# Resevoir Dogs - It's 6 guys, not 5. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 23, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562 "2011-06-23T15:42:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Surbey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4491bb/32.png) [@Surbey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Surbey)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562/1 "2011-06-23T15:42:00Z")
Why on earth do they keep saying “5 guys”. There are clearly 6 guys. White, Blonde, Blue, Pink, Brown, Orange. Whats the deal? Anyone else notice it? ---
**Author:** ![Candyman74](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Candyman74](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Candyman74)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562/2 "2011-06-23T16:04:59Z")
Maybe they’re not counting Tim Roth? Or whichever one died in the robbery. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562/3 "2011-06-23T16:18:22Z")
There are actually 8 “dogs” involved in the heist, counting Joe and Nice Guy Eddie, but only 5 principle characters show up at the warehouse: White, Orange, Blonde, Pink and the cop. Most of the action and dialogue in the movie is between those 5 guys in the warehouse. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562/4 "2011-06-23T16:24:22Z")
> [@Surbey](#): > > Why on earth do \*\*they \*\*keep saying “5 guys”. There are clearly 6 guys. > > White, Blonde, Blue, Pink, Brown, Orange. > > Whats the deal? Anyone else notice it? Who are “they”? The actors in the film? The mediocre hamburger sellers? Critics? Yo (collective) mammas? ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562/5 "2011-06-23T16:37:23Z")
There _is_ Joe’s “joke” at one point in the movie: > [@](#): > > Joe: So, you guys like to tell jokes, huh? Gigglin and laughin like > a bunch of young broads sittin in a schoolyard. Well, let me tell > a joke. Five guys, sittin in a bullpen, in San Quentin. All > wondering how the fuck they got there. What should we have done, > what didnt we do, whose fault is it, is it my fault, your fault, > his fault, all that bullshit. Then one of them says, hey. Wait a > minute. When we were planning this caper, all we did was sit around > tellin’ fuckin jokes! So evidently there were only five guys directly in on the caper. Maybe one of the six in the slow walking scene wasn’t directly in on the robbery. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562/6 "2011-06-23T16:43:46Z")
The poster is missing Mr. Brown (Tarantino) who is the only Mr. Color not to make it back to the warehouse. Tarantino was probably the one to approve the poster design and for some reason didn’t want to appear on it. ---
**Author:** ![muldoonthief](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muldoonthief/32/3188_2.png) [@muldoonthief](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/muldoonthief)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562/7 "2011-06-23T17:45:11Z")
Mr. Blue didn’t make it the warehouse either. The other 4 knew Mr. Brown was dead, but had no idea what happened to Mr. Blue until Joe told them he was “Dead as Dillinger”. ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562/8 "2011-06-23T18:10:45Z")
> [@muldoonthief](#): > > Mr. Blue didn’t make it the warehouse either. The other 4 knew Mr. Brown was dead, but had no idea what happened to Mr. Blue until Joe told them he was “Dead as Dillinger”. That’s right. For some reason I was thinking of Chris Penn as one of the colors. ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562/9 "2011-06-23T18:25:17Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > There are actually 8 “dogs” involved in the heist, counting Joe and Nice Guy Eddie, but only 5 principle characters show up at the warehouse: White, Orange, Blonde, Pink and the cop. Cop = Marvin. ---
**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562/10 "2011-06-23T19:00:57Z")
> [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](#): > > There _is_ Joe’s “joke” at one point in the movie: […] > > So evidently there were only five guys directly in on the caper. I assumed Joe was referring to his own past experience, or to other capers gone wrong that he knew something about. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562/11 "2011-06-23T19:18:15Z")
> [@Surbey](#): > > Why on earth do they keep saying “5 guys”. There are clearly 6 guys. > > White, Blonde, Blue, Pink, Brown, Orange. > > Whats the deal? Anyone else notice it? Should I spoiler a movie this old? It’s because Mr. Orange is a cop, and wasn’t really brought in FOR the heist. He’s there to set up Joe. Of course, just my take. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 23, 2011, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562/12 "2011-06-23T21:54:15Z")
> [@Superdude](#): > > Should I spoiler a movie this old? Yes, thanks, it’s the polite thing to do. While I’ve seen it, I haven’t seen everything and appreciate your taking the time. Also, consider how many movies you’d watched by the time you were 25. How many cinema greats that had come out when you were only six years old? Today’s 25-year-olds were only 6 when RD came out. Holy shit my math can’t be right. That makes me feel _old_! Oh, so old that I still ask–who is the _they_ the OP is referring to? ---
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562/13 "2011-06-24T00:51:37Z")
> [@Rhythmdvl](#): > > Oh, so old that I still ask–who is the _they_ the OP is referring to? [This poster](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Reservoir_dogs_ver1.jpg) is one such instance. ---
**Author:** ![Rhythmdvl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/85f322/32.png) [@Rhythmdvl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhythmdvl)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2011, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/resevoir-dogs-its-6-guys-not-5/586562/14 "2011-06-24T01:48:57Z")
Ahhhhhhh… thanks!