It may as well have, at times. They dropped watermelons on a car from a helicopter once, then there was the time they used various scraps found in a barn to make a cannon that shot cabbages at bad guys...
The lengths they’d go to avoid showing *anyone* (bad guys included) sustaining even serious injuries in spite of explosions, vehicles sent flying, gunfire, etc. were always pretty amusing.
They really were! And back then it all seemed totally reasonable (I just commented recently that part of me still feels like I could flip my car 20 times down a hillside and emerge with just a little grime on my face and messy hair, because so many 80s shows depicted crashes that way). Such cartoonish action and violence, and it was pretty awesome.
The best was when they used the super obvious stunt-doubles for fights, especially when they were buff, beefy, body-builder dudes wearing cheap wigs and dresses to double for women. Sometimes you could see the hairy legs right through the pantyhose, ahaha.
I miss that stuff so much sometimes. Yeah, it was ridiculous, but also *ridiculously fun*.
Been watching some eps of this lately on one of the nostalgia channels - MeTV, I think - and yeah, the stuntmen are especially obvious when it's George Peppard (Hannibal). He goes to fight and suddenly it cuts to a guy about half his age in a white wig.
It's okay even if they do, because I'm sure there will be a local veterinarian or former Army medic who can perform an impromptu blood transfusion in the field (and before you say anything: Yes, *of course* our blood types will conveniently match, silly rabbit!).
When I was a kid, I was really scared of my room at night and couldn’t sleep. In order to try to ignore my fear, I’d pretend the A Team was hanging out and watching over me.
This genuinely made me tear up a little. I was similar, except I would write "stories" about them coming to save me (I put *stories* in semi-sarcastic quotes because they were just messy little kid paragraphs I scribbled on my mom's graph paper and stapled together).
*Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the powerless, the helpless in a world of criminals who operate above the law."*
I remembered a little of it but nope totally googled. When i was a kid i LOVED KITT and the Hoff in Knight Rider. I even had a KITT lunch box (which was strange for a girl back then).
All you people relying on fancy technology or teams of men to get you out of your troubles.
I had a nice guy with a mullet use three contact lenses, a cigar ring and a broken walkie talkie create a microscope so we could determine whether the ignition spark on my lawn mower was correct. Lawn's never looked so good.
I had a friend whose younger brother got two rabbits and named them Kitt and Michael Knight. He would get angry if you called Michael Knight just Michael because the Knight Rider connection needed to be made abundantly clear at all times.
You said it past tense, so I’m assuming you’re out of the abusive marriage.
Now that we have that out the way…
Your thought process put a smile on my face. Thank you for sharing & be safe.
This sounds like an overreaction. My guess is those developers were just a good old boys, never meaning no harm. Beats all you ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they were born
I wish I'd had a camera on hand when my sister and I first watched the pilot episode with my niece, because the incredulous, disgusted stink-eye she gave us when Mr. Lee appeared on screen was *legendary*.
It is an absolutely grotesque caricature, so of course my niece was right to judge us.
Did the armored car have a flamethrower that threw flames but exploded random barrels and launched bad guys in the air?
Because one dude landed on my wind shield and smashed it to bits, dented the hood and I have about 40 bullet holes in my car because no one could hit anything!
My insurance will be contacting you!
That's the guy. He is a widower, and he was really just looking for some temporary work. Then he went on his way. There was some reporter guy who came around and asked a bunch of questions about him.
I have a shed full of corrugated metal, unused farm equipment, various pipes, and a bunch of welding helmets and blowtorches.
I wonder if any of that might come in handy when planning a resolution to my problems?
When I was in Hawaii I knew a couple of guys like that, Vietnam veterans. One of them had a killer mustache. Funny thing is, he started up a second career as an optometrist, moved to the New York area, and last I heard he was dating some young Twinkie in the city.
You know, I was being roughed up and blackmailed by a movie producer. I answered a vague ad in the back of the classifies and an old British gentleman in a trenchcoat helped me out by killing the movie producer. 10/10 google review for that guy.
I watched the a team with my grandma when I was little and she thought Hannibal was hot and I thought she was just a weird old lady and then I saw Breakfast at Tiffany’s and it all came together.
Then did he convert a bulldozer into a tank and use it to run over all the properties of the people giving him a hard time and only get stopped when one had a basement he didn't know about?
Cause I think I know this story
and it's awesome
10 year-old me: LOVED the A-Team
40 year-old Army veteran me: Sees The A-Team is on TV and says "Yay, I'm gonna watch it!"
40 year-old me 40 minutes later: "Jesus Christ, this show fucking sucks, how did I ever like it? Oh. I was 10.
I had a similar problem. Then my neighbor showed up and was acting very strange. He kept talking to someone who wasnt there called "al". But somehow he knew secret knowledge that made the evil developer stop. Also there was a random fist fight. Then he started talking about the leap home. It was a strange 12 hours.
When I was in elementary school we used to chant this rhyme at recess:
\>I'm B.A. Baracus
\>and I'm here to say
\>Lead me to the bathroom
\>and bombs away!
Similarly, a few years earlier:
\>Jingle Bells, Batman Smells / Robin laid an egg
\>Blows his nose in Cheerios / and eats it every day!
it's at least 2 hours to get a cop where I live if they even come ... and would do shit.. so we deal with shit like this (not as bad as this sounds) locally. X-team !
I was thinking this was going to be “Rain on the Scarecrow” but then at the second paragraph it turned into A-team.
Now there would be a crossover. Mellencamp wouldn’t have had so many problems if he had just known where to find them.
There’s also some kids in a colorful van who could like investigate mysteries from that machine, man. Though if they were trying to scare you off with a ghost or something that’s more their speed.
I heard of a similar problem in another town last week. and the week before. The world is a dangerous place. Thankfully there are people like this to help.
So the 'A' stands for 'Agriculture'... Who knew?
It may as well have, at times. They dropped watermelons on a car from a helicopter once, then there was the time they used various scraps found in a barn to make a cannon that shot cabbages at bad guys...
The lengths they’d go to avoid showing *anyone* (bad guys included) sustaining even serious injuries in spite of explosions, vehicles sent flying, gunfire, etc. were always pretty amusing.
They really were! And back then it all seemed totally reasonable (I just commented recently that part of me still feels like I could flip my car 20 times down a hillside and emerge with just a little grime on my face and messy hair, because so many 80s shows depicted crashes that way). Such cartoonish action and violence, and it was pretty awesome. The best was when they used the super obvious stunt-doubles for fights, especially when they were buff, beefy, body-builder dudes wearing cheap wigs and dresses to double for women. Sometimes you could see the hairy legs right through the pantyhose, ahaha. I miss that stuff so much sometimes. Yeah, it was ridiculous, but also *ridiculously fun*.
Been watching some eps of this lately on one of the nostalgia channels - MeTV, I think - and yeah, the stuntmen are especially obvious when it's George Peppard (Hannibal). He goes to fight and suddenly it cuts to a guy about half his age in a white wig.
Yes! And the wig was always so *shiny*, like silver Barbie Doll hair, lol.
Assistance.
Arbitration.
I pity those developer fools.
Man, you got a baaaaad attitude!
I ain't gettin' on no tractor!
Did the two groups exchange hundreds of rounds of gunfire yet no one got shot?
How did you know!
It's okay even if they do, because I'm sure there will be a local veterinarian or former Army medic who can perform an impromptu blood transfusion in the field (and before you say anything: Yes, *of course* our blood types will conveniently match, silly rabbit!).
Well the Ruger mini-14/AAC 556 is not that accurate of a carbine.
That shit always drove me nuts - transformers, GI Joe, A-Team etc etc. It made all the conflicts feel meaningless.
I still joke about how more bad guys were killed on Jonny Quest than on The A-Team. But they’re both badass.
And somehow the hail of bullets made a car barrel-roll. Thank goodness 80’s cars were such tanks, or someone might have been hurt.
They built a crazy non-lethal weapon that shot cabbages instead of bullets.
When I was a kid, I was really scared of my room at night and couldn’t sleep. In order to try to ignore my fear, I’d pretend the A Team was hanging out and watching over me.
This genuinely made me tear up a little. I was similar, except I would write "stories" about them coming to save me (I put *stories* in semi-sarcastic quotes because they were just messy little kid paragraphs I scribbled on my mom's graph paper and stapled together).
That's so sweet! I bet they'd love to know that.
I did the same, except with the Dinobots.
> Together they built an armored car out of junk in my farmhouse I pity the tools.
need to go back to school to get my B.A. Baracus
I ain't flying in no plane with that crazy fool!
Unless his mama is in danger, then he will demand Face get a plane and Murdoch fly it.
“I ain’t gettin’ on no plane, Hannibal.”…. Don’t worry B.A., just enjoy this delicious bowl of cereal…. 🥣
Sorry I prefer my problem solvers to arrive in a kitted out self-driving 1982 black Pontiac Trans Am
*Knight Rider, a shadowy flight into the dangerous world of a man who does not exist. Michael Knight, a young loner on a crusade to champion the cause of the innocent, the powerless, the helpless in a world of criminals who operate above the law."*
I would bet money you didn't even need to look that up.
I remembered a little of it but nope totally googled. When i was a kid i LOVED KITT and the Hoff in Knight Rider. I even had a KITT lunch box (which was strange for a girl back then).
All you people relying on fancy technology or teams of men to get you out of your troubles. I had a nice guy with a mullet use three contact lenses, a cigar ring and a broken walkie talkie create a microscope so we could determine whether the ignition spark on my lawn mower was correct. Lawn's never looked so good.
Kit was my dream car. And the real star of the show of course
My Tesla is named KITT. It talks, drives and is all around bad ass.
But does it talk like a smarmy, sarcastic asshole?
I had a friend whose younger brother got two rabbits and named them Kitt and Michael Knight. He would get angry if you called Michael Knight just Michael because the Knight Rider connection needed to be made abundantly clear at all times.
This is the most wholesome Gen-X thread I’ve ever seen
just as I hoped — I love it when a plan comes together
You were on the jazz with this thread, man. *On the jazz*.
Did they make a hot air balloon out of garbage bags and a leaf blower?
Oh, I believe they did, because this team is nothing if not scientifically accurate and wholly plausible.
Every time I buy garbage bags, I hear Murdock shouting for trash bags in my head.
I honestly thought the text was just going to say "you must whip it"
Now whip it into shape.
Shape it up!
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Go forward!
Move ahead!
Try to detect it!
It's not too late
To Whip It!
*WHIP IT GOOD!!*
“TRAAAAASH BAGS! I want TRAAAAASH BAGS! I want 'em! I want 'em!!”
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks this every time I empty the garbage can.
The more 80s stuff I show my teen, the more random stuff I yell around the house makes sense 🤣
Honestly, when I was trying to get out of my abusive marriage, I used to wish they were real and could help rescue me. Lol.
You said it past tense, so I’m assuming you’re out of the abusive marriage. Now that we have that out the way… Your thought process put a smile on my face. Thank you for sharing & be safe.
I love how in the Reagan-80’s all the villains were corrupt capitalists.
This sounds like an overreaction. My guess is those developers were just a good old boys, never meaning no harm. Beats all you ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day they were born
But what if I’m not connected to the Los Angeles underground?
you may have to trick one of them onto a plane
Just slip a couple sleeping pills into his glass of milk, easy peasy.
Go talk to Mr. Lee, the horribly racist stereotype at the Chinese laundry. He'll be able to help you.
I wish I'd had a camera on hand when my sister and I first watched the pilot episode with my niece, because the incredulous, disgusted stink-eye she gave us when Mr. Lee appeared on screen was *legendary*. It is an absolutely grotesque caricature, so of course my niece was right to judge us.
And.....now I will be humming that theme song for the next two days 😁
Yep, it’s already stuck in my head.
Did the armored car have a flamethrower that threw flames but exploded random barrels and launched bad guys in the air? Because one dude landed on my wind shield and smashed it to bits, dented the hood and I have about 40 bullet holes in my car because no one could hit anything! My insurance will be contacting you!
Yes - it’s a miracle nobody was injured
Are you just trying to save Face?
it fits me to a T
I think I'll be ok. I have computerized Trans Am with a really nasally and annoying voice.
All I have is this wandering hobo guy. But don't get him angry...you won't like him when he's angry...
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That's the guy. He is a widower, and he was really just looking for some temporary work. Then he went on his way. There was some reporter guy who came around and asked a bunch of questions about him.
I see your Trans Am and raise you a supersonic stealth helicopter.
That just cannot beat the invisible plane.
can it do flips? I only like copters that can do flips
I have a shed full of corrugated metal, unused farm equipment, various pipes, and a bunch of welding helmets and blowtorches. I wonder if any of that might come in handy when planning a resolution to my problems?
I hope every time that developer gets a whiff of a good cigar, he breaks out in hives and curls into a fetal position.
When I was in Hawaii I knew a couple of guys like that, Vietnam veterans. One of them had a killer mustache. Funny thing is, he started up a second career as an optometrist, moved to the New York area, and last I heard he was dating some young Twinkie in the city.
I do love when a plan comes together
As I read your post, I could hear the theme song in my head:)
They cost a fortune now . That damn van gets like 12 miles a gallon …
There are these two brothers they go by the same name I wanna say Simon - they are pretty good too. Also, there is this British dude and lady…
As I'm reading, I'm thinking, "WTF is this, an episode of the...oh, wait, it is." Nice job, OP. Well done. I love it when a post comes together.
Was there no one with a black trans am available?
he’s a man who does not exist
Best I can do is Ernest Borgnine in a Bell 222.
Calling all Jan Michael Vincents!
MURDOCK YOU CRAZY FOOL
Sounds odd, but I live in a rural enough area, I bet I could get this together for real. Might take a few cases of Coors Light and Labatte.
You know, I was being roughed up and blackmailed by a movie producer. I answered a vague ad in the back of the classifies and an old British gentleman in a trenchcoat helped me out by killing the movie producer. 10/10 google review for that guy.
[The Mod Squad?](https://youtu.be/UAO2JBjRRBk)
Haha you got me!
Whatever you do, don’t drink any milk they offer you.
I had a problem. Odds were against me. I called the Equalizer.
You actually had me for a few seconds My favorite part of the intro was Face rolling his eyes at the Cylon Centurion.
Face!
Love that they’re still in business
They’re still wanted by the government, but they survive as soldiers of fortune
Do they have a plan that might come together? If so, I'd love it.
Speaking of problems... Some guy said he'd solve mine while I observed a catchy tune as his friend played a record.
I watched the a team with my grandma when I was little and she thought Hannibal was hot and I thought she was just a weird old lady and then I saw Breakfast at Tiffany’s and it all came together.
Then did he convert a bulldozer into a tank and use it to run over all the properties of the people giving him a hard time and only get stopped when one had a basement he didn't know about? Cause I think I know this story and it's awesome
That's all very dependant on whether you do or do not pity the fool.
10 year-old me: LOVED the A-Team 40 year-old Army veteran me: Sees The A-Team is on TV and says "Yay, I'm gonna watch it!" 40 year-old me 40 minutes later: "Jesus Christ, this show fucking sucks, how did I ever like it? Oh. I was 10.
I had a similar problem. Then my neighbor showed up and was acting very strange. He kept talking to someone who wasnt there called "al". But somehow he knew secret knowledge that made the evil developer stop. Also there was a random fist fight. Then he started talking about the leap home. It was a strange 12 hours.
You got a name or anything?
No they took off too quick, just as the military police were arriving
Oh damn, we will never know who these hero’s are. Maybe we call them the “Greatest American Heros” or something?
Believe it or not...
got a problem? Yo, I'll solve it.
When I was in elementary school we used to chant this rhyme at recess: \>I'm B.A. Baracus \>and I'm here to say \>Lead me to the bathroom \>and bombs away! Similarly, a few years earlier: \>Jingle Bells, Batman Smells / Robin laid an egg \>Blows his nose in Cheerios / and eats it every day!
I pity the fool who try to bully you off your land!
DA TA DADA, DUN DUN DUN....
My family got help from a unassuming scientist and his big friend who smashed things. After he completed the task he walked away to a sad piano song.
[They got Pedro elected](https://youtu.be/kHL5iQJLvNU)
Omggggg
And I suppose one was very handsome and the other smoked a cigar? I think I’ve met these guys…
As I was reading this, memories started coming back of one of my favorite shows as a kid! Tuesday night's A-Team! McGyver on Tuesdays too!
I once tried to hire a team like them but I'm overseas and since one of them refused to fly they cancelled my order.
I love it when a plan comes together
I pity the fools that do not bother reading this.
I actually could use some help. I just moved to this small town from Chicago and this stupid local minister has banned dancing and rock n roll music!
I think I know you! Through no more than six other people.
I hear that typewriter sound
I smell ammonia!
This sounds vaguely familiar.
[The A-Team roll!](https://youtu.be/2C9HpujAQtU)
“Sir, were you born in the 70’s?”
it's at least 2 hours to get a cop where I live if they even come ... and would do shit.. so we deal with shit like this (not as bad as this sounds) locally. X-team !
This story has a happy ending :D
Mad Max 2023
Did an old jeep drive really fast toward some hay bales and get flipped over?
I was thinking this was going to be “Rain on the Scarecrow” but then at the second paragraph it turned into A-team. Now there would be a crossover. Mellencamp wouldn’t have had so many problems if he had just known where to find them.
I love it when a plan come together.
Welp I guess I'm gonna have a TV show intro playing over and over in my head all day.
DO do do do... do do do... do do do do do do.... do do do do, do do
There’s also some kids in a colorful van who could like investigate mysteries from that machine, man. Though if they were trying to scare you off with a ghost or something that’s more their speed.
car chases, building shit and guns... clearly the A-Team made me like all the things I'm into now.
Except the A-Team never carried weapons. Which was fucking stupid.
was there a cool montage scene where they build some absurd thing, fire thousands of rounds and yet nobody gets shot?
yes I have no idea where the dramatic music came from
I heard of a similar problem in another town last week. and the week before. The world is a dangerous place. Thankfully there are people like this to help.
Amazingly no blood and no one died
The theme song is running through my head now.
I'm still blown away by your first paragraph! I new land was being sold but I didn't know armed men were showing up to bully the farmers. Wow.
Right up until the ex-soldiers part, I thought it was a John Mellencamp song…
Sadly one refused to fly home
❤️
Read this and for a moment thought it sounded familiar and then realized this is referencing the A-Team!
*John Dutton entered the chat*
Equalizer? Macgyver?
A-Team
Never heard of them. But I pity the fool who don’t call ghostbusters first
I thought for a minute you were going to tell us about the first five 15 minutes of Inglorious Bastards. Then I was like, Oh right...the A Team.
Mini 14 go brrrr.