"The Wire" on HBO

Why its annoying on 30 Rock... there are loads of Friends (in this case) jokes and references. In the first series, doesn't Baldwin go through a whole phase of watching Friends... and yet he sleeps with this woman who looks incredibly like Jennifer Aniston and doesn't seem to notice it?

i dont really care but i can understand why its annoying.

Ocean's Twelve had a gag about all this stuff, where Julia Roberts's character met Bruce Willis and he mistook her for Julia Roberts.

the 30 Rock/Schwimmer/Seinfeld thing bothered me too, though. but then i'm on record as being OK with celebrity walk-ons on that show and would prefer if people just played themselves since the show takes place in a TV studio.

wasn't the julia roberts thing like a major plot point?

yeah, this should probably be a new thread.

Please start it! (Please also note that I'm not "annoyed" by this stuff, I just wind up fixating on how odd it is.)

you guys need to get STRAIGHT

tv shows within tv shows: an ocd thread for jaymc and nabisco

i finally watched the season 2 episode with the michael k williams + dominic west commentary. v. enjoyable, especially west's bitchy dig about how brad pitt can't act.

also their running commentary on nick sobotka's girlfriend

yeah i was actually prepared for that bc of the WIRE BABEZ POLL, except i assumed ilx dudes had exaggerated it, but y'all totally didn't. it was like the first thing they mentioned as soon as nick appeared onscreen. i think west refers to aimee proctor's boobs as the eighth wonder of the world.

How bad should I feel for actually remembering that she did have a pretty striking rack?

her boobs are excellent; i don't think anyone should feel bad, really. you're in good company.

Actually, I mostly remember that her breasts seemed entirely non-necessary to the scene they were exposed in, and that I proceeded to think "oh, I see why they worked those in there anyway"

i think that's pretty much exactly why; west + williams said as much.

yeah those were just about the most astonishing pair i've seen in a very long time imo

I can't remember what about them was that memorable -- I mean, they were just breasts and all -- but maybe they're made of magic

Oh god what kind of old tired pointless person have I become that I typed "just breasts"

haha i expected to be kind of put out by hearing grown men enthuse about breasts when i listened to the commentary, but it's actually kind of touching--they sound like they're thirteen. rapt.

so I stopped watching House a few eps into the latest season, and I haven't watched the last few weeks of Heroes. either my shows starting to suck at the same time, or The Wire ruined dramas for me. it's like sex on E.

gold box deal on Amazon today... $85 or so

O man, the Sobotka girlfriend boobs are like in the top 5 most memorable moments -- up there with Wallace getting shot and "You want it to be one way..."

ay ay ay otm

.gif?

google nick sobotka's gf and it's just threads talking abt her boobs

thanks for the tip finefinemusic

sobotkas gf gif

where?

non safe search kristin proctor gives you a little taste

would smash 2008...times

lol

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_from_the_docks_of_The_Wire#Aimee

would smash 2008...times

lololo

fuck it, i'm ordering the DVD set, thanks for the tip. now i'm glad i didn't order it last week when it had gone on its first sale.

it's not even in stock but who cares, the price is right.

happy to help guys! now someone please convince freaks & geeks to go on sale

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/2963571735_db200b8ae3.jpg

just finished the last season on dvd last night.

;_;

ahahahahahahahaha xp

I want that for a tshirt SO BAD.

Oh my goodness. . .

and whoa, pre-clay davis clay davisry courtesy of the 25th Hour.

http://community.livejournal.com/abandonedplaces/1510134.html

Awesome abandoned set walk thru.

Are there spoilers in there? I saw something that looked like it could be a spoiler so I ran away and pretended I hadn't seen it. Nothing will ever be as bad as that spoiler which was in the Guardian's round up of 2008. Fuckaz.

there's something that could be misconstrued as a spoiler if you haven't seen the final season, but it's not actually a spoiler.

i remember going to an auction of Wire memorabilia, and in one display case they had the outfit Stringer wore in his final episode, with fake blood and bulletholes and everything, i never thought about it but that'd be a pretty big spoiler if someone walked up to that w/o having seen S3.

there are things there that look like spoilers but aren't and things that don't look like spoilers but actually could be. did i just blow your mind?

Hahaha some dude, that was a spoiler in itself!

But I dunno: even without a spoiler, I feel like I spent a season and a half expecting that to happen to Stringer, watching it gradually come to a head -- it felt like one of those inexorable dramatic fates that wouldn't really be spoiled by knowing it was coming, no more than it's a problem to watch an old tragedy knowing everyone's going to die.

yes totally except even though i knew it was coming i still haven't gotten over it.

some dude I am almost positive you already posted that story in this very thread

I know what to get you for your next birthday: I walked into an art gallery a while ago and there on the wall was a big portrait of Idris Elba, in an undershirt, kicking back and looking thoughtful.

Suddenly I was unsure why anyone would paint anything but actors who were on this show.

omg

sometimes you have to also paint Alan Rickman and Mos Def.

(whoa I didn't even mean to make another weird Baltimore reference there)