I had a hard ass time believing Christopher Multisanti was shaking down that corner boy captain for a percentage on his trade. In oakland, aint no one getting that percentage, unless its an older dealer running that corner. So the idea of an outsider to the community coming in and asking for his cut is just wild to me (might just be some east coast shit i dunno)




In the first season of the Wire when Avon was kingpin, they show him rolling around with only 1-2 enforcers at best, in some scenes he's even by himself! HELL NAH cutty, no kingpin on THAT level is rollin around with anything less then a small army. Granted they seemed to understand this concept better when Marlo takes over a couple seasons later, all that muscle he has with him when he's holding court in that open area is way more believable to me.

not even walking around in the background.


Like on "Friends", how they always hung out in that coffee shop, and there were NEVER any Black people in there. You know good and damned well there would've been some Boho dude or chick on a Macbook in the corner ( prolly posting up on OKP)


I live in Chicago, and you can't go ANYWHERE without seeing us Black folks. Yet somehow in TV land, Chicago is 95% White...

>Like on "Friends", how they always hung out in that coffee
>shop, and there were NEVER any Black people in there. You know
>good and damned well there would've been some Boho dude or
>chick on a Macbook in the corner ( prolly posting up on OKP)
>
>
>I live in Chicago, and you can't go ANYWHERE without seeing us
>Black folks. Yet somehow in TV land, Chicago is 95% White...



I would say the same for Oakland .. but we aint even important enough to get a show! lol

>

With the synchronized dancing and the stairs and what not.

especially if we're in the vicinity of German parades.


and if "Twist & Shout" comes on? look out...

.

nm

it was set in "lanford", a fictional town halfway between chicago + rockford. so the scarcity of blacks on that show really wasn't that much of a stretch.

>I live in Chicago, and you can't go ANYWHERE without seeing us
>Black folks. Yet somehow in TV land, Chicago is 95% White...

they're all over at the family matters set.

It's like they speak somewhat southern, but at the same time, rocking triple thick goosedowns and you can see their cold breath.

To someone down south, it's almost bizarro world lol

>It's like they speak somewhat southern,

some of us, not all.

>but at the same time,
>rocking triple thick goosedowns

Maybe in 1993 ( and I've never owned a Triple Fat Goose, but I won't deny that they were popular here)

> and you can see their cold
>breath.
>

true.

Is Northface the new thing?

once Charles Muntz was re-introduced, that he was still alive.

In the beginning Karl is like 8 years old and Charles Muntz is like 50, then when he meets him Karl is like 80 and Muntz is like 60. He looked like he aged 10-15 years over the course of 60-75 years. It bothered me so much

liked the movie and all, but #1 thing I walked out of the theatre saying was how was that guy still alive?
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and THATS what you found unbelievable?!?!


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<-two races of flavor
living side by side

in any animated, especially Pixar movie. Obviously cars can't talk, Sharks don't do the 12 steps and Samuel L Jackson would be the lead superhero.

But this one is not about the application of a plot in real life. All of the other characters aged so we know the laws of time still apply, having one character get very old while the other stays the same age is just odd
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up better than Carl did.

I do admit to scratching my head and going "he's still alive?" tho.

But Carl is just like your average old dude and Muntz was like that 80 year old cat who sold juicers and swam the english channel dragging a tugboat with his teeth

There might have only been 10-15 years between them to begin with, too

You're welcome.

http://dethroner.com/2008/03/17/the-wires-david-simon-on-omars-spider-man-jump/


The Wire’s David Simon on Omar’s Spider-Man Jump
Published by Joel March 17th, 2008 in Survival, TV. Share This

If you haven’t been watching The Wire, one of the characters jumps something like three or four stories out of an apartment building and is able to hobble off. From an interview Alan Sepinwall’s blog:

Is it true that Donnie (Andrews, the inspiration for Omar) in real life jumped off a balcony the same height that Omar did?

Actually, two floors higher.

Two floors higher?

The Murphy Homes. He also jumped off the rail bridge at Poplar Grove, onto the rail bed. That was probably about three stories. And he hurt his ankle. It’s just true. Those jumps, by an athletic person, can actually be made and are made, routinely. By a non-athletic person? if I made it, I’d be all over the pavement and they’d pick me up with a spoon. If you made it, they’d pick you up with a spoon. When 28-year-old Donnie Andrews makes that jump because he has to, sometimes he makes it. It’s funny: I’m doing this thing now with recon Marines, “Generation Kill.” And some of them had no problem with the jump. They just started telling stories about recon training. I don’t know whether to believe them or not, but I do believe Donnie.

It was a story I actually used, I wrote about the first time back in 1990. That story was all through the ghetto: “They had him cornered, and motherfucker jumped off the railroad bridge and kept running. Did not want to die that day.” But we did want it to feel a little bit mythic, and “What the fuck?” because it fit with the general arc of Greek tragedy.

>http://dethroner.com/2008/03/17/the-wires-david-simon-on-omars-spider-man-jump/
>
>
>The Wire’s David Simon on Omar’s Spider-Man Jump
>Published by Joel March 17th, 2008 in Survival, TV. Share
>This
>
>If you haven’t been watching The Wire, one of the characters
>jumps something like three or four stories out of an apartment
>building and is able to hobble off. From an interview Alan
>Sepinwall’s blog:
>
> Is it true that Donnie (Andrews, the inspiration for Omar)
>in real life jumped off a balcony the same height that Omar
>did?
>
> Actually, two floors higher.
>
> Two floors higher?
>
> The Murphy Homes. He also jumped off the rail bridge at
>Poplar Grove, onto the rail bed. That was probably about three
>stories. And he hurt his ankle. It’s just true. Those jumps,
>by an athletic person, can actually be made and are made,
>routinely. By a non-athletic person? if I made it, I’d be all
>over the pavement and they’d pick me up with a spoon. If you
>made it, they’d pick you up with a spoon. When 28-year-old
>Donnie Andrews makes that jump because he has to, sometimes he
>makes it. It’s funny: I’m doing this thing now with recon
>Marines, “Generation Kill.” And some of them had no problem
>with the jump. They just started telling stories about recon
>training. I don’t know whether to believe them or not, but I
>do believe Donnie.
>
> It was a story I actually used, I wrote about the first
>time back in 1990. That story was all through the ghetto:
>“They had him cornered, and motherfucker jumped off the
>railroad bridge and kept running. Did not want to die that
>day.” But we did want it to feel a little bit mythic, and
>“What the fuck?” because it fit with the general arc of Greek
>tragedy.
>
>

I don't know about you, but when i'm chilling at home I'm not wearing nice shirts, my nice jeans and have my dress shoes on. I'm in some shorts, an old t-shirt, and maybe I got some slippers on.

I've seen tv shows where the mother is walking around the house in heels.

I know that it would look weird if the characters wore their old clothes in TV shows, but I always seem to notice it.

Cliff used to be lounging aroundthe crib in a sweater/oxford/khakis combo.

and Claire STAYED dressed for work, no matter time of day it was.

They never knew when they'd have to orchestrate an elaborate 3 act morality play to teach Theo a life lesson about fiscal responsibility. Can't do that in gym shorts.

I always wanted Theo or whoever to be like:


"I get it. I GET it. I fucked up, you don't have to make the house into a transient hotel...I'm sorry I asked for the fuckin 50 bucks..."

It was a lesson about just accepting things at face value

>"I get it. I GET it. I fucked up, you don't have to make the
>house into a transient hotel...I'm sorry I asked for the
>fuckin 50 bucks..."

Like, this is good parenting? Really? Motherfucka just asked for a little emoney for a Gordon Gatrell shirt.

In the computer animation, there wasn't one black person.

(Actually it's pretty common in the south too now that I think about it)

into my Knocked Up complaints.

- you're an on-air E! host and Seth Rogen's character is the best you could pull at a club (drunkness is irrelevant in this case of disparity)?

- how does Rogen suddenly get a cushy web design job in LA with the salary to rent a nice apartment? far as I can remember, he never even graduated high school and has like a 15 year gap in employment history.

He makes a joke about it being in a somewhat dodgy neighborhood, so it might not be too unbelievable. The job thing though... yeah, I'm with you. No employment history, no formal education, and the one website in his portfolio wasn't exactly john blaze. The dude ain't even legal!

getting knocked up by a drunken regret. him pulling her for one night isn't that much of a stretch. he had an in with the beer thing, and was able to hang out with her, and be fun enough for her to say fuck it.

the hard sell for me was her actually falling for him. never really bought it.

>- how does Rogen suddenly get a cushy web design job in LA
>with the salary to rent a nice apartment? far as I can
>remember, he never even graduated high school and has like a
>15 year gap in employment history.

now THAT was a huge stretch.

I'm strictly T-shirts and gym shorts at bed time. or in the summer just gym shorts.


FOH@ at wearing long-sleeved Pajamas to bed.

>I'm strictly T-shirts and gym shorts at bed time. or in the
>summer just gym shorts.
>
>
>FOH@ at wearing long-sleeved Pajamas to bed.



i thoguht that was just some shit folks in cold weather climates always did ... lol

and nobody wears pajamas like that. Maybe sweatpants and a long sleeve T/thermal in the winter, but no striped pajama sets.

even in sub zero temps, I'll put on some long lounge pants ( those fleece joints) and *maybe* a long sleeved tee shirt. But never a friggin full set of pajamas.



Sidepost:

Why the HELL do pajamas have pockets?

or if you REALLY know what time it is, Condoms.

If things get hot n heavy (and in that get-up, how can they not), there's not always time to reach for the dresser

I still say snacks though. Imagine you wake up, stretchin' and yawnin' and hey, what's that in my shirt pocket? A pop tart!

or maybe a pack of those Cheese & Crackers joints.

Like, I would believe that people slept in that shit back in the fifties.

Claire had that elaborate shit though, like it was made from gay silkworms and imported from Italy. She actually would dress *up* to go to bed.

> She actually would
>dress *up* to go to bed.

She wasn't trying to turn Cliff on. She was trying to defend herself.

If only we could have seen what Claire was rocking in the pre-Vanessa days...

>If only we could have seen what Claire was rocking in the
>pre-Vanessa days...


which was pretty much in the height of the Black Love era.

So, you gotta think, they were making nice loot even though they already had 3 kids.

I'm thinking she had that big ass 1970's flip hairdo and rocked the Hillman t-shirt to bed. But she probably wore it well.



Hol' up:

now that I think about it, the Timeline on "The Cosby Show" is kinda fucked up... think about it. Sondra was a college student in 1983, which at makes her at LEAST 18 or 19, right? which means as the oldest kid, she was born in approx 1964 or so. Which ALSO means that if Cliff and Claire were out of school and established BEFORE they started having kids, they were about 26 years old or so when she was born ( I counted 4 years of graduate study even though it's probably more) that they were born in approx 1938 or so.

I don't recall them being THAT old on the show. Have they ever made references to their youth on the show? ( meaning have they ever said what decade it was when they started dating?)

So Mid-to Late 40's by the time the series began, which seems about right (Dr. Bill was born in 1937, according to Wikipedia) Claire is probably a few years younger than Cliff right?

>I don't recall them being THAT old on the show. Have they ever
>made references to their youth on the show? ( meaning have
>they ever said what decade it was when they started dating?)

I'm sure they did at some point indirectly (maybe a song they liked or a movie they saw?) though I can't recall anything specific. They really only ever made fun of how OLD Cliff was. Still seemed like he was too young to be liking jazz music that much though.

PS I'm really mad about there not begin a Cosbypedia or something like that. Sometimes the internet just obsesses over the wrong things.

she was TOO fine to be followin him around like that when she first came on the scene and he not AT LEAST set her down to see what the buisness was

in hip hop battle scenes be it breakdancing, rhyming, scratching....

in real life the only girls showing up are already going out with a participant/bystander

If you ever notice, on TV or movies, during a phone convo, people never say bye, or goodbye.

It's always, "Yeah....ok....yeah, ok yeah"

(Hangs up)

I pointed this out to my boy some years ago, and he was blown away lol

Another BS phone thing on TV and movies...

It takes people forever to answer it.

(Phones rings)

After like the 3rd ring, the person rustles around and wakes up...

4th ring, they slowly role over...

5th ring...they check their watch and squint.

6th ring...they throw their head back like "Ugh!", and kinda wipe their eye or face...

7th ring...they reach for the phone...

(Pick up)

3 second pause...

"Yeah...?"

Wtf?

No one EVER just hangs up, or no machine ever picks up.

But I guess you can't hear that ever-so-important message from the missed caller if it goes to voicemail, lol.

>In the first season of the Wire when Avon was kingpin, they
>show him rolling around with only 1-2 enforcers at best, in
>some scenes he's even by himself! HELL NAH cutty, no kingpin
>on THAT level is rollin around with anything less then a small
>army. Granted they seemed to understand this concept better
>when Marlo takes over a couple seasons later, all that muscle
>he has with him when he's holding court in that open area is
>way more believable to me.

The point of seson three was that when Avon got out of jail, all of his muscle was dead/locked up/incompetent. Slim Charles was his only legit shooter until Cutty showed up, and even his heart wasn't in it. Plus, by the end of the season, he was rolling deep everywhere.

remember how hard it was for the cops to find a picture of him?


it might be said that aside from people in the game nobody really knew who he was.


Meaning most people knew OF him, but couldn't tell you what he looked like.

you guys ever notice that when people have passionate "rip your clothes off and go at it" sex on TV, they NEVER use comdoms?

I can see how that might happen with one's wife or whomever, but this happens on EVERY show with whoever decides to get it in.


( I noticed this while watching "Rescue Me". those cats NEVER strap up).

Takes a piss
gets hungry
has a call battery die

How the hell Jack Bauer does it is beyond me

i hate movies that seem like they could actually happen.

i watch movies for FANTASY where the women's
breasts are all shaped perfectly and the men
are always impeccably dressed and all the
dialogue sounds it came from an Oscar Wilde novel.