Here's a list of tricks used by MacGyver in each episodes of the TV show. I still remember the pilot episode when he used chocolate to stop an acid leak in a brand new factory that was crumbling down.
For example:
Pilot Episode Trick List
Disarmed missle with a paperclip
Matches & rope got rifle to shoot itself
Smashed pistol barrel to use as rocket thruster
Kicked grate to test for hidden laser
Lit cigarette with hidden laser
Smoked cigarette to find hidden laser
Used binocular eyepiece to catch laser beam
Aimed laser beam at source to "kill" it
Knotted fire hose to build up water pressure
Used said hose to lift steel beam
Tested heat on door with a stick (it caught fire)
Milk Chocolate candy stops sulphuric acid leak
Used shirt to filter gases
Sodium metal & cold capsule explosive
Flipped lights in morse code
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This would be perfect for the mythbusters to do a special on. "MacGyver myth special! can he really make a nuclear reactor out of a paperclip, piece of string and a rubberband?"
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Finally, my life is complete!
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