OMG. I hate to admit it, but I’m going to have to go see this.

I was not allowed to watch TV as a kid. Until sometime in middle school, at which point our standards were so underdeveloped that pretty much anything was good TV. The option of turning off a show because it sucked was totally inconceivable (back then there were only three channels anyway. You pretty much stuck with whatever the TV was tuned to). The A-Team was a favorite. Dad insisted on calling it the A-Squad, and up in Alaska we would sometimes pretend to be the A-Team during some particularly grueling fishing-related task. I think my sister was always Hannibal, because she was the problem-solver. I guess Dad was Mr. T. Or maybe my brother was. I think by process of elimination I was probably Murdock, the guy who gets to be comic relief, instead of being useful. More the not-being-useful part than the comic-relief part, though.

Though, after seeing that trailer, I probably DON’T have to see the movie. I think I pretty much know what happens already. And wow, they’ve sure upped the guns, tanks and celebratory fist-pumping quotient.

But the sheer nostalgia of hearing the theme song…!

Now they just have to come out with a Family Ties movie (oh Alex P. Keaton!). And a Knight Rider movie. (But really, Knight Rider without David Hasselhoff is not really Knight Rider at all). And a Magnum P.I. movie (who’s man enough for the mustache?). And a Wonder Years movie (oh Winnie Cooper! Will you ever kiss Kevin?). And a Head of the Class movie (Hurley could totally play Dennis Blunden). The list goes on and on…