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Solice Kirsk posted:The amount of humor packed into The Sopranos is something that nearly all "prestige" TV forgets about these days. Almost every episode has at least one decent joke/funny moment.
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Its probably because I'm in recovery myself, but the failed intervention with chris getting his poo poo kicked in is one of the funniest things I've ever seen
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Nov 11, 2019 21:13
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Often times when you get this immersed in a form of entertainment little pieces of it can begin to creep into your daily habits and speech. So what have I taken from the show? Livia's dismissive hand wave
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Nov 11, 2019 22:32
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I've used 'whaddya hear, whaddya say' as a greeting.
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Nov 11, 2019 22:45
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banned from Starbucks posted:Do they really have ads for escorts on hotel TVs in NY? Yeah I had no idea if that was an actual thing or not, no idea if that is something they actually do or it was just in there for the story. Also I'm dumb and didn't quite pick up on the fact the earliest part of Tony's dream is about a powerful mob boss who is sad because he no longer has his wife  Comrade Blyatlov posted:Its probably because I'm in recovery myself, but the failed intervention with chris getting his poo poo kicked in is one of the funniest things I've ever seen When I came in to open up one morning, you had your head half in the toilet. Your hair was in the toilet water. Disgusting.
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Nov 11, 2019 23:03
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Jerusalem posted:Season 5, Episode 11 - The Test Dream The actor who played Coach Molinaro would be much better known to HBO drama fans as Thomas "Horseface" Pakusa, featured prominently in season 2 of The Wire. He's introduced in S2E1, which aired June 1, 2003. The Test Dream aired almost a year later, May 16, 2004. Is it possible it goes this deep? No, not really. Or is it?
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Nov 11, 2019 23:31
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Jerusalem posted:Yeah I had no idea if that was an actual thing or not, no idea if that is something they actually do or it was just in there for the story. WHAT, WAS IT BARKING?????
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Nov 12, 2019 00:53
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Just got caught up with this thread and I have a comment about a write-up from way back about the Season 1 episode College.Jerusalem posted:Season 1, Episode 5 - College The sexual tension in the scene is probably part of what's getting at Carmella but there's another reason the film might bother her. I haven't seen the movie version of Remains of the Day but I've read the book it's adapted from. The book is about a dutiful British butler who relates anecdotes from his long career as a servant as he drives across Britain to try to convince a former housekeeper to come back to her old position. Over the course of the novel you discover that the reason the housekeeper retired was that the lord they worked for was a fascist-sympathizer who worked to convince Chamberlain to adopt a policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany. The butler is initially in denial about the depth of his beloved old master's wrongdoing, but he slowly begins to admit to himself that he worked for someone who wasn't worth the loyalty, and that he himself was complicit in his lord's crimes by doing things like, say firing other servants for the crime of being Jewish and not speaking out when he could have. At the end of the novel, he confesses to a stranger that while his lord was a bad person, he at least made his own mistakes and took them as his own, and was in the end less hateful than someone who just went along with someone else's mistakes out of a sense of duty to his proper position in society. The novel ends with him shoving down this knowledge and resolving to go back to doing his job. The parallels to Carmella's own situation is kinda apparent.
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I was unaware of that (haven't seen the film or read the book) and yeah that's a really interesting parallel. Thanks!Comrade Blyatlov posted:WHAT, WAS IT BARKING????? Tony continually coming back to the dog is amazing, ahaha
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Nov 12, 2019 02:17
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It's also funny to me the guy leading the intervention played Casey Jones in the TMNT movies.
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Nov 12, 2019 02:18
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Elias Koteas is a great actor that criminally hasn't been in much. He's best known for being mistaken for Christopher Meloni, to the point that people keep bothering the latter on Twitter about the time he was on the Sopranos.
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Nov 12, 2019 02:30
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Who elses family had one of those drat singing fishes? Then again my mom is the loving Queen of tacky About to watch pine barrens brb
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Nov 12, 2019 02:56
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Elias Koteas is a great actor that criminally hasn't been in much. He's best known for being mistaken for Christopher Meloni, to the point that people keep bothering the latter on Twitter about the time he was on the Sopranos. Check out the Prophecy for all your Elias Koteas needs. It also some prime Walken. Just found out the actress who played Svetlana is now high end real estate agent in New York and helped a friend of mine’s uncle get his apartment.
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Nov 12, 2019 03:42
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I want my forum name changed to Pop rear end The. Also, Pine Barrens is basically the same as Homer and Burns trapped in the cabin
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Nov 12, 2019 03:43
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Your Gay Uncle posted:Check out the Prophecy for all your Elias Koteas needs. It also some prime Walken. I choose to believe she just walked him through the apartment with a cigarette dangling out of her mouth, knocking back a mug of vodka and rolling her eyes when the sellers tried to tack on extra fees to the property tax. 
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Nov 12, 2019 03:54
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Jerusalem posted:When I came in to open up one morning, you had your head half in the toilet. ...But I can verify that he was sick during that time! I've probably mentioned it a hundred times before but the boys never saw the irony in calling Christopher a 'Son of a bitch' seconds after he called his mother a whore. It's my favourite part of the whole exchange.
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Nov 12, 2019 12:35
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Vichan posted:...But I can verify that he was sick during that time! son of a bitch is a lot like motherfucker, just a general insult that shouldn't be read too literally
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Nov 12, 2019 13:49
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I think you can make an exception when you're kicking someones rear end for insulting his mother, though. It seems pretty relevant then!
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Nov 12, 2019 14:13
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"I'm lonely, I miss my Violet" "What violin?!" That gets me every loving time.
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Nov 12, 2019 15:27
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This led me to wonder who the characters in Sopranos would have voted for until I realized that they probably just don't vote and are extremely politically uninterested throughout the show (besides corrupt city and labor politics, obviously). Meadow is probably the only one who would go to the polls (Clinton)....maybe Hesh (Clinton too for obvious reasons).
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Nov 12, 2019 17:22
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DarkCrawler posted:This led me to wonder who the characters in Sopranos would have voted for until I realized that they probably just don't vote and are extremely politically uninterested throughout the show (besides corrupt city and labor politics, obviously). Meadow is probably the only one who would go to the polls (Clinton)....maybe Hesh (Clinton too for obvious reasons). AJ seems like a proto-chud 
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Nov 12, 2019 17:24
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Fritz Coldcockin posted:AJ seems like a proto-chud Really? Even at the end of the show?
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Nov 12, 2019 17:26
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Carmela voted Bush so we know who she prob end up for.
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Jerusalem posted:He thought he'd settled this at the funeral, but not Johnny is affecting his ability to make money and he's not happy.
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Nov 12, 2019 19:51
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DarkCrawler posted:This led me to wonder who the characters in Sopranos would have voted for until I realized that they probably just don't vote and are extremely politically uninterested throughout the show (besides corrupt city and labor politics, obviously). Meadow is probably the only one who would go to the polls (Clinton)....maybe Hesh (Clinton too for obvious reasons). They're all worthless Boomers who would vote Trump 100%. Their is a scene in the last half of the 6th season at the lake house when Tony, Carmela Janice and Bobby are talking about how Bobby's dad was an illegal immigrant who came over the Canadian border. His father, an illegal immigrant criminal who's entire job was to kill people is "one of the good ones" to them. Bobby even says " They ought to build a wall now though!" It's peak Boomer.
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Nov 12, 2019 20:17
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DarkCrawler posted:This led me to wonder who the characters in Sopranos would have voted for until I realized that they probably just don't vote and are extremely politically uninterested throughout the show (besides corrupt city and labor politics, obviously). Meadow is probably the only one who would go to the polls (Clinton)....maybe Hesh (Clinton too for obvious reasons). Carmella in season 6 says she voted for Bush when Meadow is complaining about Afghan immigrants being persecuted.
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Nov 12, 2019 20:20
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DarkCrawler posted:This led me to wonder who the characters in Sopranos would have voted for until I realized that they probably just don't vote and are extremely politically uninterested throughout the show (besides corrupt city and labor politics, obviously). Meadow is probably the only one who would go to the polls (Clinton)....maybe Hesh (Clinton too for obvious reasons). "Let me say dis. Dick Cheney for President, of the universe" -T
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Nov 12, 2019 20:33
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If they vote they'd all vote for Trump. Even Meadow. "The real racism is against Italians," come on.
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Nov 12, 2019 20:50
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hi liter posted:If they vote they'd all vote for Trump. Even Meadow. "The real racism is against Italians," come on. Meadow would 100% be a Hillbot/Warrenstan. Ivory Tower liberal from a rich family who wants to help minorities but doesn't want them living next door.
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Nov 12, 2019 20:56
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Matt Zerella posted:Meadow would 100% be a Hillbot/Warrenstan. Ivory Tower liberal from a rich family who wants to help minorities but doesn't want them living next door. It's exactly this. Even Meadow evolved on who to blame for Jackie's death. At first she tried to make it seem like it was tied to Matush "an Israeli ecstasy dealer" when she was talking to Kelli Aprile (Jackie Jr.'s sister, for gently caress's sake) and by the time Finn asks "Didn't you have a boyfriend that was shot to death?" she answers "He was murdered by drug dealers...African Americans, if that makes you feel any better"
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Elias Koteas is a great actor that criminally hasn't been in much. He's best known for being mistaken for Christopher Meloni, to the point that people keep bothering the latter on Twitter about the time he was on the Sopranos. And here is that shocking moment when I finally learned that the guy who staged the intervention was not, in fact, Chris Keller on OZ (as I had thought for fifteen years) 
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Nov 12, 2019 21:46
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MrMojok posted:And here is that shocking moment when I finally learned that the guy who staged the intervention was not, in fact, Chris Keller on OZ (as I had thought for fifteen years) A reasonable mistake to make, there's only so many gigs for bald men floating around in the entertainment industry at any one time.
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Nov 12, 2019 22:06
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This episode catches a lot of flak for some reason but it's up there among my favorites. First time I watched it, it really threw me for a loop and then, on a re-watch, I still had a hard time pinpointing exactly when the dream took over, or even really ended for that matter. Good symbolic observations as well from Jerusalem that I'd never put together before either.
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Nov 12, 2019 23:19
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BiggerBoat posted:This episode catches a lot of flak for some reason but it's up there among my favorites. Melfi being at the hotel just adds to the bizarre feeling
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Nov 12, 2019 23:59
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It’s one of my favorite episodes. I’ve been doing a rewatch both to keep up with this thread and because I’m going to the Sopranos Con in Jersey in two weeks. My spouse walked in as I started “the Test Dream” and immediately sat down to watch the entire thing with me.
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Matt Zerella posted:Meadow would 100% be a Hillbot/Warrenstan. Ivory Tower liberal from a rich family who wants to help minorities but doesn't want them living next door. I could see Hillary but not Warren. I doubt anyone who spends as much time complaining about reverse racism in the mid-aughts as she did became less racist. Especially rich people. The Test Dream is good.
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you're saying meadow would be racist against warren because native american?
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Nov 14, 2019 16:40
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Ugh, we've reached THAT episode. Some Sopranos episodes are more fun than others, and this one(Long Term Parking) is definitely in the not fun category.
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Nov 14, 2019 17:39
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Really? Even at the end of the show? AJ ends up a producer who gets MeToo'd
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Basebf555 posted:Ugh, we've reached THAT episode. Some Sopranos episodes are more fun than others, and this one(Long Term Parking) is definitely in the not fun category. I have to say though, he's been really solid and played his character really well through the preceding 5 seasons, but the scene where Christopher learns the extent of what has been going on behind his back in this episode is probably Michael Imperioli's best acting of the entire show's run. He's understandably overshadowed a lot by James Gandolfini and Edie Falco who are unbelievably great actors, but he loving knocks it out of the park here.
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