I Love It When a Plan Comes Together
October 12, 2007 6:54 AM Subscribe
Bring Back...The A-Team (parts two, three, four, five, six, and seven). In 2006 Justin Lee Collins tried to reunite the surviving cast members of The A-Team.
The original stars were Dirk Benedict, Dwight Shultz, and Mr. T, and George Peppard, who passed away in 1994 (which didn't keep Collins from trying to contact him).
The original stars were Dirk Benedict, Dwight Shultz, and Mr. T, and George Peppard, who passed away in 1994 (which didn't keep Collins from trying to contact him).
The plan just can't come together without Hannibal.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 6:58 AM on October 12, 2007
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 6:58 AM on October 12, 2007
I'm going to go out on a limb and, based only on his picture on Wikipedia, go ahead and call Justin Lee Collins a dumbass. But I'm open to being proven wrong.
posted by DU at 7:00 AM on October 12, 2007
posted by DU at 7:00 AM on October 12, 2007
I've always thought he was an abhorrent jizznozzle too, and that programme that he appears in on Friday nights may be the biggest stinker on the box, but I saw him in an episode of the Convention Crashers, where he becomes a Tom Jones look-alike for a convention of look-alikeys in Las Vegas, and my attitude towards him began to soften. It became really important to him to do a good job of pretending to be Tom Jones, and he wasn't half bad. It made a real change from most of the snarky stuff I see c-list celebs doing on TV.
Unfortunately, this lulled me into a false sense of security, and so I then watched Bring Back Grange Hill, which was the direst thing I've seen all year.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 7:02 AM on October 12, 2007
Unfortunately, this lulled me into a false sense of security, and so I then watched Bring Back Grange Hill, which was the direst thing I've seen all year.
posted by PeterMcDermott at 7:02 AM on October 12, 2007
Cue horrible Hollywood remake in 5...4...3...
And how would you be able to tell the difference?
posted by Thorzdad at 7:11 AM on October 12, 2007
And how would you be able to tell the difference?
posted by Thorzdad at 7:11 AM on October 12, 2007
People would actually get shot in the remake.
posted by robocop is bleeding at 7:13 AM on October 12, 2007 [2 favorites]
posted by robocop is bleeding at 7:13 AM on October 12, 2007 [2 favorites]
A more serious attempt to contact Peppard will take place later in 2007 when Most Haunted will get Benedict, Schultz and Mr. T. together to perform a proper séance.
!!!
posted by kittens for breakfast at 7:15 AM on October 12, 2007
!!!
posted by kittens for breakfast at 7:15 AM on October 12, 2007
Airwolf, Knight Rider, Street Hawk, A Team. . .
Just because you watched it when you were young doesn't mean it's wasn't shitty television.
I used to think My So Called Life was so superior to The Hills and the current Mtv drivel, but recently after rewatching it, it was just as bad.
My point is nostalgia is dangerous.
posted by four panels at 7:22 AM on October 12, 2007 [1 favorite]
Just because you watched it when you were young doesn't mean it's wasn't shitty television.
I used to think My So Called Life was so superior to The Hills and the current Mtv drivel, but recently after rewatching it, it was just as bad.
My point is nostalgia is dangerous.
posted by four panels at 7:22 AM on October 12, 2007 [1 favorite]
Dawson's Creek was superior though.
posted by fire&wings at 7:31 AM on October 12, 2007
posted by fire&wings at 7:31 AM on October 12, 2007
I just woke up. I haven't had coffee yet. Why is he yelling at me?
posted by miss lynnster at 7:34 AM on October 12, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by miss lynnster at 7:34 AM on October 12, 2007 [1 favorite]
For myself, I love it when a flan comes together.
posted by halonine at 7:39 AM on October 12, 2007 [1 favorite]
posted by halonine at 7:39 AM on October 12, 2007 [1 favorite]
An A-Team van sold for $18,032 at auction in March.
I pity the fool....
posted by Floydd at 7:49 AM on October 12, 2007
I pity the fool....
posted by Floydd at 7:49 AM on October 12, 2007
My point is nostalgia is dangerous.
*whacks four panels upside the head with a vintage 1983 Pee Wee Herman talking doll, still in box*
Yeah, you're right. I guess it is.
posted by miss lynnster at 8:02 AM on October 12, 2007
*whacks four panels upside the head with a vintage 1983 Pee Wee Herman talking doll, still in box*
Yeah, you're right. I guess it is.
posted by miss lynnster at 8:02 AM on October 12, 2007
almost every car crash there is a short take showing the occupants of the vehicle climbing out of the mangled/burning wreck (even in helicopter crashes)....this part of the show did become a running joke for the writing staff and they would at times test the limits of realism on purpose
This is one of the reasons I used to watch the show. How often can you watch a jeep completely explode and flip over several times, then watch the occupants climb out and walk away without even a scratch?
posted by eye of newt at 8:06 AM on October 12, 2007
This is one of the reasons I used to watch the show. How often can you watch a jeep completely explode and flip over several times, then watch the occupants climb out and walk away without even a scratch?
posted by eye of newt at 8:06 AM on October 12, 2007
Do not want.
posted by NationalKato at 8:13 AM on October 12, 2007
posted by NationalKato at 8:13 AM on October 12, 2007
this part of the show did become a running joke
The whole show was a running joke wrapped around a collection of running jokes. If it wasn't the worst multi-season show in the history of television, it's hard to think of one worse. Maybe Three's Company, but we've already covered that ground here.
posted by psmealey at 8:18 AM on October 12, 2007
The whole show was a running joke wrapped around a collection of running jokes. If it wasn't the worst multi-season show in the history of television, it's hard to think of one worse. Maybe Three's Company, but we've already covered that ground here.
posted by psmealey at 8:18 AM on October 12, 2007
It was deliberately campy which added to the fun. I would take an episode of A-Team over any of the so-called reality crap which passes for TV fare these days.
posted by caddis at 8:43 AM on October 12, 2007
posted by caddis at 8:43 AM on October 12, 2007
Cue horrible Hollywood remake in 5...4...3...
2...1
posted by designbot at 9:08 AM on October 12, 2007
2...1
posted by designbot at 9:08 AM on October 12, 2007
Uh, the release date is 2002 in that link, DesignBot.
Not a bad cast line-up... except Gibson.
posted by jeffamaphone at 9:13 AM on October 12, 2007
Not a bad cast line-up... except Gibson.
posted by jeffamaphone at 9:13 AM on October 12, 2007
I noticed when I watched this the first time around the Face Man appeared to be wearing make-up when he was 'surprised'.
Oh and at one point Justin Lee Collins accent slips; yes, he really does put it on.
I seemed to remember BA came out with some dignity, god knows how. Oh and if you've not seen it before, his great Snickers Ad.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 9:34 AM on October 12, 2007
Oh and at one point Justin Lee Collins accent slips; yes, he really does put it on.
I seemed to remember BA came out with some dignity, god knows how. Oh and if you've not seen it before, his great Snickers Ad.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 9:34 AM on October 12, 2007
four panels: "Airwolf, Knight Rider, Street Hawk, A Team. . .
Just because you watched it when you were young doesn't mean it's wasn't shitty television."
Well, we watched them in college but in our defense we were drunk at time. "Yay, the tires are making that sqealing noise even though they're on a dirt road, everybody drink!"
posted by octothorpe at 9:41 AM on October 12, 2007
Just because you watched it when you were young doesn't mean it's wasn't shitty television."
Well, we watched them in college but in our defense we were drunk at time. "Yay, the tires are making that sqealing noise even though they're on a dirt road, everybody drink!"
posted by octothorpe at 9:41 AM on October 12, 2007
"I love it when a plan for a plan coming together comes together."
Stuffo has already done the legwork for a recreation of the A-Team, in real life, using Craigslist LA. Why bother with the original actors, who are probably all old and shit?
Finding the A-Team
Part 1: Recruiting
Part 2: The questionnaire
previously
posted by dammitjim at 9:47 AM on October 12, 2007
Stuffo has already done the legwork for a recreation of the A-Team, in real life, using Craigslist LA. Why bother with the original actors, who are probably all old and shit?
Finding the A-Team
Part 1: Recruiting
Part 2: The questionnaire
previously
posted by dammitjim at 9:47 AM on October 12, 2007
I cannot believe I kept watching. Both the show and this youtube fest. Why does it seem like he's channeling the croc hunter (and I mean more his relentless claptrap than the accent).
Nostalgia is dangerous. Haven't the baby boomers taught us this long ago? if you rewatch a show seen during youth expecting it to elicit the same reaction, you're nuts, or [more hopefully] still young.
posted by Busithoth at 9:48 AM on October 12, 2007
Nostalgia is dangerous. Haven't the baby boomers taught us this long ago? if you rewatch a show seen during youth expecting it to elicit the same reaction, you're nuts, or [more hopefully] still young.
posted by Busithoth at 9:48 AM on October 12, 2007
I actually had to follow some of those links, since I thought Dwight Schultz's name was familiar. I would have never believed that Lt. Barclay was one of the guys from The A-Team.
posted by evilangela at 10:01 AM on October 12, 2007
posted by evilangela at 10:01 AM on October 12, 2007
Oh you all can hate on the A-Team all you want, but you have to admit, that it had one of the best openings ever. The cheesy narration, the bullet holes cutting the name, Face seeing the Cylon, all of it.
Especially the music. That theme song is what plays in my head when I'm being awesome.
The show may have been crap, but it was life changing crap to the 12 me who watched it.
posted by quin at 10:25 AM on October 12, 2007 [2 favorites]
Especially the music. That theme song is what plays in my head when I'm being awesome.
The show may have been crap, but it was life changing crap to the 12 me who watched it.
posted by quin at 10:25 AM on October 12, 2007 [2 favorites]
Especially the music. That theme song is what plays in my head when I'm being awesome.
They just don't make theme music like they used to.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:38 AM on October 12, 2007
They just don't make theme music like they used to.
posted by Blazecock Pileon at 10:38 AM on October 12, 2007
Because Husky & Starch has already been remade?
posted by Kirth Gerson at 10:38 AM on October 12, 2007
posted by Kirth Gerson at 10:38 AM on October 12, 2007
His distinctive West Country accent and "cave man" image are amongst his trademarks.
So, he's like a British Tim Allen?
posted by mrgrimm at 11:07 AM on October 12, 2007
So, he's like a British Tim Allen?
posted by mrgrimm at 11:07 AM on October 12, 2007
Especially the music. That theme song is what plays in my head when I'm being awesome.
I remember a gang of us singing it out loud, back when I was student loading scaffolding on and off a lorry (for a student ball, not making anti-mafia tractor/cabbage throwing machine unfortunately)
There's also the Spaced disco remix
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 11:10 AM on October 12, 2007
I remember a gang of us singing it out loud, back when I was student loading scaffolding on and off a lorry (for a student ball, not making anti-mafia tractor/cabbage throwing machine unfortunately)
There's also the Spaced disco remix
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 11:10 AM on October 12, 2007
God I love Spaced. I really wish they would do a third season, but I know it's never going to happen.
posted by quin at 11:13 AM on October 12, 2007
posted by quin at 11:13 AM on October 12, 2007
I bought A-Team stock over at hsx.com and lost my shirt. I am shirtless. I am sans shirt.
posted by ZachsMind at 6:49 PM on October 12, 2007
posted by ZachsMind at 6:49 PM on October 12, 2007
Hey ZachsMind... I totally forgot I even HAD an hsx account until you said that! I opened it in 2000 or earlier, I mean forever ago. And I didn't even remember what stocks I could've possibly still had on there, I haven't checked it in at least 9 months. So I went to check it.
Well wouldn'tcha know, instead of the A Team I apparently invested in another tv remake... the Get Smart movie. And my friend, I seem to have your shirt. Got a net gain of $2 million on that one stock. Thanks, Steve Carell!
Alas, if only the decimal point in my hsx net worth of $31,394,135.21 wasn't like four or five digits off of my real net worth...
posted by miss lynnster at 7:44 PM on October 12, 2007
Well wouldn'tcha know, instead of the A Team I apparently invested in another tv remake... the Get Smart movie. And my friend, I seem to have your shirt. Got a net gain of $2 million on that one stock. Thanks, Steve Carell!
Alas, if only the decimal point in my hsx net worth of $31,394,135.21 wasn't like four or five digits off of my real net worth...
posted by miss lynnster at 7:44 PM on October 12, 2007
MiltonRandKalman, that dutch audience looked very confused...
posted by miss lynnster at 7:48 PM on October 12, 2007
posted by miss lynnster at 7:48 PM on October 12, 2007
There is no dutch word for meme.
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 8:36 PM on October 12, 2007
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 8:36 PM on October 12, 2007
I went onto the internet archive to check out people's haikus on that page. I'm kinda not wondering why that page isn't active any more. Many were written by the same three people. Stuff like...
The career for me:
Human vivisectionist
How gross can you get?
Floating out to sea
Sally Struthers' burned corpse;
food for tiny fishies.
Oh my dear sweet Lord
I seem to have killed my Mom.
Oh well, fuck the bitch.
I hate you so much
I wish there was a real hell
so you could burn there
I can't say nigger,
because my skin is not black.
That is stupid, huh?
I'm sensing some tension in these poets' souls.
posted by miss lynnster at 8:01 AM on October 13, 2007
The career for me:
Human vivisectionist
How gross can you get?
Floating out to sea
Sally Struthers' burned corpse;
food for tiny fishies.
Oh my dear sweet Lord
I seem to have killed my Mom.
Oh well, fuck the bitch.
I hate you so much
I wish there was a real hell
so you could burn there
I can't say nigger,
because my skin is not black.
That is stupid, huh?
I'm sensing some tension in these poets' souls.
posted by miss lynnster at 8:01 AM on October 13, 2007
Hey Miss Lynnster! I just invested in Lucy Liu's vehicle, a remake of Charlie Chan. Maybe if I forget HSX exists for a few years I'll come back and get my shirt again! =)
posted by ZachsMind at 6:45 PM on October 13, 2007
posted by ZachsMind at 6:45 PM on October 13, 2007
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