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Pootie Tang grows up in a small town outside Gary, Indiana, where he loses his mother, Momma Dee, and then his father, Daddy Tang, killed by a gorilla at the steel mill. His father leaves him a belt and tells him that while right is on his side he can beat anyone with it, and warns him not to let women come between him and it. As a young man Pootie sings in nightclubs, records hit songs, speaks to children in public service announcements, and stops wrongdoers with the belt. Dick Lecter, chief operating officer of LecterCorp, sees that Pootie's standing with the public hurts his bottom line. His henchmen and the villain Dirty Dee are turned back by Pootie's friends, so Lecter asks Ireenie, his right-hand woman, to draw Pootie in.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Pootie Tang (2001)
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- Louis C.K. has said that he was all but fired from the film during the editing phase, and that according to him Ali LeRoi was hired to extensively re-edit it.
- After watching Louis C.K. talk to Caldecot Chubb, one of the movie's producers, Rock predicted that Chubb would eventually betray an unsuspecting C.K. and take the movie away from him.
- Openly agreeing with Roger Ebert's dismissive criticism that the movie should not have even been released, C.K. has said that the finished product, though containing parts he enjoyed, was far from his own vision.
- The film's slang reached hip-hop: the chorus of Snoop Dogg's song "Bo$$ Playa", from his 2002 album Paid tha Cost to Be da Boss, name-checks Pootie Tang and his catchphrase "Sa Da Tay".
- In 2009 A.V. Club writer Scott Tobias revisited the film for his New Cult Canon series, noting that "Pootie Tang repelled mainstream critics and audiences, but it holds an exalted status among alt-comedians and fans of subversive anti-comedy".
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