If we had the chance to meet Mr T, we’d literally collapse in excitement and piss ourselves until our bladder was dry. However, after watching his latest commercial, we’d really just want to know where it all went wrong.
We all know and love Mr T as B.A Baracus from The A-Team, where every week he’d literally go ape-shit on all the evil-doers and make sure they’d never trouble the orphanage, little Jimmy or your mum ever again. He’s such a hard bloke that we’d never dream of even challenging him to a game of paper, stones and scissors. Probably because he wouldn’t use any of those three tools. He’d just use the fourth weapon of pain to kick our arse.
But now it all seems to have gone tits up for him. From the slightly amusing Snickers advert where he lobs a piece of chocolate at some girly footballer in a tank, he is now promoting nerd favourite World Of Warcraft. In this game, you get all sorts of magic shields, elves, swords and budgies to probably destroy some sort of warlord.
Back when he was popular, Mr T would probably beat up people for playing this sort of game. Obviously, money is low and he needs the cash to get that Mohawk looking pristine and he needs enough wax and industrial strength polish to get his chavtastic jewellery so sparkly that it will blind mere mortals whenever the sun's rays reflect off it.
Stabby McGee says
Granted, it’s a bad advert – the script is a bit poo – but as a marketing ploy, it’s genius. The only thing they could have done to improve the effect is get Chuck Norris to do one (which they probably will in the near future).
The fact is, if you knew about WoW and had no intention of playing it, this advert is unlikely to change your mind. It’s still doing something a bit different than the usual bollocks on TV and, of course, it has people talking about it. I’m sure neither Mr T nor WoW will bemoan the extra publicity they get from people praising OR slagging it off.
Stabby McGee says
…also, I found the one with William Shatner quite funny. As knobbish as he may be, Shatner is pretty good at sending himself up.
Miss Merry says
The ad is funny if you play WoW and you actually know who Mr. T is (sadly?, I do both). The last thing we need is more 12 year old boys in the game spamming Chuck Norris nonsense (bad Stabby for even suggesting such a thing!)
David Schwartz says
Chuck Norris would be sensational.
Stabby McGee says
I wasn’t suggesting it SHOULD happen, more that it WOULD happen, knowing the strength of Chuck-love among net geeks and the mostly cameo-based career of Mr Norris himself these days :)
Carloselfunk says
I heard somewhere that Mr T the bad ass mother fucker is frightened of trees, I don’t know if it’s all wood products but most definitely trees, perhaps, unless that was a bizarre dream. No definitely big girly scared of trees.
I also agree that Chuck would be great at anything that involves fighting, kicking vigilantes and flogging machines that make you a kung fu ninja on the shopping channels but are we not forgetting the guy from “Remo – Unarmed and Dangerous” the man can dodge bullets and run across water surely no one would be a match for him.