“Do the chair know that we gon look like some punk ass bitches out there?” 😂😂😂 one of the best lines in the series

@vibinwpsilocybin1424

3 жыл бұрын

the realest shit said in that meeting 😂😂

@richardkrilljr.8711

3 жыл бұрын

String’s reaction was priceless LOL

@TheBlackKakashi

3 жыл бұрын

@@richardkrilljr.8711 because he knew he was right, but he was tryna be a businessman 😂

@brysonsummerlin7805

3 жыл бұрын

Poot said sum Avon would say 😂

@gregpl9363

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheBlackKakashi RIP R "Stringer" Bell " A man without a country...... wasn't hard enuff for dis shit right here... and maybe... just maaybee.... not smart enuff for them suits out there "

I love how Shamrock is just concerned that Poot DID in fact have the floor

@jonmacie7581

3 жыл бұрын

Sham was probably the worst of all Stringer bell's hires. He ran the sloppiest ship ever.

@benriffle104

3 жыл бұрын

Lol, reading this reminds me of a Seinfeld quote when Jerry had a bounced check at a corner store and the owner refused to take it down, even though he owned the store. "But it's your bodega" "Even I am not above the policy"

@jackjack.2704

3 жыл бұрын

He did tho' 🤣.

@MrAgbxl

3 жыл бұрын

Shamrock could have been working for Blackrock had he been born somewhere else

@Alrokako

3 жыл бұрын

Poot asked the million dollar question

That mic had one day until retirement.

@Uncle_elroy4

5 жыл бұрын

MoRiellyMoProblems 😂😂

@snapshotsreviews4967

5 жыл бұрын

MoRiellyMoProblems 😂😂😂😂

@DuncanUdaho67

5 жыл бұрын

Lmaoooooo

@flisko123

4 жыл бұрын

nigga is u takin notes on a criminal fuckin conspiracy?

@rucsok15

4 жыл бұрын

that mic never had the makings of a varsity athlete

Perfect symbolism of stringer in one scene. Tries to make the game civilized but as soon as someone challenges him he reverts right back to the street using intimidation/violence. He never committed to one life.

@schweinhund9205

Жыл бұрын

Fr fr

@melkam647

11 ай бұрын

Word. Definition of lukewarm. Stringer always been an A- cat.

@BigBoneESB

8 ай бұрын

He wanted it to be one way.

@yoh002

8 ай бұрын

This and the scene where, after getting scammed by DOWNTOWN Clay Davis, he orders Slim to take him out, like if he was some thug from rival corner

@War-child_

7 ай бұрын

Idris played that character perfectly

Stringer reminds me of the kid that comes home after his first semester of his freshman year after taking intro to economics and is telling his parents how to manage their finances

@JaqoBlaque

4 жыл бұрын

P. Bady Absolutely

@blacksuede11

4 жыл бұрын

U know we all had that moment when we wanted to spread some knowledge lol

@williamjackson5421

4 жыл бұрын

But he was always right when it came to it. His approach was wrong for sure. He wanted to clean up gang shit. Not accepting those around him for what they were. No reason the council couldn't work. No reason not to become the silent partner. No reason not to become the Greek. He wanted to be acknowledged for how smart he was which was very dumb.

@carthag

4 жыл бұрын

he make it look good tho

@DreadPages

4 жыл бұрын

Except that it was his business. His finances to manage while Avon was away. And he was trying to save their lives. Not that he necessarily cared for them. But they were assets to him.

funny how poot the only one to make it out the game

@DrNickRiveria

5 жыл бұрын

yeah but his hairline didnt.

@sevenwhatuknow

5 жыл бұрын

@@DrNickRiveria 😂

@weldonbishop2755

5 жыл бұрын

That's because the exchange is exactly what happens in real company meetings. No one really wants the truth, just agreement.

@morradi10000

5 жыл бұрын

Weldon Bishop amen, brother

@brandonclark4515

5 жыл бұрын

Boy ended up at footlocker

"yo, yo string, Poot did have the floor man" Lmaooo

@daquanb8949

5 жыл бұрын

"Shut the fuck up this nigga to ignorant to have the fucking floor"

@Marley2006

5 жыл бұрын

Poot is straight wild for that line. 😳🤣🤣🤣🤣

@LostBoysBasketball

4 жыл бұрын

Daquan B the look on his face after he says that kills me every time 😂😂

@JayBelafonte

4 жыл бұрын

It was an official meeting and he had to keep the rules 😂

@Stefanthenautilus

4 жыл бұрын

That guy is one of my favorite bit characters in the whole thing. He's the same dude who was taking minutes at the New Day Co-op meetings. I wish he could admin some of the meetings I have to sit through.

Just the line "Chair recognize Slim Charles" is inherently funny

@MasterK-hv4ws

5 ай бұрын

lol

@enterthebruce91

2 күн бұрын

​​​@@MasterK-hv4wsThe Wire had so many heartbreaking, dramatic and hilarious moments: The best written show ever! Boardwalk Empire, Banshee, Sharp Objects and Tokyo Vice are all up there as the best crime dramas ever made but The Wire is #1...HBO is king! 👑

Only stringer can wear glasses and sip tea like a badass.

@Solomonreborn

9 жыл бұрын

Leon Delvechio Ramirez Right? Excellent

@scott4398

7 жыл бұрын

just be as jacked as Idris Elba theory

@MICDaBoss1

5 жыл бұрын

Facts 😂😂😂😂

@MachineGunMouth

5 жыл бұрын

@West coast Dre I wouldn't go that far. After all he was the second in command of a long running large drug organization. He wanted to change the way the game is played but that doesn't necessarily make him a pussy

@alfiehammond7574

4 жыл бұрын

mcharleau your comment should have more likes

That mic slap was by far the most brutal death in the serie

@theworldaccordingtosimba3366

2 жыл бұрын

Lol. He did f that mic up!

@judedelphin8542

Жыл бұрын

ROTFLMMFAO 😭💀

@imnotwatchin

Жыл бұрын

There go a life that had to be snatched.

@kingsleyo

12 күн бұрын

@@imnotwatchin 😅

"Do the Chair know we gonna look like punkass bitches out there" Poot was talking sense. Marlo saw Stringer's new "businessman" strategy for what it was: without Avon, he was weak. The shark smelled blood in the water. It was only a matter of time before he made his move.

@brohan914

7 жыл бұрын

***** Marlo is alive and free at the end of the show. String's dead, Avon's locked up.

@bestreviews9666

7 жыл бұрын

Bam!

@liquidpersuasion

7 жыл бұрын

correction: *ponkass* bitches

@iamyourbiggestfan6420

3 жыл бұрын

"Yo Chris...tell our people to tool up."

@blaze4metal

3 жыл бұрын

@@brohan914 Marlo rode the story with so much plot armor it was annoying. He should have been dropped within six episodes of his first appearance without all the lucky breaks he got throughout the show.

The chair never did recognize Poot's hairline.

@Bigbossfilmworks

5 жыл бұрын

1010Huey 😩😩😩😩

@lilpopes

4 жыл бұрын

It was pushed all the way back

@black6755

4 жыл бұрын

that boy hair line so far back it's still fighting for voting rights!

@busychrissy0.0

4 жыл бұрын

yoooo😂

@textbook1263

4 жыл бұрын

Poot's own mother don't recognise that boys hairline.

Stringer drinking the tea gives away the fact that he is an Englishman.

@saturn580

5 жыл бұрын

Ha! I never thought about that. There's also a scene in season 3 where McNulty is drinking tea during a meeting with Brianna Barksdale. Nice!

@Mr_Originality

4 жыл бұрын

U sound dumb

@Mr.GoodVibesCaLi

4 жыл бұрын

Mr Originality how ? .... please elaborate on how they sound dumb and I’m sure u can’t come up with a answer why

@DeezUp4Da3zz

4 жыл бұрын

@@Mr.GoodVibesCaLi how tf does drinking tea make you an englishmen?

@Wafflesaurus

4 жыл бұрын

Spot on

idris played stringer to the absolute best

@StephNuggs

5 жыл бұрын

The guy that played Carver auditioned for Stringer 😂

@BoxCJ206er

4 жыл бұрын

Svahn 😭😭😭😭

@BossofBosses111

4 жыл бұрын

@@StephNuggs Idris auditioned for Avon lol

@StephNuggs

4 жыл бұрын

@@BossofBosses111 🤔

@ariefraiser140

4 жыл бұрын

@@BossofBosses111 Yeah I heard that. He probably thought Avon would be the better role because he was the head of the drug empire but Stringer Bell turned out to be the far more interesting character and role.

“We gon handle ourselves like bisness men” *proceeds to act like a street level gangster at the devastatingting rebuttal from Poot

@houseofmatrix6174

Жыл бұрын

Business men are Gangsta

@johnsmile434

8 ай бұрын

Devastating rebuttal 😂😂😂

@truestdude

5 ай бұрын

​@@johnsmile434 bruh 😅😅😅😅

Bodies frustration, the dudes constantly interrupting him, and poots question.. This scene is pure comedy 😂

R.I.P to the microphone that lost its life during this scene.

@mykmcgrane

9 жыл бұрын

Will B lol! Best. Comment. Ever.

@Solomonreborn

9 жыл бұрын

Will B I caught that as well. I wonder if that was ad libbed?

@money345atherley2

6 жыл бұрын

Will B Lmao it didnt stand a chance

@JayBelafonte

4 жыл бұрын

RIP to homeboys hairline

@smoking1212

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

that microphone had hopes and dreams

@leonbrown5935

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@lastnamefirst_

3 жыл бұрын

Now they're dead and buried like Squidward's

@greatmatth3093

8 күн бұрын

These are the most hilarious comments I have ever read. Y'all are just too funny😂😂😂

“Chair ain’t recognize your ass man.” Love how Shamrock acting hard like he wasn’t snitching later on 😂

@bthaman1855

3 жыл бұрын

Who did he snitch on

@King_Arthur_

3 жыл бұрын

@@bthaman1855 That man was singing in an interrogation room at the end of the episode when Avon got locked up.

@12mak

3 жыл бұрын

@Lefter Mc Pointing to someone on a layout of photos when two detectives have you in an enclosed room handcuffed to the table? pretty sure he wasnt saying smd like bodie lol

@keithdior1657

3 жыл бұрын

Is you taking notes on a mutha*fucking criminal conspiracy Shamrock YES lol singing like a canary

@billybrand9976

Жыл бұрын

He was with the rest of the crew getting sentenced though

Stringer trying to turn street corner dudes into business men is hilarious

chair recognize slim charles

I love how Slim had enough respect to address him as Chair, knowing this was some straight up nonsense. That's one reason why he made it so far, just played along and taking notes the whole way

@tkgawa

10 ай бұрын

"What if they don't cop our reup?"

“Do the chair know we gone look like some PONK ASS BITCHES out there” 😂😂😂 best line of this scene. Poot was only telling the truth

@garcel1251

4 жыл бұрын

😂😂 right shit had me dying laughing first time I seen it

@kellychante1695

4 жыл бұрын

Desmond W True. Stringer was really holding council meetings for a drug organization. And giving up three of the 6 towers they had to East side was bad for business. That was the beginning of the end for the Barksdale crew.

@hussein6173

4 жыл бұрын

@Desmond W except, the only reason they 'lost respect' for him for doing that is, they really were too ignorant. If Stringer was dealing with smarter dudes, they'd respect him more not less.

@ariefraiser140

4 жыл бұрын

You better learn that the bosses don't like hearing inconvenient truths.

@CheekiCheeki

4 жыл бұрын

@@kellychante1695 Apparently it wasn't bad for business, since their profits increased

I always laugh at the part where Poot stands up.

@lamontmcdaniels322

6 ай бұрын

Poot did have tha floor man 😂😂😂

Poot just telling the truth.....

@MICDaBoss1

5 жыл бұрын

Dennis Pierre no he wasn’t like stringer said start thinking like grown men

@redfather5342

5 жыл бұрын

@Robb Dark and that's why you buy police protection

@nickparsons1028

5 жыл бұрын

@@MICDaBoss1 poot wasnt telling the truth? Remind me which character got killed at the end of season 3 for trying to turn the game into a legitimate business? And which one actually survived all 5 seasons and made it out the game.

@Carlito_Brigante

4 жыл бұрын

@Robb Dark And Marlo accomplished exactly what Stringer is preaching here - like a straight up G though, no businessman bullshit. Marlo was a hybrid between Avon and Stringer. He took the connect, had the monopoly on the dope, forced people to sell his product - if not, they got ran off their corners or clipped on the spot. He had the real estate and the product AND everybody was eatin, meanwhile Marlo gets the lion's share of course. This is why Marlo won imo.

@truegrit9202

4 жыл бұрын

Nick Parsons he survived because he was at the bottom of the barrel. Most of those guys transition out because they are leaving the bottom and starting at the bottom. Case and point, he started working at a shoe store. Not a very high paying job. Marlo who was top dog became a big time investor. Most people like Marlo never get out alive or free. Because all eyes are on them. Everybody trying to take their spot.

What's so funny bout this was stringer talking bout no killing yet he tried to kill a state senator!

@samuelmuiruri4704

7 жыл бұрын

stringer just did not seem to understand crime and business could not mix. i think Marlo, Avon and prop Joe knew the difference but stringer kind of thought it was the same thing rolled into one

@samuelmuiruri4704

7 жыл бұрын

i mean he confused what he did for legit business instead of crime and thought he could just hit someone like Davis the same way he could hit Omar-he did not seem to know the two realms were very different unlike someone like Avon who was extremely careful, for instance he did not want his liquor license messed up with drug dealing by Orlando..stringer was just too careless in that regard. the underworld cannot just be transformed into meetings with senators, running for office, real estate unless you act with care, other wise you will be conned by the clay Davis types of this world, what Avon called playing away games.

@nugentmilicent7049

7 жыл бұрын

stinger didn't have a quarter of avons brains or balls

@34BigPete

5 жыл бұрын

Because like all criminals he's a hypocrite.

@HiddenWen

5 жыл бұрын

Stringer was basically a fool.

Is it safe to say that Poot was right all along?

@deb7457

5 жыл бұрын

Chaos ZT 💯Oh yeah!

@geordiejones5618

4 жыл бұрын

Avon would have told String to shut the fuck up and take those corners that day. No talking.

@l.alexsharp8666

2 жыл бұрын

Stringer was right but his methods were wrong. The business part was key. But you can’t run a drug business without some bloodshed. If he was smart he would’ve killed both Marlo and Avon. Those 2 were NEVER gonna change

@DoubleRDubGaming

2 жыл бұрын

Most definitely. That's how Marlo was able to get a foothold. He saw Stringer as weak, especially when String tried to parley with him.

@napoleonsolo5929

9 ай бұрын

Poot made it out alive. I'd say he was right.

Remember watching the show and when they introduced Slim Charles he just had a presence about him, and he’s the guy who ends up on top when the show ends and has one of the most badass scenes in the entire show to go out on. “That was for Joe...”

I love how it ends, "Adjourn your asses" Lmao

@mykmcgrane

9 жыл бұрын

Leon Delvechio Ramirez I texted that to a friend of mine the other day, rewatching the series. new favorite String quote for the moment.

@dcstreet5037

11 ай бұрын

How fun would it be to actually end a board meeting with that line?

Can imagine Avon getting out of prison and seeing how Stringer was holding meetings lol

@Von.NorthEnd

2 жыл бұрын

Right like wtf is you talking bout

Poot's line was CLASSIC

I loved this scene because it shows some people are who they are. You can show them a different way of doing things, but they're set in their ways.

@bks591

5 жыл бұрын

@mrcunn02 Exactly, Stringer talking about Ford vs Toyota out of a book. Poot asked the question everyone in that room was thinking... Slim was coming at with more finesse but still saying the same thing. Stringer was a snake and his bad decision making got him killed...

@Cevensities

4 жыл бұрын

It also shows the flaw in trying to run the drug game like legitimate business. String had good intentions but failed to realize that the drug business has rules and consequences that legitimate business doesn't have to abide by. Some similairites because both are business models but the strategies don't align at all.

@ariefraiser140

4 жыл бұрын

I read it completely differently. This isn't some wall street corporate business. This is literally a cut throat I will kill you business to get ahead. Where the guy with the most muscles will take over your operation...Like Morlo. To be feared and respected is the part of the equation Stringer discounted and the fear and respect came from holding those territories and the things other organizations know yours would do if you stepped out on their territories. Avon said it best "I ain't no suite wearing businessman like you. I'm just a gangster I suppose and I want my corners."

@DrNickRiveria

4 жыл бұрын

they want it to be one way, but its the other way...

@jonmacie7581

2 жыл бұрын

@@Cevensities Stringer did not understand what BUNNY COLVIN did (understand). That he was talking to street level people about a MIDDLE MANAGER problem. Or even a BOSS problem. You take this to the bosses first before taking it to your soldiers. Marlo said NO. So that should have been the end of all that talk. Instead Stringer says, "Well, Ima worry about that when it happens??" Dumb.

Lol I love him calling him "Mr. Charles" like Slim is his first name

@alexlackner1945

2 ай бұрын

Maybe his last name is Charles!

Couldn’t even answer Slims second question😂

At 1:34, Poot looks over and sees one of Stringer's upper-level guys shaking his head in frustration when Stringer talks about given up territory for the sake of improving their product. Then, at 2:23, Stringer seems to disregard the notion that they would be in trouble if Prop Joe doesn't keep the supply coming, then you see Poot shake his head. (disagreeing with them having to depend on a rival and ceding ground to do it) Pretty clever secondhand development going on. Since Poot tells Stringer straight to his face exactly what would wind up happening in the end. The plan makes them look weak and it emboldened someone like Marlo to take them on and push them off their own territory.

Funny thing is Marlo did the same exact strategy stringer recommended with a little "twist"... Marlo FORCED other crews to take his package, or else it meant war

@MVegas

5 жыл бұрын

Stringer feared war cause he feared death or doing time not realizing that police presence is apart of the game no matter how clean you appear

@denverbritto5606

5 жыл бұрын

that's why marlo got caught

@xafricanbloodx37

4 жыл бұрын

Stringer was only doing the whole civilized act just so he can get away from the game and do his real estate shit

@GGtheRealest

3 жыл бұрын

war? Snoop and Chris would have been brief with em like they said haha

2:41 when someone says they couldn't watch wire cos it was boring

@200iqpoints9

3 жыл бұрын

lmao. bruh "they did have the chair".

He tried to turn gangstas into businessmen lol

@amss6433

2 жыл бұрын

I know but with these lot its like trying to teach a hippo ballet

@recyclebinrecyclebin3807

Жыл бұрын

Into bidnesmen*

Shamrock and his Robert's Rules Book was a whole story arc in itself 😂 Bro read that shit diligently 😂

Stringer Bell knocked the shit out of that microphone at the end.

@smoking1212

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

1:36 poot already knew what was really going on

Peep the role switch when Poot disrespected String. String knew he was losing the room and had to reassert dominance. Went straight street, fuck Chair recognition. Awesome scene.

@Cerebral2ssasin

3 жыл бұрын

There was a bit of that for sure but I think the point they were trying to get across was that as soon as things weren't going Stringer's way he'd drop that "business man" facade and go street which is why he never made it out the game.

Stringer trying to educated wolves, was the beginning of the downfall for the Barksdale crew. Wolves need to hunt and howl, but Stringer got them in a fucking board meeting lol

@MrSilksoul

8 жыл бұрын

+denmark555 Trying to educate.

@scott4398

7 жыл бұрын

Nah Avon fucked it up by not listening to him. He even admitted it once he saw how wasteful war was. String and Prop Joe were revolutionizing the game until they got taken out by some pride-obsessed psychos who wanted to be feared more than they wanted money.

@nugentmilicent7049

7 жыл бұрын

what was stronger revoloutionising?? He dragged prop joe down too. Stinger was fucking up left right and centre. He dismantled avons discipline code. He let soldiers do drugs. He was fucking a fallen soldiers baby momma. He failed to find a new decent supply from new York. The one place he coulda made peace, (with omar) he like a dumbass kid tried to con omar while killing brother mouzon the one man who could truly protect this fuck up from marlo and omar. Stinger was a dumbass. A decent consiglieri but a terrible don . avon had the balls, intelligence and patience bell didn't and avon was street tough and feared as well as a natural born businessman.

@zero1188

7 жыл бұрын

actually both stringer and avon were both right. the issue was they didnt balance it out correctly. without stringer avon would of lost alot of money. just like without avon stringer people would lose status

@StudioMod

3 жыл бұрын

in the end, Avon was going to waste Marlo and return all of the west side to a peaceful place for Barksdale business with the Eastside. It was STRINGER who nailed the coffin shut. Avon made one mistake for every 20 string made. Stringer was a liar and snitched like a woman. Destroyed Baltimore just like that.

I woulda broke character and been crying laughing when Stringer slapped that mic

What’s crazy is that Stringer is just reemphasizing what D wanted to do all along. Just sell it and move along.

@dinoXAs2

Жыл бұрын

Too bad it doesn't work in this game.

@johnnycigar3240

Жыл бұрын

@@dinoXAs2 It does when you're not on some hood shit. Plenty of people sell drugs in non-violent markets. You move discretely and avoid attention from violent idiots because that's what brings heat. Fiends don't tend to have a lot of money either, you're better off targeting yuppies that like to party, just need to be able to hang in the same circles as the professionals.

@dinoXAs2

Жыл бұрын

@@johnnycigar3240 these hood and turf gangsters arent those people

Adjourn your asses. I think I'll have to use that at my next meeting.

This whole scene is hilarious he’s talking to these gangsters like it’s a business conference “until then mr Charles, we will handle this shit like businessman” 🤣🤣🤣🤣

"You with prop joe now?" "I never would've thought." "Yea life strange"

01:34 is the key part of the scene. When poot realises that even the muscle are not buying Into stringers plan, it gives him the confidence to speak up.

@dreamteamr6118

Жыл бұрын

Just clocked this now

This is probably one of the best scenes from a tv series I have seen. Socioeconomic lessons and street law in one session. I'm done commenting. Adjourn your asses

Problem was this, String looking at this as a boss. Poot, Slim and the rest still understand you are dealing with gangsters. Not businessmen. If you don’t keep a tight lock on what you have it’s gonna get took. Avon and Marlo understood that. That’s why they essentially made it out alive

@l.alexsharp8666

2 жыл бұрын

Be honest, if Stringer would’ve killed them both first, he could’ve ran the Co-op exactly the way he wanted to.

@BSmitty4rm8Fitty

2 жыл бұрын

@@l.alexsharp8666 Another Marlo would’ve risen up. Avon said it best, no Marlo no game

@thegeth4293

2 жыл бұрын

classic problem in the working world, management is out of touch, the workers out on the floor know alot of their pie-in-the-sky proposals wont hold up in the real world

@user-sk4wf3ve6z

Жыл бұрын

I don't think string was looking at it long term,he just needed enough money and no heat from tye cops so he could be free of the game but he never thought he'd get done by clay Davis like he did or he'd have all the problems with development

@BSmitty4rm8Fitty

Жыл бұрын

@@user-sk4wf3ve6z Clay Davis? The Clay Davis? Downtown Clay Davis?

Shamrock hard like a rock. The audacity to challenge Stringer and defend Poot; he did in fact have the floor.

Shamrock holding a copy of Robert’s rules of order 🤣🤣

"This ain't ya business classes String, its that other thing." boy he needed Avon badly here

String: ". . and later, for that gangsta bullshit." *get mildly challenged* String: **right back to that gangsta bullshit**

lmao charles minor here kills me stringer: we no longer gangsters :) poot: gang members will see as as weak sir stringer: *aggressively becomes gangster*

Poot just sitting back listening waiting to ask the chair a question 😂😂😂

I like how Slim just soaking up the learning.

Always love it how String acting like "grown up business man" that is smarter than everyone in the game but the minute sometimes ask a relatively hard question he instantly switches to his gangsta persona to answer it instead of convincing them in his own "business sense". Shows how little he understands the reality of different games and how they are played and their own spesific rules.

@daddyGbaby

3 ай бұрын

It wasnt a hard question slim charles already asked a similar question before poot did and stringers response was that fight for those territories is only going disrupt their access to the product and profit as well as bring attention from the police. stringers plan is make the money then buy out the competition and deal with anyone who resists the re-up, but poots to hard head to get that.

@AelfricLake

3 ай бұрын

@@daddyGbaby Yeah, and poot explains simply you can't "buy out" competition in an unlawful enviroment where other leaders motive can be different than simply making money. String knows this enviroment, he just ignores it.

Look at String trying to apply Robert's Rules of Order to the ghetto where the rules of "The Game" are as understood as string theory.

@Stefanthenautilus

4 жыл бұрын

>string theory nice.png

@ADavidJohnson

4 жыл бұрын

Rob M Stringer liked showing off his community college education to junior high drop outs, yeah But once he got in with college grads and law school degrees, he couldn’t handle it. Poot is right, Slim Charles is right, Avon is right - this is business but it’s business without the threat of the coercive violence of the state able to resolve your disputes (other than snitching, which isn’t quite the same as a lawsuit). To be a rational, reasonable businessman you gotta include folks for whom reputation and power itself are the ultimate currency, not gaining those things through money. Stringer, unlike Marlo, wasn’t smart enough to know what he didn’t know. And I imagine if he’d ever dealt with the Greeks directly, they’d have seen him as a pretentious and untrustworthy social climber rather than what they were looking for: a gangster capable of enforcing order himself to sell the drugs that made them money.

This is a heartbreaking moment for Poot but also his realization that growing up and thinking about the game like a man means getting out of that life

Adjourn your asses!!! Lol

I can’t count how many times i’ve used that “ayo chair ain’t recognize yo ass mane” line on my friends when they just butt in on the convo

Lol poot said what everyone else was thinking

"Adjourn your asses" might be one of the most impactful lines from a tv show to date.

It annoys me at how much Stringer was believing his own fantasy in that he could change and evolve the game.

@timovangalen1589

4 жыл бұрын

String was too clever by half.

@ANTHONY0808able

3 жыл бұрын

Yes Rich, String thought the game could be run like Apple or Microsoft....NOPE

@MackeyDeez

3 жыл бұрын

@@ANTHONY0808able Bruh haven't you heard of Lucky Luciano he believed that war was bad for business. All of the gang land violence will only run off customers and bring the attention of the police. Even the police will allow you make to make a dishonest buck if you keep the shit to a minimum or non existent.

@MackeyDeez

3 жыл бұрын

@Rich P. Aw come on bruh, haven't read any history books? Some of the biggest criminals were very savy business men. How do you think that the mafia stayed in power for so, long. They spread the wealth around to cops, judges or anyone who was part of the game.

@markmcelroy1872

2 жыл бұрын

String wasn't wrong, and he ran the west side for a while with his methods. He died because of his side beef with Omar, and at that point he was already well on his way to transitioning into legitimate business with his criminal money. Like Chad said above, he was following in the footsteps of plenty of wise gangsters who see the way out of the crab bucket into real wealth.

Here just for Stringer's priceless reaction LOL

This is poots best scene in the show. 😂

poot stayed alive from season 1 to the end hes the real king

It is under rated how funny and entertaining wire is apart from being so real.

From his very first scene, slim Charles displayed a different kind of street wisdom. He knew from the get go that stringer’s plan wasn’t gonna last. I feel like if some characters introduced in later seasons show how some of the OG characters came to be, then slim is Avon. They both stuck to a strict code and ended up at the top in the end with everyone’s respect

one does not simply not fuck with Poot lol thats my guy

@mykmcgrane

8 жыл бұрын

+Gregg Washington lol!!!! I can see the Ned Stark/ Sean Bean meme now!

@Dookman030

8 жыл бұрын

Myk McGrane right lol

@mykmcgrane

8 жыл бұрын

Gregg Washington Say what you want about him the dude is a survivor. Big Poot!

Man still one of my favorites and one the funniest scenes of the wire lol

Strings way he the only one making money. If the hoppers don't have a corner they have no income nor do they have a purpose

@tedof87

9 жыл бұрын

geoff Barksdale's people would still be selling, though. When the corner chiefs accepted the connect it was on the condition that they share territory with Barkdale's people. Bubbles even confirms this when he is sent to report on which crews were running which corners. Kima couldn't figure out how the Barkdales were able to spread out to new territories without dropping bodies.

@jbretthajbrettha5834

9 жыл бұрын

Ted87 I think his point is that to get the connect in the first place String had to hand off half the towers and low risers, meaning they only need half the labor to work half the space. You up the profit, and cut the cost.

Here we go, me on another Wire clip binge. It just popped in my head

This is where Stringer fuked up. Got soft on territory and let people like Marlo rise up, which inevitably turned out to be his downfall.

@tonyharden7630

4 жыл бұрын

His downfall was double crossing brother mouzone

Poot was a legend

@terencethomas5063

3 жыл бұрын

Poot is one of few who walked away clean from the game

@jonmacie7581

3 жыл бұрын

@@terencethomas5063 More like ran away. Literally

@MrChisleblast

2 жыл бұрын

His name means "fart"

Mr. Bodie lol

@alexlackner1945

2 ай бұрын

And Mr. Charles:)

Everyone in that room knows and understands that String was out of his game with the street. Starting with Slim, Poot, the guy to the left of Stringer and lastly Shamrock who didn’t care if Poot had the floor, POOT HAD A SOLID ASS POINT THAT AVON HIMSELF WOULD’VE AGREED WITH!

1:34 Love this shot

@grimgoreironhide9985

3 жыл бұрын

That old guy in the Kangol hat knew bullshit when he heard it.

3:00 I felt some "Training Day" Denzel Washington charisma in this scene.

2:40 RIP my guy, Mike

1.58 The way that hand comes in is one of the best bits of direction on The Wire.

String trying to resolve this like a labor dispute while neglecting that the loss of stable territory makes the lives of his corner boys like Boadie and Poot more dangerous

A very deep scene, Stringer makes the same mistake economists make: tunnel vision

Poot had a point

Stringer's strategy made a lot of sense, he just reached further than his grasp.

We almost lost Poot in that scene. He did the right thing in that situation by just shutting up and sitting down. Stringer was towering above poot.

@l.alexsharp8666

2 жыл бұрын

😂

"You don't have the floor, chair doesn't recognize your ass" I love all of the logistics Stringer integrated over the course of the show from his business classes

@DYLEMAHD

4 жыл бұрын

I like how the higher members of the crew (like Slim Charles) integrated well into Stringers' academic methods, but lower level ''pawns'' like Bodie and Poot couldn't properly grasp them and couldn't leave the street mentality behind. I think it's interesting when we consider Stringers' statement that they need to look at things ''like grown men''', because he assumes he can teach them out of the street-ways, without considering the mentality of his opposition - which ends up getting him killed

RIP to that Mic... and RIP to Poots Hairline

Stringer is dressed like he's half-gangster and half-businessman

The irony in this scene is EXCELLENT. Stringer made Poot look like an absolute punk after he asked his question lol.

omfg. Idris Elba's such an amazing actor. I'd like to see an alternate ending in which Stringer go legit successfully. The way he went out in the series is disheartening.

@matthewjohnson3302

3 жыл бұрын

Man he fake and a weasel. He had the right strat but no real loyalty

So nobody is gonna comment about homeboy reading "Robert's Rules Of Order" at the beginning of the video?

"N-$$a, you ain't got the floor, chair didn't recognize yo' ass". I wonder if these combination of words were ever uttered in the history of the English language.

I have been rewatching these Wire clips, but I always search the comments for Poot related stuff. Always the best.

I will always be mad at the creators for not giving us our war and shootout between Avon and Marlo. They were gunna destroy Marlo end of season 3 but noooooooooo!

@j.t.thomas1859

2 жыл бұрын

I KNOW RIGHT

Do The Chair Know We Gonna Look Like Some Punk Ass Bitchez Out There - Poot

Man I was weak when bodie sat down then raised his hand like in elementary school and took a big ass deep breath like damn 😂😂😂😂😂

But that mic was just anotha life that had to be snatched avon