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It is amazing how much snow Southern California gets for a place that doesn't get snow.

For some reason, Dick Butkus' appearances on MacGyver always stuck out to me, so much so that I would have sworn he was in at least a dozen episodes. Thankfully, that's not the case. Don't get me wrong, there's nothing wrong with his acting per se, but his character Earl Dent actively detracts from the show. It's a paper-thin character more defined by his middle-age biker appearance than anything else. Worse still, he's written like bumbling idiot. Whoever thought that Butkus would make good comedic relief was sorely mistaken.

I want to go easy on the rest of the actors, too, because it's often hard to tell exactly what to blame on poor acting, poor writing, and poor directing (or a combination of any of the 3). But the show used a whole lot of character actors over the years and it's pretty easy to pick out the really good ones they managed to find and the utterly terrible ones that somehow ended up making it into the final show. That said, most of the acting in this one falls somewhere in the middle. In particular, I found the woman cop Montana to be annoying and cliched. It doesn't help that she lacks any kind of cop instinct whatsoever, and that she's a total idiot. It's hard to care about characters you don't even like. But again, I can't be sure how much of this is because of the acting, or if it's more the writing/directing.

I really enjoyed Don Stroud's performance as Kluge. He made the episode a lot more interesting to watch. Other than that, it's pretty forgettable and not one I'll likely ever re-watch.