''Digger'' Doyle in episodes ''notes'', ''item 2'' is writen that:


2 This is one of the very few episodes where Robin Masters makes an on-screen "appearance" (body doubled by Bruce Atkinson) and one of only two episodes where he actually visits the Estate (the other being Season Three's "The Big Blow"). His face is never seen in any episode, only his body is seen. This is also one of only two episodes in which Orson Welles receives an onscreen credit for providing the voice of Robin Masters. Welles voiced two other episodes uncredited.


Actually, Robin Master pay a ''3 time visit'' at the estate, beyond the references above, he will appear at the state in the final of the ''Squeeze Play" episode (4th season): the "limo" stop, in the moment that magnum is confronting Buzz abou the marked deck. Masters says: I 'll do better than that, Buzz, I ''l write about it".



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#118 Post by Stelth »

Best line from this episode: Buzz Benoit:(talking to Higgins and his nephew, explaining the "improvments" he is planning for Robin's Nest when he takes over)

"Mickey, we'll build a pleasure pool...with a series of love canals!"

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#119 Post by KingKC »

Watching this episode was just as much fun as it was 30+ years ago.

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#120 Post by brianw »

As a huge baseball fan, I really like this episode. Plus, it was funny. It must be difficult to film real looking sports scenes with actors who mostly are not at all athletic.... Oh also, my dad used to chew Red Man when I was a kid.

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#121 Post by KingKC »

At least the sports were realistic in this episode unlike the silly episode of "One More Summer."

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#122 Post by Chris109 »

Ah, Dick Shawn.
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If you want to see him in total action:

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#123 Post by Chris109 »

And don't forget Mickey.

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#124 Post by Stelth »

I wish this forum had a "like" button. You'd get two from me.

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#125 Post by Luther's nephew Dobie »

thechickinthemiddle wrote:
IslandHopper wrote:The one question I always had about this episode is where Magnum goes into the bar (Last Rivet, I think) looking for Jerome/Killer/Bad Friday and gets trampled by the construction workers rushing out of the bar, an older retired man sitting at a bar wearing a construction outfit including hardhat tells Magnum where Jerome is working. If the old man is retired as he says, then why is he still wearing a construction helmet/hardhat? To each his own, I guess. :wink:
My wild guess is that he still wants to drink at the bar but even he knows how rough it gets there. (Magnum had just been trampled after all. :P)
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Every time I have seen this scene it struck me how the "I'm retired" 'joke' wasn't funny, the story wasn't advanced, it was all pointless, so why have the lingering scene with him? I'd bet money it was a In Joke, made for the cast and not the general audience. The old timer could be a valued and loved crew member who was retiring from the business and the producers wanted to do something for him. Since there was no reason to have so many extras in the scene, they were probably Magnum crew members as well.
This is done all the time in Hollywood. The last episode of Perry Mason, with Dick Clark as the killer, occurred at a TV studio, so they got to have all the actual behind the scenes workers appear. Stars often have their real family members in bit parts or just in the background.
The real life Maria Von Trapp appeared in a village scene in Sound of Music. Some of the Marines who raised the flag on Iwo Jima are the ones doing it again for the classic war film, The Sands of Iwo Jima, but the audience would never know that.
In a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode, David Ogden Stiers from MASH is shown as a alien looking at a computer screen that has the numbers 4077 on it, the numerical designation for his MASH unit.
In the Mary Tyler Moore Show, Ed Asner had a photo on his office wall of him in his football uniform from high school. Years earlier, the same photo was on the wall of his character's room in a episode of The Fugitive, "Three Cheers For Little Boy Blue".
In another MTM episode, a photo of a crooked politician is shown onscreen, it was of Mary's then husband the producer Grant Tinker.
Martin Milner's kid was on Adam-12, Dick Van Dykes son who starred with him on Diagnosis Murder appeared as a kid on the Dick Van Dyke Show.
On the Andy Griffith Show, Sheriff Taylor has on his desk the phone book for Mount Airy, NC, Griffith's hometown and inspiration for Mayberry, many of whose citizen's sported the names of his childhood pals.
Warner Brothers TV studio was the king of In Jokes in the 1950's and 1960's, on Maverick you'd find Ed "Kookie" Byrnes(77 Sunset Strip), famous for constantly combing his hair, appear as a stable boy in a shot so fast if you blinked you missed it. He was currying Maverick's horse with a giant outsize comb.
One of the best In Jokes was at the end of a Wild Wild West episode with Alan "the skipper" Hale, maybe one of you know what it was, it was very funny.

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