Were Paulie's chocolates cursed? Within five years everyone who ate them was dead, and Bryan was still alive and recovered from the coma. Good thing he didn't get to eat any.
So many jokes in such a serious scene, and every one perfectly suited to their characters! This is why The Sopranos writers were so completely legendary!
Remember Paulie talking about the difference between a men’s room and a ladie’s room. “You can eat maple walnut ice cream off the seats.” Not just ice cream, specifically maple walnut. The writing for this series is the best ever.
later in the series, it is actually implied that Bryan has recovered and was able to return to work in some capacity, because Tony mentions a construction job that Bryan was overseeing at Satriale's butcher when talking to Carmella... but this is still one of the most disturbing and tragic acts of senseless violence in the entire show
He and Vito look dramatically different in that scene in the mall where they kind of ambush Tony. Just watched the episode recently and forgot it was the same guy from this episode.
@@LordTalax I can't tell you how many times I didn't...then I just caught a little something at the wrong moment and now I can't unsee it. Every time I see it pop.
@@HeisenbergTheFirst It symbolizes how crazy Ralphie was already by season 3, cracking jokes and playing around with life supporting equipment in the intensive care while a guy with a bashed in head is laying there in a coma, his brother standing there beside him
Tommy the shoe shiner What’s so lucky about Pauli m. He’s a living out of dumpster. Did you see his home. Looked worse than a refugee camp. With out Tony he should be lucky if he gets crumbs.
Prison is rough on extroverts, like the Ralph character; leaving them stone cold, and usually in pretty good control of their words, but we needed to laugh at things that probably wouldn't be said around men 'who challenge each other to lethal duels' under the right circumstances.
Paulie isn't dedicated to Tony, he's just a kiss ass. He wants to make sure he's in Tony's good graces and he does it in front of Tony but never when Tony isn't around. In fact, he actively undermines Tony with the NY crew because he wants to kiss their asses for his own gain, but Johnny Sack plays him like a fiddle
Just read that the actor behind Mustang Sally died last year. He died of acute intoxication by the combined effects of fentanyl, heroin, diazepam and cocaine. R.I.P. Brian Tartantina 1959 - 2019
Out of every single misdeed ever committed during the entire series, this is the one I find the most despicable. To do something like that to an honest man who works for a living. A guy who had nothing to do with the mob and was completely minding his own business. A guy who was in the wrong place at the very wrong time. The guy became a brain-damaged vegetable over absolutely nothing. Edit: I can't believe this was 7 years ago. Thanks for all the likes and comments, everyone! Hope you're all doing well in this crazy decade. Although, on second thought, I think the worst misdeed in the entire show would be that fucking animal Blundetto killing Billy. After all, Billy was a fucking kid. Plus he was Phil's brother. Phil did 20 fucking years in the can, and that's the thanks he gets?
The part about is that fucks with me is that there was literally nothing he did wrong. The girl came up to him and pled with him and then the next second he cops a golf club to the side of the head.
"Well look on the bright side. He wasnt that smart to begin with" I couldnt stand Ralphie the first time I saw the Sopranos but man he had some of the best lines!
+TheNewEmphinix well the difference between a wanabee and BB is doo do. Everyones a wan a bee at first. The problem with him was that he was kinda dumb and too arogant and impulsive.
+ChopStickZero yup. Even Ralphie explains that him, Jackie Sr, and Tony thought of themselves as the 6th family in their youth. Chrissy was a wannabe but only some mature quick enough
Yeah, the problem with youths like Jackie Jr is they want to flash the swag, carry a gun, and be able to work less for more money. The problem that these dumb ass kids have is that they attact too much attention to themselves and don't think beyond the streets. And then they wonder why they end up behind bars before the age of twenty five.
Yes, they all start out as wannabees, but the difference is Jackie Jr. is also a fucking idiot. I grew up in Queens and knew a lot of kids just like him. They all thought they were going to be gangsters, now they work in pizza places or as bus drivers.
I love how Vito just throws the top of the box on his legs and just starts grubbing out on his chocolate all the while giving shifty looks to make sure he doesn't wake up to witness the crime haha. These guys
That’s true about the Mustang. I thought he was referring to when Lee ran all of Chrysler in the 80s. Since he said “look at Lee Iacocca over here, 2 minutes & he’s in charge.” I love his attitude lol
Rocko’s brother never gave a fuck. He attacked Rocky in a parking garage. Pushed Tommy Gunn and ended up getting slugged. Attacked Thunderlips with a chair. Even stepped to Apollo. Old man Baccala had balls of steel.
Can we talk about Bryan's hair for a second? What is the logic not shaving the top and leaving that weird hair net looking stuff? The horseshoe is classic just clean it up
This will sound crazy, but when my friend was in the hospital for a spine infection I bought him a Whitman's sampler just because I saw Paulie on the Sopranos do it.
Gigi was the ultimate “I wish they did more with that character..”. By the last season they had to fill in so many gaps with guys who we’re supposed to pretend were there all along. Gigi could’ve been the guy who whacked Phil.
Well it's more so that they are low level guys moving up the ranks. Tony only ever interacts with the upper crust of mafia leadership through most of the show
I agree. He had that Manson-Lamps look that you could tell he was a vicious mobster when he wanted to be. Yet he was level headed enough to not fly off the handle. The more clips I watch of him the more I respect his character and wish they did more with him. He should have made it to the end or close to it.
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Agreed, Gigi was probably under utilized overall. But, it’s kindof the point of the final few episodes right? Outside of Paulie, all of Tony’s closest and most trusted guys are gone. Ironically, Paulie was the most superstitious yet at the end is shown to be the luckiest member of the crew. Gets a huge promotion on top of, you know, being alive.
Acushnet bullseye putter by the way. Very popular back in the day. I used one for almost 40 years. It's still in the basement somewhere. I think I'll go put it in the car.
Mustang Sal’s death was too good. He deserved the special that the crazy old guys with the cataracts were proposing when Silvio and Chris commissioned the hit on Johnny Sac.
That is a room full of tragic characters right there, all with their own individual, fucked up endings. At least two different sets of people in that room killed each other, another one hung himself, and one died taking a shit.
And Ralphie got blamed for killing pie-oh-mie when it was clearly paulie. Even worse he was crying his eyes out for days when his son got shot by an arrow. Ralphie changed after that event. He had some sort of humanity when his son was maimed.
@@olababatunde584 nah, Chase confirmed that Ralphie killed the horse. But I prefer the interpretation that it was Paulie & Ralphie got killed while he was starting his redemption arc
@@olababatunde584 the only way Ralph being the killer really makes sense is if he’s so distraught that he slips back into his default mode to pay for the hospital bills. In that case he might not give a shit. But like, Paulie was already gunning to get back at Ralph. I also feel like Ralph’s violent crimes are generally more spontaneous & emotionally driven. He beat up that guy to impress Jackie Jr. He killed Tracee because he felt emasculated. But his profit-driven crimes were usually white collar type stuff. It doesn’t seem totally out of the question that Ralph would burn the stable, but Paulie is a WAY more likely suspect
@@CaptainTrips560 even if he didn't do it it's a boy cried wolf situation. Considering the shenanigans that he gets up to. But the reason tony kills him is not because of the horse. Ralphie brings up meat which is the reason for all of Tony's panic attacks since his father mutilated Mr.Satriale and brought home capicollo (gabagool)
I always found this scene disturbing. Brian looks like a legitimate guy, maybe a bit in the gray area but sounded like a hard worker (Him and his crew built Beansie a ramp). Then mustang sally hits him in the head with a golf club for basically no reason.
And Ralphie standing there, you know he's thinking exactly what you said in your comment but he can't say shit because he's already been told to shut up twice by Tony.
Sopranos family trees are weird. Tony is Christopher's uncle because Joanne and Tony Blundetto are his cousins. Joanne Blundetto's husband was Dickie Moltisanti. Dickie Moltisanti's uncle was Hugh De'Angelis, Carmella's father. That makes Christopher a cousin to both Tony and Carmella even before they got married. Add to this, Adrianna La Cerva's mother, Liz La Cerva is Jackie and Richie Aprile's sister. Vito is Richie Aprile's nephew, which would make him Adrianna's cousin. Vito's wife Marie is, as we all know, Phil Leotardo's cousin. Bottom line: if Chris and Adrianna had married, then Phil and Billy Leotardo would've been cousins by marriage of that fuckin' animal, Blundetto.
@@jeffpedler6094 Yeah but Ade says in one episode, to her FBI handler, that Tony is related to Joanne Blundetto- Christopher's mom, as well as the connection via Carmela to Dickie Moltisanti.
@@joshradcliffe8563 The only way she is related to Tony Soprano is through his cousin Tony Blundetto. So technically Tony Soprano is Christopher's cousin's cousin. Tony Soprano is Tony Blundetto's maternal cousin and Christopher is Tony Blundetto's paternal cousin.
This is actually very realistic and it's one of the main reasons the FBI had such a problem busting the mob before RICO. It's an insular, vaguely incestous, subculture that's hard to infiltrate because the first thing people ask about is your family. If your some yahoo from North Dakota who mysteriously shows up out of the blue that's not going to fly. When they did get to them with an undercover they had to go through Adriana but usually when you're raised around these people they know your parents and uncles and cousins and all the rest and you "stay in the family."
First of all it's Make-Believe, it's not real and if it were a real life situation it probably wouldn't end up that way. Second he wasn't even doing anything he was just standing there and she came up to him. He didn't agree to take her anywhere. If that were real life and I were Vito's brother, I would say dude don't come at me like that I told her I'm not going to help her so what's your fucking problem?
What surprised me at this last scene is except for Vito's brother all 4 guys die. Vito gets killed by Phil, Ralph gets killed by Tony, Cheech like Elvis Presley in the crapper and the other one hangs himself