The A-Team, or how I stopped worrying and learned to love the bomb.

Hobbes

Watched it this morning (5am) while doing laundry... I can't for the life of me figure out why I thought the program was so great.

Don't get me wrong, it's still a cult TV series... just.

Well the episode was about the Mob getting protection money and running a casino. The A-Team are called in by the locals.

Hannibal has an idea. Lets send in Face into the Mob pub as a pretend jukebox record flipper. While in there he pretends to be working for a big mob boss as a guy who changes records in jukeboxes. Maybe this is what a made guy does.

Half way through the rest of the team storm in wearing masks so the Mob guys can't tell who they are. However for some reason which I still can't understand they are only wearing ski-masks and thier usual clothes. So you can imagine Mr T with all his jewelery on and combats with a ski mask. I'm sure they will never find out who he was.

Of course Face pretends to beat the guys up when they shoot the jukebox, but sat there while they shot up the bar beforehand (which incidently they manage to miss every living person in the place).

Because he was so good at letting them get away the Mob boss gives him a job as made guy there and then.

It's about here I had to go change the laundry.

I get back and the team are back in ski-masks shooting up the card tables to shut down the casino. Wow like a few bullet holes in the table is going to stop someone dealing cards.

But Face has a plan! He tells the boss he can get him new gear for nothing!

So the A-Team get them the gear, but rig all the machines and put in loaded dice on the craps table.

Now later on the team come in and start winning all the cash try after try. They aren't wearing ski-masks but BA (Mr T) is still wearing his combats and jewellery!!

They have to be the dumbest mob bosses ever.

So Hannibal is now racked up more cash then the Mob boss can pay. So Face tells him he saw him switch loaded dice and if he signs over the deeds and give him new dice he will be rich.

Pop Quiz:
You are the Mob boss. Do you.

a) Sign over the deeds, switch the dice. which are handed to you by a guy you only known for three days and tell hannibal he has a bet.

or

b) Kill Hannibal as the chances of winning all slots, wheel of fortune, card tables, etc is impossible. Then bury face alive as he is the one who supplied the casino gear.

Well he takes (a), looses and then has to worry that the big mob boss is going to whack him for loosing all the deeds.

You can't make stuff like this up if you tried.

WhiteWashMan

ROFLMBO

they sure dont make em like they used to.
come back , all is forgiven!

Blitzkrieger

omsg - was it really that bad

Zapper

No, it was much much worse..

.every second story was about some girl who Face fancied, whos dad was kidnapped by either the mob, the cubans, the us milatary or all 3. Wherein the A-team ould jump to the rescue - They would then have to go on a plane ride somewhere, JUST so they could spike Mr T's milk (im surprised he never caught onto this "I aint gettin on no plane fool!" "No problems BA, here..have a glass of milk" - of course they often went for the less subtle aprouch and simply stabbed him with a needle full of tranquiliser)

....annyways....There the A-team would find themselves, hopelessly outnumbered by gun totting Cubans/Mobsters/US marines in whatever exotic location the producers could conjour up, armed only with their wits and 3 seeminly un-aimable Machineguns ( it is worth noting however that they were only usless aims when it came to shooting actual people, anytime they came accross a locked door or a padlock which they had to shoot open they could hit it every time)...Hannibal would then come up with a plan to infaltrate the enemy base/gambling den/ military installation, which involved either wearing some ridiculous costume, driving the Van and saying they were delivering "supplies", dressing up as cubans/ us generals/ mobsters, or simply just shotting there way in. The bad guys would inevitably fall for 1 of these "plans" and the father would be rescued in true A-team style (i love it when a plan comes together) -but not before the Old man believed the a-team (dressed up in appropriate cosume of course) to be there to interrogate / gamble /discuss the social and ecconomical aspects of Communism with him. After things had been explained to him (ussually in 2 sentences "We're here to save you- ur daughter sent us") they would make their escape. A violent (and unbloody) chase would ensue with the affore mentioned badguys resulting in 1 of 2 dramatic conclusions..either...

1. The communist van/ Army truck / mob car would be flipped over in spectacular fasion and the driver and passenger would climb out - only to be apprehended by the a-team.

or

2. The a-team would be trapped ina barn/garage/school and would make a spectacular armoured vehicle out of odds and sods which were lying around. They would then proceed to burst out of teh building and head back to los angeles.


Still, 1 of the best kids TV pogrammes EVER.

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bugler

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Zapper:
Still, 1 of the best kids TV pogrammes EVER.
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um yeah..kids.....

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Hobbes

Zapper you also missed the bit where Hannibal is always in costume pretending to be a laundrymat guy or a lizard to pretend he knows the A-team.

Zapper

Sh!t, ur right Hobbes...apologies.

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Zapper

Sh!t, ur right Hobbes...apologies.

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DadaKopf

Ok, so we all love the A-Team more than our own mothers. But has anyone given any thought to the A-Team movie - it's more discussed and awaited by the second coming of Jesus.

So the cast seems pretty tied up, Mel Gibson as Hannibal, Jim Carrey as Murdoch and Ving Rhames as Mr. T but is there a single man on the planet who can replace the Faceman? Nobody sweats style through his greasy pores like Templeton peck - he got two nurses' phone numbers while he was in a coma for God's sake!

So, who does anyone think could actually play Mr. Templeton Peck?

Answers on a postcard, please!

Hecate

ah the a-team was pure genius

not a good idea to over analyze it, just sit back and enjoy.

metalchicken

I pity the fool who slags of the A-team!! I do!!! (by the way David do you remember the a-team van toy that you had when you were wee??? i do )

now, I know that I have said this before ages ago, and that Hobbes (i think) recommended his website for me (cheers) but OHMYGOD Dirk Benedict aka Face was such a honey. Really. I think the man is irreplacable. Why bother trying??? if someone needs to play him, then he has to have charisma, looks, brains, the ability to pull ANOYONE and, of course, he must be cool. Sean Patrick Flannery might be ok, or Matt Damon maybe. Hmmmmmmm....


mmmmmmmmmmmmmm face.......mmmmm

the fnj

What are you talking about? You just given all the reasons why the A Team was so good. Every week you thought that was it the A Team won't surrive this one. But every week they did. Fast paced story lines that were always changing week in week out. The best resourcefullness since McGuyver (I'm sure thats spelt wrong ). A cooler van then Knight Riders car. Greatest drivings stunts since the Duke's of Hazard. Mr T who was stronger than the Hulk. Better gun fights than Air Wolf. And crime solving that Starski and Hutch just could rival. The A team owned clasic TV.

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DadaKopf

i remember the van. the man in red brought me one all those years ago. problem was, the action figures had bendy arms and legs like Action Man and, well, I shoved my star wars figures into the driving seats and broke them. dumb van.

but seriously - replacement cast for the a-team movie anyone?

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Blitzkrieger

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by metalchicken:
David do you remember the a-team van toy that you had </font>

Lol - I had one of those two. I had Face's car too and I still want to own an original Corvette

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by metalchicken:

mmmmmmmmmmmmmm face.......mmmmm

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been to see Hannibal then?

Syngen-Smythe

Gotta say, i agree wit the fanj on this one. Only problem i ever had with the a-team was when they changed the music to the crappy computery style stuff in the lates series - .......woeful.
Next time you watch it check out dwight schultz's acting talent- unbeatable(no messin)!

ObeyGiant

The man to bring Face into the 21st Century?
Rob Lowe. Simple as that.

Shiminay

It HAS to be Ving Rhames as BA don't it?

Who'd play Hannibal and Murdock?

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Kali

jim carey as murdock..
everyone hates both of them

DadaKopf

rob lowe. now that's someone i didnt consider. he could almost do it but maybe he's just a bit too evil.

still, real nice. i wonder if stockwell would be in it. actually, thing is, the movie would most likely be a dumb retelling of what forced them into the LA underground in the first place - it;d be a dumbed down version for all those dumb kids who were too young to see it.

that'd suck

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Baz_

The A-Team rule, enough of the slagging of The A-Team, if you are too mature to watch The A-Team, please desist from doing so. Thank you.

Hobbes

I don't think Rob Lowe should do it. How about Pierce Brosnan? He could re-enact his "Rementon Steele" type persona.

Da Bounca

i wuv u A-Team