It's All In The Game (Of Thrones)

"It ain't what you takin', it's who you takin' from, ya feel me? How you expect to run with the wolves come night when you spend all day sparring with the puppies?"

Game of Thrones meets The Wire. I let out an audible "Yes!" when I came across Matt Leunig's It’s All In The Game. So much win.

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The Wire: The Musical!

The Wire: The Musical with Michael Kenneth Williams from Michael Kenneth Williams

Experience The Wire's realistic portrayal of America’s failing drug war through the magic of song! Oh god, someone is going to make this. (Funny or Die)

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The Wire: 8-Bit

A man got to have a code. This would make an awesome King's Quest-style video game. (The Wire iotacons by Andy Rash)

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Muppet Babies Meets The Wire

Another awesome Wire mashup from Warren Ellis's REMAKE/REMODEL challenge, this time imagining Bubbles as Fozzie Bear Scooter, Brother Mouzone as Gonzo and Kermit as Omar Little. (Wire Babies by Felipe Sobreiro)

And, because it really does seem a perfect fit, the cops of The Wire in Police Academy, by Mike O'Dwyer.

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The Wire: The Animated Series

The latest REMAKE/REMODEL challenge from Warren Ellis is to create The Wire, The Animated Series, and Paul Sizer went old-school, Saturday morning Hanna-Barbera. Can't wait to see some more.

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I seriously can't express how much I miss The Wire. I love this alignment chart by MightyGodKing, who just ran a week of this kind of inspired pop culture geekery.

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Pop Culture Character Alignment

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A Monopoly version of The Wire? Oh, hell yes! From The Poke:

Based around the journey a young gangster might take through the fictionalised Baltimore of the show, players move from corner to stoop, past institutions featured in successive series like the school system and the stevedores union, acquiring real estate, money and power before ending up at the waterfront developments and City Hall itself.

“We hope The Wire Monopoly game will go down well not just with fans of the show, but everyone who secretly wishes to be a poor violent black drug dealer from America.

I would play this in a heartbeat. (Link via The Ampersand)

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Toy Story Wire: Way Down In The Hole

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You Sank My Battleship

Toy Story Wire: Way Down In The Hole

The Wire and Toy Story together at last! I think I witnessed a little piece of heaven with this mashup. Love the characterizations: Woody as McNulty, Buzz Lightyear as Stringer Bell. That's comedy, well as least if you've watched The Wire. (Link via forces of geek)

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Play Her Off, Lornecat!

Play Her Off, Lornecat
Saturday Night Live newcomer Jenny Slate said a bad word this weekend. She said "fucking" instead of "frickin" and even the New York Times has weighed in. Oh my frickin ears! I'd rather hear the word fuck over and over again then to have to read the word F-bomb one m0re time. (Link via Buzzfeed)

If you're going to swear, just get right out there and do it like McNulty and Bunk do on The Wire, solving a murder with only one word.


The Wire
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