22 Facts About MacGruber

MacGruber was a recurring sketch on the NBC television series Saturday Night Live, first appearing on the show in January 2007.

The sketch stars Will Forte as special operations agent MacGruber, who is tasked in each episode with deactivating a ticking bomb but becomes distracted by personal issues, resulting in the bomb's detonation and the deaths of his companions and himself.

Sketch typically reappears for a second or third installment later in the episode, with the characters appearing none the worse for wear but MacGruber growing increasingly unhinged and his assistants becoming more disillusioned in his capabilities.

MacGruber's father is the famed Angus MacGyver, making his full name MacGruber MacGyver.

MacGruber'sgrandmother is portrayed by Betty White, who becomes his fiancee in her appearance.

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MacGruber has an estranged homosexual son, whom he sends to a camp to become heterosexual over a three-sketch arc.

When his companions finally get fed up with this and ask if he can say anything but Pepsi, MacGruber holds up a Diet Pepsi, but is only able to say "Diet Pep-" before the control room explodes, and the commercial ends.

Anderson returned to SNL on the March 7,2009, episode, in which it was revealed that MacGyver is actually MacGruber's long-lost father, who left his mother for a stripper named Lacey when MacGruber was a baby.

Skit 2: At the Cedarville Dam, MacGruber tries to defuse dynamite with pine needles, a paper cup, and asks for some pubic hair from Jojo, who refuses to give him any.

Skit 3: In a prison boat, MacGruber asks Jojo to hand a bucket of sperm, to which Jojo immediately refuses and the bomb detonates.

Skit 3: At a drug lord's headquarters, MacGruber, having really developed a very bad drinking problem, lazily and drunkenly eats a hamburger while shirtless.

Skit 2: After getting some plastic surgery and some hair plugs, at a deserted desert tower, MacGruber introduces Casey and Caleb to his new girlfriend Taylor, who somehow ended up in the bomb room.

MacGruber gets distracted by Casey and Caleb's lack of reaction to this as the bomb detonates.

Skit 3: In an abandoned monastery, MacGruber is setting on a stool despondently, having ruined his face after travelling to South America—where the medical standards are a lot more relaxed—for more surgeries after being cut off by his regular surgeon.

Skit 2: At the abandoned paint factory, MacGruber has become paranoid and spiteful, interpreting everything that Isaac and Vicky say to him as a personal attack.

When Merill tries to leave, MacGruber tries to stop him only for a dildo to fall out of Merill's bag.

Skit 2: At an Italian Mafia hideout, MacGruber asks Kyle to lend him money, but Kyle refuses, so he wants his watch so he can sell it.

Skit 3: On a human trafficking ship, a demented MacGruber tries to convince Vicky and Kyle to pay him money to fart a ping pong ball out of his butt.

MacGuyver gets fed up with this and asks if MacGruber can stop saying "Pepsi", MacGruber holds up two cans of Diet Pepsi, and is only about to say "Diet Pepsi", but the place explodes.

Back in the present, MacGruber is shocked about his dad being a jerk, and MacGyver tries to leave, only to find out the door is locked, then the bomb explodes.

Skit 3: After taking time off in Africa, at a heroin czar's headquarters, MacGruber, now dressed in traditional African clothes, attempts to make amends with Darrel, while still mispronouncing his name.

Skit 3: MacGruber, now dressed as Jake Angeli, has become a right-wing conspiracy theorist who tells his assistants about the QAnon theory.