Season 1 Ep4: Old Cases
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“Fuck”

Season 1 Ep5: The Pager
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Initially, HBO wanted to cut this scene. They thought it was too confusing to have Omar robbing someone other than a Barksdale crew.

How my hair look, Mike? #TheWire

Season 1 Ep6: The Wire
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“That's the worst case of suicide I've ever seen.” -Officer Bobby Brown

Season 1 Ep8: Lessons
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“Ayo, lesson here, Bey. You come at the king, you best not miss' -Omar

“He call me a punk?”

As the 21st anniversary of #TheWire nears, I’ll be sharing some of my favorite scenes. This is one of them.

Funniest moment in #TheWire ?

I’ll start:

Season 1 Ep7: One Arrest
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“I got this connect” -Orlando

“It's fucking picturesque, is what it is.”

Season 2 Ep6: All Prologue
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When #TheWire originally aired the ratings weren’t great. Here’s a 2006 quote from Bunny Colvin actor Robert Wisdom.

“It’s going to be taught in schools and it’s going to go to whole other formats that no other kind of television has ever gone to because people are going to

Season 1 Ep8: Lessons
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“Count be wrong they fuck you up.”

“Ah, I see you got the DeWalt cordless. cordless. Your nail gun. DeWalt 410”

410 model? It’s a Baltimore thing. IYKYK

Season 2 Ep5: Undertow
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“Do I look like a fսcking punk?” -Ziggy

#TheWire ended 16 years ago today.

The corners stay full, institutions still decay & the wrong people still get promoted. The world keeps turning and nothing changes. The end.

17 years ago today, #TheWire Season 4 Ep1: “Boys of Summer” premiered on HBO.

“Man, fuck the charge. This here is gunpowder-activated, 27 caliber, full auto, no kickback, nail-throwing mayhem. Shit right here is tight.” -Snoop