Poot went thru hell in this show.having to kill his best friend due to orders, the shootout he was in, going to prison for a year and some months, damn near almost dying and witnessing his friend die laid in his blood, his bestfriend bodie dying. Man he deserved that good ending he was a good character especially funny w his ass keeping on getting burned and shit😂
Good ending? I'm not exactly sure how these kids feel about what they've been through but I expect that stuff will haunt him for years especially now he's straight. Poot is still young this still might kill him, who knows what might happen after a few years of the same recurring nightmare. Poot will surely be scarred by it all unless he's a psycho with no feelings but I don't think that is true for him. He's not portrayed as an ice cold killer type.
Wait until one of those girls who didn't burn him says she's pregnant... We'll see how his job @ foot locker is a "good ending"... He wasn't going to school... He make enough maybe to be a roommate...😭😭😭
Before McDonald's pioneered McNuggets for fast food consumption, a Cornell University researcher developed bite-size breaded chicken sticks that could be easily fried and frozen. Though the origin of chicken nuggets, like so many food items, remains disputed, it’s commonly accepted that agricultural scientist Robert C. Baker invented chicken nuggets in a laboratory at Cornell University in 1963. They were among dozens of poultry products he developed during his career, including turkey ham and chicken hot dogs, helping to greatly expand the U.S. poultry industry.
not to mention most of mcdonald's modern menu including the mcnugget recipe was made by 5-star chefs who were contracted for millions of dollars, dangelo was just talking out his ass
@@omgitalo I'm super late with this comment. Actually, Robert Carl Baker (he passed in 2006) also invented many other poultry-related inventions. Due to his contributions to the poultry sciences, he is a member of the American Poultry Hall of Fame. Accredited to him are more than 40 poultry, turkey and cold cut innovations, making him the "George Washington Carver of poultry". In addition to creating the chicken nugget, he is also responsible for a revolutionary way to bind breading to chicken, co-invented the machine responsible for deboning chicken and created the chicken and turkey hot dogs and turkey ham. He travelled the world innovating how people eat and view chicken. He spent his entire academic life at Cornell University from 1957 to 1989 and published some 290 research papers. In 1970 he founded the university's Institute of Food Science and Marketing. He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Food Technologists in 1997. He didn't need Ronald McDonald. He could probably have written a check to buy Ronald McDonald himself. The Wire put these statements in for comical relief, I suppose...but in fact he was a super successful man with tons of credit to his name.
It certainly has a nice flow. It would have been interesting if The Wire was like a dual-sided anthology where one series was strictly the police's perspective while the other series was the street side. The point of the show, however, is to demonstrate how all of the pieces matter so it makes sense that they blend both sides together.
So let me get this straight, you got a guy like Dee who comes in right away laying down the law. He is straight up, understanding, and trying to be that balance of tough and fair, but he gets punked out, disrespected and the workers don’t listen to him. So he gets ran out locked up and killed. So in turn you get a guys like Stringer and Avon who hate their workers and customers, are unfair tyrants, think only about themselves, are greedy, and vicious for no reason. Yet they get all the respect, power, and money, then completely torpedo their own business, destroy the entire operation, lose all their territory, and workers to the competition.
There business went down because Omar was giving Barksdale and Marlos crew hell. People couldn't believe that one man could ruin an organization. He would snitch yet have no fear for any of these drug dealers who names were up there. Just goes to show how fearless Omar was
"Hamilton weren't no president." And in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king. Same goes for knowledge. 🤔😳 On second thought, his knowledge of US history didn't really help him too much in the end. And now that I think of it, it was D'Angelo's self reflection that led to his own eventual design. And it was Bodie's growing awareness at just how f'cked up his world around him that contributed to his demise. Maybe ignorance is bliss.
There’s three pawns that made it to the other side: Poot, Bodie, and Slim Charles. Slim Charles chose to become the queen. Bodie chose the path of loyalty, and became a knight, and died as such. Poot, on the other hand… chose an option that wasn’t known. He chose to leave the game.
“Yeah, you got the one” It’s crazy Bodie says that cause I’m pretty sure at the end of the series he only had one, and it’s Wallace of all people. Unless he had others I’m forgetting about
Poot got hella hood stories to tell, he seen a whole era of madness from start to finish. Most importantly he survived though it all and got to live a normal life Underrated legend on the show for sure 💯
I always thought it was Cool how Wallace took care of all those kids . He made sure they had food , and went to school , it's a shitty vacant apartment they lived in but it was still a roof over their heads . A kid himself taking care of kids
Bodie before killing him yells “Stand up! Be a man!”, when in reality Wallace was the biggest man of all of them for the way he looked after those kids.
@@mattv.4089 they shot wallace without even thinking about them kids which is sad knowing they house them with them, messed up how ppl do whatever to fit in a an organization
The whole shooting of Wallace and what that represented, was one of, if not, the best scenes in the whole of the series..for what it's worth, "The Wire" is pure genius..like all great art, it requires thought to appreciate..
He was never really built for it like that. He could and would do it cus that’s all he knew but given different circumstances poot would have been a regular citizen.
When bodie is talking to poot about Marlo unnecessarily killing , I feel as though he’s basically telling poot that’s he’s tired of that life and wants out of the game , I also feel that when he’s talking about little Kevin , he’s also telling poot and us that he misses Wallace and d’Angelo and that he doesn’t won’t to lose anymore friends .
When he started talking about Florida and Marlin fishing after having previously said, "Why would anyone ever wanna leave Baltimore?" That was the moment. He was ready for a change.
I always felt like Bodie's storyline is like the prequel to D'Angelo's. At first, Bodie doesn't understand why D has an aversion to violence. You get the vibe that he views D as weak. As the years go on, Bodie becomes tired of the needless violence and losing people, and seems to have the same attitude that D had about the gang. He's tired of it and he wants a different life even if it will kill him. He pretty much just accepts his death at the end, much like D accepted a life in prison as long as he didn't need to be a part of the game anymore.
That does fit with the later seasons all being preqeuels for other characters. Michael became a new Omar, Marlon a mix of stringer and Avon, dukie became bubbs. @@1dingerr
@@jefferycrouse4652 that's the main genius of the entire show imo. it's better than maybe anything else in history at really breaking down and showing how the system perpetuates itself. you have all these imperfect people trying to succeed at their part of the larger system but at the end of the day everyone is just trapped in the cycle of trauma, poverty, systemic racism, corruption, etc. The final montage in the last episode sums it up perfectly because after 5 seasons of watching the rise and fall of all of these characters, all the dramatic events feel so consequential for everyone involved, but really nothing has changed. They took down avon and stringer, but now you have Marlo's crew. Bubbles gets his life together but now Dukie is in the same position. Omar isn't killing and robbing people but Michael is right there. Carcetti started out with good intentions to replace a corrupt mayor but now he's just another career politician doing the bare minimum to get himself elected governor. And on and on. McNulty just sitting there wondering if it was all even worth was the perfect was to end the perfect series. Damn here I am watching clips and typing essays, might be time for another rewatch lol
Makes me almost cry imagining wallaces situation. Hes about 14/15 watchinf after like 5 kids. No running water, stolen electric and doing the best he can/knows how to take care od those children. Running short on chips/juice for breakfast. As a father, That scene gets me every time. 😢
Where are the parents of all those kids? Are they junkies? Dead? In jail? Or just deadbeats? I think we can trace the problem back to parenting, or a lack thereof.
@@nmlss-r9 I don't remember them talking about any of those kids parents except for Wallace, they talk about Bodie's mom later in the series, but that's it
Poot was actually the smart a** pawn, he had the heart, he paid attention, he was lowkey, level headed, and loyal.. he networked, and seemed to be in good standing with everyone. He was wise, and took every loss as a lesson, he went on to be a taxpayer- then caught the acting bug, changed his name to Don Cheadle; the guy who plays War Machine in a little movie called Iron Man, and as a undercover cop in Traffic.
@TheTillmanSneakerReview true but one of the few who made noise and did not get Ran off his corner . Unfortunately he should of just Ran off like poot...
Don’t get me wrong , I love Michael and his crew but bodie , poot , d’Angelo and Wallace will always be my boys . I do like that fact that one person from both crews got their life together , Poot left the hood and got him a good job at footlocker and namend got taken in by his teacher and got his education . Bodie , d’Angelo and Wallace got killed while everyone from Michaels crew lived but ended down wrong paths , randy got put in foster care and lost his mother , donut kept doing stealing cars and dookie became addicted to heroin and Michael became the next Omar .
Poot looks 40 by the end of the series despite being in his mid 20’s at most still (The wiki says he’s 22). He lost a lot of friends and saw his entire people either die or rot in prison forever. He’s seen and been through a lot and mentally he’s Mature even if it took a lot of blood to get there.
Damn…why did that “Bodie, come on man” and the look Bodie gave back hit hard like that? Poot just wanted his boy alive but Bodie knew it had to end one way or another. The look on his face said it all. Great acting there with so few words.
The saddest part is when he pats his shoulder. He pretty much gave poot permission to leave because he didn't want to lose another friend to Marlo and his bullshit.
@@jefferycrouse4652 if not for that pat on the shoulder, he wasn't leaving , he was going to uphold the street code of friendship , never leave a homie no matter what
Yes Slim Charles was effectively the last man standing from the upper part of the crew. And Poot was the last man standing from his part of the crew. It's like a parrallel story even though Poot got out of the game and Slim didn't.
Sir. I suggest if you haven't watched the entire series watch it. Yet instead are watching snippets on youtube, you are doing yourself a disservice by not watching the best show in the history of cable TV, and have no idea what's truly going on.
Watch it definitely binge away its quality also highly recommend is The Corner its the show before the wire . You can find the whole show on here its really good it features a lot of the actors from the wire its the show that got the wire made
I didn't watch the show until I had already seen all the clips and spoilers on RU-vid. I think that's the only way to truly watch this show. The Wire really move like someone went to the ends with a Go-Pro.
@@neillscott4192 but he was on the verge. I loved his character and how he showed some humanity but he was not built for the game. You see how he took care of them youngens that might not even be related. He had too much love and compassion the street. Wallace is Def a great Chara
Wow! Wallace left Baltimore to go to Los Angeles only to find out that his father was former heavyweight champion Apollo Creed! Why did he come back to Baltimore? 😂😅
Stringer really never liked Poot from the get go. And warching this Poot scenes really just confirmed it 18:35 wallace and Poot both call String, when String pulls up with Weebay and the rest of the muscle in the truck he only speaks to Wallace and never even looks at Poot 22:50 Stringer pulls up with Weebay to the pit to talk about who is possibly snitching, its Bodie D and Poot there but Stringer never even looks at Poot, he tells them to rip the phones out, its Weebay that ask Poot to help rip em out 29:40 String comes to the Pit to grab all the phones, when Poot comes to the huddle String tells him "Get the fuck out of here 36:10 Poot raises his hand, String just points to him, Poot answers to never give your name but ask BODIE why....than in the same clip Poot advises they should change the name of the package, String does not teply instead he moves on to Shamrock 41:15. Poot informs how hectic things have gotten with the Marlo situation. String doesnt even look at him instead he moves on to other members complains
It's very... ironical (this word is overused) that right after D tells his boys to treat the drug users better and be less hostile to them, bubbles comes in at 8:00 and labels D and his guys police. Makes you think that if D didn't tell his boys to be friendlier, they would have treated bubbles just like the other guy, pushed him away, and the police would have gotten no info in that case.
Maybe not that specific instance, but it’s interesting that when they beat Johnny Weeks over $30, that’s what made Bubbles start snitching on the Barksdale crew. If they hadn’t beat him up over so little, they may have lasted a bit longer. To this day I still can’t believe Bodie was ready to throw Johnny on the expressway over 30 bucks. D was right. Violence brings the cops.
Even treating bubbles friendlier it wouldn't had mattered after beating up his homie and putting him in the hospital Turning bubbles into a dry snitch and bubbles would had found away to get the narcotics task force it's information
@@clayborndathrid6426 the days of structured criminal organizations like that it's pretty much a bygone era within the Black community, despite the fact that we were on the lower wrung of criminal society, the laws were designed to hit us the hardest. Despite the fact that we didn't own boats or planes, we suffered the worst, RICO LAWS decimated the Black male population Nationwide
@@Tuelz... "way worse".. WHERE?? Also, the show only focuses on 1 crew at a time. It's not like they gave you everything happening on even 1 block of bmore. I'm from Maryland in a place where ppl from from bmore would consider as a "hood" (PG, I have always had fam in Baltimore city).. My town got busy, but not like the damn WIRE busy. I had poor friends growing up, but not living in literal vacant homes. They did a thorough job of depicting one of the most pitiful and dangerous cities in America
Definitely the most uninteresting and yet borderline memorable character in the Wire. Literally didn't do anything but be a pawn that was stuck and ignored on the side of the board until the game ended lmao.
Poot got some of the best one liners in the series. " Do the chair know we going look like some bitch ass ni&&as out here. " Him from WeeBea" Poot was smart but had no filter. That's what makes him a great character.
Could have applied to Footlocker straight out of school, but five seasons in the greatest TV show of all time was an unmissable enhancement to his résumé.
@@BlackEagle182 everyone was good honestly! Shit on the corner most of the cops was playing junkies and was good at it. I thought Lester was this junkie I think he was playing with the Popeye arms.
@@rick1975100 honestly , I would never have guess that poot would survive and leave the ghetto . I always thought it would be Wallace . Greatest show ever made . It’s basically gta San Andreas .
I always looked at this show like it was the black sopranos love this show can't believe some people have never seen it,they don't know what they be missing.
The deeper meaning behind the way Bodie lined the fiends up is symbolic. The police do the same to them. They’re both held prisoners. Double entendres.
It kinda makes me happy poot went from the you g boy Dangelo told “ u the man for an hour “ in season one to season 5 working legal job at foot locker . Makes me happy n sad kinda he been thru so mich kept it real lost alot of friends seen alot go down and pushed thru it to be better . He was the real victor of the show . It was sad what bo n poot did to wallace but it made them who they were throughout the show .
Poot was loyal asl to bodie like whoever bodie riding with he was down but he definitely wasn’t feeling slim Charles going to fuck with the east side after they all got booked for avon
I feel like poot an boodie where kerk and carver but in different relm jus doing different jobs an having the same ethics for they job if that makes sense
The wire was dope. One of the realest tv shows ever! Ever, EVER! Bout to download it to watch again front to back for the third time! Watched it the first time when it was on TV, downloaded and watched the whole series years later and it was still good...
The only street guy to survive and appear in all 5 seasons. Good on Poot. But i wonder someone like him who has lost so many friends, its like a soldier coming home from war, what his dreams are like.
Still crazy to me how they did this in the actual projects at mh. Yea the city was fucked and most of those shots were vacant but ppl really do still live there. It’s crazy
This is one of the best wire compilation it’s shows the evolution of the buildings to the corners and how barksdales really step on Marco feet because he from the corners not towers it’s shows how poot was recognized higher than boodie because he actually had a corner first do to his mom getting a city house and through deangelo he learned the game
