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The tipster who sent this in (thanks Jon) said that it was sad to see Bodie reduced to commercial acting. What?! Are you kidding? Do you know how much people get paid for speaking lines in nationally broadcast commercials for major corporations? It is called being on one’s grind and getting that paper. That is what it is called. Fuck taking back the towers when you can just move to a nice 2BR with EIK in Federal Hill. Good light.
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Glad we figured that one out. Now back to finding Wallace.
Wallace got lost in the mail
Found him.
That looks shop’d. I can tell by THE PIXELS
That is nowhere near good enough to be considered shop’d. That is straight up PAINT’D!
Then, can we just agree that it looks SHAINT’D? That should be a thing, now.
Shaint’d.
If I had known I could find Wallace in Friday Night Lights I would have watched it much sooner rather than never.
Maaan, when I was like 6, my hand was in a commercial on a public access channel, and I didn’t get paid nothin’! Someone in Pensacola, FL find out who I gotta sue for this, alright? I think it was for some Greek or Mexican restaurant, but it was for sure shown during a police show.
Greek OR Mexican? I think we all know which one it was. Typecasting is a bitch.
I was not attractive enough to be a child hand model, but I was in a radio commercial for the Keg when I was a kid. Maybe I had the same agent as you, because I do not remember getting paid either.
These kids know what we’re talking about [starvingkids.gif]
Pfft, sell out.
Naw, man. There’s games beyond the fucking game
Guys, I’m worried about our HBO actors.
Whether you stay in the game or get out, you end up in stripes.
It’s funny he’s in a FedEx commercial, because I thought he’d be a better fit for Bodie-HL.
I’m here all week folks.
“I would suggest watching the commercial from the :25 mark.” -werttrew
I will never tire of this joke.
I just saw that spot the other day, and it really bugged me. Not because of Bodie* or anything like that, but because that woman at the end asked “what’s the executive compensation list?” There is no way someone would be holding a piece of paper with those words on it and not be able to solve the riddle. That is just some goddamn lazy copy right there.
*I’ve never seen The Wire and don’t even know which one of those people we’re talking about
WHAT DO YOU MEAN “THOSE PEOPLE”?
So Bodie is the black guy, then?
Goddammit! I read that as Birdie in a Fedex Commercial, and I got so excited. #Birdie4Fedex
“Ehm… Yeah… sure…. I’m acting” – Bodie trying to hide his new job as a delivery boy at FedEx.
FedEx-Con
walking in to work this morning I saw a DHL delivery man hold the door open for a FedEx delivery woman and it made me smile.
At least he’s still acting. I ran into Ziggy the other day when he came in to repair our xray at the office.
Well played.
He could have made it big if he would have just let his duck take that Aflac gig.
Roy, the annoying Wiccan juice box from True Blood, is in some sort of American Express cashback commercial, as a dad in a grocery store. Roy lives on!
I hope he’s getting points on the package.
Best comment.
Best FIRST comment ever. Ever.
To be fair to myself, I also said “On the other hand, get that paper, son!”
I also think it would have been awesome if the commercial had ended with him “Bodie-spitting” in that lady’s face. FedEx doesn’t understand keeping it real.
By the way, thanks for using my tip, Gabe! Best. Monday. Ever.
Casting Bodie in the role actually makes a ton of sense when you consider the fairly symbiotic relationship between FedEx and WeBay.
#nailedit
Also, isn’t that Jerry Minor?
I don’t think it is. Looks similar but a younger version.
Hard to tell for sure unless he says, “Life is Precious, and God, and The Bible.”
Actually, being in a national commercial isn’t what it used to be. The residuals, if there are any, are not like the old days where a good commercial gig could keep you eating for a few months. So, it is sad, sorry to say.
It may not be wise or particularly balanced of me, but I like to imagine the Wire actors’ new roles as ghostly emanations of what their lives would have been like had they not died.
Like, Wallace, if he had lived, would somehow find his way to Texas where he’d be taken under the wing of one Coach Taylor and moulded into a man while struggling through some of the emotional problems of his childhood.
Bodie cleans up his act and joins Fed-Ex, apparently, as a delivery man.
Stringer Bell moves to London, nails the British accent to assume a new identity, and becomes an emotionally volatile detective.
McNulty marries the grandaughter of Charlie Chaplin, travels back in time, and hosts a BBC news hour (OK, this one doesn’t work so well).
I was gonna be all, “c’mon guys, Bodie’s ALWAYS on TV, he’s doing fiiine.” But then I checked IMDB and actually it’s just that he’s been on The Good Wife twice this season, in different roles.
(The Good Wife maybe has The Wire’s casting director, or else its producers just really like that show, because they hire like exclusively from The Wire … Kima, Carver, Chris Partlow (who plays a pastor!), Nick AND his uncle … let’s all watch and then maybe, um, Christine Baranski GIFs?)