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{{quote|''[[Crapsack World|"It's Baltimore, gentlemen. The gods will not save you."]]''|'''Commissioner Ervin Burrell'''}}

 

 

''The Wire'' is a show about Baltimore, taking you through a different segment of the city in each season.

** The reference to former Baltimore Mayor Kurt Schmoke in Season 5 despite a guest appearance by the same in Season 3, playing a health official.

** In one episode, McNulty pontificates that the core cop cast of the show are among maybe ten or twenty truly good cops in Baltimore, among the names he gives as examples of other cops is Ed Burns, who is of course one of the show's creators and was indeed a cop (though was many years retired by the time he made the show, possibly you could say it was a different Ed Burns).

** Omar is a Fan of HBO's ''[[Oz]]'' although many Actors (Herc, Carver, Rawls, Daniels, Bodie, Freamon and Cheese) on ''The Wire'' have appeared on it

* [[Characterization Marches On]]: Proposition Joe is implied to be illiterate in Season One, when Avon mocks him for carrying a clipboard as a coach even though he can't read. Later episodes reveal Prop Joe to be quite intellectual. His prequel short shows that he was an excellent student who sold his test answers to fellow students.

* [[Hidden Depths]]: Pryzbylewski is initially dumped on the Barksdale detail because he's an incompetent officer who once accidentally shot up his own car in a panic. On his first day he accidentally [[I Just Shot Marvin in the Face|discharges his gun in the office]], and later gets another car destroyed by needlessly inciting the local community. The only reason he doesn't get fired is [[Nepotism]]. However, after being restricted to office duty, he begins to excel and becomes a specialist in penetrating the drug dealers' heavily slurred, slang-laden, and coded communications. He also becomes a decent teacher during Season 4.

* [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold]]: Shardene.

* [[How's Your British Accent?]]: McNulty (played by Brit actor Dominic West) puts on a ridiculous English accent to go undercover at a brothel in Season Two.

* [[How We Got Here]]: Done in a very roundabout way with the children followed in Season 4. Over the course of two years we see how they'll become characters very similar to Bubbles, Omar and so on.

* [[Those Two Bad Guys]]: Chris and Snoop in Season 4.

* [[Those Two Guys]]: Bodie and Poot in the first two seasons; Herc and Carver throughout the series.

** In the series finale, we find out that {{spoiler|like many rookie teachers after a few years, Prez has become a pillar of authority, with a [[Badass Beard]] to boot}}.

* [[Trademark Favorite Food]]: Omar loves his breakfast cereal, particularly Honey Nut Cheerios, which he finds hard to get.

* [[Tragic Hero]]: Frank Sobotka.

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