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Favorite recurring character? (Select 4)

  • Jack / AIDSMobdy

    Votes: 257 24.0%

  • Josh / the Wizard

    Votes: 77 7.2%

  • Colin (Canadian #1)

    Votes: 460 42.9%

  • Jim (Canadian #2)

    Votes: 230 21.4%

  • Tim

    Votes: 386 36.0%

  • Len Kabasinski

    Votes: 208 19.4%

  • Freddie Williams

    Votes: 274 25.5%

  • Patton Oswalt

    Votes: 27 2.5%

  • Macaulay Culkin

    Votes: 541 50.4%

  • Max Landis

    Votes: 64 6.0%
  • Total voters
    1,073
The A- Team show was huge, everyone knew Mr T from that. I remember kids saying that B.A. Baracus was in Rocky 3.
A show doesn't get a $200 million movie reboot without a massive success and appeal of the original. However, if you never watched the show, Mr T was just some black guy with a lot of jewelry who showed up randomly on TV.
 
Beelzebub's Lawyer said:
The A- Team show was huge, everyone knew Mr T from that. I remember kids saying that B.A. Baracus was in Rocky 3.
A show doesn't get a $200 million movie reboot without a massive success and appeal of the original. However, if you never watched the show, Mr T was just some black guy with a lot of jewelry who showed up randomly on TV.
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But how could they not know The A-Team! Reg Barclay was in it! You know, from Star Track!

EDIT: Also, not for nothing, but his Saturday morning cartoon had one of the more amusingly badass intros.

 
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Samuel Fuller said:
That was exactly what it was in the show. He was the team’s driver/chaperone.
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Yeah, I remember that. I just don't know if Mr. T himself had any connection to gymnastics -- other sports would have worked. Maybe it was just a good, wholesome sport that kids of pretty much any background could get into.
 
Honka Honka Burning Love said:
If you think the end is good you should watch the whole thing.

The Final War arc is the weakest part of the series. Giving the guy with One Shot Death touch Regeneration was a massive mistake.
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Got 3 episodes left and I am immensely pleased with the series. Heck if I taught a class on writing I would use it as a positive example unless the upcoming coda just totally tanks it all.

I know in other threads @Mola Ram, myself, and others have talked about outline vs "pantsing" writing. I don't know for certain if MHA's creator had an outline prepared (certain clues make me think he was winging it) but man did he manage to show how even with that method you can still bring everything back around.

Comic book pros used to know how to do that.
 
Mola Ram said:
Yeah, I remember that. I just don't know if Mr. T himself had any connection to gymnastics -- other sports would have worked. Maybe it was just a good, wholesome sport that kids of pretty much any background could get into.
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He didn’t, it was just Hanna-Barberra cashing in on the popularity of Mr. T after Rocky III and The A-Team and the popularity of gymnastics after the 1984 Olympics.

I’ve heard rumours over the years that H-B wanted to do a Mary-Lou Retton cartoon and just couldn’t get the deal signed, so they found another celebrity who was willing to do a show and glommed the concept from the Retton show onto Mr. T instead, which is pretty believable with how H-B was doing things in the mid-80s.
 
On a related note of Best of the Worst, I'm hyped as fuck that we're finally getting a TRUE and HONEST Breen film this year without completely relying on CGI backgrounds since its been almost a decade since Twisted Pair.
 
Mike's contrarianism combined with his inarticulate nature makes his objections to Mr. T pretty incomprehensible, but he did cause me to think about the guy, and his celebrity status is pretty interesting.

Mr. T was a character played by Laurence Tureaud, but Mr T was also an actor who played other characters like B.A. Baracus. At first, I thought he was like Ernest, but that doesn't even really fit -- Ernest was just a character played by Jim Varney. Even PeeWee Herman, who rarely if ever appeared out of character on talk shows and the like, was never playing a different role as PeeWee.

I never really gave it much thought. Mr. T was always like a human version of a Rubik's Cube to me -- just an icon of the '80s -- but when I think about him and his persona, he's pretty unique.

Edit to add: I always just assumed that Mr T was a wrestler. Sort of the way Hulk Hogan was Terry Bollea's wrestling persona -- who then became so well know that he carried that persona into other endeavors (like acting, spaghetti restaurants, and banging some DJ's wife and bringing down Gawker in the process). But Mr T was always just Mr T.
 
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FWIW, in a fit of nostalgia largely spurred by the Sam Raimi video, I watched Spider-Man for the first time in maybe a decade and I've come to the conclusion that Rich Evans may be suffering from actual cognitive defects. For its time it was the best superhero movie since Batman, and it outstrips even some of the good MCU flicks by several orders of magnitude.

Tobey Maguire's not the best Peter Parker, but he's perfectly acceptable. MJ is an awful character, I freely admit it. Spidey purists definitely have cause for complaint.

But to claim this is a worse film than Multiverse of Madness or Oz the Great and Powerful is bullshit posturing.
 
I don't know who are the joyless sad sacks who keep complaining about Voice Josh. I couldn't hold my laughter at the Lucas phone call. It was like being with the homies back in high school, prank calling the pho takeout place.
 
augment said:
I don't know who are the joyless sad sacks who keep complaining about Voice Josh. I couldn't hold my laughter at the Lucas phone call. It was like being with the homies back in high school, prank calling the pho takeout place.
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For me it was the Morgan Freeman narration about the ongoing decline of Mike Stoklasa.
 
augment said:
I don't know who are the joyless sad sacks who keep complaining about Voice Josh. I couldn't hold my laughter at the Lucas phone call. It was like being with the homies back in high school, prank calling the pho takeout place.
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I loved it. But as a former prank caller, I think he should have used his Arnold voice and acted as if he wanted to officially endorse that shitty product.
 
HowlingChasm said:
I’m surprised there wasn’t a Sanford&Son spinoff where they were like junkyard mech pilots or something. These cartoons were retarded.
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They all went into space sooner or later.

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Mola Ram said:
Tobey Maguire's not the best Peter Parker, but he's perfectly acceptable. MJ is an awful character, I freely admit it. Spidey purists definitely have cause for complaint.
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I don't get when people say Tobey Maguire was a bad Peter Parker. He wasn't the wise-cracking joke maker, but he perfectly captured the tragic side to Peter Parker. And not in a whiney way. The guy who is traumatized by his role in his uncle's death and struggles with his job as Spider-Man.

Maguire perfectly captured the frustrated and tormented side of being Peter Parker. Constantly letting those he loves down on a personal level, struggling to manage all his duties and never really getting to be happy the way he wants to be. I don't get what people wanted from Tobey Maguire to think he wasn't perfect for the role.
 
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