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The MacGyverisms Are Based on Actual Science
MacGyver's crime-stopping tricks are based on real science and engineering. Till reveals, "The episode I’m doing right now is a bomb defusal episode and I thought 'This is so ridiculous,' but [it works]... We did another scene, a flashback scene, and they rigged it up and I was like, 'That’s how it works?' and they were like, 'Yeah. That’s how they do it,' and I was like, ‘What?' Everything they do is real and the [tricks] that I thought were more outlandish were actually the most accurate."
MacGyver's crime-stopping tricks are based on real science and engineering. Till reveals, "The episode I’m doing right now is a bomb defusal episode and I thought 'This is so ridiculous,' but [it works]... We did another scene, a flashback scene, and they rigged it up and I was like, 'That’s how it works?' and they were like, 'Yeah. That’s how they do it,' and I was like, ‘What?' Everything they do is real and the [tricks] that I thought were more outlandish were actually the most accurate."