MacGyver tropes
Okay, so I'm having fun playing with my tropes list as regards MacGyver. Several of them don't fit the genre (bodyswap, for example), but there are some that you wouldn't expect, but which they actually did do. Mac is so cracky.
So, I'll remove the blanks, unless anyone can think of eps where they were done, and I've added in some tropes that fit more with the show (ex-girlfriend, bounty hunters, save the orphanage, old friend introduced just to be killed, Indiana Jones, unexpected progeny).
ETA: I've now deleted a few tropes, although I'll happily reactivate them if anyone can think of episodes that fit (even if it takes a bit of pushing and pulling): angry!sex, aphrodisiacs, baby farm, genderswap, Groundhog Day, telepathic soulbonding, truth or dare, turned into cavemen, turned into animals, and werewolves mate for life.
Oh, and definite spoilers for any and all eps below.
Accidental/immaculate pregnancy: Rock The Cradle
Bad guys make them do it (the "it" being kissing, not sex - this is MacGyver, after all): For Love Or Money; The Escape; Fire And Ice
Alternative realities: Serenity; MacGyver's Women; Good Knight MacGyver; Trail Of Tears
Amnesia: D.O.A.: MacGyver; Strictly Business
Apocalypse / post-apocalypse: Trumbo's World?; Kill Zone?
Bounty Hunters: Ma Dalton; The Black Corsage; Second Chance; Black Rhino; Squeeze Play; The Coltons
Brainwashing: Brainwashed
Character tortured to secure other character's cooperation: Strictly Business
Confined spaces: The Outsiders; Jack In The Box; The Survivors; Legend of the Holy Rose; Mask of the Wolf
Cross-dressing: Partners
Curtainfic*: This is pretty much what we see Mac doing at the beginning of most eps.
Deathfic: The Widowmaker; Passages
Dress-up disguise: Jenny’s Chance; Deep Cover; Squeeze Play; High Control; Fire And Ice; The Assassin; Prisoner of Conscience; On a Wing and a Prayer; Halloween Knights; Twice Stung; The Ten-Percent Solution; Obsessed; Partners; Cleo Rocks; There But For The Grace
Drunkfic: Twenty Questions
Evil twin: Two Times Trouble; Jerico Games
Ex-girlfriend: Flame's End; The Road Not Taken; Family Matter; Friends; Lost Love; The Endangered; On A Wing And A Prayer; The Stringer; Jerico Games; Unfinished Business
Flirting With the Supernatural: Ghost Ship; Passages; The Visitor; Trail of Tears; The Secret of Parker House
Forced to share a bed: The Gauntlet; The Escape; Trail To Doomsday
Ghostly intervention: Passages; Trail Of Tears
Going rogue: Jenny’s Chance; Deep Cover; Squeeze Play; Prisoner Of Conscience; Early Retirement; High Control
Hero wrongfully accused: Early Retirement; Cease Fire; There But For The Grace; The Odd Triple; Every Time She Smiles
Holiday / celebration: Friends; The Madonna; Halloween Knights; Lesson In Evil; Phoenix Under Siege; The Secret of Parker House
Huddling together for warmth: Goldrush
Hurt/comfort: Nightmares; To Be A Man; Out In The Cold; The Widowmaker; Blow Out; Passages; Faith, Hope And Charity; Strictly Business
Identityswap: Strictly Business
Indiana Jones: The Legend Of The Holy Rose; Eye Of Osiris; Lost Treasure Of Atlantis; The Treasure of Manco
Kidfic: Birth Day; Rock The Cradle; Blood Brothers; plenty of others (depending on your definition of "kidfic").
Kidnapping: Trumbo's World; Ugly Duckling; Family Matter; Pirates; Halloween Knights; Hearts Of Steel; Walking Dead
Matchmaking third party: Three For The Road
Medical discharge: Obsessed; Passages
Mistaken for bad guy: Strictly Business
Mpreg: Haha! Can I count Rock The Cradle?
Near death confessions: The Widowmaker?; Passages
Old friend introduced just to be killed: Countdown; D.O.A.: MacGyver; Fire And Ice; There But For The Grace; Trumbo's World; Ugly Duckling; The Challenge; Three for the Road; Jack Of Lies; Thief of Budapest
Pirates: Pirates, natch
Pretending to be engaged/married: For Love Or Money; The Escape; Fire and Ice
Save the orphanage: The Road Not Taken; Second Chance; The Madonna
Secretly adopted: Ma Dalton
Slavery: Jack In The Box
Snowed in: Out In The Cold; Gold Rush
Stranded in the wilderness: Final Approach; The Survivors; Ghost Ship; The Wasteland; Gold Rush; Mask of the Wolf
Talking to a shrink: Brainwashed
Tent porn: The Gauntlet
Tied/locked up and left to die: Legend Of The Holy Rose; The Hood; Bitter Harvest; The Coltons; The Black Corsage; Blind Faith; Gunz 'N Boyz; Jerico Games; The Lost Treasure of Atlantis; Easy Target; Deep Cover; Obsessed; Last Stand
Time travel: Serenity; MacGyver's Women; Good Knight MacGyver; Trail Of Tears
Undercover in a gay bar: Not that I recall, but a biker bar (High Control), yes.
Unexpected progeny: Friends; Second Chance; Children Of Light (sort of); The Stringer
Wedding: Lost Love (a proposal, anyhow); Good Knight MacGyver
Wingfic**: To Be a Man; Legend Of The Holy Rose; The Wasteland; GX-1
* Curtainfic = character doing something domestic, such as buying curtains. More of a fanfic trope.
** Wingfic = character grows / acquires wings. Mac building a glider counts, IMO.
This entry is also posted at http://pepper.dreamwidth.org/209074.html
So, I'll remove the blanks, unless anyone can think of eps where they were done, and I've added in some tropes that fit more with the show (ex-girlfriend, bounty hunters, save the orphanage, old friend introduced just to be killed, Indiana Jones, unexpected progeny).
ETA: I've now deleted a few tropes, although I'll happily reactivate them if anyone can think of episodes that fit (even if it takes a bit of pushing and pulling): angry!sex, aphrodisiacs, baby farm, genderswap, Groundhog Day, telepathic soulbonding, truth or dare, turned into cavemen, turned into animals, and werewolves mate for life.
Oh, and definite spoilers for any and all eps below.
Accidental/immaculate pregnancy: Rock The Cradle
Bad guys make them do it (the "it" being kissing, not sex - this is MacGyver, after all): For Love Or Money; The Escape; Fire And Ice
Alternative realities: Serenity; MacGyver's Women; Good Knight MacGyver; Trail Of Tears
Amnesia: D.O.A.: MacGyver; Strictly Business
Apocalypse / post-apocalypse: Trumbo's World?; Kill Zone?
Bounty Hunters: Ma Dalton; The Black Corsage; Second Chance; Black Rhino; Squeeze Play; The Coltons
Brainwashing: Brainwashed
Character tortured to secure other character's cooperation: Strictly Business
Confined spaces: The Outsiders; Jack In The Box; The Survivors; Legend of the Holy Rose; Mask of the Wolf
Cross-dressing: Partners
Curtainfic*: This is pretty much what we see Mac doing at the beginning of most eps.
Deathfic: The Widowmaker; Passages
Dress-up disguise: Jenny’s Chance; Deep Cover; Squeeze Play; High Control; Fire And Ice; The Assassin; Prisoner of Conscience; On a Wing and a Prayer; Halloween Knights; Twice Stung; The Ten-Percent Solution; Obsessed; Partners; Cleo Rocks; There But For The Grace
Drunkfic: Twenty Questions
Evil twin: Two Times Trouble; Jerico Games
Ex-girlfriend: Flame's End; The Road Not Taken; Family Matter; Friends; Lost Love; The Endangered; On A Wing And A Prayer; The Stringer; Jerico Games; Unfinished Business
Flirting With the Supernatural: Ghost Ship; Passages; The Visitor; Trail of Tears; The Secret of Parker House
Forced to share a bed: The Gauntlet; The Escape; Trail To Doomsday
Ghostly intervention: Passages; Trail Of Tears
Going rogue: Jenny’s Chance; Deep Cover; Squeeze Play; Prisoner Of Conscience; Early Retirement; High Control
Hero wrongfully accused: Early Retirement; Cease Fire; There But For The Grace; The Odd Triple; Every Time She Smiles
Holiday / celebration: Friends; The Madonna; Halloween Knights; Lesson In Evil; Phoenix Under Siege; The Secret of Parker House
Huddling together for warmth: Goldrush
Hurt/comfort: Nightmares; To Be A Man; Out In The Cold; The Widowmaker; Blow Out; Passages; Faith, Hope And Charity; Strictly Business
Identityswap: Strictly Business
Indiana Jones: The Legend Of The Holy Rose; Eye Of Osiris; Lost Treasure Of Atlantis; The Treasure of Manco
Kidfic: Birth Day; Rock The Cradle; Blood Brothers; plenty of others (depending on your definition of "kidfic").
Kidnapping: Trumbo's World; Ugly Duckling; Family Matter; Pirates; Halloween Knights; Hearts Of Steel; Walking Dead
Matchmaking third party: Three For The Road
Medical discharge: Obsessed; Passages
Mistaken for bad guy: Strictly Business
Mpreg: Haha! Can I count Rock The Cradle?
Near death confessions: The Widowmaker?; Passages
Old friend introduced just to be killed: Countdown; D.O.A.: MacGyver; Fire And Ice; There But For The Grace; Trumbo's World; Ugly Duckling; The Challenge; Three for the Road; Jack Of Lies; Thief of Budapest
Pirates: Pirates, natch
Pretending to be engaged/married: For Love Or Money; The Escape; Fire and Ice
Save the orphanage: The Road Not Taken; Second Chance; The Madonna
Secretly adopted: Ma Dalton
Slavery: Jack In The Box
Snowed in: Out In The Cold; Gold Rush
Stranded in the wilderness: Final Approach; The Survivors; Ghost Ship; The Wasteland; Gold Rush; Mask of the Wolf
Talking to a shrink: Brainwashed
Tent porn: The Gauntlet
Tied/locked up and left to die: Legend Of The Holy Rose; The Hood; Bitter Harvest; The Coltons; The Black Corsage; Blind Faith; Gunz 'N Boyz; Jerico Games; The Lost Treasure of Atlantis; Easy Target; Deep Cover; Obsessed; Last Stand
Time travel: Serenity; MacGyver's Women; Good Knight MacGyver; Trail Of Tears
Undercover in a gay bar: Not that I recall, but a biker bar (High Control), yes.
Unexpected progeny: Friends; Second Chance; Children Of Light (sort of); The Stringer
Wedding: Lost Love (a proposal, anyhow); Good Knight MacGyver
Wingfic**: To Be a Man; Legend Of The Holy Rose; The Wasteland; GX-1
* Curtainfic = character doing something domestic, such as buying curtains. More of a fanfic trope.
** Wingfic = character grows / acquires wings. Mac building a glider counts, IMO.
This entry is also posted at http://pepper.dreamwidth.org/209074.html