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Ghetto
Ghetto noun - A poor densely populated city district occupied by a minority ethnic group linked together by economic hardship and social restrictions.
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- Parodied in Reno911, where a serial killer gives Jones one from his cell, and promptly gets everything wrong about Jones' "ghetto upbringing." The cops use him for computer advice.
Source: Hannibal Lecture -
Double Subversion in The French film Banlieue 13: a police officer is given the shutdown code to the bomb by cell phone — but it turns out that the code would have detonated the bomb immediately, taking out the entire ghetto with it.
Source: Wire Dilemma -
Hannibal Lecture: Parodied by Mike Powers right down to the glass cell on Jones by claiming to know about Jones's "gritty ghetto life." However, it fails as Jones casually admits he grew up in the well-off WASP-y suburb of Mound, Minnesota.
Source: Series / Reno 911!
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