MacGruber - Not ready to give up the ghost

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MacGruber - Not ready to give up the ghost

MacGruber began as a recurring Saturday Night Live bit, an obvious parody of the 1985-1992 action show MacGyver.áIn that show, Richard Dean Anderson starred as a genius who could save the day by making life-saving inventions out of household materials ù those being the exact words of the "MacGruber" sketch's theme song. In every installment, MacGruber (Will Forte), alongside assistants Casey (Maya Rudolph) or Vicki (Kristen Wiig), would try to get out of a locked room with a ticking bomb, using only whatever was lying around ... and he'd inevitably fail.á

Forte and collaborators John Solomon and Jorma Taccone needed to flesh that out for a full-length movie, and so made MacGruber a parody of over-the-top '80s action movies. Amid all the explosions and lone-wolf theatrics, those films always included a steamy love scene. So does MacGruber. As Mr. Mister's power ballad "Broken Wings" plays, MacGruber begins to make sweet love to his wife, Casey, in her wedding gown. Then things get hilariously weird and dark. The music falls away, and viewers see a bare-buttocked MacGruber grunting away atop his white-lace-covered lady ... in a graveyard, while a groundskeeper watches. But wait ... Casey died earlier in the movie, and MacGruber re-establishes that fact with a cut back to MacGruber, now standing nude in a graveyard at night, moaning and talking dirty as he does his thing to a ghost that no one else can see.