# Reservoir Dogs Reservoir Dogs is Quentin Tarantino's 1992 crime thriller about a diamond heist gone wrong, told through color-coded criminals with names like Mr. White, Mr. Pink and Mr. Orange. The film's slow-motion suit walk, ear-slicing torture scene and Mr. Pink's rant about tipping became recurring reference material across cartoons, YouTube edits and reaction jokes decades after release. ## Origin Reservoir Dogs was written and directed by Quentin Tarantino and premiered at the Sundance Film Festival's Holiday Village Cinema in January 1992[3]. Tarantino, then a clerk at the Video Archives rental store, originally planned to shoot the script for around $30,000 with friends before Harvey Keitel read the script, signed on as Mr. White and came aboard as a producer, which unlocked the real budget[3]. The Sundance debut famously went sideways when the projectionist lacked the correct aperture plate for the widescreen print and only a third of the frame was visible, prompting Tarantino to stand up and yell for the projection to stop[3]. The film has openly acknowledged debts to Stanley Kubrick's The Killing and Ringo Lam's City on Fire. A 1994 short titled Who Do You Think You're Fooling cut the heist sequences side by side, and Film Theorists later revisited the comparison in a February 10, 2016 breakdown[2]. - **Platform:** Theatrical film (Sundance premiere 1992) / YouTube and TV (parody spread) - **Creator:** Unknown - **Date:** 1992 ## Overview The recurring visual joke pulled from Reservoir Dogs is the opening slow-motion shot of six men in matching black suits and skinny ties walking abreast down a Los Angeles street to George Baker Selection's "Little Green Bag"[1]. Edits swap the criminals for cartoon characters, sports teams, politicians and video game rosters while keeping the identical framing and song cue, which is the visual shorthand people mean when they call something a "Reservoir Dogs walk." The film also seeded two dialogue bits that outlived the movie itself. Steve Buscemi's Mr. Pink monologue about refusing to tip waitresses became a copypasta and quote-image staple, and Mr. Blonde's line "I don't tip because society says I have to" is a common Twitter reaction pull[3]. The color-coded aliases (Mr. White, Mr. Orange, Mr. Blonde, Mr. Pink, Mr. Blue and Mr. Brown) are so recognizable that any group-of-strangers-with-code-names bit tends to get compared to it[3]. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### What is Reservoir Dogs? Reservoir Dogs is Quentin Tarantino's 1992 crime thriller about a diamond heist that unravels among criminals using color-coded aliases like Mr. White and Mr. Pink[3]. ### Where did Reservoir Dogs come from? Tarantino wrote and directed it while working at the Video Archives rental store, and it premiered at Sundance in January 1992 with Harvey Keitel producing and co-starring[3]. ### What does Reservoir Dogs mean as a meme? Online it usually means the opening slow-motion walk of six men in black suits set to "Little Green Bag," a shot endlessly re-edited on YouTube with different casts[1]. ### How do you use Reservoir Dogs as a reference? Common uses include swapping the suit walk with cartoon or sports rosters[1], quoting Mr. Pink's anti-tipping rant, or invoking the ear-scene parody the way "Reservoir Cats" did on The Simpsons[3]. ### Is Reservoir Dogs still popular? Yes, it topped Empire's Greatest Independent Films list and is still pulled into video essays and edits, including the Film Theorists' 2016 comparison with City on Fire[2]. ## References 1. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLPJSmUHZvU]() 2. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZMFPcvMIM8]() 3. [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/reservoir-dogs]() 4. [https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Reservoir%20Dogs]() 5. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaNSkpSpsmg]() --- Source: https://meme.com/memes/reservoir-dogs Published by meme.com — The Internet Meme Library