[PREVIEW] 🎙🧚♀️ #043 - New Jack City
from Commentary Fairy
Wesley Snipes is injecting the Big Apple with crack and Ice-T wants to spray him with arresticide. That's right - it's 1991 and you're in New Jack City, New Jack State. Suits were 12 sizes too big, bling was a danger to your spine and France wanted its entire supply of berets back. Discussed in this episode: Aiming for the Achilles tendon Club Spottite Struggling to understand what "new jack" means (it's not someone's name) Ice-T, your # 1 drug rehab aerobics partner Ice-T confusing "undercover" for "under the cover of desperate amounts of bling" The set designer from Batman & Robin Showy limp-wrist flicky-flick knives - the nunchucks of bladed weapons Crying Game fear Always secure your timed explosives to a fixed structure, such as a Rock Wesley blading people pre-Blade Making sure Pookie - the drug addict thief you shot in the ankle, wasted ten years putting through rehab, put on an infiltration mission and were screwed over by when he reverted to drugs - didn't die in vain. Changing fashions, always for the better, until the 30-years-later retrospective Putting no effort into naming your boys-only LA gang The benefits of going undercover with powerful criminals - naked pool hos Getting cold feet at a wedding because you've been shot dead Small children making inadequate human shields in terms of surface area Ice-T's New Jack City music video If your armed criminal friend meets with you alone on a rooftop at night and starts crying, run. Better still, don't attend the rooftop catch-up. Erectile dis-gun-tion How to win the war on drugs: shoot the drug dealers. Thanks to Mr. Porter for the suggestion! (if you want to sync it up to the film, we hit PLAY @ 04:36)
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