Interesting Celery Fact No. 965

The original storyboard concept for The A Team called for "Hannibal" Smith to be chewing a stick of celery, rather than smoking a cigar, throughout the shows. The switch was made because celery was percieved to be "too cliched", in light of it's frequent association to on-screen hardmen. The choice to go for the cigar is now seen as the starting point for celery's decline as the masticant of choice for movie gangsters and renegades.