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potee
Jul 23, 2007

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Your Gay Uncle posted:

Looks here, I don't gives no facebook no permission to takes ownership of my pictures

This reminds me of one of my favorite scenes, the failed extortion attempt at the corporate coffee shop. Everything about that scene is perfect, from the thinly veiled threats to the two geezers getting shut down by a coffee shop manager explaining the reality of corporate power.

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potee
Jul 23, 2007

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zakharov posted:

That was a weird scene all around. They just shot him in broad daylight, probably with witnesses around.

They likely weren't that concerned about any of the nearby residents talking to the cops, particularly about a mob-affiliated white kid turning up dead in their neighborhood.

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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https://twitter.com/nickusen/status/1255691773999034376

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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BiggerBoat posted:

Your mind knows it's The End and provides any and all tension/anxiety. It's a pretty masterful example of subverting expectations.

I didn't see the Sopranos when it was airing but I binged-watched it start to finish a few years ago, and thanks to autoplay I didn't actually realize I was watching the final episode at the time. I had known about the cut to black from the cultural zeitgeist but even when it happened I was still stunned because it really is an incredibly tense scene.

Jerusalem posted:

Yeah, and Carlo's position also made him the go-between for a lot of the day-to-day stuff between the Sopranos and the Lupertazzis, which is pretty huge.

Is Tony dead/not dead thoughts in spoiler below because I don't remember the thread rules on that:

Carlo flipping is why I'm in the Tony is dead camp, because he (Carlo) can now directly link the New York organizations to the actions of the Soprano/DiMeo family. New York just sanctioned the very ugly hit on Phil, and given that the Sopranos crew is now functionally non-existent and isn't likely to be generating big money anytime soon, they have little reason to keep Tony alive.

potee fucked around with this message at 17:52 on May 15, 2020

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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https://twitter.com/sopranosnocnxt/status/1089745464621068288

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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Pope Corky the IX posted:

"Gab told me Vito Jr...went into the litter box and ate some cat poo poo?"

"No, he took a poo poo. In the shower"

"Glad we got that straight"

https://twitter.com/sopranosnocnxt/status/1095080735570980867

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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PostNouveau posted:

I forgot they BOTH get close enough for Tony to grab the gun. One dude watches the other guy make this mistake and then does it himself.

The killings often go sideways now that I think about it. Even the really seasoned criminals gently caress those up, like Tony B getting his foot run over or the Italians shooting a civilian instead of their target.

It does underline the collective delusion these people live under - they're all untrained, undisciplined fuckups with zero foresight, yet to a man they consider and call themselves "soldiers."

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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a new study bible! posted:

I enjoyed that my first time watching Sopranos occurred alongside the legitimate tearing down of Columbus statues.

https://twitter.com/sopranosnocnxt/status/1183859425414508544

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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Vichan posted:

They're proud to exclaim that they're 100% Italian and then experience culture shock when they go to Italy.

In a way that's how I see most hyphenated Americans whose families have lived in the US for generations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-eHk4RiIso

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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Ginette Reno posted:

Yeah that part has always felt hosed up to me. The FBI has no qualms about putting its informants in dangerous situations just because they're so desperate to take down the mob. And they try to justify it to themselves and those informants by saying that the informants are criminals anyways and essentially made their own beds so it's not the FBI's fault that those criminals have to be put into dangerous spots to try and get away without jail time.

They're also often fairly incompetent at actually handling the informants. Skip for example gets next to nothing useful out of Pussy.

https://twitter.com/sopranosnocnxt/status/1093929759656923136

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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potee
Jul 23, 2007

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Matt Zerella posted:

I hate da nort.

https://twitter.com/nickusen/status/1049309542390095873

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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Pattonesque posted:

I dunno if Jackie Jr. would be capable of the level of introspection Little Carmine shows in his chat with Tony

he basically won The Mafia

A pint of blood costs more than a gallon of gold.

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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UNRULY_HOUSEGUEST posted:

Dead on, nothing in the show has made me laugh harder than Christopher calling Vito a "fuckin' parade float" and hurling a sandwich at him

Sil's reading of his letter to Christopher at the intervention is an all timer.

"Your hair was in the toilet water. Disgusting."

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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I honestly think Sil is up there. The show did a great job of presenting him as this sort of comical, almost charmingly self-aware consigliere character, but every once in a while they'd give him a line or two to remind the audience who he was, and that he was just way more subtle about his sociopathy than people like Ralphie. Abusing and extorting dancers at the Bing, and the absolute pure evil and malice in the "loving oval office" line he gives with Adriana.

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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Ainsley McTree posted:

The scene where Paulie's getting a drink and orders a club soda for Chris was a very sweet moment for him, I thought. Then of course in typical Paulie fashion he instantly switches to enabler mode once Chris falls off the wagon and decides to order alcohol but you can only expect so much from the guy

Paulie and Chris making up the night after they kill the waiter is pretty funny: "Look at what happened last night, one of could have gotten hurt, or even killed!"

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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pentyne posted:

It's not the houses so much as all the constant griping and moaning about money. They were the equivalent of living paycheck to paycheck with bad spending habits.


Hesh talks about that in (I think) the episode where Tony upgrades his yacht. Hesh estimates Tony's net worth including the house is maybe 6 million, which like you said is pretty bad for a 20 year career as a crime boss. "In one hand, out the other."

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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https://twitter.com/jentaub/status/1336368917317623811

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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Vichan posted:

If Tony did die in the finale I could definitely see Carmine making sure that Carmela and AJ are taken care of to some extent.

Little Carmine talking AJ down from trying to avenge Tony would be an all-time dialogue

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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Matt Zerella posted:

Ade: I don't know why we fight so much

Christopher: It's my fault, I don't communicate my needs


loving :lol:

I'm going to start using the phrase "abundant intentionality" in work meetings.

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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https://twitter.com/sopranosnocnxt/status/1087185835588431872

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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BiggerBoat posted:

I could get behind a Lego set of the Bada-Bing.

So to speak.

You know how much Legos cost!?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBW1jwqOj1w

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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uber_stoat posted:

i left with my dad after my mom pitched a fit and I think she ended up throwing the tree out with the garbage. :lol:

https://twitter.com/sopranosnocnxt/status/1087202620073172992

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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Jose Oquendo posted:

I am not sure why but I feel that ‘she was abusive to the staff’ is one of the top 5 lines in tv history.

It's the way he draws out the word "staff" in cadence with the angry italian gesturing.

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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mcmagic posted:

LOL @ AJ wanting to be Trump's personal pilot. Just loving perfect.

https://twitter.com/sopranosnocnxt/status/1092971425323831296

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1384899383100121089

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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GoutPatrol posted:

Good thing this show is only featuring pure blood Sicilians then

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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Eau de MacGowan posted:

things i remember about boardwalk empire


-jimmy banged his mum
-harrow went hotline miami on the great gatsby house and died under a pier
-they fridged the hot irishman
-they hired michael k williams and then had him just sort of be there
-bobby cannavale played someone who was maybe brain damaged
-scottish = irish sure why not
-nuckys not looking for redemption?

oh

-michael shannon and shea wigham together are loving gold


that's about it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhaOsF7F050

potee
Jul 23, 2007

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Halloween Jack posted:

What's that ancient Roman saying about money having no smell?

A pint of blood costs more than a gallon of gold.

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potee
Jul 23, 2007

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https://twitter.com/sopranosnocnxt/status/1093941942562353152

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