It’s bad enough that I feel like people see me as Patty and/or Selma half the time anyway, and that they turned my passion for MacGyver into something dirty, but then they have to go and have Richard Dean Anderson on as a guest voice, as an object of lust for Patty and Selma, and in the process making me fall even more madly in love with RDA. Damn them, anyway, those Simpsons producers. Damn them.
See, what happened was I accidentally stumbled across, this past Sunday evening, a rerun of this season’s Simpsons episode “Kiss Kiss, Bang Bangalore,” in which -- among many other unlikely events -- Patty and Selma kidnap RDA from a Stargate convention and tie him up in their apartment. And don’t think I haven’t had that fantasy. But the salient point is: in the course of this episode, I discovered that RDA is even cooler than I had previously imagined. Not only is Mac like the neatest science dork ever -- even if he has that mark against him for being so embarrassed to be named Angus that he never told anyone his name... Not only was his neo-Western series Legend totally geeky and as much about goofing around with new technology as it was about making fun of pop culture... Not only is (I suspect) RDA an agnostic or at least an atheist, based upon some of the content of Stargate SG-1, of which he is not only a star but also a producer, meaning he’s influencing said content... But now, thanks to The Simpsons, I discover that he really has a fantastic sense of humor about himself. Because not only did he appear on the show in a story that completely makes fun of him as an actor, but he also does a funny voice that makes fun of him as an actor. He doesn’t even sound like himself -- I was convinced it wasn’t, in fact, him. But it was. And unless you’re a geeky girl, I’m not sure I can make you adequately appreciate how very, very attractive this is, that a guy who looks like this:
could not only not be so self-confident as to be able to make fun of himself, but that he could just also be such a charmingly big ol’ dork.
In case I have not been clear, let me state this plainly: I want to have this man’s babies. And I’m not even talking about sex. I’m talking about the biological imperative to acquire the finest genes for my offspring. I’m simply not sure a geek girl who wants beautiful, smart, geeky babies could do better than Richard Dean Anderson.
Not that I’d turn down sex.
And clearly, geeks all over are madly in love with RDA, in one way or another. And how could ya not be? LifeHacker has an entire section dedicated to “MacGyver tips” (“One way to resuscitate the busted [hard] drive long enough to get a backup? Stick it in the freezer”). Some wag is apparently trying to recruit Mac to run for president in 2008 (“A free Houseboat for every American!... His solution for Iraq? a roll of toilet paper, a piece of coal and a bit of string”). There’s an entire site, dedicated to creating an entire book, called What Would MacGyver Do?, and of course, there is the requisite What Would MacGyver Do? T-shirt... which, as if to demonstrate how widespread the love for Mac is, is from an entirely different gang than the WWMD site. And there’s a MacGyverisms widget for the Mac OS X Dashboard (warning: it’s kind of lame).
Oh, and season sixth of MacGyver just came out on DVD. I may never leave the house again.
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