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Hawaiian shirts: 0
Island Hopper shirts: 1 white on green
Body Count: 0
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Little Voice: 0
I know what you’re thinking: 1
When I write HTBAWCPI: .5
Investigator corrections: 0
Magnum injuries: 0
Higgins musings: 0
4th wall breaks: 0
Negotiations: 0
Famous guest stars: 0
Magnumometer: 2.5
Potential magnumania usernames: Intra Pacific Imports
Higgins organizations: Anglo Polynesian Servants of the Sea (although the subtitles amusingly called them the Savants of the Sea)
I am one that agrees with those who are in the "annoying to be funny" is just annoying camp. She is so over the top, she almost costs herself her own case on more than one occasion. Too over the top for me, although I guess the fact that I'm annoyed by it means the writers and Kathleen Lloyd did their jobs well. I would have preferred less well, thank you very much.
BTW Lloyd is too skinny in this episode. Any time you can see the upper ribs (i.e. those above the bust line) on a woman through the skin (see the pic posted by karolis) I'm like "Honey, let me buy you a cheeseburger."
I gave a half point on How To Be A World Class Private Investigator because, although TM says the following, he doesn't mention it in the contest of writing a book: "There's another cardinal rule a good private investigator follows. Don't try telling a client something she doesn't want to hear. It never works. Sometimes you've just gotta let people go. If they want to tilt at windmills, let 'em tilt."
Although I realize this would have made the entire episode unnecessary...when she's on the boat and being intercepted by the Coast Guard in the beginning of the episode, isn't she already over the Arizona? Why didn't she just drop Dad over the side? (I'm also assuming she's not actually that close to the memorial IRL, that it's a set they built to resemble the openings in the Arizona memorial just for the shot.)
CRUCIAL CONVERSATIONS:
Magnum: I am the private investigator so let me investigate. In private!
Maggie: Magnum, I told you, those transcripts are confidential.
Magnum: Oh, come on, Maggie. I remember a dozen times that Mac bent the rules a little.
Maggie: That's because Lieutenant MacReynoIds was different. Very different.
Magnum: Yeah. Right. I could appeal to his heart.
Maggie: Yeah. And his stomach.
Magnum: Oh, come on! That food stuff, that was just an excuse. Listen, underneath that stomach was a heart as big as...that stomach. He cared, Lieutenant.