"The Wire" on HBO

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

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.