Operation: Silent Night (4.10)

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#76 Post by MaximRecoil »

golfmobile wrote:Then their lifiting off just as the bombing starts -- after working all day on the heli, suddenly after dark, TC gets it conveniently fixed? This episode across the board was just a little TOO contrived for me, just one of them that was "trying too hard." Sorry, guys!
SignGuyHPW wrote:It also didn't make sense that they just took off when the shelling happened like they could've left any time that they wanted.
It made sense. TC knew about the option of using the "bang on the exciter with a hammer" trick all along, but he didn't want to try it unless he had to. Here's some dialog from shortly after they landed on the island:
Magnum: Hey, why don't you just bang on it with a ball peen hammer like you did that time in [somewhere in Vietnam]? It started right up.

TC: Because it might not be the exciter. We've only got one shot with that thing. We make a mistake we'll melt the whole engine down.
By the end of the episode, TC had already done a lot of troubleshooting, so he would have had the problem narrowed down a lot more than he did at the beginning of the episode. Had there not been artillery shells raining down, he may have wanted to do a little more trouble shooting, but it was suddenly a life or death situation, so he had no choice but to have Magnum bang on the exciter with a hammer right then and there and take his "one shot" gamble.

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#77 Post by Amian »

Sort of a mixed mind about this episode because the good parts are excellent, but the bad parts (mentioned in some earlier posts) are worse than usual.

Really love the bonding... but the snippiness was overboard. They really had at each at times.

Great to see Higgins out there enjoying himself, and his talk with Magnum toward the end was wonderful... but his singlemindedness about the raft seemed off.

TC's alone time, singing, was a good touch.

Also... what was Rick going to say about his cousin??

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#78 Post by Nifty911 »

This is one of those episodes I remember when it first aired on TV. One of my favorites.

Also, it's one of the episodes where Magnum doesn't do any detective work, which the writers always seemed to do a good job with.

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#79 Post by K Hale »

I’ve decided I’m glad we never find out what Rick got up to with his cousin!
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#80 Post by Luther's nephew Dobie »

K Hale wrote:I’ve decided I’m glad we never find out what Rick got up to with his cousin!
K Hale,
If I recall correctly the cousin and Rick were only 4th graders so it probably fell into the naughty but benign realm.
In any event I found Rick's worrying hysterical, it touched a nerve with all of us former "Doctor" players.
To this day my childhood friend Nancy introduces me as her first physician, her husband is not amused.

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“Major Strasser’s been shot.” (Glances at Rick, who is holding the smoking gun) "Round up the usual suspects.”
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#81 Post by K Hale »

I enjoyed how it got just a little bit creepier every time he tried to tell it to one of the others. :lol:
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#82 Post by Chris109 »

K Hale wrote:I enjoyed how it got just a little bit creepier every time he tried to tell it to one of the others. :lol:
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#83 Post by Laohu »

Yep this is classic TV at it’s best ! Gilligan , Ops I mean Rick just stand up there is no quick sand in Hawaii .

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#84 Post by brianw »

Guys, stop letting flubs ruin the show for you. Just enjoy it without all the analysis of mistakes. OK, sorry, rant over.

Now... I love everything about this ep. Even Ed Lauter. Def one of the funniest. Rick in the quick sand was great. TC's singing. Higgins' boat. Even a little bit of seriousness when they find the Japanese wreckage and the pilot.

Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a good night.

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#85 Post by Merlin11 »

Hello my first post. I've been a long time reader of this forum. Great information here.
I have been rewatching the series on hallmark(dont get me started on the edits).
Anyways I just noticed in this episode toward the end when Higgins is speaking it looks like several meteors are flying by in the sky. I thought it was interesting.
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#86 Post by Luther's nephew Dobie »

Merlin11 wrote:Hello my first post. I've been a long time reader of this forum. Great information here.
I have been rewatching the series on hallmark(dont get me started on the edits).
Anyways I just noticed in this episode toward the end when Higgins is speaking it looks like several meteors are flying by in the sky. I thought it was interesting.
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Welcome to the Board. Actually that's not a meteorite, this was a crossover episode with Alf and that's his spaceship.

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#87 Post by ENSHealy »

Watched this episode today. Those flashes are the studio/crew lights reflecting off the chopper blades, as they are slowly (and probably manually?) spun, simulating TC trying to get the chopper going again.
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#88 Post by ENSHealy »

Or more accurately, reflecting off the end of the blades as they pass in front of the lights.
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#89 Post by Merlin11 »

ENSHealy wrote:Or more accurately, reflecting off the end of the blades as they pass in front of the lights.
Thanks!! That makes sense. I thought it looked odd.

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#90 Post by ENSHealy »

4.10 OPERATION: SILENT NIGHT
Famous guest stars:
Hawaiian shirts:
Tigers Cap:
Island Hopper shirts: 1 white on maroon
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Shirtless Magnum: 2
OMG: 1
Higgins Organizations:
Higgins musings: 6 - ½ point each for 6 short or cut-off musings, 2 full points for 2 longer ones
Negotiations:
Body Count:
Bullet wounds:
Little Voice:
I know what you’re thinking:
When I write HTBAWCPI:
Investigator corrections:
4th wall breaks:
Magnumometer: 10
Magnumometer Moments: https://vimeo.com/390240168

Potential magnumania usernames: Ensign Jensen
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