7. McNulty and Bunk
When it comes to being a police, in the words of Sergeant Jay Landsman, Jimmy McNulty is natural po-lice. He is also a gaping asshole. Jimmy McNulty cannot help himself from messing up in every conceivable way. He has no concern for his own well being, his health, or career or truth be told, that of anyone else's. To Jimmy, all that matters is the case. Jimmy McNulty is a workaholic. He's also a borderline alcohol capable of seriously alarming and seriously hilarious drunken escapades including driving drunk into a wall and damaging his car, only to go back, reverse, attempt to turn the corner correctly and do the exact same thing again, only this time, worse. His partner, Bunk Moreland, is nearly as bad. In a moment of drunken infidelity, the Bunk decides to burn his clothes to remove trace fibres and because they smell like pussy. Jimmy is called in to retrieve his partner, who has passed out on the toilet, clad only in a lady's pink dressing gown. The Wire is one of the most underrated comedic shows of all time, and a large part of it is down to these two. When not pissing in the direct path of an incoming freight train or shooting rats with their service weapons, McNulty and Bunk are about the best homicide detectives you could hope to find, possibly excepting their brilliant father-figure Lester Freamon, who is not so much natural po-lice as the God of Detection. Throughout five seasons, Bunk chides Jimmy for famously giving a f*** when it ain't your turn to give a f***. The Bunk, strictly a suit and tie guy, prefers to work his cases as they come and go, working on them with clinical precision, while Jimmy hurls himself wholeheartedly into a crime, burning with wild mad-dog pursuit until it's solved and the perp is wearing bracelets. Their yin and yang dynamic makes them the stuff of TV legends.
Best bromance moment: Jimmy and Bunk go to investigate a murder scene and use complicated communication techniques to deduce what happened at the scene.