Favorite Quotes from "The Wire"

To refresh your memory: http://youtube.com/watch?v=9YZLLAV_R8g

Slim Charles: "He do look natural"

SHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIT

the "i ain't that humble" exchange ftw.

"Them Greeks sure have some weird-ass names. "
"Hey, don't knock the Greeks. They invented civilization."
"Yeah, and ass-fucking, too."

He feared and hated me, and I merely wanted him dead.

"We used to make shit in this country, build shit. Now we just put our hand in the next guy's pocket."

Proposition Joe: "If it wasn’t for Sergei here, you and your cuz' both would be cadaverous motherfuckers."

"that shit was unseemly!"

"if it's a lie, then we fight on that lie."

i lol'd so hard @ "cadaverous motherfuckers"

It ain't no thing

Feel me?

you want it to be one way...

but it's the other way

indeed

pretty much everything herc says in season 2

"y'all some semper fi motherfuckers, huh"

vs

"Draft dodging peace freaks, huh?"

"There you go. Giving a fuck when it ain't your turn to give a fuck."

"you got my back, huh? you got my back?"

the entire scene where herc and kids are playing with the computer face program

"you got my back, huh? you got my back?"

Damn, this scene hurt like a mofo for days after I first watched it.

"what about these little bald headed bitches right here?"

"Do the chair know we gonna look like some punk-ass bitches out there?"

hahaha

"Adjourn your asses"

aw i miss bodie

"yo snoop, your sister's in my class"
"n---- is you high?"

"is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?"

"them bitches is on steroids!"

"You, McNulty, are a gaping asshole."

ALL TIME FAVE:

"This is America, man."

"You ask me y'all shouldn't be in here fuckin around with all these guns 'n shit."

"I am thus undecided on fake tits."
- horse face

or something like that. just finished season two today.

and obviously the entirety of the famous fuck scene from season one.

"World be getting warmer, people be getting colder."

"It's got nothing to do with sex. It's about sympathy. It's about giving a guy a break...He looked like this little kid who got left at a bus station by his parents. You know why? Because he had to catch Hoyt Wilhelm's knuckleball. Five fucking years. The worst gig in baseball. It was like trying to catch a greased pig with wings. I mean, he even told a reporter once, 'Wilhelm nearly ruined me.' Gus Triandos. Big slow guy."

also, seconding czn's Cheese quote "That shit was unseemly" and adding "This some shameless shit."

"You ask me y'all shouldn't be in here fuckin around with all these guns 'n shit."

haha yeah that scene was priceless

"I'm just a humble motherfucker with a big-ass dick."
"You give yourself too much credit."
"Okay then. I ain't that humble."

"I can't WAIT to go to prison..."

McNulty: "You know what they call a man who knows so much about clothes, right?"

Bunk: "Uh huh. An adult."

^
love that one

""You're supposed to be the GOOD cop, dumb muthafucka!"

"Boy, don't nobody give a damn about you and your story. You got money, you get to be whatever you say you are."

"Well tickle my fancy fat man"

also "Y'all ain't got Honey Nut?"

about mouzone, can't remember who said it:

"Nigga has more bodies on him than a Chinese cemetery."

racist, but clever. think it was prop joe?

"My name's Proposition Joe. You fuck with me, I'll kill your whole family."

"I robs drug dealers"

"THESE ARE FOR YOU MCNULTY!"

"I knew it was your first time. I wanted that shit to be special."

McNulty's the better half of that exchange.

I know, but I couldn't remember how it went off the top of my head.

Gotta give props to that whole "my name is my name" scene. when Marlo goes "speak, motherfucker" to Monk, chills, man, chills...

We be on they asses like a FORTY DEGREE DAY!

"it's a look."
"no it ain't."

i feel like a bunch of people here are in the middle of season three, just like me.

i am very happy with this season.

that is all.

I still stand by my statement that Season 3 of The Wire was the most poetic season of television that I have ever watched. The betrayal between Avon and Stringer, the parallels between Stringer and Colvin as well as between the war on drugs and the war in Iraq. I could write a dissertation on that season.

lol what a dik

hahaha I am in the middle of season 3 OOH MY SPOILERS LET ME SHOW U THEM

oh shit son! I'm sorry :( :(

nah it's cool, I've seen it, I was talking about this dude:

i feel like a bunch of people here are in the middle of season three, just like me.

-- the table is the table, Tuesday, March 4, 2008 4:51 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

hopefully he won't check back for a while! anyway, clicking on any Wire thread if you're not caught up is danger zone

season 3 was probably my favorite too

I have a hard time remembering back on good quotes, I had to jack my Bunk line up above from imdb

I know Omar and Prop Joe have got tons of good lines that I'm forgetting

Keep it. You earned that bump like a mufuckah.

Omar Little: That wasn’t no attempt murder.
Maurice ‘Maury’ Levy: What was it, Mr. Little?
Omar Little: I shot the boy Mike-Mike in his hind parts, that all.
[Jury laughs]
Omar Little: Fixed it up so he couldn’t sit right.
[Judge chuckles]
Maurice ‘Maury’ Levy: Why’d you shoot Mike-Mike in his, um, hind parts, Mr. Little?
Omar Little: Let’s say we had a disagreement.
Maurice ‘Maury’ Levy: A disagreement over?
Omar Little: Well, you see, Mike-Mike thought he should keep that cocaine he was slingin’ and the money he was makin’ from slingin’ it. I thought otherwise.
Maurice ‘Maury’ Levy: Why should we believe your testimony then? Why believe anything you say?
Omar Little: That’s up to y’all, really.
Maurice ‘Maury’ Levy: You are feeding off the violence and the despair of the drug trade. You are stealing from those who themselves are stealing the lifeblood from our city. You are a parasite who leeches off the culture of drugs…
Omar Little: Just like you, man.
Maurice ‘Maury’ Levy: Excuse me? What?
Omar Little: I got the shotgun. You got the briefcase. It’s all in the game though, right?

"Did you really see Bird shoot that guy?"

"You really askin'?"

"Ever notice how a mother of four is always catchin' hell? Huh? Murder, hit-and-run, burnin' up in a house fire, swindled by bigamists."

"Tough gig, mother of four."

I am at the start of Season 3! So watch those spoilers, y'all.

never read anything about the wire if you haven't seen the whole thing up to the present. seriously.

From Lester in the last episode: "Fuck a re-up son!"

"That's some spiderman shit. Don't seem possible."

i was hoping for a batman reference when i saw that scene. :>

"I told you about them away games"

That scene also had the great "Day of the Jackal" reference

how can anyone click on this thread and expect not to see spoilers?

morans

"he meant lexus, but he ain't know it."

actually, decontextualized, i have no idea if any of these are spoilers or not.

"Who the fuck were we chasing?"

hell yes ^

such a great moment, gives that arc a real sense of closure

Mr. C, you know the mayor too?

"Who the fuck were we chasing?"

-- milo z, Friday, March 7, 2008 4:51 AM (2 days ago) Bookmark Link

I think he says "was I." McNulty's self-centered.

"… I remember clean."

"that woman think I work in a cafeteria!"

"For a cold-ass crew of gangstas, y'all carried it like Republicans and shit."

"That was for Joe."

This sentimental motherfucker cost us the 9!

Slim Charles: I'm standing here holding the torn-up church crown of a bona fide colored lady!

i never really realized before what a great character Slim Charles was.

haha i remember mad lo_Olz @ that slim charles line

"I don't give a fuck!"

from that same episode -- Stringer Bell to Avon "What can I say? Good help is hard to find.."

Herc to Carver: "I said, 'Mr. Mayor, that's a good strong dick you got there, and I see you know how to use it.'"

Snoop, re: Michael and Bug: "Fucking Huxtables and shit."

Landsman: "Marimow does not cast off talent lightly. He heaves it away with great force."

Prop Joe playing a white man on the phone to the police department: "This is Sidney Handjerker, with Handjerker, Cohen and Bromberg"

Bunk on McNulty staying sober and ordering a club soda: "Why don't you suck a dick and get it over with?"

"Let's say goodnight to everybody. Goodnight moon. Goodnight stars. Goodnight po-pos. Goodnight fiends. Goodnight hoppers. Goodnight hustlers. Goodnight scammers. Goodnight to everybody. Goodnight to one and all." -Kima & Elijah

But yeah, Marlo's "You want it to be one way ... but it's the other way" is the single most devastating line I can think of in any TV series.

Can't quote it from memory but the scene where Carver, Herc, Daniels and McNulty are all trying to move a giant desk stuck in the doorway, struggle for a minute, then realize that they've been trying to move it in and out at the same time... and then they just leave it there.

Goddamn I love this show.

^^^ you can't quote it because that's a perfect example of a scene that can't be summed up with dialogue.

A YouTube clip paints a thousand words

"...in?"

This is not so much a line as it is a gesture, but whatever Landsman was doing with his hands in one of the more recent episodes had me dying laughing

yeah when landsman brings the vulgar erudition i lose it

Haha. Herc looks so young there.

You want it to be one way ... but it's the other way"

oh yeah, what was the context here?

Last year, the remarkable television series "The Wire" featured a scene in which Marlo Stanfield, a young man who combines entrepreneurial ambition with ruthless violence while taking over the west Baltimore drug trade, steals 50 cents' worth of candy in full view of a security guard.

The security guard confronts him outside the ghetto storefront where Stanfield has committed this economically trivial but socially significant crime.

The guard knows who Stanfield is, and he's enraged by the calculated act of disrespect. He says he's just an ordinary law-abiding man, working at a convenience store on a Sunday morning, trying to support a family, while making less in a month than Stanfield makes in an hour. Stanfield replies, "You want it to be one way." The guard is confused by this, so Stanfield repeats himself: "You want it to be one way. But it's the other way."

http://youtube.com/watch?v=409Pjtq7jzY

I can't wait to go to jail.

"you want it to be one way" makes an earlier appearance in a Lehane short story ("ICU")

"Omar you best roll out. We up in here with a Mac-10"
"I thinks not, Terrell. I thinks not." LOL

Also, Slim Charles:

"Ain't enough y'all done violated the Sunday Morning Truce. No. I'm standing here holding the torn-up church crown of a bonafide coloured lady. Do you know what a coloured lady is? Not your moms, fo' sho'. 'Cause if they was that, y'all woulda known better than that bullshit. "

that Slim Charles quote is poetry

"Lester, are we still cops?"
"Technically, I suppose..."

"I ain't feel like it, that's why. This is bullshit. And I ain't reading no motherfuckin' book either. (I think he says) I ain't need to know nothing 'bout the damn book. You always gettin' on my ass and shit about some book. Fuck you, you cheese-faced bitch!"

yeah cheese-faced = yoga flame

sydnor: dogshit
mcnutty: you hope

"Shit is just business, String. Buy for a dollar, sell for two. That's all it need be. You got the towers, I got what goes in 'em. Later for all that bullshit."

you people need to stop with this show, you're totally making it played out.

stfu

you people need to stop with this show, you're totally making it played out.

-- The Brainwasher, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 11:11 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

You need to stop with posting for the same reason.

that was clever.

(not really)

and it's true, shut the fuck up about this show already.. yeah it's good, no need to dissect it and shit geesh.

maybe this thread is not so much for the brainwasher eh?

that was clever.

-- The Brainwasher, Wednesday, April 9, 2008 3:18 AM (58 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

(not really)

-- The Brainwasher, Wednesday, April 9, 2008 3:18 AM (52 seconds ago) Bookmark Link

lolol xpost

u spoiled my zing

oh!

the old "type one thing and then type what you really mean in parentheses" is the coldest zing you can serve up

for a second i thought the brainwasher was quoting the wire cause that shit was such a harsh street style zing

and because it was clever

tru

(not really)

lololololololol !!!!!!!!!! ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

yeah i think stringer said that to bodie in season 3.

he made air parentheses

once again you guys just drag it out.

is it true brainwasher got sonned by everyone in a air parentheses beef

do you speak like that in real life.

who said that?

who said what?

that

what season?

ugh, whatever I should've just held my tongue and not came into this thread.

bunny colvin, season 4

ugh, whatever I should've just held my tongue and not came into this thread. -- Bunk Moreland, season 5

these are good ones

who said what? - Bubbles, season 4

http://xs226.xs.to/xs226/08153/job331.png

ugh, whatever I should've just held my tongue and not came into this thread.

-- The Brainwasher, Tuesday, April 8, 2008 11:43 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

no

(actually yes)

You want it to be one way, but it's the other way.

clay davis: 'what unit you with? .. major crimes? .. shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit'

also: 'i gots to leap up outta here 'fore i lose my goddamn mind!'

"prisons and graveyards are full of them that wore the crown"
"the point is, they wore it. now it's my turn."

also:

"i ain't never put my gun on no citizen"

Avon: So what you tellin' me we weak ?

Slim: Boss, I reached out to Black Donnie.

Avon: Okay, spit it out, man.
Listen, stop fucking double talkin' me.

Slim: Black Donnie said
he ain't having any of it.

Said Brother Mouzone
put a hex on all of us.

Avon: What 'bout Peacock ?

Slim: Peacock went and hired
out with some Dominicans.

Avon: What about Eggy Mule ?

Slim: Eggy locked up.
Caught a nickel with the feds for a pistol.

Avon: How 'bout Shorty Boyd ?

Slim: Shorty Boyd went and cleaned his whole ack' up.

Avon: ...

Slim: Yeah, I know. Fucked us all up.

Avon: What we got ?

Slim: Soldier you sent at us, Cutty, he gonna work out
but the rest of them dudes,
I dunno.

Avon: A-ight, listen big man, you about to earn your fuckin'
keep around here right now.

You go out, you get Cutty
and get the best of the rest
and put a hurtin' on Marlo.

I want my corners.