This site has compiled an almost complete list of all the ways MacGyver used to get himself out of trouble, using suspiciously handy tools

When he needed a a rocket-propelled flare there just happened to be some bamboo, fertilizer, matches, a strip of cloth, a thin metal rod, a funnel, and a wooden spoon within easy reach. In another episode, he repairs a broken fuel line using only a ball point pen.

If McGyver were real he could be the perfect foil for Iraqi insurgents. When he was faced with baddies bearing bazookas all he needed was the ingenious application of shoe laces and a paper clip….