@@ChandlerRFinkand I bet the is not better for it…… This is the fire service I came up in. You fucked up you got called on it, and it sucked. But you didn’t make that mistake again I learned the job at the kitchen table. 3 years into retirement and you know what I miss the most…. It’s not the cool guy stuff. I miss the guys sitting at the table busting balls
@@noahbyrne2402 I miss talking with the guys at the table solving the department’s problems or the world’s problems. You can’t yell at the boots in the academy. If you can’t train these recruits under pressure how are they going do it on the Fire Ground? I have been called shit for making a mistake and I definitely never let it happen again. You can’t do that anymore because you might offend someone or hurt their feelings. It softens the line personnel.
@@cafryrmn2550 It was getting there when I retired. I’ve never been the hammer at the station. Better to be nice to the new boots, they are stressed out already. So when you need to be serious and hammer one of them they get that it is was serious. You aren’t the designated asshole, so if your mad they fucked up. The problem I see is like the first kid who commented. They think there opinions matter and we care what they think when we give them an order…..they don’t know to just shut up and listen. I’ve seen senior captains get “talked to” by chiefs because some boot had his feelings hurt. It’s not like officers need to be hard asses either, they should be leaders of young men and women. The youngsters need to learn there place so they can then earn there rightful place. This isn’t shoe sales… it’s life and death
My pops was a firefighter mom was a nurse my brother and I both joined the Marine Corps Infantry this is spot on. When bullets, fires, or mistakes happen no one cares about your personal feelings. We all just want to do our job and go home, to the bar for a game thats on, or make it back for ma's world famous Chicken Parm. That's all that should matter.
Yeah, it IS truth. But don't kid yourself. It would never never ever ever be tolerated, especially in a firehouse. His noble tell-it-like-it-is speech woulda landed him in hot water.
Fucking love Tommy! Very flawed character, but you love him more for it. He's a raging alcoholic, horrible husband, not the best father, and always seems to make terrible decisions in his personal life... But get him inside the firehouse with his crew, and he's always the one that ends up knocking some damn sense into everybody by speaking nothing but the truth, and lastly, he's the best firefighter and a damn hero!! He saves so many lives, he risks his life more than the rest of the crew. He somehow wants to make up for all his sins by saving as many lives as he can, it's his way of telling God to forgive him, and it's ultimately his way not to hate himself for all the mistakes he has made. There's a scene in season 5 where he watches old family clips and you see how hurt he gets when he sees Connor. You realize he still blames himself and he hasn't forgiven himself because he grabs a torch and starts burning his leg on purpose as punishment. Tommy is the best character from any show I've ever seen, simply because he's so real.
Being a volunteer firefighter, this show is spot on with name calling and the things they say to each other. But in the end we all get our duties done. What matters is the lives we serve to protect and it's like a big dysfunctional family that only functions when duty calls
This is a great little piece of TV. You've got Tommy and Franco trying to saving Lou here from getting in trouble by trying to talk to Laura like on of the crew. First Franco as the secret boyfriend to Laura tries to hammer it home. Then Tommy the real leader of the firehouse comes through in a caring manner. It showed a lot about Tommy as a character in a very short amount of time.
@@mattromeo2487 Mines were when his cousin Mickey and his uncle Teddy laced his scotch bottle with something and after a night of heavy drinking he couldn't remember a thing and he lost his daughter Colleen and they were looking for her all over, love how the pieces come together bit by bit on what he did last night it was fun to watch.
Honestly Laura kinda deserved it. I side with Lou here. He specifically said "stay close." She didn't even go in. Her excuse. "I thought you said stay here and help Garrity." Uummm....nooooo. Not even close to what he said....
Yup, and when you fuck up in a situation as dangerous as fighting fires where your life and the life of others is on the line, your superior needs to get your attention and strike the fear of god in you so you either never do it again or you decide this ain't the job for me and quit. There is no 'well, I tried' or 'oops, I made a mistake' and paying no mind to it in that job.
@@richiehunt5097 couldn't agree more same things happen in the infantry...I love women I respect the opinions and tenacity of some females but Christ almighty I can't believe they actually want into the infantry and yet don't want to take on the bitterness of how the job really works. When you f up in a compromising life or death situation you will receive retribution so as not to f up again. Boy I tell ya people think the depts and the military (primarily infantry jobs) are racist and sexist but the thing is they're really exactly the opposite because we all know in these professions death doesn't give a flying rats ass about who you are individually.
We had a female marine join our unit… we called her Tampax . All good, she took it. She earned it , deserved it, she wanted to be one of the boys… so we let her
@@IWantToMature85 PAL are region 2 discs (Europe), U.S. is NTSC (region 1). Pretty much all Rescue Me available is region 1, and that sucks for us in region 2 that wants to buy it or watch it.
Been around since the 60's used to be able to sqear on television in the US whilst banned from using Cunt. Heavily used in sci-fi as well. Funt has always been my preference and that comes from 2000AD.
G F yeah at least a dirty fireman doesn’t start fires..... or cover for Arson or make electrical fires look like arson to make their convictions stats looks better.
G F you sound about as much fun as a trip to the dentist followed by the holocaust museum. Don’t you depress yourself spreading misery, nagging people like you know morally better from them all the time. Do you think people will like or admire that quality in you, cause most will not and will just see it and younjerking your own ego into everyone else’s face.
Just cause it's a cultural norm in the service doesn't make it right. We condone a lot of behavior in the fire service and that's something my TO alluded to before we hit the companies. Just cause we're firefighters doesn't permit us to act certain ways, even when we know we wouldn't do them outside the firehouse... you can still be good at your job without engaging in these things but then again you can't conversate about this without someone saying your too sensitive or lack thick skin
@M Sc I have worked with female firefighters that would run you into the f$!king ground. I have also worked with some that shouldn’t have been there too. But, I can say that about some male firefighters too.
Lou called Franco a s**c in one of the later episodes and he didn't like it one bit. There's a deeper issue here and it's that the crew didn't really give her a chance from when she came into the firehouse. I don't think with any of the storylines that they're supposed to be 100% black-or-white.
Oh boy, those days are gone....I have been retired for 8 years but I still hear stories. The latest was one of the newer firefighters, around the kitchen table, was talking about a new female probie who was kicking ass in the drill tower. He commented to another firefighter that she was really aggressive, kicking ass that he got a hard on. A female Engineer happen to turn the corner and heard the end of the conversation and got very angry. She went to the Captain and told what she heard, was very offended and wanted those firefighters disciplined 😮. The Captain was forced to council the firefighters.......for complementing the new female firefighter on her aggressiveness. Times have changed......glad I’m retired
sue? Just try it and its a sure thing those guys will leave the bitch to burn in a fire the next time they go on the job. Vocations are the last thing you want to start suing over swear words and slurs......
When I got outta marines 7 yrs ago I had to put an ultra filter on coz of how many super sensitive snowflakes I was around. So it was like the opposite of this scene. It’d be like Tommy being preached to by a bunch of Lauras
This show had the most realistic kitchen table conversations on the job like it or not.
Season 2 came out in 2005....this is old firehouse talk, not tolerable or acceptable in the 2020s.
@@ChandlerRFink why not. Fuck it. To many butt hurt people out there these days.
@@ChandlerRFinkand I bet the is not better for it……
This is the fire service I came up in. You fucked up you got called on it, and it sucked. But you didn’t make that mistake again
I learned the job at the kitchen table.
3 years into retirement and you know what I miss the most…. It’s not the cool guy stuff. I miss the guys sitting at the table busting balls
@@noahbyrne2402 I miss talking with the guys at the table solving the department’s problems or the world’s problems. You can’t yell at the boots in the academy. If you can’t train these recruits under pressure how are they going do it on the Fire Ground? I have been called shit for making a mistake and I definitely never let it happen again. You can’t do that anymore because you might offend someone or hurt their feelings. It softens the line personnel.
@@cafryrmn2550 It was getting there when I retired. I’ve never been the hammer at the station. Better to be nice to the new boots, they are stressed out already. So when you need to be serious and hammer one of them they get that it is was serious. You aren’t the designated asshole, so if your mad they fucked up.
The problem I see is like the first kid who commented. They think there opinions matter and we care what they think when we give them an order…..they don’t know to just shut up and listen. I’ve seen senior captains get “talked to” by chiefs because some boot had his feelings hurt.
It’s not like officers need to be hard asses either, they should be leaders of young men and women. The youngsters need to learn there place so they can then earn there rightful place. This isn’t shoe sales… it’s life and death
My pops was a firefighter mom was a nurse my brother and I both joined the Marine Corps Infantry this is spot on. When bullets, fires, or mistakes happen no one cares about your personal feelings. We all just want to do our job and go home, to the bar for a game thats on, or make it back for ma's world famous Chicken Parm. That's all that should matter.
Preach. I always told my Soldiers this. We were super tight no diddy.
"I know, I know, you're not stupid."
LMAO
Lmaooo
One of best shows ever , just took off Netflix the twunts !
I know 😥😥😥😥😥😥😥
Id always rewatch it because it gives me a great feeling watching the characters interact its like Youre right there and its awesome
+TonySoprano55 One of the best shows ever, hands down. I've watched this show propably 5-7 times by now. :)
Netflix is a bunch a twats for doing this. See what I did there?
It got picked up by hulu!
Tommy spittin truth as per usual
Yeah, it IS truth. But don't kid yourself. It would never never ever ever be tolerated, especially in a firehouse. His noble tell-it-like-it-is speech woulda landed him in hot water.
Fucking love Tommy! Very flawed character, but you love him more for it. He's a raging alcoholic, horrible husband, not the best father, and always seems to make terrible decisions in his personal life... But get him inside the firehouse with his crew, and he's always the one that ends up knocking some damn sense into everybody by speaking nothing but the truth, and lastly, he's the best firefighter and a damn hero!! He saves so many lives, he risks his life more than the rest of the crew. He somehow wants to make up for all his sins by saving as many lives as he can, it's his way of telling God to forgive him, and it's ultimately his way not to hate himself for all the mistakes he has made.
There's a scene in season 5 where he watches old family clips and you see how hurt he gets when he sees Connor. You realize he still blames himself and he hasn't forgiven himself because he grabs a torch and starts burning his leg on purpose as punishment. Tommy is the best character from any show I've ever seen, simply because he's so real.
Being a volunteer firefighter, this show is spot on with name calling and the things they say to each other. But in the end we all get our duties done. What matters is the lives we serve to protect and it's like a big dysfunctional family that only functions when duty calls
At least 50-75% of the fire service is ball-busting and messing with each other. If you can't take a joke, you're in the wrong place.
This is needed for bonding and forming trusted relationships. It is also a big stress remover.
@@mvs9122 you always get a few that take it to far but for the most part it’s all in good nature
Still one of my all time favorite shows!
Dam I miss Rescue Me. I watched every episode when it was on FX. Really good show 👍🇺🇸🇺🇸
This is a great little piece of TV. You've got Tommy and Franco trying to saving Lou here from getting in trouble by trying to talk to Laura like on of the crew. First Franco as the secret boyfriend to Laura tries to hammer it home. Then Tommy the real leader of the firehouse comes through in a caring manner. It showed a lot about Tommy as a character in a very short amount of time.
"Do your job the right way, and people will call you names you want to hear."
this show had so many great scenes
xxl96 my 2 personal favorites were the sensitivity training scene and the grocery store scenes
@@mattromeo2487 Mines were when his cousin Mickey and his uncle Teddy laced his scotch bottle with something and after a night of heavy drinking he couldn't remember a thing and he lost his daughter Colleen and they were looking for her all over, love how the pieces come together bit by bit on what he did last night it was fun to watch.
0:40 "i feel great" lol
I kept laughing at that too😂
0:28 since when do cigarettes retract smoke from the air? 😂 (reversed shot)
Nice catch
👍🏽👍🏾👍👍
@Jorge-when the late Bruce Lee jumped up 2 stories from ground level, to include a backflip whilst doing it.
I fuckin miss this show
Just finished watching it for the first time, and I agree 😔
A FUCKING MEN GAVIN!!
hahaha I miss this fucking show
Yeah:(
Just finished watching it for the first time, I agree!
Honestly Laura kinda deserved it. I side with Lou here. He specifically said "stay close." She didn't even go in. Her excuse. "I thought you said stay here and help Garrity." Uummm....nooooo. Not even close to what he said....
Yup, and when you fuck up in a situation as dangerous as fighting fires where your life and the life of others is on the line, your superior needs to get your attention and strike the fear of god in you so you either never do it again or you decide this ain't the job for me and quit.
There is no 'well, I tried' or 'oops, I made a mistake' and paying no mind to it in that job.
@@richiehunt5097 couldn't agree more same things happen in the infantry...I love women I respect the opinions and tenacity of some females but Christ almighty I can't believe they actually want into the infantry and yet don't want to take on the bitterness of how the job really works. When you f up in a compromising life or death situation you will receive retribution so as not to f up again. Boy I tell ya people think the depts and the military (primarily infantry jobs) are racist and sexist but the thing is they're really exactly the opposite because we all know in these professions death doesn't give a flying rats ass about who you are individually.
I have a feeling this scene in rescue me wouldn’t make it past the writer’s room in 2024z
What did these guys expect? She'sa broad, she takes everything inside !!
We had a female marine join our unit… we called her Tampax . All good, she took it. She earned it , deserved it, she wanted to be one of the boys… so we let her
“I know, I know, your not stupid”
Tommy has a point
for any one who still wants to see this show hulu still has it forget netflix
Not anymore; they took it off a few weeks ago. I had to finish watching it on Prime.
BC 1983 that’s why people should buy the DVDs
@@IWantToMature85 The DVDs and Bluray's aren't available on PAL format unfortunately.
jockejocke1 What’s that?
@@IWantToMature85 PAL are region 2 discs (Europe), U.S. is NTSC (region 1).
Pretty much all Rescue Me available is region 1, and that sucks for us in region 2 that wants to buy it or watch it.
"Do ur job!" - Amen!
Twunt? That's a new one!
Been around since the 60's used to be able to sqear on television in the US whilst banned from using Cunt. Heavily used in sci-fi as well. Funt has always been my preference and that comes from 2000AD.
I love how horrible we are as firemen but wise
G F oh cops are bad but Long Island Cops are the uppitiest fucks on the planet
G F yeah at least a dirty fireman doesn’t start fires..... or cover for Arson or make electrical fires look like arson to make their convictions stats looks better.
jimmy2k4o got more respect for the FD my buddy was a volly firefighter but he sadly passed away this year at age 20
Dont let the current fdny see this cause they will say it violates diversity etc
@G F Wrong. Listen to what Tommy says toward the end, that's the message.
G F Then you clearly have succumb to the PC beta bitch boy lifestyle. It’s ballbusting simple as that
G F you sound about as much fun as a trip to the dentist followed by the holocaust museum.
Don’t you depress yourself spreading misery, nagging people like you know morally better from them all the time.
Do you think people will like or admire that quality in you, cause most will not and will just see it and younjerking your own ego into everyone else’s face.
Theres too many whites for this scene to reflect the current FDNY
Mic drop scene with info for everyone to hear
Funny.
TheBombayMasterTony all i hear is Diego😆
Got to have thick skin.
got to undersand why people calling you names
Just cause it's a cultural norm in the service doesn't make it right. We condone a lot of behavior in the fire service and that's something my TO alluded to before we hit the companies. Just cause we're firefighters doesn't permit us to act certain ways, even when we know we wouldn't do them outside the firehouse... you can still be good at your job without engaging in these things but then again you can't conversate about this without someone saying your too sensitive or lack thick skin
This is what most sexism in the work place breaks down to.
This hurts worse because in the end she could do her job but they ended up running her out of the hall.
No one on this show treated women correctly. Except maybe Franco.
The actress wanted off the show to deal with breast cancer
As a fireman women do not belong in the fire service
Boo hoo stop your bitching and suck it up
@M Sc I have worked with female firefighters that would run you into the f$!king ground. I have also worked with some that shouldn’t have been there too. But, I can say that about some male firefighters too.
Lou called Franco a s**c in one of the later episodes and he didn't like it one bit.
There's a deeper issue here and it's that the crew didn't really give her a chance from when she came into the firehouse.
I don't think with any of the storylines that they're supposed to be 100% black-or-white.
Twunt.
Still say that to this day
Oh boy, those days are gone....I have been retired for 8 years but I still hear stories. The latest was one of the newer firefighters, around the kitchen table, was talking about a new female probie who was kicking ass in the drill tower. He commented to another firefighter that she was really aggressive, kicking ass that he got a hard on. A female Engineer happen to turn the corner and heard the end of the conversation and got very angry. She went to the Captain and told what she heard, was very offended and wanted those firefighters disciplined 😮. The Captain was forced to council the firefighters.......for complementing the new female firefighter on her aggressiveness. Times have changed......glad I’m retired
Yep, libbies ruin everything.
No. They have not changed
In the real job, it’s is taken as unprofessional workforce and you can sue that person and the whole company where you ended becoming semi-rich
PC culture is killing the workforce
sue?
Just try it and its a sure thing those guys will leave the bitch to burn in a fire the next time they go on the job.
Vocations are the last thing you want to start suing over swear words and slurs......
My friends call me all kinds of shit.
Yeah nigga is of em but idc.
When I got outta marines 7 yrs ago I had to put an ultra filter on coz of how many super sensitive snowflakes I was around. So it was like the opposite of this scene. It’d be like Tommy being preached to by a bunch of Lauras
I hate the snowflake culture. No one's accountable for anything anymore. Everything has to be an episode of barney and friends.
Yeah rights
Sometimes i don't understand guys...
Just watched a news story on the increase in workplace bullying.....-sighs-
It's only a TV show. It wouldn't get away with in real life.