same format as the other BB dialogue games. A lot of times, the writers would give characters from different worlds the same dialogue so there are times where there is more than one correct answer.
only suggestion is to please not use a line said by a character who only spoke/appeared on one episode... nameless characters' lines will make this difficult game..impossible
Q: Last night I'm at home, I'm sitting up buck naked and I got one hand wrapped around a cold domestic beer and the other wrapped around my magnificent flaccid four and one half inch wonder.
I guess you can't be mad at someone for being WHO they are. Five seasons, dozens of major characters, lot of minor characters and THAT'S the line you choose to add to an internet forum word game?
I'm thinking you just wanted to write that word.
At any rate...please delete or edit, so that any real fan of the Wire can enjoy the game.
now that you felt the need to be a dick, you got me thinking: I had that line tattooed in my mind like it's a classic The Wire line, but Omar doesn't swear, doesn't he? is the line right? is this why you got all turned up behind your keyboard?
I was trying to get your game going with an easy/obvious line, like if the Godafther game got stuck and I posted "I'll make him an offer he can't refuse" or the Taxi Driver game got stuck and I posted "are you talking to me?"...
now how do you manage to turn The Wire dialoque game into this? did you expect it to go on without profanity?
and where's your badge saying "Internet Douchebag Curse Word Inspector"? maybe you wanna add a filter to the boards so we can't really say what we want.
anyway don't worry about me, I'll leave the game to you and the real fans of The Wire. maybe you can edit the first post and elucidate them on which lines can be used in the game.
yes..Omar to the lawyer who represented Avon's regime
(the line is almost verbatim from the book Godfather.....Don scolds Sonny for committing a burglary as a teen..advises him to be an attorney if he wants to steal .tells him that a lawyer with a briefcase can steal as much as 100 stickup men)
"Don't matter who did what to who at this point...fact is, we went to war and now there ain't no going back...I mean shit, it's what war is you know? Once you in it, you IN it. If its a lie then we fight on that lie, but we gotta fight."
it was D'angelo to Wallace after he saw counterfeit cash in the count money.
=============================================================== See that's the problem with the justice system..people get locked up and they don't stay that way ..make it hard to take this shitt serious.
also bunny colvin...when he had to answer to the police board/panel about hamsterdam...instead of prolonging it he told Rawls to get on with it....mfer
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Yours sounds like Prop Joe to Marlo...not because I recall the line or the scene but because joe had a habit of addressing Marlo as son.
nah, it's the dopefiend that used to rob bubbles after he beat the shit out of bubbles the first time, the young boy sherrod had just refused to sell him a vial because he was 4 dollars short.
thats punk ass officer walker. the story of that ring michael stole from him is one of my favorite storylines in the whole series, the way it moves around is crazy.
"you wanna talk that blood is thicker than water bullshit, you take that shit somewhere else"
A. pretty sure it's D'angelo....sounds like what he would say to his girl visiting him in jail , but not 100% sure
(and about the Ring moving......I wanted to create a thread about things that the wire borrows/copies/pays homage to from other films and tv shows.....the ring moving is similar to how a watch is moved around in "Once Upon a Time in America"..think it was a pocket watch....several people take it/steal it over the course of a few minutes)
not sure about my answer so I'll wait for you to confirm
nah it's stringer to avon after he admits he had d'angelo killed.
yeah the watch in once upon a time that they roll off the drunk. easily one of my favorite movies, i hear sergio leone's kids are working with martin scorcese to get the entire 4 and a half hour movie released, i would love to see his original vision since we've only seen heavily edited ones over time.
Stringer??? damn..sounded like what D told his girl.
I didn't get it so you go again...
(by the way ,Do you think String made the right call by having D hit?)
(with blu ray widely available, this is best possible time to release full versions of classic films....just to show you how far technology has come..I can still remember seeing Scarface at the video rental shop when I was a kid...and only noticed it because it was one of only 3 titles in the whole story that was a double vhs tape, because of the length)
string definitely made the right call man.. D really was weak and you could see after not taking avon's offer to get out early he had run out of love for them. we see mcnulty went back to jessup to check up on D, who knows what he would have talked about?
"i don't know much about cards but uh, i think these 4-5's be the full house"
A. Omar to the men at card game as he sticks them up
Q. Package up my ass,gump!
(I forgot that McNulty did go up there to try to flip D'angelo again. You know, in a subtle way....the writing showed that they killed Wallace twice..... when Avon set up the bad package/hot shot that eventually led to him being released early....one of the prisoners that died was a close friend of D's...anyway..good call...McNulty could have flipped D...so the String move was the right one)
Avon to Stringer about the annual basketball game between westside and eastside
============= Difference between east and west can all be traced back to Frank Matthews...he got in bed with them Italians...got a piece of the french connection.....
fairly certain that's butchie.. definitely one of my favorite characters, always dropping knowledge.. is that when he's talking to the dirty CO? can't recall exactly.
"who in this unit is gonna catch me? half these guys couldn't catch the clap in a mexican whorehouse!"
marlo to herc there.. funny how they both were ultimately responsible for taking each other down. herc gets busted for the camera and fired and marlo gets caught thanks to herc passing along his cell phone number..
"they had cheese fries baby! i got you some!" *gun shots*
yup good call i thought that mighta been a stumper.. never remembered it myself until i saw that episode earlier.
levy might have been the coldest gangster in the whole show... connected with all the real estate tycoons, politicians, had that dude in the grand jury feeding him indictment information.
yours is chris partlow to some dude on the corner.. can't remember if its one of the ny dudes they killed or the one that only got the pistol pulled on him.. i can't front the wire put me on to some baltimore club music i still bump.
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"doin alright.. but alright ain't got your name on a crib right? ain't got you a lil spot for you to wash that dirty money? that's what i'm offering you man"
yeah..chris to the new york dude that got hit....funniest line in entire series is chris saying "they don't know about that in new york..they listen to bullshit in new york" hilarious dmv area has it's own style and music....so baltimore dude would think that
yours sounds like Prop Joe giving his pitch to Marlo about what he could do for him
Can't believe I blew the last one....thought for sure it sounded like what Joe was saying to Marlo as he was "civilizing" him, BUT he didn't say it to him until after he got down with the co-op so it wouldn't have been said as an offer.
You go again since I didn't get it.. ("y'all planted" that was corrections officer tillman after avon and string planted drugs in his car and set him up, he said that to the officers who cuffed him...
sounds like bunk to mcnulty when he went undercover as a john to call girls/hookers to get the madame...could be the red head lawyer to mcnulty...but the comment is definitely directed at mcnulty
Stringer to Shamrock (stringer's fault though....he kept hitting street dudes over the head with "robert's rules of order" etc....and he forgot who HE was and who and what he was dealing with.In the words of Poot" does the chair realize that we're gonna look like some bitches?")
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"See, I told little kevin to shoot y'all in the head, but seeing as how he walked off...I guess I'm on your package"
that bodie line is classic too, love that scene. chris delivers one of my favorite lines of the series when he says "why ain't in your repertoire no more".
hahaha that's bodie and d'angelo when they were talking about some chick poot wanted to bang. i actually did that scene with a couple other dudes for a high school project.
"shiiiit, he got more bodies on him than a chinese cemetery"
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That's avon to one of his goons after he got caught slipping trying to set up Marlo. I always wondered what the hell avon was doing there, he was fresh out on parole. I could understand if they kidnapped Marlo already but he was foolish for being at the scene.
I have NO idea what the answer to that one is,Rollin..and nah , wasn't in a vacant...just recently recovered my passes to handful of sites that I check out...found it funny though...
Avon criticizing Stringer for violating the Baltimore Sunday truce by ok-ing the hit on Omar.
Q.
"If the cops knew how to finesse shit, even a little bit, I'd be in handcuffs now"
(just to clarify...the spiderman shit line exchange was between Marlo and Chris and the cheerios line was Omar and one of Butchie's goons when they are in the breakfast line in jail) Close enough though
A. Little Kevin....after Carv and Herc just approached him and the rest of Bodie's crew looking for him...and not being able to i.d. who Little Kevin was
Q.
guy 1"Do you know Avon Barksdale"
guy 2 "Yeah, his name rings out, but so does mine"
"It's how you carry yourself. Always apart, always asking why when you should be doing what you told. You was never one of us, and you never could be."
seeing you post here is like when Avon appeared on screen in season 5...pleasant surprise.In fact, he actually said "Surprise" when Marlo saw that it was him meeting him. welcome back, bro.
Yours is Snoop to Michael.
"you ain't my F'in father, so step off or step up,Unc..I got customers piling up"
lmao I take that as a compliment, gets. Good to see you holding it down in here. I remember when I first saw that scene in Jessup my jaw almost hit the floor. I was surprised he only taxed Marlo 100k for the connect too, seems like even then he was underestimating Marlo cause I'm sure he could have dug a lot deeper. Great to see the mutual respect they shared. Between The Wire and Paid in Full, Wood Harris has gotta be one of my favorite actors. Shit I even liked Next Day Air.
Anyway, yours is Spider to Cutty. Spider really blew his talent over his mom being a thirsty lady. Anyway, hope I haven't used this one already but it crossed my mind recently
Nah that was Clay Davis to Stringer.. while he was, ironically, stringing him along to get his money. Always a good day when I can stump you, Gets. Here's another:
"I can give you an application, but the manager ain't gonna hire anyone under 18. So I guess you gotta get back on those corners and bang a lil longer"
Lmao! "Do I look like a guy that would give you something shady?" I might have to donate a few bucks to get those made.
Your last quote was Omar to Prop Joe.
"I'm telling you, if white boys want to sell dope in Baltimore they have to go by a different set of laws" "Affirmative action?" "Leave no white man behind"
Lmao! "Do I look like a guy that would give you something shady?" I might have to donate a few bucks to get those made.
Your last quote was Omar to Prop Joe.
"I'm telling you, if white boys want to sell dope in Baltimore they have to go by a different set of laws" "Affirmative action?" "Leave no white man behind"
'Herc' said that he had a tooth pick it all in props
wow...I'm taking Ls left and right lately in this Wire dialogue game...I'm almost too shook to try to answer the last one, but Omar don't scare and neither do I.
The person who said the quote seems to be the guy who was Bubbles' sponsor...quote sounds like it's about Bubbles, but I can't figure out who he would be saying it to.
That's a great one Gets, and ya know what, I have no damn clue who said it. I wanna say it sounds like something Lester would say but I don't recall him saying anything like that. Maybe the Bunk or Rawls?
Anyway, here's one
"Y'all are holdin the hat of a bona fide cunner(?) lady. You know what a cunner lady is? Not your moms for sure. Or else you would know better than that bullshit"
it was Daniels to Burrell when they wanted him to doctor the crime stats instead of actually solving crimes.
Yours is Slim Charles to the bone headed hitters who shot at Omar and his grandmother/or aunt while they left church. What I love about that scene is while he's screaming on them fr doing it, he calls them out for not even hitting Omar.
That's some Baltimore slang...like when they say "it weren't that" or they add the extra o in "oo" sounds.Until I saw it written out....didn't know exactly what the word he said was. Guessing it means universally respected church woman. I read interviews with old kingpins and street dealers...killers and feared dudes from crack era....and even these guys showed respect to the older Black women in the neighborhoods.
guy 1" You sure you don't want me to take that package for you?"
guy 2 speaking slowly"No, don't want nothing to go wrong, gonna pick it up myself "
I can honestly say I have NO CLUE where the line comes from but to guess...I'd day it's Frank Sobotka...possibly saying it to Ziggy...his screw up son.....or Frank and his brother having a discussion about their sons F ing up getting involved with the Greek.
Pretty much on point Gets. It was Frank to one of the guys he was bribing to try and prevent the condos at the pier from being built. Been thinking of some season 2 quotes to try and stump you lol.
"It's a snail but it's his pet and shit. It crawls on him and is like "meow""
Rollin......the season 2 quotes always stand out because most of the action took place on the docks.
That last line is some guys who worked for Bodie.maybe little kevin ..talking about Sponge bob cartoon....and Bodie was disgusted that guys who watch spongebob are the ones holding him down on the corner. He used to work for the Barksdales...now he's working with spongebob fans.
Yeah that's a good point they're usually a little different in subject matter, kinda like the whole season. I just got this 18 y/o kid in my building to start watching The Wire and had to warn him not to give up during season 2 cause I've seen a lot of people write the show off after getting a couple episodes deep into season 2. But I gotta say I was glad he even kept watching in the first place, it can be tough to get these young knuckleheads to want to gain some knowledge.
Anyway, yours is Marlo talking to Mike about the ring. Still one of my favorite subplots of the entire series with the ring starting with Andre and going through three pretty heavy guys (Marlo, Omar, and the cop whose name I can't remember) before Mike got it. The look Chris and Marlo give each other in that scene is priceless too.
I have NO idea....I can imagine the scene where this conversation would take place. Sounds like 2 cops talking about some kid they locked up and threw in with the wolves ,or gave a harsh interrogation to, only to find out that he's not as soft as they thought. but there's no character that fits as the kid.
gonna guess and say Bunk and Mcnulty talking about Wallace or D'angelo
pretty sure that's omar's Puerto rican boyfriend to omar before they rob old face andre.
"Middle management means that you got just enough responsibility to listen when people talk, but not so much you can't tell anybody to go fuck themselves"
that's bubbles talking about the corrupt cop.. walker I think. bubbles caught a real two piece that day lol.
"Look, y'all fucked up, so y'all supposed to take the hit, right? I mean, my man here don't know shit about no gutting costs, he don't know nothing about no price of no steel, he just tryin' to get some shit built."
The quote sounds like Clay Davis either on the phone or in person talking to a fellow con artist about Stringer's problems in front of Stringer. Stringer is "my man here".
Or it's Stringer talking to the city worker/con artist or Clay Davis about the holdups in construction. And Avon is "my man here"
haha close as hell, Gets. That's Avon defending Stringer when the developers are trying to get him to cough up more cash. String was way too ahead of himself in that game, he should have listened to Avon more maybe he wouldn't have lost that 250k to Clay Davis.
Yours sounds like Bubbles talking to Kima(and Mcnulty) about how his protege feels about Bubbs snitching for pay.He doesn't think the game is played that way
The one I put up above is still open "travels.....you do now"
Oh wow lmao. Totally forgot to answer that one, distracted at work. That's definitely Marlo to Prop Joe. Their dynamic was so interesting to me cause it's like Prop Joe knew Marlo was milking him for info to ultimately whack him out and take his connect but was just too petrified to do anything about it.
And yeah -- That was Bubbles.
"When you work a g-pack for a guy the kickback's supposed to be $500.
"Stash got hit, yo."
"I ain't hearing that shit! I want my fucking money! You best know I ain't playing, motherfucker."
I'm guessing. Only scenario that fits is Cutty confronting Fruit about the pack he gave him, but it doesn't sound like what they said to each other.Also doesn't sound like Namond confronting Kenard. I'm stumped.
That's Kima's girl and Kima after McNulty showed up at her place drunk hoping to get lucky.. Underrated scene lol. Good to see the thread make 10 pages too.
“Yeah, I'm like that—you be thinking I'm all ghetto and then I flip it”
Haha that's an exchange between Bodie and his worker Puddin during season 2.. Season 2 quotes are the only ones I feel have a chance at stumping you, Gets. lol.
"I don't know about cards, but I think these 4-5's beat a full house"
lmao, You're not lying Omar did make Marlo hold that L, one of the very few he took in the shows course.
Pretty sure yours is Prop Joe to Marlo.. Prop Joe punking out as usual lol.
"Motherfucker, houses. Car payments. Furniture. I just bought brand-new lawn chairs and a glass patio table. You don't buy no shit like that if you plan to lose your job and go to prison."
Good call, CB....I couldn't place the previous one. Yours might be Stringer to Brother Mouzone when he visits him in the hospital....not that I recall him saying that but it would fit the scene.
That's Omar to Kimmy, talking about his grandma.. I think the exact line was "I know she ain't never gonna go down there to go dining" lmao.. Omar always had a touch of class with his words.
At a restaurant
"Damn how you stand that shit with all that hot shit on it?"
"The trick is not to give a fuck, boy. I got this"
Yours sounds like Namond and the other delinquent kids out eating when Colvin was trying to teach them etiquette. Namond said one of the lines...not sure to which other character though.
That's Freamon(along with Bunk) trying to interview the foreign boat workers about the dead Russian girls.
(guy getting beaten down) man... in the distance " wait, remember he works for us...if you keep going like that.....he ain't gonna be able to pay back what he owes"
maaaan that's kima's rattin ass. always kinda crushed me that she did such a thing but I appreciate that lester and mcnulty didn't hold it against her.
"you rogue motherfuckers kill me, fighting the war on drugs on brutality case at a time"
yeah you could just tell from his face that the real omar, Donnie Andrews, didn't take any shit. I read that he was dating the real Fran from "The Corner" or something like that. RIP to him. always wished we got to see more of how butchie operated. he was old school and well connected.
your last one is a classic between mike and namond after mike beats the shit outta kenard. I always die laughin cause theres some guy in the background like "look at that lil dude getting his ass whooped!"
"That's what I'm talkin about, you don't rattle. Look, you come up my wing, you ain't gonna do nothin' but rise"
We're getting this thread poppin tonight,Rollin. Would love to see a prequel about Butchie's life.Also did they ever confirm that he and Omar are related? It's unclear about whether he's just his bank or a relative. The way Omar reacted to his death makes me think they were blood related.
Yours is Bodie to Michael after he sees how Mike handles 3 dope fiends who tried to swindle him.
1"he wasn't a president" 2"huh?"
1"Hamilton, he ain't no president" 2"what...ain't no white man get his face on money unless he president"
I always assumed that Butchie was Omar's OG. I remember a scene where Butchie is telling Omar about his uncle who cut some of his own fingers off over losing a woman ("the bitch wasn't worth more than a pinky!"), so I figure Omar would have been familiar with that story, or at least the uncle if they were family.
Yours is Wallace and D'Angelo.. Of course D was wrong, considering Ben Franklin.
"worrying about you is like worrying if the suns gonna come up"
Lol yeah I knew it was Ziggy cause that "we had a deal, motherfucker!" was hilarious the way he delivered it.. thought it mighta been cheese til i remembered his bad deal with double G.
you got it.. that's wee bey to D. D's face in that scene right before the lights come on was some good acting man, he really looks like he's scared he's about to get killed.
pretty sure yours is chris and marlo discussing bodie.. as much as i hated to see bodie go out, marlo was right. he was gonna snitch.
"You can tattle-tale when you locked up but you can't do it straight up for the money? I mean, no offense, son, but that some weak ass thinkin. You equivocatin' like a mothafucka"
That's Bodie and Mike.. The way Bodie looks at him when he delivers that line is priceless..
"I see you in here workin undercover.. Don't worry, I'll keep it close"
Gets, can't believe I never asked you this, but how do the seasons rank up to you? I got em like this:
1 4 3 5 2
I still love season 2 and its portrayal of the decaying American middle class, but overall it's probably the least entertaining.. Would have liked a longer look into the Greeks organization.
That's Bubbles in the school thinking that Prezbo was an undercover cop instead of a teacher.
I have it as 1,3,4,2,5. I only figured that out because of the frequency that I re-watch the series by season. Great casting in each series, and had they gone back to the docks...I might have liked and understood season 2 better.Because they didn't, it almost feels like a separate series. I liked season 5 right after the show ended, but looking back now...not so much.
I regret having not been a fan of the show while it was first airing. The only season I watched "live" was season 5.
1"Do the chair know that we gonna look like some punk ass b*tches out there?"
Very true about season 2 feeling like a different series.. I watched season 3-5 while they were airing but I was still pretty young at the time and it wasn't until a few years later that I understood the subtleties of the show, especially when it comes to season 2 and labor unions.
Anyway, your quote is Poot and Stringer at one of the meetings.
"We're losing the station, man."
"What you mean?"
"We done gone so far from Baltimore, we're losing the station. Try a Philly station or some shit like that."
"The radio in Philly is different?"
"You gotta be fucking with me, right? You never heard a station outside of Baltimore?"
Don't know the names of the characters, but it sounds like the guy whose job it was to go around and buy burner phones from different places for the Barksdale crew , and his girlfriend who did the road trips with him.
That was actually the opening episode of season 2 when Bodie went out of town with another guy(whose name I can't remember) and as they were driving, radio frequeuncies got mixed up.
Yeah CB is right.. The other guy was Shamrock. I've been rewatching season 2 and I have the best luck stumping you with season 2 quotes so I figured I'd slip that one in on you Gets lol.
CB yours is the guy Bodie and Poot took that block from in season 2.. Can't remember his name but that's right after he gets punked.
"You do not get to win, shitbird!"
Also as an aside.. Shitbird has gotta be a Baltimore thing, right? I remember hearing it once on the Sopranos but its very common on the Wire.
Yours, just by the dialogue is two older Black characters from the "law" characters. I wanna say Mayor Royce and Burrell, Burrell and Clay Davis or Royce and Davis.
thats mcnulty who takes the back... can't remember if its bunk or freamon who he's talking to.. maybe both? it's when he's going through his sober mcnulty phase lol.
and thats an interesting catch Gets, the brand of that suit is LRG, which Marlo wore pretty often in the show. I wonder if the people who worked on the show were familiar with the phrase "take an L" though.. one of my few complaints about the wire is the dialogue some of the street guys use.. especially in season 1 it came off a little forced.. but i understand the show was written by guys who were mainly interacting with the streets in the 80s/early 90s..
"You call something a war, and pretty soon everybody gonna running around acting like warriors. They gonna be runnin' around on a damn crusade stormin' corners, slappin' on cuffs, rackin' up body counts. And when you at war, you need a fuckin' enemy. And pretty soon damn near everybody on every corner is your fuckin' enemy and soon the neighborhood that you're supposed to be policin' that's just occupied territory."
I hear your point about the slang. I think what threw me off was that because nobody repping B-more was in the public eye...their slang wasn't as well known to us as say...NY,L.A. or even say New Orleans during no limit/cash money era. Wasn't used to people pronouncing "do" as "dew" or hearing that "it weren't that"
Yours is a talk Colvin is giving to his men...or at the police meetings with the police bosses.
cop rips up a photo prisoner " a yo come on man, take off the cuff..make it a fair fight.....owww......ohh....uhhhhh, you fat F"
Yeah I was talking to a dude from Baltimore and he was telling me how you could tell which actors were from Baltimore and which weren't. Said of all the non-Baltimore actors the only one who sounded like they were even trying was Omar, and I definitely heard the accent in his voice.
Yours is Bird.. Landsman who rips up the photo.. Classic scene right there..
I was watching season 2 again and man Stringer really had no choice but to fuck with Prop Joe.. He made a good point telling Avon's sister that he didn't have muscle like Bird, Wee Bey and Stinkum.. Doubtful that if they were all still out Marlo would have been able to take over like that.
"The job isn't about picking the stories we like best."
Agree about that.I just recently caught on to the sub plot about their NY connect backing off because Avon got a light sentence and them being afraid he was co-operating. Watched each episode at least 5 times and just noticed and understood that. String was a practical guy...it was the smart thing to do to get with Joe. With the hitters on the street like Weebey...Stringer's overall plans would have worked out. Without the muscle...all that businessman, co-op stuff was bound to fail. Weebey was more fierce than Chris....and the only character to hold his own against Omar.
Yours is Bunk trying to get his fellow detective to back up off the bogus story that Old Face Andre gave him about the delivery lady murder.
cops talking to drug crew
cop1"you're gonna go in because I said so ,shitbird"
cop2(looking around...sensing danger )...you know what, we're gonna give you guys a pass this time.Let's go.
Herc n Carver when they were gonna get jumped trying to get some hustlers to relocate to Hamsterdam... Always love that one cause Herc tries to flex on Marlo saying "remember the face cocksucker" and Marlo eventually gets Herc fired thru the camera in s4.
"You built up a right sized nest over the years, don't you think it's about time to retire?"
Herc and Carver are like comic relief on the show. Just that scene alone shows it, rolling up on a crew that's 20 deep with no backup trying that John Wayne/Clint Eastwood bull.
Yours is Butchie to Omar.
cop "if you don't want my finger in your eye, you'll do the right thing and take it down"
guy "the right thing? the right thing would be for you to come to my house like a decent human being....."
That's Prop Joe and Omar's Latino boyfriend.. They shoulda just stayed in Puerto Rico when Butchie got killed.
"I think this is a tragic motherfuckin' miscarriage of justice. I think it deserves a special grand jury and if not, the president should appoint an independent prosecutor... Oh, no, no, no, actually I think Kofi Bryant and the United fucking Nations should get involved."
(Agree that Omar should stayed in P.R.....looking back, after they robbed the entire shipment.. and sold it back ..Butchie said "steal this much..it ain't over"....gotta admit, it's a sad line knowing what happens later)
yours is definitely Bunk. I remember hearing "Kofi Bryant" and screaming ....he said it to another cop which is all i remember.
Lol yeah it was Bunk and McNulty. Always killed me how they just slid Kofi Bryant in there on the low.
Yours is Omar and Brother Mouzone in the hotel, when Omar decides not to kill him.
"For me, leastways the difference between East and West goes back to one man, Frank Matthews."
"Pee Wee Matthews?"
"Yeah, the brother went up New York and got in bed with them Italians. The only one from this town got a piece of that French Connection."
"What the hell Pee Wee got to do with anything?"
"Cause Frank was Westside. The dope flowed West. And when you got a steady supply, you run shit like a business. Somebody gets hurt, there's a reason."
Yup.. Interesting to hear them name Frank Matthews, I know he was supplying guys all over the east coast but didn't know about his ties to Baltimore..
Pretty sure that's Carver, can't remember the season but it's a poignant quote.
"Of course, he said you would be paying my fee rather than his own self."
"Your fee?"
"I'm doing like one of them marriage counselors. Charge by the hour to tell some fool he need to bring some flowers home, then charge another hour telling the bitch she ought to suck some cock every little once and a while. To keep a marriage strong like that."
That's Prop Joe to Stringer...first hint that he is super crooked.Bringing up the "fee", right before Omar shows up, so String can't dispute it. Later in convo....Omar tells Stringer to give the cease fire money to Joe for him, String says if we give it to Joe....you won't see 2,000 of it it. It bothers me that a guy as clever as Joe didn't make it to the end.
I also didn't know about Matthews being from Baltimore until I saw that scene with Butchie. There's a doc. on youtube about FM...and one of the guys speaking is the gangster that gave ZERO F's about Cheese getting hit, just worried about it messing up the money for connect.
Yes....it was Carver to Herc.
guy 1"Why don't you front me the package and we could do an even split?"
guy 2"No...I'm a union guy...which means I don't work without a contract.Money up front"
I wanna say Nick Sobotka and Frog. Mighta been Ziggy though but I don't see Ziggy speaking with that authority lol.
"Our guy's dead from a stray. He was shooting at 40s and Clorox bottles blocks away Using potatoes for a silencer."
"Bite me. That's ridiculous. So our guy's dead because a bullet misses a bleach bottle, and this fuck Carcetti gets to be the mayor behind the stupidity... I fucking love this town."
You got it,Rollin....Nick to Frog...definitely not Ziggy, like you said...he didn't have any authority to speak to anybody like that...he's the king of L's.
Yours is Kima to the bald White detective(don't know his name but he's the one who helped Bunk & Landsman do the fake lie detector test on the stupid suspect)
"I heard your pup stood tall for snitching boy.........yeah"
Yeah same here. I just read what you wrote about Prop Joe not making it til the end when I remembered his prequel scene. He had really been wheeling and dealing his entire life. Only thing that took him out was trusting his own family.
My quote was Major Colvin and Lieutenant Mello at one of the Comstat meetings in season 3.
Yeah, that damned Cheese...the real holder of all L's,I didn't see the betrayal coming. I didn't see what Joe did to build up enough resentment that Cheese would line him up like that. I also didn't see Slim having enough loyalty to Joe to hit Cheese like that, either.
Yours is McNulty and Bodie....laughing at what happened to Officer Walker.
Don't know if you've heard about or seen the "The Night of" series on HBO...but a few Wire alum are in it.
One is shown doing exactly what he was on his way to doing on the show.....the other the complete opposite.
"Bottom of his shoes are scuffed from walking over all the dead soldiers. Wanna know if a fiend is for real, check the bottom of his shoes"
With Cheese it was straight up greed I think. He wanted to get in tighter with Marlo's crew so he sold out Prop Joe. I really didn't see it coming when Slim killed Cheese, but I guess he learned a lot from Joe.. I always liked the fact that it seemed like Slim was the one on top when it was all said and done. He was definitely a solid dude.
I've seen The Night Of.. Pretty good mini-series. I wanna say Bodie would never have testified like his character in The Night Of, but now I remember that he was actually going to testify against Marlo.
Anyway, your quote is definitely Bubs.
"So what's my role in your little drama? "
"I thought you might broker a meeting, you know. Help your fearless leader see the light about his new friend on the council."
"And I should tell him what? Make nice or invest heavily in petroleum jelly?"
That's Carcetti and Valchek talking about Burrell. Interesting to me how Burrell seemed to know the political side of things so well but let Carcetti use him.. Then again he was doing anything to keep the pressure off the high crime in Season 3.
"I passed the bar this week"
"Congratulations. Most of the guys I work with have a problem with that"
Landsman to Freamon, when Freamon is pushing to open the vacants and search for people that Marlo ordered killed. (speaking of Home Depot..the next time you watch the Snoop at Home Depot scene, note the bootleg name they give the store instead of just calling it Home Depot)
"I wanna make sure you land on your feet. Now, where don't you want to go?"
Lol the hardware barn. I never noticed that. That's Rawls to McNulty, think he said the same shit to Lester too.
"You've lost your fucking mind. Look at you, half-lit every third night, dead drunk every second.. Nut deep in random pussy.."
Bunk to McNulty. Now that scene puzzled me because, and I don't recall the timing, but when Mcnulty was not drinking and whoring ,Bunk gave him a drunk speech about "being who you really are" and they used the "lake trout" as an example of something being named what it it is NOT. It's like Bunk was mad when Jimmy was sober and happy, and then got upset when Jimmy was back drunk and chasing women.
"Get this Payless shoe wearing MFer out of here.I'll hire my own lawyer!"
The character he was mentioning was Brother.....as in Brother Mouzone.....said by Prop Joe. I can recall 2 scenes where Joe was shook talking about Brother....once with String and once with Cheese. Your quote is from the scene with Stringer.
cop" Are you Little Kevin?" guy"Do I look little to you?"
Couple things I'm picking up after rewatching the series, I don't know too many people that watch the Wire in real life so I got nowhere else to put these lol.
When Omar robs the card game Marlo is at, Joe later tells Marlo that the guys working the security didn't feel like they were getting paid enough so he implies they set it up. I absolutely don't see Marlo just giving those guys a pass if he thinks they were in on setting him up, surprised none of them got killed.
Also, when Lester finally caught Marlo, he didn't put 2 and 2 together that he was being supplied by the Greeks? I know Marlo's downfall capped the series, but no one on the police force seemed to give all those European guys that got busted at the warehouse a second thought.
Don't worry,Rollin. The Wire is like a cult hit really. People know about the show and might have watched a few episodes or seasons but it was never a big hit. Very few hardcore Wire fans.
You're right,Joe said he knew the robbery was coming and why when he was trying to trick Marlo into joining the co-op.Marlo DEFINITELY would have put Chris on those bodyguards. As Bodie said, Marlo kills people because he can. I think his pride took a major hit when Omar added insult to injury by putting gun on him and taking the ring. Funny when you think about it, the pot had to have been at least 300 thousand, but Omar wants the ring too.JUST to F with Marlo.Made him hold that L in front of a room of other kingpins. I think he saw red after that and just wanted to hit Omar.
I also agree with what you wrote about them dropping the ball on the Greek and Vondas. Gonna go back and watch to see if the cops ever mentioned them by name after they got away in Season 2. I forgot that the cops did nab some European guys after seeing Marlo's people pick up from them.Season 5 was sloppy writing.
oh...yours is the nondescript young Black cop whose name I always forget speaking to McNulty. He became the new Mcnulty when the show ended.
1"What!? A west side guy can make a sale without sticking a gun in a fiend's face?"
2" Yeah, and get used to it because y'all ain't selling shit until we bone ass dry"
Rollin, Yeah, his "twin" was Dozerman, the young White nondescript cop.
He and Sydnor were like extras on the show.
(if 3 or more Wire actors appear in a show/film...to me it's a Wire reunion even if the characters don't appear together. Well the Luke Cage netflix series is a Wire reunion of sorts...no spoilers but I count 2 regulars who had speaking roles and a brief appearance by one character
one of the characters is doing exactly what they would be doing if the show had continued
the other is alive after having been hit on the Wire)
Yours is Cheese to the co-op while discussing raising the fee to meet Marlo's connect.
That's two of the kids... Mike or Dukie and Namond saying the second line.. That always cracks me up "who want him some boiled cat?"
Yo Gets, have you heard of Michael K Williams' new show Black Market? It's on the Viceland channel and features him talking to all sorts of people involved in different underground economies. Some real interesting episodes, the first one is on the carjacking business in Newark.
Anyway here's one for you..
"Where are we? That sign said Longwood, but I could swear this is Warwick.
"Hoppers be turning the sign poles to fuck with y'all."
Rollin, thanks. I caught the first episode, gonna buy the series if they release it on dvd. Interesting idea for a show, and crazy how "Omar" gets the hood pass to tell these stories. You were right. Dukie and Namond. For yours,by the way the dialogue goes, sounds like a cop with informant...so Kima and Bubbles.....no Kima and Orlando before they get hit...she's speaking out loud cause she's talking to other cops on radio.
Right, I was supposed to add the line Bodie said so I could list both quotes but I forgot it. Good way to get it off of just one line.
Yours is Little Kevin to Bodie. LK and Bodie were in that scene, so it might be some random unknown character that says the first line, but I say LK and Bodie DEFINITELY delivered the second line. I liked that scene and the other ones(Mike and Dukie at amusement park) because it reminds you that really these are kids underneath it all.
1"You heard that Marlo punked Bodie for his corner. Applied pressure and his punk ass buckled"
2" you would have done different?
1" I would have grabbed my nine, take it to the mattresses..F Marlo"
Absolutely man. There's an opening scene in season 4 where the kids are hanging in an alley and while they're talking they hear shots and aren't even phased, but while they're talking about zombies and hear someone coming they get scared as hell and run. Just showing how they're desensitized to reality but still have the imaginations of children..
Anyway, yours is Wee Bey and Namond. Namond talking way over his head as usual lol.
"I ain't no snitch.. But this dude, and his kind man, they got to fall"
Rollin...correct....maybe I've watched the Wire way too much but I find humor in small scenes. Namond was talking a good one all the time...including that time to Weebay. FUNNY scene is when Colvin asks Bay for permission to be guardian for Namond. Colvin says.."It's Namond we're talking about...if I see it...I have to believe that you do" Bay's facial expression is hilarious...like he knew his son was just fronting all along with the tough talk.
Anyway, yours is Bodie to McNulty.
1"We have you on tape talking about killing your 'dog'. Just make it easy on yourself and start talking about Prop Joe"
2"what makes you think I'll talk behind his ba...., you know what? I don't know what y'all talking about .LAWYER TIME"
Yours is from the very first scene of the first episode...McNulty to the guy who was explaining to him about the deceased guy always robbing the dice game...getting beaten down.. and doing the same thing over again...
"Oh, you just gonna take it(ring) on a humble? Don't you know there's rules to this here game?"
ok...I remember Frank regretting getting involved with those guys when the dead girls turned up...but Nicky expressed the same regret to them when things went left for another reason.
1"What's this I hear about you not standing tall?"
2"You heard wrong ,partner. I'm gonna carry this"
1"You better or you'll never squeeze another buck out of this city"
....For the rest of your natural life! lmao That's Royce and Clay Davis. The way Royce delivers that through the gritted teeth smile always cracks me up.
"I didn't even know the man who beat on you, he was short money on the corner. I swear he wasn't nothing to me."
"Yeah, but when the shit start, There's nothing to be done, right? What would I have done if he started wailing on you? Same kind of nothing, see? That's how the corners be. They gonna use you up"
Sherrod to Bubbles....Sherrod was actually beating the fiend up at first... There was NO CHARACTER that I hated more than the fiend that kept robbing Bubbles
Lol it was a total guess, I just know there's been several scenes of Bunk and McNulty going in on some crabs so I had to play the odds.
1"Look, man if he tearing your room down, man we keep bringing more stuff in. It's gonna get so he can't tear it down fast enough. You feel me?" 2"He fucked with my fish though, he ain't have to go there, man."
Yours is Carver to Johnny in Hamsterdam. It's a scene that doesn't seem to mean anything when you watch it, but as you watch the scene/series over and over..it's hard to watch because of what ends up happening to Johnny.
"Don't worry about nothin' little man, you on a Barksdale corner"
Correct.Rollin, the scene with Mcnulty and Stringer is the one time that you can hear both of their accents. I guess with two Brits doing a scene together, not surprised that it's so clear.
"Loft apartments, very nice" Of course,I didn't catch it until the second time watching the scene.
Yours is Cheese to Brother Mouzone.
guy 1"Besides all that, how you doin'? What's goin on?
"Do you think politics is only about winning the argument? That whoever has the right fact at the right moment wins? Clinton had facts. Kennedy had facts, yeah. But Reagan? He couldn't have summoned a fact if his life depended on it. "
Close, it was Theresa D'Agostino, Carcetti's campaign manager.
"1: If white boys wanna sell drugs in Baltimore, they have to make different laws for it, like even it out for 'em. 2: Affirmative action. 1: Leave no white man behind. "
Gets, hope you haven't been playing those corners and caught a case.. Gotta leave the streets behind like Poot.. In all seriousness I hope things have been well with you and your family this past holiday season my friend. Missing your input around here..
