Now, here’s an interesting thing. Both the New York Times and the Washington Post quote a line from tonight’s premiere of Everybody Hates Chris.
In the Post, Chip Crews quotes it thusly:
That’s 49 cent of spilt milk dripping all over my table. Somebody gonna drink this milk!
Then, the infamously inaccurate Alessandra Stanley quotes it so:
That’s 49 cents of spilled milk dripping off my table. Somebody is going to drink that milk.
I’m going to go out on a limb right now, without having seen the program, and suggest that Stanley has engaged in an attempt to take the ghetto out of the line-reading by Terry Crews. Let’s slip on over to the UPN site and watch the video preview. Yup. That’s what she done.
Perhaps in the future, we can look forward to Ms. Stanley’s rendering of “Boy, I am certainly going to whoop your ass so hard that it will surely hurt a great deal.”
UPDATE: How do the nation’s TV writers do at accurately rendering a financial analysis in Bed-Stuy? The (Bergen) Record, The (Montreal) Gazette, The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The (Albany) Times Union, and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (!) all got it wrong, using the phrase “49 cents.” Salon’s Heather Havrilesky and Maureen Ryan, at the Chicago Tribune, both got it right as “49 cent.” At the very least, don’t these people have a passing familiarity with rap music?