The A-team + a suburban neighborhood = great basis for one of a kind episode. But what I watched was kind of the frustration of that.
True that the second act is filled with the drug dealers' storyline, and it did meet well with the first one (the chasers of the rock singer) with a twist about her manager too. But I just yearned to some things else.
This could have been the most comic A-team episode at all, especially when we see how these crazy good guys could solve the neighborhood's simple problems, or manage its agenda. Let alone the try to live its life; imagine how many widow or divorced woman will fall for Col. Hannibal, or how many child Murdock will befriend, or how the kind people will hide them when Col. Decker is around. I think, now, this is the impossible dream to dream!
Nevertheless, it has its moments. The toy gun as eavesdropping device (the A-Team's funny infantile nature). Mr. T beating up an alarm clock. Mr. T's anger when someone mistakenly referrers to a decrease in his manhood. The hilarious moment when the manager's gang got into a clash with the drug dealer's gang by wicked A-Team's plan. The wonderful climactic action sequence. And sure the brief scene when the 4 men were setting on a table having breakfast without a word to each other like a dysfunctional family; it is what this episode should have exploited better.
(Valerie Stevenson) looked like a real rock star at the moment. I was shocked when I discovered later that she isn't. Her much talking about Karma was more or less a spoof of the way some rock stars talk. Speaking about spoofing, you can't ignore the way Dwight Schultz dressed and talked quietly as in fact a good spoof of the unchangeable (Fred Rogers), the host of (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) the children's show from 1968 to 2001, with the "Hi Neighbor" signature greeting. The episode's title (There Goes the Neighborhood) may refer to Joe Walsh's 1981 rock album, with the same title.
The thing is they changed the place but not the format. It's about the suburb, not the suburban, and the rest is an A-Team's usual stuff. Anyway, still a lovely afternoon nab for the mind.. as most of the 1980s works as well.
True that the second act is filled with the drug dealers' storyline, and it did meet well with the first one (the chasers of the rock singer) with a twist about her manager too. But I just yearned to some things else.
This could have been the most comic A-team episode at all, especially when we see how these crazy good guys could solve the neighborhood's simple problems, or manage its agenda. Let alone the try to live its life; imagine how many widow or divorced woman will fall for Col. Hannibal, or how many child Murdock will befriend, or how the kind people will hide them when Col. Decker is around. I think, now, this is the impossible dream to dream!
Nevertheless, it has its moments. The toy gun as eavesdropping device (the A-Team's funny infantile nature). Mr. T beating up an alarm clock. Mr. T's anger when someone mistakenly referrers to a decrease in his manhood. The hilarious moment when the manager's gang got into a clash with the drug dealer's gang by wicked A-Team's plan. The wonderful climactic action sequence. And sure the brief scene when the 4 men were setting on a table having breakfast without a word to each other like a dysfunctional family; it is what this episode should have exploited better.
(Valerie Stevenson) looked like a real rock star at the moment. I was shocked when I discovered later that she isn't. Her much talking about Karma was more or less a spoof of the way some rock stars talk. Speaking about spoofing, you can't ignore the way Dwight Schultz dressed and talked quietly as in fact a good spoof of the unchangeable (Fred Rogers), the host of (Mister Rogers' Neighborhood) the children's show from 1968 to 2001, with the "Hi Neighbor" signature greeting. The episode's title (There Goes the Neighborhood) may refer to Joe Walsh's 1981 rock album, with the same title.
The thing is they changed the place but not the format. It's about the suburb, not the suburban, and the rest is an A-Team's usual stuff. Anyway, still a lovely afternoon nab for the mind.. as most of the 1980s works as well.
