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Sgt. Terry Jeffords: He Needs Nutrients!

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thuganomics85

thuganomics85

There is no way I can not love a man that loves his wife, his daughters, his job, his fitness, yogurt, pickles, and clear topic sentences. Terry loves all that and more!

It's great seeing Terry Crews in a role like this, where he's funny, but also a  good guy, that is respected by his colleges.  And relatively sane, unless screw up his Thanksgiving meal, and then he become Hungry Terry, which is just as awesome (RELEASE YOUR SWEETS!!)

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Danny Franks

Danny Franks

I only became aware of Terry Crews from his small, but fun, role in The Newsroom. He was funny in that, in a more cynical way, but I felt he'd be a good comedic performer.

And boy, is he! I love the inversion of the stereotype, with him being a big, tough, badass cop, yet he's also a doting father and husband, and a complete softy when it comes to the cops who work for him. An artist trapped in the body of a football player. Which is, I think, something Mr. Crews himself could identify with.

JTMacc99

JTMacc99

He deserves many awards just for his performance in The Party as he tried so desparately to make the team behave somewhat appropriately.

While it not have been his funniest line, the one that sticks with me and I wish to use myself whenever possible, was when he advised Boyle to talk about one of his interests. Boyle then started in on it, and Terry responded with an unbelievable face that I could only descriibe as an enthusastic wince and said, "Perfect! So boring!"

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NoWillToResist

NoWillToResist

Well, my previous exposure to Terry was the Expendables franchise, so....  :)

Love how he's a big guy but instead of some roided alpha male asshole, he's a softy with a big heart. I have found him to be such a delight on this show. I get so many laughs from him. I still giggle at just the visual of him trying to put together thta big, pink princess house. His hysterical "why does it have WHEELS??!!" was epic.

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Megan in Seattle

Megan in Seattle

Terry Crews on "Bullseye with Jesse Thorn" was also great (bonus: the same episode features a wonderful interview with RuPaul, as well), and talked a bit about what Terry Crews and Terry Jeffords have in common: https://soundcloud.com/bullseye-with-jesse-thorn/rupaul-terry-crews. His interview starts at about the 54:28 mark.

Rinaldo

Rinaldo

I think of this series as having a very evenly balanced ensemble cast, but if it has a most valuable player, it's not even the amazing Andre Braugher, it's Terry Crews. Week after week, he has a moment that just takes off into the stratosphere. I smile broadly when I think of him:

"No waiting, just toasting. I want you to toast, now I wanna eat toast, gimme some toast!"

"Release your sweets!"

"You're not gazelles!"

"Stop eating crab wrong!"

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Rinaldo

Rinaldo

My best friend and I use "Stop eating crab wrong!" whenever we can. 

I heartily approve of this. That line just sent me around the bend. I mean, all credit to the writers for thinking of it, but Terry Crews delivered it so spontaneously, and perfectly in character, that it was a sublime moment. (Aided too by Andy Samberg chomping right into the joint of a crab leg.)

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Kromm

Kromm

Today (July 30) is Terry Crews' 46th (!!) birthday!  Celebrate watching this amazing video of him on the (new) Arsenio Hall show -- he PULLS OFF his shirt to demonstrate proper pec-popping technique!!

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Iv81TksTE#t=43 

 

Dammit!!  Why won't my embedded videos work?

Somehow you wound up with a time-coded URL (where the URL includes a timestamp to jump to). The embeds don't work with that.  The timecoding is actually useful if you want to push someone to a specific part of a video, but if you don't you need to remove them.  I believe it's JUST the "#t=43" part (although I'm not 100% on that).  Worst case you can always hit the SHARE button on the YouTube page and use the (totally different) URL they supply there instead.

Inquisitionist

Inquisitionist

Just when I thought I couldn't love Terry Crews more, I come upon this interview from March 6, 2015.

 

Coming up in the sports culture, I saw it was nothing for guys to say things like, “Oh, you know she wanted it.” I knew guys who had the attitude of, “You know you shouldn’t have walked out the door looking like that, girl,” thinking they had the right to feel on her or to rape her, because of what she was wearing. Once I realized that I was part of that culture, I knew that I had to change it.

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ebk57

ebk57

Another interview on The Bullseye with Terry.  I learned a few things about him that I didn't know before.  I didn't listen to the interview posted upthread from a few years ago and haven't read his book, but now I might.  He's quite an interesting person.

http://www.maximumfun.org/bullseye/bullseye-jesse-thorn-terry-crews-and-amber-tamblyn

 

The Amber Tamblyn interview is pretty good, too.

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