History YMMV / TheATeam

* ClicheStorm: Which is part of the [[JustForPun pun]]... ah fun.

** Tawnia Baker. While Amy did have some popularity, Tawnia was nothing but a boat anchor getting shoehorned into every situation and desperately wanting to be on the team for no reason. Despite the CharacterShilling she got, the actors themselves clearly don't want anything to do with her.Marla Heasley, the actress, later explained that from the first day she showed up on set, she was treated with hostility by George Peppard just for being a woman on what the cast felt should be an all-male ensemble. Melinda Culea, who played Amy, told a similar story of her own departure being essentially forced on her for daring to ask for something more to do and Peppard pushing heavily for her to be ejected. Both characters existed entirely because the network was concerned about airing a show with so many male main characters and ''zero'' women. Eventually, Peppard won out, but one last attempt was made at the end of season 4 to integrate Tia Carrere's character of "Tia" into the show, but Carrere dropped out due to her obligations to ''Series/GeneralHospital'' instead.

* ReplacementScrappy: Tawnia is this to Amy. Amy at least had some fans; Tawnia was just shoved in because the networks wanted a female character and wasn't all that capable when the team was in the field.

** Tawnia Baker. While Amy did have some popularity, Tawnia was nothing but a boat anchor getting shoehorned into every situation and desperately wanting to be on the team for no reason. Despite the CharacterShilling she got, the actors themselves clearly don't want anything to do with her.[[note]]Marla Heasley, the actress, later explained that from the first day she showed up on set, she was treated with hostility by George Peppard just for being a woman on what the cast felt should be an all-male ensemble. Melinda Culea, who played Amy, told a similar story of her own departure being essentially forced on her for daring to ask for something more to do and Peppard pushing heavily for her to be ejected. Both character existed entirely because the network was concerned about airing a show with so many male main characters and ''zero'' women. Eventually, Peppard won out, but one last attempt was made at the end of season 4 to integrate Tia Carrere's character of "Tia" into the show, but Carrere dropped out due to her obligations to ''Series/GeneralHospital'' instead.[[/note]]

** Season 5 had this, with the A-Team being caught and forced to work for the government (and most closely with Creator/RobertVaughn), and then with the addition of [[TheScrappy Frankie Santana]], an annoying mechanic who added nothing but minimized B. A.'s role. Even the opening theme got messed with--they did away with the opening monologue altogether and changed the theme's sound from orchestral/electric guitars to an almost entirely synthesized remix. This unfortunately led to the series's cancellation.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: [[SeriesContinuityError Mo/Maggie]] Sullivan, the doctor from "[[Recap/TheATeamS1E6BlackDayAtBadRock Black Day at Bad Rock]]", won over a devoted section of the fanbase. She's more active and assertive than the female characters often were, and seems even to have impressed Hannibal, given that he asked Tawnia to call her in during a medical emergency. Some portion of the fanbase also enjoys the chemistry between the two of them. Unfortunately, she was only in two episodes out of the entire series.

** "[[Recap/TheATeamS2E4BadTimeOnTheBorder Bad Time on the Border]]": Prince and [[DirtyCop Border Patrol Lt. Jack Taggart]] run an illegal [[HumanTraffickers human smuggling]] operation. Helping desperate Mexican immigrants cross the border, Taggart robs them afterwards and keeps them in captivity. The two sell their captives as slave labor to numerous border town sweatshops, with Taggart even willing to let sick Mexicans die of illness to make more money.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The PeriodUpdate of the "crime The A-Team did not commit" takes place in the final U.S. withdrawal from Iraq, which at the time of the film's release was TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture and happened for real between 2020 and 2021.

* AcceptableEthnicTargets: PlayedWith and nearly invoked, as the BigBad is apparently an Arabian business man (shemagh and huge-ass beard)... only to be neatly subverted when it is revealed that the [[spoiler:"Arab" behind everything is actually General Morrison in disguise]].
* [[Awesome/TheATeam Crowning Moment of Awesome]]
* [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments Crowning Moment of Funny]]: Found [[{{Funny/Film}} here]].
* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Music/AlanSilvestri nails it on several occasions, especially [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJltfRvIsKo "Flying A Tank."]] His arrangement of the Mike Post and Pete Carpenter [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMKD4Po3h7I theme]] at the end is also top. [[Film/TheDeltaForce He does of course have previous experience with a group of]] BigDamnHeroes.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The "crime the A-Team did not commit" takes place during the U.S. Military's pulling out of Iraq. To make a long story short, when the film was made in 2010 the writers would not have expected the pulling out (done in 2021) would look rather eerily like the American evacuation of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: The "crime the A-Team did not commit" takes place during the U.S. Military's pulling out of Iraq. To make a long story short, when the film was made in 2010 the writers would not have expected the pulling out (done in 2021) would look rather eerily like the last days of UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar (or at least the U.S.' involvement in it).

** And most of the other celebrity appearances for that matter, with the worst probably being the infamous "[[Recap/TheATeamS4E16CowboyGeorge Cowboy George]]", which culminates with [[GrumpyBear B.A.]], of all people, grinning like a loon while bopping away to Music/CultureClub's musical performance. Because nothing speaks to battle-hardened war veterans like the music of a camp, cross-dressing, British pop star. And that is nothing compared to the public Culture Club ends up playing for: a bar full of rough and tumble redneck cowboys who think nothing of lynching the team when they believe they have stolen their paychecks, and were originally promised a performance by country singer Cowboy George. And they end up LOVING Boy George's music.

** "Bad Time on the Border": Prince and [[DirtyCop Border Patrol Lt. Jack Taggart]] run an illegal [[HumanTraffickers human smuggling]] operation. Helping desperate Mexican immigrants cross the border, Taggart robs them afterwards and keeps them in captivity. The two sell their captives as slave labor to numerous border town sweatshops, with Taggart even willing to let sick Mexicans die of illness to make more money.
** "The A-Team Is Coming, The A-Team Is Coming": [[RogueSoldier Colonel Ivan "The Terrible" Padovich]] is a [[RenegadeRussian rogue Russian soldier]] who even the Soviet Union despises. Having gotten his nickname during his time in [[UsefulNotes/TheVietnamWar Vietnam]] by [[SociopathicSoldier slaughtering several villages]], Ivan hides in Los Angeles with plans to gain control of the Braxus satellite, which he'll use to blow up several Russian missiles and commence WorldWarIII. Willing to kill his own men should they go against his orders, Ivan leads a raid against the military base guarding the satellite controls, killing plenty of soldiers in the process.
** "The Crystal Skull": [[SiblingsInCrime Brothers Marino and Francisco]] are a pair of [[BadHabits mercenaries disguised as monks]] assigned to acquire an island's diamonds. Taking over the Toga Toga tribe by threatening their leader with death, Marino and Francisco have tribesmen from the rival Toga tribe kidnapped and [[SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil enslaved]], forcing them to work in the diamond mine under harsh conditions, even having them frequently [[ATasteOfTheLash whipped as punishment]].

* FunnyAneurysmMoment: A joke by Murdock in "[[Recap/TheATeamS2E10WaterWaterEverywhere Water, Water Everywhere]]" where he brags about his matchmaking capabilities references his success with Princess Diana and Prince Charles, at the time recently married.

* WorthyOpponent: Much how the team and Col. Decker view each other.

* HoYay: These days, you could look back and spot quite a bit of it, especially between Hannibal and Face, Face and Murdock, and Murdock and B. A. (which might border on FoeYay at times).

* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotForKids: For all its cartoony violence, the film was pitched at a family audience. The same cannot be said of the big-screen remake which was PG-13 rated and full of people actually getting killed.