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Count Roland posted:Is McNulty the only cop that isn't shown using violence? He did choke a corpse
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Lid posted:He did choke a corpse Rawls' "You're not killing them yourself, are you Jimmy? At least tell me that" still cracks me up 
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Xiahou Dun posted:Start with Rum, Sodomy and the Lash. People will quibble about the best album, but that one is a good on ramp. I was in a redneck-y sports bar/restaurant a month or two back where they usually play pop-country crap. Before you ask - the burgers are amazing and were half priced that night. Someone loaded up four Pogues songs. I asked who put them on and the dude assumed I was about to complain. Nope. Told him how happy I was to hear good music in that place for once.
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Obviously the show uses 'Body Of An American' for the police wakes, but iirc they use 'Transmetropolitan' for the scene where McNulty tries to smash his car up. I'm sure there's another song they use in the background of another scene, but I may be getting that confused with McNulty singing 'Star Of The County Down' badly
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Oct 30, 2023 22:08
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Poster-username combo, first of all. Second, Star of the County Down is traditional, the Pogues didn’t write that. Lol that I too could remember song to scene correspondences. Of course that got stuck in my brain.
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The Pogues definitely recorded a version of 'Star Of The County Down' with Andrew on vocals while Daryl did the drums, or at least that's the set up they used when I saw them live on their reunion tours, but I think I'm just getting muddled
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Oct 30, 2023 22:23
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Count Roland posted:Even Lester hits Bird with the bottle when arresting him.
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:The Pogues definitely recorded a version of 'Star Of The County Down' with Andrew on vocals while Daryl did the drums, or at least that's the set up they used when I saw them live on their reunion tours, but I think I'm just getting muddled This was a bonus track on the 2005 re-release of Peace and Love There's a 5 CD set of rarities called "Just Look Them Straight in the Eye & Say Poguemahone", which is where I first heard it. It's on disc 5
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Jerusalem posted:Rawls' "You're not killing them yourself, are you Jimmy? At least tell me that" still cracks me up God season 5 has such highs for such a not my favorite season.
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Also the Jimmy serial killer profiling scene
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MrMojok posted:Also the Jimmy serial killer profiling scene I also enjoy the "Yeah, then his brother ratted him out?" scene earlier deflating the guy trying to brag about hunting the unabomber though i guess we get mixed messages about the effectiveness of profiling in that scene
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The funniest part of The Wire is when Poot is the man for an hour.
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Poot casually revealing that he just decided to stop being a drug dealer and went and got a job at Foot Locker is amazing. Dude was in the heart of it all, killed one of his friends, went to prison, just seemed like he was in "The Game" for (a short) life and then after Bodie was killed he just went,"Yeah that's enough of that" and hosed off and got a job. I guess when your top priority in life is getting laid and you realize drugs and prison are likely to get in the way of that, it's a hell of a motivator!
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Nov 1, 2023 08:35
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Poot went and cleaned his whole ack up hosed us all up
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Stringer Bell: What are they gonna do, go out and get a job?  What a shock, Stringer's smug sense of being smarter than everybody somehow got proven wrong!
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Also another funny one is McNulty: I wonder what it takes to get kicked off this force? Kima: maybe one day you will find out.
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I'm still slowly working through The Wire and the weirdest thing was seeing Poot in a high school as like, a 16 or 17 year old while the actor looked like he was nearly 30
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This triggered a memory that got me to rewatch this scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eboBnyoYNqw I don't think I ever noticed before, but a comment pointed out that part of what makes Poot step up and ask Stringer if he recognizes they're gonna look like bitches is because he spots one of Stringer's enforcers shaking his head in disapproval when Stringer is going off on superior product beating territory. Absolutely love that.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:The funniest part of The Wire is when Poot is the man for an hour. He a man today
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algebra testes posted:God season 5 has such highs for such a not my favorite season.
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Jerusalem posted:This triggered a memory that got me to rewatch this scene: Poot was legitimately hardcore and there are many, many examples on screen of why.
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NorgLyle posted:One of the many things I love about the show on rewatches is how it is 100% obvious that Bill Rawls knows his entire job is just a bunch of useless bullshit and so he just leans right into that for his entire career and is endlessly rewarded. Yep. Except for the 2 hours where he has to be competent and is shockingly so.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:The funniest part of The Wire is when Poot is the man for an hour.
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Kosmo Gallion posted:The funniest part of The Wire is when Poot is the man for an hour. What about when Poot asks Herc's date if she enjoyed the movie
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Count Roland posted:What about when Poot asks Herc's date if she enjoyed the movie Hell yeah lol
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Currently watching Oz and re-watching The Wire simultaneously (and pretending all the shared actors are playing their Wire origin stories in Oz) and the scene that always makes me laugh is Bunk at the end of season two looking at a table full of photos of decapitated bodies with their hands cut off and says "I bet you there's a fuckin' police detective somewheres else looking at a table full of heads right now." Just pure unadulterated gallows humor deep dish peat moss fucked around with this message at 21:03 on Nov 2, 2023 |
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The little moment in S4 when Bubbles and Prez spot each other in the school like "the hell you doing here?"
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Just finished my 6th or 7th rewatch tonight, and god drat this show really rewards you. I still caught stuff I never noticed before. I also read the wiki and looked up all the real people they used as actors and based characters on. The embarassing part is the one actor who I thought was obviously a real life cop because of how bad an actor he is was Coliccio, except he was a Marine who went to Vassar and has like writing awards and poo poo. Norris, the bald detective is kind of the real life Rawls and he just plays a detective using his real name. And Lt. Mello is the real life Jay Landsman. Also the actor who plays Deacon is the real life Avon Barksdale, who Ed Burns arrested and David Simon wrote about a couple decades earlier. Season 5 is not bad and totally holds its own. Every time Kenard comes on screen my daughter and I both go "fuckin' Kenard" because we know his arc and how he does Omar dirty. He's such a poo poo. Scary though, natural gangster. Donut is my favorite non-main character. A page or two ago you all were talking about when the show clicked, I thought it was later but it was episode 3 for me too. The first time I watched it I wasn't getting it until out of nowhere Freamon just walks out and comes back with the first photo of Avon Barksdale. I was all the way in after that moment. Breaking Bad is the best show I've ever seen, except maybe The Wire.
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pokeyman posted:Yep. Except for the 2 hours where he has to be competent and is shockingly so. Rawls is a McNulty who decided to make the system work for himself rather than persist in fighting a system he can't change.
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pokeyman posted:Yep. Except for the 2 hours where he has to be competent and is shockingly so.
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Rawls always seemed to be the sort of boss who would protect his detectives right up until the moment it starts to be politically inconvenient for him to do so
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I take back what I said before, the funniest line in the series is Bubbles calling hotdogs Pimp Steaks
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Underrated funny moment is when Chris and Snoop are asking NY dealers a question about a local radio show to weed them out and this guy answers correctly but Snoop doesn't have a clue and immediately sticks a gun in his face
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Criminal Minded posted:Underrated funny moment is when Chris and Snoop are asking NY dealers a question about a local radio show to weed them out and this guy answers correctly but Snoop doesn't have a clue and immediately sticks a gun in his face Sanjay be on the show too!
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deep dish peat moss posted:I take back what I said before, the funniest line in the series is Bubbles calling hotdogs Pimp Steaks Herc sucks but I'll never not laugh at "Mr. Mayor, that's a good, strong dick you got there, and I see you know how to use it." Incidentally, Royce is an underrated character. He's a lot of fun during the election arc. I might like him even more than Clay Davis. Randallteal fucked around with this message at 08:34 on Nov 17, 2023 |
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Randallteal posted:Herc sucks but I'll never not laugh at "Mr. Mayor, that's a good, strong dick you got there, and I see you know how to use it." Quoted for truth. Season 5 also equipped me for a life of using "evacuate" properly in all contexts.
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Randallteal posted:Incidentally, Royce is an underrated character. He's a lot of fun during the election arc. I might like him even more than Clay Davis. Royce getting grumpy that he actually had to get off his rear end and do some proper campaigning (dye job and a shave and bilking developers for a shitload of money at a "poker game") to actually beat Carcetti (and losing!) always cracks me up. Motherfucker really thought all he'd have to do is print some "VOTE ROYCE" posters and immediately win another term.
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Jerusalem posted:Royce getting grumpy that he actually had to get off his rear end and do some proper campaigning (dye job and a shave and bilking developers for a shitload of money at a "poker game") to actually beat Carcetti (and losing!) always cracks me up. Motherfucker really thought all he'd have to do is print some "VOTE ROYCE" posters and immediately win another term. I took that shaving scene differently. I didn't view it as Royce finally taking the race seriously, so much as showing he was out of touch. The shaving was interspersed with Tony running around town glad handing. One guy working hard, the other focusing on superficial appearances. Royce had been in power too long and was too comfortable. We saw that in other ways he mishandled the campaign, like by alienating the wheelchair guy out of pride.
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