your favorite lol from The Wire - nom thread

1. sheeeeeeeeeeit

2. the look on daniels' face when prez socks valchek

3. mcnultys x2 car crash

4. many, many things Bunk said. such as, any time he gestures toward his dick.

5. "He do look natural" - Slim Charles at funeral

6. "On a fuckin stairmaster"

7. avon clowning marlo during prison visit

8.
wallace: "is that your bitch?"
d'angelo: "naw nigga that's my moms"

oh yeah 7: "surpriiiiise"

9. the Herc/Carver exchange re: Olsen Twins

10. "if it wasn't for your man sergei here you and your cuz would be some cadaverous motherfuckers" (hope i got that right)

(4 is a little broad dude!)

11. kima and her girl go to the strip club w/ prez

stripper: "is this yours? yeah i wouldn't bring mine in here either. these bitches up in here are no. joke."

12. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/59/Gus_triandos_59topps-568.jpg

Stringer's "fuck you detective" drawing to McNulty.

i know, i will pick the best Bunk moment after deliberation. 4 is provisional for now.

"cheese-faced bitch"

13 & 14. ^^

15. herc and carver in the security store: "hish name ish head. dick head."

16. bodie and cheese bargaining with a freaked out junkie when they have to split the towers, lol capitalism

Herc trying to pick up Beadie

Herc explaining how much he loves white boys to Kima

Herc and Carver and Fuzzy Dunlop

Herc making buys as a wigger

Bodie driving around listening to Garrison Keillor

^^^ oh shit yeah that may be it for me

omar sonning levy on the stand

aren't 9 and 12 really the same thing? I guess they're different parts of the same bit at least.

shardene appearing at the VERY END w/ freamon. damn dude!!

Bunny: "Get on with it mother f..."

avon not bunny ^^

Bodie's take on Prairie Home Companion. xpost stupid job ><

the real jay landsman being on a show where a character named jay landsman is a fat stat-obsessed porn addict

carcetti trying and repeatedly failing to process the news of mcnultys serial killer scheme

Bunk trying to set fire to his trousers in a bathtub while drink at some woman's house.

drunk

Bunny: "Get on with it mother f..."

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avon not bunny ^^

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uhhh...stringer?

lololololol

i was closer tho

11. kima and her girl go to the strip club w/ prez

stripper: "is this yours? yeah i wouldn't bring mine in here either. these bitches up in here are no. joke."

lol. I just watched that scene last week.

namond to colvin "damn u know the mayor?"

at first I gave Cursed benefit of the doubt that there was some scene I was forgetting where Colvin said that, since I don't really think of Stringer's death scene as a big LOL moment in the show's history.

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

and of course

"Got to, man. This is America."

the church crown shooting/aftermath

kima putting together the ikea bed

btw Stringer's blood-splattered shirt from that scene is in the Baltimore Museum of Industry, I totally geeked out seeing it in person.

(i have to think of one with norman wilson, i loved that guy)

Doesn't Colvin say 'Get on with it" when he's getting his public disciplining?

Oh yeah, Norman. The discussion in the car about whether he'll be voting for Carcetti, maybe.

yeah i was racking my brain for Reg E. Cathey lols when this thread started

"hamsterdam"

Is you taken notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YZLLAV_R8g

i can't rep for 2 enough. i rewound and watched that like 12 times

it did - it's in david simon's book, homicide. i think he says the practice got banned by some liberal, do-good judge though.

yeah, that was a wtf lol. Most of my lols from the show were either from recognition or juxtapositions.

"For you I would suggest some pantsuits, perhaps muted in color, something to offset Detective Moreland's pinstripe lawyerly affectations and the brash tweedy impertinence of Detective Freamon"

I keep thinking this threrad is somehow about the intersection between The Wire and food.

hey yeah!

"Ain't you gonna eat them crab brains? Pussy ass white boy."

(badly paraphrased, I'm sure)

Landsmann in Season Two praising Lester's "tweedy impertinence."

Beadie reacting to the news that as many as 50,000 young women come as illegal stowaways: "What they need is a union."

"Bow-legged motherfucker. I made him walk like that."

"Heh. I want a woman with ankles, but I'm going to go home, and there's my wife."

Lester and Bunk interrogating the boat workers who pretend not to speak english.

Stringer telling D'Angelo's baby mama that D'Angelo's sweater wouldn't fit him because he's an "XL" as an "oh by the way"

also ... the ongoing travels of the surveillance van. I think in one of the later seasons (after season 2), Valchek is still getting photos of the van at various international ports.

sarahel even better than stringer saying "i'm an xl" is donette's reply! - "no doubt"

"Bitch pulled a gun out of her pussy! That shit was unseemly."

Herc and Carver meeting Bodie and Poot coming out of a film with their girlfriends. "You guys go to the movies?"

^ all time

Bunk and Prop Joe discussing Commissioner Burrell

"You know what the plural of pussy is? PUSS-EYE"

I'm rewatching the whole thing and got through season 3.

I'd almost forgotten about - the big drug bust of hamsterdam where Rawls plays Ride of the Valkyries over the loudspeaker, which made me note similarities between his character and the character Robert Duvall plays in Network.

i feel like theres another big movie where someone plays ride of valkyries while raiding and destroying, but i just cant put my finger on it.........

haha

i feel like theres another big movie where someone plays ride of valkyries while raiding and destroying, but i just cant put my finger on it.........

Yeah, I think Robert Duvall is somehow involved.

network?

uh, sorry if I'm being totally obvious.

Thought process went from Rawls playing Ride of the Valkyries as reference to Duvall playing the same in that one movie, to Duvall's character in Network that takes similar joy in being a dick and focusing on ratings.

Some Marlo flunky (Fat Andre?) explaining Spongebob Squarepants.

little kevin

herc & kids from hamsterdam back at the police station putting together faces on the suspect identification program

haha, "make his ears point up''....'give her those asian eyes like beyonce'

Bodie: I'm out here holding my Charles Dickens

I'm in the middle of revisiting season 3, and there are some doozies.

Prez is showing off by magnifying the license plate on a grainy tape:
"Nothing there. It's so tiny. No mere mortal can... You see what he just did? What? He did it again? Who is this man? Where does he come from? Can anybody stop him? Please don't hurt us. Please my eyes, my eyes. It's so big and clear and bright."
Daniels: "Sometimes, you still scare me, you know that?"

And Bunny talking with the Deacon at a billiard parlor.
B: "You hustlin'?"
D: "Educatin'."
B: "Charging for it or tuition-free?"
D: "Tuition will come back to him ten-fold in acquired wisdom."

herc & kids from hamsterdam back at the police station putting together faces on the suspect identification program

haha, "make his ears point up''....'give her those asian eyes like beyonce'

"can this thing do butts?"

And Rawls in the gay bar, obv

give her those asian eyes like beyonce'

I think the actual line is "chinese up them eyes like beyoncé"

there's a moment in i think early s.3 when bunk says kofi annan when he clearly means someone else (can't remember who) - not so much lol as a minor wtf - ain't like the bunk to be wrong

prop joe calling up the police & doing all those ridiculous voices

cosign re: landsman eating sushi with a fork

i'm convinced the ikea gag is pivotal beyond the laffs, but can't say more w/o spoiling.

spoil away, this is a poll for best bits of a show that finished nearly 18 months ago.

prop joe calling up the police & doing all those ridiculous voices

this is the best tv has to offer

Prez is showing off by magnifying the license plate on a grainy tape:
"Nothing there. It's so tiny. No mere mortal can... You see what he just did? What? He did it again? Who is this man? Where does he come from? Can anybody stop him? Please don't hurt us. Please my eyes, my eyes. It's so big and clear and bright."

^^^^ i remember rewinding this moment 3 times on first viewing

"Who is this man?"

xp sarahel ur right:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPuWgeVOsSw

too bad it's missing the first part when they're making the guy's face, was just as funny

One of my favourites is Omar turning up at Prop Joe's, ostensibly to pick up the clock Joe's repaired for him, but actually to say he's ripping him off for loads of money. He then drops the bomb, picks up the money, and then pays for clock Joe's just repaired.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE-uY7P3pe4

so what man? you earned that buck like a motherfucker, keep that shit

first day of school, group of very large girls taking up the entire hallway - "daaamn, these b****es are on steroids!"

that snoop sequence is absolutely a personal favorite
cadillac

there's a moment in i think early s.3 when bunk says kofi annan when he clearly means someone else (can't remember who) - not so much lol as a minor wtf - ain't like the bunk to be wrong

― W i l l, Tuesday, July 28, 2009 3:53 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark

yea he says "kofi bryant" haha