{"id":4356,"date":"2006-10-11T17:49:53","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T17:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4356"},"modified":"2025-09-28T00:27:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T00:27:52","slug":"i_pity_the_fool","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4356","title":{"rendered":"“I pity the fool.” The Return of Mr. T!?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mr. T, with his own reality \/ motivational TV show. A quick and amusing read.<\/p>\n

‘I Pity the Fool’: Mr. T’s Gas Guzzler – washingtonpost.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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Mr. T likens himself to an anti-Dr. Phil, eschewing touchy-feely banter and instead inspiring people in his inimitable style. And that apparently means throwing out words that prominently contain the sound of the letter "T": He tells us in the opening-credit sequence that the show is all about "accountabili-T," "activi-T" and "positive mentali-T."<\/p>\n

Reality shows can serve as career comebacks for some forgotten celebrities (paging Danny Bonaduce), but Mr. T has never really exited the pop culture periphery since playing Clubber Lang in 1982’s "Rocky III." <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mr. T, with his own reality \/ motivational TV show. A quick and amusing read. ‘I Pity the Fool’: Mr. T’s Gas Guzzler – washingtonpost.com Mr. T likens himself to an anti-Dr. Phil, eschewing touchy-feely banter and instead inspiring people in his inimitable style. And that apparently means throwing out words that prominently contain the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4990,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4356\/revisions\/4990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}