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IKnowWhatYoureThinking · Thu Jan 29, 2009 3:53 pm

Maybe one of he production crew drove it to the park

Tom_Magnum · #42 Post by **Tom_Magnum** » Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:55 pm

This episode was alright, but I really found Buzz Benoit and his nephew really annoying. If it were another guy, I would probably rate it 8/10. PS (The Buzzettes are hot).

TM

steadylads · #43 Post by **steadylads** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 2:09 am

I rate this show very high because it is the only time I remember John Hillerman deliberately camping it up. His third base coach antics have me in stitches. There is one scene where Magnum (a real player) steps in the box and checks third. He gives this sort of "I don't believe this" look as Higgins who has been throwing signs left and right gives him a single brush across the shirt pocket. It is one of the best scenes of the banter between the two I have seen and there isn't a word spoken.

I wonder if Higgins as third base coach was an after thought after they started filming.

Classic performance. Thanks Higgy Baby.

VM02 · #44 Post by **VM02** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 5:20 pm

I have to agree 100% with what Steady Lads said. I find Hillermans performance in this entire episode to be among my favorites.

"Wow, did you have a double-0 number?"

steadylads · #45 Post by **steadylads** » Thu Mar 05, 2009 7:26 pm

No 00# just I-3.

brunoffrance · #46 Post by **brunoffrance** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 9:22 am

2nd episode seen in the same sunday for my brother anniverssary.
8 to vote 8,5...
All around the table love the baseball match 'cause we don't have that in France nor on TV... and it's really an icon of USA for all enthousiasts we are.
Don't understand the rules but pleasant to see . Hilarous moments with the young nephew who don't arrive to speak well when discovering the famous baseball player..., when rick got the ball too low....
hopefully TM discovered the fake marked cards.... but it was very limit...

Bruno.

Jay-Firestorm · #47 Post by **Jay-Firestorm** » Fri Jun 19, 2009 3:55 pm

My final review of the week. I’m not a sports fan, so don’t like this one as much as some of the other fourth season entries.

[rating=7.5]

After Robin Masters wagers the Estate over the outcome of a softball game between the King Kamehameha Club team and that of a sleazy, unscrupulous magazine publisher, both Higgins and Magnum find that they may soon be out of a home. A so-so sports episode...

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This review contains spoilers.

I have very mixed views over this episode (working title: ‘Going Going Gone’). It is marginally better than some of the show’s other sports-based episodes (the second season’s ‘One More Summer’ was take it or leave it, and the less said about season three’s ‘Mixed Doubles’ the better!), but as I have said in other reviews, I’m not really a sports fan, so that marks it down a notch from the start for me.

It felt strange that Robin would so callously wager the Estate. Admittedly we don’t see (or rather, hear) enough of him in the series to really get to know his personality all that well, but even so, I had trouble accepting that he would have done this – especially considering the times that Magnum has helped him out and saved his life (the first season’s ‘J. Digger Doyle’ and the third season’s ‘The Big Blow’ to name but two occasions).

The episode is mostly light-hearted, and does have it’s humorous moments (such as Rick getting hit by a ball in a place where a man really doesn’t want to be hit!), but it is also very silly. I found Buzz and his nephew to be overly annoying at times, and the story dragged a bit towards the end.

There are no real villains to this story. The nearest we come is the hostile construction workers when Magnum is searching for Jerome, the ex-husband of one of the players on his team. It did seem to be a bit coincidental that Jerome turned out to be an ex-softball pro who could help the team out, but I was willing to forgive that.
However, the conclusion of the story, with Magnum just happening to find that Buzz’s card deck is mark, thus making the bet bogus to begin with, was just too contrived and coincidental.

This isn’t an abysmal episode, but it is one of those that I only watch very occasionally, and the whole thing just feels rather out of character to me.

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Other notes, bloopers and misc.:

* As with ‘Distant Relative’ a few episodes earlier, the DVD version of this episode does not have an opening trailer. I wonder if it can be verified that it also doesn’t have one when on TV? As I mentioned before, I know that on various DVD releases of ‘Knight Rider’ and ‘The A-Team’, some opening trailers are removed for some reason.

* When Jerome is practicing batting, the sound of glass smashing is part of the sound that made up the sound of the turbos igniting other Bellisario series, ‘Airwolf’. This sound was also used in the sixth season episode ‘Way of the Stalking Horse’.

Rutledal · #48 Post by **Rutledal** » Sat Jun 20, 2009 4:29 pm

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.

I wouldn't call that a flub, I just figured he wore it to fit in with everyone else there.

Also, like with Distatante Relative the episode is listed as not having opening preview, but the episode on my DVD that saw this morning surely had an opening preview.

Jay-Firestorm · #49 Post by **Jay-Firestorm** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:32 pm

Rutledal 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.
I wouldn't call that a flub, I just figured he wore it to fit in with everyone else there.

Also, like with Distatante Relative the episode is listed as not having opening preview, but the episode on my DVD that saw this morning surely had an opening preview.

Which region DVD do you have? I have Region 1 (even though my country is Region 2)?

It might vary in different regions - sorry to bring up my other favourite show, but on 'The A-Team' fourth season DVD, Region 1, nearly all of the opening trailers were missing. I bought the R2 version, and they were all there.
(Likewise, the R1 season one has all the trailers, but R2 has them missing!)

Rutledal · #50 Post by **Rutledal** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 1:44 pm

I have good ol' Region 2 DVDs.

Jay-Firestorm · #51 Post by **Jay-Firestorm** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:27 pm

Rutledal wrote:I have good ol' Region 2 DVDs.

Looks like I'll be picking up a R2 copy then.
I usually get R1 as they come out sooner and often have more on then (bonus disk on Season 1 by the way), but if R2 has all of the trailers...

Rutledal · #52 Post by **Rutledal** » Sun Jun 21, 2009 11:32 pm

I never said that Region 2 DVDs has the trailers, they don't have the trailers. They have the bonus episodes for season 2 and 4 (I only have the first four), but no trailers.

MACattack · #53 Post by **MACattack** » Sun May 02, 2010 2:41 am

I just love Magnum's alias in the scene where he was trying to find "killer" in the bar full of union construction workers: WALLACE McNERDY!
plus Tom flashed either his driver's license or his P.I. license like it was a badge!

That fake name was almost as bad as Lance White!

steveadl · #54 Post by **steveadl** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 11:24 am

Watching this episode again and one thing that really springs to mind when seeing Higgins outrage throughout the episode of Robin betting the estate.

This would be one of the strongest indications that Robin and Higgins are not the same person.

Having said that, I like to think Higgins is Robin, so I'll try to forget this and hope that someone on MM can come up with an explanation for me.

zebra3 · #55 Post by **zebra3** » Tue Nov 09, 2010 5:10 pm

MACattack wrote:I just love Magnum's alias in the scene where he was trying to find "killer" in the bar full of union construction workers: WALLACE McNERDY!
plus Tom flashed either his driver's license or his P.I. license like it was a badge!

That fake name was almost as bad as Lance White!

I steal Chuck Finley from burn notice as my alias. Also, Mork Fumork, Galileo Humpkins, Gus "T.T." Showbiz, Shmooel Cohen, and others.

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