Thank you. And you know,

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Like my daddy always said, if you can't get in the front door just go around to the back.

I am only three seasons into the Wire, so my opinion my change after seasons 4 and 5, but I don't get the love for Bunk. He is a good character, but I don't see him as one of the best characters ever.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

He’s involved in 3 or 4 of the 10 best scenes in the series, IMO. One of the funniest characters ever.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

(no particular order)

Walter White
Bunk Moreland
Roger Sterling
Tyrion Lannister
Phil Dunphy
Al Swearengen
Red or Taystee from OITNB
Dwight Schrute
Alfie Solomons
Boyd Crowder

Honorable Mention:

Castiel
Sam Sylvia

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Vern Schillinger would have to be on mine.

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These lists have a recency bias.

George Jefferson
Hawkeye Pierce
Doogie Howser
Archie Bunker
Fred Flinstone
Homer Simpson
J.R. Ewing
Lucy Ricardo
The Fonz
Cliff Huxtable

You're wrong two different ways

TV is better now. Fact.

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Rick Hahn is the best GM in baseball.

Maybe. Maybe not.

There are way more options now, so the writing is bound to be better overall. But if that’s true, then modern shows have a plethora of good characters who share the action.

Older shows had protagonists who dominated the spotlight.

Archie Bunker is All in the Family.

Cliff Huxtable is The Cosby Show.

George Jefferson is The Jeffersons.

Also, these old shows were from a time when there weren’t teams of writers with decades of giant shoulders to stand on. They were originals.

Alan Alda would tea bag Jon Hamm.

Archie Bunker should not only be on every top ten list, he should be near the very top.

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No

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Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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Al Bundy.

How can you have Bunk, but no Omar?

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

The Bunk love is spread far and wide my friend.

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Oh I am good with Bunk being on the list. He is a good character. Just not one I would consider the greatest of all time. But I just cannot fathom watching the show and having Bunk but no Omar. IMO Omar is far and away the best character on the show

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

I think Omar is the best too but I can see arguments to the contrary. If you got through season 3 you should have, iirc, seen Bunk’s best scene and one of the best scenes of the series. When he calls out Omar for being a predator. Both characters at their peak in that scene.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Yeah that is def one of the best scenes.

The difference in the two from my perspective is that Omar is the best character in every scene he is in. Bunk isn't.

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Bunk is great. I love it when he threatens to hit Edith.

That’s fair.

Bunk’s drunk scene when he burns his clothes is one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

Never saw Fred G. Sanford, Louie DePalma or Soap huh?

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There are only two examples of infinity: The universe and human stupidity and I'm not sure about the universe.

1. Vic Mackey
2. Kramer
3. Jack Bauer
4. Raylan Givens
5. Art Mullen
6. Tony Soprano
7. Don Draper
8. Omar Little
9. Fox Mulder
10. Dexter Morgan

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Sherman remarked, "Well, Grant, we've had the devil's own day, haven't we?" Grant looked up. "Yes," he replied, followed by a puff. "Yes. Lick 'em tomorrow, though."

I don’t know what any of that stuff is. (Assuming Sanford is from that Sanford and sons show I’ve heard of)

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I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
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Bunk had some great moments - he and Omar being the best as mentioned - but I don’t think he was a great character. You don’t know much about Bunk.

McNulty is the opposite. You know a lot about him and I didn’t think he was a particularly great character either.

Which I think goes to show how strong the writing and supporting characters on that show were.

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You know me like that.

Well, we know more about Bunk than we do Omar, right? I think the show gives you a solid amount of background on Bunk throughout the series.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

True, a good amount about Bunk. But we know quite a bit about Omar. We see him at home, at work, interactions with the people he cares about, how people think about him in the community and his impact on young people there.

He seems like a tertiary-type character but they do give you a lot about him.

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You know me like that.

I wish they gave more info on how Omar came by his code. I know The Wire Prequels covers it a little but I think the show could’ve gotten some nice mileage out of it.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

What are The Wire Prequels?

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You know me like that.

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Fare you well, fare you well
I love you more than words can tell
Listen to the river sing sweet songs
To rock my soul

yeah that would have been good.

Would like to know more about Bunk and his lacrosse career too

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"He is a loathsome, offensive brute
--yet I can't look away."

Yes. Him, Barney Fife, and Ed Norton are the foundation for the funny modern day sitcom characters.

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Yup along with Homer Simpson

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When I am stuck and need to figure something out I always remember the Immortal words of Socrates when he said:"I just drank what?"