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Line 1: {{work}} __TOC__ ~~=== The Film ===~~ ~~== [[Fridge Brilliance]] ==~~ * {{spoiler\|The destruction of B.A.'s iconic van}} at the beginning of the film was sad, but it made it easier for the Team to remain inconspicuous. * Why did the military (it isn't clear whether it's the Air Force or the Army due to uniform fail) launch RQ-9s to shoot down the C-130? Because the plane they'd stolen carried a fully-loaded/armed light tank. Why not manned planes? Murdock broke the canopies of the fighters during takeoff. * Pike has several chances to kill Face and B.A., but he takes his time and gloats, missing each. This would seem to come into conflict with his disgust at the unprofessional manner in which {{spoiler\|Lynch's}} men go about trying to kill him...until you remember Hannibal once called him a 'cartoon character'- everything Pike does, he does it to satisfy his adrenaline rush, and as soon as he gets into a good firing position, he abandons all pretense of finesse and proceeds to unleash the heaviest firepower at his disposal (he is already going guns-blazing {{spoiler\|minutes after the A-Team snatched Morrison}} in Berlin, seemingly oblivious to the fact that he is doing so in the middle of a populated area or that he is about to surrounded by the police from all sides). Seems about right that he'd [[Evil Gloating\|suddenly start monologuing as soon as he had the hero in his gunsights.]] * Murdock's quote from ''[[Braveheart]]'' is an eerily apt description of the situation the Team eventually finds itself in. * How did Face sneak the cuffs key into the paddy wagon at the end of the movie? It probably wasn't just a tongue that Chris gave him moments before when they were making out. ** That was pretty much obvious ''since he has the key in his mouth''. ~~=== The Series ===~~ == [[Fridge Brilliance]] == * Why do the A-Team never hit anyone, despite being trained soldiers? ''Because they're deliberately missing''. They're already wanted for war crimes & breaking out of prison, adding several counts of murder to that wouldn't be a good idea. Line 24 ⟶ 15: ** There's a saying: The Irish make good priests and horse traders (the pre-internal combustion engine equivalent to used car salesmen). The two jobs have a lot of skill overlap. Charisma and persuasion being up there. No deviant priests necessary and rather unlikely. We hear about bad priests a lot because it makes for great scandal, but they're really the exception to the rule. === [[Fridge Logic]] === ~~== Film ==~~ * Technically, Face didn't actually escape. His {{spoiler\|tanning booth was [[Crowning Moment of Funny\|stolen]] by Hannibal}} with him locked inside it, so would he wind up with the same type of punishment as the rest of the guys? ** He didn't go back, so yes, yes he will. * Hannibal dyes his hair from white to dark brown in order to get through the airport. In the next scene, it's back to white again. So he actually took the time to dye it back? It's possible he used temporary, one-wash dye that would wash out when he took a shower, but that still makes one wonder when he found time to take a shower. Him dying his hair and wearing different clothes was enough to fool airport security that he was not Hannibal. Maybe he un-dyed his hair in case Lynch got fooled, too, and wondered what the heck Liam Neeson was doing there. * When {{spoiler\|Hannibal}} fakes his death, why did they send him to the crematorium with his clothes on? (Aside from the fact that it would have been hard to keep that from kicking the rating up a notch otherwise, anyway.) ~~== Series ==~~ * Usually the show can handwave the odd lack of help from the authorities for any given week's client with a quick line of dialog establishing them as being bought off or something, but sometimes they forget. For example, in "The Taxicab Wars," Michael Ironside's ''evil'' cab company is actively sabotaging, vandalizing, and threatening Ernie Hudson's cab company, including ''blowing up their cabs''. This happens due to Ironside's company retaliating for...Hudson's company reporting him to the taxicab commission for drug dealing and rigging rates. The episode never addresses why Hudson cannot A) report them ''again'' or B) just call the police, thus making the A-Team's involvement rather strange. ** "Steel" similarly featured no involvement from the authorities even though the week's villain was a construction contractor who was actually blowing up a public construction site and actively threatening a rival company from working the city's job. Presumably the city would just get the guy ''arrested'' to avoid losing any more money to him. {{worksubpagefooter}} ~~{{reflist}}~~ ~~[[Category~~{{DEFAULTSORT:~~The~~ A-Team]], The}} ~~[[Category:Fridge]]~~