Out of Sync (7.19)

[ENSHealy]

…TM supposedly turns down yet ANOTHER pay cheque.

Does he turn down the paycheck? I don’t think so, we just don’t get to see it being handed to him because he is still (unknowingly? confusedly?) pointing the gun right at the guy holding the check, so they all put their hands up.

* I don’t think he is credited, but is the guy on the beach at the beginning Bob Minor (Roger E. Mosley’s stunt double, and who has parts in several episodes?).

I at first also thought it was Bob Minor, but looked closer and saw that it was someone different, and the credits say that the “first man in film” was Manny Perry. Google Manny Perry and it’s clearly him.

I always wondered why was Higgins so thrilled that Thomas was possibly getting married? Did he think they would get married and leave the estate or that they would stay at the estate and he liked the idea of having a woman live there?

My theory has always been that Higgins is so happy because in his mind it means that Thomas is truly, finally, “growing up” by getting married. BTW, you have far and away the best username on the forum!

I had always thought Magnum was going to end up with Maggie Poole.... I might be the only Magnum fan who thought that, though.

I don’t know if I ever thought it, but I certainly hoped it. Actually, what I really hoped is that I would end up with Maggie Poole.

Why wouldn't Magnum have called Rick or TC to get picked up rather than run all over the island?

He also says he’s going to call the police and have them pick him up, and then we still see him running all over the island before borrowing (?) the moped. Given that TM usually treats Island Hoppers as his personal chopper service and time was of the essence, wouldn’t you think he’d have dialed up T.C. for a quick hop back to Cynthia? I guess they really needed that Dumb and Dumber prequel scene.

That said if I never heard that Cynthia saxaphone again it would be too soon!!!

I agree, but for probably a different reason. Drum & Bugle Corps is a pretty niche activity, so I wouldn’t be surprised if nobody on here had ever even heard of it, but in 1988, the Blue Devils, from Concord, CA, played Since I Fell For You. (It starts at the 11:15 mark in that link.) They were undefeated the whole 1988 season until the group I was in, the Madison Scouts, from Madison, WI, surprised them in the last two shows of the year, winning the 1988 World Championships . (You can skip to 2:45 in that video.) The Blue Devils won a ton of championships, and in my mind they were an arrogant bunch of S.O.B.s, so Since I Fell For You just grates on my ears throughout this episode and L.A.

[ENSHealy]

EPISODE: 7.19 Out of Sync

Famous guest stars: .5 Dana Delany - half-point for future fame

Hawaiian shirts:
Tigers Cap: 1

Island Hopper shirts:
Shirtless Magnum:
OMG: 1
Higgins Organizations:
Higgins musings:
Negotiations:
Gun Play:
Bullet wounds:
Body Count (by Magnum):
Little Voice:
I know what you’re thinking:
When I write HTBAWCPI:
Investigator corrections:
4th wall breaks: 4
Magnumometer: 6.5
Magnumometer Moments: https://vimeo.com/727084311

How did he get untied from the chair?

Watching this episode gives me nostalgia for pay phones.

I believe this has already been covered in some detail, but Navy’s last game in 1966 was against Army on November 26, they lost 20-7, and the quarterbacks on the roster were three dudes named Phil Bassi, John Cartwright Jr and Ken Pease.

At this point we know TM is a little sketchy on gun handling safety basics, but he cocked the gun while it was pointed at Higgins.

Was that too much time breaking the 4th wall? Talk amongst yourselves.

[charybdis1966]

EPISODE: 7.19 Out of Sync....Was that too much time breaking the 4th wall? Talk amongst yourselves.

I can see your dilemma Ensign, to me a 4th wall break is either a glance or a brief stare at the camera. In this episode TM addresses the camera for at least 4 times directly and that doesn't quite look like a usual 4th wall break. I remember watching this the first time round (in the '80s) and speculating that he was talking to someone (maybe even just a random stranger who merely happened to be sitting at the same table as TM), the camera was a POV shot and at the end we'd get a shot of the person who TM had been talking to.

Alas, I guessed that one all wrong.

[Treadwell]

I voted Average At Best, but Dana again is wonderful, and I think they did a great job with the awkward scenes. People are complaining about the awkwardness, but that was the point! They respect each other so much that they're erring on the side of caution and not making presumptions. It was nice that they figured it out in the scene at the Club.

[KurtHPickering]

Don't know if this is a flub or not, but when TM was in the airport coffee shop, he mentioned playing football at Navy. He said his last game as a Midshipman was against the University of Michigan. Now, if I am not mistaken, isn't the Army-Navy game always been the final game for both teams? Isn't it pretty much the last game of the college football season?
Maybe "back then" it wasn't, but I know it is now.

I'm afraid it is a flub. A continuity error, as they say in the biz. As great as this series was, there were many - like a guy named Thomas Sullivan Magnum whose mother's maiden name was Sullivan and who remembers being told he looked like his Uncle Sully turning out to be, actually, Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV. But I digress... The Army-Navy game was then, and I believe still is, always the last game of their regular season AND, I say redundantly, always both team's regular-season finale. A possible exception, as someone points out in this string, would be a bowl game. Doesn't happen often for either military academy, but it has. What couldn't happen in Magnum world is Navy playing Michigan in a bowl game. The Rose Bowl's exclusive contract pitting the Big 10 and (then) Pac-10 champions was in place during (not to mention well before and well after) Magnum's time at Navy, and at that time at least the Big 10 if not both did not let their other members play in any other bowl. Michigan and Navy have played regular-season games against each other 18 times, but it could never have been the last regular-season game because - then and now - Michigan's is always with Ohio State and Navy's is always with Army. If I were trying to retconn out of this, I would point out that Magnum says it was "MY" last game - not necessarily Navy's. I wouldn't believe that, though - if he was good enough to be "not Staubach" - why WOULDN'T they play him against Army? The only way I can think of would be if he got shipped out in between early December and New Year's Day - but 1) Don't I remember he mentions shipping out in July? 2) Completing your time at a service academy isn't like doing so in regular basic - basic units come and go all year round, but the service academies are like colleges - they start in the fall and end in the spring. Nope, this is a boo-boo.

[Pahonu]

Don't know if this is a flub or not, but when TM was in the airport coffee shop, he mentioned playing football at Navy. He said his last game as a Midshipman was against the University of Michigan. Now, if I am not mistaken, isn't the Army-Navy game always been the final game for both teams? Isn't it pretty much the last game of the college football season?
Maybe "back then" it wasn't, but I know it is now.

I'm afraid it is a flub. A continuity error, as they say in the biz. As great as this series was, there were many - like a guy named Thomas Sullivan Magnum whose mother's maiden name was Sullivan and who remembers being told he looked like his Uncle Sully turning out to be, actually, Thomas Sullivan Magnum IV. But I digress... The Army-Navy game was then, and I believe still is, always the last game of their regular season AND, I say redundantly, always both team's regular-season finale. A possible exception, as someone points out in this string, would be a bowl game. Doesn't happen often for either military academy, but it has. What couldn't happen in Magnum world is Navy playing Michigan in a bowl game. The Rose Bowl's exclusive contract pitting the Big 10 and (then) Pac-10 champions was in place during (not to mention well before and well after) Magnum's time at Navy, and at that time at least the Big 10 if not both did not let their other members play in any other bowl. Michigan and Navy have played regular-season games against each other 18 times, but it could never have been the last regular-season game because - then and now - Michigan's is always with Ohio State and Navy's is always with Army. If I were trying to retconn out of this, I would point out that Magnum says it was "MY" last game - not necessarily Navy's. I wouldn't believe that, though - if he was good enough to be "not Staubach" - why WOULDN'T they play him against Army? The only way I can think of would be if he got shipped out in between early December and New Year's Day - but 1) Don't I remember he mentions shipping out in July? 2) Completing your time at a service academy isn't like doing so in regular basic - basic units come and go all year round, but the service academies are like colleges - they start in the fall and end in the spring. Nope, this is a boo-boo.

There’s no mention of it, but it’s also possible that he missed the final game or games because of an injury. Just a thought.