Boy Reporter's Notebook

This was my favourite show when I was a kid. Can’t tell a lie.

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Have you ever wondered in how many different episodes MacGyver has made an arc welder (answer: 3 times in episodes 6, 52, and 87)? Or perhaps you forgot about your favorite episode (season 1, episode 12) when Mac escapes via a casket that transforms into a jetski. And how many times has Mac made a diversion? In order to placate all of your MacGyver-related curiosities, we offer you MacRecipes.

We assembled data from MacGyverOnline and IMDB, and using Processing and Processing.js we produced the ultimate MacGyver recipe book. Click on any of the recipes below to see information about the ingredients as well as information about the episode. Further investigate the ubiquity of simple recipe ingredients and products by clicking on words listed under “Similar Recipes.” What’s your favorite recipe?

You need this exhaustive, time-sucking MacGyver recipe guide. What else are you doing with the rest of your month?

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God, we have some amazing illustrators.

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Awesome!

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In Wednesday’s National Post, Scott Stinson takes a look how Charlie Sheen’s antics are another step in the move away from multi-camera sitcoms.

The sitcoms shown in this image: 1. The Odd Couple (which ran until 1975 on ABC); 2. Seinfeld (1998, NBC); 3. The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1977, CBS); 4. Sanford and Son (1977, NBC); 5. Night Court (1992, NBC); 6. Mr. Belvedere (1990, ABC); 7. Everybody Loves Raymond (2005, CBS); 8. Welcome Back, Kotter (1979, ABC); 9. What’s Happening!! (1979, ABC); 10. What’s Happening!! (1979, CBS); 11. The Cosby Show (1992, NBC); 12. The Honeymooners (1956, CBS); 13. Maude (1978, CBS); 14. Married … with Children (1997, Fox); 15. The Facts of Life (1988, NBC); 16. Chico and the Man (1978, NBC); 17. Will & Grace (2006, NBC); 18. The Golden Girls (1992, NBC); 19. The Dick Van Dyke Show (1966, CBS); 20. Good Times (1979, CBS); 21. Roseanne (1997, ABC); 22. Saved by the Bell (1993, NBC); 23. Charles in Charge (1990, CBS/NBC); 24. Home Improvement (1999, ABC); 25. Family Matters (1998, ABC/CBS); 26. Three’s Company (1984, ABC); 27. Growing Pains (1992, ABC); 28. Happy Days (1984, ABC); 29. The Jeffersons (1985, CBS); 30. Perfect Strangers (1993, ABC); 31. Lavern and Shirley (1983, ABC); 32. I Love Lucy (1957, CBS); 33. 227 (1990, NBC); 34. ALF (1990, NBC); 35. Family Ties (1989, NBC); 36. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1996, NBC); 37. Friends (2004, NBC); 38. Sabrina the Teenage Witch (2003, ABC/WB); 39. Blossom (1995, NBC); 40. Out of This World (1991, NBC/syndicated); 41. Frasier (2004, NBC); 42. Webster (1989, ABC); 43. Full House (1995, ABC); 44. Diff’rent Strokes (1986, NBC/ABC); 45. Punky Brewster (1999, NBC); 46. Who’s the Boss? (1992, ABC);  47. Mork & Mindy (1982, ABC); 48. Taxi (1983, ABC/NBC);  49. Two and a Half Men (2011? CBS); 50. Yes, we forgot Cheers (1993, NBC).