Remember When Boy George Guest Starred on 'The A-Team'?

The 1980s were an especially fertile ground for bizarre pop-culture pairings, it seems. The Harlem Globetrotters landed on Gilligan’s Island. Sylvester Stallone starred in a musical with Dolly Parton. It was a crazy time to be alive.

But the decade’s biggest head-scratcher might have happened on February 11, 1986 — thirty years ago today — when gender-bending New Wave rocker Boy George guest starred on NBC’s high-octane testosterone fest The A-Team. You might say, “Shut up, Yahoo TV! That never happened.” But we assure you, it did… and we have the GIFs to prove it.


The Season 4 episode, “Cowboy George,” opens with Face working on a new get-rich-quick scheme for the team: He’s booking a concert with Cowboy George and the Range Rats at an Arizona watering hole, and pocketing the profits. We would ask why a rough-and-tough squad of gun-toting mercenaries is getting into the concert promotion business, but we’re trying not to think too hard about this.

Besides, it opens the door for a totally ‘80s cameo, because when Face goes to pick up Cowboy George at the airport, it’s actually… Boy George! The singer explains that he and Culture Club are owed 60 percent of what they made at their last gig — a cool $1.2 million. And they get that no matter what:

(P.S. We are loving this whole “Goth flamingo” look George has going on here.)