Referenced By / The A-Team

Fan Works

• Boldores And Boomsticks: Riley thinks to himself that he loves it when a plan comes together.

Films — Live-Action

• In Snatched (2017), Jeffrey asks Morgan if the State Department has something like the A-Team that can rescue Linda and Emily.

Literature

• In the 1980's pulp novels Soldiers Of Barrabas, the SOBS have to break out of a police cordon without harming anyone. "It's going to be like The A-Team. Lots of bullets fired but no one dies."

Live-Action Television

• The intro spiel is used as a Trust Password in the final episode of Bionic Woman.
• The Benny Hill Show did a parody called "The B-Team".
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: In the second season episode "Go Fish", Xander doesn't think the swim team is so hot, compared to other teams like the A-Team.
• The Goldbergs: In "Van People", Barry buys an old van because it looks like the one from The A-Team.
• In the I Love the 80s episode "1983", several panelists talk about their love of the show.
• One Mr. Bean episode has the title character sleeping underneath an A-Team blanket.
• Roseanne: In one episode, Roseanne says, "I love it when a plan comes together."
• "TopGear": often uses the theme music when they do any modification of their cars.
• "MythBusters: did an A-team special testing some of their innovations.
• "ThirtyRock: Cerie apparently hired the team to rescue her fiancee after he is kidnapped by Somali pirates.

Music

• The music video for John Cena's "Bad Bad Man" is an Affectionate Parody of the series, with Cena playing Hannibal.

Western Animation

• Family Guy:
  • "Fore Father": Peter receives a book, Me and Mr. T by George Peppard.
  • "Brian Goes Back to College": Peter and his friends enter a costume contest by dressing as the team: Peter as Hannibal, Quagmire as Faceman, Joe as Murdock, and Cleveland as Baracus. They win and proceed to stay in costume, doing a parody of the theme song and failing to help people (such as trying to get a cat out of a tree by shooting the tree and causing it to collapse on a house).
• The New Scooby-Doo and Scrappy-Doo Show: In "The Bee Team", Shaggy and Scooby are watching The Z-Team, featuring Mr. BLT.
• Robot Chicken:
  • One sketch had the team refusing to help an unattractive woman in favor of a more attractive woman, but they make the woman's life much worse, even making her cry after they "solve" her issue.
  • Another had an old bar owner, who was being threatened by thugs, call for protection from "The B-Team", a far less competent and stable minded quartet. Their incompetency leads them to asphyxiate themselves in a garage through monoxide poisoning and the old man ends up beaten to death by the thugs.
  • Another depicts B.A.'s dislike of flying through a flashback. He was all happy and eager to take his first flight. The pilot commended him for going all alone, moments before mentioning to the passengers that they discovered that all the in-flight meals had gone bad, and all the bathrooms were occupied. Cue everyone trying and failing to hold in their bowel movements, and one severely traumatized B.A.
• The Simpsons:
  • "Homer's Barbershop Quartet": in a flashback set during the run of the show, Homer attempted to write a song in honor of Mr. T, but Apu thought it was lousy.
  • "Homer the Father": Finnish intelligence agents driving around in a van proclaim themselves the A-Team of Finland.
• In the South Park episode "Ike's Wee Wee", Mr. Mackey is abducted by the A-Team.

Video Games

• Compilation of Final Fantasy VII: Main character Barret Wallace is an obvious Captain Ersatz of B.A. Baracus (and Mr. T in general).

Web Videos

• Zsdav Adventures: The A-Team theme is played in Zsdav adventures: A film (The Movie).