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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* Second only to the trope namer in fame would be ''[[The A-Team (TV)|The A-Team]]'' who would consistently be imprisoned by villains who would inexplicably lock the 'Team in a warehouse (or other location) full of enough PVC piping, broken-down all-terrain vehicles, used engine parts, and potentially-explosive material to ensure that they could (after an [[A
* The Doctor in ''[[
** In "Time Crash" the Tenth Doctor lampshades this based on the fact that the Fifth Doctor never used a sonic screwdriver. "Like, 'Hey, I'm the Doctor. I can save the universe with a kettle and some string. And look at me, I'm wearing a vegetable.'"
* Sam on ''[[Quantum Leap]]'' had MacGyver moments, but only when he used his brain to make a gadget to save the day. Thus, a successful MacGyverist is different from a hero who is simply smart.
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** Catherine did it once too, when she feared she'd been raped in "Built To Kill", though it was more like the CSI NY example with using stuff on the scene than Grissom's.
** Also done in ''[[CSI: NY]]'' when Danny got stuck in a panic room and had to improvise with super glue, a hot plate, coffee filter, and several other items the victim had stockpiled. He even calls Stella "Miss [[MacGyver]]".
* Used explicitly as a verb in the pilot episode of ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'', where Sam Carter refers to having been forced to "macgyver" a crucial device to make the Stargate work. The fact that Richard Dean Anderson used to BE [[MacGyver]] makes this a cheeky [[Shout
** And don't forget the one-shot Stargate in "Ascension", made out of (among other things) toaster parts.
** There's also a prank executed for the bloopers reel in "Solitudes," (planned by Amanda Tapping and episode director Martin Wood) where Carter and O'Neill are stranded in a glacier, and she laments that she's "stuck in a glacier with MacGyver" and he can't figure a way out for them.
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** One episode of The Screen Savers covered making a Pringles can directional antenna.
* On ''[[The Daily Show]]'', Jon Stewart makes reference directly to MacGyvering when [http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-october-7-2009/william-kamkwamba interviewing] William Kamkwamba, a young man from Malawi who created a functioning windmill for his village during a famine, using only, according to [[That Other Wiki]], "[[Bamboo Technology|blue gum trees]], bicycle parts, and materials collected in a local scrapyard."
* During the [[American Civil War]], the South was strapped for cash and couldn't stand a protracted naval blockade, especially with the North's greater resources for building ironcalds. Considering that the South's main resource was cotton, they strapped bales onto the decks of merchant ships and used them to absorb enemy fire. Thus, the [
* Americans are known for coming up with crazy ideas that just happen to work like using human hair to soak up oil. At the Battle of Midway, the carrier ''Yorktown'' had been redeployed after improvised repairs were rushed after taking heavy damage at Coral Sea. The ''Yorktown'' was bombed by Zeroes, but the Damage Control units not only kept her afloat, but got her back up to speed, to the point that when the Japanese bombed her again, they thought they had sunk two carriers, rather than hitting the ''Yorktown'' twice. She did sink, but not before turning the tide of the battle by means of improvised repairs and sheer endurance.
** In [[The War On Terror|the Iraq War]], American soldiers, lacking suitable armor for their Humvees and trucks, created what came to be called "hillbilly armor" made from scrap metal, kevlar, bulletproof glass and even plywood. [http://www.lostiniraq.com/images/hillbilly-armor-315_640x480.jpg The result] looks like something out of ''[[Mad Max]]''.
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