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Hugh at Livia's funeral. Some of the best lines in the whole show. "Who are you?! Minister of propaganda?!" "Oh don't hand me that! BULLSHIT!!! You wanted it, and you got it!"
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Mahoning posted:Hugh at Livia's funeral. Some of the best lines in the whole show. I love that and I love Hesh being called upon to share a fond memory of Livia and offering 'I guess what struck me most was... she didn't mince words'. Then catching Janice's expectant stare and helpfully expounding '...between brain and mouth, there was no interlocutor'.
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Feb 21, 2019 20:52
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Somehow I've seen the show like three times and I never caught Tony's father telling Livia in the flashback that she's "like an albacore around my neck" lol
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Feb 21, 2019 20:59
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Nobel Prizes in what? Packing fudge?
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Mahoning posted:Hugh at Livia's funeral. Thought you were talking about Christopher for a second! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdP7f4_YL8I
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Feb 21, 2019 23:41
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Jerusalem posted:Thought you were talking about Christopher for a second! Goddamn this show is hilarious. 'They can't do that..even wit' computahs'
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Feb 22, 2019 00:25
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The look on Adriana's face as she realizes that he's going nowhere with this is 
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Upon further review, Dr. Melfi’s rape scene is a little much.
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Jerusalem posted:The look on Adriana's face as she realizes that he's going nowhere with this is She's the world's most supportive partner.
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Shouldn’t Angie Bonpensiero know that Tony and Silvio killed Pussy? She was literally sitting at the kitchen table with them before Pussy left with them and he never comes home. Can’t believe I just realized that.
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I'm pretty sure noone is actually dumb enough to believe the witness protection stories except like.. Adriana and Jackie jr.
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banned from Starbucks posted:I'm pretty sure noone is actually dumb enough to believe the witness protection stories except like.. Adriana and Jackie jr. It's been a while since I've watched it but I always remembered that when someone would mention witness protection, the way they said and their body language indicated they knew what really happened.
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Feb 24, 2019 21:16
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When I came in to open up one morning, there you were, with your head half in the toilet. Your hair was in the toilet water. Disgusting.
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This thread got me to re-watch the series. It's good to be reminded how good Gandolfini is in it. I mean, most of the casting is really good and they really bring the characters to life, but man, he's on a different level. You can just look at him and you know exactly what he's thinking in his head. He can go from sweet dad to a total insane psychopath in a heartbeat.
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Feb 28, 2019 17:48
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Jose Oquendo posted:It's been a while since I've watched it but I always remembered that when someone would mention witness protection, the way they said and their body language indicated they knew what really happened. "He... moved to Norway."
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Feb 28, 2019 17:54
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_peSCECc4I Pure comedic gold. The gang never saw the irony in calling Chris a son of a bitch mere moments after he called his mother a whore.
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“What, was it barking?” Haha Paulie’s the best.
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Mahoning posted:Shouldn’t Angie Bonpensiero know that Tony and Silvio killed Pussy? She was literally sitting at the kitchen table with them before Pussy left with them and he never comes home. Isn't she depressed that he even came back after his seclusion in Florida between season 1 and 2? She may know but I doubt she gives a poo poo, she's happy he's gone.
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Mahoning posted:Shouldn’t Angie Bonpensiero know that Tony and Silvio killed Pussy? She was literally sitting at the kitchen table with them before Pussy left with them and he never comes home. She had to have known, she was getting "widows pay" from Tony after he disappeared. What is she going to do? Go to the cops? Testify in open court that the head of the New Jersey mob took her husband for a ride and he never came back ? They never found a body or any evidence that Puss was actually murdered, there wouldn't be enough circumstantial evidence to bring Tony in for questioning, let alone an arrest and trial. Every single one Tony's subordinates would have lied for him. She grew up in the life and she knows what happened, but she was over the marriage anyway. Might as well get something out of it. Did they ever explain how Big Pussy and Little Pussy go their nicknames?
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Hell, the feds know Pussy is dead even more so than Angie does and they don’t do anything about it either.Your Gay Uncle posted:Did they ever explain how Big Pussy and Little Pussy go their nicknames? Big Pussy got the name because he started as a cat burglar. Kevyn fucked around with this message at 00:58 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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Angie also took over the autobody shop and started loan sharking and buying/selling stolen parts for the mob by the end. It got under Carmela's skin that she couldn't rub her nose into her Porsche because Angie worked and bought a Corvette for herself. What a great show.
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The show's pretty brutal in its portrayal of Carmella and her purposeful ignorance regarding Adriana's death. She literally dreams about it and the next morning doesn't even give it a second thought while pouring over her blueprints to the building Tony bought her, which was only given to her to do exactly that.
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Jerusalem posted:Paulie taking Tony aside moments after Tony just got invited to the house of the big Boss/Don, in order to tell him,"Hey T, I'm going back to the hotel to take a poo poo!" the actual dialogue is so much better "I'm gonna hoof it back to the Excelsior. I gotta take a wicked poo poo."
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Solice Kirsk posted:Angie also took over the autobody shop and started loan sharking and buying/selling stolen parts for the mob by the end. It got under Carmela's skin that she couldn't rub her nose into her Porsche because Angie worked and bought a Corvette for herself. I love that scene where one of the gangsters shows up to see her, and Carmella has to stand there and watch as they go off and talk together as equals while all she can do is stand there and wait.
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One of the great things about the show, at least for me, was that at the start, Carmella was kind of sympathetic character. But, bloody hell, by the end, you realize she's as despicable as any of them.
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ruddiger posted:The show's pretty brutal in its portrayal of Carmella and her purposeful ignorance regarding Adriana's death. She literally dreams about it and the next morning doesn't even give it a second thought while pouring over her blueprints to the building Tony bought her, which was only given to her to do exactly that. The scene where she's going through business cards and briefly pauses when she sees the one from the private investigator before throwing it away and calling the construction people is legit one of the best scenes.
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Narzack posted:One of the great things about the show, at least for me, was that at the start, Carmella was kind of sympathetic character. But, bloody hell, by the end, you realize she's as despicable as any of them. And the opposite happened for Meadow where she was a completely spoiled entitled arrogant teenager and turned into a successful intelligent independent woman. Hell, she may be the one to support the rest of the terrible family once Tony winds up dead or in jail since the other two are almost completely useless at taking care of themselves.
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YOU GOT A BEE ON YO HAT STUPIDA loving GAME
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We don’t have those bulb jokes. They don’t translate.
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Solice Kirsk posted:And the opposite happened for Meadow where she was a completely spoiled entitled arrogant teenager and turned into a successful intelligent independent woman. Hell, she may be the one to support the rest of the terrible family once Tony winds up dead or in jail since the other two are almost completely useless at taking care of themselves. But you got out a suitcase!!
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Narzack posted:One of the great things about the show, at least for me, was that at the start, Carmella was kind of sympathetic character. But, bloody hell, by the end, you realize she's as despicable as any of them. One of the best scenes in the whole series is when Melfi sends Carmela to her old psychology professor and he just lays out in no uncertain terms that if she doesn't take her children and leave Tony immediately that she was complicit in all his crimes and the blood money she has will destroy.
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Carmella's ultimate reaction to that is amazing, but I also love during the scene itself as she keeps trying to twist what he's saying into something that makes her look good, and he keeps shutting her down and saying,"No. You are a bad person and you are at fault."
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Your Gay Uncle posted:She had to have known, she was getting "widows pay" from Tony after he disappeared. What is she going to do? Go to the cops? Testify in open court that the head of the New Jersey mob took her husband for a ride and he never came back ? They never found a body or any evidence that Puss was actually murdered, there wouldn't be enough circumstantial evidence to bring Tony in for questioning, let alone an arrest and trial. Every single one Tony's subordinates would have lied for him. Yeah I guess I’m trying to reconcile how on further watch it was entirely clear (to Angie) what happened to Pussy and yet they never really address it in the show. Angie’s post-Pussy life is actually handled really well in the show but I do wish they made it more explicit that she knew, especially since as you said, she would’ve been happy he was gone anyways.
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Everyone knew what "went into witness protection" meant. It's seriously only Jackie Jr and Adriana that didn't. Maybe the younger kids wouldn't get it, but besides those few examples everyone gets that they were killed, they just didn't want to know by who/why.
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Your Gay Uncle posted:One of the best scenes in the whole series is when Melfi sends Carmela to her old psychology professor and he just lays out in no uncertain terms that if she doesn't take her children and leave Tony immediately that she was complicit in all his crimes and the blood money she has will destroy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVeLjj6Ao8 "Take only the children - what's left of them- and go!"
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Vichan posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzVeLjj6Ao8 Whoever uploaded that used the word 'moralised' in the title.  I'll never cease to be amazed at the hordes of people who love this show because they idolise the villains. The amount of people who insisted that Adriana got what was coming to her back in the day was astounding.
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I think one of the better brief storylines was when Gene was trying to get out of the life to save his son/family and retire and both the government and the family refused to let him go. Killing himself really was the best solution to the problem to get his son help and his family far away from all the problems.
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Definitely time for a re-watch. I've posted this before, but why not again: I love remembering how I got into this show. I never had cable, much less HBO, so from 99-2003 the only time I ever caught this show was when I went on business trips and stayed in a hotel, which only happened maybe twice a year. And it was like clockwork, it'd always be on at some point during my evening hotel downtime. Every time I caught it, even having zero idea who anyone was or what the story arcs were, I was completely drawn in and hooked. I'd never had a show be so naturally good before. So when I signed up for Netflix in 2004, the first thing I did was binge the first three seasons, and everything made sense. Such a great show.
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I actually didn’t catch up with the broadcasts until like season 4 or so. I bought the first few seasons on dvd. I was surprised to learn that the Danielle character (the undercover FBI agent) was originally played by a different actress at the end of season 3 and they actually refilmed those scenes for the subsequent re-airings. I think Seinfeld did that with George’s dad too, ended up refilming scenes with Jerry Stiller.
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It was only on my second watch that I realised Carmela knows just about everything. She never believed that any of those people had vanished into witness protection. When Angie Bonpensiero complains about her situation (the scene in the supermarket), Carmela knows exactly what she's doing when she tells Tony. Later, she encourages Rosalie Aprile to have a moan about the death of Jackie Jr, because they both know he wasn't killed by black drug dealers (to quote the show). Aprile is too smart to say anything, perhaps because she knows Carmela will report it back to Tony. This all passed me by on my first watch.
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