That's the tragedy of Wallace. Subtle details show that he was basically a kid who could have become "a citizen" under better circumstances -- he paid attention in school, he took care of his siblings, he was basically gentle-natured and not cut out for the game. The odds were just too much against him because of circumstances.
hurting That's what makes it sadder, they weren't his siblings, they were just children who, like him, have no home to go to so he took care of them. He was such a sweet boy.....
In the director's commentary, it's pointed out that Wallace was right. Hamilton was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, he was never president. But in that world, just like in the police world, the guys at the bottom have to shut up and pretend like their bosses are right. Another example of how The Wire was brilliant.
+cocotazo Just like in any job. Franklin wasnt no president neither. Adams was the second president and he didnt become president until after Franklin was already dead.
Oooooh snap that's Creed!!!! Wtf how did I not notice that shit?? The Wire is my favourite show and I loved the Rocky series Got me feeling dumb as hell right now😂
Bodie was never impressed with D'Angelo's management style, but he actually learned A LOT from D'Angelo. D'Angelo's teachings stuck with Bodie. Their relationship was tortured, but strangely D'Angelo's teachings of the 'game' helped Bodie move up the organization, while also hindering him, as Bodie never could see himself as beyond being a 'soldier'. Bodie needed to get more mentorship from Slim Charles who learned how to move from being a soldier, to being actually one of the 'street kings' at the end of the Wire. You would have thought that Bodie would be interested in what Slim Charles had to say about dealing with Marlo, but when Slim offered advice, Bodie rejected it. Even through all the disdain he had for D'Angelo's management style, he still strangely listened to him. Contradictory relationship, which is part of what made "The Wire" - "The Wire"...:)
Yeah D’Angelo and Stringer really instilled in him to think more instead of just shooting, which was entirely his downfall as he didn’t have the proper tools to fight Marlo and was too smart to get locked up after Hamsterdam which may have ended up saving him in the long run
This transaction had major implications later on. Johnny gets beat up, compelling Bubbles to inform on the Barksdale crew, leading inexorably to Avon getting busted.
When Bodie said "that it" and then the look he had afterwards was powerful because he believed The F up by Wallace deserved something more severe and that made him believe that D'Angelo wasn't hard enough for a leadership position. Just my opinion
The realist 811. I agree with you 100%. Bodie was one of my favorite characters. However, he never grew and learned how to finesse some situations. It was his demise in the end. This is the best tv show ever.
I just finished season 1 of this masterpiece of a series. I loved this scene but reading these comments here is like a damn minefield, look away as soon as something looks like a spoiler ahah. David Simon is a genius! Deuce is also spot on, I love the slow character development, it's right up my alley, homes!
Even though Hamilton wasn't a President, there was nothing he could do about it. D'Angelo was a made man and Wallace wasn't. He had to sit still and take it. It was among the Barksdales, real greaseball shit.
OK, so how does Wallace know that the person on the $10 bill was Alexander Hamilton AND that Hamilton WAS NOT a US President, BUT he DOESN'T know that a $10 bill is supposed to be green?
Sleight of hand and quick process. Drug deals don't require much time when in such low quantities. plus it was hidden on top of real money so it's easy to get it confused especially when no one is dumb enough to try and burn your crew, Avon's name meant something in the low rises.
theAngryscotman yea I was just watching another clip and saw a comment of someone saying "crazy to see how far Michael Jordans come in his acting career" and I was like huh he wasnt in the wire? and then clicked on this clip to watch and soon as I saw the kid I was like oh snap that definitely is him! crazy ...
Every year I watch 3/4 new tv series, in addition to keeping up with newer seasons of shows that I want to keep up with. After 20 years, I still haven't encountered anything that hit me like The Wire. Sad really.
Non-Presidents that have appeared on US currency include: Benjamin Franklin (US founding father, $100 bill), Alexander Hamilton (first US Secretary of Treasury, $10 bill), John Marshall (US Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1801-1835), Salmon Chase (US Secretary of Treasury, 1861-1864), Susan B. Anthony (American suffragist), and Sacagawea (Shoshone interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition). Sorry I love Facts
Just finished the show the other night. Crazy to see this scene and realize Bubbles is the only one who makes it out alive by the series finale (Poot too I guess.)
D would have made a good high school teacher. Right in the middle of him chastising them for accepting counterfeit money he engages in a conversation with Wallace about a former president. Lol
One of the greatest shows on TV but the script bugged me sometimes (not enough to take away from the show though). I always felt like it would've been more correct for him to say, "Money green!" instead of "Money BE green!" In Black American vernacular we often use zero copula, which omits the "to be" verb in all its forms. In that dialect, the word "be" most often comes before a verb, sometimes an adverb, and it suggests a habitual or frequent action (e.g. "I be sleepin' in on the weekend" [meaning something I usually do, not something I'm doing right now], or "I be around there all the time."). Money is never not green, so it's a give that money IS green. Therefore, by the rules of vernacular and dialect (yes, there are rules, just like "standard" language), "Money green!" For anybody who gives a eff. I dig linguistics.
its Baltimore slang. I studies linguistics to, and lived in different regions. AAVE (African American Vernacular English) has subtle difference from region to region and city to city.
Everyone wants to point out that wallace was right but everyone is skipping over the fact that DeAngelo was livid about people messing with his money and for those who can't empathize trust me in a situation where people are carefree about losing YOUR money you truly don't give a F@*K bout being right as long as your making sure they feel wrong
I used to own the exact same Girbaud hoodie that Bodie is rocking in this scene. I like how Wallace was right. I'm a little surprised D didn't know that not all the people on currency are presidents. I can understand if he didn't know who Hamilton was, but everyone would know who is on a $100 because they were called benjamins (slang) around the time the Wire is taking place. And most people know Benjamin Franklin was not a president.
Man, D should have slapped Bodie silly in season 1. Bodie was always undermining him or questioning him, even though D was in charge and turned the Pit around. Bodie was always nosing in on what D did.
Dam Cre - what you want push overs in the pit and running his drugs? Bodie is perfect for the game, that's why Stringer admired Bodie so much, and Bodie could probably tell D ain't right for the game.
@@XxxX-wx3erYeah but you still dont want someone undermining you. Bodie was disrespectful and needed to get smacked around a bit to learn to respect. That’s how he learned through violence.
A dude i know in chicago actually 2 dudes got killed for fake money at a dopespot...one got a tek unloaded and the other a glock that were hidden in the garbage can on 79th n damen
damn, D really made sure everyone Straight....made sure all the cash was right...and that their hearts were in the right place...I just finished all 5 series and fuck did I learn without trying...or as Omar put it “even if I miss, I don’t miss”
So sweet that Wallace actually knows his history!
+agenttheater5 Until he became history. Guess he didn't know it as well as you think, lol.
That's the tragedy of Wallace. Subtle details show that he was basically a kid who could have become "a citizen" under better circumstances -- he paid attention in school, he took care of his siblings, he was basically gentle-natured and not cut out for the game. The odds were just too much against him because of circumstances.
hurting
That's what makes it sadder, they weren't his siblings, they were just children who, like him, have no home to go to so he took care of them. He was such a sweet boy.....
dat lil n..ga can count too!
Yeah. I don't know how sweet it is but if he said Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, D'Angelo probably would've backhanded him.
In the director's commentary, it's pointed out that Wallace was right. Hamilton was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, he was never president. But in that world, just like in the police world, the guys at the bottom have to shut up and pretend like their bosses are right. Another example of how The Wire was brilliant.
+cocotazo Just like in any job. Franklin wasnt no president neither. Adams was the second president and he didnt become president until after Franklin was already dead.
+blacktee31 Salmon P. Chase wasn't no president either.
bigmarty11288 Yea, dollas aint about prezis is the point.
You needed that pointed out in the directors commentary?
bigmarty11288
I see you are familiar with the $10,000 bill.
Wallace was right. And he also became one hell of a boxer.
Don't forget KILLMONGER
and the king of wakanda
Oooooh snap that's Creed!!!! Wtf how did I not notice that shit?? The Wire is my favourite show and I loved the Rocky series
Got me feeling dumb as hell right now😂
@@ReservoirPunk Im trying to figure out how you missed that too. 😒
😭😭
Greatest line in television history: Money be GREEN! 🤣🤣
yeah just randomly remembered it and searched for this video 😆
Money feels like money
@@eirtars money be green
I was thinking about how great this scene is.
I was more impartial to "money......... feel like money!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Bodie was never impressed with D'Angelo's management style, but he actually learned A LOT from D'Angelo. D'Angelo's teachings stuck with Bodie. Their relationship was tortured, but strangely D'Angelo's teachings of the 'game' helped Bodie move up the organization, while also hindering him, as Bodie never could see himself as beyond being a 'soldier'. Bodie needed to get more mentorship from Slim Charles who learned how to move from being a soldier, to being actually one of the 'street kings' at the end of the Wire. You would have thought that Bodie would be interested in what Slim Charles had to say about dealing with Marlo, but when Slim offered advice, Bodie rejected it. Even through all the disdain he had for D'Angelo's management style, he still strangely listened to him. Contradictory relationship, which is part of what made "The Wire" - "The Wire"...:)
+mikem987 yea your right
Slim Charles is one of those "smart-ass pawns" that Bodie talks about...
Jonathan Lee Na Bodie was a smart ass pawn who made it for a long time. Slim was the pawn who made it to the other side of the chess board
You are right
he did spazz out like D'Angelo over his boy. Quiet as it's kept Kevin wasn't worth the spazzing. Bodies I feel spazzed bc he lost power.
Yeah D’Angelo and Stringer really instilled in him to think more instead of just shooting, which was entirely his downfall as he didn’t have the proper tools to fight Marlo and was too smart to get locked up after Hamsterdam which may have ended up saving him in the long run
Character development is insane, rewatching this show is a must!
I've watched 3 times and pick up something new each time! Best show of all time!
This transaction had major implications later on. Johnny gets beat up, compelling Bubbles to inform on the Barksdale crew, leading inexorably to Avon getting busted.
Then Johnny finds out he has AIDS while he's in the hospital after getting beat up, and later he ODs and they find his body in a condemned building.
@@BlueBoy0 was he found in hamsterdam
@@chiefmanysquats7239 yes
@@BlueBoy0 i've always wondered why we never saw bubbles reaction to Johnny's death. It was almost like it never even happened lol
@@punani_slayer4209 that is so true like I almost missed that he even died.
The way he hit Bodie with the fake money 😂
Nigga ion give a FUCK bout the president 🤣🤣
It just slowly fell off his head😂
"MONEY BE GREEN!!" D'Angelo was the man
"Money be green. Money feel like money."
This should be engraved as a famous quote used in every day life!
When Bodie said "that it" and then the look he had afterwards was powerful because he believed The F up by Wallace deserved something more severe and that made him believe that D'Angelo wasn't hard enough for a leadership position. Just my opinion
The realist 811. I agree with you 100%. Bodie was one of my favorite characters. However, he never grew and learned how to finesse some situations. It was his demise in the end. This is the best tv show ever.
You fuck up and you get fucked up
They're like an older version of Naymond and Kenard
It's funny seeing criminals have rules and being punished for not abiding by those rules😂
Ben Franklin wasn't no president either, and we all know how the brothers be about the Benjamins.
+cennon no he was not pre just a nucnces
sippin on a 40 yellin 5-0
gaffer91 This line and D’s delivery of it gets me every time
Or Omar is coming...
AlwonDomz LMAO! 🤣
Wallace in the end, was more book smart than street smart. If only he went back to school like D'angelo told him...
0:32 Kenard is out playin in the yard
The cat noises lol that little sociopath!
😂😂😂
😂😂
@@Gesuselsaviour LMAO
I DONT SEE HIM.
LOVED D'ANGELO AND WALLACE'S FRIENDSHIP.
"This look like money, MOTHAFUCKA? MONEY BE GREEN!" One of my favorite quotes oat
D'angelo that classic early 90s feeling gangsta. Talkin bout "reality" and "believe" shit. It's just dope
Wallace never had the makings of a varsity drug dealer
He does however have the makings of a varsity history student
Small hands that was his problem... and the fact he couldn’t tell the difference between dollar bills and printer paper.
He took that jacket off Rocco DiMeo.
Underrated.
1:15 This exchange is repeated almost verbatim once Poot is holding the Pit down in S1E13.
"Money (slaps it in his hand) FEEL like money!"
I died when D’Angelo just threw the money at Bodie
The way D threw it lol and Bodies reaction 😂
that was personal 😂
I died when he said “Money be green!”
lol Wallace got pissed when Bodie told him to count it
"Ayo yo ho hold, yall niggas been burnt"
-My favorite line
Bodie has hair here 😂
Well, first episode...
Freddie Gibbs' f**kin up the count brought me back to this scene
I just finished season 1 of this masterpiece of a series. I loved this scene but reading these comments here is like a damn minefield, look away as soon as something looks like a spoiler ahah.
David Simon is a genius! Deuce is also spot on, I love the slow character development, it's right up my alley, homes!
Nah I stayed away until I finished
“100 thousand dollars in my mama couch, n never fuckin up da count”
Dat gangsta gibbs
"What color is money?"
D'angelo: "Mf'er Money be green!"
Amazing that Wallace foreshadowed one of the biggest musicals in history :)
Right!🤣🤣
I loved how he explained chess to the others. The queen is the go-get-shit-done-piece.
2:28 - Would have been funny if Bodie said “What about Benjamin Franklin?” 🤣
lol Hamilton, and Ben Franklin weren't Presidents son.
Nigga, is you crazy?
Akhamesh ?
+Akhamesh Is you taking notes on a CRIMINAL FUCKING CONCPIRACY?
Amazing show to be honest, I’ve watched it like 3 times specially season 1 .
Wallace was smart AF. Poor kid.
He was too soft
Even though Hamilton wasn't a President, there was nothing he could do about it. D'Angelo was a made man and Wallace wasn't. He had to sit still and take it. It was among the Barksdales, real greaseball shit.
OK, so how does Wallace know that the person on the $10 bill was Alexander Hamilton AND that Hamilton WAS NOT a US President, BUT he DOESN'T know that a $10 bill is supposed to be green?
Sleight of hand and quick process. Drug deals don't require much time when in such low quantities. plus it was hidden on top of real money so it's easy to get it confused especially when no one is dumb enough to try and burn your crew, Avon's name meant something in the low rises.
Small Dolphin nice dolphin
Exactly!!
Wallace was smart as hell from helping all his siblings with their homework everyday :(
I love this season better
“MONEY BE GREEN” 😭
haha the white drug fiend with Bubbles is the main character from Kids
Fabian Ahmad damn. Spot on
Bubbles takes revenge on the dealers by working with the cops, but yet it's his own fault his friend got laid out the way he did.
This bit had me in tears of laughter when I first saw it.
He went from selling dope in Baltimore to a member of the Fantastic four and onto the cover of GQ
Leon Delvechio Ramirez - this was easily his best role.
So he went from being an actor to being an actor
Shit I never noticed Wallace was played by a young Michael B Jordan. Goes to show how much times past.
Leon Delvechio Ramirez LMFAOOO
theAngryscotman yea I was just watching another clip and saw a comment of someone saying "crazy to see how far Michael Jordans come in his acting career" and I was like huh he wasnt in the wire? and then clicked on this clip to watch and soon as I saw the kid I was like oh snap that definitely is him! crazy ...
MONEY BE GREEEEEN
Hey, its Apollo Creed's son. :-)
Sheeeeiiit, I never observed that!
Every year I watch 3/4 new tv series, in addition to keeping up with newer seasons of shows that I want to keep up with. After 20 years, I still haven't encountered anything that hit me like The Wire. Sad really.
Can't believe that I didn't watch this series back in the day (2002).
I don't know how Wallace was able to outrank Poot.
The Super Star I love Poot and I love how his story ended
Non-Presidents that have appeared on US currency include: Benjamin Franklin (US founding father, $100 bill), Alexander Hamilton (first US Secretary of Treasury, $10 bill), John Marshall (US Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1801-1835), Salmon Chase (US Secretary of Treasury, 1861-1864), Susan B. Anthony (American suffragist), and Sacagawea (Shoshone interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition).
Sorry I love
Facts
Wallace was right. Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury. Benjamin Franklin was also not a president.
who gives a fuck about them white boys......
Bodie look like he was about fuck D'Angelo up when he threw that fake money at him.
Jay Reffner you mean D'Angelo.
@@janae78stl Yep
🤣
You can't write a better script than this!
Damn its crazy cause the only one in this scene who survived in the show was poot
+BLVCK HiPPY Bubbles
I like how he's like no short cuts then doesn't count the money
D'Angelo needs to retake US history class
"Yo, why it gotta be like this?"
"Wallace got to go man"
Watching The Wire for the first time, here we go
Just finished the show the other night. Crazy to see this scene and realize Bubbles is the only one who makes it out alive by the series finale (Poot too I guess.)
RIP WALLACE RIP BODIE RIP D
Season one was definitely the prime of the drug dealers content in this show
“You never fuckin’ up tha count” ..
Who else stay Bumpin Gibbs all the way through 2021 🤙🏻
Dude was too smart for the streets.
Some of these guys are just like the kids in Season 4
With a sadder ending they all died besides poot
Bodies facial expression after the money was thrown towards him.
i was glad to see bubbles get clean down the line
Also the scene where they discuss Mr. Nugget. These scenes he uses the scenarios to school the boys about the game.
Money be green!
God damnit! Watched this show 3-4 times, these clips just make me want to go 5th time around.
track playing in the background is "On Point by Heavy D"
D would have made a good high school teacher. Right in the middle of him chastising them for accepting counterfeit money he engages in a conversation with Wallace about a former president. Lol
Hamilton wasn't a President
drinking 40's and yelling five o seems pretty cruisy. shoulda taken that.
Now that I've seen Hamilton the musical, I get this reference.
🎶 Alexander Hamilton 🎶
2:01 Poots junk must be like "damn, not again"
My dude burned a real 10 dollar bill to make a fake one. XD
One of the greatest shows on TV but the script bugged me sometimes (not enough to take away from the show though). I always felt like it would've been more correct for him to say, "Money green!" instead of "Money BE green!" In Black American vernacular we often use zero copula, which omits the "to be" verb in all its forms. In that dialect, the word "be" most often comes before a verb, sometimes an adverb, and it suggests a habitual or frequent action (e.g. "I be sleepin' in on the weekend" [meaning something I usually do, not something I'm doing right now], or "I be around there all the time."). Money is never not green, so it's a give that money IS green. Therefore, by the rules of vernacular and dialect (yes, there are rules, just like "standard" language), "Money green!" For anybody who gives a eff. I dig linguistics.
You stupid funny. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet
I think this was an attempt to match Baltimore talk. I get what you're saying I felt like that too
its Baltimore slang. I studies linguistics to, and lived in different regions. AAVE (African American Vernacular English) has subtle difference from region to region and city to city.
Dee cummings well not slang but you get what im saying
Yeah, I got what you mean. More like dialect maybe.
Everyone wants to point out that wallace was right but everyone is skipping over the fact that DeAngelo was livid about people messing with his money and for those who can't empathize trust me in a situation where people are carefree about losing YOUR money you truly don't give a F@*K bout being right as long as your making sure they feel wrong
Hamilton may not have been a president, but he was one of the great founders of the United States.
The 10 dollar Founding Father without a father
Wallace would go on to be a hell of a quarterback
He be right about that.
such a good line
I love this actor he played in shaft
Johnny is such an underrated character
Now I know where Freddie Gibbs got those lines from in Fuckin up The Count
They did because bubbles and johnny burned them again but they figured out fast enough that time and chased them down and sent johnny to the hospital
love the needle at the end
love the wire
The fact that Bubs never got an Emmy is fucked up
I used to own the exact same Girbaud hoodie that Bodie is rocking in this scene.
I like how Wallace was right. I'm a little surprised D didn't know that not all the people on currency are presidents. I can understand if he didn't know who Hamilton was, but everyone would know who is on a $100 because they were called benjamins (slang) around the time the Wire is taking place. And most people know Benjamin Franklin was not a president.
I didnt finish the show and with this video i want to see it another time lmfao
Shout out to all of those who learned Hamilton wasn’t a President thanks to the Wire and not Hamilton the musical.
Man, D should have slapped Bodie silly in season 1. Bodie was always undermining him or questioning him, even though D was in charge and turned the Pit around. Bodie was always nosing in on what D did.
Dam Cre - what you want push overs in the pit and running his drugs? Bodie is perfect for the game, that's why Stringer admired Bodie so much, and Bodie could probably tell D ain't right for the game.
Lmao but String aint right for the game
@@XxxX-wx3erYeah but you still dont want someone undermining you. Bodie was disrespectful and needed to get smacked around a bit to learn to respect. That’s how he learned through violence.
D Angelo setup is so real because thats how boadie had it setup in season 4 when michael kept the count
Wallace did well for himself after winning that boxing championship. #BabyCreed
Great scene. Money feel like money !
He’s disrespecting the future king of Wakanda.
A dude i know in chicago actually 2 dudes got killed for fake money at a dopespot...one got a tek unloaded and the other a glock that were hidden in the garbage can on 79th n damen
That gamestop store is in for a surprise now!
i love the wire
damn, D really made sure everyone Straight....made sure all the cash was right...and that their hearts were in the right place...I just finished all 5 series and fuck did I learn without trying...or as Omar put it “even if I miss, I don’t miss”