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Sweet 16 Crime: #3 The Wire vs #2 Breaking Bad

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Sweet 16 Crime: #3 The Wire vs #2 Breaking Bad 39 votes

#2 Breaking Bad
56%
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#3 The Wire
43%
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,676 Swaye's Wigwam
    #2 Breaking Bad
    dnc said:

    Black criminals > white criminals

    Albuquerque > Baltimore.

    Sad but true.
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  • RaceBannon
    RaceBannon Member, Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 113,834 Founders Club
    #3 The Wire
    I've watched all of Saul and the El Camino movie.

    I've only watched the first and last episodes of BB

    I may get to it
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  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    #3 The Wire
    Breaking Bad was a nice show. It doesn’t have shit on The Wire.

    I’ll never rewatch BB. I’m seen The Wire 5+ times.
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,676 Swaye's Wigwam
    #2 Breaking Bad
    I didn't think this one would be this close based on round one reactions. Good though. It should be close, and BB should win.
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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,129
    #2 Breaking Bad
    ThomasFremont said:

    Breaking Bad was a nice show. It doesn’t have shit on The Wire.

    I’ll never rewatch BB. I’m seen The Wire 5+ times.

    BB was more action packed which ruins its best moments if you rewatch. I haven’t rewatched either and probably never will. Nothing is the same when you rewatch it. If I was watching in live time, I would be more excited to watch a new Breaking Bad episode than the Wire.
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  • MakaDawg
    MakaDawg Member Posts: 492
    #3 The Wire
    I can see how someone would vote for BB on entertainment value. That said, The Wire has a scope that’s hard to compete with. If you do rewatch The Wire, you’ll notice so many things you didn’t notice the first time.

    Both shows are great in their own right.
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  • Doogles
    Doogles Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 12,726 Founders Club
    #2 Breaking Bad
    RoadDawg55 said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    Breaking Bad was a nice show. It doesn’t have shit on The Wire.

    I’ll never rewatch BB. I’m seen The Wire 5+ times.

    BB was more action packed which ruins its best moments if you rewatch. I haven’t rewatched either and probably never will. Nothing is the same when you rewatch it. If I was watching in live time, I would be more excited to watch a new Breaking Bad episode than the Wire.
    This. Breaking Bad left me jaw dropped more frequently than the wire.
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  • spuden
    spuden Member Posts: 374
    #2 Breaking Bad
    Don’t like voting against the Wire, but Breaking Bad was a buzzsaw. This should have been a finals match-up.
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  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    #3 The Wire
    I quit this entire shit. Y’all stupid.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,244 Founders Club
    #2 Breaking Bad
    ThomasFremont said:

    I quit this entire shit. Y’all stupid.

    I’ll close the pole tomorrow. Things could change still.
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,676 Swaye's Wigwam
    #2 Breaking Bad
    ThomasFremont said:

    Breaking Bad was a nice show. It doesn’t have shit on The Wire.

    I’ll never rewatch BB. I’m seen The Wire 5+ times.

    I like to make over the top condemnations when my picks xont win too so I get it. The Wire is awesome and worthy of the semis or even finals. BB has plenty on it though, for those who care to see.

    I've watched BB front to back three times and the wire twice. The second viewing of the wire was hard for me to stick with at times. I wasnt seeing or hearing anything new. I could have turned off the sound and spoken the lines for them. I found things I missed, or just missed the point of, in every episode of Breaking Bad.
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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,244 Founders Club
    #2 Breaking Bad
    chuck said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    Breaking Bad was a nice show. It doesn’t have shit on The Wire.

    I’ll never rewatch BB. I’m seen The Wire 5+ times.

    I like to make over the top condemnations when my picks xont win too so I get it. The Wire is awesome and worthy of the semis or even finals. BB has plenty on it though, for those who care to see.

    I've watched BB front to back three times and the wire twice. The second viewing of the wire was hard for me to stick with at times. I wasnt seeing or hearing anything new. I could have turned off the sound and spoken the lines for them. I found things I missed, or just missed the point of, in every episode of Breaking Bad.
    This!
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  • biak1
    biak1 Member Posts: 4,237
    #3 The Wire
    Some embarrassing poal results in this tournament.
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  • ThomasFremont
    ThomasFremont Member Posts: 13,325
    #3 The Wire
    This is the same group that eliminated OutKast and Wu Tang early in the rap tournament, so I think we have established the pattern.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,052
    Abstain. I'm still pissed about Lady Fucking Antebellum in the country tourney.
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  • MakaDawg
    MakaDawg Member Posts: 492
    #3 The Wire
    chuck said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    Breaking Bad was a nice show. It doesn’t have shit on The Wire.

    I’ll never rewatch BB. I’m seen The Wire 5+ times.

    I like to make over the top condemnations when my picks xont win too so I get it. The Wire is awesome and worthy of the semis or even finals. BB has plenty on it though, for those who care to see.

    I've watched BB front to back three times and the wire twice. The second viewing of the wire was hard for me to stick with at times. I wasnt seeing or hearing anything new. I could have turned off the sound and spoken the lines for them. I found things I missed, or just missed the point of, in every episode of Breaking Bad.
    Spoken like someone that needs the subtitles turned on just to try and follow along.

    Oh well. There’s still the dodge ball tournament reruns on ESPN to get worked up about.

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  • RoadDawg55
    RoadDawg55 Member Posts: 30,129
    #2 Breaking Bad
    ThomasFremont said:

    This is the same group that eliminated OutKast and Wu Tang early in the rap tournament, so I think we have established the pattern.

    Don’t get me started on the music tournament. I knew Zeppelin or AC/DC was going to win the rock before it started. Eminem and Tupac in the finals for rap was bad too.

    I want a surprise. The only surprises were in the poster tournament. I still enjoy them tho.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,052
    MakaDawg said:

    chuck said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    Breaking Bad was a nice show. It doesn’t have shit on The Wire.

    I’ll never rewatch BB. I’m seen The Wire 5+ times.

    I like to make over the top condemnations when my picks xont win too so I get it. The Wire is awesome and worthy of the semis or even finals. BB has plenty on it though, for those who care to see.

    I've watched BB front to back three times and the wire twice. The second viewing of the wire was hard for me to stick with at times. I wasnt seeing or hearing anything new. I could have turned off the sound and spoken the lines for them. I found things I missed, or just missed the point of, in every episode of Breaking Bad.
    Spoken like someone that needs the subtitles turned on just to try and follow along.

    Oh well. There’s still the dodge ball tournament reruns on ESPN to get worked up about.

    The Throbber does that on English TV shows quite often. Can't understand WTF those limey fucks are saying sometimes. Don't have that problem with Aussie TV. Oy! Oy! Oy!

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  • YellowSnow
    YellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 37,244 Founders Club
    #2 Breaking Bad
    Pole is closed BB wins 21-16.
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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    #3 The Wire
    ThomasFremont said:

    This is the same group that eliminated OutKast and Wu Tang early in the rap tournament, so I think we have established the pattern.

    I had Outkast correctly seeded! You could argue I under seeded Shady but even as a 2 seed that matchup still happens in the E8 either way.
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  • chuck
    chuck Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 11,676 Swaye's Wigwam
    #2 Breaking Bad
    MakaDawg said:

    chuck said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    Breaking Bad was a nice show. It doesn’t have shit on The Wire.

    I’ll never rewatch BB. I’m seen The Wire 5+ times.

    I like to make over the top condemnations when my picks xont win too so I get it. The Wire is awesome and worthy of the semis or even finals. BB has plenty on it though, for those who care to see.

    I've watched BB front to back three times and the wire twice. The second viewing of the wire was hard for me to stick with at times. I wasnt seeing or hearing anything new. I could have turned off the sound and spoken the lines for them. I found things I missed, or just missed the point of, in every episode of Breaking Bad.
    Spoken like someone that needs the subtitles turned on just to try and follow along.

    Oh well. There’s still the dodge ball tournament reruns on ESPN to get worked up about.

    JFC what a prick.

    I love the wire asshole. I had to pick one.
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    #2 Breaking Bad
    ThomasFremont said:

    This is the same group that eliminated OutKast and Wu Tang early in the rap tournament, so I think we have established the pattern.

    Holy shit, this happened? I'm going to have to look up that pole just so I can hate everyone and quit this place.
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  • PurpleThrobber
    PurpleThrobber Member Posts: 48,052
    ThomasFremont said:

    This is the same group that eliminated OutKast and Wu Tang early in the rap tournament, so I think we have established the pattern.




    Perhaps HH voters foreshadowed the Chinese Virus and protest voted accordingly. Did you ever think of that?

    You probably didn't at the time. But we knew. We knew what-the-fuck those Chicoms were planning. Oh yes, we did.


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  • dnc
    dnc Member Posts: 56,839
    edited April 2020
    #3 The Wire
    1to392831weretaken said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    This is the same group that eliminated OutKast and Wu Tang early in the rap tournament, so I think we have established the pattern.

    Holy shit, this happened? I'm going to have to look up that pole just so I can hate everyone and quit this place.
    It's not as bad as it sounds. Outkast was a 1 seed in the 00s bracket and lost in the E8 to the eventual runner up Eminem (who could have guessed a white dude would overachieve on this bored??).

    Wu was a 4 seed in the stackedest bracket of all the brackets, 90s rap. Lost to the eventual champ TuPac in the S16.
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  • 1to392831weretaken
    1to392831weretaken Member Posts: 7,696
    #2 Breaking Bad
    dnc said:

    1to392831weretaken said:

    ThomasFremont said:

    This is the same group that eliminated OutKast and Wu Tang early in the rap tournament, so I think we have established the pattern.

    Holy shit, this happened? I'm going to have to look up that pole just so I can hate everyone and quit this place.
    It's not as bad as it sounds. Outkast was a 1 seed in the 00s bracket and lost in the E8 to the eventual runner up Eminem (who could have guessed a white dude would overachieve on this bored??).

    Wu was a 4 seed in the stackedest bracket of all the brackets, 90s rap. Lost to the eventual champ TuPac in the S16.
    Wu-Tang a 4 seed?

    I don't even mind Eminem finishing that high. I've been taking a walk down hip hop memory lane recently, and although I didn't listen to a lot of Eminem when he was big, I've been catching up, and it's fucking amazing. "Rap God" has to be one of the greatest rap songs ever.

    I love Outkast, picked up Southernplayalisticadillacmuzik on a whim when it was in the new release section at the record store, and was blown away. ATLiens was even better. That being said, a 1 seed in the '90s? No way. That would be Wu Tang Clan for me. Wu Tang Forever was the most anticipated album release of my life and yet didn't disappoint at all.

    Wait, what was this thread about?
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