Corner Boys
| "Corner Boys" | |
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| Episode no. | Season 4 Episode 8 |
| Directed by | Agnieszka Holland |
| Story by |
Ed Burns Richard Price |
| Teleplay by | Richard Price |
| Original air date | November 5, 2006 |
| Running time | 58 minutes |
| Guest appearance(s) | |
"Corner Boys" is the eighth episode of the fourth season of the HBO original series The Wire. Written by Richard Price from a story by Ed Burns & Richard Price, and directed by Agnieszka Holland, it originally aired on November 5, 2006.
"Corner Boys" references the terminology used to describe the disruptive students in school, and the focus taken by Colvin's group to relate to them in terms of what they know: the streets of Baltimore. The term comes from Baltimore area slang for the street level drug dealers, usually adolescent males, who literally stand on street corners and sell drugs.
Zenobia makes this statement in Colvin's class to back up Namond, claiming that the students' drug dealing is related to the activities of larger legitimate systems.
The police wake for Raymond Foerster is a tribute to Richard DeAngelis, the actor who played Foerster. He died from prostate cancer during the shooting of Season 4.The Pogues' "The Body of an American" is played at the wake at Kavanaugh's bar, as it had been at Ray Cole's wake from the third season.
Although credited Andre Royo, Seth Gilliam, Chad L. Coleman, Glynn Turman, J.D. Williams, Michael K. Williams and Corey Parker Robinson do not appear in this episode.
Roland "Prez" Pryzbylewski takes his second class of the day. He sets them a problem requiring division of apples between people. Randy Wagstaff is distracted by his classmate Calvin. Prez asks Calvin the answer and Calvin guesses correctly. He explains his rationale to the class: when going through the problem with the previous class, Prez tapped the correct answer several times, leaving chalk marks around it.
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