100 greatest quotes from THE WIRE

i remember a year or two ago i slagged off the wire as just another american tv bullshit import after suffering some serious fatigue from lazy half arsed US drama filling the UK tv schedule instead of us producing some decent home grown tv worth watching for a change... but i'm taking it back and eating a fat slice of humble pie with humble cream and humble sprinkles...

i decided to give it a chance when i saw my mate had the complete set on dvd, i'm now half way through season 4 and loving it... totally and utterly hooked watching 2 episodes on week nights for the last 2/3 weeks.

omar = legend.

anyway there's some golden quotage here...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sgj78QG9Bg&feature=player_embedded

no offense son but that's some weak ass thinkin', you be equivocatin' like a mother fucker.

SSHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEIIIIIIIITTT

one of the comments gives a good one that's missing...

'slower than a white man in slippers!'

lots of shitty quotes in there.

The wire is over rated and will come across as cheesy, in a few years, as tarantinos "gritty and realistic" dialogue does now.

I was hoping this was going to be a thread of classic bloated pretentious bullshit espoused by The Wire magazine.

franklin, there are some.

you're a glass is half empty kind of guy eh?

  On 11/18/2009 at 3:19 PM, LUDD said:

I was hoping this was going to be a thread of classic bloated pretentious bullshit espoused by The Wire magazine.

i'd watch this youtube

i got to series three episode 10 and literally cannot bring myself to watch any more

3 and 4 are my favourites so far. i couldn't concieve not watching the amazing ending of season 3. lol i sound gay as well as a grammatical numpty.

  On 11/18/2009 at 3:21 PM, keltoi said:

  On 11/18/2009 at 3:19 PM, LUDD said:

I was hoping this was going to be a thread of classic bloated pretentious bullshit espoused by The Wire magazine.

 

i'd watch this youtube

watch what youtube?

a youtube of the hundred greatest quotes from THE WIRE (magazine)...

The smugly superior guardian reading middle classes love the wire because it gives some illusion of edge to their dull ordinary suburban lives. For that 60 minutes a week when they are cool and get to hang out with their gritty cop buddies and get a glimpse into the world of "realistic" homicide and drug deals. It is no less a waste of time than watching lost or x factor.

oh god ludd, you're right. that's exactly why i've watched all of the shield, i'm upping my telly game. vic mackey is a man's man, a family man, a man who doesn't take any shit off no whiny liberal poofters (or negroes and mexicans for that matter). salt of the earth mate. the wire is for homo panini eaters.

and that fat cunt tony soprano. he can fuck off too... ooh it explores the frailty of the human condition... he's a gang boss AND he's in therapy.... it's genius... load of bollocks

  On 11/18/2009 at 4:35 PM, LUDD said:

The smugly superior guardian reading middle classes love the wire because it gives some illusion of edge to their dull ordinary suburban lives. For that 60 minutes a week when they are cool and get to hang out with their gritty cop buddies and get a glimpse into the world of "realistic" homicide and drug deals. It is no less a waste of time than watching lost or x factor.

dunno it's kind of entertaining though

yeah i was just being a cunt

am quite pissed

but seriously though ... it is shit ... lets paint, excercise and make blended drinks however

  On 11/18/2009 at 3:19 PM, LUDD said:

The wire is over rated and will come across as cheesy, in a few years, as tarantinos "gritty and realistic" dialogue does now.

 

I was hoping this was going to be a thread of classic bloated pretentious bullshit espoused by The Wire magazine.

As resistant as I am to agree with you on The Wire's shelf-life, I was hoping for the exact same bloated pretentious bullshit when I opened this thread, lol

now sopranos i agree on. i could never get into it despite the whole planet tongueing it's ring. i blame sopranos for me being presumptious about the wire

  On 11/18/2009 at 5:05 PM, keltoi said:

now sopranos i agree on. i could never get into it despite the whole planet tongueing it's ring. i blame sopranos for me being presumptious about the wire

i tried to start watching this but it had too much of those annoying musical ditties that try to accentuate everything happening on screen.

fuck the sopranos; fuck yeah let's paint tv

i think i got my bases covered in here...aaaand that's all from me, everybody. enjoy the remainder of the thread.

sopranos is a good show. the wire is a better show. wheres all the deadwood hate? might as well shit on that one too

  On 11/18/2009 at 6:51 PM, Z_B_Z said:

wheres all the deadwood hate? might as well shit on that one too

...you limber-dicked cocksucker.

lol

I too was hoping for quotes from The Wire magazine...