3:10 I mean, there's a Christmas special on Disney+ where Drax the Destroyer and Mantis kidnap (and brainwash into not freaking out) Kevin Bacon who teaches them how to properly do Christmas. Also it's revealed that Gobots are canon to the MCU (even though Gobots were folded into Transformers, which Paramount holds the movie rights to) and Drax's cousin was killed by one.
I like to imagine they didn't include Ed Koch as a guest star because they didn't invite him. He just showed up halfway through filming to ask how he was doing. Which was apparently his catch phrase during his run? I admittedly only know that from pop culture osmosis, like the gag on The Critic. And let's face it, he's still doing better than Guiliani.
Weirdly enough, long after the end of his political career, Koch started an online weekly movie review show in 2009 called "Mayor at the Movies." Now I'm imagining an alternate timeline where one of the most famous mayors of New York City signed on with Channel Awesome.
This was a really fun change of pace! Loved that the review was of the entire broadcast with commercials, as it made for a lot of great jokes and VERY 80's riffing material. (Reminded me a bit of Rifftrax's take on the SW Holiday Special.) Definitely one of my new favorite AT4W Christmas episodes.
i didnt expect it but this may be my new favorite video of yours your scrooge riff was once in that top spot guess you cant have a good christmas without linkara 😊😊
This episode was genuinely really entertaining and rewatchable! I've put this one on several times already for when I need something to chill and chuckle. Seriously, I'd watch a channel dedicated to reviewing old variety shows and specials (commercials included). 😊 Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! 🥰
To all the staff and stars that make these shows possible, both the ones reviewed and the review show itself, I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas.
That Coke reference: a lot of people don't know that New Coke was based on the Diet Coke formula. Coke Zero is supposed to taste more like Coke Classic.
It's like when there was the A Team and the Mr. T cartoon at the same time, where the show had misunderstood criminal vigilante hoods blasting criminals, but the cartoon had messages about being nice to people. Ha.
'There's one thing that you don't know about that baby... That baby was me!' Coming soon, Mr T-esus! This was fun. I always enjoy a peek into the culture and entertainment of years gone by.
"TV used to be really friggin weird!" Truth. At least we're fortunate enough to see so much of this history right here on TH-cam. I do at least appreciate that you're as informative as well-spoken as @poparena and his Nick Knacks series.
That He-Man commercial reminded me that there is a Masters of the Universe-style figure of Mr. T as part of the Masters of the WWE Universe line, which is essentially WWE wrestlers, old and new, as MOTU characters. I think this makes sense because wrestling is both awesome and ridiculous, just like Masters of the Universe. Examples include: - The New Day combined with Man-E-Faces - Macho Man as Man At Arms - Triple H wearing armor that makes him resemble Shao Kahn from Mortal Kombat, complete with giant hammer. - The Ultimate Warrior
I don't know why but the hard cut to the Ninja Style Dancer half passed out on the floor and holding up a card that reads 'Too much McDonald's' really got a launch out of me.
Merry Christmas Linkara! Hope you have a great one! And thank you for putting this out at 10pm my time just in time for me to find it an hour or so later when I couldn't sleep. Thank you for putting so much love and care and spite and fun into your videos. Thank you for my first year I've gotten to spend with your content and the month I spent binge watching every episode I could. Thank you for being you here's to a merry Christmas and a happy new year. P.S. I have no clue why but it took me like five tries to spell your name right.
21:29 What about the conflict between Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb? No wait, that's just one soda with good and evil sides like The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckll and Mr. Hyde.
19:30 The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers is a fixture of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular to this day, including the finale with the cannon and falling soldiers.
Ok if I ever get a Patreon Review slot, I'm paying you to look at that Webster/Star Trek episode, because that is such a weird concept it has to be covered! Also Happy Holidays Lewis! Hope you and Viga have a great Christmas!
It was surreal, but not the weirdest. They used to do specials where the saturday morning cartoon lineup was introduced by a sitcom star. But sometimes there was some sort of story line. One year, Joyce DeWitt (Janet on Three's Company) was trapped in the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon. I guess it was effective if I remember it all these years later.
My one for Patreon Review would be Parasyte the Maxim, because I definitely want to see Linkara's response to John Carpenter's The Thing, but Seinen anime. The cultural lens that one would be going through would be fun as heck.
i love that you kept the commercials in - it's always such a neat time capsul the Rockette's Toy Soldiers routine is all about precision - it's a very technical piece the fall they do after Billy shoots them is an amazing feat of strength and coordination
i'm looking forward to the year 2045 where in order to keep The old Ones from breaching into our world linkara has to make a quintonreviews-esque 6 hour video essay on the history of Mr. T's wolrd of warcraft commercials.
10:39 I still remember walking into the comic book shop I used to frequent B.C. (Before COVID) around Christmas, the owner had He-Man on the TV above the counter, and I heard the 3 funniest words in the English language: "Merry Christmas, Skeletor!" Me, my best friend, and everyone else in the store howled with laughter.
7:53: I'm still waiting for the my hero academia Christmas special where Santa used his Christmas magic to temporarily give All-Might his powers back so he can team up with Class 1-A to do battle with a demonic Krampus, why isn't this a thing??????
7:54 I really don't mean to make fun of someone especially since he's just a kid in this special but that is seriously what his singing voice sounds like XD "dies a little inside" 11:04 Wow that's really cool that your copy has the commercials so you can talk about them too :) 14:17 I would agree with that statement if talking about the the USA version of that restaurant as I remember one time eating breakfast at an airport with my family not liking the breakfast sandwich there but nowadays on the rare times I go to Carl's Jr in my home city in Canada I seem to be quite fond of the food there but the milkshakes are a bit too sweet on my stomach and have a interesting kinda of taste would make you kinda sick as if you ate too many sweets. 16:32 Oh god as if we don't have enough dummies running around in this special XD We got Mr T dummy :P 19:02 That wall art of the old dude walking with his stick is very majestic 21:38 Why would you name your pop drink "Slice" you know....what Freddy or other horror characters do to your body when they cut you XD 23:53 Lewis speaking the harsh truth there XD 24:19 Oh god not another McDonalds dancing commercial :P 24:59 We just learning new things about all of the AT4W the forth wall characters lately :D 29:58 I'll be looking forward to that list when I get back in the morning on Dec 26th from my family Christmas vacation visit :D so Merry Christmas to you Lewis and Viga and same to everyone else or holidays to who ever celebrates a different holiday. :D
Mr. T has returned! Also, Thank you for this... I really hope more to come like the Retrospective on the Question, or a review of Himitsu Sentai Gorenger(The Manga or first 5 episodes)!
7:33 Wait... That sounds like an _amazing_ idea (and that's coming from someone who hasn't watched either Knight Rider or anything Mr. T related (aside from the WoW commercials where he plays as a Night Elf -Warrior- Mowhak. Also apparently one of Mr. T's superpowers is being a WoW class that doesn't exist)), why the f*ck didn't they do that?!
Speaking of Star Trek: The Next Generation, did you see the episode of Reading Rainbow where Lavar Burton talked about making of Star Trek in between stories?
Oh, that was tinsel in her hand. I saw the silver whip pats the edge of the frame and thought for a moment she was literally manipulating the static of the VHS recording, and I was not prepared for a Maureen McGovern analog horror experience~
I grew up with variety shows in the Seventies. I still have a pretty soft spot in my heart for them. The ones with John Denver and the Muppets I still watch every year. I've not seen this one before. Glad that you shared it.
Specials? I remember watching Donny and Marie, Rich Little, Sonny and Cher, and Carol Burnett every single week when I was growing up. Oh, and you ask about where, on a streaming service, you'd find (that)... Disney+ I mean, isn't that pretty much the plot of the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special? I love that you called Maureen McGovern a Broadway Star. This is back when she still wasn't too far from being a top 40 performer - like The Morning After from the Poseidon Adventure.
While I love a good old Mr T yelling & bashing up crooks, I do like his Mr. Rodgers side. There is a lot of good stuff to say about that part of him. That said A Mr T crossover with Knight Rider would be a fun Xmas special to see. Merry Christmas AT4W!
Muppet Family Christmas, and John Denver and the Muppets are two of my favorite Christmas specials. That, with Muppet Christmas Carol, I swear they do the best stuff for the holiday.
Oh man The Carpenters Space Encounters! I caught someone streaming that recently, and man was it out there. I never got to see this particular special, but always loved me some T. I even had the Mr. T figure/doll with the weird soft vinyl head when I was a kid. Also, a T / Knightrider special could have been so good too.
Muppet Family Christmas was excellent, but every year on Christmas Eve I watch Blackadder Christmas Carol. I watch it several other times over the course of the season too.
"I don't want to lose this one."
He says it like he has seen countless children die from lack of Christmas spirit.
Those Christmas Carol ghosts got real bloodthirsty after they didn’t manage to get Scrooge.
I presume Christmas-spirit-less children go Hollow like in Dark Souls and become eternal zombies.
@@michaelramon2411 Or Bleach style Hollows and devour the souls of the living. XD
@LupineShadowOmega Yes!!! Waco Mundo ftw.
Mr T probably made bets in the past that he could make a child happy on Christmas. And he hasn't lost any of them yet.
"May you suffer no fools to pity this season" might be the greatest holiday signoff of all time.
There’s just something funny of the way Lewis delivers the line :“Stop trying to steal my soul sucker!”
To be fair.
"Do you smoke?"
"No way"
"Good, neither do I, but it's for the trick."
Is actually kind of an adorable joke.
3:10 I mean, there's a Christmas special on Disney+ where Drax the Destroyer and Mantis kidnap (and brainwash into not freaking out) Kevin Bacon who teaches them how to properly do Christmas.
Also it's revealed that Gobots are canon to the MCU (even though Gobots were folded into Transformers, which Paramount holds the movie rights to) and Drax's cousin was killed by one.
It's nice that, despite you doing this for so many years now, there will always be the chance to still see Mr T in it 😊
T is eTernal. Eve. If the comics ends he can reviews other material.
I want him to review Not Another Teen Movie
"Soup is good food" is up there with "Hungry for apples" in the slogan dept.
*Snaps fingers* Yes.
"MY MAN!"
I like to imagine they didn't include Ed Koch as a guest star because they didn't invite him. He just showed up halfway through filming to ask how he was doing. Which was apparently his catch phrase during his run? I admittedly only know that from pop culture osmosis, like the gag on The Critic.
And let's face it, he's still doing better than Guiliani.
I also remember him from an episode of Spin City, when he was the judge on The People's Court.
Weirdly enough, long after the end of his political career, Koch started an online weekly movie review show in 2009 called "Mayor at the Movies."
Now I'm imagining an alternate timeline where one of the most famous mayors of New York City signed on with Channel Awesome.
This was a really fun change of pace! Loved that the review was of the entire broadcast with commercials, as it made for a lot of great jokes and VERY 80's riffing material. (Reminded me a bit of Rifftrax's take on the SW Holiday Special.) Definitely one of my new favorite AT4W Christmas episodes.
i didnt expect it
but this may be my new favorite video of yours
your scrooge riff was once in that top spot
guess you cant have a good christmas without linkara 😊😊
This episode was genuinely really entertaining and rewatchable! I've put this one on several times already for when I need something to chill and chuckle. Seriously, I'd watch a channel dedicated to reviewing old variety shows and specials (commercials included). 😊
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all! 🥰
8:49 Say the line, Ed!
"...how am I doing".
YAY!
He said it!
Just what I needed after a horrible evening at work. Linkara reviewing a crazy Mr. T Christmas special.
The original lyrics for Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas just gave me an idea for a new Nightmare on Elm Street film.
To all the staff and stars that make these shows possible, both the ones reviewed and the review show itself, I would like to wish you a Merry Christmas.
Whenever Mr. T is involved, fun is always guaranteed. Merry Christmas to you, Viga and the entire AT4W crew, Linkara! :)
That Coke reference: a lot of people don't know that New Coke was based on the Diet Coke formula. Coke Zero is supposed to taste more like Coke Classic.
Patreons need to fund a mister t visit or cameo secretly to surprise Lewis
Now that would make for a rockin' Christmas or Birthday gift. Or an anniversary gift (like the start of him reviewing Mr. T stuff).
If Lewis see you comment this then it won't be a surprise. But nice Idea, I hope you or someone else get it off the ground :D
It would be kind of awesome seeing an episode dedicated to Lewis interviewing Mr. T.
I have to thank the VHS preservationist who saved these commercials
It's like when there was the A Team and the Mr. T cartoon at the same time, where the show had misunderstood criminal vigilante hoods blasting criminals, but the cartoon had messages about being nice to people. Ha.
I don't know if I'll ever be able to explain why, but the Ninja Style Dancer holding up that sign made me literally laugh out loud.
Happy Holidays Lewis, Joy to all.
'There's one thing that you don't know about that baby... That baby was me!'
Coming soon, Mr T-esus!
This was fun. I always enjoy a peek into the culture and entertainment of years gone by.
"TV used to be really friggin weird!" Truth. At least we're fortunate enough to see so much of this history right here on TH-cam.
I do at least appreciate that you're as informative as well-spoken as @poparena and his Nick Knacks series.
That is indeed the truth right there
Merry Christmas, Linkara! Have a happy solstice and may no Elder Gods disturb you in this season.
4:46 As MovieBob once said, "TV! IS! WEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRD!"
That He-Man commercial reminded me that there is a Masters of the Universe-style figure of Mr. T as part of the Masters of the WWE Universe line, which is essentially WWE wrestlers, old and new, as MOTU characters. I think this makes sense because wrestling is both awesome and ridiculous, just like Masters of the Universe. Examples include:
- The New Day combined with Man-E-Faces
- Macho Man as Man At Arms
- Triple H wearing armor that makes him resemble Shao Kahn from Mortal Kombat, complete with giant hammer.
- The Ultimate Warrior
A Christmas episode with Mr. T is always great and I'm a little scared of David Copperfield🤣
22:20 "Too many cooks, too many cooks..."
I don't know why but the hard cut to the Ninja Style Dancer half passed out on the floor and holding up a card that reads 'Too much McDonald's' really got a launch out of me.
Cool new atop the fourth wall
"Or in flintlocks."
I died. Glorious.
Merry Christmas Linkara! Hope you have a great one! And thank you for putting this out at 10pm my time just in time for me to find it an hour or so later when I couldn't sleep. Thank you for putting so much love and care and spite and fun into your videos. Thank you for my first year I've gotten to spend with your content and the month I spent binge watching every episode I could. Thank you for being you here's to a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
P.S. I have no clue why but it took me like five tries to spell your name right.
It's weird hearing Linkara talk about "Passage" when I recently watched the Trainwrecords episode about the album over on Todd in the Shadows' channel
I actually ended up seeing it before Todd's video.
26:03 I think it's next to the part where Vegeta and Nappa showed up.
21:29 What about the conflict between Dr. Pepper and Mr. Pibb?
No wait, that's just one soda with good and evil sides like The Strange Case of Dr. Jeckll and Mr. Hyde.
19:30 The Parade of the Wooden Soldiers is a fixture of the Radio City Christmas Spectacular to this day, including the finale with the cannon and falling soldiers.
I love how this is pretty much a riff of this special, and I always love riffing commercials
Ok if I ever get a Patreon Review slot, I'm paying you to look at that Webster/Star Trek episode, because that is such a weird concept it has to be covered!
Also Happy Holidays Lewis! Hope you and Viga have a great Christmas!
The Patrion Review slot is too expensive, but I'd like him to review The Savage She-Hulk #1
It was surreal, but not the weirdest. They used to do specials where the saturday morning cartoon lineup was introduced by a sitcom star. But sometimes there was some sort of story line. One year, Joyce DeWitt (Janet on Three's Company) was trapped in the Dungeons & Dragons cartoon.
I guess it was effective if I remember it all these years later.
Someone request a x-files comic 😂
I loved all the TNG crossovers. My first exposure to Star Trek was Reading Rainbow where Levar Burton took the audience behind the scenes.
My one for Patreon Review would be Parasyte the Maxim, because I definitely want to see Linkara's response to John Carpenter's The Thing, but Seinen anime. The cultural lens that one would be going through would be fun as heck.
The only really good thing to come from the blight of 70s variety shows and specials like this is The Muppet Show.
Goood morning, Linkara 👋 what a awesome treat to wake up to!🥳
Gosh didn’t expect Mr T as Santa, this is AWESOME!😊
Mr. T: I pity the fool who's heart doesn't grow three sizes after watching this.
i love that you kept the commercials in - it's always such a neat time capsul
the Rockette's Toy Soldiers routine is all about precision - it's a very technical piece
the fall they do after Billy shoots them is an amazing feat of strength and coordination
Merry Christmas Linkara Brown!
EH
Hope everyone especially linkara has a safe merry Christmas and happy holidays as 2022 comes to near an end.
This is a pretty great video and I love the true message of Christmas. Also skeletor should have been apart of this special along with k.i.t t
Merry Christmas Lewis.
14:27 Oh Jesus Christ, I was drinking a Diet Coke while watching this 😂
Thank you for the shoutout to "A Muppet Family Christmas" - Happy Holidays Linkara 💖
Merry Christmas Lewis,Viga,Cherry & Starfire, may it be filled with lots of love and happiness!
Merry Christmas Linkara to you, Viga and your families. Hope you guys have a wonderful holiday. Excellent job.
i'm looking forward to the year 2045 where in order to keep The old Ones from breaching into our world linkara has to make a quintonreviews-esque 6 hour video essay on the history of Mr. T's wolrd of warcraft commercials.
21:40 So basically Slice has gone the way of Kooba Cola. XD
Thank you, Linkara! This is the gift I didn't know I wanted but so desperately needed! XD
KITT: "Michael? Where is Michael?"
Mr. T: "Shut up fool, I'm driving now!"
Seeing things about the Variety Shows, I wonder if Linkara could ever find that "Legends of the Superheroes" specials and review those one day
10:39 I still remember walking into the comic book shop I used to frequent B.C. (Before COVID) around Christmas, the owner had He-Man on the TV above the counter, and I heard the 3 funniest words in the English language: "Merry Christmas, Skeletor!" Me, my best friend, and everyone else in the store howled with laughter.
7:53: I'm still waiting for the my hero academia Christmas special where Santa used his Christmas magic to temporarily give All-Might his powers back so he can team up with Class 1-A to do battle with a demonic Krampus, why isn't this a thing??????
7:54 I really don't mean to make fun of someone especially since he's just a kid in this special but that is seriously what his singing voice sounds like XD "dies a little inside"
11:04 Wow that's really cool that your copy has the commercials so you can talk about them too :)
14:17 I would agree with that statement if talking about the the USA version of that restaurant as I remember one time eating breakfast at an airport with my family not liking the breakfast sandwich there but nowadays on the rare times I go to Carl's Jr in my home city in Canada I seem to be quite fond of the food there but the milkshakes are a bit too sweet on my stomach and have a interesting kinda of taste would make you kinda sick as if you ate too many sweets.
16:32 Oh god as if we don't have enough dummies running around in this special XD We got Mr T dummy :P
19:02 That wall art of the old dude walking with his stick is very majestic
21:38 Why would you name your pop drink "Slice" you know....what Freddy or other horror characters do to your body when they cut you XD
23:53 Lewis speaking the harsh truth there XD
24:19 Oh god not another McDonalds dancing commercial :P
24:59 We just learning new things about all of the AT4W the forth wall characters lately :D
29:58 I'll be looking forward to that list when I get back in the morning on Dec 26th from my family Christmas vacation visit :D so Merry Christmas to you Lewis and Viga and same to everyone else or holidays to who ever celebrates a different holiday.
:D
Mr. T has returned! Also, Thank you for this... I really hope more to come like the Retrospective on the Question, or a review of Himitsu Sentai Gorenger(The Manga or first 5 episodes)!
7:33 Wait... That sounds like an _amazing_ idea (and that's coming from someone who hasn't watched either Knight Rider or anything Mr. T related (aside from the WoW commercials where he plays as a Night Elf -Warrior- Mowhak. Also apparently one of Mr. T's superpowers is being a WoW class that doesn't exist)), why the f*ck didn't they do that?!
Oh boy mr t and the t force
The Holy Numbers want to thank Linkara for remembering to review something Mr.T related.
Speaking of Star Trek: The Next Generation, did you see the episode of Reading Rainbow where Lavar Burton talked about making of Star Trek in between stories?
I did! My first exposure to Star Trek. I resisted it for years, but I eventually loved it.
04:57 Wait, is that what Batman's Baby Doll was based on?
2016... There but for the grace of Mr. T we would have gotten our greatest possible 45th President, Aton York!
Oh, that was tinsel in her hand. I saw the silver whip pats the edge of the frame and thought for a moment she was literally manipulating the static of the VHS recording, and I was not prepared for a Maureen McGovern analog horror experience~
Disney was this close[-----] when they kidnapped Kevin Bacon.
T Party Time!
Thank you. Watching this flashed me back to when I was a kid at that time.
Every year needs Mr T.
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and the AT4W family
Many blessings to you and to everyone
Thank you for finding a place for this review this year! 💎
The true menace of Christmas, DAVID COPPERFIELD!
Funny story.
At the present time David Copperfield has been accused of sexual misconduct multiple time from the eighties to the 2010s
I grew up with variety shows in the Seventies. I still have a pretty soft spot in my heart for them. The ones with John Denver and the Muppets I still watch every year. I've not seen this one before. Glad that you shared it.
Awesome, a Christmas special starring Mr. T and Emmanuel Lewis! This should be fun!
It's cool to me seeing a tv special and ads in it that are from a different time!
Specials? I remember watching Donny and Marie, Rich Little, Sonny and Cher, and Carol Burnett every single week when I was growing up. Oh, and you ask about where, on a streaming service, you'd find (that)... Disney+ I mean, isn't that pretty much the plot of the Guardians of the Galaxy Christmas Special?
I love that you called Maureen McGovern a Broadway Star. This is back when she still wasn't too far from being a top 40 performer - like The Morning After from the Poseidon Adventure.
11:10 - That really caught me off guard.
Happy holidays, Lewis!! Great video, by the way, had me laughing my butt off throughout!
Merry Christmas, Linkara, and happy holidays! May the T Force keep you well.
While I love a good old Mr T yelling & bashing up crooks, I do like his Mr. Rodgers side. There is a lot of good stuff to say about that part of him. That said A Mr T crossover with Knight Rider would be a fun Xmas special to see. Merry Christmas AT4W!
Muppet Family Christmas, and John Denver and the Muppets are two of my favorite Christmas specials. That, with Muppet Christmas Carol, I swear they do the best stuff for the holiday.
That was almost as entertaining as the time Punky Brewster and ALF saved Easter.
I've always loved variety shows,especially Carol Burnett and Laugh-In
Merry Christmas linkara
Usually I prefer the reviews of comics rather than Tv shows, but this one is hilarious.
Oh man The Carpenters Space Encounters! I caught someone streaming that recently, and man was it out there. I never got to see this particular special, but always loved me some T. I even had the Mr. T figure/doll with the weird soft vinyl head when I was a kid. Also, a T / Knightrider special could have been so good too.
Merry Christmas to everyone at AT4W
I pity the fool that doesn’t sit atop the fourth wall.
1 thing that Linkara’s real 1st name & the main actor from Webster have in common? They both have the name: Lewis.
Hey, Merry whatever you all celebrate, people.
A Mr T show review is an amazing Christmas present! Happy holidays!
SANTA T. NO MARTIAN IS GOING TO MESS WITH HIM. HE DOESN'T NEED KRAMPUS
have a very merry christmas linkara
Muppet Family Christmas was excellent, but every year on Christmas Eve I watch Blackadder Christmas Carol. I watch it several other times over the course of the season too.
Merry Christmas Linkara.
Merry Christmas Linkara!
Of course DUNE! That’s my favorite holiday movie!!! Happy Yule y’all!
Sting in a Speedo is a great for any holiday.
Nothing says Christmas like INFINITE DESERT.
@@zaneseibert I mean, if it's a cold enough winter, it probably starts sounding good after a while...
It's not Christmas until the sleeper has awakened!
@@AT4W is that before or after the worm sign?
1:08 As confusing as that is, it has nothing on the recent Scooby-Doo Reunion special.
I know it's early but from me to you and viga Lewis and to the viewers at home Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you all