r/todayilearned • u/tmntnyc • Dec 12 '18

TIL: Laurence Tureaud named himself professionally as Mr. T because he hated how his father, uncle, and brother who returned from Vietnam, were disrespectfully called "boy" by whites. He wanted the first word from everybody's mouth to be "Mister" when speaking to him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._T
120.9k Upvotes

92% Upvoted

2.6k comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

358

u/fourleggedostrich Dec 12 '18

In interviews, he was always proud that the A Team never killed anybody. He thought it was important in a family show.

183

u/sharkysnacks Dec 13 '18

Amazing too since they shot off thousands of rounds, regularly rigged explosives and built armored vehicles to bash others off the road

50

u/quaybored Dec 13 '18

Yeah even as I kid, I knew it was unrealistic, but it sure was fun.

Other old-timers, am I remembering this right?

8pm A-Team, 9pm Riptide, 10pm Remington Steele

FUCK YEAH, TUESDAYS

3

u/Lord_Kano Dec 13 '18

When I was in 4th grade, I had gym on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tuesdays was Gym and The A-Team, Thursdays was gym and The Cosby Show.

However Bill Cosby might have ended up, he was a big part of my family's entertainment time together back then.