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Tropical Madness

Episode ID: 25
Episode Number: 2.7
Air Date: 11/12/1981
Writer: Robert Hamilton
Director: Lawrence Doheny
Producers: Rick Weaver, Andrew Schneider
Exec Producer: Donald P. Bellisario

Guest Stars

Devon Ericson (Jennifer Chapman), Roy Dotrice (Brice Harcourt), Jake Hoopai (Sumo Enforcer), Bruce Johnson (Dwarf Enforcer)

Plot Outline

When a beautiful British woman prefers Higgins' advances over Magnum's, Thomas thinks the woman is using Higgins to get something. However, Higgins believes Magnum is jealous of him, and their relationship becomes strained.

Rating

9.0 (19 votes) MM Episode Forum Thread & Poll

Notes

1 The VMO-2 Da Nang cap appears for the first time! [pic] Both T.C. and Magnum will wear this cap numerous times to come.

2 The Byodo-In Temple in the Valley of the Temples is used for the first time. It will later be seen in "Did You See the Sunrise?" (3.1), "The Arrow That is Not Aimed" (3.14), "Torah, Torah, Torah" (5.21), "Little Girl Who" (7.7), and "Tigers Fan" (8.4).

3 Robin's art collection is worth over $37 million dollars and includes the works of Picasso, Miro and Matisse, among others! Many of his most valuable paintings were acquired when he was a struggling writer in Paris.

4 The house where Jennifer Chapman and Brice Harcourt reside is located on Nuuanu Pali Drive in the Nuuanu Valley. [map] It's just across the street from the Marks Estate, the second location used for the King Kamehameha Club. (Noted by rubber chicken)

5 Veteran actor Roy Dotrice (Brice Harcourt) was appointed the Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2008 for his contributions to drama. He also was a POW for three years in WWII.

6 Number of locks picked by Magnum = 4.

7 Higgins clocks Magnum! This is the only time that will ever happened. Magnum never hits Higgins in any episode.

Quotes

1
Higgins: If I may interrupt this raucus assembly.
Rick: Why don't you pull up a chair and sit down Higgins?
Magnum: How bout a beer?
Higgins: A formal complaint has been lodged with you in regarding both unbecoming behavior and flagerant violations of the club's dress code.
Magnum: Oh come on Higgins, I'm clean. I'm on the beach.
Higgins: It's interesting how the guilty party defends himself, even before he's been accused.
Rick: Oh, Thomas is usually accused before there's a complaint...That came out wrong, didn't it?

2
Magnum: Out of my way before I run you down and enjoy it!

3
Higgins: I was... the youngest lad in our Regiment. In those dark days when Hitler was winning, everyone was young. We'd been going at it with Rommel all over bloody Africa. One night, on patrol, some Jerries surprised us. No more than the flick of the serpents tail, as it slithered past us, but when it was over, I was the only one in our group left alive. Three days in the desert. I will always blame myself. Somehow, I should have... saved.
Jennifer: Then what happened?
Higgins: I was sent to a hospital in Cairo in preparitory for being sent home.
Jennifer: But, you couldn't desert the Regiment, could you?
Higgins: I taught myself to type, only two fingers because of the bandages, and got myself assigned as aide-de-camp to an officer on the rise.
Jennifer: And when you won him over, completely indebted to you, you got him to send you back to your old post. You must have been the most attentive aide in North Africa.
Higgins (laughs): It's true, but I would have done anything to join the lads.

4
T.C.: Why don't you just admit it T.M., Higgins has just one-upped you.
Rick: Oh come on now, she's not even Thomas' type and you know it.
T.C. (laughs): What, she stopped breathing or something?
Magnum: T.C.!?
Rick: Listen, Thomas has never struck out before and you know it.
Magnum: Well Rick, come on...(laughs)
Rick: Fifty bucks says Magnum gets a date before Higgins gets her first name! Fifty bucks!
T.C.: Fif... Well, yeah, you put your money where your mouth is!
Magnum: That's it guys, I'm going swimming.
T.C.: This will be the easiest fifty bucks I have ever seen. Put your money where your... mouth... is.

5
Magnum: Come on Higgins, just let me call the police will ya? I'll phone Scotland Yard, they'll run a routine check. Come on Higgins, just say something, please!
Higgins: Magnum, you will do us the kindness of going to the devil. Come my dear.
(Higgins and Jennifer walk away)

6
Magnum: I want you to think about this logically Higgins. Why is a beautiful, desirable, young woman, who can have just about any man in the islands, pursuing you?
Higgins: The answer is obvious, old man. Logic is irrelevant. It's simply... (smiles) Tropical Madness.

Flubs

1 When Magnum stops at the gas station, and the dwarf breaks off the side mirror of the Ferrari, he gets in a fight with the sumo enforcer. When the sumo picks him up, his shirt also comes up in back, the next scene it is down, and then it's up again, all in the same quick sequence (before he is put down on the ground). (Noted by seahawks1)

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