Hogan as the 5th member of The A-Team?

[fortknox]

Here's an old one

m.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/news/why-hulk-hogan-turned-down-role-5th-team-member/2940606/

Why Hulk Hogan turned down role as 5th A-Team member
23rd Feb 2016 7:00 PM

HULK Hogan rejected the chance to star in 'The A-Team' "full time" because he felt like a referee between the show's stars Mr. T and George Peppard.

The professional wrestler appeared as himself in episodes 'Body Slam' and 'The Trouble With Harry' in the 1980s action-adventure TV series, but turned down an opportunity to extend his role because it was "no fun" being a mediator between the two stars, who infamously didn't get along.

In response to a fan who asked Hulk whether he had been approached to become the fifth member of 'The A-Team', he wrote on Twitter: "they wanted me full time for 2 more seasons but HULKAMANIAC was red hot,and I felt like the ref between T and George,no fun,crazyHH (sic)"

Mr. T, 63, played bling-loving tough guy B. A. Baracus in the series opposite the late George - who passed away in 1994 aged 65 - as cigar smoking Colonel John 'Hannibal' Smith, the leader of the renegade commandos.

But the pair didn't always get on and George once branded Mr. T - whose real name is Lawrence Tureaud - an "unprofessional loudmouth" and even blamed him for the demise of the programme, which told the story of four Vietnam war veterans who helped the innocent while on the run from the military after being jailed for a crime they didn't commit.

Hulk - who frequently referred to his fans as "Hulkamaniacs" - appeared in 'The A-Team' in 1985 and 1986 but they weren't his only appearances on the small screen.

The 62-year-old star featured in a 'Baywatch' episode called 'Bash at the Beach' - the same name as a former annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

He also starred as himself on the big screen in 'Gremlins 2: The New Batch' in 1990, sci-fi comedy 'Muppets from Space' in 1999 and more recently he voiced an animated version of himself for a cameo in TV series 'American Dad!'.

Boy there's so much wrong with that. First, it's one of Hogan's bullshit lies. Second, at the time the ratings for the show were great so they didn't need him. Third, I'm very sure the showrunners knew it wouldn't be possibly with Hulk working 400 dates a year, not to mention talk shows and what have you. Fourth, with the problems George Peppard had with someone like Mr. T you really think he was going to let them bring on someone like Hulk? He would pull every power play, threaten to walk, whatever to stop that from happening.

Last, but, not least there is no way the showrunners would add a 5th guy to the team that would change the dynamic of the team and the premise of the show.....



...oh right...well my other points still stand

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

I swear if you set him up for it, Hogan will claim he was supposed to go to the moon.

[SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts]

I'm sure Bischoff will confirm this true and they went through Bischoff-Hervey Productions...

[The Thread Barbi]

Remember the time Michael Jackson asked Hulk Hogan's advice on buying the Beatles back catalogue?

[SmashTV]

Jul 6, 2018 10:42:58 GMT -5 fortknox said:

Here's an old one

m.frasercoastchronicle.com.au/news/why-hulk-hogan-turned-down-role-5th-team-member/2940606/

Why Hulk Hogan turned down role as 5th A-Team member
23rd Feb 2016 7:00 PM

HULK Hogan rejected the chance to star in 'The A-Team' "full time" because he felt like a referee between the show's stars Mr. T and George Peppard.

The professional wrestler appeared as himself in episodes 'Body Slam' and 'The Trouble With Harry' in the 1980s action-adventure TV series, but turned down an opportunity to extend his role because it was "no fun" being a mediator between the two stars, who infamously didn't get along.

In response to a fan who asked Hulk whether he had been approached to become the fifth member of 'The A-Team', he wrote on Twitter: "they wanted me full time for 2 more seasons but HULKAMANIAC was red hot,and I felt like the ref between T and George,no fun,crazyHH (sic)"

Mr. T, 63, played bling-loving tough guy B. A. Baracus in the series opposite the late George - who passed away in 1994 aged 65 - as cigar smoking Colonel John 'Hannibal' Smith, the leader of the renegade commandos.

But the pair didn't always get on and George once branded Mr. T - whose real name is Lawrence Tureaud - an "unprofessional loudmouth" and even blamed him for the demise of the programme, which told the story of four Vietnam war veterans who helped the innocent while on the run from the military after being jailed for a crime they didn't commit.

Hulk - who frequently referred to his fans as "Hulkamaniacs" - appeared in 'The A-Team' in 1985 and 1986 but they weren't his only appearances on the small screen.

The 62-year-old star featured in a 'Baywatch' episode called 'Bash at the Beach' - the same name as a former annual professional wrestling pay-per-view event produced by World Championship Wrestling (WCW).

He also starred as himself on the big screen in 'Gremlins 2: The New Batch' in 1990, sci-fi comedy 'Muppets from Space' in 1999 and more recently he voiced an animated version of himself for a cameo in TV series 'American Dad!'.

Boy there's so much wrong with that. First, it's one of Hogan's bullshit lies. Second, at the time the ratings for the show were great so they didn't need him. Third, I'm very sure the showrunners knew it wouldn't be possibly with Hulk working 400 dates a year, not to mention talk shows and what have you. Fourth, with the problems George Peppard had with someone like Mr. T you really think he was going to let them bring on someone like Hulk? He would pull every power play, threaten to walk, whatever to stop that from happening.

Last, but, not least there is no way the showrunners would add a 5th guy to the team that would change the dynamic of the team and the premise of the show.....



...oh right...well my other points still stand

I've no recollection of Robert Vaughan and....the other guy, but they both look so out of place.

Hogan would have looked even more out of place; he would have been extra unnecessary muscle to Mr T's already impressive muscle.

[Joe Neglia]

I have it on good authority that after his SNL gig, Lorne Michaels offered Hogan a spot as a Not-Ready-For-Prime-Time-Player right there and then.

And Dolly Parton flashed him when he guest starred on her short-lived variety show.

And Hasbro offered a spot on GI Joe to him but he felt sorry for Slaughter and let him take the gig.

Oh, and the entire female cast of Baywatch? Yeah. All of 'em.

[MrElijah]

Oh Insane Racist Grandpa Terry. Why you so Insane?

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Was this before or after he was supposed to join Metallica? Or when he partied with a dead John Belushi?

[DSR]

Jul 6, 2018 17:46:38 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Was this before or after he was supposed to join Metallica? Or when he partied with a dead John Belushi?

It was after he put an onion on his belt, which was the style at the time.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

I don't get why he lies so much even by wrestling's standards.

[dav]

Jul 6, 2018 18:10:18 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

I don't get why he lies so much even by wrestling's standards.

Probably something like he was actually asked to do some more episodes, but it grew much more in the telling. Not sure about the arguments on set though, anyone have word on that?

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Jul 6, 2018 18:15:56 GMT -5 dav said:

Jul 6, 2018 18:10:18 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

I don't get why he lies so much even by wrestling's standards.

Probably something like he was actually asked to do some more episodes, but it grew much more in the telling. Not sure about the arguments on set though, anyone have word on that?

Well George Peppard and Mr T apparently hated each other but I thought that was public knowledge.

[Rumble McSkirmish]

Well there was actually was plans for a fifth member of the team in season five, but it wasn't Hogan it was going to be Tia Carrere of Wayne's World, General Hospital fame.

They actually introduced her character in the season four finale as the daughter of the primary antagonist of that season: Gen. Fullbright (played by Jack Ging) for whom the Team had to return to Vietnam to bring her back to the States. She was going to fill the action girl role and bring in new and younger viewers, but her commitments to General Hospital prevented that and so the producers went with Plan B turning the series into Suicide Squad.

[Joe Neglia]

Jul 6, 2018 18:10:18 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

I don't get why he lies so much even by wrestling's standards.

Remember his infamous testimony about Hulk's penis size vs. Terry's? This is pretty much the same. Hulk Hogan is a completely fictional character with his own fictional history, written by hundreds over decades. He just decided to write some parts into it as well, he just never bothered acting them out first.

[fortknox]

Jul 6, 2018 18:24:10 GMT -5 Rumble McSkirmish said:

Well there was actually was plans for a fifth member of the team in season five, but it wasn't Hogan it was going to be Tia Carrere of Wayne's World, General Hospital fame.

They actually introduced her character in the season four finale as the daughter of the primary antagonist of that season: Gen. Fullbright (played by Jack Ging) for whom the Team had to return to Vietnam to bring her back to the States. She was going to fill the action girl role and bring in new and younger viewers, but her commitments to General Hospital prevented that and so the producers went with Plan B turning the series into Suicide Squad.

Yeah I would have loved having Tia on the team instead of what we got.

[OVO 40 hunched over like he 80]

Jul 6, 2018 18:41:10 GMT -5 Joe Neglia said:

Jul 6, 2018 18:10:18 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

I don't get why he lies so much even by wrestling's standards.

Remember his infamous testimony about Hulk's penis size vs. Terry's? This is pretty much the same. Hulk Hogan is a completely fictional character with his own fictional history, written by hundreds over decades. He just decided to write some parts into it as well, he just never bothered acting them out first.

He should use that and explain that he's not racist that he was just lying.

[fortknox]

Jul 6, 2018 18:19:45 GMT -5 OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 said:

Jul 6, 2018 18:15:56 GMT -5 dav said:

Probably something like he was actually asked to do some more episodes, but it grew much more in the telling. Not sure about the arguments on set though, anyone have word on that?

Well George Peppard and Mr T apparently hated each other but I thought that was public knowledge.

Hell that was one of the reasons that producers hired Peppard's friend, Robert Vaughn to try and smooth things over. It didn't work and the show was cancelled. T and Peppard eventually buried the hatchet before Peppard's death.

On that note Vaughn didn't much care for T.

disasteryear20xx.blogspot.com/2010/01/huh-robert-vaughn-on-mr-t.html?m=1

"The strangest thing about The A-Team was Mr T. He was, as far as I'm concerned, a bona fide, credentialled psychotic. He had no benevolence. He drove a fire engine-red Rolls-Royce Corniche convertible. He'd start talking when he got into makeup at 7 o'clock in the morning and he'd still be talking at 7 o'clock at night when he got back into his Corniche. And nobody paid any attention to him at all. He was a very, very strange man."

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

Jul 6, 2018 12:52:12 GMT -5 TWERKIN' MAGGLE said:

I swear if you set him up for it, Hogan will claim he was supposed to go to the moon.

It was the middle of the Cold War, jack. Vince had this crazy promotional idea to work with NASA to scare the commies, dude. He was even willing to put his own money on the line, jack, to send some American icons to the moon, brutha. And you know, who’s more American than the Hulkster, jack? So NASA was going to send up me, Mike Jordan, Michael Tyson, Billy Joel, and the guy who played JR on Dynasty, dude. Of course Vince would have to put up $100 million for this, but I told him, “Brutha, we’re selling out every night! Why would we want to spend money when we can make a lot more just staying on Earth, dude?” And that’s why the Hulkster never went to Mars, jack.

[edgestar]

HULKAMANIAC was red hot, is making me laugh, wayyyyy too hard.....

[jimmyjames]

Jul 6, 2018 18:24:10 GMT -5 Rumble McSkirmish said:

Well there was actually was plans for a fifth member of the team in season five, but it wasn't Hogan it was going to be Tia Carrere of Wayne's World, General Hospital fame.

They actually introduced her character in the season four finale as the daughter of the primary antagonist of that season: Gen. Fullbright (played by Jack Ging) for whom the Team had to return to Vietnam to bring her back to the States. She was going to fill the action girl role and bring in new and younger viewers, but her commitments to General Hospital prevented that and so the producers went with Plan B turning the series into Suicide Squad.

I read that Peppard in particular wasn't keen on having here on, and the others thought it would ruin the chemistry of the show. Still would've better than season 5. God that ws bad.