Pardon My French - Deadwood

[@J_GoTTi]

Holy shit it’s so good to see Ricky Jay again… that man is an absolute ICON. Rest in peace my friend.

[@samiam7342]

you figure they would have had him running a table game where he deals the cards.......they could have done some great scenes with that........

[@grossgo]

I'm still in love with Joanie Stubbs after all these years !

[@smileyfawler8454]

She's absolutely gorgeous. Oddly enough, the actress isn't typically my type, but her entire demeanor, attitude, and dress sense really sells it. She's obviously very attractive, don't get me wrong, but she's not what I'd usually go for. She also looks like an old work colleague of mine who was also very attractive but I just didn't look at in that way. I'll make an exception for Joanie though. 🤣

[@andrewvanhalen1984]

Too bad her and the actress who played her are lesbians.

[@tomservo5347]

I think in Cy's expert eye of evaluation he had Al sized up as the real force of reckoning in Deadwood. The bartering with 'overlap' with Cy admonishing yet complimenting Al as the 'trailblazing type' with Al countering with "I get the unwashed bodies" yet it's politely batted away by reminding Al the smell of gold cuts through everything. So much happening in the exchange like a poker game-hiding hands, tipping cards, dropping a poker face for a split second. Cy has his cohorts to complete him, while Al is the three of them in one person so Cy is legitimately intimidated-and Al KNOWS it.

[@daddius]

The Custer/Crazy Horse analysis was both spot on and hilarious.

[@Gmthekiller]

Damm man. I didn't realize the context for this reference first time watching. Now this encounter maybe my favorite of all deadwood scenes

[@josephmulvihill3353]

I miss Deadwood. I miss the late night after Sopranos feel about it. And God do I miss Al Swearengen.

[@CognizantCheddar]

Not so sure I'd describe it as 'hilarious.'

[@PokerJeezus]

Joannie Stubbs.....as I live and breathe

[@LoudaroundLincoln]

She's something else eh?

[@anneominous7172]

@@LoudaroundLincoln Quite the daisy, yes...

[@jimmymeridian5174]

“8 o’clock? Good for you...”

[@northernstudioworks]

Would have loved to have seen more scenes with Al and Joanie. Would have been great to see how Kim and Ian played off each other.

[@PleaseDontDeleteMyComments]

That brief doubletake... He instantly knew she wasn't a lightweight.

[@vka337]

Cy knew what Al was the moment he laid eyes on him. And he was scared.

[@BonnChnd]

I don’t think Cy was scared of Al. He was definitely scared of Hearst and his “geologist” though. However, I believe Cy very quickly realized that Al was the smartest guy in any room and when it came to Civics and politics, moving pieces on a chessboard. Al was more of a leader in the community too as Cy did not have the smarts, savvy or ambition to expand himself.

[@Gmthekiller]

@@BonnChnd cy was too unpredictable and exponentially more ruthless for his own good

[@Alan_Page]

Certain facts show in the muck. Like you can look at a certain woman and know she's f*cked for food.

[@Losrandir]

I'm Al, the Swear Engine!

[@PokerJeezus]

Choo-choo mothafukas!

[@vaerii9094]

Oh I speak French

[@MACHOMANRANDYSAVAGE2211]

I always thought al and jonie stubbs had a story later on....after Cy died and she ran the bella....I know they had drinks more than once...

[@raskolnikov7049]

@@tipsymcstagger623 That she doesen't mind swearing

[@BoJangles42]

@@tipsymcstagger623 “pardon my French” is a way of saying “excuse my profanity”. Joanie replies “oh I speak French” as a way of saying “I’m well accustomed to profanity”

[@Losrandir]

I thought she simply replied that she actually knows some French, and Al didn't mean it that way

[@josephmulvihill3353]

When Joni says "Ohh I speak French." Al has his fantastic I'm about to slap the French outta you look that I loved so much.

[@jimmymeridian5174]

That line is actually my favourite in the entire series lol

[@josephmulvihill3353]

@@jimmymeridian5174 It ain't bad but I prefer the "Cat piss" quote. Or Charlie Utter's "Peeking out from under the sheets to make a f--king threat."

[@hibbidyjibbidyy]

cy has a lot of trust in his employees, let them speak to thier strengths. obviously jainie and cy had a pimp relationship

[@Losrandir]

I think it's more of an "oh that's cute!" look but maybe I'm just being lovely

[@CognizantCheddar]

I've always taken Al's expression there to indicate him thinking, _Crap, this brothel's ladies really do outclass mine, I'll have to adapt to this._ Which, of course, he does.

[@EEvans604]

Make more deadwood vids

[@scudrunner79]

Supposedly Al was to burn down the Gem in later seasons if they ran them. Can’t remember why though.

[@diaperfang5293]

I think it might've played a part in the unresolved fire that would almost destroy Deadwood arc that happened to the actual Deadwood.

[@CognizantCheddar]

Because that's the real life history. The Gem eventually burns down.

[@dankhank11]

I don't think Al was impressed or intimidated by Cy after this first exchange.

[@Losrandir]

Al has seen worse. ...which come to think of it, is pretty bad indeed.

[@CognizantCheddar]

I think he was impressed by Joanie. He did decide that Tolliver was someone he could out-alpha, though.

[@kollatt]

reminder that walcott turned down a kneeling joanie stubbs offering her services for free.

[@jimmykray9583]

Because he preferred more vulnerable women

[@CognizantCheddar]

Can't accept the services if one can't get the equipment ready to receive the services.

[@turdeyeblind]

Whats Faro?

[@grimmseti]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faro_(banking_game)

[@SLOTHSRIDEUNICORNS]

Gambling.

[@Studentofgosset]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faro_(banking_game)

[@JS-wp4gs]

Its a card game, not very well known or popular anymore but was very popular in the 19th century

[@stvdagger8074]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faro_(banking_game)

[@doveandiamond]

This scene is the closest they come to the fact that deadwood was in the heart of native land. Designated by the white government. All that metal belonged to the Sioux.

[@James-dc3yt]

The land belongs to whomever controls it

[@Sssatyzo]

@@James-dc3ytshut up

[@CognizantCheddar]

​@@James-dc3yt That point is that Deadwood was technically an illegal town, which is why they had to call it a 'camp' for so long. But the US government was certainly interested in the gold, so a blind eye was turned.

[@bernardsoul5186]

@@James-dc3yt you say that as if you were willing to give up your land to people who take it from you by force

[@TylerChamb]

@@bernardsoul5186 Uh huh. We stole it from the Sioux. So what, how'd the Sioux get it? Did they just spring up from the ground one day, spontaneously generated by the earth to people that land? Is that how they came into possession of it? No, it isn't. They came here from somewhere else and they did to another tribe that was there before them exactly what my 'tribe' did to them. The Sioux conquered and stole it from a completely different tribe, and some other nameless tribe stole it from them even longer ago, and those guys only got it because they conquered, killed, and took it from some other tribe. But the whites took it from the Sioux so we're the bad guys. No. We did to one tribe what every tribe did to every other tribe for about 10,000 years straight. Are we evil because we did it better? We were better at killing and conquering than all the other killers and conquerors, so F us, we have no natural right to be here and they do? Nobody "owns" any land. It's the earth. It's a big rock floating in outer space, surrounded by an endless void. Nobody owns it. You possess what you can assert your possession of. You have what you have the strength to keep. If you can lose it, it was never yours in the first place. And we all lose it in the end, so until the day that is no longer true, I'd imagine any discussion about the rights, virtues, and trespasses of one tribe of killers and conquerors over another can be comfortably relegated to the purely academic. As to your rhetorical question: if a foreign tribe of invaders came here for my land- no, I wouldn't give it up willingly, I'd fight to keep it- as the Sioux did. But another tribe that was on that same land before the Sioux once called it theirs, and they also fought for it when the Sioux came, but they were extirpated and destroyed; tribes, after conquering another tribe and taking their land, destroyed not only their blood but also their memory and name, so we don't even know of anything beyond their mere existence. At least when we conquered and stole we remembered the names of the defeated and destroyed, like "Sioux", or you wouldn't have them to invoke against us and bolster your poorly conceived inveighments with against the natural rights of US citizens to the land we're standing on. So what does any of that prove? It only proves everything I just said. Manifest destiny: it means, if you have the power to manifest it, then it IS destiny.

[@oscarhaydenperditionbound1195]

One of the few scenes where Al seemed genuinely out of his depth