Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood

Release: January 12, 1996

Much as Keenen Ivory Wayans' I'm Gonna Git You Sucka parodied the basic elements of 70's blaxploitation pictures, this film written by and starring his younger brothers Marlon Wayans and Shawn Wayans pokes fun at the gritty "reality check" films of the 1990's, such as Boyz N The Hood, Menace II Society and New Jack City. When Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans), who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray keep living the straight life or will he join up with Loc Dog's gangsta homeboys? And is his romance with self-styled poet Dashiki (Tracey Cherelle Jones) going to go anywhere? Big brother Keenen has a small role as a mailman.

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Doo Rag: "What's up with them hoes tonight?"

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Loc Dog: "Well, I can see how a pretty little woman like yourself can make a man a little sick- I mean, nervous!"

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Preacher: "And that's what God expects from His sheep, here at the Greater Ebenezer New Revival Tree of Life Institutional Double Rock on the Side of the Road to Jericho Missionary Baptist Church of Zion! And I said Mount Cavalry! Huh! Y'all gonna help me!"

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Ashtray's Cellmate: "If you hit a man, in time his wounds will heal. If you steal from a man, you can replace what you've stolen. But always cross in the green, never in between. Because the honorable Elijah Muhammad Ali floats like a butterfly and stings like a bee. And always remember my brother, one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish, knick knack, paddy whack, give a dog a bone, two thousand, zero, zero, party, oops! Out of time, my bacon smellin' fine."

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Ashtray's Mother: "Tray, I don't want you hangin' out in the streets. I want you to finish school, 'cause without an education the only kind of work you're gonna get is sellin' drugs, pimpin' women, or workin' security for Eddie Murphy."

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Loc Dog: "Hey! Ms. Lady Bitch, I'm talking to you. How much for this candy bar?"

Korean Woman: "Das five dala!"

Loc Dog: "Five dollars? Damn! I better get some sucky-sucky with that! Love me long time or something?"

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Recruiter: "Well, I see your hobbies include 'drinkin', smokin' weed, and all kinds of ill shit.' "

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Loc Dog: "Name: Loc Dog, baby. Height: Six-deuce! Age: 19. Father's name: mmm... I dunno. Sex: hell yeah, nigga! Salary desired: 3 million dollars! Cash!"

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Grandma: "Ashtray! You little bitch ass motherfucker! Come over here and give your grandma a hug!"

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