While the 80s-ness of this has dated badly, and the sincerity was a bit much in places, at least Mr. T meant well, and nothing dodgy came out about him years later. Being of a certain age, obviously I thought he was cool back in the day!
It's actually really nice to see someone who, (in my memory) was constantly scowling and angry, to have a n incredible human side. Worth its weight in neck garments
I quite possibly watched this video on rental circa 1985/86. Either this one or another Mr T one. Despite the 1980s cheesiness there was some sage advice. Loving the rapping. Eat your heart out Grandmaster Flash. Some of the music sounds a little bit like Prince or maybe even a bit of Funkadelic.
"all these trees are different but they all live together in harmony. Unless they get too close, and there's a battle for nutrients from the soil. Some plants die under the large canopies of the larger trees because the light can't get through to them, and there are even some plants that are parasitic upon others. So...I guess the lesson is that we can all live in harmony so long as we separate out into segregated groups and don't mix. Get them soil nutrients before the other do kids!"
Mr.T will always be a real one. Sure his whole presentation is seriously dated and hilarious but he was always about doing the right thing, and he's grown to understand and play on the hilarity of his personae, but his overall message, and what he represents is timeless, and still essential. Kids today seriously need a modern equivalent to him.
went down a bit of a rabbit hole after seeing the fantastic name 'Popsicle Delfin' pop up at 15:44. turns out she was one of the dancers in the video for Raspberry Beret, appeared at the Grammys with Donna Summer, and was something of an innovator in the breakdancing scene of the mid-80s. i was hoping to find some fun anecdote to come back with but unfortunately it seems she died in 2011 after a lengthy battle with cancer, so big RIP to Popsicle, gone but not forgotten
In a similar vein, are you aware of the Roddy Piper motivational video VHS? Fighting Fit, filmed and released in the UK - it's very odd. Also, while I'm here, I thought I'd mention one of the VHS horrors that has stuck with me since primary school in the early '90s; Carol Vorderman's Pop Music Times Tables, which is as painful as it sounds.
In I think 1995 Mr T was cast to be in the panto at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, the tickets sold very well. If I remember correctly he was playing a genie. The government wouldn't give him a work permit on the grounds that he didn't have notable or extraordinary skill (not the correct words, but that was the meaning) and said the roll should be taken by a UK actor. People bought tickets for a panto with Mr T in and ended up with Joe Pasquale, which isn't quite the same. (hopefully I've remembered the details right, it was a while ago)
Have a few beers and smoke ciggies, It’s done me no harm and I’m 62. Indeed I’m off down to my local now to get power hammered with the gang, and on the way home i might even stuff a kebab down me’ grid.
This must have been the inspo fit the whole “just say no” Grange Hill fiasco. Which they used to release an album which I bought at a school jumble a sale. There could be a vhs associated. Definitely needs analysing 👀😂
Not sure of the exact timelines but didn’t the kids that Just Say No was aimed at go on to found the acid house movement? Where they said Yes and not No!
I once saw mr t being interviewed for rocky 3 on letterman. To get into character mr t took up boxing and took it so seriously as clubber lang as rockys foe in the movie that when mr t went on the letterman show he looked he was just in a mean mood and looked like he want to whup lettermans ass. You weren't sure if t knew he was on a comedy show
I have that second Mr T LP. It's surprisingly a bit crap. I expected a bit more "punch" from it. Someone did a great website years ago where they mixed up the messages "Drink your drugs" "say not to your mom" etc.
The only think Mr. T motivated me to do was not wear an excessive amount of jewellery around my neck. The message is good, I guess, albeit in a rather brusque manner that comes across as being borderline aggressive. All the singing bits from the kids are giving me, 'Pink Windmill', vibes. Obviously all from stage schools hoping their performances for this video may lead onto other things. With some having more success than others, it would appear. The statement, 'be somebody', is kind of nonsensical in the literal sense, as everybody _is_ somebody, regardless. But, we know what they mean. It is very 80's, isn't it? Even as a teenager at the time, some of this was seriously cringe inducing. Trying to save face by pretending you're doing something you're not, when having an unfortunate accident, is great advice, I'm sure(!) Oh yes, there's plenty of breakdancing and, 'body popping', to be had in this video. Something that'll surely come in useful in later life as part of their life experiences. His use of the word, 'Mother', seems incomplete as you're kind of expecting the other word that because popular that went along with it, at the time. You know, the one beginning with, 'f?' I'm sure it's the aggressive sounding of, 'Mother', that does it.
Mr T. always did seem to be an all round good egg.
Very hard boiled, but a good ‘un nonetheless.
While the 80s-ness of this has dated badly, and the sincerity was a bit much in places, at least Mr. T meant well, and nothing dodgy came out about him years later. Being of a certain age, obviously I thought he was cool back in the day!
It's actually really nice to see someone who, (in my memory) was constantly scowling and angry, to have a n incredible human side. Worth its weight in neck garments
"Finding unopened beer cans in a bin...which has literally never happened." 🤣
That vocal style is timeless, thank you.
Mr. T was da man!
I loved that guy in the 80's.
A-team, rocky 3, wrestlemania 1 & 2.
Guy was practically my hero.
Watching this again just now with my husband. Him: "I used to drink juice out of his head".
Such was the eighties.
I quite possibly watched this video on rental circa 1985/86. Either this one or another Mr T one.
Despite the 1980s cheesiness there was some sage advice.
Loving the rapping. Eat your heart out Grandmaster Flash.
Some of the music sounds a little bit like Prince or maybe even a bit of Funkadelic.
I do think he genuinely cared for kids.
"all these trees are different but they all live together in harmony. Unless they get too close, and there's a battle for nutrients from the soil. Some plants die under the large canopies of the larger trees because the light can't get through to them, and there are even some plants that are parasitic upon others. So...I guess the lesson is that we can all live in harmony so long as we separate out into segregated groups and don't mix. Get them soil nutrients before the other do kids!"
He doesn't drink either, he's T-total.
Mr.T will always be a real one.
Sure his whole presentation is seriously dated and hilarious but he was always about doing the right thing, and he's grown to understand and play on the hilarity of his personae, but his overall message, and what he represents is timeless, and still essential.
Kids today seriously need a modern equivalent to him.
I don't need his pity. I pity myself.
That CV joke during the break dancing is just a spot on, top class gag. Stuart Millard you are a funny fella.
went down a bit of a rabbit hole after seeing the fantastic name 'Popsicle Delfin' pop up at 15:44. turns out she was one of the dancers in the video for Raspberry Beret, appeared at the Grammys with Donna Summer, and was something of an innovator in the breakdancing scene of the mid-80s. i was hoping to find some fun anecdote to come back with but unfortunately it seems she died in 2011 after a lengthy battle with cancer, so big RIP to Popsicle, gone but not forgotten
In a similar vein, are you aware of the Roddy Piper motivational video VHS? Fighting Fit, filmed and released in the UK - it's very odd. Also, while I'm here, I thought I'd mention one of the VHS horrors that has stuck with me since primary school in the early '90s; Carol Vorderman's Pop Music Times Tables, which is as painful as it sounds.
Fighting Fit will definitely make an appearance on here someday.
In I think 1995 Mr T was cast to be in the panto at the Palace Theatre in Manchester, the tickets sold very well. If I remember correctly he was playing a genie.
The government wouldn't give him a work permit on the grounds that he didn't have notable or extraordinary skill (not the correct words, but that was the meaning) and said the roll should be taken by a UK actor.
People bought tickets for a panto with Mr T in and ended up with Joe Pasquale, which isn't quite the same.
(hopefully I've remembered the details right, it was a while ago)
I think the actual reason was that he ain't getting on no airplane
Man i really shouldn’t have taken shrooms before watching this!
"when you put down one mother, you put down others all over the world".
The fourth formulation of the categorical imperative.
Jeff is just so freakin' cool, man
Mr T is living proof that not all black people have rhythm.
Have a few beers and smoke ciggies, It’s done me no harm and I’m 62. Indeed I’m off down to my local now to get power hammered with the gang, and on the way home i might even stuff a kebab down me’ grid.
Track 5 is a cover of Mr Lee by the Bobettes
Look up Robert Smigel's sendup of the Mr T cartoon, it's hilarious. It was on SNL in the early 2000s iirc.
"Dont Talk To Strangers" is the sexiest song of the lot. How could you listen to that and not be DTF.
But not with a stranger though! Listen to the message or Mr T’s work is wasted…..
"earnesty" - is that a word?
This must have been the inspo fit the whole “just say no” Grange Hill fiasco. Which they used to release an album which I bought at a school jumble a sale. There could be a vhs associated. Definitely needs analysing 👀😂
Not sure of the exact timelines but didn’t the kids that Just Say No was aimed at go on to found the acid house movement? Where they said Yes and not No!
Mr T inspirational tree hugger and kids saviour from model predators abusers! Amazin guy indeed. Before Phil & Grant from EE you had Mr T!
Sorry Stu I’m still laughing at my own “first name MISTER, last name TOILET” weeks later
And rightly so
Decent meme potential in that kid covering his absoludicrous pratfall.
Mr T cared a lot. Good on him.
Mr Tea 🫖
Suspect the writers of the song Mr Lee would be first in that having a word queue…
I once saw mr t being interviewed for rocky 3 on letterman. To get into character mr t took up boxing and took it so seriously as clubber lang as rockys foe in the movie that when mr t went on the letterman show he looked he was just in a mean mood and looked like he want to whup lettermans ass. You weren't sure if t knew he was on a comedy show
What do you do if your break dancing creates an absoludicrous situation, as with the case of Australia's Rachael Gunn at the Olympics?
Mr.T rocks!
Don't Talk to Strangers was a genuinely good song. Maybe too chill for a pedo awareness track mind.
Jeff hippest kid around
If only Whitney had listened to Bobby Browns advice on here.
I have that second Mr T LP. It's surprisingly a bit crap. I expected a bit more "punch" from it. Someone did a great website years ago where they mixed up the messages "Drink your drugs" "say not to your mom" etc.
Why was the nonce singing along, he's gone and incriminated himself. It's a schoolboy error, and you'd think he'd be wiser with that sort of thing.
Love the content, keep it coming
I'm three and a half minutes in and this is already brilliant : D
The only think Mr. T motivated me to do was not wear an excessive amount of jewellery around my neck. The message is good, I guess, albeit in a rather brusque manner that comes across as being borderline aggressive. All the singing bits from the kids are giving me, 'Pink Windmill', vibes. Obviously all from stage schools hoping their performances for this video may lead onto other things. With some having more success than others, it would appear. The statement, 'be somebody', is kind of nonsensical in the literal sense, as everybody _is_ somebody, regardless. But, we know what they mean.
It is very 80's, isn't it? Even as a teenager at the time, some of this was seriously cringe inducing. Trying to save face by pretending you're doing something you're not, when having an unfortunate accident, is great advice, I'm sure(!) Oh yes, there's plenty of breakdancing and, 'body popping', to be had in this video. Something that'll surely come in useful in later life as part of their life experiences. His use of the word, 'Mother', seems incomplete as you're kind of expecting the other word that because popular that went along with it, at the time. You know, the one beginning with, 'f?' I'm sure it's the aggressive sounding of, 'Mother', that does it.
PMSLOL😂😂😂
Mr T >>>>> Dr Jordan B Peterson. I pity the lobster who aint keep their desk tidy.
it just took his appearances on howard stern for mr t to forget all his self-help tips.