Murder 101 (5.8)

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LZeitgeist
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#46 Post by LZeitgeist »

Jay-Firestorm wrote:
* I’m not certain about this one either, but on Magnum’s license (which reverts to stating his birthday as 5th January, which I love, as this is also my birthdate!), the photo of him to me looks like it was taken from the common early promotional shot of him kneeling down by one of the Ferrari’s wheels. I’ll have to try and find a scan of this shot and compare them.
The photo is definitely different, but in the prop department's defense, what we were shown previously was TM's Hawaii Driver's License - what we are shown in this episode is his PI License. (It is his driver's license with a white sticker over 'State of Hawaii Driver's Licence' and text on the sticker that says, 'Private Investigator'.)

I have photos to compare but no hosting space online to which I can upload them.

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Re: Murder 101 (5.8)

#47 Post by 80s Big Hair »

I never understood why Mr. Gaylord was hell-bent on cancelling the class.

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Re: Murder 101 (5.8)

#48 Post by nha trang »

80s Big Hair wrote:I never understood why Mr. Gaylord was hell-bent on cancelling the class.
His wife, Mrs. Gaylord had her metaphysics class cancelled and replaced by murder 101 I believe?

Also, this episode wasnt quite as bad as I thought years ago, I think I became more forgiving over the past decade!

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#49 Post by ENSHealy »

lutherhgillis wrote: Sun Jul 20, 2008 4:44 pm I appreciate what SL said about Vietnam and the value of friends. That would explain a great deal and TM, TC, and Rick.

I love this campy episode. We get to laugh at Magnum's flaws. The book he wants to write gets another mention. His inability to teach a class is amusing. The sterotypical class members are hilarious.
I hate to be a quibbler (OK, I love it, but I can't admit that, can I?) but the book (How To Be A World Class Private Investigator) doesn't actually get a mention. Unless I missed it, but I searched the subtitles text too and didn't find any of the key words. It's one of the things I track for the Magnumometer, so I think my ears would have perked up, but I know I've missed things before as well.
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#50 Post by ENSHealy »

EPISODE: 5.8 MURDER 101

Famous guest stars:
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Hawaiian shirts: 1
Tigers Cap:
Island Hopper shirts:
Shirtless Magnum:
OMG:
Higgins Organizations:
Higgins musings: 1
Negotiations: 1
Body Count:
Bullet wounds:
Little Voice:
I know what you’re thinking: 1
When I write HTBAWCPI:
Investigator corrections: 3
4th wall breaks: 1
Magnumometer: 8
Magnumometer Moments: https://vimeo.com/543615087

Potential magnumania usernames: Mildred Gaylord, Dave Gibson

Entertaining enough, but as others have pointed out, pseudo-Spicoli is dreadful and the plot is a bit tangled.
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Re: Murder 101 (5.8)

#51 Post by charybdis1966 »

My run through Season 5 continues and on second viewing this is a fairly goofy and enjoyable story.

Admittedly the plot isn't so great and there are no real plot twists however after the sombre tone of the previous episode (Blind Justice) this is exactly the right type of frothy story to counterbalance Blind Justice.

I don't know why but the sight of Kiana Dau posing as a hooker late on in the episode is my main memory from watching this back in the 2010's on rerun. Is she in "Hawaiian Peaches" ?

If not she should be. :wink:

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