“A Man Must Have A Code…”
GENERAL By LC Weber on November 17, 2009 at 7:16 pmNat King Cole’s sugar-swirled songs echo through Walmart walkways lined with stockings and ornaments. Price-drops of epic proportions are slated for a Friday after Thanksgiving that is sure to leave at least one Midwesterner trampled to death. It’s with these staples the holiday season descends upon us and I turn once again to the annual duty of procuring a Christmas wish list from which my grandparents will glean inspiration. But this year is much, much different from the last… sigh… for I received “The Wire” box set on Christmas last year.
What more does one really need? What more is left?!?
Above is a 10-minute reminder of 100 reasons that there is no comparing “The Wire” to any other show. There is no pitting other characters and plots in a cage-match, battle-royale against Omar, McNulty, Marlo, Bodie, Stringer, Avon, Bunny, Mike, Wee Bey, and all the other play-actors of Baltimore-upon-Chesapeake.
“The Wire” is to television what Andre 3000 is to Hip-Hop — born with an unfair advantage, and retired with a brand so deep in the skin of the genre that the scar of creativity will be visible beyond a lifetime.
Unfortunately, when you own “The Wire” box set and every Outkast record, there’s few worldly possessions left to desire. If you’re LC Weber, that means you lock yourself away for a cold winter’s night with the Twilight book series and steep your spinsterdom in a mug of herbal tea. I’ve gone soft, my friends. With no Snoop to ask “How my hair look?” I become more Mary Tyler Moore with each passing day.
And so as Black Friday approaches and my grandmothers prepare their shopping lists, I suppose the only thing left to ask for is a re-up of the series that scarred this website as deeply as Hip-Hop. I’ll start back at the beginning; where thin streams of blood flow in the street at McNulty’s feet. Where he rests on a stoop with a young man from the Towers, and they deliver notable-quotable 101…
“So, your boy’s name is what?”
“Snot.”
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but you gotta keep the devil…down in the hole
R.I.P. The Wire
My favorite scene of all time?
Drunky McNulty car crash/waitress conquest episode opener.
Damn. I miss the wire. “All in the game”.
Drunky McNulty car crash/waitress conquest episode opener.
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GREAT scene. when he’s trying to line up the visual of the angle he should run the car…. amazing.
I just finished the series (again) last Thursday. Now I’m back to the Sopranos. The Wire Seasons 1-5 = The Sopranos Season 1-5
It still hurts too much.
Looking forward to Treme.
I can think of countless emcees that I might view as analogous to “The Wire” and Mr. Benjamin is not gonna make the cut.
Gotta love the SHEEIT bombs towards the end.
Is anyone even following another show after the Wire?
Damn. A video of 100 Wire clips along with an LC post?
Looks like i don’t need a Christmas list this year either.. lol
This show is universal.
http://azizisbored.tumblr.com/post/247415415/the-greatest-tv-show-of-all-time-brettgelman
^^^
Californication.
I’m hooked on A+E right now. I can name at least 4-5 shows that I’ve managed to watch regularly on there. Parking Wars FTW!
“How my hair look Mike” didnt make the cut? BS
i was late in watching the wire. but i finished the whole series in like a month i couldnt stop watching it.
I check HBO on demand daily for the reup of the show. They need to drop season 1 and let it run or I’m going to drop them niggas Chris and Snoop style……but I cant or they’ll they’ll air that shit and it’ll kill me….HBO got me stuck like Prop Joe…*keeps eye on Cheese*.
First 48!
Yall arent gonna do a post for Pill?
Yeah I started watching Californication which is pretty good. The Wire though, ahh it’ll be with me forever.
LC my chick won’t get into The Wire, I didn’t even think that was possible, any suggestions? lmao
I re-watch the entire series at least once a year, might be twice at this point. I think I’m on maybe my fifth go around, literally just finished season 2. You know, season 2 gets a lot of hate and is often labeled as the worst season (but shit, the worst season of the best show ever aint bad lol), and I’ll admit I felt the same way at the beginning…but damn season 2 is good.
In a way I feel The Wire has ruined all other tv shows for me, sure I can still enjoy other series, but whenever I’m starting a new show it’s always in the back of my mind that no matter how good it might could be…it aint touchin The Wire. I wish I could get that feelin of the first time I saw each episode back lol.
Recently watched Oz in it’s entirety, great show as well, and you can’t go wrong with how many heads from The Wire are in that (or I guess how many from Oz were in The Wire seeings as Oz came first). Still haven’t watched Sopranos, suppose I’ll do that soon.
And @ LC…why can’t I meet a girl like you IRL? lol “She watch The Wire with me, I’m attached forever” (C) Skyzoo
Oh, and some of you will appreciate this thread I started on the OKP boards last week: http://board.okayplayer.com/okp.php?az=show_topic&forum=4&topic_id=8903199
The bigger the lie, the more they believe…
Man Bunk was the best…
You know what I just noticed after watching this again. What’s with the lack of quotes from the “boys of Summer.” Not the episode but all the kids. Kinda weird
@ Complex – same thing I thought. I give them an A for effort and a C+ for execution. More “The Wire” stuff is always good.
Thing I hate is seeing some of the actors in other shows not living up to the quality of acting from the Wire. We need a show with similar aspiration – if not in content then in quality.
Great drop. Seriously. Great writing LC.
Nothing comes close to this show.
ARon… hmmm, that’s quite the dilemma. We all have to set our priorities. I know I’ve cut first dates short when I found out the guy didn’t listen to — nay, didn’t LIKE — Hip-Hop. So if your rundown of qualities a woman must possess goes something like…
1. cooks
2. gives good head
3. likes The Wire
4. goes to church
…then you may need to let her go. For if you love someone and let it go, and it’s meant to be, she’ll come back to you with a love of The Wire and memorized quotes in her wheelhouse. Now, if your love for her usurps your love of The Wire… well… you may just need to be prepared to watch a lot of shitty television. And three out of four qualities ain’t bad, so she’s probably good, regardless of her lack of love for The Best Show Ever. I say stick it out and pray she learns the error of her ways.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/tv/bal-ae.wire15nov15,0,3079244.story
More folk are realizing.
That was probably the most enjoyable ten minutes of video i’ve seen…since the last time i watched an episode of the wire.
Watching Season 3 right now, episode 4 (Amsterdam). Lester gives it too Jimmy and Kima for not following the new target. He tells Jimmy “you not worth the skin on my knuckles…I’m done with you” Jimmy tells him he is still after Stringer Bell and brings up the real estate Bell may have downtown.
After Lester says he is done with Jimmy (and Jimmy and Kima leave) he tells Pryzbylewski “to check on them fucking properties.” Classic.
10:02-12:22 on episode 4.
Back to the show
^ i love how this is still getting replies lol