The Wire Season 4

[buffcoat]

Little known fact: The guy who says "sheeit" has been a murderer, a cop or both (!) in every single episode of every version of "Law & Order."

[Dan B]

Sheeeeeit is my current catchphrase.

[bruce]

Little known fact: The guy who says "sheeit" has been a murderer, a cop or both (!) in every single episode of every version of "Law & Order."

Even though both shows were cancelled he was never on Law & Order: Conviction or Trial By Jury.

[buffcoat]

Bruce, to quote Foghorn Leghorn, "That's a joke, son - a joke!"

Did you also notice that there were at least two episodes of "Law and Order: SVU" that the actor was never on?  (That's a joke, too).

There's an early Peanuts cartoon where Lucy is telling Linus some "little known facts."  The last panel is her whispering an aside and saying, "They're little known because I make em up."

[Sarah]

One of my favorite scenes in, I think, the first season of The Wire features dialogue that consists entirely of the word "fuck."  It was beautiful.  A lesson in inflection for us all.

[Omar]

One of my favorite scenes in, I think, the first season of The Wire features dialogue that consists entirely of the word "fuck."  It was beautiful.  A lesson in inflection for us all.

It was indeed the first season -- Bunk and McNulty.  Classic.

[Omar]

Also the only real person on the cast with the drug selling background is the guy who plays the soft spoken Deacon. He was actually part of a case David Simon witnessed while doing research for the book Homicide.

The Deacon was actually more than just part of a drug case -- he was the Avon Barksdale of his day.  Has anyone read the Rafael Alvarez book that came out in 2004?

http://www.amazon.com/Wire-Truth-Be-Told/dp/0743497325

Simon's intro is fantastic, and it gives a lot of interesting background on a lot of the characters' real-life counterparts.

[bruce]

I flipped through it when it came out and loooked mainly like episode summaries so I passed. Did read the book the Corner was based on and that was fantastic.

Just pick up Baltimore Noir instead Omar

[Mark]

I've got the Alvarez book, and yeah, while it has a good Simon intro and some nice background info on the real-life Bubbles and the guy that plays Proposition Joe, you can probably find most of it online. The episode summaries are somewhat illuminating, but, you know, they're just episode summaries.