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The Sopranos 107-108 (Patreon)

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Tom B

I think the intro song should be a cover of “woke up this mornin and got some gabagool”

FWPJR.

Finally, it’s Sopranos Tuesday again. You two have done a great job ( you always do a great job with everything ) reacting to this season so far. It’s been fun watching you two enjoy one of my all time favorite shows. I’m looking forward to watching this reaction and the rest of the reactions to the entire series.

FWPJR.

Love that song lol

Matt O'Keefe

When my first drink was, that is hard to say. I remember when I first tasted Bourbon. I first got drunk when I was 14. Bourbon was what my dad drank 1 or 2 drinks of after got home from work. I was 9 or 10 then.

Jack

the mom from a Bronx Tale is Artie's wife

Guy-on-Couch

I live in NJ right around this area where they are supposed to live, in fact they mention my town a few times throughout the series and even filmed some scenes in my town as well. Anyways, the house is still there and all those places you see in the intro are real Jersey places although most of them are from areas scattered around various towns/cities, If you left the Lincoln Tunnel, leaving NYC going into NJ, which he does, the route he takes in the show isn't a direct route to his house.

Brandon

George, have you been pressing play before "3" with this series just to mess with us? 😂 I remember the late 90's and early 2000's when ADD and ADHD were the hot new thing to diagnose troublemaker kids with in the medical community. I think "Down-Neck" and the Simpsons episode where Bart gets put on Ritalin came out in the same year as a commentary on the whole thing.

G B

Two keys you may have missed: Rewatch the scene where Junior runs into Livia and Tony (Episode 7, no sync version 51:43) Rewatch the scene where Livia tells junior about Tony seeing a psychiatrist (Episode 8, no sync version 1:47:02) Tony makes a comment towards the end of their conversation in episode 7 which coupled with her behavior in the flashbacks, helps to recontextualize what she says to junior in episode 8.

Twiska Brand

Chris' last word about "it happens" when he shot that guy in the foot is a reference to his actor's role in Goodfellas when he played Spider, the person Joe Pesci shot in the foot. (and later blew away.)

JD12

Matt O'Keefe

I was diagnosed with ADD when I was 14 in 1989. I had some behavioral issues when I was a pre-teen. They all disappeared by age 14-15. I did not regularly take the Ritalin I was perscribed because it caused my mind to (as I described it back then) race. I do not take anything now, because I became an addict of Adderall and later Meth and I stopped doing any drugs after like almost 10 years on stimulants.

PastaDon

Hey that was some pretty good east coast accents.. You guys almost sound normal now How cool would it be to get these two to dress up as, 60's Mob boss and Mob wife for the next Sopranos reaction.. See if Simone can get her hair to look like younger Livia from ep. 107 lol Or even two Mob bosses would be cool.. Edit: Why do I get the feeling Simone would dress up as Chef Boyardee

Cinebinge

hi AT77 so its actually not out of sync but feels like it due to that specific moment. in our 'no sync required' versions, there is zero edits so if its in sync at the start when we do the count down, and its at sync at the end when the credits roll and we begin discussions, then its in sync in the middle. its an impossibility for the middle to suddenly drift that far out of sync without any edits. that being said, the moment you pointed out does feel like its an extreme delay, but my laughter was at him describing "stone cold gangster" after suddenly saying his nickname to Melfi. not just when he said the nickname, which i did also chuckle to.

Tall Paul

I'm glad you enjoyed the meta aspect of Chris's script. It is even better if you know Michael Imperioli is credited as a writer on several episodes. Still, it is only the second most meta thing in the episode after Richard talking about Goodfellas with Dr Melfi (/Lorraine Bracco/ Karen Hill)

Life in the cave of Garanoga

The 1916 Polio epidemic in the US hit Italian communities harder than anyone else, combined with the stigmas that Italians were purposely bringing disease ridden fleas with them when they immigrated here and that we were "dirty" people lead to Polio being a common part of Italian American lingo. Even today my family uses it as a sort of catch word for something bad. "she avoided me like I had polio or something." or "I'd rather get polio than talk to them". It's one of those small details I always appreciated about this show.

G P

Interestingly the bakery customer plays a major role in later seasons (as a different character), I forgot he was in this in a one-off role.

Kyle Baker

Tennessee Williams was one of Americas most famous playwrights ever. (Cat on Hot Tin Roof) (Streetcar named Desire). That's what the episode title is referring to.

Brandon

I don't know the details, but i've heard about stuff like ritalin leading to heavier drug use later in life. It's just really sad to think that addiction can possibly come from a doctor prescribing something to a child.

mpd

What am I, a mirage?

Ste Rawlings

Christopher is a fuck up but he has some absolutely hilarious moments in this show

Thomas Yanez

"... albacore around my neck!" LOL. Right, from that famous poem "The Rime of the Ancient Tuna Fisherman".

dc

George, if you don't have a Moka pot, that's another good way of brewing really strong coffee. It makes an espresso-like brew that you can either drink straight or water down (for a more regular cup of coffee). I have a press too, but my daily driver is the Moka pot. If you preheat the water using an electric kettle, it's very fast. It's also easier to clean than the French press.

Thomas Yanez

The reference to "Francis Albert"... Frank Sinatra, his whole name : Francis Albert Sinatra, a child of Italian immigrants.

JoeE

Frank Sinatra’s name was Francis Albert sinatra

p0sthum4n

How are you guys planning on handling the season finale? The seasons have 13 episodes. Standalone? Just curious.

Sergio Garza

The scene in which Christopher shoots the clerk in the foot is an homage to his scene in Goodfellas when Joe Pesci shoots him in the foot as he was serving them drinks

maikeru

probably watch three in a row

maikeru

it wasn't even on the poll last time 😥

Ari Ramirez

Ha ha, welcome to the Livia Soprano experience

Ian Tellam

Christopher shooting the guy in the foot is a reference to the actor's role as Spider in Goodfellas, where Joe Pesci's character shot him in the foot. Dunno if you caught that.

Skate Eight

Christopher shooting the bakery dude in the foot was a callback to when Joe Pesci shot him in the foot in Goodfellas.

Honey Hermsen

Early Sopranos does such a great job of showing the two sides of Tony: the mob boss and the family man

mpd

Guys I don't think they get it that the bakery scene was a callback to Goodfellas, a few more comments about that oughta do it

dasgrove

Simone, love the Orphanmaker shirt! Hope ya’ll watch The Mighty Nien!

Kenneth thomas

Not sure if you knew this but when Christopher shot that guy in the foot, that was a reference to Mr. Bean.

JBK405

I don't remember my first drink, but I do remember my LAST drink: I had a shot of scotch in the fall of 2004. That was the last alcohol I've ever had. Tony has two sisters: Janice (older) and Barbara (younger). So far neither of them have shown up in the present, but they've been mentioned here-and-there. I think this is the first episode where they are specifically named instead of just talking about 'your/my sister'. Tony says that one of the things his father did was "numbers", which is one of THE quintessential organized crime rackets in the USA. It's essentially an underground lottery, where each day you bet on which number will 'hit' and it is checked the next day. 'Running numbers' is one of the crimes which has been going on for over a century, and as other schemes have risen and fallen (Alcohol selling during prohibition, drug dealing, bootleg clothing and cigarettes and DVDs, etc.) running numbers has stuck around. My grandmother once 'hit the number' when she was a young girl, and she was actually cheated out of the full winnings (I don't know the actual value, but let's say she was supposed to get $10 and the guy running the numbers only gave her $2). When she complained about not getting the full amount, somebody else gave her a phone number to call and HER father (my great-grandfather) threatened to break her arm if she ever called that number. Because he knew that if she called that number and said she didn't get the full money, then the guy who refused to pay out might get killed. My father still tells the story because years later when a very famous gangster died and his obituary listed the "legitimate business" where he worked, the phone number was the same one she had been given. When it comes to psychiatrists 'only caring because they're being paid', that's true. But that's also true for ALL doctors. if you break your leg, are you going to refuse a doctor's help because they don't REALLY care about your leg? No, you're going to take the painkillers and let them set the bone. The fact that they're being paid for it doesn't undo the fact that your leg needs to be fixed. It's the same for psychiatry. Louis "Lepke" Buchalter was a Jewish-American gangster active in the '30s and '40s. He was a member of "Murder, Inc.", a group of Jewish criminals and hitmen that worked with the mafia in that era. It's very common for descendants and distant relatives of famous gangsters from the '20s-'50s to brag about their connection in the modern day. A few years ago I actually watched an interview with the son of one such figure who talked abut his father's role in anti-Nazi activities in NJ in the '30s. The Star-Ledger, the newspaper that Chris's name is finally listed in, is a newspaper based in and focusing on Northern New Jersey. So it's the "local" paper (Unlike the New York Times), but the BIGGEST local paper. Him finding his name in there is big for his area.

Inkpendude

Geroge video is delayed like 2 seconds. At 39:15 the flashback ends in a white screen, you can see George's face light up a 2 seconds later. This is in the No copy required version. Or I think It's more accurate to say that the episode itself is 2 seconds ahead of both George and simone's footage

Donna Castellano

I was surprised to see him. I was like, I dont remember Vito being in season one.

Donna Castellano

I didn't see it mentioned, but the reason Christopher gets so much leniency is because he's Tony's "nephew". Technically, I believe he's Carmela's first cousin or first cousin once removed, but Tony and everyone call Christopher his nephew. Christopher would've been done earlier in the season if Livia hadn't spoken up for him when talking to Junior. She said he put her storm windows in for her, so that was the reason he got a pass. Junior definitely would've taken him out at the same time as Brendan, if not for Livia.

MacGuffinStuff

That actually confused me for a second because I recognized him but Christopher didn't and I thought that was going to be a problem.

MacGuffinStuff

Eeee, well it's just a theory of mine but pretty sure the slur "Ginny/Guinea" does refer to the place and it's meant to imply that Italians, especially Southern Italians like Sicilians, Calabrese, Napolitano aren't exactly "white". Would you like to know more? Look to True Romance for further information about this subject. Joking but that's actually a pretty fuckin cool movie. Yeah the meta is awesome, and I think Christopher Moltisanti (that name means Many Saints btw, just interesting to me) is representing the younger generation in the Family, much more influenced by Hollywood himself about how to Gangster. The older guys love the classics too but they also mentioned what a POS Henry Hill was, Christopher is kind of a TV baby, which is so great about this show. It's self awareness on multiple levels. I also love how the writing is so nuanced in such a way you can just tell these writers know, culturally, who they're writing about. As a Chicano I'll just say like a lot of us I'm just happy to see a brown face, or a Latino face, or an indigenous face on screen but when they are also real people with depth and you can tell the writer is either speaking from first person experience or at least grew up around or in some other way got to really know the real people, it really gets me, I love it. And I feel like, I mean have some Italian American friends from South Jersey, one of my best friends still since 7th grade, moved to California at 7 and he somehow still sounds like he's a Soprano even though his older brother who lived there a whole year longer, does not lol, but these characters feel real to me. That's how I know Gabagool is Sicilan for Capicola. That's why I will say, movies like American Me and Blood In, Blood Out are also in that same vein of being written either by a Chicano or someone who definitely understands Chicanos, but they are also about some of the worst aspects of the Chicano or Mexican American life, the gangs, specifically the prison gangs, and it's literally shows the worst things, that and movies like Sicario or The Counselor, etc. And those are great movies, more or less, some shitty endings, in fact all of them lol. Before that our best representative was Cheech. I just wish we had more movies like Mi Familia and The Milagro Beanfield War, but I'll just take more movies with Michael Peña, fuck it ey...

Haye Zeus

Christopher shooting the guy in the foot was a reference to My Left Foot with Daniel Day Lewis. Anyways I felt the same way about Christopher the way George does. So without spoiling anything, i’ll just say this…he’s one of my favorite characters.

SbE

Regarding Christopher's memory of The Devil's Advocate: if it wasn't a mistake on the part of the writer, I think it might be as simple as Christopher being high as fuck while watching it, so he missed it completely, or that he considers her suicide as the act of "leaving him"

Green Nolan

There are MANY actors in the sopranos that were in Goodfellas. Dr Melfi, obviously being a main character always amused me when they mention it at dinner. Lorraine Bracco was actually up for the role of Carmela too.

Jobbe Smit

Always a ragu, so a sauce

Jobbe Smit

It's hardly a theory and just established fact. Italians, especially the southern ones that migrated settled in 'black' areas and worked 'black' jobs. Alongside a healthy tan this made them seen as less white than the Irish or German settlers. Guinea comes from Guinea Negro, a black slave from West Africa. It does exactly what it sounds like, implies Italians aren't fully white but have black slave ancestry. It's always just racism.

Honey Hermsen

The irony of Melfi's ex husband immediately thinking her patient is in the mafia

Jonathan Eaton

Anyone notice Gino in the bakery? If you know, you know. No spoilers please.

Max

first drink 14yo

dys

I wouldn't even think the middle school gym teacher's first thought would be that a group of 12 or 13 year olds seeming sick were drunk, they'd just send them to the nurse. Everything with Tony's mom losing some of her faculties and independence is hitting a lot harder right now since I'm about the age Gandolfini was in this season, and my dad is getting to the point where he can't be independent anymore.

Thall

One thing I though was a quote from a book I read: "Why would they teach their children obedience to authority? What if they are obedient to someone stupid? Children should be taught good judgement."

Silver Linings Starman

Love that Dr. Melfi's husband mentions "Goodfellas". Lorraine Bracco who plays Dr. Melfi earned an oscar nomination for "Goodfellas".