Vote for (pretend) Burpee dialogue in ‘The Shield’

2 comments November 4th, 2008

Here’s an inside scoop for fans awaiting the final episode of FX’s gritty, rogue-cop series, “The Shield.”
It’s one that’ll pique the interest of Rockfordians in general as well.
And it’s 100 percent credible because it came right from the writer’s mouth.
Drum roll, please …
One of Rockford’s gems will be mentioned in the Nov. 25 finale, Shawn Ryan told me in a telephone interview last month from his Los Angeles home. The internationally recognized gem: Burpee Museum of Natural History, home to Jane and Homer and other up-and-coming dinosaur bone collections.

Ryan is a Rockford native who created and produces the award-winning, seven-season series about inner-city Los Angeles cops who aren’t above breaking the law. He wrote more than 55 episodes, including the final one. Rockford won’t be mentioned in the last show, Ryan said. All the detail he would provide about this exclusive scoop was to say: “It’s in the dialogue.”
Because Ryan wouldn’t be specific about the context in which the Burpee’s name will be heard on the already completed final show of “The Shield,” I’m entertaining your ideas.
Just for the fun of it, create your own scenario/dialogue in which you think the Burpee’s name could be (or should have been) mentioned in “The Shield” finale, or choose from a couple we at the newspaper have made up.