Watch it again! It's even better the second time around when you're able to pay more attention to the characters with the foreknowledge of what will happen to them.
They don't in the Wire which is one of the reasons it's so liked. It's kinda of out place but that's the reason it worked.
I think it worked too, but it definitely seems far from one of the show's better lines to me.
"I can't wait to goto jail" fits right in with a laugh-track and could have just as easily been dreamed up by the writers of Two and a Half Men or something.
I think it worked too, but it definitely seems far from one of the show's better lines to me.
"I can't wait to goto jail" fits right in with a laugh-track and could have just as easily been dreamed up by the writers of Two and a Half Men or something.
No one has said it's one of the best lines. But it is one of the funniest.
No one has said it's one of the best lines. But it is one of the funniest.
I wouldn't say that either. Plenty of much funnier lines. Funniest line I can think of is when McNulty and Omar are shopping for court clothes, McNulty goes to leave and Omar says, "If I ain't here I'm round the way on Howard Street, Liddell's. Either that or I'll be with Muffy at the club."
No one has said it's one of the best lines. But it is one of the funniest.
I never said best either, I said "one of the better" (which I was implying as simply above-average by The Wire's standards). I'm just a bit surprised people highlight it, as I wasn't a fan of it and I've seen it get quoted and mentioned more than a few times. That's all I'm saying.
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Something that has always bothered me about season 2:
Spoil:
are there really no repercussions for Agent Koutris? He willingly distributed information knowing that it would lead to the murder of a state's witness. Even in the FBI, that's supposed to mean something. Sure, he was highly regarded for the Colombian drug bust, which would somewhat insulate him from the fallout, but we're constantly being reminded that the FBI cares about terrorism, and not drugs, presumably most of all in the explicitly Antiterrorism unit. So I can't imagine how the drugs would give him enough credit to spare his job if not his freedom. Seems like a classic case of an informant using the police and not the other way around.
When Fitzhugh told Daniels about the situation with Koutris he begged him not to say anything because it would pretty much be embarrassing for him and the end of his career, so I would imagine the reason he never proceeded to spill the beans on Koutris was to save his own ass. It ties in to the show's prevailing theme of people's selfishness and careerism which allows corruption to go unchecked.
When Fitzhugh told Daniels about the situation with Koutris he begged him not to say anything because it would pretty much be embarrassing for him and the end of his career, so I would imagine the reason he never proceeded to spill the beans on Koutris was to save his own ass. It ties in to the show's prevailing theme of people's selfishness and careerism which allows corruption to go unchecked.
Thanks, I didn't think of that and it's the most plausible thing I've heard. Still, Fitzhugh put his status in jeopardy in both the first and third seasons; he's not exactly on Rawls' level of careerism.
Yeah, but the situation with Koutris was different. See, the best way to look at it is to compare him with his buddy McNulty. You're right in that he doesn't care about the chain-of-command, ass-kissing crap. In Season 1 and 3, he made some ballsy moves because as with McNulty he likes working good cases. But the Koutris fiasco would make him look incompetent. That's a ways different from simply being a ****-disturber for the bosses.
Old people would roll over in their graves if they saw this. 
