I Witness (4.21)

[Sgt Major]

Anyone else spot the big flub throughout the episode?

Watching it again now I noticed it at the 5-6min mark when TM first get there and Higgins is talking. It's 2-3am in the morning, yet through the trellising behind Higgins it's broad daylight and what looks like the beach and the sea behind it.

Another flub related to the timing: Does it even make sense? Let's say Magnum's watching a baseball game at 2am in Hawaii ... That would make it something like 8am on the US east coast, an unusual time to be playing baseball. It seems like a surprising mistake given that the crew work/live in Hawaii for a good part of the year. They'd probably be familiar with the fact that mainland ball games would be on in the afternoon rather than late night.

Anyhow, I quite enjoyed the episode. The premise was a bit thin as people have pointed out, but amusing to see the guys acting out their images of themselves.

[Stelth]

Anyone else spot the big flub throughout the episode?

Watching it again now I noticed it at the 5-6min mark when TM first get there and Higgins is talking. It's 2-3am in the morning, yet through the trellising behind Higgins it's broad daylight and what looks like the beach and the sea behind it.

Another flub related to the timing: Does it even make sense? Let's say Magnum's watching a baseball game at 2am in Hawaii ... That would make it something like 8am on the US east coast, an unusual time to be playing baseball. It seems like a surprising mistake given that the crew work/live in Hawaii for a good part of the year. They'd probably be familiar with the fact that mainland ball games would be on in the afternoon rather than late night.

Anyhow, I quite enjoyed the episode. The premise was a bit thin as people have pointed out, but amusing to see the guys acting out their images of themselves.

I seem to remember a line where Magnums says he avoided friends that day so they wouldn't reveal the score. I think he was simply watching a re-broadcast of a game which was played the day before.



Also, I thought this was interesting:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/M ... homonStyle

[Seaver41]

good episode to end the season......nothing too heavy handed. I wonder if that was a conscious choice because they obviously open season 5 with doozy.

[marlboro]

Very funny episode. I laughed out loud several times.

Did anybody else notice that the Pig's voice changed depending on who was telling the story? When Higgins was narrating he spoke in Ebonics, when TC narrated he sounded like a white dude, and when Rick narrated he stuttered like Porky Pig! He also had a sinister eye-patch in Higgins version.

I didn't notice the Judas Priest song book. That's great. I'm guessing there are a ton of other little jokes I missed.

Easily the best comedy episode of the first 4 seasons. The only way it could have been better is if, at the end, Higgins whipped out his mighty Peregrine falcon bird call and scared the guy in the bunny mask into running into oncoming traffic.

[Pahonu]

Anyone else spot the big flub throughout the episode?

Watching it again now I noticed it at the 5-6min mark when TM first get there and Higgins is talking. It's 2-3am in the morning, yet through the trellising behind Higgins it's broad daylight and what looks like the beach and the sea behind it.

Another flub related to the timing: Does it even make sense? Let's say Magnum's watching a baseball game at 2am in Hawaii ... That would make it something like 8am on the US east coast, an unusual time to be playing baseball. It seems like a surprising mistake given that the crew work/live in Hawaii for a good part of the year. They'd probably be familiar with the fact that mainland ball games would be on in the afternoon rather than late night.

Anyhow, I quite enjoyed the episode. The premise was a bit thin as people have pointed out, but amusing to see the guys acting out their images of themselves.

SGT Major

I like your avatar. I'm a big fan of the film and David Lean as a director. Also a fan of Sir Alec Guinness, Bill Holden, and Sessue Hayakawa. While in college taking a film history class, I wrote a 20+ page research paper on The Bridge on the River Kwai. I won't even get started on all the great aspects of that film. The novel The Bridge over the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle is also a pretty good read.

[charybdis1966]

I watched this today thinking it was a new one to me, but as it went on I gradually realised I had seen it before but I couldn't quite remember who was "the inside man" till closer to the end.

Very enjoyable and a good study in how each character views themselves, Rick and Tc as tough men and higgins as the man to take charge and out fox the "blaggards".

I sat bolt upright when I saw the Judas Priest song book - Joy Kelly is definitely my kinda gal as I'm a big JP fan and have seen them around 10 times in concert over the last 25 years or so. Me and joy could have had some fun times; anyway after 60 or so posts I think I've finally uncovered a flub.

When you see the gorgeous Ms. Kelly(during Higgins' recollection) slip the note which turns out to be a song request into a book you can see she puts it in the JP song book, yet when Magnum finds it later it is no longer in the songbook, which is to the right of the inside of the piano stool, but in a pile of papers/books to the left - the note has moved.!

So Mr JJ, do I enter the flub hall of fame !?

[ConchRepublican]

I'd pay money to see Joy's act. She plays several different versions of Morris Albert's "Feelings". She breaks out some Judas Priest songs. And she closes with "One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)" (probably the Iggy Pop version, not the Frank Sinatra version). Who knows what else she has in her repertoire!

I think she could really piano bar the heck out out of The Preist's "Fever".....
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0KaZ1VSdnY ... KaZ1VSdnYI

Perhaps even more with Halford's solo tune "Prisoner of Your Eyes"
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xZE31DHnBr ... ZE31DHnBrg

I'm intrigued!

[J.J. Walters]

If you look really closely at the songbook you can see that Joy has bookmarks on "Beyond the Realms of Death"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeKuH114EiA

and "Living After Midnight"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzpHmbwqHLM

[ConchRepublican]

If you look really closely at the songbook you can see that Joy has bookmarks on "Beyond the Realms of Death"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeKuH114EiA

and "Living After Midnight"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RzpHmbwqHLM

That is awesome!

[J.J. Walters]

I sat bolt upright when I saw the Judas Priest song book - Joy Kelly is definitely my kinda gal as I'm a big JP fan and have seen them around 10 times in concert over the last 25 years or so. Me and joy could have had some fun times; anyway after 60 or so posts I think I've finally uncovered a flub.

When you see the gorgeous Ms. Kelly(during Higgins' recollection) slip the note which turns out to be a song request into a book you can see she puts it in the JP song book, yet when Magnum finds it later it is no longer in the songbook, which is to the right of the inside of the piano stool, but in a pile of papers/books to the left - the note has moved.!

So Mr JJ, do I enter the flub hall of fame !?

I havn't gone back to look at the scene, but couldn't she just have moved the note herself (sometime after she puts it in the book)?

[charybdis1966]

I sat bolt upright when I saw the Judas Priest song book - Joy Kelly is definitely my kinda gal as I'm a big JP fan and have seen them around 10 times in concert over the last 25 years or so. Me and joy could have had some fun times; anyway after 60 or so posts I think I've finally uncovered a flub.

When you see the gorgeous Ms. Kelly(during Higgins' recollection) slip the note which turns out to be a song request into a book you can see she puts it in the JP song book, yet when Magnum finds it later it is no longer in the songbook, which is to the right of the inside of the piano stool, but in a pile of papers/books to the left - the note has moved.!

So Mr JJ, do I enter the flub hall of fame !?

I havn't gone back to look at the scene, but couldn't she just have moved the note herself (sometime after she puts it in the book)?

Yeah, it is possible as it's one of those things that can happen between scenes, but to me it seemed that the director was pointedly ensuring we noticed she put in in the Priest songbook.

Maybe it's more of a continuity inconsistency rather than an actual flub.

So it seems that getting into the flub hall of fame, well, you give me a straw, I'll clutch it.

[Hawaii Winds]

This one was just great, I love the way Rick TC and Higgins all had different versions, and that they all bigged themselves up as the Hero in each!!
Higgins Kung Fu kicks and moves make me laugh so much

Poor TM never gets to see the Tigers Win

They could have done a better job with the stand in double for the Kung Fu kick!

[Hawaii Winds]

Haha i loved it when Joy had the Judas Priest tab book, being a fan I was going to comment on it, but somebody was way faster than there
Pretty good episode, a little too many plot holes and unsolved stuff for me, but I still liked it. Rosine is so hot
Anyway season 4 has been great. Next up, to watch Echoes of the Mind again, as I remenber it, my favourite episode(s) of the entire show!

I believe, Rosine is now a licensed Real Estate broker on the Island in real life.

[EZiller]

A rather fun, comedic episode, one in which all 4 of the main characters share equal screen time. Back in the 70's there was an episode of "All in the Family" that used this idea of having the show characters telling their version of an event, which of course was completely different from each others. While both shows did include quite a bit of exaggeration, I don't think they're too far off of on what happens when you might ask 4 people for their version of something. I liked Joy Kelly, top ten MPI babe, bimbo division.

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[marlboro]

That style of story is called a "Rashomon" ; named after the Kurosawa movie that employed the same device.