The theme comes from MacGyver, the American action adventure series that premiered in 1985 starring Richard Dean Anderson as Angus MacGyver, a resourceful agent who solved problems with science and everyday items instead of weapons. Composed by Randy Edelman, the energetic instrumental became inseparable from the character's improvised escapes. The show ran for seven seasons and later inspired a 2016 reboot, keeping the melody in circulation. Online, the track survives as shorthand for ingenuity, used in memes and edits whenever someone fixes a problem in an unexpectedly clever way.