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Message: <blockquote data-quote="coyote6" data-source="post: 5067437" data-attributes="member: 1225">I watched lots of action TV in the '80s, and my memory is that most shows had a much higher bullets-hitting to bullets-fired ratio than the A-Team. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />People got shot on Magnum, P.I., Simon & Simon, & the like (even on V, the show where railings and chain link exerted a mysterious attractive force on guns and blasters, extras got shot), and other shows (e.g., the Six Million Dollar Man) didn't have nearly as much gunfire as the A-Team. My friends and I noticed it and mocked the A-Team for it back when it was on. I'm not sure the characters ever said that they were specifically trying not to hit people when they fired. Heck, they even hung a lampshade on the whole thing in the episode where they were somewhere in the middle of nowhere filming a movie when trouble broke out; the team had no real weapons, and so had to use squibs & other effects from the movie production to pretend to shoot and blow things up. The final product was more-or-less indistinguishable from a regular episode of the A-Team -- except the protagonists all knew it was fake.(That was one of my favorite A-Team bits, along with Face doing the double-take as the Cylon walks by on the studio lot.)</blockquote>

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