Grandpa Gotti Gets Grouchy

August 18, 2004 3:34 PM

Blowing Up Gotti. A weekly series from The Smoking Gun featuring prison videotapes of John Gotti behind plexiglass talking to his kids and grandkids. Check out Episode One: Grandpa Blows a Gasket (Quicktime required). Makes you think twice about your baseball career. (Via Gawker).
posted by adrober (19 comments total)

Oh yeah, big man, he talks pretty tough when he's behind the glass...
posted by Turtles all the way down at 3:52 PM on August 18, 2004

It's funny seeing Gotti call anybody a lowlife.
posted by substrate at 4:11 PM on August 18, 2004

I'm seriouser than cancer?
posted by imaswinger at 6:06 PM on August 18, 2004

He's the best grampa in the whooooole world.
posted by LairBob at 6:25 PM on August 18, 2004

if he was really a good grandpa, he'd take their eyebrow tweezers away--jeez!
posted by amberglow at 6:38 PM on August 18, 2004

"you gotta become something before you can become a crook"
posted by dobbs at 7:52 PM on August 18, 2004

dobbs: that's what I thought he said on first listen. But I think the kid was saying he wanted to be a "cook".

Even worse, of course.
posted by Turtles all the way down at 8:35 PM on August 18, 2004

Yeah he said Cook which was upsetting because he didnt want his grandkid to be a nobody, he was going to be somebody, like a lawyer. But not a baseball player, they are liars.
posted by stbalbach at 9:29 PM on August 18, 2004

And several years later the mom, the kid and his siblings have their own reality show on A&E.
posted by flatlander at 10:09 PM on August 18, 2004

is gotti in for life?
posted by Satapher at 11:32 PM on August 18, 2004

/me lifts rock hes been hiding under for the past 2 years...

gotti is dead :)
posted by Satapher at 11:35 PM on August 18, 2004

Reminds me of my dad. "You see those mountains? There are places I could kill you and nobody would ever know about it."
posted by Keyser Soze at 2:23 AM on August 19, 2004

I look forward to the next installment.

Keyser, I hope you jest.
posted by wsg at 2:42 AM on August 19, 2004

Keyser's Dad: "Stupid worthless no good goddamn free loadin' son of a bitch retarded big mouth know it all asshole jerk!"
Keyser: "You forgot ugly lazy and disrespectful--"
KD: "Shut up bitch! Go fix me a turkey pot pie!"

etc...
posted by Ljubljana at 3:59 AM on August 19, 2004

heroin:oxycontin:oz:this
posted by jon_kill at 6:14 AM on August 19, 2004

A bit late, but:

Metafilter: Seriouser than Cancer.
posted by Turtles all the way down at 7:16 AM on August 19, 2004

Ya spoiled guinea brat! </Carlo>
posted by jpoulos at 11:20 AM on August 19, 2004

Ljubljana -- [TBS Made-For-TV Response] Flip you! FLIP YOU!!
posted by Civil_Disobedient at 11:25 AM on August 19, 2004

Melonfarmer!
posted by NortonDC at 7:34 PM on August 19, 2004