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* RetroactiveRecognition: Tommy Carcetti may be better known to people as [[Series/GameOfThrones Petyr Baelish]] now.
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** Many remember JD Williams (Bodie Broadus) as being Wangler from HBO's ''{{Oz}}''. At least three cops played medium to minor characters in ''{{Oz}}'', as well.
*** Hell, Avon was the C.O. that smuggled the handgun Said used to takeover Em City.
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** Many remember JD Williams (Bodie Broadus) as being Wangler from HBO's ''{{Oz}}''. At least three cops played medium to minor characters in ''{{Oz}}'', as well.
*** Hell,well. Avon was is the C.O. that smuggled the smuggles a handgun Said used to takeover Em City.Said. The FBI mole has plenty of underground experience, what with being Busmalis aka "[[TunnelKing The Mole]]" in Oz.
*** Hell,
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* FakeRussian: Ukrainian Sergei Malatov is played by American actor Chris Ashworth.
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** Before being city editor, [[TheWire Gus Haynes]] worked as [[HomicideLifeOnTheStreet Det. Meldrick Lewis]], at Baltimore.
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** Before being city editor, [[TheWire Gus Haynes]] Haynes worked as [[HomicideLifeOnTheStreet [[Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet Det. Meldrick Lewis]], at Baltimore.Baltimore.
* HeyItsThatVoice: ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' fans will recognize Cutty as as [[TeamDad Coach]].
* HeyItsThatVoice: ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'' fans will recognize Cutty as as [[TeamDad Coach]].
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*** Hell, Avon was the C.O. that smuggled the handgun Said used to takeover Em City.
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* DirectedByCastMember: The season 5 episode "Took" was directed by Dominic West ([=McNulty=]). Clark Johnson also directed several episodes (notably [[PilotEpisode "The Target"]]), even before he joined the cast as editor Augustus "Gus" Haynes. He also directed the finale.
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* ActuallyPrettyFunny
** Rawls sometimes gives credit to his antagonist and is amused by his actions or remarks. Most notably, he laughs when one of the floaters comes back to his jurisdiction thanks to [=McNulty=]'s calculations.
--->'''Rawls:''' Fuckin' Jimmy. Fuckin' with us for the fun of it. I gotta give the son of a bitch some credit for wit on this one. ''Cocksucker''.
** Nicky breaks out a smile when he realizes the "Love Child" affair is just a prank.
** Valchek finds some amusement in the stolen van being toured around the world due to the feud with the stevedores.
** [=McNulty=] usually takes with a smile many of the numerous jabs he receives. When Lester chews [=McNulty=] out with a remarkable "get a life" speech, Jimmy finds some of the quips very funny.
** [[invoked]] Norman Wilson laughs his ass off when the serial killer scheme -used as a political platform- [[{{Bathos}} is exposed as a fraud]], despite Carcetti calling up DudeNotFunny.
** Rawls sometimes gives credit to his antagonist and is amused by his actions or remarks. Most notably, he laughs when one of the floaters comes back to his jurisdiction thanks to [=McNulty=]'s calculations.
--->'''Rawls:''' Fuckin' Jimmy. Fuckin' with us for the fun of it. I gotta give the son of a bitch some credit for wit on this one. ''Cocksucker''.
** Nicky breaks out a smile when he realizes the "Love Child" affair is just a prank.
** Valchek finds some amusement in the stolen van being toured around the world due to the feud with the stevedores.
** [=McNulty=] usually takes with a smile many of the numerous jabs he receives. When Lester chews [=McNulty=] out with a remarkable "get a life" speech, Jimmy finds some of the quips very funny.
** [[invoked]] Norman Wilson laughs his ass off when the serial killer scheme -used as a political platform- [[{{Bathos}} is exposed as a fraud]], despite Carcetti calling up DudeNotFunny.
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* ActorAllusion: Mixed with RealPersonCameo: [[http://www.criminaljusticedegreesguide.com/features/10-real-people-that-inspired-characters-on-the-wire.html (Examples)]]
** Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich playing a security guard at the governor's office.
** Donnie Andrews, the real-life inspiration for Omar Little, who appears as his sidekick a few times and is [[spoiler:ultimately killed when Omar makes his SuperWindowJump]]. That scene was based on an incident in Andrews' real life.
** Guess which character is played by [[RetiredBadass notorious former crimelord]] Little Melvin, the inspiration for Barksdale? Give up? [[BewareTheNiceOnes The Deacon.]]
** Felicia Pearson basically plays a fictionalized version of herself. [[spoiler: Somewhat.]]
** The woman playing the principal of the local school? Actually the principal of the real high school. No wonder you sat up straight when she yelled.
** Lt. Dennis Mello was played by the actual Jay Landsman, a long-time homicide detective in the Baltimore Police Department. Not to be confused with the fictional homicide detective [[{{Tuckerization}} Jay Landsman]] (see CelebrityParadox below)
** Det. Ed Norris is played by Edward Norris, former Baltimore Police Commissioner who had a somewhat...controversial career (that ended in indictment). His lack of respect for the current Commissioner is a running gag.
** When he goes undercover in the Greek's brothel, [=McNulty's=] alias is "James Cromwell", in reference to "the English fuck who stole my ancestors' land". Dominic West played Oliver Cromwell in the Channel 4 miniseries ''The Devil's Whore''.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny
** Rawls sometimes gives credit to his antagonist and is amused by his actions or remarks. Most notably, he laughs when one of the floaters comes back to his jurisdiction thanks to [=McNulty=]'s calculations.
--->'''Rawls:''' Fuckin' Jimmy. Fuckin' with us for the fun of it. I gotta give the son of a bitch some credit for wit on this one. ''Cocksucker''.
** Nicky breaks out a smile when he realizes the "Love Child" affair is just a prank.
** Valchek finds some amusement in the stolen van being toured around the world due to the feud with the stevedores.
** [=McNulty=] usually takes with a smile many of the numerous jabs he receives. When Lester chews [=McNulty=] out with a remarkable "get a life" speech, Jimmy finds some of the quips very funny.
** [[invoked]] Norman Wilson laughs his ass off when the serial killer scheme -used as a political platform- [[{{Bathos}} is exposed as a fraud]], despite Carcetti calling up DudeNotFunny.
** Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich playing a security guard at the governor's office.
** Donnie Andrews, the real-life inspiration for Omar Little, who appears as his sidekick a few times and is [[spoiler:ultimately killed when Omar makes his SuperWindowJump]]. That scene was based on an incident in Andrews' real life.
** Guess which character is played by [[RetiredBadass notorious former crimelord]] Little Melvin, the inspiration for Barksdale? Give up? [[BewareTheNiceOnes The Deacon.]]
** Felicia Pearson basically plays a fictionalized version of herself. [[spoiler: Somewhat.]]
** The woman playing the principal of the local school? Actually the principal of the real high school. No wonder you sat up straight when she yelled.
** Lt. Dennis Mello was played by the actual Jay Landsman, a long-time homicide detective in the Baltimore Police Department. Not to be confused with the fictional homicide detective [[{{Tuckerization}} Jay Landsman]] (see CelebrityParadox below)
** Det. Ed Norris is played by Edward Norris, former Baltimore Police Commissioner who had a somewhat...controversial career (that ended in indictment). His lack of respect for the current Commissioner is a running gag.
** When he goes undercover in the Greek's brothel, [=McNulty's=] alias is "James Cromwell", in reference to "the English fuck who stole my ancestors' land". Dominic West played Oliver Cromwell in the Channel 4 miniseries ''The Devil's Whore''.
* ActuallyPrettyFunny
** Rawls sometimes gives credit to his antagonist and is amused by his actions or remarks. Most notably, he laughs when one of the floaters comes back to his jurisdiction thanks to [=McNulty=]'s calculations.
--->'''Rawls:''' Fuckin' Jimmy. Fuckin' with us for the fun of it. I gotta give the son of a bitch some credit for wit on this one. ''Cocksucker''.
** Nicky breaks out a smile when he realizes the "Love Child" affair is just a prank.
** Valchek finds some amusement in the stolen van being toured around the world due to the feud with the stevedores.
** [=McNulty=] usually takes with a smile many of the numerous jabs he receives. When Lester chews [=McNulty=] out with a remarkable "get a life" speech, Jimmy finds some of the quips very funny.
** [[invoked]] Norman Wilson laughs his ass off when the serial killer scheme -used as a political platform- [[{{Bathos}} is exposed as a fraud]], despite Carcetti calling up DudeNotFunny.
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* FakeAmerican: [=McNulty=] and Stringer Bell are both played by Brits. The Italian-American Carcetti is played by an Irishman.
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** Davis' bagman [[ChappellesShow is rich, biatch!]] Doubles as RetroactiveRecognition because Donnell Rawlings made his first appearance in Season 1, long before "Chappelle's Show."
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** Davis' bagman [[ChappellesShow [[Series/ChappellesShow is rich, biatch!]] Doubles as RetroactiveRecognition because Donnell Rawlings made his first appearance in Season 1, long before "Chappelle's Show."
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->''[[ArcWords "All the pieces matter."]]''
-->--'''Lester Freamon'''
-->--'''Lester Freamon'''
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** Before being city editor, [[TheWire Gus Haynes]] worked as [[HomicideLifeOnTheStreet Det. Meldrick Lewis]], at Baltimore.
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** [[GoneBabyGone [[Film/GoneBabyGone Beatrice McReady]] (Amy Ryan) is actually a decent mother for once, and a cop, no less. Also makes a change from her other day job in HR in [[TheOffice Scranton, PA]]
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen:
** There was another season of ''The Wire'' planned which would have dealt with immigration and the large influx of Hispanic immigrants in Baltimore. Since none of the writers spoke Spanish nor knew enough about the immigrants that lived in Baltimore, the season was cut.
** During season 3 the idea was floated of spinning off the political subplots into a separate show called ''The Hall''. Instead the political side was folded into subsequent seasons.
** There was another season of ''The Wire'' planned which would have dealt with immigration and the large influx of Hispanic immigrants in Baltimore. Since none of the writers spoke Spanish nor knew enough about the immigrants that lived in Baltimore, the season was cut.
** During season 3 the idea was floated of spinning off the political subplots into a separate show called ''The Hall''. Instead the political side was folded into subsequent seasons.
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* TheDanza:
** Felicia "Snoop" Pearson
** RealLife Baltimore drug kingpin "Little Melvin" Williams plays the Deacon, whose first name is apparently "Melvin".
** Felicia "Snoop" Pearson
** RealLife Baltimore drug kingpin "Little Melvin" Williams plays the Deacon, whose first name is apparently "Melvin".
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** [[GameOfThrones Littlefinger]] is another sleezy politician as Tommy Carcetti.
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** [[GameOfThrones Littlefinger]] is another sleezy sleazy politician as Tommy Carcetti.Carcetti.
*** Or [[Series/LoveHate John Boy if you're Irish]].
*** Or [[Series/LoveHate John Boy if you're Irish]].
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** [[GoneBabyGone Beatrice McReady]] (Amy Ryan) is actually a decent mother for once, and a cop, no less. Also makes a change from her other day job in HR in [[TheOfficeUS [[TheOffice Scranton, PA]]
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** James Ransone (Ziggy Sobotka) starred in ''GenerationKill'', another HBO show written by DavidSimon.
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** In a past life, Prez [[TheHudsuckerProxy invented the bendy straw]].
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** [[GameOfThrones Littlefinger]] is another sleezy politician as Tommy Carcetti.
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* HeyItsThatGuy:
** Gordon from ''SesameStreet'' played a cop in season 5.
** Plenty of cameos from Baltimore-area personalities. The Baltimore Sun office in season 5, for example, has several former Sun writers playing themselves in their old jobs.
** Many remember JD Williams (Bodie Broadus) as being Wangler from HBO's ''{{Oz}}''. At least three cops played medium to minor characters in ''{{Oz}}'', as well.
** [[TrueBlood Andy Bellefleur]] plays Frank Sobotka (or is that the other way around).
** The Greek will seem very familiar to fans of ''LawAndOrder''. His actor has played several roles on that show, perhaps most notably the PedophilePriest who molested Mike Logan as a child.
** Back in season one, [[TheWire Chris Partlow]] can be seen in court wearing a police uniform -- wait what?
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** Gordon from ''SesameStreet'' played a cop in season 5.
** Plenty of cameos from Baltimore-area personalities. The Baltimore Sun office in season 5, for example, has several former Sun writers playing themselves in their old jobs.
** Many remember JD Williams (Bodie Broadus) as being Wangler from HBO's ''{{Oz}}''. At least three cops played medium to minor characters in ''{{Oz}}'', as well.
** [[TrueBlood Andy Bellefleur]] plays Frank Sobotka (or is that the other way around).
** The Greek will seem very familiar to fans of ''LawAndOrder''. His actor has played several roles on that show, perhaps most notably the PedophilePriest who molested Mike Logan as a child.
** Back in season one, [[TheWire Chris Partlow]] can be seen in court wearing a police uniform -- wait what?
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