MacGyver (TV Series)

The Secret of Parker House (1988)

Richard Dean Anderson: MacGyver

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Quotes 

• MacGyver : Every family's got a black sheep in the pack.

  Penny : [pointedly]  There any black sheep in your family?

  MacGyver : You're lookin' at him.

• MacGyver : [in a voice-over narration as he's shown driving along rural highways and half-listening to Penny Parker's joyful excited long-winded chatter about how she'd inherited the old Parker House]  There was a long story behind the way Penny came into her inheritance, and she was in no hurry to shorten it. In high-school geometry class, I'd learned that the shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but when telling a story, Penny always takes the scenic route.

  [pause] 

  MacGyver : Hold it, I think I hear a point coming up.

• [first lines] 

  MacGyver : You never know where life's gonna take you. This is especially true when you've got a friend like Penny Parker. So, I wasn't too surprised when she called one day and told me she had inherited a mansion.

• [last lines] 

  MacGyver : Penny, it's like I told you. There is a sane, rational explanation for everything that happened here.

  [music box starts playing] 

  Penny : [sarcastically]  Is that so?

• [repeated line] 

  MacGyver : There's no such thing as ghosts.