# Shawshank Redemption quote **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 22, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shawshank-redemption-quote/318191 "2005-08-22T23:23:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shawshank-redemption-quote/318191/1 "2005-08-22T23:23:08Z")
Theres a line i could never quite make out in the Shawshank Redemption: As Andy is about to be thrown off the roof by a gaurd who thinks he’s being smart-mouthed, the gaurd says something along the lines of " I dont need no smart wife-killing banker to tell me where the bears shits in the fuckweek" Where the nears shits, i get, but whats the rest? ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shawshank-redemption-quote/318191/2 "2005-08-22T23:24:47Z")
> [@bubastis](#): > > Where the nears shits, i get, but whats the rest? Uh, thats “Bears” :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Weirddave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/919ad9/32.png) [@Weirddave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weirddave)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shawshank-redemption-quote/318191/3 "2005-08-22T23:43:45Z")
Buckwheat? ---
**Author:** ![Santos\_L\_Halper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/santos_l_halper/32/1_2.png) [@Santos\_L\_Halper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Santos_L_Halper)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shawshank-redemption-quote/318191/4 "2005-08-22T23:55:51Z")
Yeah, the DVD sub-titles say it’s “buckweat”. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2005, 11:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shawshank-redemption-quote/318191/5 "2005-08-22T23:56:08Z")
Yup. It’s ‘buckwheat’. ---
**Author:** ![bubastis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d07c76/32.png) [@bubastis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bubastis)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shawshank-redemption-quote/318191/6 "2005-08-23T00:00:36Z")
Uh… I still dont get it. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Hung\_Mung](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@Hung\_Mung](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hung_Mung)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shawshank-redemption-quote/318191/7 "2005-08-23T00:39:37Z")
[This](http://www.psycomp.com/images/buckwheat.jpg) should enlighten you. ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 12:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shawshank-redemption-quote/318191/8 "2005-08-23T00:43:37Z")
> [@bubastis](#): > > Uh… I still dont get it. 😕 Bears shitting in buckwheat is cliche. A different, similar expression might be “I don’t need some smart wife-killin’ banker to tell _me_ the sun rises in the east!” ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Jones](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/96bed5/32.png) [@Cat\_Jones](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Jones)\ **Post date:** [August 23, 2005, 8:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/shawshank-redemption-quote/318191/9 "2005-08-23T08:24:25Z")
Are European bears better bred ? They shit in the woods.