The Wire, Season 1

The Wire (2002-2008) is an American television drama set and produced in Baltimore, Maryland. The creator, David Simon, has said that despite its presentation as a crime drama, the show is "really about the American city, and about how we live toget… more »

[about chicken nuggets]

Wallace:
Man, these shits is right. Yo.

Poot:
Mm-hmm.

Wallace:
It's good with the hot sauce too, yo.

Poot:
Most definite.

Wallace:
Yo, D, you want some nuggets?

D'Angelo:
Nah, go ahead, man.

Wallace:
Man, whoever invented these, yo, he off the hook.

Poot:
What?

Wallace:
Mm. Motherf***er got the bone all the way out the damn chicken. 'Til he came along, niggas be chewin' on drumsticks and shit, gettin' they fingers all greasy. He said, Later for the bone, nugget that meat up, make some real money.

Poot:
You think the man got paid?

Wallace:
Who?

Poot:
The man who invented these.

Wallace:
Shit, he richer than a motherf***er.

D'Angelo:
Why? You think he get a percentage?

Wallace:
Why not?

D'Angelo:
Nigga, please, the man who invented them things, just some sad-ass down at the basement of McDonald's, thinkin' up some shit to make some money for the real players.

Poot:
Naw, man, that ain't right.

D'Angelo:
F*** "right." It ain't about right, it's about money. Now you think Ronald McDonald gonna go down in that basement and say, "Hey, Mr. Nugget, you the bomb. We sellin' chicken faster than you can tear the bone out. So I'm gonna write my clowny-ass name on this fat-ass check for you"?

Wallace:
Shit.

D'Angelo:
Man, the nigga who invented them things still workin' in that basement for regular wage, thinkin' up some shit to make the fries taste better, some shit like that. Believe.

Wallace:
Still had the idea though.

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