# Funniest moments on "The Wire" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 2, 2011, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086 "2011-06-02T15:22:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/21 "2011-06-02T18:52:03Z")
FYI, the actress who played Snoop is a convicted murderer and has been charged with drug dealing several times ([most recently in May](http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1388117/The-Wire-actress-Felicia-Snoop-Pearson-denies-heroin-charges-Baltimore-Court.html)), so the role wasn’t too much of a stretch for her. My favorite bit is when Bunk is trying to talk McNulty out of fabricating the serial killer, and tries to get Lester to help, and Lester immediately start helping McNulty cook up a better story. ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/22 "2011-06-02T18:53:48Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I agree about Snoop; the actor had a very real feel in her portrayal of this character (this being said without my having any familiarity with the culture). The raw psychopathic nature of her and Chris was fairly scary. And Felicia Pearson (who was the actor’s real name as well as the character’s) was in fact a drug dealer and was convicted of second-degree murder at age 14. That probably explains her ability to act convincingly in the role ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 7:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/23 "2011-06-02T19:01:07Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > The guy with the bratty girlfriend, sitting on a bench in the office, and his comment about how jail wouldn’t be so bad. What was his name? Two syllables is all I remember. Or maybe it was one syllable and she dragged it out to two. This was mine - the entire series of scenes between them were hilarious, and made his claim that jail would be better seem rather authentic. Good ol’ Bernard and Squeak. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/24 "2011-06-02T19:08:03Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > …When they were trying to move the desk through a door… THAT was hysterical. “At this rate we’re never going to get it in.” “IN??” ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/25 "2011-06-02T19:39:44Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > Good for some chuckles: > > The guy with the bratty girlfriend, sitting on a bench in the office, and his comment about how jail wouldn’t be so bad. What was his name? Two syllables is all I remember. Or maybe it was one syllable and she dragged it out to two. You have to listen closely for it: [The Wire “I can’t wait to go to jail”](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2h9mCZuVG4) ---
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/26 "2011-06-02T19:50:37Z")
Just found this. [THE WIRE - 100 Greatest Quotes (spoilers)](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Sgj78QG9Bg) (10 minute version of a 5-season show). ---
**Author:** ![Jas09](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d07c76/32.png) [@Jas09](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jas09)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/27 "2011-06-02T19:53:12Z")
For storyline humor I got a pretty good kick out of Lester selling the wiretapped burners to the gang. And who was it that made a series of phone-calls using a wide range of different accents (Prop Joe?)? ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/28 "2011-06-02T21:10:14Z")
I knew I liked this guy I’m dating when we were talking about _The Wire_ and he said he’d love to see a spinoff sitcom called _Oh Shit, Omar Comin’_ - just him robbing drug dealers all day long. So I told him I’d rather see _Oh Shit, Omar Comin’ To Dinner_, but Katherine Hepburn is too dead. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 9:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/29 "2011-06-02T21:20:11Z")
Kate was the mom, right? Who was the daughter? I think Diane Keaton would be credible as a timid quaking mom. For a loud aggressive mom? Roseanne? – too low rent, maybe? How about Tina Fey? ---
**Author:** ![Crawlspace](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Crawlspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crawlspace)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/30 "2011-06-02T21:38:35Z")
I thought Ziggy and the Duck was funny. The first time you meet Sergei at the beginning of season 2:“Why I am Boris? I don’t understand this. Everywhere I am Boris.” Then the callback at the end of season 2 when he won’t give his name to Jimmy and Fitzhugh: “No name huh? For now we’ll call you Boris.” “Boris. Why always Boris?” Bubbles riding with Jimmy to his kids soccer game: “Where in Leave It To Beaver land are you taking me?” ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/31 "2011-06-02T22:06:00Z")
> [@Crawlspace](#): > > Bubbles riding with Jimmy to his kids soccer game: “Where in Leave It To Beaver land are you taking me?” Oh, and Bubbles and Johnny stealing copper pipes and Bubbles losing his pants! ---
**Author:** ![XXX19](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/ac8455/32.png) [@XXX19](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/XXX19)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/32 "2011-06-02T22:08:17Z")
You have to be from Bmore to laugh at this but in the union office they had a picture of Bullet Board Irsay in the middle of a dart board on the wall with a dart sticking out of his head. Classic Baltimore. Irsay was the guy who moved the Colts to Indy. Everyone laughed their asses off and the next day that’s all we talked about on Ravens football board. Even my wife got it and said - That’s the drunken Irsay. That was in reference to a big press conference he gave at the airport standing next to the mayor and he’s drunk as a skunk. I(n Indy he said they’re my team. After that we called them the Indy Irsays. LOL ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/33 "2011-06-02T22:30:36Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > Not just that line, but this whole scene: [The Wire - Omar testifies against Bird](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYj7q_by_2E) – 7:20 of top quality humor, especially the very end of it. The “he does have a point there, dude” look on the judge’s face was what made me lose it 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![DigitalC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ebca7d/32.png) [@DigitalC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DigitalC)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/34 "2011-06-02T23:03:28Z")
Method Man getting arrested on suspicion of murder for killing a dog. He felt genuinely sad about it and the detectives thought they had a heartfelt confession about him killing his “dawg”. ---
**Author:** ![Merejane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@Merejane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merejane)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 11:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/35 "2011-06-02T23:24:41Z")
I love the very first scene in Season 1, Episode 7 (“One Arrest”) where the police – Herc, Prez, McNulty, Carver, and Lester – are listening to phone conversations between the drug dealers. There’s a lot of jargon, and Herc comes up with some very funny – and very inaccurate – interpretations of what they’re hearing. Prez and Lester translate correctly. When Carver asks how they can “hear it so good,” Prez recites “Gold coast slave ship bound for cotton fields, sold in a market down in New Orleans.” When Herc asks what _that_ is, Prez says: “Rolling Stones, first two lines to Brown Sugar. I bet you’ve heard that song 500 times, but you never knew, right? I used to put my head to the stereo speaker and play that record over and over.” That’s when Prez started to redeem himself, for me. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 11:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/36 "2011-06-02T23:32:03Z")
> [@Merejane](#): > > …That’s when Prez started to redeem himself, for me. Yeah, Prez made a remarkable comeback over the course of the series. He started as a repressed kid who lashed out under stress, and ended up a compassionate guy. McNulty… never really changed, but you just had to love him anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 2, 2011, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/37 "2011-06-02T23:53:14Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > The copy machine “lie detector” I think that’s the scene that made me laugh the hardest. Stringer running his meetings according to Robert’s Rules of Order were funny, too, but when you realized later that Stringer was never going to be able to make it in the legitimate business world no matter how hard he tried, it becomes poignant in retrospect. ---
**Author:** ![Tarwater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9de0a6/32.png) [@Tarwater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarwater)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/38 "2011-06-03T00:02:07Z")
[This scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJ5aIvjNgao) (the Mcdonalds part specifically) of Bunk interrogating a suspect and [this scene](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGNwn2yXnTM) of McNulty receiving a criminal profile of his imaginary serial killer. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/39 "2011-06-03T00:23:42Z")
> [@Marley23](#): > > I think that’s the scene that made me laugh the hardest. Stringer running his meetings according to Robert’s Rules of Order were funny, too, but when you realized later that Stringer was never going to be able to make it in the legitimate business world no matter how hard he tried, it becomes poignant in retrospect. I think he absolutely could have made it. He just had to figure out a new set of rules. But he was smart, willing to learn, and sought advice from people who knew the score. He was getting stung some, but that’s what happens to newbies. He just ran out of time. ---
**Author:** ![davidw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@davidw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidw)\ **Post date:** [June 3, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/funniest-moments-on-the-wire/584086/40 "2011-06-03T00:44:29Z")
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