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The Wire - 100 Greatest Quotes

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Invisible_Insane said:
Stringer Bell's speech about the 40-degree day is probably the most hilarious characterization of mediocrity in the history of television.

"Don't nobody give a fuck about 40, nobody remember 40, and y'all niggas been giving me to many 40 degree days what the FUCK."
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I love that, especially the little dude's exclamation of "Like a 40-degree day!" two minutes after it. I was cracking up.

Although, 40 is pretty cold, especially for black folks! Maybe in Baltimore it's different.
 
"Do the chair know we gonna look like some punk ass bitches out there?"
Stringer: "Motherfucker!!"
Seeing Stringers response was hilarious. :lol

Too many good quotes on this fine show. Just finished it yesterday for the first time and it totally lived up to the hype.
 
Invisible_Insane said:
"This sentimental motherfucker just cost us money." -after Cheese is killed, I don't remember who.
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After that happened I did the air pump and started to laugh (the look on the some of the buyers faces was priceless).

Oh that was Slim Charles! He killed him because he sold out Prop Joe...
 
Listen to me, McNulty. You took a lot of risks. You played a lot of wild cards. And, you made a lot of fucking people do a lot of things they didn't want to do. You, McNulty, are a gaping asshole. I know it, and I'll be fucked if everybody in CID didn't know it. But I'll be also fucked if I let you sit here and think you did a single fucking thing to get a fucking police shot. Believe it or not, not everything is about you. Get it into your head McNulty. It's not your fault. And the motherfucker telling you this, he fucking hates your guts. So you know that if it was your fault, I'd be the first son of a bitch to tell you. Shit went bad, she took two for the company. That's the only lesson here.
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I love Rawls.
 
Fuck...

This made my heart warm. Amazing.

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To put this in geek terms...

It's like watching a speed run on your favorite old school video game. Reminscing about it.
 
State's Atty. Ilene Nathan: Mr. Little, how does a man rob drug dealers for eight or nine years and live to tell about it?
Omar: Day at a time I suppose?

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GREAT character.
 
oatmeal said:
Fuck...

This made my heart warm. Amazing.

(EDIT)
To put this in geek terms...

It's like watching a speed run on your favorite old school video game. Reminscing about it.
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:lol
 
Zeliard said:
"Bullshit, boy. No victim? I just came from Tosha's people, remember? All this death, you don't think it ripples out? You don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about. I was a few years ahead of you at Edmondson, but I know you remember the neighborhood, how it was. We had some bad boys, for real. Wasn't about guns so much as knowing what to do with your hands. Those boys could really rack. My father had me on the straight, but like any young man, I wanted to be hard too, so I'd turn up at all the house parties where the tough boys hung. Shit, they knew I wasn't one of them. Them hard cases would come up to me and say, "Go home, schoolboy, you don't belong here." Didn't realize at the time what they were doing for me. As rough as that neighborhood could be, we had us a community. Nobody, no victim, who didn't matter. And now all we got is bodies, and predatory motherfuckers like you. And out where that girl fell, I saw kids acting like Omar, calling you by name, glorifying your ass. Makes me sick, motherfucker, how far we done fell."

- Bunk Motherfuckin' Moreland
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I think that was one of my favourite scenes. It really puts the Omar character into perspective.

mamacint said:
We used to make shit in this country, build shit...now we just put our hands in the next guy's pocket
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One of the best quotes for sure. People who don't watch/like season 2 can fuck off.
 
I know its completely against the character of the series, and everything good about the show, but is it really so wrong for me to hope for a Brother Mouzone-Omar team up spin off? Is it so wrong? Is it so wrong its right?
 
D4Danger said:
One of the best quotes for sure. People who don't watch/like season 2 can fuck off.
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Really enjoyed S2.

Sure, it was nothing like S1, but it was still extremely entertaining, and pulled at the same heartstrings.
 
ConfusingJazz said:
I know its completely against the character of the series, and everything good about the show, but is it really so wrong for me to hope for a Brother Mouzone-Omar team up spin off? Is it so wrong? Is it so wrong its right?
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Don't you mean a Mouzone - Zombie Omar spin off?
 
I ordered the whole box set for 65 from amazon last year on christmas day. Sooo goood.
 
MrJames said:
What up, Bird.
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If I ever hear about the show, I almost always go back and watch this exact video along with the next scene (Bird going out in cuffs), and the lead up (Bird being interrogated). Omar is far and away my favorite character, but the whole series was so damn good.
 
"I'll slap the bright out his eyes"
Love that line.
And anything said by Jay Landsman.
E.g. "Don't it make your dick bust concrete"
 
BorkBork said:
Dukie: You remember that one day, summer past? When we threw them piss balloons at them Terrace boys? You remember, just before school started up again? You know, I took a beatdown from them boys. I don't even throw a shadow on it. That was a day. Y'all bought me ice cream off the truck. You remember, Mike?

Michael: ......... I don't.
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I love that scene. Can't even describe it...Michael's response is just perfect.
 
Does anyone have any recommendations of shows that come close the amazingness of the wire?
 
MThanded said:
Does anyone have any recommendations of shows that come close the amazingness of the wire?
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The Shield.

Not as good (let's face it, nothing will be), but still damn good.
 
MThanded said:
Does anyone have any recommendations of shows that come close the amazingness of the wire?
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Breaking Bad is, in my opinion, the best current show on TV. It comes close to the greatness of The Wire, setting aside whatever differences there maybe be between the respective political and sociological significance of each show. Like The Wire, Breaking Bad doesn't take any short-cuts, and develops its characters with a true-to-life subtlety. There have only been 2 seasons so far, one of which is very short.
 
Battersea Power Station said:
Breaking Bad is, in my opinion, the best current show on TV. It comes close to the greatness of The Wire, setting aside whatever differences there maybe be between the respective political and sociological significance of each show. Like The Wire, Breaking Bad doesn't take any short-cuts, and develops its characters with a true-to-life subtlety. There have only been 2 seasons so far, one of which is very short.
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I'll second this. Breaking Bad is a fantastic show and everyone should watch it.
 
Battersea Power Station said:
Breaking Bad is, in my opinion, the best current show on TV. It comes close to the greatness of The Wire, setting aside whatever differences there maybe be between the respective political and sociological significance of each show. Like The Wire, Breaking Bad doesn't take any short-cuts, and develops its characters with a true-to-life subtlety. There have only been 2 seasons so far, one of which is very short.
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Holy shit, other Breaking Bad fans on GAF? I've just started watching the show myself and can fully agree that the quality of BB is as high as that of The Wire, though i would say they are fairly different shows.
 
D4Danger said:
I think that was one of my favourite scenes. It really puts the Omar character into perspective.
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One of the reasons Omar is such a great character was his reaction to Bunk chewing him out. He really took it to heart.
 
One of the opening lines of the show which essentially characterises the entire fucked Capitalist ethos of western culture:

McNulty - "If Snotboogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play?"

Murder Witness - "You got to, this is America man."
 
sohois said:
Holy shit, other Breaking Bad fans on GAF? I've just started watching the show myself and can fully agree that the quality of BB is as high as that of The Wire, though i would say they are fairly different shows.
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Yah, Breaking Bad is real solid. PVC is stronger than porcelain :P
 
MThanded said:
Does anyone have any recommendations of shows that come close the amazingness of the wire?
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Homicide: Life on the Street

Mad Men

The Shield

OZ

I would rate those as probably better than The Wire......I'm looking forward to trying out Breaking Bad now that I've seen what AMC has done with Mad Men.
 
"I feel old. I been out there since I was 13. I ain't never fucked up a count, never stole off a package, never did some shit that I wasn't told to do. I been straight up. But what come back? Hmm? You'd think if I get jammed up on some shit they'd be like, "A'ight, yeah. Bodie been there. Bodie hang tough. We got his pay lawyer. We got a bail." They want me to stand with them, right? But where the fuck they at when they supposed to be standing by us? I mean, when shit goes bad and there's hell to pay, where they at? This game is rigged, man. We like the little bitches on a chessboard."

- Bodie

That was near the end of the 4th season. That last sentence tied back beautifully to D'Angelo's chess game allegory from Season 1. And it's just one sentence in a larger speech, but you know exactly what it refers back to.
 
"Ask him, like, who Young Leek be. 'Shakin' it, Jiggle it'? Or Kid Swift."
"Man, I don't know nothin' bout that 92Q shit, yo. Who gives a fuck, yo?"

For some reason this is like my favorite exchange in the whole show.
 
Zeliard said:
"Bullshit, boy. No victim? I just came from Tosha's people, remember? All this death, you don't think it ripples out? You don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about. I was a few years ahead of you at Edmondson, but I know you remember the neighborhood, how it was. We had some bad boys, for real. Wasn't about guns so much as knowing what to do with your hands. Those boys could really rack. My father had me on the straight, but like any young man, I wanted to be hard too, so I'd turn up at all the house parties where the tough boys hung. Shit, they knew I wasn't one of them. Them hard cases would come up to me and say, "Go home, schoolboy, you don't belong here." Didn't realize at the time what they were doing for me. As rough as that neighborhood could be, we had us a community. Nobody, no victim, who didn't matter. And now all we got is bodies, and predatory motherfuckers like you. And out where that girl fell, I saw kids acting like Omar, calling you by name, glorifying your ass. Makes me sick, motherfucker, how far we done fell."

- Bunk Motherfuckin' Moreland
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Seeing this all typed out like this made me realize how amazing that scene actually was. I remember some of his delivery but that monologue could be said in any number of ways but he nailed it.
 
border said:
OZ

I would rate those as probably better than The Wire......
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I have to disagree strongly. Oz was my favorite show before watching The Wire. After I saw The Wire, I rewatched Oz and was let down. It wasn't as good as I remember. That isn't to say it isn't good, but it isn't as good as The Wire.
 
border said:
The Shield

OZ

I would rate those as probably better than The Wire......I'm looking forward to trying out Breaking Bad now that I've seen what AMC has done with Mad Men.
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The Shield and Oz, while fine shows, are really not in the same ballpark. The Wire operates on a different level entirely. Those two are checkers, The Wire is chess.
 
Zeliard said:
"Bullshit, boy. No victim? I just came from Tosha's people, remember? All this death, you don't think it ripples out? You don't even know what the fuck I'm talking about. I was a few years ahead of you at Edmondson, but I know you remember the neighborhood, how it was. We had some bad boys, for real. Wasn't about guns so much as knowing what to do with your hands. Those boys could really rack. My father had me on the straight, but like any young man, I wanted to be hard too, so I'd turn up at all the house parties where the tough boys hung. Shit, they knew I wasn't one of them. Them hard cases would come up to me and say, "Go home, schoolboy, you don't belong here." Didn't realize at the time what they were doing for me. As rough as that neighborhood could be, we had us a community. Nobody, no victim, who didn't matter. And now all we got is bodies, and predatory motherfuckers like you. And out where that girl fell, I saw kids acting like Omar, calling you by name, glorifying your ass. Makes me sick, motherfucker, how far we done fell."

- Bunk Motherfuckin' Moreland
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My favorite part about this quote is that
the kid Bunk saw glorifying Omar was Kenard who goes on to kill Omar
 
sangreal said:
My favorite part about this quote is that
the kid Bunk saw glorifying Omar was Kenard who goes on to kill Omar
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Yeah, a rather ironic and non-ceremonial
end to Omar
. Very fitting.
 
Amir0x said:
Waiting for THE WIRE (Blu-Ray Collector's Edition), release date soon plz!

Best show ever made on television.
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Has there been any mention of this? I am down day one.
 
Amir0x said:
Waiting for THE WIRE (Blu-Ray Collector's Edition), release date soon plz!

Best show ever made on television.
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I needs this
 
I'd say The Wire is the best show ever made
next to The Shield
of course. Good video, thanks for the link OP.


Homicide, Six Feet Under, Oz round out my top 5.
 
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