The Wire | Money Be Green

[@cocotazo]

In the director's commentary, it's pointed out that Wallace was right. Hamilton was the first United States Secretary of the Treasury, he was never president. But in that world, just like in the police world, the guys at the bottom have to shut up and pretend like their bosses are right. Another example of how The Wire was brilliant.

[@blacktee31]

+cocotazo Just like in any job. Franklin wasnt no president neither. Adams was the second president and he didnt become president until after Franklin was already dead.

[@bigmarty11288]

+blacktee31 Salmon P. Chase wasn't no president either.

[@blacktee31]

bigmarty11288 Yea, dollas aint about prezis is the point.

[@prebenjaeger]

You needed that pointed out in the directors commentary?

[@tripsaplenty1227]

bigmarty11288 I see you are familiar with the $10,000 bill.

[@agenttheater5]

So sweet that Wallace actually knows his history!

[@moriellymoproblems7842]

+agenttheater5 Until he became history. Guess he didn't know it as well as you think, lol.

[@hurting3581]

That's the tragedy of Wallace. Subtle details show that he was basically a kid who could have become "a citizen" under better circumstances -- he paid attention in school, he took care of his siblings, he was basically gentle-natured and not cut out for the game. The odds were just too much against him because of circumstances.

[@agenttheater5]

hurting That's what makes it sadder, they weren't his siblings, they were just children who, like him, have no home to go to so he took care of them. He was such a sweet boy.....

[@keithcollier1457]

dat lil n..ga can count too!

[@swiftslick]

Yeah. I don't know how sweet it is but if he said Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury, D'Angelo probably would've backhanded him.

[@Amentiraestaemti]

Wallace was right. And he also became one hell of a boxer.

[@ac8911]

Don't forget KILLMONGER

[@nyknicks9460]

and the king of wakanda

[@ReservoirPunk]

Oooooh snap that's Creed!!!! Wtf how did I not notice that shit?? The Wire is my favourite show and I loved the Rocky series Got me feeling dumb as hell right now😂

[@TCthaCrisis]

@@ReservoirPunk Im trying to figure out how you missed that too. 😒

[@ACG1k]

😭😭

[@SuperDoesitreallymat]

This transaction had major implications later on. Johnny gets beat up, compelling Bubbles to inform on the Barksdale crew, leading inexorably to Avon getting busted.

[@BlueBoy0]

Then Johnny finds out he has AIDS while he's in the hospital after getting beat up, and later he ODs and they find his body in a condemned building.

[@chiefmanysquats7239]

@@BlueBoy0 was he found in hamsterdam

[@ryanforster8761]

@@chiefmanysquats7239 yes

[@punani_slayer4209]

@@BlueBoy0 i've always wondered why we never saw bubbles reaction to Johnny's death. It was almost like it never even happened lol

[@telamon1071]

@@punani_slayer4209 that is so true like I almost missed that he even died.

[@LeMan8o4]

Greatest line in television history: Money be GREEN! 🤣🤣

[@MAN9027]

yeah just randomly remembered it and searched for this video 😆

[@eirtars]

Money feels like money

[@MAN9027]

@@eirtars money be green

[@abuzuhm]

I was thinking about how great this scene is.

[@teflondonjuan]

I was more impartial to "money......... feel like money!" 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@henley777]

Character development is insane, rewatching this show is a must!

[@zrambo4265]

I've watched 3 times and pick up something new each time! Best show of all time!

[@blueboozer]

"MONEY BE GREEN!!" D'Angelo was the man

[@mikem591]

Bodie was never impressed with D'Angelo's management style, but he actually learned A LOT from D'Angelo. D'Angelo's teachings stuck with Bodie. Their relationship was tortured, but strangely D'Angelo's teachings of the 'game' helped Bodie move up the organization, while also hindering him, as Bodie never could see himself as beyond being a 'soldier'. Bodie needed to get more mentorship from Slim Charles who learned how to move from being a soldier, to being actually one of the 'street kings' at the end of the Wire. You would have thought that Bodie would be interested in what Slim Charles had to say about dealing with Marlo, but when Slim offered advice, Bodie rejected it. Even through all the disdain he had for D'Angelo's management style, he still strangely listened to him. Contradictory relationship, which is part of what made "The Wire" - "The Wire"...:)

[@dre12337]

+mikem987 yea your right

[@jonathanlee5314]

Slim Charles is one of those "smart-ass pawns" that Bodie talks about...

[@drewfreeman8412]

Jonathan Lee Na Bodie was a smart ass pawn who made it for a long time. Slim was the pawn who made it to the other side of the chess board

[@LBgodchild]

You are right he did spazz out like D'Angelo over his boy. Quiet as it's kept Kevin wasn't worth the spazzing. Bodies I feel spazzed bc he lost power.

[@tyressebell1489]

Yeah D’Angelo and Stringer really instilled in him to think more instead of just shooting, which was entirely his downfall as he didn’t have the proper tools to fight Marlo and was too smart to get locked up after Hamsterdam which may have ended up saving him in the long run

[@TheBlackKakashi]

The way he hit Bodie with the fake money 😂

[@mrOGbobbyjohnson]

Nigga ion give a FUCK bout the president 🤣🤣

[@Eloy.eli4]

It just slowly fell off his head😂

[@Afriboy10]

Wallace in the end, was more book smart than street smart. If only he went back to school like D'angelo told him...

[@cloudyns]

They still would have gotten him. Avon and Stringer already had their mind set.

[@zrambo4265]

"Money be green. Money feel like money." This should be engraved as a famous quote used in every day life!

[@ivandesantis858]

When Bodie said "that it" and then the look he had afterwards was powerful because he believed The F up by Wallace deserved something more severe and that made him believe that D'Angelo wasn't hard enough for a leadership position. Just my opinion

[@ceenoom6224]

The realist 811. I agree with you 100%. Bodie was one of my favorite characters. However, he never grew and learned how to finesse some situations. It was his demise in the end. This is the best tv show ever.

[@TheBlackKakashi]

You fuck up and you get fucked up

[@x4president1]

They're like an older version of Naymond and Kenard

[@SilkyLew]

It's funny seeing criminals have rules and being punished for not abiding by those rules😂

[@cloudyns]

This was the beginning in a sense. Bodie was still very ignorant and it shows. “That it” shows how immature and green he is. However, later on we see Bodie mature more and even Poot. They really listened to D and started thinking more. That’s the growth we see later on. An example is when the junkie got beat up because he “bad mouthed their product” and Bodie says “ so what he’s telling the truth”. If Bodie never matured he would have agreed with beating.

[@rogda123]

sippin on a 40 yellin 5-0

[@xorpe7172]

gaffer91 This line and D’s delivery of it gets me every time

[@AlwonDomz]

Or Omar is coming...

[@TheAlmightyGlo]

AlwonDomz LMAO! 🤣

[@cennon]

Ben Franklin wasn't no president either, and we all know how the brothers be about the Benjamins.

[@dre12337]

+cennon no he was not pre just a nucnces

[@olejansson]

0:32 Kenard is out playin in the yard

[@Gesuselsaviour]

The cat noises lol that little sociopath!

[@westendtommy5316]

😂😂😂

[@cherryt1790]

😂😂

[@smoking1212]

@@Gesuselsaviour LMAO

[@smoking1212]

I DONT SEE HIM.

[@diaperfang5293]

Wallace never had the makings of a varsity drug dealer

[@andrewnewman5426]

He does however have the makings of a varsity history student

[@LuckyDT]

Small hands that was his problem... and the fact he couldn’t tell the difference between dollar bills and printer paper.

[@misterx8448]

He took that jacket off Rocco DiMeo.

[@costellomhor]

Underrated.

[@dbizzy7335]

"This look like money, MOTHAFUCKA? MONEY BE GREEN!" One of my favorite quotes oat

[@loveNsuccessfollowsme]

"Ayo yo ho hold, yall niggas been burnt" -My favorite line

[@floorpuncher3280]

I died when D’Angelo just threw the money at Bodie

[@brandonbates9259]

The way D threw it lol and Bodies reaction 😂

[@TheBlackKakashi]

that was personal 😂

[@master-of-many-fandoms2020]

I died when he said “Money be green!”

[@_january]

LOVED D'ANGELO AND WALLACE'S FRIENDSHIP.

[@Duskets]

1:15 This exchange is repeated almost verbatim once Poot is holding the Pit down in S1E13.

[@RolloTonéBrownTown]

D'angelo that classic early 90s feeling gangsta. Talkin bout "reality" and "believe" shit. It's just dope

[@khafrmdabricks8751]

“100 thousand dollars in my mama couch, n never fuckin up da count” Dat gangsta gibbs

[@Errordemn6]

lol Wallace got pissed when Bodie told him to count it

[@tommyt1971]

"Money (slaps it in his hand) FEEL like money!"

[@JustSomeCanadianGuy]

2:28 - Would have been funny if Bodie said “What about Benjamin Franklin?” 🤣

[@younggun05]

Freddie Gibbs' f**kin up the count brought me back to this scene

[@leondelvechioramirez8529]

He went from selling dope in Baltimore to a member of the Fantastic four and onto the cover of GQ

[@XxxX-wx3er]

Leon Delvechio Ramirez - this was easily his best role.

[@dylan8550]

So he went from being an actor to being an actor

[@theAngryscotman]

Shit I never noticed Wallace was played by a young Michael B Jordan. Goes to show how much times past.

[@crewbeatz]

Leon Delvechio Ramirez LMFAOOO

[@tyreesneed]

theAngryscotman yea I was just watching another clip and saw a comment of someone saying "crazy to see how far Michael Jordans come in his acting career" and I was like huh he wasnt in the wire? and then clicked on this clip to watch and soon as I saw the kid I was like oh snap that definitely is him! crazy ...

[@billykin3835]

"What color is money?" D'angelo: "Mf'er Money be green!"

[@MrHenkules]

I loved how he explained chess to the others. The queen is the go-get-shit-done-piece.

[@jayreffner8831]

Bodie look like he was about fuck D'Angelo up when he threw that fake money at him.

[@janae78stl]

Jay Reffner you mean D'Angelo.

[@jayreffner8831]

@@janae78stl Yep

[@viewmaster617]

🤣

[@raftermanhoward1883]

Every year I watch 3/4 new tv series, in addition to keeping up with newer seasons of shows that I want to keep up with. After 20 years, I still haven't encountered anything that hit me like The Wire. Sad really.

[@mcjon77]

OK, so how does Wallace know that the person on the $10 bill was Alexander Hamilton AND that Hamilton WAS NOT a US President, BUT he DOESN'T know that a $10 bill is supposed to be green?

[@yadrianwhitaker4193]

Sleight of hand and quick process. Drug deals don't require much time when in such low quantities. plus it was hidden on top of real money so it's easy to get it confused especially when no one is dumb enough to try and burn your crew, Avon's name meant something in the low rises.

[@uwasntthere8218]

Small Dolphin nice dolphin

[@ginacleveland7995]

Exactly!!

[@masonmccarthy9057]

Wallace was smart as hell from helping all his siblings with their homework everyday :(

[@atribecalledlen3567]

Bodie has hair here 😂

[@raulsouza5866]

Well, first episode...

[@elliemyers6435]

Amazing that Wallace foreshadowed one of the biggest musicals in history :)

[@ginacleveland7995]

Right!🤣🤣

[@WonderTracks]

I just finished season 1 of this masterpiece of a series. I loved this scene but reading these comments here is like a damn minefield, look away as soon as something looks like a spoiler ahah. David Simon is a genius! Deuce is also spot on, I love the slow character development, it's right up my alley, homes!

[@TheNinja94a]

Nah I stayed away until I finished

[@chancecould6969]

I like how he's like no short cuts then doesn't count the money

[@HollowHill17]

D'Angelo needs to retake US history class

[@XxxX-wx3er]

Bubbles takes revenge on the dealers by working with the cops, but yet it's his own fault his friend got laid out the way he did.

[@michaelkillpack5102]

Even though Hamilton wasn't a President, there was nothing he could do about it. D'Angelo was a made man and Wallace wasn't. He had to sit still and take it. It was among the Barksdales, real greaseball shit.

[@kingdinastia]

Amazing show to be honest, I’ve watched it like 3 times specially season 1 .

[@88koke43]

Non-Presidents that have appeared on US currency include: Benjamin Franklin (US founding father, $100 bill), Alexander Hamilton (first US Secretary of Treasury, $10 bill), John Marshall (US Supreme Court Chief Justice, 1801-1835), Salmon Chase (US Secretary of Treasury, 1861-1864), Susan B. Anthony (American suffragist), and Sacagawea (Shoshone interpreter for the Lewis and Clark expedition). Sorry I love Facts

[@alizafar5072]

lol Hamilton, and Ben Franklin weren't Presidents son.

[@Daedalus4]

Nigga, is you crazy?

[@MrStreetballer5Official]

Akhamesh ?

[@andrew7taylor]

+Akhamesh Is you taking notes on a CRIMINAL FUCKING CONCPIRACY?

[@bawn5813]

“MONEY BE GREEN” 😭

[@KingDrudge]

Hey, its Apollo Creed's son. :-)

[@nilspin]

Sheeeeiiit, I never observed that!

[@thesuperstar6256]

I don't know how Wallace was able to outrank Poot.

[@xorpe7172]

The Super Star I love Poot and I love how his story ended

[@mijreed]

Wallace was smart AF. Poor kid.

[@czaralexander5156]

He was too soft

[@RyanCarterOfficial]

2:18 everyone when those $600 stimulus checks roll around.

[@soauniverse9473]

Damn its crazy cause the only one in this scene who survived in the show was poot

[@MrShaneHardy]

+BLVCK HiPPY Bubbles

[@rei_frajernami_philleotardo]

2:01 Poots junk must be like "damn, not again"

[@StockyDude]

Wallace was right. Hamilton was Secretary of the Treasury. Benjamin Franklin was also not a president.

[@wallacegentry4085]

who gives a fuck about them white boys......

[@fabo36]

haha the white drug fiend with Bubbles is the main character from Kids

[@007nice3]

Fabian Ahmad damn. Spot on

[@mitrooper]

Can't believe that I didn't watch this series back in the day (2002).

[@tbababauabbd2]

track playing in the background is "On Point by Heavy D"

[@wafflcoptr]

Just finished the show the other night. Crazy to see this scene and realize Bubbles is the only one who makes it out alive by the series finale (Poot too I guess.)

[@grim8391]

Watching The Wire for the first time, here we go

[@Rmkrh]

"Yo, why it gotta be like this?" "Wallace got to go man"

[@اسماعيلوشرار]

You can't write a better script than this!

[@MichaelSmith-tx2mu]

Does anyone know this song think it says double shot of henny?

[@Ophiuchus123456789]

This bit had me in tears of laughter when I first saw it.

[@dimitrirascalov4298]

MONEY BE GREEEEEN

[@Manikhiphop]

“You never fuckin’ up tha count” .. Who else stay Bumpin Gibbs all the way through 2021 🤙🏻

[@SnipeNapoleon]

My dude burned a real 10 dollar bill to make a fake one. XD

[@mikem591]

D would have made a good high school teacher. Right in the middle of him chastising them for accepting counterfeit money he engages in a conversation with Wallace about a former president. Lol

[@ginacleveland7995]

Hamilton wasn't a President

[@Lott0Jay]

I love this season better

[@ajitkirpekar4251]

Hamilton may not have been a president, but he was one of the great founders of the United States.

[@stevenfernandez4845]

The 10 dollar Founding Father without a father

[@oRuTRa45]

One of the greatest shows on TV but the script bugged me sometimes (not enough to take away from the show though). I always felt like it would've been more correct for him to say, "Money green!" instead of "Money BE green!" In Black American vernacular we often use zero copula, which omits the "to be" verb in all its forms. In that dialect, the word "be" most often comes before a verb, sometimes an adverb, and it suggests a habitual or frequent action (e.g. "I be sleepin' in on the weekend" [meaning something I usually do, not something I'm doing right now], or "I be around there all the time."). Money is never not green, so it's a give that money IS green. Therefore, by the rules of vernacular and dialect (yes, there are rules, just like "standard" language), "Money green!" For anybody who gives a eff. I dig linguistics.

[@anders8500]

You stupid funny. Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

[@TheGut1008]

I think this was an attempt to match Baltimore talk. I get what you're saying I felt like that too

[@deecee9854]

its Baltimore slang. I studies linguistics to, and lived in different regions. AAVE (African American Vernacular English) has subtle difference from region to region and city to city.

[@deecee9854]

Dee cummings well not slang but you get what im saying

[@oRuTRa45]

Yeah, I got what you mean. More like dialect maybe.

[@blueboozer]

Also the scene where they discuss Mr. Nugget. These scenes he uses the scenarios to school the boys about the game.

[@martino5742]

Season one was definitely the prime of the drug dealers content in this show

[@brucecrypto5447]

RIP WALLACE RIP BODIE RIP D

[@TheJoeltyler]

What brand is Bodies hoodie?

[@Rellbronjames9]

D Angelo setup is so real because thats how boadie had it setup in season 4 when michael kept the count

[@phoenixpharaoh9517]

Bodies facial expression after the money was thrown towards him.

[@damcre1246]

Man, D should have slapped Bodie silly in season 1. Bodie was always undermining him or questioning him, even though D was in charge and turned the Pit around. Bodie was always nosing in on what D did.

[@XxxX-wx3er]

Dam Cre - what you want push overs in the pit and running his drugs? Bodie is perfect for the game, that's why Stringer admired Bodie so much, and Bodie could probably tell D ain't right for the game.

[@calum1495]

Lmao but String aint right for the game

[@cloudyns]

@@XxxX-wx3erYeah but you still dont want someone undermining you. Bodie was disrespectful and needed to get smacked around a bit to learn to respect. That’s how he learned through violence.

[@floorpuncher3280]

Some of these guys are just like the kids in Season 4

[@atribecalledlen3567]

With a sadder ending they all died besides poot

[@IpMaaan]

I didnt finish the show and with this video i want to see it another time lmfao

[@richiegarcia-lopez4268]

Now I know where Freddie Gibbs got those lines from in Fuckin up The Count

[@deebrown9723]

What was that Track in the Back Ground Playing?

[@_errorz_699]

i was glad to see bubbles get clean down the line

[@UberMetallMaschine]

drinking 40's and yelling five o seems pretty cruisy. shoulda taken that.

[@TheDerpyDog]

Dude was too smart for the streets.

[@bbryant9455]

Wallace would go on to be a hell of a quarterback

[@nickuschrist5967]

Everyone wants to point out that wallace was right but everyone is skipping over the fact that DeAngelo was livid about people messing with his money and for those who can't empathize trust me in a situation where people are carefree about losing YOUR money you truly don't give a F@*K bout being right as long as your making sure they feel wrong

[@jacklempke7779]

When D asks what the count is, whar does Wallace say? Something 7? I can’t quite make it out.

[@fede018]

Now that I've seen Hamilton the musical, I get this reference. 🎶 Alexander Hamilton 🎶

[@francescotamburini5790]

Shout out to all of those who learned Hamilton wasn’t a President thanks to the Wire and not Hamilton the musical.

[@immovableobject6851]

The fact that Bubs never got an Emmy is fucked up

[@davidwalshthechicagowhiteh3495]

A dude i know in chicago actually 2 dudes got killed for fake money at a dopespot...one got a tek unloaded and the other a glock that were hidden in the garbage can on 79th n damen

[@magetaaaaaa]

Money be green!

[@carlosr7746]

I'm glad baby Creed was able to turn his life around.

[@UptownNYC]

Can anyone explain what Bodie meant at the end when he said "that it?".

[@claudiopereira7219]

He probably thought that Wallace deserved a harsher punishment than a simple reprimand from D.

[@atribecalledlen3567]

He thought Wallace deserved a beatdown

[@abrahamemmanuel2401]

What's that scarface song in the background?

[@tvrdakmica]

+Lord Jamar and DJ Vlad's Son Heavy D feat. 8Ball & Big Pun - On Point

[@abrahamemmanuel2401]

789prala Thx man I thought it was Scarface at first

[@thereiaxingend789]

Johnny is such an underrated character

[@hlysnan6418]

He be right about that.

[@dStrojdStroj]

God damnit! Watched this show 3-4 times, these clips just make me want to go 5th time around.

[@kewltony]

Ironically Wallace had the makings of a varsity athlete.

[@reemjohnson6556]

Recommend 9 years later

[@rizzy3620]

quarter brick, half a brick, whole brick *AYE NIGGA*

[@XxxX-wx3er]

1:38 - this is the real Bodie. He seemed so different when he was talking to McNulty in season 4 in that secluded area. McNulty got too close to these kids and that why they got capped. Bodie got too close to the cops. He seemed so emotionally beat down at the end of season four. This is the real Bodie ya'llz.