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Janice was and remains a particularly fascinating character to me because i have a Parvatti in my family. She is in her mid 50s now and has spent her life partying with a cohort of friends which she replaces every few years when they get too old and boring for her. She's been living on disability, drug dealing profits and milking her sort-of-ex-husband (and anyone else who gets in close proximity to her) for around 13 years now and boasts about having "52 illnesses" which miraculously disappear every weekend when she goes out partying and every time she goes on a foreign holiday, which is every other week or so - she keeps a calendar up in my elderly aunt and uncle's house showing when she's abroad and she just has the occasional week here and there throughout the year at home. That's not even scratching the surface: the utterly depraved things she has done to so many people in our family would not be written in a script because no audience would believe a person would really do it and expect to get away with it. I've often thought about having a go, however 
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Oct 31, 2023 16:41
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crispix posted:Janice was and remains a particularly fascinating character to me because i have a Parvatti in my family. She is in her mid 50s now and has spent her life partying with a cohort of friends which she replaces every few years when they get too old and boring for her. She's been living on disability, drug dealing profits and milking her sort-of-ex-husband (and anyone else who gets in close proximity to her) for around 13 years now and boasts about having "52 illnesses" which miraculously disappear every weekend when she goes out partying and every time she goes on a foreign holiday, which is every other week or so - she keeps a calendar up in my elderly aunt and uncle's house showing when she's abroad and she just has the occasional week here and there throughout the year at home. 
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Oct 31, 2023 16:43
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^ lol Don't worry, I keep my distance. I re-watch the show every few years and so many times on a re-watch, something Janice does that's previously passed me by becomes poignant because it's behaviour i've witnessed for real
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Oct 31, 2023 16:48
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Dawgstar posted:That's a fine way to talk about Little Richie. And Kellie Aprile who Meadow got mad at for saying the mob killed Jackie Jr. and thus completed her transformation into Carmela Jr. I could have mentioned Rosalie too but she didn’t seem to care much for her sister-in-law.
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Oct 31, 2023 17:09
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Gathering evidence in my rewatch that Artie is a bad chef: - Food poisons Tony - Apologizes to Carm for her finding a bug in a salad. Later in the episode, his wife is stomping a roach in the kitchen. I'm sure more will come up but I think I'm cooking here
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Nov 1, 2023 05:10
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There are no bad Chefs only bad Patrons.
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Nov 1, 2023 05:12
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PostNouveau posted:Gathering evidence in my rewatch that Artie is a bad chef: My theory, which I am mostly not prepared to defend, is that he's a good chef who lost his way well before the show started, but gets it back by the end with the whole rabbit/reprioritizing thing. Poor guy was just having a six-season long midlife crisis is all yeah there's roaches but NYC is just over there, there's overflow i'm sure
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Nov 1, 2023 05:35
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He does get his bread from the bread museum.
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Nov 1, 2023 05:39
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yeah he's a good chef, bad business owner. many such cases!
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Nov 1, 2023 05:49
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PostNouveau posted:Gathering evidence in my rewatch that Artie is a bad chef: “If they came up undigested, how could they be the cause?!” 🤌
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Nov 1, 2023 05:53
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Ainsley McTree posted:My theory, which I am mostly not prepared to defend, is that he's a good chef who lost his way well before the show started, but gets it back by the end with the whole rabbit/reprioritizing thing. Poor guy was just having a six-season long midlife crisis is all The roaches take the Lincoln Tunnel and drive down the turnpike just like Tony does in the opening titles
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Nov 1, 2023 06:06
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Ginny Sack had the Lincoln Tunnel removed from her rear end (USER WAS PERMABANNED FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 1, 2023 06:40
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blacks posted:Ginny Sack had the Lincoln Tunnel removed from her rear end . . . Well that's uhh.... that's deplorable. Who told you this?
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Nov 1, 2023 07:06
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artie may be a bad chef but gently caress if i dont want zucchini flowers every time he brings it up
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Nov 1, 2023 14:35
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Tastes like mozzarella and string beans.
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Nov 1, 2023 14:43
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blacks posted:He does get his bread from the bread museum. This is one of my favorite lines from the show.
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Nov 1, 2023 14:45
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Artie and Charmaine should have gotten a workplace style spinoff set in the restaurant. With Angie Bonpensiero's auto shop as their wacky neighbor.
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Nov 1, 2023 15:32
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He tried to gently caress the girlfriends of two mobsters and got away with it and invented the Martina the hottest new drink from Albania and in this thread Artie Bucco is a hero! End of story!
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banned from Starbucks posted:He tried to gently caress the girlfriends of two mobsters and got away with it and invented the Martina the hottest new drink from Albania and in this thread Artie Bucco is a hero! End of story! hell, he knocked out benny, that's gotta be worth something never mind whatever happened there after that
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Nov 1, 2023 17:53
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I still like the idea of present-day Artie complaining about Yelp reviews people leave. "No room in their lives for a unique taste experience!"
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Nov 1, 2023 18:00
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Artie got cancelled after having his restaurant show up on one of those restaurant rehab shows.
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Nov 1, 2023 18:28
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Gordon Ramsay shaking his head sadly at the state of the walk-in freezer
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Nov 1, 2023 18:42
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PostNouveau posted:Gathering evidence in my rewatch that Artie is a bad chef: that was the indian restaurant. ghee is clarified butter. get a rancid hit of that? woof, can you even imagine
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Nov 1, 2023 18:42
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Meanwhile Satriale’s has actual human meat remnants in the slicer 
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ulvir posted:that was the indian restaurant. ghee is clarified butter. get a rancid hit of that? woof, can you even imagine Bullshit, Pussy had a different entree at the Indian restaurant but still got diarrhea having only eaten the same mussels as Tony. Indian restaurant is innocent! Those spices are antimicrobial!
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Nov 1, 2023 20:10
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Ralph Hurley posted:Meanwhile Satriale’s has actual human meat remnants in the slicer and agent harris blames pakistan for getting him sick ruddiger posted:Artie got cancelled after having his restaurant show up on one of those restaurant rehab shows. Now I want a spinoff where Artie tries to reboot his restauranteur career, but his mob ties from his past come back to haunt him after someone annoying on social media digs it up
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Nov 1, 2023 20:19
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Pope Corky the IX posted:Carmela immediately forgets about Liz and her suicide attempt (and finding Adriana) when the inspection of her spec house passes.  momentPope Corky the IX posted:Rick. It's Rick. Or Richard. How many times do I gotta fuckin' tell you? It was Little Richie when he was twelve years old. Ainsley McTree posted:My theory, which I am mostly not prepared to defend, is that he's a good chef who lost his way well before the show started, but gets it back by the end with the whole rabbit/reprioritizing thing. Poor guy was just having a six-season long midlife crisis is all Pirate Radar posted:The roaches take the Lincoln Tunnel and drive down the turnpike just like Tony does in the opening titles 
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Nov 1, 2023 20:24
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Dokapon Findom posted:For those unaware, the drive sequence in the opening credits is not contiguous; it will take you all over New Jersey I mean, maybe more like "a couple of excursions within a 10 mile radius" but otherwise it's broadly plausible Can't see the Statue of Liberty from the NJTP for sure though
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ulvir posted:that was the indian restaurant. ghee is clarified butter. get a rancid hit of that? woof, can you even imagine Who's letting out those big ones
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Data Graham posted:Gordon Ramsay shaking his head sadly at the state of the walk-in freezer Better than even odds Artie actually decks Ramsay.
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Dawgstar posted:Better than even odds Artie actually decks Ramsay. WARM AND CONVIVIAL HOST ARTHUR BUCCO
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You know better than New Jersey Zagat?
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blacks posted:He doesn't deserve Charmaine I love how much she hates every single other character. Her life is just a constant parade of shitbags that she can't get away from.
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ruddiger posted:Artie got cancelled after having his restaurant show up on one of those restaurant rehab shows. Artie is approached by a diner who reveals themselves to be producer on a Kitchen Nightmares-alike; They explain that their show rarely covers actual struggling restaurants, they really just want to film in places with character that will look good on camera - and Nuovo Vesuvio would look great on camera. Artie is immediately taken with the idea, convinced that it would be good for business, but more importantly because he'd get to be on TV! Charmaine tries to talk him out of it for half a dozen reasons but, most importantly, because she knows it's an ego thing for him, and if this celebrity chef says even one word of valid criticism to him, he won't be able to take it. Sure enough, on the first day of filming the Ramsay-alike says something offhand about Artie's skills/technique/demeanor that cuts him to his core. It all culminates in Paulie and Sil beating the living daylights out of the celebrity chef because they thought he was some out-of-towner legitimately hassling their friend, an act of violence that the wounded Artie approves of.
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Now I'm imagining a Sopranos universe Cake Boss character coming to Tony for a loan, followed by all the mobsters doing their meetings at a hokey tourist trap bakery for an episode instead of the deli.
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lol @ Melfi's theory of the panic attacks being meat-related. He spends half his time in a loving deli! I'm starting to think this lady is not a very good therapist.
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I mean she still decided to keep him as a client even after she had to go into hiding because her life was being threatened
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FlamingLiberal posted:I mean she still decided to keep him as a client even after she had to go into hiding because her life was being threatened Ah, you're right, she's not very smart either. Bad, dumb therapist. Bad combo.
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