THE WIRE - 100 Greatest Quotes (spoilers)
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- Опубликовано: 12 ноя 2009
- From Harry Hanrahan... A selection of the top 100 quotes from The Wire, the greatest TV show ever made. Contains spoilers from all 5 seasons! First featured on Pajiba.com.
See any quotes missing? Try the sequel...."The Other 100 Greatest Wire Quotes"...
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Featuring Omar, Bubbles, Bunk, McNulty, Rawls, Stringer, Avon, Snoop, Marlo, Cheese, Prop Joe, Clay Davis and many many more! 
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Not a single Emmy for one of the greatest tv shows in history? Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
*sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeyyyitttt
Thee greatest in my opinion
@@011earlthusi Ditto!!!
Kyle Davis too many black faces
Doesn't need Emmys... the game is the game yo
'' Nigga is you taking notes , for a criminal FUCKING conspiracy '' Best line in the show
Lol, arguably
''Money ain't got no owners, only spenders'' That line always stood out to me, Omar sure did have a way with words lol.
DDdastard06 he does have a point. You can spend your entire life saving money, but eventually, it needs to get spent or lose it
Oh indeed.
DDdastard06 Omar was an educated man.
“Don’t know much about cards but I think these 45’s beat a full house “
@@arigrant8509 lol Or is it "four 5's"? I guess four of a kind does beat a full house in cards, and literally his .45s are defeating the full "house" of card players in that room. That line always sticks out for its double meaning.
“Is you taking notes? On a criminal fucking conspiracy?”
Makes me laugh every single time!
Rawls to Mcnulty when he found out he faked the serial killer:
"Youre not killin them yourself are you? at least give me that"
The Wire has no filler episodes, EVERY single episode is crucial to the bigger context. The dialogues are incredibly written, they just have so much depth. The directing, the locations, the characters, man this show has no equal.
“I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. All in the game though, right?”
R.I.P. Michael K. Williams. No one, and I mean, NO ONE could have played Omar with the same level of intimidation, wit, and charm better than you. 😔
👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Agreed!!!!!
Oh indeed
Oh, really!? Such a loss!
"The Cheese stands alone" Omar
the guy who played mclovin in superbad could have pulled this role off.
You missed the best quote
brother Mouzone - "You sure you can't miss?"
Omar - "From this range? With this caliber? Even if I miss, I can't miss."
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!
Worrying about you is like wondering if the sun gonna come up, best compliment ever.
I think Brother says "you might not hit me" instead of that quote. Then Omar replied with that.
Omar listening
This is what I was waiting for, one of my favs besides “what do absolved mean?”
"Ain't no shame holding on to grief, as long as you make room for other things"-Bubbles. The saddest and most uplifting quote of the show all in one sentence.
Wallace said that first
@@Luke-pt4so really? what episode?
Truth 👊
Thin line between heaven and here..
The most important one was left out;
" Omar coming" 🙂
Omars best isnt here?! 'Boy you got me confused with a man who repeats himself'
It's missing a lot. Avon/Stringer balcony scene, Lester's "A life, Jimmy, you know what that is?" etc
Boy you want a head on that body? You best hop to!
@@AlphaHatsuseno SNOOP: "How my hair look, Mike?"
MICHAEL: "You look good, girl."
POW!
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEET!!!!!!
"I'm willing to bet these 4 5s beat a full house."
Snoop: how my hair look Mike?
Mike: you look good, girl.
Blows head off.
Edward Jones greatest murder scene ever
CLASSIC quote !!!!
That shit was COLD as hell..Snoop was a fucking monster in that show
Edward Jones you make it sound like she got shot from a 9 gauge up close lmfao
Most memorable line of the series for me.
The dopest line in the entire series...
“What’s the most dangerous thing in America? A ni##a with a library card.”
Yessir!! Brother Mouzone!
Na man, it good...but not tha best.
Ain't nowhere near it.
Steven Tremino nah its way powerfull than the man needs a code...Cause Omars quote sound kinda generic and batmanly style but Brother's has way more inmpact than just an emotional scene...Even out of context its just powerful..I aint even from America and that shit still inspires me,better play the smart card than the hard one...Cause anyone can get shot and die but stand up as a minority against a corrupt system is a whole other thing.Slim Charles survived cause he was tough,lucky and smart at the same time and always knew his place so didnt do something that would be harmfull for him.Stringer came down cause police,Avon and Marlo were all against him,it was a time thing but had so many enemies because he was dangerous in different worlds.Of course Omar's theory about life is awesome too dont get me wrong.
@@bratantm9385 yeah but the "a ##### with a library card quote" didnt even come from the show its a pretty popular quote from malcolm X so the fact its unoriginal takes a lot of points away from it.
Actually the best was at 8:39
"You cant call this a War"
"Why?"
"Wars end"
Vena Retro The greatest statement ever made in this show!
let me just write down
Middle East says hello
chaos knight they call that a conflict now
@@chaosknight9315 Europe has been at war with itself for 99.9% of its existence.
The greatest stain in Emmy history is the fact that they never even gave one award to this greatest of TV shows. Its an outright farce when you consider Felicity has more Emmys than The Wire. That the greatest drama (television or movie) in American history was so ignored by its supposed gatekeepers speaks to the overhyped foolery that passes for artistic merit in our society. This show was pearls before swine.
+Ramon Suarez The Wire never won an Emmy?Shieeeeeeeeeeeeet!
It won a better award than any other show, the creator won the genius award, the MacArthur, for a TV show. So that's better than an Emmy.
+Ramon Suarez this show was the greatest thing since I saw a real life gun fight on hill street blues....and that says something since HSB was the original and The Wire did it better
manchesterblue2007
Thats becase they had David Simon.
+Tamarau A lots of latinos in breaking bad.
“You’re just a kid.” *blows off knee cap* Micheal: “That’s just your knee.”
"I ain't no suit wearing business man like you, you know, I'm just a gangsta, I suppose...And I want my corners." One of the best quotes on the show, epic.
To too many good life guouts
I'm so glad HBO let this show run for a good 5 seasons despite the less than amazing ratings. Really shows that HBO is willing to fund quality shows that can gain cult popularity later.
Eh, I wouldn't give them that much credit. Just look at what they did to Deadwood.
And even with The Wire, they cut them down to ten episodes for the fifth season, which made it so they couldn't develop the newsroom story line as well as they would have liked.
Spencer James also tells you the general publics TV tastes are shitty. Same thing with 30 rock which is possibly the wittiest sitcom ever
Spencer James not true.....HBO knew the show was hit, by the 4 episode in the first season....
John Lawson ratings died around the fourth season I guess people couldn't catch up as the plot is told from like 20 different perspectives? That alone shows how great this show was
Check out The Leftovers. Awesome show that will hit cult status soon.
"I don't know about cards, but I think these four fives beat a full house."
Such a damn good line. In poker, four fives do indeed beat a full house. In that room, Omar's 45s can easily beat a "full house" of players. Brilliant!
Definitely brilliant
3 year old comment but FYI a two pair(two 4s and two 5s) doesn’t actually beat a full house in poker
@@Joseph-lj4sp No, but a total of 4 cards with the value of 5 each does. I don't think most people think of two pairs when they hear "four fives."
@@lightandtheheat I was thinking it it as he has two .45s. Hence a hand of two 4s two 5s. I suppose it can be taken either way so fair.
@@Joseph-lj4sp no, it was meant as 4 5s. That's why it was such a great line.
The greatest tv show ever made in my opinion. "Where the FUCK is Wallace?!?"
That was some emotional shit right there.
If his bitch ass mom didn’t quite him down this show would have been 3 seasons shorter
"You want it to be one way, but it's the other way" - Marlo Stanfield
Also a major absence, but still plenty of good quotes
Never got why he said that to the security
Man this is a great job but I think you missed one of the best:
"- It's a cold world.
- I thought you said it was getting warmer.
- World going one way, people another, yo"
Missed another great one
Mrs daniels "the tree that doesn't bend, breaks"
Daniels "bend too far and you're already broken"
+Shoaib Ashraf "ain't no rules for dope feens"
"You want things to be one way. But they the other way." -Marlo
"It ain't about deserving it." -Snoop
"You should've been a father"- The Greek
"I ain't like you pop" "Malaka"- Ziggy Sobotka
Omni Bala love that quote, it's in his other video
"U know who got the fat ass and best pussy, midgets" Cheese Wagstaff
' You come at the King you best not miss '
best line in any tv show or film ever made
Wasn’t even Omar’s best line.
I don't know about cards but I think 2 four fives beats a full house.
The hyperbole surrounding this show needs to stop. You get temporarily excited about something and proclaim it to be the best ever in history.
@@Enigmatism415 Chinese.
Then when he got the chance to kill Avon he missed. Ironic.
McNulty: Well, if every time, Snot Boogie stole the money, why’d you let him play?
Witness: Got to. It’s America, man.
That very first scene drew me in instantly
Scrolled a long time to see this. Best line by far.
'tis America, man.
They missed the best quote:
“Like a forty degree day!”
That sheeeeit was classic.
70 degree day in New Orleans.....
No show in my life has made me analyzed society and myself as an individual in such society like The Wire. Best show I've ever seen in my life, because it goes beyond being just a show. It's a grim reality we face in this world. This show should be analyzed in schools for god sakes!
It is… there's even courses in Harvard and no I am not making this up…
I know, but it should be on more schools.
Van Mor Better than having to read The Scarlet Fucking Letter.
It’s quite Dickensian.
"Either do it or don't, but I got some places to be."
Wow. That line epitomises everything about Marlo. Amazing.
"Now, Joe, I need you to resist your natural inclination to do anything twisted up in this here play, you feel me?"
they forgot the one where Slim Charles berates Sapper and Gerard for messing up Omar's grandmother's crown
"I'm standing here holding a torn-up church crown of a bona fide colored lady. Do you know what a colored lady is? Not your moms, for sure. 'Cause if they was that, y'all would've known better than that bullshit"
Yes!!!
On a Sunday morning....
The wire was like a drug to me, had to get my fix but once i finished it... 'Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiit', i just started watching deadwood but nothing can beat the final episode of the wire such a good round-off.
Hahaha Clay Davis
DEAD!!!!!!
BLONDIE ! 😂😂😂
LMAO!!
I literally just watched the last episode and this is the first place I came, wow the journey was incredible
same
Hahah me almost
Easily the greatest show of all time
Same ...fantastic show
I really believe that Wood Harris as Avon was the best actor in this series, and that's saying something, since The Wire somehow managed to bring together dozens of incredibly talented performers.
+Buffoon1980 For me it was Bubbs how on earth did he manage to play a crackhead so amazingly and effortlessly
that shit was off the hook, and that girl Snoop I was shocked when I found out that was a girl and not a boy
Also that in real life she was a proper criminal and actually talks like that normally.
Man it has to be Michael K. Williams as Omar. Best performance ever by anyone
Disagree. I think Idris Elba, especially given the fact he isn’t even American. That’s not to say that Wood Harris isn’t fantastic as Avon though.
Amazing actors all around that's why show was so great.
"Thought i might legalize drugs".
Hamsterdam
@@earldouglas1657 xd
Aged like warm milk
they missed the best one from bubbles, season 1, when he tried to get that nocko to look like a junkie, ''SHIT, YOU MARRIED TO THAT NEEDLE , BOY! You pawned that wedding ring a long time ago!''
I have seen these shows over and over. This has to be the best series ever.
Lmao, this show has so many great quotes damn. The writers should be hired for every fecking series yo cause the Wire is levels ahead of the rest.
where is "life is the shit that happens while you're waiting for moments that never come"?
besides that my top pick is "money ain't got no owners. only spenders."
*Prop joe* : "fool,...
If it wasnt for Segi here you and your cousin would be some Cadaverous mutha F***krs"
And
*Sergi* : "in this country Supermarkets are Cathedrals"
I really miss some of those Jay Landsman quotes. He had a golden tongue for analogies.
Micheal B Jordan came a long ass way.....
Skol TV holy shit!!! Y’all right!!! After I read your comment I realized he’s the little skinny dude who said “this is my shit here”
Skol TV you know who had been acting for a long ass time but doesn’t get his due!? The dude that loved his fishes! That dude had been acting for like 20 plus years now. I remember him in Clockers. Last big film he was in that I can remember was Brooklyn’s Finest.
He's always snitchin ass Wallace to me. I can't see anything else
I remember when he was on the soap opera "All my children" lol
I remember when he got kicked off the baseball team in Hardball for being too old lol
5 reasons why The Wire is such a great show to watch:
- It takes you and the audience seriously (the show is very mature) as in characters act and think like human beings. This means no crazy unlogical fuckups by the characters.
- No girly romantic subplots which make up for 30% of an average episode
- No annoying typical 5 minute dream/hallucination scenes
- No typical death scenes where someone needs 5 minutes to die and the rest are all like 'no dont die!' and shit
- The writing is absolutely amazing, there is no single boring dialogue, everything is thought out into details and you'll appreciate listening to what the characters are talking about
Lol is that Sopranos shade? But yeah I agree...
+MrEnjoyBeats Also there's no filler episodes everything is always cannon even when a character walks into a shop to buy a pack of Newports
help me out brother. i HATE cop show/movies. i remember watching American gangster and it felt like two different movies. everytime russel crowes boring ass cop scenes came on i was bored out my mind just waiting for Denzels frank lucas scene to come back on. i watched the pilot of the wire and so far its a cop show. it took me 3 times to finish the first episode. i love series and im trying to watch the greats. sopranos and mad men were phenomenal. game of thrones so far is my favorite show of all time. been excited to watch the wire but its a big snoozer so far.
drepop803 Brother, I have watched both Mad Men and The Sopranos too and I can still say that I like the Wire more. You got to give The Wire 2/3 episodes to adjust to the characters and pace. The Wire is far from just a cop show dude. It's so much more than that.
MrEnjoyBeats thats what i needed to hear. i just saw the second episode and still dont like it. watching clips of omar, partlow, and marlo make me want to keep watching it though. it took me 5 episodes to like GOT and about 2 seasons to love madmen lol. sopranos i seen when it first aired and i loved it from the start. so i know it can take a while so i'll be patient.
I gave my parents The Wire for Christmas a few years ago. I remember my dad saying that he saw where it was going (during season 1), with DeAngelo as the gangster with a heart of gold, like it was some cheesy stuff. I didn't tell him what was coming, and I think the events of season 2 with DeAngelo really made him appreciate this show.
"Ain't no shame in holding on to grief, as long as you have room for other things too."
I wish I never saw the Wire so I could watch it again. It was a weird experience in a good way, never ever did I enjoy a show as much as the Wire. It is just so freaking good, I just couldn't wait to come home from school and watch the Wire episodes. I have watched House of Cards, True Detective, Breaking Bad and Mad Men and none of them is as good as The Wire. In fact, of all those shows I enjoyed Breaking Bad the least, all those boring ass breakfasts and conversations with Skyler and Walter Jr were giving me headaches.
Thank you! I tried to get my family on the Wire they didn't like it.
Breaking Bad is a cartoon. I stopped watching it after that head on a tortoise nonsense. Also that Jessie guy..How many times does he need to fuck up before someone who is apparently a genius stops trusting him.
Comparing BB to TW is like comparing War and Peace to Fifty Shades of Grey..
Edward Jones Jessie's behavior was so poorly written, he consistently fucks up and then gets angry at Walt. I can't watch that over and over again.
MrEnjoyBeats
Thank you!!
It's such cartoonish shit!
try Sopranos almost as good as The Wire
Mkc N smoke some weed bro
Although its a matter of opinion, its funny when TV show fanatics say the likes of Breaking Bad, Game of Thrones, The Sopranos are the best TV shows of all time. The FACT is, The Wire is without a doubt the greatest TV show to ever grace television screens on planet earth.
"Although it's a matter of opinion"..."The FACT is" lol which do you think it is? I watched The Wire first and thought without a doubt it was the greatest ever. Then I watched The Sopranos and thought that was the greatest ever. I've watched both again and I really have no idea which is better. They both serve different purposes and examine different issues. They're both amazing.
They're all great shows, and for different reasons. Fuck off with your elitist garbage. Also don't forget to enjoy yourself.
Hard to decide between the Wire and GOT, honestly. I think season 4 of GOT was probably the best TV season ever, even better than seasons 4 and 5 of The Wire.
@Cryer24597 you must've never watched it...
Blair Holmgren season 4 of GoT was really disappointing when you've read the source material. The show runners might have already screwed up 5th season with casting omissions.
"I got the shot gun...U got the briefcase. It's all the game tho right".."Man money ain't got no owners.. only spenders"..Omar.
Those should have been NUMBER 1. Omar is a legend
Rest In Peace Micheal K Williams. You brought to life, the best character in arguably the best TV series ever.
5:05 lmfao wee bey "he fuck's with my fish tho ay mann, I don't pshhh, he don't had to go there"
- You can't even call this shit a war.
- Why not?
- Wars end.
Missed the best one: "Deserve got nothin do with it..."
Well that was itself a quote from Unforgiven
Basically forgot every other Snoop moment lol
I used to question how any show could possibly be better than Breaking Bad ... I don't question that anymore
Lol 😂
The Shield is in that conversation also.
you just got to love Omar. Such a great character in that depressing mess
More like the 100 greatest quotes in history
If I here the music I'm gonna dance
5:05 classic: Wee-bey upset because someone messed with his fish
What the fuck did i do? - James 'Jimmy' McNulty
"The Bunk is strictly a Suit'n Tie motherfucka'" Classic Bunk
Oh man, I really thought Carver's quote from season 1 would be in here: "You know why we won't win? They get beat if they screw up and we get pensions" (or something like that). So glad that "that's some Spider-man shit there" made it in here though
"The bigger the lie, the more they believe"
Way too resonant today.
Also: Randy 😭😭😭
Did he have hands, did he have face....Yes? Then it wasn't us. The Greeks. That shit was subtle but gangsta. Lls
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The main reason that the Wire is such a fantastic show almost 20 years later is, aside from the incredible acting, the fact that it shows how life really is. Cops doing their jobs get shut down by management for office politics, good hustlers die even when they did what's right, no one gets out of the game easily. Politics in the capital, the police, the streets, the schools etc. Everyone has a story and they are all connected. The show was real.
“You gonna take care of me?” - breaks my heart every time
"we used to make shit in this country. Build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guys pocket" is one of the best lines of anything ever. I felt more sympathy for Frank Sobotka than I did for pretty much every other character in the whole show.
Only problem is that it isn't true. The US is still the #1 manufacturer by a long shot: www.nbcnews.com/id/41349653/ns/business-us_business/t/despite-chinas-might-us-factories-maintain-edge/#.V2tpE5MrIcg
Sorry tyler
A lt of people think Season 2 is the worst season. That's probably why.
Much of, if not all of, the manufacturing is automated. "We" made it as in people. Now the best people can hope for is standing in front of a register all day.
We are now neck and neck with China. But production is not what people are talking about when they say this kind of thing. People dont make stuff in this country anymore- household goods and other things that are human intensive were outsourced, the production that is in the U.S. is heavily automated. Even the auto industry which returned to the U.S., is much more automated today than yesterday and will continue to be automated further. It is a mistake to blame loss of solid blue collar work on foreigners. We dont need as many people to work and we need to learn how to deal with that.
"The game is rigged, but you cannot lose if you do not play" my new epitaph.
"A life. It's the shit that happens while waiting for moments that never come". - Lester Freeman
The Wire was so real that it made me feel I was in the game just from watching it.
The scene where Snoop is buying the nail gun cracks me up every single time.
Probably my facourite scene in the show.
"The Bunk can't swim. Don't float so good neither..."
Some of these still stick in my head. "That's some Spiderman shit." "A man's got to have a code." and "My name is my name." especially. Just an awe inspiring brilliant piece of art. The whole thing.
I think the whole "my name IS my name" scene is really good but at the same time very ironic since the point of Marlo's character is that, well... it isn't. Marlo thinks that doing nothing but throwing his name around while killing people will make him feared & respected, when that's not at all the case. Throughout all 3 of his seasons barely anyone ever even seems scared of Marlo. or does things differently out of fear for him. Marlo doesn't realize that he's too far removed from the streets to be respected in the same way as Avon & Stringer and it especially becomes clear in the scene where he meets Avon that he is nowehere near the level Avon ever was. Your name isn't your name- your name on the street is the legacy you've built & the respect people have built for you bc of your years upon years of being on the street. Even someone like Bodie had more real respect to his name than Marlo people knew him & got work through him, and because he'd been out on the street for years.
In Marlo's last scene, where he leaves the big business party & goes out onto the street, the 2 corner boys aren't talking about how Marlo or how he went to jail, but about Omar - they don't even recognize Marlo anymore. As soon as he was forced out of the game, people forgot about him, because his name was never truly feared in the first place
@@jarrav8186 Great take!
"...And I always keeps one in the chamber, in case you ponderin'." One of Omar's best lines
Hands down the most true to form, best written show in television history. I've watched it start t o finish 3 times, and it's still amazing.
HOW MY HAIR LOOK MIKE?
+Emcee Bleach you look good girl...
+Emcee Bleach u happy now bitch?
The Clay Davis mix of "Shhhhhhheeeeeeeeeiiiiiiiiit" at 8:39 is classic.
"Omar comin'!!!!!" One of the best TV shows of all time.
Great video but season 2 underrepresented. 'Why always Boris?' is a great line as is, 'You're a Sobotka.' 'Fucked is what I am.'
Four pollacks, six opinions. Great line.
'Money ain't got no owners, only spenders'
one of the best shows a lot of people don't know about
my favorite one was from the very first scene of the show: "shit, this america man, you gotta let him play"
What's great is people know it's great and it doesn't need Emmy's to solidify that.
"You follow drugs, you get drug addicts and drug dealers. But you start to follow the money and you don't know where the fuck it's gonna take you."
Simply amazing. And still, the most underrated (hardly any major award nominations) TV show in the history of television.
I can't stop watching it, damm this video is an awesome tribute to the Wire
"You're a soldier, Bodie"
"Hell yeah"
Honourable mention for Omar showing up at Prop Joe’s shop with a broken clock and telling him he’s “out of time”.
Love that Joe actually does fix it too.
"Thin line between heaven and here" - Bubbles
Succ what?
IMO, "The Wire" is the greatest dramatic TV show of all time and it isn't even close for second place. It is also, IMO, the only TV show that could stand up against any of the great works of literature in world history as an equal or superior. I'd have no problem standing it against "Paradise Lost," "Othello," Invisible Man" or "Beloved." It was simply THAT brilliant. Human Art at it's highest level.
I Love The Wire. Season 4 Was My Favorite
"My cousin Willy Gant cooperated. He went downtown and testified. He deader than Tupac today."
"deader than 2pac" lmaoooo, I laughed so hard at that quote, this is genius
Fave!!!!
Haha who said that?
Missing my fav. line from Marlo: "You want things to be one way, but it's the other way."
This was my favorite show to watch when I was alive.
Are you implying your dead?
***** most likely someone went on his acvount n typed it in so yea that would be my guess
How's the plains of Sovngarde been treating you?
Drinking and feasting I'll bet.
'Just like you ... I got the shotgun, you got the brief case.. its all in the game tho right?' - one of my fav moments
i still can't believe this happened. greatest show of all time, not seen anything that comes close.
Sopranos and BB are 1a, 1b
"Yo this my corner, I ain't runnin nowhere!" :(
RIP, Bodie.
The most honourable death in this show.
It is to The Wire's credit that it managed to give Bodie, a minor player enough character growth and humanity that you felt a way when the reaper came for him.
Rest in Peace, Robert F. Chew.. so sad to hear that he's gone. One of my favorite characters on The Wire and a damn good actor too :(
“ain’t no shame holding onto grief...”
Makes me weep every time.
That whole Bubbles speech knocks the socks off 99% of all supposedly great movie speeches.
There was an episode in season 1 where there was this basketball game. I feel like that's when I really started to appreciate The Wire and what it was trying to be. Glad I made that breakthrough cuz it's now one of my favourite shows.
Greatest show of all time.
Still here remembering the wire in ' 2020.
All in the game... Perfect choice for #1.
The Wire is one of the greatest television shows in history. Thank you for posting this.
The Wire is The G.O.A.T. Great writing, great directing, great storylines, great actors. It was too black to win any Academy Awards, cause it was so too damn real. Every episode was truthful and represented the every aspect of The Game.
Shouldn't have cutted the cheese death scene there!
-"This sentimental motherfucker just cost us money"
laymanOS now we still short the 9
SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEET
OMG!!! Well done! Very good editing! Especially CLAY DAVIS
You forgot "the games the same, just got more fierce."
The wire and the sopranos are the greatest shows ever.