Stern's parents aren't even that weird, interesting, and definitely not bad people. Howard is just an egomaniac. Yeah, his dad seemed kind of cold but that wasn't that abnormal back then, he grew up in an era where you had to hide how you felt and suck it up
Man these people are messed up. Apparently the years of "therapy" didn't do much good to Howard. The guy is a mess. Downplaying and even ridiculing the horrific abuse that was inflicted here is just disgusting.
What was Shuli doing there? My goodness, you couldn't get rid of him. I think he's way more obsessed with Howard than Sal. He's just smarter about hiding it.
7 years later.... sals dad was trying to sell the pizzeria to someone who came into the store, while talking to the guy sal called for his dad to make a chicken parm sandwich and his dad started to make a meatball, when Sal tried to correct him instead of just fixing the sandwich he proceeded to beat the shit out of sal with load of bread in front of the buyer