"The Wire" on HBO

Sometimes when watching a TV show I get really bothered by the fact that the show take place in a world where the show and its actors don't exist.

i was about to say FRASIER CRANE but i noticed u said 'largest number of different shows'. still, it's 3 (counting a cameo) to 2, right?

xps

looks like munch is going to be on the french law and order too

Season 4 might even be my favorite even if the student stuff wasn't in it. I love the Marlo crime syndicate, love Snoop, love Cutty, love the big crime at the center of the season... all of the stuff with Herc was great. There was just a wealth of good stuff happening.

Sometimes when watching a TV show I get really bothered by the fact that the show take place in a world where the show and its actors don't exist.

― total mormon cockblock extravaganza (jaymc), Friday, December 12, 2008 4:14 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

wow

Appearances and crossovers

The character has spanned over 15 years and 16 seasons. Along with 122 episodes & 1 TV movie of Homicide and 200+ episodes of SVU, (of which he has not appeared in 3 episodes of Homicide and 23 of SVU) Munch has also appeared as a character in episodes of other series:
Law & Order - four episodes: "Charm City", "Baby, It's You", "Sideshow (Part 1)", and "Entitled (Part 2)"
The X-Files - one episode: "Unusual Suspects"
The Beat - one episode: "They Say It's Your Birthday"
Law & Order: Trial by Jury - one episode: "Skeleton (Part 2)"
Arrested Development - one episode: "Exit Strategy"
The Wire - one episode: "Took"
The character is also slated to appear in an episode of Paris enquêtes criminelles, the French version of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.
Munch has been the only fictional character played by a single actor to appear on eight different television shows. These shows were on four different networks: NBC (Homicide: Life on the Street, and Law & Order franchise), FOX (The X-Files, Arrested Development), UPN (The Beat), and HBO (The Wire). Munch has also been one of the only television characters to cross genres, appearing not only in crime drama series, but also the genres of sitcom (Arrested Development) and horror and science fiction (The X-Files).
A muppet representation of Detective Munch appeared in the Sesame Street sketch "Law and Order: Special Letters Unit".
It has been reported in various places that Munch also appeared on an episode of The Simpsons,[1] but this is incorrect. The confusion likely stems from the fact that on Belzer's biography page on IMDB, a list of shows that have featured appearances by Munch is directly followed by a list of six shows (including The Simpsons) that have featured Cliff Clavin and Norm Peterson, the characters originally from the program Cheers played by John Ratzenberger and George Wendt.

one afternoon during the s4 days, I looked over this dude's shoulder who was reading the ny post. same spoiler as that ny times article but as the headline!

Arrested Development - one episode: "Exit Strategy"

i have no memory of this!!

I think the spoiler happened in s5.

i'm sure i roffled hardcore when it happened, what the hell

xp

oh yeah, I meant s5.

SPOILER!

I found the article

i have no memory of this!!

Narrator: The depositions had been delayed, but the prosecution was about to get a Lord & Taylor bag full of evidence.

Detective Munch: We supply the glitter, the glue, the crepe paper and the ready-made template pages for you to decorate and fill out with... “My Favorite Birthday,” “Foreign Bank Statements,” and of course, “Shh! Family Secrets.”

Narrator: The scrapbooking sting had helped the D.A. gather evidence against people as diverse as Ken Lay, Oliver North, but ironically not Martha Stewart.

Detective Munch: So dig up whatever you can and remember, photocopies are not admissible as memories.

Tobias: Uh, sir, I’m going to have to go or our old family storage unit in Reseda.

Detective Munch: No problem. We can arrange for a helicopter to take you there right now.

Tobias: Wow, this is the best free scrapbooking class I’ve ever taken.

ah yes

and i did in fact roffle hardcore

I have the same problem Jaymc does, though it's all just dependent on how shows handle things. Weird example: 30 Rock bothered me last season when David Schwimmer appeared as not-himself (even though the show is set at a "real" NBC where Seinfeld was Seinfeld, so surely Schwimmer was on Friends), but it didn't bother me when Jennifer Aniston was on as not-herself (because ... she's less tied to Friends in my head than Schwimmer is?).

But yeah, it weirds me out when popular characters/actors refer to real things in the entertainment world but they remain fictional, and some shows are really fast and loose about this -- I got a little vertigo once from two characters on some show talking about a real movie that one of the actors was in, and just ... I dunno, it's just weird.

(Note: I don't get all geeky-angry about this, I understand that it's fiction and doesn't matter, but it's just ... weird, sometimes, to think about.)

you guys, dont ever see "jay and silent bob strike back" or your might have some kind of seizure

Haha.

I don't mind when it's done purposefully, just when the weird tangles show up on their own. Like a world where Brad Pitt movies exist but then Brad Pitt plays a guy named Lou, and nobody goes "omg Lou, you look exactly like Brad Pitt."

Totally.

NB: Marijuana heightens these thoughts.

This is possibly a whole other thread.

I have never had those kinds of thoughts with certain things (e.g. Curb Your Enthusiasm seems to keep it very clean?), but then I'll be totally fascinated by, say, the SVU episode where future-ADA Novak is on trial for raping a guy.

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