South Park- MacGyver has also been mentioned on this show. (I don't watch this show, so I haven't seen it myself, but so I've been told) The grandfather made the boys watch MacGyver until they got all their violence out of their systems.

The Family Guy- (Another show I don't watch.) This reference is really funny. Peter's dog runs away. Peter writes a letter to MacGyver, asking him to save his dog. His letter reads something like this, "Dear MacGyver, I have enclosed string, a rubber band, and a straw. Please save my dog." The next scene shows Richard Dean Anderson as MacGyver shooting himself in the eye with the rubber band.

Ed- On one episode, someone was complimenting Ed on a legal victory and told him, "Cool. You're like MacGyver, but you don't live on a houseboat."

The Immortal (New 90s+2000s version)- Two minor characters (male and female) were trapped in a building in one episode. The building was about to go up in smoke, so the man was beating on the door with something to get out. The woman asked him where he learned that, and he replied, "MacGyver reruns."

Just Shoot Me- David Spade's character, in defending cats to his wife who doesn't like them said, "Cats are cool. MacGyver had a cat." However this reference makes no sense, because MacGyver did not have a cat. On another episode, one of the characters said, "You know what's a good show? MacGyver."

Mad About You- On one episode, Paul Reiser's character is going through the fridge
and he says something like "All we've got is some beans, sunflower seeds and hummus....if I was MacGyver I could probably make a jeep out of this".
On another episode, the one where Paul and Jamie are locked in the bathroom, we have another reference. Jamie opens the bathroom window and picks up a bottle of shampoo. "What are you doing?" Paul asks. "I'm going to throw something out the window so that we can get someone's attention to come and let us out." "Don't throw that," Paul replies. "You'll hurt someone with that thing. It is hard for a person to help us if they are unconscious." Jamie picks up a tube of lipstick and begins to wrap it in toilet paper. "Now what are you doing?" Paul asks."I'm throwing something small from the window and I'm wrapping it in padding so that it doesn't hurt anyone." she replies. "Now that's smart!" Paul says. "Yeah, well, I'm Mrs. MacGyver." Jamie replies and lobs the small wad out the window. They both look out but jump back when you hear the sound of a car accident down below.

Charmed- There was one episode where someone called one of the girls a "female MacGyver" or something to that effect, presumably for their ingenuity with diaper changing. In one episode, part of the episode description by the producers went as follows: "Phoebe's got to run up and find that aerosol hairspray to do a flamethrower. They've got to become mini-MacGyvers, all while trying to protect Piper, who suddenly goes into contractions." In an episode from the third(?) season, Piper mentioned to Dan that he was a real life MacGyver.

The X-Files- On the episode with the baseball loving extra terrestrial, the old man (Arthur?) kept calling Agent Mulder, "Agent MacGyver".

Wings- On the episode where Joe and Helen got married ("Boys Just Want to Have Fun"(Part 1) and "Here It Is: The Big Wedding" (Part 2) 6th. season finale), and Joe got his hand stuck in the toilet, there are quite a few MacGyver references. Lowell talks a lot about various things MacGyver did on the show and even comes up with his own "MacGyver-esque" way of getting Joe free. Check outMelissa Kelley's MacGyver Homepage to hear some really funny sound clips from the episode and a more detailed description.

Saved By the Bell- On the "Earthquake" episode, when Screech and Mr. Belding get stuck in the principal's office, Screech tries to break open the door by using a trick he says he saw on MacGyver. He succeeds only in breaking off the door knob however, and both of them have to wait for Slater to come and kick the door down to rescue them.

Full House- On the 1994 Season 7 episode "Too Little Richard, Too Late", the Tanners and Kimmy Gibbler fill in for entertainment while the PTA council waits for Little Richard to arrive. Kimmy offers her "impression of a beautiful young girl being frisked by MacGyver." Kimmy turns her back to the audience and puts her hands on her back and side to make it look like she's being held in an embrace by MacGyver and being kissed. As Kimmy moves her hands back and forth, she says, "Oh MacGyver! MacGyver, I hardly know you. MacGyver!"

Honey, I Shrunk the Kids (The TV Show)- On the "Honey, We're on TV" episode, Wayne, Nick and Amy accidentally get zapped into the TV set where they can visit past and present shows. Amy states twice throughout the episode that she would have taken them to the MacGyver show but it was already over.

Stargate SG-1- Of course, people on the set of the show still call Richard Dean Anderson "MacGyver" or "Mac" from time to time. On the pilot episode of the show, Captain Carter ab-libbed a line and told O'Neill that they need to "MacGyver" a piece of equipment to get it to work.

Star Trek: Enterprise- On the episode "Observer Effect", Trip and Hoshi have caught a virus and are isolated in a decontamination area and during this time they talk about their jobs. Hoshi says, "I wish I was an engineer like you so I could fix a warp engine with duct tape and a pocketknife." Cool MacGyver reference! Good to know MacGyver's still popular in the 22nd. century! :-)

The Invisible Man (2000-2002 show)- In one episode, Faukes tries to break into a room and can't get the door open so he takes a piece of cardboard and folds it in half to funnel quicksilver (invisibility stuff) onto the door. During this, he says something like "And a little MacGyver here..." On another episode, someone is referred to as "the guy who can MacGyver things" or something like that.

Good Eats- On one episode of this The Food Network show, there's been at least one MacGyver mention. The premise of this show was that this cook, Alton Brown, wasn't allowed into the kitchen of the hotel where he was staying to cook a huge salmon he had caught at the lake. He then goes about making a makeshift oven for cooking smoked salmon with a cardboard box, two wooden sticks, the hot plate from his room, some sawdust, and two thermometers. While he assembles this structure, he remarks to the audience, "MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing."

Sabrina, The Teenage Witch (live action show)- One one episode, when Salem the cat is kidnapped and has to get away, he's seen to ask, "What would MacGyver do?"

Of course, there's also been MacGyver references on foreign language shows as well, like on the German show "Taff", and lots of others I'm sure. And there's references to MacGyver on news shows as well, like one I've heard about on Fox and Friends.

Also of interest are the shows Junkyard Wars on The Learning Channel, Battlebots on Comedy Central, which involve making stuff out of junk and building robots to battle each other, respectively. I think MacGyver could easily win on both of these shows. In fact, on one episode of Junkyard Wars the host even used "MacGyver" as a verb, telling the contestants they would have to MacGyver whatever junk they could find in the junkyard.

MacGyver was also featured on the "I Love 1985" special on VH-1 of the "I Love the 80s" series, which came out in 2002.

In late 2006, Actor Willam Belli (perhaps best known as "Cherry Peck" on Nip/Tuck) developed a comedy pilot called "Tranny McGuyver", but there is no real connection to MacGyver, other than a reference in the title. You can view the 2 minute teaser on Youtube. Be warned that it does contain explicit material.

By December 2007, The Discovery Channel's "Mythbusters" had begun airing MacGyver "mini-myths" in anticipation of their MacGyver special coming up in 2008!!! I have heard that one of them has covered using chocolate to stop an acid leak, as seen in the "Pilot" episode. You can view two others through the Youtube links below.
MacGyver "Mini-Myth" #1 (Adam tests out a classic MacGyverism- MacGyver blowing out the lights with a bottle of drain cleaner, as seen in "Obsessed")
MacGyver "Mini-Myth" #2 (Adam shows us how a silver gum wrapper does work as a temporary fuse fix, as seen in the "Hellfire" episode.)
You can purchase the MacGyver special episode of Mythbusters on iTunes. The episode is available on DVD in the Mythbusters Season 5 set released in 2008 and it is also available on the Mythbusters Collection 4 DVD set, released on May 5, 2009.

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