Hello Sluggo:

I about shit myself when I saw this TV ad for Snickers starring Mr. T! This spot apparently runs in the UK and Australia… We probably won’t be seeing it here in the US anytime soon.

I thought it would have been better with the A Team theme music, so I “remixed” it and added a little Dave Chapelle sound byte to give Mr. T’s delivery a little more “oomph.” Hope you all like it. Mars’ sales of the Snickers brand will now undoubtedly grow by leaps and bounds.

I wish I could have seen more episodes of Travel Sick, the UK television program which sent its hapless host, Grub Smith, to locations across the globe to complete a series of “undesirable challenges.” Alas, Comedy Central apparently didn’t think its viewers enjoyed seeing Grub cleaning a shit-covered Korean squat toilet with a toothbrush, fuck a watermelon in the desert or tattoo the ass of a New Guinea tribeswoman. Me? I loved it. American television should sit back and learn a few things from Mr. Smith. Maybe then we could rid the airwaves of skank like Nancy Grace.

The closest thing we have on TV here to even rival the genius of Travel Sick is Tony Bourdain and Andrew Zimmern, both of whom should make the trip over the Atlantic and buy Grub a pint of his favorite for paving the way to their collective success. I doubt either of them would have the cajones to pull off the shit in the following clip…

For those of us who grew up in the 1970’s, Charles Nelson Reilly and Nipsey Russell were very familiar faces on television, especially to those of us who skipped school and stayed home to catch Matchgame and To Tell The Truth in the afternoon… I apparently hadn’t thought much of them in recent years, as I didn’t know they are both dead.

You would think I would have payed enough attention to have heard that Nipsey Russell had gone to meet his maker, as we have a rubber chew toy named after him… I guess I had more important things going on around that time in 2005. Hrmph.