Ok, I cant go into a lengthy argument, 'cause I need some sleep but I wanted to post this before it slipped out of mind. Since I have cable and I now get reruns of my favorite nostalgic TV show A-Team… how do rate them against the Mission Impossible team? Not just one-on-one, but how well they perfromed in the episodes (against the bad guys), which series entertained you more, etc. My vote goes to A-Team if nothing else but comic relief!
Side debate: MacGuyver vs James Bond?
(almost seems unfair since Mac never made it to silver screen but what the hay.)
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(Marvel Team Up #1)
A-Team. No question about it. Hands down. The MI guys always had the hottest equipment, cool widgets, and government authorization to do the stuff they did. The A-Team not only had to beat the bad guys and save the good guys, they had to do so with no real budget (except for ammunition for their AR-15s) no equipment except what they could scrounge from the back of garages, and do it all while dodging the MPs and the local police everywhere they went. They were far more creative, and effective.
And better looking. Faceman versus Phelps? Puh-leeze.
A-team! It’s my secret vice. George Peppard (fans herself in the manner of a southern belle)… and the obligatory building a tank every episode… I miss that show!
Ahh, yes, but the ultimate challenge is Maguyver versus the A-team.
You lock the A-team overnight in a barn filled with all kinds of cool salvage equiptment. On the other side of the field, you lock Maguyver in an equally equipt barn.
In the morning open the doors and let them duke it out with whatever they built.
Ahh, but the Mission Impossible team would occasionally hit someone with their bullets! (At least wounding a few people, anyway.) The A-Team would routinely fire off a couple of tons’ worth of ammo without hitting anything other than concrete. I mean, they could have thrown the bullets at their enemies and caused more damage!
(Then again, the folks that were shooting at the A-team were just as bad at aiming.)
Hah, like Bond’s suaveness, gadgets and guns could save him when Mac constructs a nuclear bomb out of the aforementioned Swiss Army knife, some duct tape, and a piece of baling twine!
Gaudere, James Bond never wasted a pair of hockey tickets on stopping a nuclear bomb. And He would always stop the timer on 0-0-7, which an amazingly cool thing to be able to do.
Plus James Bond never had a mullet.
John, Bond would never even go to a hockey game. He probably watches polo and drinks Pimm’s cup with his little pinky upraised. I will concede that he can defuse a bomb without wrinkling his tux, though.
The Mission Impossible team would beat the A-Team hands down. They’d wait for the A-Team to sequester themselves inside the abandoned junkyard, and while B.A. was working the welding torch in the process of trying to turn a '73 Chevy Impala into an M-1 tank, Phelps & co. would sneak up behind him and knock him unconscious. (They couldn’t shoot him, though, because all bullets fired at the A-Team automatically miss – even if they pressed the barrel against B.A.'s head and pulled the trigger, they’d miss. And then their car would hit a hidden ramp and overturn in midair. But I digress.)
I can’t believe there is even a debate about this. It’s like matching Inspector Gadget vs. Sherlock Holmes. The A-Team doesn’t stand a chance in hell. The MI team will pistol-whip the wannabe’s before breakfast, then get on to a real mission. In other words, “I pity da foo’ who sides wit da A-team!”
No argument on the sophistication and ruthlessness, but I’ll contest the intelligence. The A-Team were constantly having to use their intel to get out of jams, to accomplish their missions with zero resources and while being outlaws. All MI had to do was their mission.
Besides, the A-Team had much more flair and creativity. And much better explosions. True, they never killed anybody, hardly, but I’d chalk that up as a plus in their favor. Do you know how hard it is to fire that many bullets without actually killing anyone? Takes enormous skill, it does.
The A-team was clever and joie de vivreish only during the first season. Then some damn Helen Lovejoy complained that it was sending a bad damn message to the damn children and every damn episode after that was the same damn shit repackaged by the same damn computer program over and over and over. A perfectly delightful and enjoyable show - ruined. MI gets my vote for being dark and sinister when they damn well wanted to damn well be so.
I will concede that, but I’d bet he’d still look cool doing it.
Jeffery said:
Bond never had time to make anything. he was too busy getting laid and killing enemies.
And I’d prefer to know Q rather than that porker that follows Richard Dean Anderson through everything he does.
I’d take that knife in the shoe in “Dr. No” anytime.
That would suit his mullett down to the ground.
He may have been smarter, but Bond was way cooler
J
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