The Sopranos Crime Family EXPLAINED 

Just when I thought I was out, he pulls me back in

Vito was promoted from bakery customer to captain, not bad

You forgot Noah Tannenbaum. Whenever Tony needs someone's fucking lights punched out, he calls the hasidic homeboy to get the job done.

How many times I gotta tell you? They're a GLORIFIED CREW!

Chris should've taken those Pokemon cards and then ran away with Adriana. They'd be doin alright.

How could you forget our favorite punching bag, Georgie?

Bobby's position in the family was always kinda weird, though I'm assuming that has more to do with Tony and Junior's arrangement. Junior was still technically the boss, but couldn't directly oversee his operations, so they made Bobby a sorta Capo of his crew. However, since Tony was the real boss, and Junior's crew was only made up of a few old men, Bobby wasn't technically a captain of anything. There's also the fact that the writers very likely forgot, and they themselves didn't really keep track of the family politics.

The humor wouldn’t have worked if it was too realistic. Thats the beauty of the show, especially when rewatching, is realizing how lighthearted the show takes itself despite how dark it is.

I think you forgot to mention Vito taking over as captain after Ralph

Finally, a video I can actually use. Not one of these “Why the Tony’s favorite strippers nail polish color predicts what really happens on the cut to black.”

Matt and Sean... they were such brilliant young men of great potential

You forgot to mention Gino, the associate that runs the bakery.

I think I said on another video, but the DiMeo crime family is probably about 50 made guys at any given time and about 100-200 associates. That's about ~5 crews of 10 made men, each who has a few associates under them. We see lots of these peripheral characters but never learn who or what their position is. In the first season, for example, there's that tall bodyguard with Junior when he's telling Tony "how many hours did I spend playing catch with you?!", and then the two younger guys standing guard for him at the diner when Tony comes to visit him, not to mention the 3-4 older guys around him he's talking to. That's about 5 made men and 3 associates right there. The series is replete with characters like this, so I think about 50 made men and 100-200 associates is relatively accurate, with us only getting to spend any real time with Tony and his inner circle.

The show is really written like we're actually observing a very particular person (Tony) in certain situations during a certain period of their life with a few peeps in at a handful of the more important people that surround that person. We see and hear what we do and the left is left largely unknown as it would be if we were just hanging out with T or his friends and associates during these scenes. We don't have all the info. We don't even actually know for sure how many captains there were at the beginning of the show, the end, or any time in between. Characters appear to us outta the blue while clearly being known to the other characters and disappear all the same. We see next to nothing of any crew past some leadership and the ones Tony is social with or has direct business with. There's a lot unseen, we can only put together part of the picture. And it's better that way imo. We know the whole "glorified crew" bs was just talk cause NY was always careful not to come to blows with Jersey cause Jersey controlled a lotta cash flow and was capable of a lotta violence cause they had international connections and allies. It took Phil getting off the leash and becoming emotional and irrational to go past sanctions and it got him nothing positive at all. I think it's great that we only see the parts we actually need to and the rest is just whatever it is, it's not important to the story.

The wiki also mentions a "Nicholas Spagnelli". A character who is listed as a soldier of the Barese crew that appears in Season 6 Episode 3 "Mayhem".

Our true enemy has yet to reveal himself 😂😂

Don’t forget Angie Dickinson as Junior’s would-be goomar

You mean , "Animal Blundetto"

It was just a glorified crew.

I've gone this long in life living in Baltimore and never knew that The Goose was in the Sopranos!! Lmao. RIP Tony Siragusa

I can tell you a couple of three things about them: One, more than just one was a fanook, catching, not pitching. This I seen with my own eyes. Two, a few more were going south of the border, more than occasionally. And three, it was well known that Tony Soprano was seeing a shrink, and tried to kill his own muddah. Ralph Cifaretto, whatever happened there, I don't know.

That's great and all, but you're missing the most important member of the family: THE GABAGOOL

Sunshine, never should have messed with Jackie Jr's lethal crew of killers!

New Jersey, a family?, cmon huh?

Missed Eugene getting made

Jackie Jr. starts as an associate/hanger on in Season 2 under Richie.

You forgot Rocco Dimeo and Thaaaa Jacket. He was toughest guy in Essex county.

Great Job Kino, your information on the Soprano Family was very well detailed👍

Great job, as usual, Kino. This answered a lot of questions that I have always had.👍🏾

Albert & Larry Barese are cousins, not brothers

Great video, thank you for doing all the research and finding clips

The Sopranos wiki forgot only one guy: Corky DiGioia. He's important too (associate/soldier), albeit the wiki doesn't have a page about him.

Very good video. Get this man a soft drink of choice.

Well done!! Thanks for all the hard work!!🔥

Thanks PK! you no doubt did a buttload of research on this, i like what youve done here!!

Sopranos Crime Family? How many times I gotta say it, THEY'RE A GLORIFIED CREW!!!

Woke up this morning, with a Kino vid in your eye!

I love your videos. I never can wait for the next one. Thanks for your work

Thanksgiving week brought me a new Kino vid!!! Thanks kino! Now to watch He is Risen

I swear hearing these last names is like scrolling through my family tree...I'm a lucarelli..in my family there's also Russo, Iazetta, Bonavita, Tucci

I just started watching your videos 2 days ago and love them! keep up the great work!

You forgot Gino from the first season. Vito Spatafore's twin brother 🤣

Awesome video Kino!!!

Kino has the makings of a varsity athlete

idk if it counts but you "missed" Zellman. Someone's out of the loop with Paulie...

Enjoyed this very much.

This one is ace, great work Sir. ☘️👍

Benny Fazio is the current Sopranos acting boss

Great video! Would you consider going further back to many saints of Newark to expand the crime family tree?

Hell yes been waiting for this

Pretty good, nice work!

Me: “Hey Chrissy…did Pure Kino stop making Sopranos videos?” Chrissy: “HE DID-DENT! 🥴”

Comprehensive rundown brother. You covered them all. Maybe more of the actor's names would have added to the content. 🎉

Walden was played by an actor who went on to fame with Band of Brothers 😮

Tony just never had the makings of Varsity athlete.

Thank u for this

Well done my friend well done

It made sense that guys appear out of the blue several times. The point of the maffia is insulation. It is totally logical for a boss like Tony to have guys working for him he hasn´t speak directly to in years. When a guy gets promoted, or someone who got killed have to be reeplaced, they get closer to the don

You forgot Georgie's position as Tony's punching bag.

Yeah, i have a few. More about Jackie Aprille sr. Who was Mikeys and chuckies crew when Mike was junior's right-hand? They mentioned that dude throughout the entire series despite him dying at the ending of season one. And those creepy old hitmen the blind one and his crew when they we're thinking of hitting johnny sack. Also, not to mention that entire other family they did business with back in Italy.

I think you're right that is pretty much impossible to chronicle every single character that's associated with them since they have so many if you include like the garbage guy and there are many doctors that they work with and also threaten. Do you want to count every single politician that they threaten are like the Russians that they work with or the hitmen they hire? It's hard just a stick to the made guys since there are so many background characters who could be or not

I don’t know if this is relevant or not but the coroner found traces of diet soda on the corpse of Matthew Bevilaqua.

You make such a great point about them introducing characters just out of the freaking blue. The episode where Hesh gets mad at the Cuban friend in the stables? Ralphie breaks it up saying you guys have been friends for ages! We're watching like yeah, really? Who is this guy??

You forgot the parade float crew headed by Vito

12:32 lmaoo he was in 2 fast 2 Furious driving the Yanko Camaro😂

I thought I was gonna stop watching these videos 😂

Can you do a couple videos looking into what could have happened to the Bonpenseiros and the Scatinos? They were characters in s2 whose stories were never truly resolved and it always has bothered me

WELL DONE!!

This is harder than the New York State bar exam.

I’m pondering the connection of all the women in Tony’s life whose name ends with letter A. Carmella, Irina, Valentina, Julianna, and to some extent Adriana

I think there is a way to clear up some of the ambiguous standings of certain characters. There are two different types of associates: family, and business. Family associates are (typically) young guys being recruited into the actual mafia. Before they’re made guys, they’re the entry level men doing jobs for capos. Brandon, Sean/Matt, Benny/Little Paulie, etc. Their “career path” is strictly within the family, thus family associates. Georgie and Murmur are interesting cases. They probably don’t have career aspirations of being made men (if they even can be), but they’re low level criminal associates that work for the higher up guys, thus, family associates. Then, there are business associates. Those who deal with the crew/crews and are valuable allies/sources of income, but would never be “IN” the mafia themselves. Whether they’re politicians (Zellman), the ministers that help with the HUD scams, Masserone and Barone with construction and garbage respectively, and many more, these are the people who are not in the mafia, but otherwise work in conjunction to profit themselves along with the mob. Dick Barone or Reverend James Jr. would never be made men, and would absolutely never consider themselves mobsters, but simply that they have mutually beneficial business dealings with the Soprano family. Finally, there is a third category which I would consider “victim”. This is reserved for the people who are *kind of* family associates, but their dealings are that they’re being taken advantage of. Davey Scatino got himself in deep shit with gambling, so he’s a victim of the bust out. JT Dolan is a victim of Christopher’s. Beansie, while he was a former full blown associate in the past, went legit but was victimized by Richie. Even Old Man Satriale “lost” his business because of his gambling debts to Johnny Boy. These aren’t associates, because the money they’re “giving” to the mafia is being taken. They’re victims, plain and simple. Thus, you have a broad picture of how the mafia operates. You have the boss, and his consigliere and underboss. Under them, capos who manage made men, and all the low level associates. Most mafioso that are made and above will have dealings with the latter two types of people: business associates that they partner and ally with to generate revenue in a mutually beneficial manner, and victims. That’s where the money comes from. Shit rolls downhill, money flows up, since time immemorial.

I never knew Vito was a Nephew of the Aprile’s

When I see the tittle and I think: "Didn't this guy analyze this f family in other 3456 videos already?" And then I automatically think: "Who tf cares, Im gonna watch it anyways"

Seeing Paul drinking Ramlösa sparkling water right at the end, watching this from close to Helsingborg. I didn't even know that was exported.

kino your the best sopranostuber❤

You did not mention Vito's rise to Captain. He took over the Aprile crew.

Dante was the best background character, he reminded me of The Kingpin lol

Good job.

I'd love for you to do some content on mob related films such as the godfather 1 and 2 or goodfellas etc

Waiting on that video of the watches of the sopranos. Specially tonys rolex

Dang, Kino. PF well done.

Benny is in Chris crew..this is confirmed on the episode luxury lounge

The guy whos just a backround character in pax soprana made me laugh

The best criteria to distinguish between people that the mobsters just know, and associates, is that associates help and participate in crime activities

You missed an associate of richie aprile's crew that went by "donnie" He is only in a few episodes because He got fired inmediately after he called the actor that plays joey peeps a f@g, because he awkwardly complimented him on his looks and compared him to a hollywood star. If you’re wondering who he is,he is in multiple scenes in the construction site during the "no-work" jobs. He is also in a scene where johnny sacks beats him up in a bar and pees on him. You find that scene by typing "jonnhy sack attacks"

You left out the Gabagool Crew

PK, how r u ? Can u do a review on Perry Mason? I watch him on a regular and would like an analysis on him and his practice

Great job very allegorical

12:32 ive seen the actor playing anthony 2 fast 2 furious deiving the camaro

Maybe i didnt see , but where is little Pauli?)

Murmurs was is big addition

Our friend "The RU-vidr" has uploaded

12:03 that look Tony made, he just couldn't believe a man at Bobby's age wasn't a captain

I can see Waldon taking out paulie after the cut to black

Thanks for doing my suggestion!

I also did the math in depth and the sopranos are the decavalcante family and the lupertazzi family is the Gambino family and the run down of families goes as follows mangelo(luchese) and lupertazzi(geneovese) the other three are the bananno, Gambino, and and Colombo families but the luchese and geneovese are replaced by mangelo and lupertazzi it’s all mathematically correct

I think Bobby was made Acting Captain while Junior was institutionalised, and Janice was complaining that he wasn't given the actual title since Junior was clearly never coming back.

great vid but i think you should do a follow up vid where you go through how the crime family changes season to season and show an actual family tree of it. like for example how S2 Bobby would be under Junior but then by end of the series he's number 3 basically. anyways nice video i learned about some characters that i didnt even know existed and i thought i knew everything about this shit

That animal Tony Blandetto!

Id like to note that there wasnt a single varsity athlete in that family