You do realise that "I pity the foo'" is a quote from Rocky, right?
*sigh*
Sit down here, by the fire, and I will explain.
*Hudders leans back in his red leather armchair and takes a puff from his pipe as Saladin takes a seat at his feet, sprawled like a feral rat across the antique hearth rug, an eager look spread across his glassy expression of ignorance.*
In 1982, the film
Rocky III starring Sylvester Stallone, also starred the then little-known heavyweight of cinema, Laurence Tureaud, also known as Mr T. As the boxer Clubber Lang, and Rocky's opponent in the film, Tureaud put in a performance so mind-blowingly brilliant that writer-producers, Frank Lupo and Stephen J Cannell conspired to create a TV-spinoff starring Mr T which would later be known as the A-Team.
*Hudders partakes of another puff on his pipe, allowing his young apprentice a moment to take the information in. He looks down on the boy, as if trying to peer into his skull and watch the gears slowly rotate and form a useful thought. Clearing his throat, Hudders continues...*
In the TV-series, which ran from 1983 to 1987, Mr T played a mechanical engineer named Sgt. Bosco "B.A." Baracas who had escaped from a military prison along with three of his compatriots. The TV show followed the team's efforts to help people who needed assistance and bring bad guys to justice. A key theme of the show was how they would get locked up in some kind of warehouse along with a load of scrap metal and then would somehow devise some kind of machine or device which would then help them to escape or accomplish whatever goal they needed to achieve that week.
Despite the military nature of the show, only one person ever died. There were plenty of plane crashes and dangerous fireball-related events but yet it was kept kid-friendly by the network and as a result developed first a following amongst children and then a cult following as those children grew up into adults.
*With another puff, Hudders can see Saladin's face contorted in an effort to comprehend.*
The A-Team undoubtedly helped springboard Mr T's career as an actor, and as a general celebrity of the kind we have so many of today. He has become quite the cult icon and many of his catchphrases have entered the cultural lexicon. "I pity the fool" for example, or "I ain't gettin' on no plane, sucka".
So you see, dear Saladin, pitying fools is what Mr T does best.
Consider yourself educated. You'll know next time.
