The A-Team (TV Series)

Mexican Slayride (1983)

George Peppard: John 'Hannibal' Smith

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Quotes 

• Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : Now, if you wanted somebody with good manners, you should have hired an English butler.

• Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : What I don't understand is why you aren't all living in Switzerland, where it's safe?

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : Because we're not Swiss. We're Americans. We got a little problem right now, but we'll work our way out of it somehow. In the mean time, we stick together and do what we do best.

• Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : The gentle giant is starting to wake up, now how fast can you land us?

  Capt. H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock : [takes the plane down quickly]  You just landed!

• Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : Tip the joint over? Very macho, but is this smart?

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : If I was smart, I wouldn't be working for some skirt with no money.

  Sgt. Bosco "B.A." Baracus : You learn to love him, Mama. But it takes a long time.

  Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : That's the same thing he said about you.

• Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : Is this part of the plan?

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : No.

  Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : I didn't think so.

• Jerry - the film director : The guy we had in Aquamania One stayed down four minutes.

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : Then why isn't he doing it now?

  Jerry - the film director : He had a little brain hemorrhage or something, I don't know.

• Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : [Disguised as a bum]  You're a princess in a world full of dragons.

• Boy on Tour bus : Mommy, mommy, it's the Aquamaniac!

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : [Wearing the Aquamaniac costume]  Hi, how ya doing?

  Sgt. Bosco "B.A." Baracus : I ain't stoppin' for no autographs Hannibal.

• Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : [Col. Lynch is stuck in the water of the Ten Commandments exhibit]  Nice try, Colonel. But you ain't Moses.

• Malavida Valdez : Hey muchacho, why you shoot on Malavida?

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : 'Cause you're a lousy piece o' crud and you ought to be hung upside down from your heels in a vat of pig slop.

  Malavida Valdez : You're gonna make me angry, gringo!

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : You're not smart enough to be angry. You're just mean and stupid.

• Colonel Flores : So, you are the man who's been causing señor Valdez so much trouble.

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : Didn't take much to cause any trouble. He keeps tripping over his I.Q.

• Colonel Flores : You have a very irritating manner, señor.

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : Yeah, I know, I've been working on my personality. Read the Don Rickles book and everything. Nothing seems to be helping.

• Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : I love this jazz.

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : What's your full name, kid?

  Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : Amy Amanda Allen.

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : Tripple A, huh?

  Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : Sounds like someone who belongs on the unit called the A-Team...

• Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : [Disguised as Mr. Li]  Law say no park here!

  Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : Please, don't yell at people!

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : [as Mr. Li]  Yellow people? You don't like yellow people?

  Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : No, not yellow people. Yell at people. Don't yell at me, okay! I got a terrible headache.

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : [as Mr. Li]  You look like it! You go!

• Sgt. Bosco "B.A." Baracus : What's going on here? This road leads directly to the airport, Hannibal!

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : This road is no where near the airport.

  [a plane flies overhead] 

• Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : [Referring to B.A]  Why did he hit you?

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : Hit me? If he hit me, I'd be in the hospital.

• Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : Here we are, there they are. I love it when a plan comes together.

• Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : Excuse me, but what are you doing?

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : We're tying him up so he won't kill us if he comes to.

  Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : I see.

  [pause] 

  Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : Excuse me again, but isn't he one of you? I mean, isn't he on the team?

  Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck : Yes.

  Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : So then why did you have to drug him?

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : He hates the pilot.

  Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : Hates the pilot? Why?

  Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck : Because our pilot is insane.

• Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : The pilot's really insane?

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : We think so.

• Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : Master say: Only the very wisest and the very stupidest cannot change.

• Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : Master say: Woman and people of low birth are hard to deal with.

• Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : I think we'll spray this guy's field. A crop duster. Get some poison to kill his marijuana crops. I love it when a mark's angry, they don't think straight. And it will bring 'em to us. Make 'em play on our field.

• Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : B.A. was telling me about the jazz... and I think I caught the fever.

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : So?

  Reporter Amy Amanda Allen : So, you let me in, or I write the book and blow your cover.

• Lt. Templeton 'Faceman' Peck : We got the plane but Miguel's having trouble coming up with the poison, he wants to use bleach but now he's starting to wheeze everytime he walks.

  Capt. H.M. "Howling Mad" Murdock : Hey, use ammonia, it's great!

  Col. John "Hannibal" Smith : Good idea, Murdock.

• B.A. Baracus : They're closin'. They got us!

  Hannibal : You never know.

  B.A. Baracus : I do. We're almost out of gas.

  Hannibal : Now, why did you pick a truck with no gas?

  B.A. Baracus : 'Cause I liked the paint job.