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Part 4: Magnum P.I Reaction Gifs

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Side character enjoyers when their favorite side character isn't in every single episode of the show they're watching (they are a side character)

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Part 3: Magnum P.I Reaction Gifs

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Please reblog for larger sample size :)

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this is an official blue bloods hate blog

Reagan family do not interact ‼️🙅👮❌

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I know Thomas himself isn’t Columbo levels of lovable but I think a show centered on three himbos getting into shenanigans is perfect for this site, give these poor dumb souls a chance 🙏🏻 for a drama it actually has a bounty of silly moments I promise

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Squad goals

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being a Magnum, P.I. fan on this site is trying to find fun content of the ‘80s men and getting the new people instead

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Men have feelings for each other I saw it on Magnum P.I.

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I know on the outside Magnum, P.I. looks like a typical ‘80s action crime show with a hot male lead who punches bad guys and gets hot girls but what if I told you it was also about three best friends being stupid and getting into hijinks

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Thicker Than Blood was a serious episode but it was actually really hard to take it too seriously when Rick was running around in a space lemons shirt for half the story

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I’ve come back to say I actually finally saw scenes with Donnie Wahlberg’s character showing blatant police brutality—lately whenever this relative comes over, he puts on Blue Bloods.

So in this episode the murderer was like an ecoterrorist but obviously the police don’t know who it is yet for most of the episode. At one point they bring their top suspect to the station to interrogate him about other people he knows from an eco activist group he’s apart of, and he’s saying he doesn’t know anything. Donnie Wahlberg then freaks the fuck out, drags this guy and shoves him against a wall and keeps shaking him around demanding he give up information, all while his cop partner is standing there in shock panicking trying to get him to not do that. The guy does give up the info and the cops are on their way to a coffee shop where the suspect frequents.

At the coffee shop, Donnie Wahlberg confronts the poor young barista earning minimum wage with a photo of their suspect asking if he knows him. The guy uses really laidback lingo since he’s, y’know, likely a teenager—keeps reflexively calling Donnie Wahlberg “dude”—and Donnie Wahlberg doesn’t like that. He storms around through the employee entrance behind the counter and yells “DON’T CALL ME DUDE. CALL ME DETECTIVE.” and bonks the middle of his face with the photograph in his hand to make him comply. He got SO upset about the “dude” thing he had to scare the barista into “respecting” him, it felt more like an angry power trip.

And the third scene. Donnie Wahlberg is chasing the actual murderer through the streets while the guy is riding a bike, when the murderer suddenly plows his bike into a car and breaks his leg. Donnie Wahlberg is like “Oh nooo, you broke your leg…” and proceeds to stomp on his broken leg, causing the suspect even worse pain. Listen—all of us want to be murderer stompers, we clearly know this is a fucked up person. But as a cop in a position of authority, you have a responsibility to not hurt people because you want to. It sets a precedent for using your power at your judgement to hurt any suspect or civilian you don’t like.

These were three instances of cop violence in ONE episode from the Donnie Wahlberg character. I know the B-plot of the episode was the fact his son was seriously injured in a coma in the hospital, but the narrative doesn’t address the fact that he’s angrier and acting out in anger because of this. It lets him do it because he’s ‘the good guy’ and it gets him results, which other characters agree with in the episode. And his character has the audacity to say it’s a “hobby to hate cops”. His character is precisely the kind of cop that scares people into not trusting cops.

While in pain and waiting for my dinner to cook I tried watching an episode of Blue Bloods that my relative had on to see if it would be as questionable as I thought, and I was actually incredulous at how outlandish some scenes were in this particular episode. Like it’s almost impressive how badly a show can miss the point.

Donnie Wahlberg’s son got “ACAB” graffitied on his locker or something at school and he didn’t want to mention it to Donnie Wahlberg. Donnie Wahlberg comes in, grabs a beer from the fridge looking upset and is like ‘why didn’t you stand up for your cop family I can’t believe this 🥴🍺 I consider myself a good detective you know 🤧’. And he said something about a teacher he knows that ‘hated cops before it was a hobby to hate cops’ and I thought yikes. Meanwhile according to longtime watchers of the show the same character has exhibited police brutality and cruel and unusual actions without repercussions or remorse. Plus the Reagan family using their connections and power through relations to take/gain advantages, and when they’re called out they’re given excuses by the show.

Later on Donnie Wahlberg’s son goes to confront the teacher he thinks is writing ACAB in his locker, which is already hilarious to type, and then she’s like “I used to be a cop-hater… but now? cops are saving my neighborhood from protests and looting 😢 maybe not every cop is evil…” And then the son’s friend is caught with ACAB in her notebook and she’s like “omg… I was soooo scared that if I didn’t write ACAB on your locker with my friends, they wouldn’t be my friends anymore! I’m sorry, I’m not actually a cop-hater 😢”. I was like what the fuck is this? LMAOOOO

There was also a scene where these lady cops were sitting in a diner after one of them just killed a dude and became a town hero, I guess? But an old guy barges in and is like “You two are fake cops! You are crisis actors! Nobody actually died and you’re liars!” before a dramatic slow-mo shot of him clotheslining drink glasses off the bar counter. Pretty sure that never happens? Like, ever? I don’t think anybody barges into a bar accusing cops of being fake before crying and smashing drinks off a bar. Not to mention most people accused of being crisis actors are victims, more often than police or otherwise authoritative powers.

This whole ACAB episode was contrived to make the cops feel bad and look victimized by people saying ludicrously mean things, and to make people arguing against the cops look unreasonable and even crazy. Listen, I like the old detective shows my account is based on, but they hardly deepthroated the boot like Blue Bloods.

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Oop

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Magnum P.I. — T.C. and Rick

they’re best friends forever your honor

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T.C.: “Ey, Columbo! Sit down and let me get you a bowl of my famous creole, flaming, bayou-blaster chili. Family recipe.”

(Columbo points at the pot of chili, then brings his hand to his brow)

Columbo: “Oh, oh you made this chili? (PAUSE) Homemade chili… Oh, gosh, well, I gotta tell ya, sir—I rarely have homemade chili these days. I just don’t have time, I mean with all these cases I get. I just pop over to a shop, y’know? And my wife, she don’t know how to make chili!”

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T.C. would start another “no cheats” survival server, to the dismay of Thomas

Thomas would beg for keep inventory on and try to manipulate T.C. into allowing cheats one by one and sometimes by making deliberate mistakes

Rick would be like “ahhh just this one cheat shouldn’t hurt, whaddya think T.C.?” he doesn’t beg for cheats like Thomas, he just doesn’t argue when they’re brought up because he also likes cheats when he gets lazy or frustrated

T.C. would keep insisting that he wants a clean, no cheats survival server so he can earn achievements, because whenever he plays with his friends he always ends up with achievements turned off and he “wants the damn achievements”

T.C. would split them into tasks for their survival base like he does the mining and weaponry, Thomas has to attack animals for food and help build the base, Rick has to chop down trees for wood and he’s like “T.C. why do you always stick me with this job? I hate it” and it’s because Rick has terrible luck with everything else

Thomas builds the worst bases imaginable, just the most dogshit houses, but T.C. decorates the outside of the house and plants flowers and trees so it looks presentable

they need to fight mobs at night or in caves and Rick and Thomas die constantly and they’re always picking up the shit each other dropped and it always annoys T.C. but he still won’t turn on cheats

they’d go to the Nether and Thomas would forget keep inventory isn’t on mere milliseconds after launching himself off a cliff into the lava ocean, losing valuable items

T.C. would yell “THOMAS. MAGNUM. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?” and in the middle of that he would accidentally slip into a pool of lava and also die and Rick would die trying to save him and I think that would be the last straw for T.C.

Higgins would tell them arguing over Minecraft is the most childish thing ever but secretly he is building a replica of Buckingham Palace

imagine the chaos of Thomas playing Minecraft with Rick and T.C.

Thomas would be the type to beg for keep inventory on so he can plummet off cliffs or into lava instead of walking back home