@@konkon6851 a white guy getting threatened by a poor black guy and then saved by a poor white guy makes sense to the white guy on the ladder. because of USA history of race relations these would be the stereotypes
And I love his acting in that one moment, the resigned look on his face when he says it. He’s just sadly going through a motion he understands but doesn’t want to do.
This also demonstrates differential association. In season 1, Bubbles was staining fake money with coffee and when asked why, says "we ain't burning no Lemon Street chumps here ya feel me?" Johnny learned from that, and we see here his swindling has become more thoughtful over time.
Facts Johnny also learned from or should've learn from this situation here because I can tell from the dialogue that they pulled a stunt and Jonny was the 'bad guy' to a black guy. So he says ...just like old times i be the bad guy you be the good guy... bubbles thought bout it and say with the white guy I be the bad guy so he not confuse giving you details I fw this show
@@charliebrown9489 Bubbles is one of the best characters in the series, and Andre Rojo played it masterfully. This scene is not just a key moment for his character development, but it also shows the fundamental differences between him and Johnny, and his outstanding awareness of unwritten street rules. To me this is up there with the scene where he tells Sydnor how to dress up before going in the Pit.
One of my favorite lines of the series from one of my favorite characters. Makes us wonder what Bubbles could have been without drug addiction. He's clearly very bright. Never heard a fellow English teacher use "equivocate" properly. A "dope fiend" nailing it like this is impressive and downright hilarious.
Bubbles shows how great watching the streets Omar was. Bubbles watch the streets and gathered information so well and the only one who in the streets ever knew he was a snitch was Omar. Because Omar kept an eye the streets better than Bubbles did.
@@Czeckie He's saying over time Bubbles became conflicted over his scams. Over time his stealing and scamming from innocent people became less common as his "snitching" increased. Then he used the snitching money to open up his "store" Season one bubbles would sell things (often stolen) from time to time but by season three he was pretty much a small businessman. You can see this best during Hamsterdam when Joey ends up dead in a vacant. Then when he starts getting robbed he makes the "hotshot" and accidently kills the boy he truly hits rock bottom. The whole point of his character is to show someone changing their lives and developing a value system.
Haha he scanned that latter situation quick as hell..he barely turned the corner n had the plan together in .0235ths of a second 🤣🤣 now that's a fiend intuition right there lmao
After seeing this me and my dope buddy looked for a guy on a ladder for 8 hours..when we finally found one & did this scam..the guy said he didn't have any cash. .and gave me a cigarette. ..8 hours walking around withdrawing and sick...for a cigarette. .karma got me that day
JAX MAX Where'd you do it at? Why not just shake the dude down for the wallet initially? Like forget the second part of the scam, just do the first. Are you still getting high? How much? I'm a month clean myself but it's hard as hell - protracted physical withdrawals. Like the pains in the knees and arms and the insomnia and the nausea and all that shit is still with me after a month, it's extremely painful. But I guess you have to pay the bills eventually.
Word Unheard dont worry karma has its way with people like that, i dealt with bad karma when i was bad and now im a good dude and havent seen a lick of bad karma since
Bubbles outgrew Johnny, if you pay attention to this scene Johnny was all about the game and trying to scrape for just a dollar, Bubs saw the future and was trying to make an honest living, he realized after all that for a damn dollar he had to leave Johnny and the game behind, best decision Bubs ever made!!!!
e·quiv·o·ca·tion /iˌkwivəˈkāSH(ə)n/ Learn to pronounce noun the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication. "I say this without equivocation" Obviously didnt look it up. It'd be fairly straightforward what the word means in the context of this scene after looking at the definition. He's just using the word like you would a verb, when its a noun.
@@Jacob-sb3su I sure don't envy anyone in your day to day life that requires your "help" for anything, hopefully you aren't as condescending as you are on YT
He's saying the distinction being drawn by Johnny doesn't really make sense, that snitching to get out jail is acceptable, but snitching to make money isn't. Bubs isn't really using the word correctly ("highpopulating"), but he likes to play with language and put on airs for Johnny who looks up to him. Johnny is somewhat confused though, because he's calling him and Bubs "soldiers" and they clearly aren't.
Tbh the first time i saw the wire episode 1 i just missed some parts so i thought bubbs was a actual undercover cop. Even tho i have all the i formation for some reason i cant shake it!! He still seems like a fucking undercover not a snitch.
@@WetBoy . The addiction only reveals what the person really was under the facade. Good people are still good people even when they are addicts and bad people pretending to be good people simply lose their facade.
Because one way the man willingly hands you the money with a smile with no robbery no police involved, but the other way police would be called and they'd get caught felony robbery charges. They don't want to hurt ppl...they wanna get high
JAX MAX you just commented how you were dope sick trying this scam and only got a cigarette. Now you’re saying you pulled the scam off. How shocking a dope feign telling lies
I love how he says "with a white man I got to be the bad one so that he isn't confused."
@74kjohnson fuck the awards they don't deserve The Wire.
Could you explain the meaning of this?
@@konkon6851 a white guy getting threatened by a poor black guy and then saved by a poor white guy makes sense to the white guy on the ladder. because of USA history of race relations these would be the stereotypes
And I love his acting in that one moment, the resigned look on his face when he says it. He’s just sadly going through a motion he understands but doesn’t want to do.
@@konkon6851 lol you know what he means
"...you equivocating like a mother fucker!" - this remains the single greatest line of dialogue ever written or spoken.
I agree. I use that line on a daily basis in real life 14 years later!!!!!!
Bubbles was articulate as fuhk
Yo that ladder pure aluminum! That's like 12 cents a pound!
30 cents
@@SAMSUNGS-yo4tc shit was 55-60 like 5 years ago. More for extruded. Then crashed. Guess coming back up now
@@BunceChris8930 cent a foot
This also demonstrates differential association. In season 1, Bubbles was staining fake money with coffee and when asked why, says "we ain't burning no Lemon Street chumps here ya feel me?" Johnny learned from that, and we see here his swindling has become more thoughtful over time.
Facts Johnny also learned from or should've learn from this situation here because I can tell from the dialogue that they pulled a stunt and Jonny was the 'bad guy' to a black guy. So he says ...just like old times i be the bad guy you be the good guy... bubbles thought bout it and say with the white guy I be the bad guy so he not confuse giving you details I fw this show
The way this scene is written, acted, staged, directed...it could be one of the low-key greatest scenes in The Wire.
Yo WTF!!? Yall wire STANS need to calm down a bit fr lol smh
@@charliebrown9489 Bubbles is one of the best characters in the series, and Andre Rojo played it masterfully. This scene is not just a key moment for his character development, but it also shows the fundamental differences between him and Johnny, and his outstanding awareness of unwritten street rules. To me this is up there with the scene where he tells Sydnor how to dress up before going in the Pit.
I completely agree
@@charliebrown9489 LMAO yeah I agree, some of these obsessed fans see every freaking scene as a classic, it's getting really really weird and old. 😂😂
@@jonathanturbide2232 Omar breaths, "Oscar worthy performance right there. Best scene in the wire!"
Bubbles has that dope fiend run down to a science
He wasn’t a fiend in real life you idiot!
@@BrooklynStacyee Well now, I haven't been this hurt since the santa talk.
Lol underrated statement lol 🤦🏿♂️
Scenes with Bubbles are always interesting.
Every time a fiend runs, I think of Chappelle's skit on being driven to the Ghetto at night.
One of the things that sets the Wire apart from other crime series, like Power and Snowfall, is the opening acts. There are so many good ones.
My favorite being the nail gun scene
This is more realistic!! This is the realest show ever!! From the junkie point of view up to the politics and police, this was a masterpiece
Loved the fake chase off 😂
Trips over “hypopolating” but absolutely lands equivocating.
Great comment!
He had a way w the English vobacalary
The eloquence of dopefiends.
One of my favorite lines of the series from one of my favorite characters. Makes us wonder what Bubbles could have been without drug addiction. He's clearly very bright. Never heard a fellow English teacher use "equivocate" properly. A "dope fiend" nailing it like this is impressive and downright hilarious.
0:50: if Chris Partlow was there, Bubbles would have been killed. For littering.
Bubbles shows how great watching the streets Omar was. Bubbles watch the streets and gathered information so well and the only one who in the streets ever knew he was a snitch was Omar. Because Omar kept an eye the streets better than Bubbles did.
"Leave that man be."
2:23 "omg"
The run right?? LMAO
"You green, but Imma get you brown"
Bubles had the same code as omatr in a way he hated stealing off a working man he was an addict in the game ....
you are mythologising bubbs beyond what's truly shown in the show. He had no problem stealinf off a working citizen.
I didn't say he didnt steal off the working man I said he hated it that's why he prefered snitching ...x x
what
@@Czeckie He's saying over time Bubbles became conflicted over his scams. Over time his stealing and scamming from innocent people became less common as his "snitching" increased. Then he used the snitching money to open up his "store" Season one bubbles would sell things (often stolen) from time to time but by season three he was pretty much a small businessman. You can see this best during Hamsterdam when Joey ends up dead in a vacant. Then when he starts getting robbed he makes the "hotshot" and accidently kills the boy he
truly hits rock bottom. The whole point of his character is to show someone changing their lives and developing a value system.
Great segment in the show.
Bubbles is the greatest character in the wire, but people sleep on his story majorly
Facts he's by far my favorite character
Facts, him and Dukie are you only two characters I ever cried for on this show.
My favorite is Omar Little, Slim Charles, Dukie Weems, and Bubbles Mos’ Def
If u like rats
Haha he scanned that latter situation quick as hell..he barely turned the corner n had the plan together in .0235ths of a second 🤣🤣 now that's a fiend intuition right there lmao
After seeing this me and my dope buddy looked for a guy on a ladder for 8 hours..when we finally found one & did this scam..the guy said he didn't have any cash. .and gave me a cigarette. ..8 hours walking around withdrawing and sick...for a cigarette. .karma got me that day
JAX MAX Where'd you do it at? Why not just shake the dude down for the wallet initially? Like forget the second part of the scam, just do the first. Are you still getting high? How much? I'm a month clean myself but it's hard as hell - protracted physical withdrawals. Like the pains in the knees and arms and the insomnia and the nausea and all that shit is still with me after a month, it's extremely painful. But I guess you have to pay the bills eventually.
Word Unheard dont worry karma has its way with people like that, i dealt with bad karma when i was bad and now im a good dude and havent seen a lick of bad karma since
@@jimreily7538 how r u today?
Tony Soprano by the stats, if he’s telling the truth, he’s either relapsed back to a junkie or dead.
He prolly saw the "Wire" too!
The actor who played Johnny also played Tally in the movie 90s movie "Kids".
Mrius86 and he played a “hit man” in a movie called “Bully”.
Excellent film
Telly
Shtooops
Smells like butterscotch
I thought that was him
Never gets old
"you equivocating like a mothafucka"
Jeez look at all the weeds on that block
Bubs just got an Omar moment
Perfection
Bubbles outgrew Johnny, if you pay attention to this scene Johnny was all about the game and trying to scrape for just a dollar, Bubs saw the future and was trying to make an honest living, he realized after all that for a damn dollar he had to leave Johnny and the game behind, best decision Bubs ever made!!!!
I've had thst word on my mind for years after this scene, and even after reading the definition I don't understand what the equivocation is here
e·quiv·o·ca·tion
/iˌkwivəˈkāSH(ə)n/
Learn to pronounce
noun
the use of ambiguous language to conceal the truth or to avoid committing oneself; prevarication.
"I say this without equivocation"
Obviously didnt look it up. It'd be fairly straightforward what the word means in the context of this scene after looking at the definition. He's just using the word like you would a verb, when its a noun.
@@Jacob-sb3su I sure don't envy anyone in your day to day life that requires your "help" for anything, hopefully you aren't as condescending as you are on YT
He's saying the distinction being drawn by Johnny doesn't really make sense, that snitching to get out jail is acceptable, but snitching to make money isn't. Bubs isn't really using the word correctly ("highpopulating"), but he likes to play with language and put on airs for Johnny who looks up to him. Johnny is somewhat confused though, because he's calling him and Bubs "soldiers" and they clearly aren't.
@@youdesklamp thank you for answering the question without being a dickhead piece of shit. You're a good dude
I laughed so hard the first time I saw this 😂😂
how much he gave him
They would have got more money if they just stuck with a bad guy, that's if the man in the ladder had a significant amount in his wallet
Rami Mwamba yeah but they’re not violent thugs, just a couple junkies who run scams
Cops get called then
With the white man I best be the bad guy..that way he anit. confused..LOLL...ALSO...WHY DID BUBS LEAVE & NOT GET HIS $
JAX MAX he would rather work with Greggs.
Because he has a heart. Even for an addict
He knows running with that white boy is hanging with the devil
@DeltroxTv and your just as stupid as them what real friend help another kill them self slow wake up
@@TheBenadrylhatdaddy18 lol. Bubs is 100x deeper into the street life than Johnny is. If anything bubs has taught him way more.
Read the page in the description, cool post.
episode?
Where did bubbles go
Tbh the first time i saw the wire episode 1 i just missed some parts so i thought bubbs was a actual undercover cop. Even tho i have all the i formation for some reason i cant shake it!! He still seems like a fucking undercover not a snitch.
The real life Bubbles was basically a full time undercover cop while simultaneously being a homeless addict
@0:51
Go by them slow 🔫
Bubble a good dude if it wasn’t for the drugs
You can be a good person and still an addict.
A lot of them are…….
Not all, the drugs make the already lowlifes more scum than they already were.
@@WeirdVoyager no you cant
@@WetBoy . The addiction only reveals what the person really was under the facade. Good people are still good people even when they are addicts and bad people pretending to be good people simply lose their facade.
If the wire had won the awards and shit, I probably wont have much respect for it that I have now.
Why didn't they just take the whole wallet instead of some of it
That would be too mean i guess
Probably creates problems too. They do that they're legit sticking a guy up and they probably don't want that kind of heat.
Because they're dope fiends not stick up men
Because one way the man willingly hands you the money with a smile with no robbery no police involved, but the other way police would be called and they'd get caught felony robbery charges. They don't want to hurt ppl...they wanna get high
Don’t want to get the working man to bad!!
Why didn’t he wait to get the full wallet? The man was about to give it to him.
dude would have called the cops
Yo maybe Darcie will be there..... lol
Benny’s little sister!? She’s THIRTEEN man
2:31 xDDD
coould of taken the whole wallet though
That would never work.
oh but it would & did
JAX MAX you just commented how you were dope sick trying this scam and only got a cigarette. Now you’re saying you pulled the scam off. How shocking a dope feign telling lies
You're Right lmao but it did work ... He got a cigarette for it
@@Youre_Right lol the internet
He shouldve shook the latter more and said if u dont throw down your wallet im pulling the ladder