I don't recall who said, but my favorite contemporary review was “John Milius’ Star-Spangled Bummer”

10. Bunny's dinner with the kids
9. "Where's Wallace?"
8. Stringer-Omar Part 2
7. Duquan walks down the alley
6. Chess
5. Bunk-McNulty 38 "Fuck" Salute
4. "Goodnight moon, goodnight fiends"
3. Lester natural po-lice reveal
2. Bub's speech
1. Omar takes the stand (which might be the peak of Peak TV)

Dis Belief Surprised GIF Alt: Wee-Bey Disblief GIF from The Wire

Personal Favorite Scenes from The Wire

Honorable Mentions:
Wee-Bey GIF
Zombie campfire talk
Stringer-Omar Part 1
Carver-Randy
"This is America, man"
Bodie-Poot-Wallace
any Daniels turns the tables scene
Landsman's eulogies
Prez-Duquan
Stringer holds a meeting
Snoop goes shopping
Finale montage

I’m a new creation

“Eat It With A Spoon … Sip It Through A Straw”

Same. Our shipment also came with random real MLB caps for scoopers to wear during the promotion (I got a Giants cap). We kept wearing them year round, and the manager never said a thing.

Taylor Swift intentionally sang "Starbucks lovers" as part of a guerilla marketing campaign.

I'm convinced that if The Wire came out 10 years later, it would have been a decent hit, and HBO would have wanted to do spinoffs. A dozen different characters would have been worthy of additional examination.

But the only one that absolutely should have been made was "Cool Lester Smooth, PI."

If Hosmer becomes manager, the hitters won’t get another ball out of the infield for the rest of the year.

That duck wants another milkshake

Storm clouds from the Royals’ clubhouse have moved over the ballpark

Mental break might have a different connotation in Venezuela.

He’s a proud guy who’s struggling right now and usually the messaging is “needs a rest” so he might have felt the need to dispute “mental break.” They can chalk it up as a miscommunication, Q learns to use different messaging, and they move. If it happens again, it’s a problem.

Salvy likely showed up at the ballpark on the afternoon of his last knee surgery and tried to get into the lineup, so I’m not going to overreact to expressing frustration in not playing.

But if the team did not set him down before the season and get buy-in on a playing time plan that’s on them.

She might have been watching the new “Hacks” episode as the “Xena” sidekick actress has an extended cameo as herself.

Oh no hope everything goes all right

“Gramps, did the A’s play in Sacramento before or after the Western Free Zone?”

It’s spring practice for parachuters too.

What if Fred recruits Bam Bam?

Doogie Howser, Mob Doctor, would have been a great crossover.

Mad Men is especially odd due to the number of shocking deaths (including suicides), injuries, assaults, heart attacks, missing persons, and cancer diagnoses, plus "Mystery Date," and the long-simmering tension of if, when, and how the main character would die fueled by the title sequence.

We should have stopped when they figured out how to prevent skips on portable CD players

Nothing like John Hunt spending three paragraphs hyping a starter about to post a 6.37 ERA

Danke Schoen

somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me with a wooden outhouse Alt: somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me with a wooden outhouse, the door swings open, and it’s Shrek

What if it was written for a different movie than the one it became associated with?

Superstar Limo vibes

Scott McKinney right about now

[We had adjoining rooms with my grandparents, so no, I did not make grandma wander around outside in the parking lot for 114 minutes.]

Ha ha. While closer to age appropriate, I saw Red Dawn at a motel (“Free HBO”) on a family trip, and my grandma got so upset when the shooting started she had to leave the room.