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The Sopranos

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The Sopranos	comment	The Sopranos is a deconstructive Criminal Procedural series created by David Chase aired as Sunday Evening Drama Series. Its Pilot Episode was shot in 1997, and the show premiered on HBO in the United States on January 10, 1999, concluding its original run of six seasons and 86 episodes on June 10, 2007 with one of the most infamous endings in American television history.The series is centered around North Jersey mob boss Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini), who secretly begins seeing a therapist after a panic attack. Hilarity and Reality Ensues as his therapy coincides with him sending his troublesome, sociopathic mother Livia into a nursing home when it becomes apparent that she's no longer able to take care of herself.From there, the series focuses on Tony's problematic dual families: his biological family — long-suffering wife Carmela, straight-A student daughter Meadow, underachiever son A.J., and equally morally bankrupt sister Janice — and the organized crime family he is involved in, who include his bitter uncle Junior, his 'nephew' (actually his wife's cousin) Christopher, and more.The Sopranos was a major ratings success throughout its run, despite being aired on premium cable network HBO, which at the time of the show's premiere had been available in significantly fewer American homes than regular networks. The show frequently attracted equal or larger audiences than most popular network shows of the time.The show had a significant impact on the American television industry. It is commonly credited with ushering in the (current) Golden Age of Television, is considered one of the most influential artistic works of the 2000s, and served as a turning point for the legitimization of serial television as an art form on the same level as feature films, literature, and theater. In the show's wake, TV entered an age of complex, no-handholding storytelling centered around morally dark protagonists; examples include Breaking Bad, Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire, all of which were directly inspired by The Sopranos, with the latter two programs having showrunners that also worked on The Sopranos. The series helped establish HBO as producers of critically acclaimed and commercially successful original television series, and became the first cable program to be both nominated for and win an Emmy Award.A Licensed Game called The Sopranos: Road to Respect, set between seasons five and six, was released in 2006.A prequel film, The Many Saints of Newark written by David Chase, was released in 2021. Taking place during the Newark riots in the 1960s, the film stars Jon Bernthal as Tony's father Johnny Boy Soprano, Vera Farmiga as his mother Livia Soprano, Alessandro Nivola as Christopher's father Dickie Moltisanti, and Gandolfini's son Michael as a young Tony. Chase and series writer Terence Winter have discussed the possibilty of additional prequels to the show, contingent upon the success of Many Saints.The film-within-the-show Cleaver has its own work page.
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The Sopranos / int_1053b44e	type	Therapy Is for the Weak
The Sopranos / int_1053b44e	comment	Therapy Is for the Weak: A recurring, discussed theme. Tony considers that therapy is for the meek and has to keep his a secret, because if a guy in his line of work is known to be talkative, he may very well end up dead.
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The Sopranos / int_1078bba8	type	"Mister Sandman" Sequence
The Sopranos / int_1078bba8	comment	"Mister Sandman" Sequence: "To Save Us All From Satan's Power." The brief 1995 sequences include multiple references to O.J. Simpson and Valujet and feature Jackie Sr. and Big Pussy prominently smoking in a restaurant. (It also mentions Pussy's wife booking a cruise on the Dawn Princess, which actually set sail two years later, but that's neither here nor there).
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The Sopranos / int_10cdfe4b	type	Fall Guy
The Sopranos / int_10cdfe4b	comment	Season 1 gives us Junior and his second, Mikey Palmice. They're dangerous and have some nebulous backing from New York, but Junior lacks his own capos' support and is unseated easily once he blows his chance to assassinate Tony. Mikey and Junior's other key players are whacked, and Junior himself is undone by an incidental ploy that marked him as the family's Fall Guy.
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The Sopranos / int_112890b3	type	Secret Identity
The Sopranos / int_112890b3	comment	Secret Identity: Tony often conceals his real name to 'civilian' clerks and receptionists. This backfires soundly when he tries to use one of his usual aliases (Mr. Spears) with a new psychiatrist — aware of Tony's identity and line of work — who is Genre Savvy, as he had seen Analyze This. Tony tries to argue that he is Wrong Genre Savvy as "Analyze This" is a comedy, but gets rejected anyway.
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The Sopranos / int_11630eaa	type	The Gambling Addict
The Sopranos / int_11630eaa	comment	The Gambling Addict: Tony's friend David Scatino, who tragically gets Trapped by Gambling Debts. Chris's friend and sponsor J.T Dolan, in a very reminiscent way, but he manages to stay afloat. Tony himself ends up 'chasing it' after a bad luck streak. Being rich and powerful, he can afford it, but goes through it in a very unpleasant mood and insults his friend and moneylender Hesh with the All Jews Are Cheapskates trope.
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The Sopranos / int_119e320e	type	Red Herring Twist
The Sopranos / int_119e320e	comment	Red Herring Twist: During a food poisoning-induced dream sequence, Tony encounters a talking Red Herring that lays down some pretty hard truths Tony does not want to admit.
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The Sopranos / int_11cac491	type	Tragedy
The Sopranos / int_11cac491	comment	Tragedy: At its core, the series is a slow burning version of this. In chronological order, the series goes into detail of how Tony Soprano was born into a family involved in organized crime, whose influence led him to choose a life in the Mafia, following his father's footsteps. After a gradual decay of the lifestyle in the 90s due to changing times and loss of many privileges, Tony and both families (biological and criminal) find themselves trapped in their ways, both personal and professional, which undermine any attempt of self-improvement. For his part, Tony ascends to the role of The Don of a Vestigial Empire, with a large chunk of his character arc seeing him tossing most of his positive qualities as loss, paranoia, resentment and an already worsening personality takes its toll. By the end, most of his actions, good and bad, coupled with his peers' own contributions have resulted in his murdering his protege, becoming an even worse version of himself, destroying most of his relationships with people outside a very narrow social circle and heading an almost cadaveric shell of the famiglia, not to say the almost certainty that he'll never escape the criminal downward spiral he's in.
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The Sopranos / int_120d0e3f	type	Adam Westing
The Sopranos / int_120d0e3f	comment	Adam Westing: Jon Favreau appeared on as a name-dropping, overly-pretentious jerkass version of himself who'd come to New Jersey to make a movie. Star-struck gangster Christopher was delighted to hang out with "Jon"...until "Jon" stole all his ideas. Frank Sinatra couldn't show up to lampoon his own mob ties, so instead we get Frank Sinatra Jr. playing poker and Nancy Sinatra performing a private concert. When Christopher pitches his idea for Cleaver to Sir Ben Kingsley, Kingsley is unimpressed with the idea and turned off by Chris's lack of professionalism. So instead, they have to settle for Daniel Baldwin. The same episode features a cameo by Lauren Bacall, who pretty much plays herselfâ€“â€“a charming, potty-mouthed Hollywood legend.
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The Sopranos / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
The Sopranos / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: This pretty much became the hook of the show, to the extent that it was called "The Big Pussy Rule". No one was safe, be it the lowest goon or Tony himself. Due to the fact that they were never informed well in advance, many of the actors explicitly expressed suspense and fear for their careers should the writers suddenly choose the sword to fall on their head. (Though in the case of Livia, it was the actress that died first.) Most of the most notorious deaths of major characters such as Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, Vito Spatafore, Adriana La Cerva and Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri came, predictably, as a result of mob hits. However, arguably the most shocking death occurred in Season 6 when Christopher Moltisanti is wounded when the car he is riding in with Tony flips over (his death hastened by Tony suffocating him.) And then there's the series' infamously inconclusive ending, which led many viewers to assume that Tony himself may or may not have been assassinated as well.
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The Sopranos / int_127fc252	type	Creator Cameo
The Sopranos / int_127fc252	comment	Creator Cameo: David Chase is the Italian man who ignores Paulie in "Commendatori". He also appears as an extra in "Luxury Lounge" and is the voice on the phone in "The Test Dream". Matthew Weiner plays TV pundit and mafia expert Manny Safier in "Two Tonys" and "Stage 5".
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The Sopranos / int_1282bf4f	type	No Celebrities Were Harmed
The Sopranos / int_1282bf4f	comment	No Celebrities Were Harmed: A small comedic subplot involved Tony meeting a gangsta rapper in the next hospital bed over during his recuperation. One of the guys' entourage is a fledgling rapper who realizes that surviving a shooting is key to getting famous, to which he hires Bobby Baccala to do it. Bobby shoots him in the ass. If the connection wasn't apparent enough, they dress the character in white pants, a white tank top, and a white hat at the time.
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The Sopranos / int_12dc4d97	type	Greedy Jew
The Sopranos / int_12dc4d97	comment	Tony himself runs up some gambling debts and ends up owing money to his Jewish friend Hesh. When Hesh asks for it back, Tony gets defensive and resentful and starts making Greedy Jew jokes. Their long friendship ends.
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The Sopranos / int_12dd1d4c	type	Rape as Drama
The Sopranos / int_12dd1d4c	comment	Rape as Drama: Melfi is raped in a rather disturbing sequence and later finds out, due to the police screwing up when they arrested the man, that they can't bring charges against him. And then has the misfortune of finding out that her rapist is "Employee of the Month" at a sandwich shop she frequents. Angry, full of rage, and realizing that Tony would easily murder the scumbag rapist, with or without her permission if told about it, Melfi decides to keep what happened to her a secret.
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The Sopranos / int_1320d787	type	Playing Sick
The Sopranos / int_1320d787	comment	Playing Sick: Junior, feigning dementia to avoid criminal prosecution. Invoked and then twisted, as Junior is really going senile.
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The Sopranos / int_13992073	type	Rasputinian Death
The Sopranos / int_13992073	comment	Rasputinian Death: The Russian mobster from "Pine Barrens". After seemingly getting his throat crushed, he turns out to still be alive. After seemingly getting shot in the head, he simply disappears into the Pine Barrens. Paulie even compares him to Rasputin, and we never find out what happened to him or if he even died of his injuries.
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The Sopranos / int_146f8df0	type	Situational Sexuality
The Sopranos / int_146f8df0	comment	Situational Sexuality: The prison variant is discussed during one of Tony's therapy sessions with Dr. Melfi. Turns out you get a pass on that in the Sicilian mafia, but actively seeking out men outside of prison is crossing a line for them. The very homophobic Phil Leotardo, who did twenty fucking years in the can, very pointedly mentions that he always "jerked off in a tissue" whenever he wanted to be with a woman. The Suspiciously Specific Denial nature of this line, along with a Visual Pun where Phil literally emerges from a motel closet, has led some viewers to suspect that Phil had some sort of sexual encounter with a fellow inmate and is projecting his self-hatred onto Vito Spatafore.
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The Sopranos / int_14beeefd	type	Darker and Edgier
The Sopranos / int_14beeefd	comment	Darker and Edgier: This may explain the show's success. Much like Watchmen did for comics, The Sopranos had a significant impact on the shape of the American television industry, creating a huge push for more Darker and Edgier TV shows with difficult and controversial subjects including crime, Italian-American stereotypes, graphic sex, graphic violence, Black Comedy, Evil Versus Evil conflicts, unsympathetic characters, and villainous protagonists. The show itself became increasingly dark and violent starting with Season 3. As for cinematography, there's the bleak, almost eerie atmosphere, especially in the final season.
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The Sopranos / int_14e31793	type	Unions Suck
The Sopranos / int_14e31793	comment	Unions Suck: The DiMeo crime family has long worked their way into various labor unions, particularly construction, that they exploit for personal gain, such as "no show" jobs for crew members where they receive full salaries and benefits without ever needing to do actual work.
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The Sopranos / int_14ed6ab7	type	Does This Remind You of Anything?
The Sopranos / int_14ed6ab7	comment	Does This Remind You of Anything?: Played with in "College", where Carmela's relationship with her priest, Father Phil Intintola, is portrayed in such a way that recalls Tony's relationship with Dr. Melfi. Carmela clearly lusts after him, but the episode ultimately shows her taking the same solace in religion that Tony takes in therapy—complete with a private confession session that recalls a therapy session. Amusingly, Tony even accuses Carmela of having an affair with him after finding out that he spent the night at their house while Tony was away; barely a minute later, Carmela accuses Tony of doing the same with Dr. Melfi after finding out that she's a woman (a fact that Tony had tried to conceal).
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The Sopranos / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
The Sopranos / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: The FBI agents who oppose the mobsters provide anti-hero, manipulative, and callous versions. Agent Harris in particular is a Friendly Enemy of Tony's and eventually forms an Enemy Mine against Phil because of some developments about The War on Terror.
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The Sopranos / int_15210c8a	type	Sexposition
The Sopranos / int_15210c8a	comment	Sexposition: There are numerous scenes where The Mafia is discussing important plot points in the Bada Bing strip club. Although if it's something really important or incriminating, they'll take the conversation into the backroom instead.
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The Sopranos / int_154aa477	type	Big, Screwed-Up Family
The Sopranos / int_154aa477	comment	Big, Screwed-Up Family: The Sopranos, the two families (the criminal one also called DiMeo sometimes). Tony tries his best to avert it. The mere basis of the show.
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The Sopranos / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
The Sopranos / int_15b2cab3	comment	A downplayed example in "Watching Too Much Television". The locals in the rundown Black ghetto make it clear to Tony and A.J. that they aren't welcome if they aren't there to buy drugs. Despite one of the locals drawing a gun, and Tony Tempting Fate being a Deadpan Snarker, they're allowed to drive out without further incident.
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The Sopranos / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
The Sopranos / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: The dynamics between Tony, Phil, and agent Harris in the last episode are identical to the DeVecchio FBI case. link.
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The Sopranos / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
The Sopranos / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: Tony and his friends ain't no saints, but the other mobsters who are against them are much worse.
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The Sopranos / int_16cff2b7	type	The Queenpin
The Sopranos / int_16cff2b7	comment	The Queenpin: In season 2, Tony and several of his associates go to Italy to forge new relations with the Neapolitan Camorra. However, The Don turns out be a senile old man and his daughter Annalisa is the one who is really in charge, and remains so throughout the rest of the series. She explains to Tony that the rest of her criminal brothers and cousins were all killed in feuds or targeted by the authorities, but that for these Italian mobsters obeying a woman boss is like obeying their mother.
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The Sopranos / int_16fdd774	type	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle
The Sopranos / int_16fdd774	comment	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle: When Junior Soprano attacks another patient in the psychiatric unit, his slipper flies off as he kicks him.
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The Sopranos / int_17122cfd	type	Put on a Prison Bus
The Sopranos / int_17122cfd	comment	Put on a Prison Bus: In season five, Feech La Manna is released after nearly twenty years in prison. As a sign of respect and as a reward for not snitching, Tony allows him to collect money from various illegal activities. However, Feech stills sees Tony as a kid, completely ignores Tony's status as the boss, and begins to cause headaches. First, he breaks the arm of landscaper Salvatore Vitro to force him to give up some of his routes. Vitro is forced to go to Tony for help and ultimately suffers enough financial difficulty that he has to pull his son from college and landscape both Tony and Johnny Sack's large homes for free. Feech apologizes to Tony and pledges his respect, but when he hears Dr. Ira Fried speak of his daughter's lavish, expensive wedding he organizes a mass hijacking of the guests' expensive cars, causing more headaches for Tony. Because he cannot have such a respected gangster killed, Tony has to resort to alternative means to get him out of the way. To do this, he has Chris and Benny trick Feech into storing stolen plasma televisions in his garage, then they tip off his parole officer. The last scene of Feech in the series is him on the bus to prison, catching as much of the outside world as he can before he returns to prison for the rest of his life.
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The Sopranos / int_175683fa	type	Staging an Intervention
The Sopranos / int_175683fa	comment	Staging an Intervention: There's an intervention to stop Chris from taking heroin. It's fairly hypocritical on the part of the mob guys calling Chris out on his addiction, which he doesn't fail to point out. It turns violent when Chris insults his own mother and Paulie beats his face in.
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The Sopranos / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Tony is this to Christopher, who regards him as a Parental Substitute. Tony goes out of his way to please his unreasonable and sociopathic mother. Since he's never able to reach some harmony, he's helplessly haunted by this failure long after her death.
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The Sopranos / int_178ca149	type	The Worf Effect
The Sopranos / int_178ca149	comment	The Worf Effect: Happens both out of and in-universe when Tony comes back after his near-death experience and worries that his men will see him as weak. He visually examines each of his soldiers and settles on the hulking Perry Anunziato (a brand-new character) as the strongest, then beats him up to show that he's still strong.
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The Sopranos / int_19d1c1ae	type	Always Someone Better
The Sopranos / int_19d1c1ae	comment	Always Someone Better: The show focuses on the lavish lifestyles of gangsters, but it will occasionally undercut how successful they really are in the grand scheme of things. Tony Soprano is The Don, but his crime family is just a big fish in a small pond compared to the New York gangsters across the river. American gangsters overall are humbled when they visit Italy and see how actual Italian gangsters live in opulence. Meadow is a high achiever in high school who grew up in a life of luxury thanks to Tony. When she begins attending Columbia, she has to adjust to the reality that most of the students there are just as, or even more, intelligent as she is and many of them come from families whose lineage or careers are far more prestigious than her family of mobsters. AJ waxes philosophical about the trials of being born rich. Then he's embarrassed to discover that his girlfriend is Secretly Wealthy and lives in a stately mansion far greater than his own home. The Sopranos, for all their underworld power, are upper-middle class at best. Little Carmine, a mafia prince who could have run all of New York City had he wanted to, is just as flabbergasted as Christopher by the lifestyle of Hollywood elites, who have luxury goods thrown at them for free just for the publicity.
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The Sopranos / int_1afb845c	type	Tropaholics Anonymous
The Sopranos / int_1afb845c	comment	Tropaholics Anonymous: Christopher occasionally goes to a meeting on account of his drug addiction. In season 2 David Scatino's brother-in-law, and Melfi's therapist, try to talk them into going to addiction programs for gambling and alcohol respectively, but are unsuccessful.
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The Sopranos / int_1ba8eb64	type	Visual Pun
The Sopranos / int_1ba8eb64	comment	Visual Pun: In Season 6A, "Members Only," Junior has Tony digging holes in his backyard to try to find a buried stash of cash. Junior can't remember the exact location, either due to his dementia, or he has in fact invented the money ever being there, so he has holes in his memory.
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The Sopranos / int_1c20b1ac	type	ThePilot
The Sopranos / int_1c20b1ac	comment	Carmela in the first season is more of a gun moll than in later seasons. In The Pilot, after hearing a noise in the night, she expertly locks and loads an assault rifle, ready to throw down. In later seasons she's more of a sheltered suburban housewife. A later episode has her again looking for a possible intruder in the house, and she's much less prepared.
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The Sopranos / int_1c404c3e	type	Interrupted by the End
The Sopranos / int_1c404c3e	comment	Interrupted by the End: The series infamously ended in the middle of the lyrics of "Don't Stop Believing" as part of its Gainax Ending.
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The Sopranos / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
The Sopranos / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: This is what Tony would like to be and sometimes laments that Americans - including himself - have gone soft, always whining, complaining, and dominated by their emotions. His role model is Gary Cooper; the strong, silent type, but Tony repeatedly proves himself to be neither, easily losing his temper.
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The Sopranos / int_1c5599e4	type	Reformed, but Rejected
The Sopranos / int_1c5599e4	comment	Reformed, but Rejected: Chris's sobriety makes him drift apart from his pals, as the Bada Bing and other workplaces are a source of temptation. The others resent him for this. He carefully explains in an A.A. meeting how his sobriety hinders him professionally. Very sad how his almost unbearable struggle and related problems, combined with some disrespectful jokes Paulie cracks about him and his daughter, make him relapse, eventually leading to his fatal car crash with Tony.
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The Sopranos / int_1c6ded94	type	Wicked Cultured
The Sopranos / int_1c6ded94	comment	Wicked Cultured: Zig-zagged. As mentioned above, depending on the occasion, the mobsters dress sharply or casually. They often enjoy luxury items and refined cuisine, and Artie's restaurant is one of the usual hangouts. On the other hand, below the surface, they are somewhat glorified ruffians. While Tony has moments of unsophistication, he is not the average goombah, his "semester and a half of college" background really shows up from time to time: he is attracted to sophisticated women, and can hold his ground intellectually with Dr. Melfi, understanding many references and complex concepts, e.g. he can cite Freud and Sun-Tzu. This particularly shows in his happiness that Meadow is on the path to a professional career, and his disappointment in A.J.'s... divergent trajectory. Paulie tries too hard to emulate Tony and appear cultivated (he appropriates a fine painting made for Tony), but he fails many times; he is prone to malapropisms and misconceptions.
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The Sopranos / int_1cc527d7	type	Asskicking Leads to Leadership
The Sopranos / int_1cc527d7	comment	Asskicking Leads to Leadership: While Tony recovers from a severe gunshot wound, he notices that his old lieutenants don't follow his orders as readily as they used to, and he suspects that they now see him as weak. Tony responds by goading his hotheaded, musclebound bodyguard into fighting him. He kicks the everloving shit out of the much younger man in front of his entire crew, to their visible shock, then calmly walks into the bathroom and coughs up blood into the sink. No one questions his orders after that. All of the capos and bosses in the mob are either capable fighters and killers, or they used to be in their younger days before they rose so high that they no longer need to get their hands dirty.
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The Sopranos / int_1cf11f13	type	No Sympathy
The Sopranos / int_1cf11f13	comment	When Chris is torn apart after ratting on Adriana, Tony gets annoyed by his nephew's plight and brutally beats him instead of giving any kind of humane support.
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The Sopranos / int_1d751503	type	Talking Your Way Out
The Sopranos / int_1d751503	comment	Talking Your Way Out: David Scatino seems pretty confident in his ability to do this. He tries to keep Tony at bay with this, but Tony isn't amused.
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The Sopranos / int_1d8f9329	type	Deadly Bath
The Sopranos / int_1d8f9329	comment	Deadly Bath: Brendan Filone is inside his bathtub when Mickey Palmice visits him to deliver a Moe Green Especial on Junior's orders.
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The Sopranos / int_1d95dcb7	type	LadyMacBeth
The Sopranos / int_1d95dcb7	comment	The FBI bugs the nursing home where Livia is Junior's Lady Macbeth and plots against Tony.
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The Sopranos / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
The Sopranos / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: All of the mobsters get very violent when their children are threatened. It's also an enforced trope in the mobster world, as mobsters are expected to get murderous when their children are in any way threatened. Janice criticizes her Gentle Giant husband Bobby for not beating up a carnival ride owner for endangering their daughter, causing Bobby to seek him out and deliver a beating after the fact. At other times, mobsters will use real or perceived threats to their children as an excuse to make business moves or take out rivals.
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The Sopranos / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Sopranos / int_1e584efa	comment	Even after all the homophobia expressed by mobsters after Vito was outed, they were all disgusted and grossed out upon hearing of the Cruel and Unusual Death inflicted upon him by Phil Leotardo. And when Carlo praises Phil for taking care of Vito himself, pretty much all of them ignore him.
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The Sopranos / int_1e7487cd	type	Breaking the Fourth Wall
The Sopranos / int_1e7487cd	comment	Breaking the Fourth Wall: A subtle case in 5x03, "Where's Johnny?" When Junior is returned to his home by a couple of cops, Junior tells the one of the cops to "Go shit in your hat." The scene briefly changes to Bobby's daughter Sophia looking at the camera and giggling.
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The Sopranos / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
The Sopranos / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: Phil comes out of the closet when he is handling the resolution of Vito's situation. If Tony dies in the finale, then playing Don't Stop Believing is this - it's Journey cut short.
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The Sopranos / int_1ed91e2a	type	Revealing Hug
The Sopranos / int_1ed91e2a	comment	Revealing Hug: Chris and Tony â€” whose relation is falling over â€” seem to cordially embrace during a baptism, but without any words, their chilling stares powerfully convey a primal fear and a bitter disappointment.
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The Sopranos / int_1f250372	type	I Need a Freaking Drink
The Sopranos / int_1f250372	comment	I Need a Freaking Drink: Dr. Melfi takes a shot of vodka upon noticing the next appointment is Tony in "House Arrest."
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The Sopranos / int_1f4bb5b4	type	Let Me Tell You a Story
The Sopranos / int_1f4bb5b4	comment	Let Me Tell You a Story: Tony tells Junior the story of how Octavian became Augustus and ruler of The Roman Empire. The Aesop about greed and generosity is unclear and it's lost on Junior, so Tony switches to a more mundane story about two bulls mating with as many cows as possible.
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The Sopranos / int_1f6983f7	type	Ambiguous Situation
The Sopranos / int_1f6983f7	comment	Ambiguous Situation: Did Ralphie kill his racehorse Pie-Oh-My for the insurance money? He never admits anything, but it's absolutely the kind of thing he'd do. Johnny Sack's wife and eldest daughter are both substantially overweight, while his youngest daughter (played by a young Cristin Milioti) is unusually thin. The subject of food is a Berserk Button for the youngest daughter, as seen when she yells at her family for even bringing up the subject. It's implied but never explored, that she has an eating disorder.
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The Sopranos / int_1f95e4ed	type	Self-Censored Release
The Sopranos / int_1f95e4ed	comment	Self-Censored Release: The creators made sure to be prepared to bleach their own underpants for syndication. They would frequently record alternate versions of scenes where a nude character (often the strippers in the club) would be in bikinis or lingerie, and occasionally a scene would be recorded with softer dialogue to avoid Hong Kong Dub later.
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The Sopranos / int_20989d05	type	Parents as People
The Sopranos / int_20989d05	comment	Parents as People: Tony, Silvio, and Artie are understandably outraged that their daughters' soccer coach was having an affair with one of the other girls on the team. Tony and Carmela were incensed that Meadow, threw a party at Livia's house. To be fair, the house was utterly trashed, and to make matters worse, ecstasy, Ketamine, and alcohol were found at the scene. Tony and Carmela also genuinely love Meadow and A.J., and Carmela especially tries to do what's best for them (such as getting Meadow out of the life), although they range from ineffective to aggressive, although it's still pretty impressive given that Tony was raised by Livia.
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The Sopranos / int_20a14df0	type	Wrong Genre Savvy
The Sopranos / int_20a14df0	comment	In the first season, Christopher is Wrong Genre Savvy and thinks any business-related problem is resolved with violence, bazooka in hand, and More Dakka Ã la Scarface (1983).
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The Sopranos / int_211b9a77	type	It Can't Be Helped
The Sopranos / int_211b9a77	comment	It Can't Be Helped: All the time, in the form of "[But] What are you gonna do?"
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The Sopranos / int_211c82f5	type	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!
The Sopranos / int_211c82f5	comment	Don't Make Me Take My Belt Off!: Done between adults when Tony uses his belt to hit his corrupt congressman lackey for sleeping with his mistress. Even though he had (apparently) okayed it earlier.
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The Sopranos / int_21c05222	type	Long-Runners
The Sopranos / int_21c05222	comment	Long-Runners: Eight years is a long time for an HBO show (they tend to run for six seasons, which The Sopranos did, but spread over only six years).
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The Sopranos / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Sopranos / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Any character at any moment can be killed by mobsters or meet death in any other way. Crime is rampant, and most mobsters get away with every murder they commit (even though most of them gets their comeuppance at the end of the series). As if that was not enough, there are a lot of Ax-Crazy people out there who could hurt you for the slightest offense towards them. It's telling something that the most remotely likable characters are Punch Clock Villains.
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The Sopranos / int_21f3aa44	type	Good Is Not Nice
The Sopranos / int_21f3aa44	comment	Good is Not Nice: The FBI are portrayed as manipulative, condescending jerks, but still unambiguously better than the mob. The Feds do everything they can to ruin Allegra Sacrimoni's wedding day. They succeed by brusquely taking her father into custody, embarrassing them all in front of the entire wedding party.
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The Sopranos / int_222dc873	type	Black Comedy
The Sopranos / int_222dc873	comment	Black Comedy: A gritty portrayal of the mob life where the hypocritical nature and sociopathic deeds of the characters generate humor, sometimes bordering on the absurd while keeping the realistic feel. The show places such an emphasis on humor that David Chase is quoted as once having said that sometimes he and the writers weren't sure whether they were making a drama or a comedy.
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The Sopranos / int_22a60f6a	type	Nepotism
The Sopranos / int_22a60f6a	comment	Paulie resents Chris for playing the blood relation card too many times, but he is not above enforcing the trope shamelessly; his attitude towards Finn takes a radical turn once he learns he is Meadow's boyfriend.
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The Sopranos / int_22b74f9e	type	You Talkin' to Me?
The Sopranos / int_22b74f9e	comment	You Talkin' to Me?: Parodied by Father Intintola when he is discussing what The Last Temptation of Christ could have been with Robert De Niro. Emulated by Artie — minus the gun — when he is rehearsing how he is going to confront a man who owns him money.
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The Sopranos / int_23015b1f	type	Magnificent Bastard
The Sopranos / int_23015b1f	comment	Livia, who shares her name with the Magnificent Bastard mother in I, Claudius.
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The Sopranos / int_23a332fa	type	Italians Talk with Hands
The Sopranos / int_23a332fa	comment	Italians Talk with Hands: Some characters do this more than others, especially if they get excited or aggravated. Paulie is a particular example. Pointing with his pinkie extended is practically a nonverbal catchphrase.
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The Sopranos / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Sopranos / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Despite their dubious morals, the mafia members all appear to be Catholic, which is Truth in Television, and make occasional references to The Bible. Religion is also used as a plot point on occasion; for example, when Christopher recovers from his shooting, he mentions he had a vision of going to hell (or possibly purgatory), and in another episode, Tony tries to persuade A.J. that God exists when he loses faith.
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The Sopranos / int_245a7c37	type	Enraged by Idiocy
The Sopranos / int_245a7c37	comment	Enraged by Idiocy: Tony has a Hair-Trigger Temper in general, but the stupidity of his mooks and his son ranks near the top of his list of triggers. In "Remember When", he considers murdering Paulie for his annoying and dimwitted tendencies.
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The Sopranos / int_24cf8a0e	type	Speech-Centric Work
The Sopranos / int_24cf8a0e	comment	Speech-Centric Work: Most episodes feature dialogue heavily, and Tony's sessions with his therapist are nothing but.
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The Sopranos / int_24ddbe2b	type	Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times
The Sopranos / int_24ddbe2b	comment	Saw "Star Wars" Twenty-Seven Times: Gangsta Rap exec Massive Genius expresses (in "A Hit Is a Hit") his admiration for the Cosa Nostra by saying he had watched The Godfather "like 200 times." Ralph is obsessed with the movie Gladiator, notes he's seen it many, many times, and quotes from it endlessly. In a bit of Hypocritical Humor, the other mobsters roll their eyes at him even though they do the same thing with mafia movies. AJ shares Ralph's fondness for the movie, at least.
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The Sopranos / int_255913ca	type	Make It Look Like a Struggle
The Sopranos / int_255913ca	comment	Make It Look Like a Struggle: The truck driver Christopher and Brendan rob in "46 Long" requests that they rough him up, since he's expected to put up a fight protecting his delivery. They happily oblige.
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The Sopranos / int_260926c3	type	Failure Is the Only Option
The Sopranos / int_260926c3	comment	Failure Is the Only Option: Because Tony is the show's main character, it's impossible for the FBI to actually catch him. Despite numerous subplots involving their agents attempting to ensnare or incriminate Tony, they all fail due to his Properly Paranoid tendencies, the loyalty of his capos, and a lot of bad luck. Although it's possible they finally got enough evidence to indict him in the very last episode, it's ultimately left uncertain.
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The Sopranos / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
The Sopranos / int_26d1f65f	comment	Verbal Tic: Paulie's heh-heh. Tony gets annoyed by it and asks Paulie if he has ever been checked for Tourette's Syndrome.
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The Sopranos / int_272abb98	type	Shoot the Shaggy Dog
The Sopranos / int_272abb98	comment	Tony decides against his personal criteria during the Vito situation in season 6; his soldiers and captains are openly rebellious about it, and he finally gives the go-ahead basically because of peer pressure. A moot dilemma in the end because Phil beats him to the punch.
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The Sopranos / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
The Sopranos / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To Goodfellas. Game of Thrones has been described by a series producer as ''The Sopranos in Middle-Earth". The also duality-themed Mad Men and Boardwalk Empire created by the show's writers Matthew Weiner and Terence Winter have inherited many concepts from The Sopranos.
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The Sopranos / int_27ab0123	type	Offing the Offspring
The Sopranos / int_27ab0123	comment	Offing the Offspring: Tony's mother tried to do this.
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The Sopranos / int_2854b56d	type	Uncertain Doom
The Sopranos / int_2854b56d	comment	The series starts off with Tony being referred to a psychiatrist, named Dr. Melfi, to deal with his panic attacks, to uncover the root causes, and improve his relationships with his family and other associates, and better himself mentally. While his panic attacks do cease by the end of the series', it can hardly be said that his relationship with his family and associates is any better than at the start of the series, and, if anything, he's a far more violent, detached, and worse person than he was when the sessions started. Dr. Melfi recognizes this fact and cuts Tony off for good in the penultimate episode, seeing him as a lost cause. Then, there's a high possibility Tony is whacked at the end of the last episode.
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The Sopranos / int_28604695	type	Rogue Juror
The Sopranos / int_28604695	comment	Rogue Juror: Implied when Uncle Junior is on trial. Some of June's associates find one of the jurors (buying candy for his son, no less) and gently inform him that they know where he lives. In the next episode, the jury is hung with a single holdout, leading to a mistrial â€” and that poor juror is hated by all the others.
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The Sopranos / int_286eaf85	type	Dragon Ascendant
The Sopranos / int_286eaf85	comment	Dragon Ascendant: Phil Leotardo in the second part of season six.
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The Sopranos / int_2943de8d	type	Bros Before Hoes
The Sopranos / int_2943de8d	comment	Bros Before Hoes: Adrianna reveals to Christopher that she is an informant for the FBI, and asks him to run away with her. Christopher instead chooses to reveal this to Tony and cover up her murder.
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The Sopranos / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
The Sopranos / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: Too many to mention if you know Italian.
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The Sopranos / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
The Sopranos / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging/Leaning on the Fourth Wall: In the season 6 opener, Tony tells Dr. Melfi when they're discussing Vito's secret homosexuality that it bothers him how every other show on TV tends to rub the gay agenda or lifestyle in your nose.
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The Sopranos / int_2a6bf668	type	Inadequate Inheritor
The Sopranos / int_2a6bf668	comment	Little Carmine, the Inadequate Inheritor of the Lupertazzi crime family, is the one-time lover of his second cousin Lorraine Calluzzo, a minor associate. Johnny Sack, the underboss to Carmine Sr., is disgusted by it.
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The Sopranos / int_2b5ea43c	type	Bland-Name Product
The Sopranos / int_2b5ea43c	comment	Bland-Name Product: Zig-zagged, especially as regards certain items of New Jersey culture: In some cases, it's played straight. For example, in "Mr. Ruggiero's Neighborhood" (S03E01), some of the FBI agents disguise themselves as utility maintenance men from "New Jersey Gas and Electric"—which is clearly based on the real electric and gas utility in North Jersey,note And most of Central Jersey and much of South Jersey Public Service Electric and Gas (PSEG). In other cases, it's averted. For instance, the newspaper practically everyone reads is The Star-Ledger, an actual Newark-based paper that serves as North Jersey's newspaper of record.
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The Sopranos / int_2b7d29e1	type	Artifact Title
The Sopranos / int_2b7d29e1	comment	Artifact Title: In-universe: the DiMeo Crime Family, of which the Soprano crew is a part, still bears Ercole "Ecky" DiMeo's name, even though he's been in prison for decades, and no one named "DiMeo" has any part in running the family or even appears on-camera.
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The Sopranos / int_2b9affed	type	Dirty Business
The Sopranos / int_2b9affed	comment	Dirty Business: When Tony Blundetto kills Billy Leotardo as revenge for the murder of Angelo Garepe, Billy's brother Phil swears revenge. Despite Tony Soprano being subject to heavy pressure to deliver his cousin to Johnny Sack (who has taken over the Lupertazzi crime family after Little Carmine's abdication) explicitly so he can be tortured and killed, Tony refuses and protects Blundetto against Phil. But Phil begins stalking New Jersey looking for Blundetto, hounding Christopher's mother, and brutally beating up Benny Fazio. It soon becomes clear that Tony's men refuse to allow themselves to be endangered all for the sake of protecting Blundetto, so Tony is forced to act. He tracks down Blundetto at their uncle Pat Blundetto's farm and kills him with a 12-gauge shotgun point-blank in order to save him from the worse fate he would've received at Phil's hands. Tony then gives Johnny Sack the location. Phil is furious to be deprived of his vengeance, but Tony and Johnny reach an accord over Blundetto's demise.
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The Sopranos / int_2bbe31c9	type	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant
The Sopranos / int_2bbe31c9	comment	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant: Lou Di Maggio and the Atwell Avenue Boys. The whole scene involving them is genuinely disturbing.
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The Sopranos / int_2cb6c9b	type	Bad Present
The Sopranos / int_2cb6c9b	comment	Bad Present: A mundane example: a large number of Mafiosi are released from long prison sentences throughout the series; Season 5 sees the release of "the class of 2004", a group of New Jersey and New York wiseguys convicted and given 20-year sentences in the big Mob prosecutions of the early 1980s. Many of these guys have some issues with the way the Mob works in the 21st centuryâ€”including its increasing suburbanization (both the Jersey boss and Lupertazzi underboss live in North Caldwell), its increasing cooperation with other criminal organizations, and the laxity of certain Mob traditions.
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The Sopranos / int_2cf282ea	type	She Is All Grown Up
The Sopranos / int_2cf282ea	comment	Grown up Meadow sexy-dancing in her underwear for Finn in the season 6 opener.
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The Sopranos / int_2d047747	type	Gossip Evolution
The Sopranos / int_2d047747	comment	Gossip Evolution: Tony gets in a car accident with Adriana as a passenger. Rumors circulate about Tony crashing the car while Adriana was giving him a blowjob and go from there; the rumors aren't true, but the two did share a lot of Unresolved Sexual Tension that they most likely would have resolved (if you follow) had they made it to their destination.
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The Sopranos / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Sopranos / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Richie Aprile. Other mobsters with an extremely homicidal behavior definitely qualify... or with a temper that would not have any mentally balanced person: Paulie, Christopher Moltisanti, Ralph Cifaretto, Feech la Manna, Johnny Boy Soprano and Phil Leotardo are straight examples. Even Tony Soprano has traits of one.
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The Sopranos / int_2d768e2d	type	Succession Crisis
The Sopranos / int_2d768e2d	comment	Succession Crisis: Happens in Jersey after the death of Jack Aprile Sr. and in New York after Carmine Luppertazzi and Johnny Sack pass away. It gets settled by the usual and ancestral methods.
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The Sopranos / int_2d7ef923	type	Mistaken for Cheating
The Sopranos / int_2d7ef923	comment	Mistaken for Cheating: Happens to Adriana in "Irregular Around The Margins". Aggravated by Gossip Evolution.
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The Sopranos / int_2d92c43c	type	Little "No"
The Sopranos / int_2d92c43c	comment	Little "No": One of the most powerful moments in the series occurs when Dr. Melfi tells Tony "No" when he asks her if there's anything he can do when she starts crying in a therapy session. It's powerful, because she'd been raped earlier in the episode, and had seriously contemplated telling Tony and using her connection to him to have the rapist killed.
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The Sopranos / int_2dd7a113	type	French Jerk
The Sopranos / int_2dd7a113	comment	French Jerk: The man who embarks Artie in a very bad business deal, if not an outright con.
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The Sopranos / int_2de7bbf1	type	Nominal Hero
The Sopranos / int_2de7bbf1	comment	Nominal Hero: Tony Soprano is a con artist, a thug, a womanizer, a thief, a murderer, an extortionist, and an adulterer. But the things separating him from a Villain Protagonist are his genuine love for his family, kindness to his friends, occasional pangs of guilt and moments of vulnerability, and the fact that his friends (and enemies) are even worse than he is. It actually makes him seem like a milder case of the trope... and then he loses much of it by Season 6B and the finale.
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The Sopranos / int_2e0c6c38	type	Eskimos Aren't Real
The Sopranos / int_2e0c6c38	comment	Eskimos Aren't Real: Christopher thinks the Cuban Missile Crisis was a fictional event made up for the film Thirteen Days.
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The Sopranos / int_2f187e89	type	It Works Better with Bullets
The Sopranos / int_2f187e89	comment	Christopher in Season 1 when he suffers a mock execution. Reversed later in Season 5 when Tony is about to kill him and Chris doesn't back down from an accusation.
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The Sopranos / int_3056adad	type	Witness Protection
The Sopranos / int_3056adad	comment	Witness Protection: A former associate turned informant and relocated via it is found and executed by Tony during a trip with Meadow. Chris and Adriana contemplate the option of joining it. They don't. The mobsters tend to use "witness protection" as an explanation for the whereabouts of many of the colleagues they murdered.
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The Sopranos / int_315a122	type	Hospital Hottie
The Sopranos / int_315a122	comment	Hospital Hottie: Played With in "Denial Anger Acceptance]]". A woman in a Hello Nurse outfit comes to check on Jackie Aprile, who insists she's not his nurse. About the point her tits start falling out of her jacket, he realizes that she's one of the girls from the Bada Bing club, whom Tony hired to come out and show Jackie a good time. Junior is fooled by an attractive nurse who is revealed to be a mole planted by the FBI.
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The Sopranos / int_316e9da2	type	Memetic Mutation
The Sopranos / int_316e9da2	comment	The very homophobic Phil Leotardo, who did twenty fucking years in the can, very pointedly mentions that he always "jerked off in a tissue" whenever he wanted to be with a woman. The Suspiciously Specific Denial nature of this line, along with a Visual Pun where Phil literally emerges from a motel closet, has led some viewers to suspect that Phil had some sort of sexual encounter with a fellow inmate and is projecting his self-hatred onto Vito Spatafore.
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The Sopranos / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Sopranos / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Tony and the crew are appropriately horrified and disgusted when Ralph beats a stripper, pregnant with his own child, to death. Tony, Sil, and Paulie are all disgusted and angered by Richie Aprile running over Beansie and crippling him for life, to the point where it casts a grey cloud over Richie's standing within the DiMeo family permanently. Phil Leotardo is disgusted that Tony would screw over his own uncle to become Don. The gang is downright appalled when they hear about Coach Don Hauser's affair with one of Meadow's high-school friends. The mobsters all express disapproval of Christopher's drug habits. Taken up a notch at his intervention. They freak out when it comes out that Chris accidentally sat on and killed Adriana's dog while high. Richie Aprile condones the beating of a woman if, and only if, she's your wife. When Gigi Cestone suffers a fatal heart attack on the toilet, the mobsters seem to be genuinely sorry for him. During the uproar within the gang after Vito gets outed, Tony is (or at least tries to be) the lone voice of tolerance, suggesting that perhaps Vito's sexuality is his own business and not sufficient reason to have him whacked. Even after all the homophobia expressed by mobsters after Vito was outed, they were all disgusted and grossed out upon hearing of the Cruel and Unusual Death inflicted upon him by Phil Leotardo. And when Carlo praises Phil for taking care of Vito himself, pretty much all of them ignore him.
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The Sopranos / int_31fa019d	type	All Psychology Is Freudian
The Sopranos / int_31fa019d	comment	All Psychology Is Freudian: Played with. Tony Soprano cites Sigmund Freud (whom he learned about in his "semester and a half" of college) to explain to Melfi that he understands therapy "as a concept", but in the show's subsequent explorations of psychology, it really isn't there. Often called the most accurate fictional depiction of what actually happens in therapy. Tony is, however, diagnosed with a compelling Freudian Excuse and Melfi often brings up the Oedipus Complex (one of the specific Freudian Excuses that Freud identified) despite Tony's repulsion. Ultimately subverted since at the end of the series, Melfi decides that Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse and fires Tony, deeming him to be an irredeemable sociopath.
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The Sopranos / int_322426f8	type	Not Good with Rejection
The Sopranos / int_322426f8	comment	Tony insults Melfi with the term when she carefully refuses his advances. He gets called on it when he later apologizes.
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The Sopranos / int_322f6b34	type	Angsty Surviving Twin
The Sopranos / int_322f6b34	comment	Angsty Surviving Twin: Patsy Parisi angsts about it often enough to make the rest of the cast frustrated, and when he finds out that Tony had his brother killed for trash-talking him, Patsy gets drunk and pees in Tony's pool (after seriously contemplating killing Tony in revenge).
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The Sopranos / int_323f135b	type	Sorting Algorithm of Evil
The Sopranos / int_323f135b	comment	Sorting Algorithm of Evil: With a few twists and turns in the earlier seasons, but played straight towards the end of the series. Season 1 gives us Junior and his second, Mikey Palmice. They're dangerous and have some nebulous backing from New York, but Junior lacks his own capos' support and is unseated easily once he blows his chance to assassinate Tony. Mikey and Junior's other key players are whacked, and Junior himself is undone by an incidental ploy that marked him as the family's Fall Guy. Season 2 introduces Richie Aprile, a brutal mobster who sours on Tony's leadership and conspires with the deposed Junior to get rid of him. As cruel and personally formidable as Richie is, he's not powerful or charismatic enough to garner sufficient support for a coup, and Junior decides to side with Tony instead. He's ultimately killed during a completely unrelated domestic dispute. Season 3 muddies things with Ralph Cifaretto, who is more depraved and erratic than his predecessors but much lower on the Mafia totem pole; an overthrow is never seriously on the cards. It's as much a personal feud between Ralph and Tony as it is a mob dispute; Tony despises Ralph and knows he can be rid of him at any time, but has to take Mafia customs into family politics into account. Tony chooses to give him a pardon, and the two seem to bury the hatchet... for now. His machinations spur Big Bad Wannabe Jackie Jr. on a destructive course, but all the kid manages to do is to get himself killed. Season 4 takes an introspective turn, with No Antagonist until the end of the season, when Carmine Lupertazzi positions himself as Tony's major foe. Things do get messy, but the two bosses settle things amicably; their conflict is more a taste of what's to come than a real war. Season 5 brings New York to the fore, firmly casting Johnny Sack as the Big Bad and his brutal right-hand Phil Leotardo as The Dragon. An escalating Enemy Civil War also spills over into Jersey, when Tony Blundetto turns rogue agent and murders two well-connected New York guys, including Phil's beloved younger brother, but Tony S is able to tentatively placate his opponents by killing his cousin. Season 6 dives into an all-out Mob War, with Phil's ascension to the boss. More savage and ruthless than any of Tony's prior enemies, Phil decapitates most of the Jersey crew's leadership when things go sour between him and Tony, before finally being undone by an Enemy Mine between Tony and FBI agent Harris.
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The Sopranos / int_32785419	type	Redemption Rejection
The Sopranos / int_32785419	comment	Redemption Rejection: Phil Leotardo. After nearly dying from a heart attack and crying in front of Tony when he gave him advice at the end of Part 1 of season 6, it seemed like he was finally going to change his ways. And then Part 2 came out. This is one of the reasons why Tony killed Christopher. Despite going to rehab and getting his act together, Christopher still did drugs from time to time, which resulted in the car crash with him and Tony. Tony takes a gentler approach to life after a near-death experience; this niceness doesn't last long.
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The Sopranos / int_32e279c4	type	Humans Are Flawed
The Sopranos / int_32e279c4	comment	Humans Are Flawed: Selfishness, myopia, and dysfunction are portrayed as the constants of the human condition.
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The Sopranos / int_330841a2	type	Burial at Sea
The Sopranos / int_330841a2	comment	Burial at Sea: After Tony Soprano and his gang kill Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero (a long-time friend who betrays them to the FBI), they wrap up his body, and with heavy hearts, give it a decent burial at sea. Overlaps with Cement Shoes, a common way of body disposal during the series. Chains and actual concrete blocks are used as an anchor.
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The Sopranos / int_33987735	type	Disposing of a Body
The Sopranos / int_33987735	comment	Disposing of a Body can't be done butchery-style inside Satriale's anymore because of DNA forensics.
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The Sopranos / int_34dcfc96	type	Kick the Dog
The Sopranos / int_34dcfc96	comment	Ben Kingsley never loses his polite and calm demeanor when he is uncomfortably approached by some mafia men, who are in fact deflected by his suave manners and refrain from further pressure. The mobsters, however, get frustrated by it and they violently mug an 81-year-old Lauren Bacall so they don't leave their trip empty-handed.
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The Sopranos / int_34f590c9	comment	Off on a Technicality: After Dr. Melfi is raped, her rapist is immediately arrested and then set free on a technicality. In the end, the doctor chooses to allow him to remain a Karma Houdini rather than call in some Soprano Justice.
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The Sopranos / int_35a858b3	type	Cluster F-Bomb
The Sopranos / int_35a858b3	comment	Cluster F-Bomb: This video shows the nearly thirty minutes of Cluster F-Bomb employed throughout the series.
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The Sopranos / int_35f43126	type	Digital Head Swap
The Sopranos / int_35f43126	comment	Digital Headswap: Nancy Marchand (who played Livia Soprano) died in the interim between filming seasons 2 and 3, leading the producers to have to drop a story arc and kill her character off. In the second episode of the third season, "Proshai, Livushka", the producers combined this with a stunt double and alternate takes of dialogue to give her one last scene, at a cost of $250,000. The results were... less than convincing.
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The Sopranos / int_36228b5a	type	Busman's Vocabulary
The Sopranos / int_36228b5a	comment	Busman's Vocabulary: Near the end of an episode, Tony tells a guy that a job might involve "getting messy. Real wet work." The FBI agents listening prick up their ears, only to realize a few seconds later he's asking someone to fix his burst water heater.
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The Sopranos / int_367f2530	type	Outdated Outfit
The Sopranos / int_367f2530	comment	Outdated Outfit: Tony Blundetto went to prison in The '80s. It shows.
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The Sopranos / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
The Sopranos / int_36c64123	comment	Bobby Baccala is hateful, cynical, and outspoken in private towards Tony in his first appearances, in contrast with his Gentle Giant/Extreme Doormat usual behavior.
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The Sopranos / int_3724dfad	type	WakeUpMakeUp
The Sopranos / int_3724dfad	comment	Wake Up Makeup: Averted, Tony frequently rocks some impressive bed-head.
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The Sopranos / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
The Sopranos / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Very, very cynical. While there's some room for interpretation, by and large the show can be seen as an extended critical examination of human nature, and more often than not the conclusions aren't pretty. What unites people of all races, sexes, and socioeconomic backgrounds, as far as The Sopranos is concerned, is selfishness, myopia, and hypocrisy (though also love, family, and moral agency).
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The Sopranos / int_38b48685	type	Born in the Wrong Century
The Sopranos / int_38b48685	comment	Born in the Wrong Decade: Tony and his friends are well aware that the mob's heyday is long over with, but they have a hard time coming to terms with it. Especially as modern technology and science continues to make it more and more difficult to run protection rackets and commit crimes without getting caught.
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The Sopranos / int_38d3a0f7	type	Pac-Man Fever
The Sopranos / int_38d3a0f7	comment	Pac Man Fever: "Meadowlands" has Tony coming in to find A.J. playing Mario Kart 64 and then joins him in the race. We get the correct sounds, there is a cartridge in the Nintendo 64 and they consistently stay on the same track (Luigi Circuit); A.J. does a bit of button-mashing, but not too egregious. A.J. does mention to Tony that he should "watch out for the ghosts" and, while ghosts are one of the weaker items (and a non-avoidable one), they do at least exist in the game. To really nitpick, they complete all three laps of Luigi Circuit in some 20 seconds (though the time shown on the screen shows a more realistic 2 minutes 27 seconds)! All in all a pretty faithful representation of Mario Kart on TV. Oh, did I mention that Tony holds the N64 controller one-handed, using the central grip, only moving the analog stick?
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The Sopranos / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
The Sopranos / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: In "The Blue Comet", Paulie says, "I lived through The '70s by the skin of my nuts when the Colombos were goin' at it." Tony Sirico, the actor who plays Paulie, actually was an associate of the Colombo crime family before turning to acting. There are several references to Bruce Springsteen in the show (Chris: "The turnpike is jammed with broken heroes on a last-chance power drive."), whom Steven van Zandt has played with for years. But it's difficult to tell if it's a deliberate Allusion because, hey, it's Jersey. Gloria Trillo really loves a song played on the radio, Steve Van Zandt's "Affection". A recursive one. The lead in Christopher's movie Cleaver is named Michael. The character is based on Chris himself, who is played by Michael Imperioli. In-universe it is probably a Shout-Out to Michael Corleone from The Godfather. Chris shoots a bakery worker in the foot for taking too long with his order. In Goodfellas, he was shot in the foot for taking too long to make a drink. The murder of Angelo Garepe referred back to the death of Billy Batts in Goodfellas; both were beaten, thrown into a car trunk, and shot while pleading for their life. Batts was played by actor Frank Vincent (Phil Leotardo) who reverses his role from victim to executioner. Michael Imperioli wrote five episodes and was the only actor to write multiple episodes. This would probably explain Christopher's interest in screenwriting and production.
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The Sopranos / int_396e1c2a	type	Face Death with Dignity
The Sopranos / int_396e1c2a	comment	Face Death with Dignity: Zig-zagged with Big Pussy's death. He first tries to talk his way out of being killed, but once he realizes it's not working, he calmly walks to the middle of the room allowing the men to shoot him, only politely requesting that they don't shoot him in the face. However, after they pull out their guns he starts to lose his composure and begins to panic, asking that he be allowed to sit down first; at that point, the men just shoot him. (They do spare his face as he had requested, though it's unclear if they were intentionally honoring his wishes.)
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The Sopranos / int_3a6e5796	type	Caught in the Bad Part of Town
The Sopranos / int_3a6e5796	comment	Caught in the Bad Part of Town: In "The Strong Silent Type", Chris tries to buy scag in a rundown Latino neighborhood. He gets robbed of his Range Rover and wallet, and then gets the absolute shit beat out of him. A downplayed example in "Watching Too Much Television". The locals in the rundown Black ghetto make it clear to Tony and A.J. that they aren't welcome if they aren't there to buy drugs. Despite one of the locals drawing a gun, and Tony Tempting Fate being a Deadpan Snarker, they're allowed to drive out without further incident. In "Moe N Joe", Bobby picks up a late-night collection in the run-down neighborhood late at night. He gets ambushed and beaten by several Black youths armed with baseball bats, robbed of his cash and his gun, and takes a ricochet bullet in the eye.
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The Sopranos / int_3ae6199a	type	Psychopathic Manchild
The Sopranos / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Several characters are debatable examples, but Paulie in particular exemplifies this trope. He has the petty self-centeredness and impulsivity of a spoiled child and the callous disregard for human life of a stone-cold murderer.
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The Sopranos / int_3b8e5b93	type	Karmic Nod
The Sopranos / int_3b8e5b93	comment	Karmic Nod: Discussed by the wise guys. Christopher is conflicted because when he nearly died he had a dream where he found himself in Hell, but Paulie corrects him and claims that he was in Purgatory. He further states that they'll probably have to spend several hundred years in torment for their crimes before going to Heaven, highlighting how the mobsters still fundamentally see themselves as good guys.
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The Sopranos / int_3bd0924c	type	Jury and Witness Tampering
The Sopranos / int_3bd0924c	comment	Jury and Witness Tampering: Corrado Soprano Jr. persuades a juror not to deliver a guilty verdict against him by using Eugene Pontecorvo to threaten the safety of the juror's family.
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The Sopranos / int_3c598f56	type	Conflict Ball
The Sopranos / int_3c598f56	comment	Conflict Ball: Tony's gambling addiction in Season 6B. While he was gambling before that point, it wasn't shown nor implied to be this bad or destructive until then, and he effectively gets over it once the mob war with the Lupertazzis goes in full swing.
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The Sopranos / int_3cb1d38d	type	Bad Boss
The Sopranos / int_3cb1d38d	comment	Bad Boss: Tony is a successful manager, but he verbally shreds his underlings on a regular basis. He is entitled by the hierarchical level of the Mafia, but crosses the line once and gets called on it when he physically assaults Ralph, as beating another made-man is a violation of Mafia protocol. He later kills Ralph, which is also against the rules. Christopher is another victim of this kind of abuse. Ironically, while Tony was out of line when he beat the piss out of Ralph Cifaretto, he could have had the man killed at any time that he wanted, for any reason. Which is more or less why no one asked any questions about Ralph's death; that, and no one was sad to see him go. The world of the Mafia, folks.
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The Sopranos / int_3d699462	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
The Sopranos / int_3d699462	comment	Curb-Stomp Battle: A rare nonlethal literal example occurs in "The Second Coming", where Tony gives Coco a vicious beatdown for messing with his daughter, capping it off with a curbstomp on a step. He finds a tooth in his pants leg later.
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The Sopranos / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
The Sopranos / int_3dcc914f	comment	Tony takes a gentler approach to life after a near-death experience; this niceness doesn't last long.
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The Sopranos / int_3f0b2f50	type	Make It Look Like an Accident
The Sopranos / int_3f0b2f50	comment	Make It Look Like an Accident: A twisted version near the end of the show: Tony suffocates Christopher when they have an accident, killing him. The doctors think Christopher might have made it, but they have no way to determine the actual fact.
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The Sopranos / int_3f11ef74	type	Parental Substitute
The Sopranos / int_3f11ef74	comment	Tony is this to Christopher, who regards him as a Parental Substitute.
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The Sopranos / int_3f89452c	type	Sad Clown
The Sopranos / int_3f89452c	comment	Sad Clown: Tony describes himself as one, in the Stepford Smiler sense; putting on a happy, joking face to his family and friends while keeping his pain locked away. His claims — contested by Dr. Melfi — come across more as self-pitying than anything else, given his behavior throughout the series. Reversed with Christopher's death; for Tony, a big liability is 'gone' and he is very happy about that, but he has to put on a sad grimace in front of the families. Eventually, he suddenly just goes to Las Vegas to enjoy himself.
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The Sopranos / int_3f92ad39	type	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
The Sopranos / int_3f92ad39	comment	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: Tony tries this with Uncle Junior when the latter is in the grips of Alzheimer's, but he's only able to get the slightest bit of recognition when he says a talismanic Mafia phrase: "This thing of ours."
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The Sopranos / int_3ffce9c2	type	Family Relationship Switcheroo
The Sopranos / int_3ffce9c2	comment	Family Relationship Switcheroo: In the final season, it is revealed that Paulie Walnuts has been raised by his aunt his entire life because his mother was a nun who broke her vow of chastity with an American soldier.
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The Sopranos / int_4063acfd	type	Woman Scorned
The Sopranos / int_4063acfd	comment	"I used to fuck your husband."
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The Sopranos / int_407d3e6d	type	Morton's Fork
The Sopranos / int_407d3e6d	comment	The FBI's numerous informants in the DiMeo Crime Family ultimately amount to zero worthwhile information on Tony by the end of the series. Jimmy, Big Pussy, Adriana, and Jack are discovered and killed before they could provide anything remotely useful, Eugene kills himself to avoid a Morton's Fork situation, and, most frustratingly, Ray Curto dies of a stroke mid-conversation with his handler right as he was agreeing to testify some damning evidence in a murder case against Tony.
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The Sopranos / int_40bb59d0	type	Blatant Lies
The Sopranos / int_40bb59d0	comment	Blatant Lies: Chris arrives at Ralph's house to find Ralph's dead body on the floor and Tony looking beaten up and covered in blood.
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The Sopranos / int_41435fc2	type	Pie in the Face
The Sopranos / int_41435fc2	comment	Junior breaks up with his talkative girlfriend with a dramatic Pie in the Face. A shout-out to The Public Enemy (1931).
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The Sopranos / int_415b3315	type	Stylistic Suck
The Sopranos / int_415b3315	comment	Stylistic Suck: Christopher's screenplay for Made Man in Season 1 is riddled with spelling errors. Even Adriana calls him out in it.
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The Sopranos / int_4189710e	type	The Sponsor
The Sopranos / int_4189710e	comment	Chris's friend and sponsor J.T Dolan, in a very reminiscent way, but he manages to stay afloat.
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The Sopranos / int_4192763e	type	Malaproper
The Sopranos / int_4192763e	comment	Malaproper: A running gag throughout the series is mobsters mangling idioms and getting their vocabulary mixed up. This serves as a constant reminder that, in spite of how cunning and successful many of these men are, they have terrible educations. Some examples:
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The Sopranos / int_41a894d2	type	Voodoo Shark
The Sopranos / int_41a894d2	comment	Or at the very least, Legal Voodoo Shark, respecting Junior's indictments and jail in Seasons 1-2. The indictments appear to be federal ones, but then Junior is apparently detained before the hearing. After a few weeks, his lawyer gets him out by claiming health problems, allowing Junior to be held on house arrest. All of this is a big to-do in the family. However, federal defendants are rarely held before trial and rarely have to post bail; instead, they are simply detained, released with conditions (like Junior's house arrest), or released without conditions, and this decision is made within a few days of the arrest. Junior would have never been held for more than 2-3 days in a real federal prosecution. Now, Junior could have been held longer on state charges (at the time; New Jersey would later adopt a federal-like system), but the charges are clearly federal. Adding to the confusion is that the judge who hears the motion to put Junior on house arrest has a New Jersey flag in his chambers (federal judges generally only have U.S. flags), but also clearly refers to the prosecution as "the Government" (which is only done in federal prosecutions; in a state criminal case in N.J., the prosecution is "the State").
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The Sopranos / int_4211d102	type	Confess to a Lesser Crime
The Sopranos / int_4211d102	comment	Confess to a Lesser Crime: When Tony is asked point-blank by his daughter whether he's a Mafia boss, he denies it, but then grudgingly admits that his business does include some illegal gambling.
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The Sopranos / int_42215dce	type	Ambiguous Ending
The Sopranos / int_42215dce	comment	Ambiguous Ending: After disposing of his arch-nemesis Phil Leotardo, Tony is seen taking his wife Carmela and son AJ to a diner, later to be joined by their daughter Meadow. It's seemingly an upbeat scene, with the exception of Tony discussing potential legal troubles on the horizon. Journey's "Don't Stop Believing" starts playing in the background, and you begin to see curious shots of seemingly random persons in the diner mixed in with shots of Tony and his family happily chomping down on onion rings. The music swells, an unseen person enters the restaurant, Tony looks up, and suddenly—cut to black, series over. Was Tony suddenly shot as the screen cut to black (perhaps by the man in the Member's Only jacket?), or no? Or is it symbolic of how the possibility of a whacking always hangs over Tony's head? This was left a mystery for years.
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The Sopranos / int_4230e681	type	Vader Breath
The Sopranos / int_4230e681	comment	Vader Breath: Tony snorts heavily when he gets particularly agitated.
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The Sopranos / int_43a46119	type	Surrounded by Idiots
The Sopranos / int_43a46119	comment	Surrounded by Idiots: Tony, near the end of the show's run, because all of his smart, capable underlings had died, fled, or turned witness.
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The Sopranos / int_44989f6f	type	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot
The Sopranos / int_44989f6f	comment	"Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Tony's reflections about the struggle with his uncle. Little Carmine slides from pompous to pragmatist in late seasons and mentions the trope identifying phrase sometimes. Other New York bosses do the opposite. The episode "Pine Barrens" features probably the most heralded example. Paulie and Christopher, making a collection for Silvio, assault former Russian special agent Valery, attempting to dispose of his supposed dead body in the eponymous woods. But when Valery turns out to be Not Quite Dead and turns the tables on his assailants, escaping into the wilderness even after being shot in the head, Paulie and Chris end up getting lost overnight in the freezing cold. All because Paulie felt like being a dick and needlessly broke the guy's universal remote. Inverted in "Irregular Around the Margins." Despite a growing attraction to Adriana, Tony makes an actual effort to avoid an intimate relationship on the advice of Dr. Melfi. A car accident where Tony and Adriana are both in the vehicle leads to salacious rumors, bitter resentment from Carmela, and a near-fatal confrontation with Christopher. The irony of the situation is not lost on Tony.
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The Sopranos / int_44f5d199	type	Pretty in Mink
The Sopranos / int_44f5d199	comment	Pretty in Mink: Several ladies wear furs.
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The Sopranos / int_45cd286c	type	Corrupt Politician
The Sopranos / int_45cd286c	comment	Corrupt Politician: Several examples, most notably State Assemblyman Zellman, who is Tony's equal partner in a major scam.
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The Sopranos / int_45d7a6e0	type	Actor/Role Confusion
The Sopranos / int_45d7a6e0	comment	Actor/Role Confusion: Tony idolizes Gary Cooper, who in his mind epitomizes "the strong silent type," the ideal kind of American from a long-gone era. He's called on this by Silvio, who points out he's mixing the real life person with the characters that he played. Tony still argues that the icon is what matters.
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The Sopranos / int_45ed7d35	type	Homophobic Hate Crime
The Sopranos / int_45ed7d35	comment	Homophobic Hate Crime: The murder of Vito Spatafore by Phil Leotardo and his men was motivated by Leotardo's homophobia and the homophobic culture of the Sicilian mafia in general. This one's especially wrenching because of the cold-blooded way the whacking is carried out and the look on poor Vito's face when he realizes that he is going to die. The Sopranos were also seriously contemplating murdering Vito (who was one of their captains) for his transgressions, but Tony was hesitant to do so because Vito was a good earner. He eventually relents because Phil kept pressing the issue and reluctantly puts a hit out on Vito. Phil's men just beat them to the punch, although Tony and his men would not have gone the extra mile of torturing Vito and desecrating his body. This murder deepens the wedge between the Lupertazzis and the Sopranos because killing a made guy of another Family without an ok from the Boss is a big no-no.
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The Sopranos / int_4664e34c	type	Music Video Syndrome
The Sopranos / int_4664e34c	comment	Music Video Syndrome: Averted mostly. David Chase had wanted to only use "in-universe" music, but sometimes music plays with no apparent source. When this does occur, the music underscores and emphasizes the emotional effect. "The Beast In Me" plays over the end sequence and credits of the first episode, for example. An especially good one is the season three premiere's use of the Peter Gunn theme song and "Every Breath You Take" played simultaneously. The two songs have exactly the same beat and work surprisingly well together.
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The Sopranos / int_466ccbb4	type	Gayngst
The Sopranos / int_466ccbb4	comment	Gayngst: Vito spends a significant amount of time in Season Six experiencing gayngst when he is inadvertently outed to both his and Phil Leotardo's (somewhat homophobic) crews, flees to a small town in New Hampshire, and struggles with his duties to his wife and kids, his crew, and the web of lies he has to tell his newfound lover in New Hampshire to protect himself. His gayngst arguably results in his death at the hands of Phil.
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The Sopranos / int_46a5d662	comment	DoppelgÃ¤nger Dating: Almost all of Tony's mistresses are impossible-to-please dark-haired beauties with serious psychological issues — that is to say, just like his mom. The most striking example comes in the third season when Tony starts seeing a new mistress, the beautiful but depressive and temperamental Gloria Trillo. After complaining about her to Dr. Melfi in therapy, Melfi points out that his description of her (much more psychologically than physically) sounds eerily like his recently deceased mother, Livia. Tony had a bit of a shock when Gloria told him, "Oh, poor you!' just like his mother used to.
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The Sopranos / int_46d3f869	type	Family Business
The Sopranos / int_46d3f869	comment	Family Business: The lack of an appropriate heir is a source of concern for Tony; since A.J. is not cut out for it, Christopher is groomed as one.
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The Sopranos / int_46e53efd	type	Screams Like a Little Girl
The Sopranos / int_46e53efd	comment	Screams Like a Little Girl: Fat Dom's voice noticeably goes up an octave or so after Carlo stabs him with a cooking knife.
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The Sopranos / int_46f3f271	type	From Camouflage to Criminal
The Sopranos / int_46f3f271	comment	From Camouflage to Criminal: A few of the gangsters have some military background: Corrado "Junior" Soprano was a veteran of World War II. Paulie Gualtieri served for a few years in the US Army. Though it's downplayed because he never experienced any wars. Russian mobsters Slava Malevsky and Valery are both veterans of the First Chechen War. Valery in particular was reportedly such a badass, that he allegedly killed 16 Chechen rebels by himself.
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The Sopranos / int_479f9ad0	type	Characterization Marches On
The Sopranos / int_479f9ad0	comment	Characterization Marches On: Carmela in the first season is more of a gun moll than in later seasons. In The Pilot, after hearing a noise in the night, she expertly locks and loads an assault rifle, ready to throw down. In later seasons she's more of a sheltered suburban housewife. A later episode has her again looking for a possible intruder in the house, and she's much less prepared. In the pilot, shot a year before the dubious greenlight, Tony is already a peerless boss, not a mere capo, and provides a voiceover. Some later recasts and several physical changes are noticeable. Christopher is absolutely terrified during his mock execution, soiling himself and begging for his life. This is the one and only instance he shows fear in such a situation; every other time he stares down a barrel, it's with utter defiance. Possibly justified in that he's climbed the Mafia ladder since then and feels better protected by the Plot Armour his position affords him, but he's utterly fearless even when dealing with assailants who have no reason to respect this. Bobby Baccala is hateful, cynical, and outspoken in private towards Tony in his first appearances, in contrast with his Gentle Giant/Extreme Doormat usual behavior. Adriana mentions that Vito was bombarding her with leering texts when Christopher was indisposed; Vito tells the same story but with her as the initiator. It's a bit weird in either case, as with the late series twist surrounding him he clearly wouldn't have been interested. In the pilot, Silvio speaks about Artie as if he doesn't know the guy at all. They're both long-time friends of Tony's and all three have daughters the same age, attending the same school; Silvio and Artie are also portrayed as decent friends in subsequent episodes and the three interact frequently at barbecues and soccer practice. Not quite a Plot Hole, but still quite weird.
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The Sopranos / int_47bf7e16	type	Local Hangout
The Sopranos / int_47bf7e16	comment	Local Hangout: The Bada Bing!, a strip joint that Tony owns and operates.
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The Sopranos / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
The Sopranos / int_47fea76b	comment	Georgie is whacked in the eye by a ball-and-chain-like weapon by Ralphie.
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The Sopranos / int_4814d132	type	Big Fancy House
The Sopranos / int_4814d132	comment	Big Fancy House: Tony is a successful mobster and lives in a nice, large house with a big backyard and a pool in a good neighborhood. His son waxes philosophical about the trials of being born rich to his new girlfriend, humble-bragging about the nice home he lives in. Then he visits his girlfriend's house and discovers to his horror that it's five times the size of his own. He's really only upper-middle class, while his girlfriend has been Secretly Wealthy the whole time.
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The Sopranos / int_48b01c26	type	Surveillance as the Plot Demands
The Sopranos / int_48b01c26	comment	Surveillance as the Plot Demands: The FBI bugs the nursing home where Livia is Junior's Lady Macbeth and plots against Tony. The FBI has A Day In The Lime Light episode where the procedure regarding how to plant a surveillance bug in Tony's house is shown in detail. Tony is a Properly Paranoid boss who regularly sweeps his headquarters for bugs, relies on payphones, and avoids talking shop inside his house, but he is vulnerable in the noisy basement. The bug has very limited use and the trope is subverted because the judge is adamant and the FBI is only given one shot at this method that is never used again. An overall subversion is also justified.
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The Sopranos / int_48c8fcbc	type	Kosher Nostra
The Sopranos / int_48c8fcbc	comment	Kosher Nostra: Hesh is an associate of the Italian Mafia in spite of being Jewish. He seems to have a low opinion of other Jewish gangsters and doesn't associate with them much. In the first season, he warns Tony against doing business with some shady Hasidim. In Season 2, Melfi's family therapist brags about having family who were associated with Murder Inc., crowing, "Those were some tough Jews!" He sees Jewish gangsters as exotic and exciting because they no longer reflect poorly on their community. This stands in contrast to earlier in the episode when Melfi's family laments how the Mafia continued to cast a shadow on the reputation of Italian-Americans.
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The Sopranos / int_48ca7c29	type	Broken Ace
The Sopranos / int_48ca7c29	comment	Broken Ace: Tony Soprano is the mob boss of all New Jersey; charismatic, powerful, ruthless, and has keen business acumen. Underneath it all, he suffers from some serious Parental Issues and other mental problems, which cause him to have panic attacks.
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The Sopranos / int_48f0ca7f	type	PostModernism
The Sopranos / int_48f0ca7f	comment	Postmodernism: Very often, almost Once per Episode the show features some classic movies and songs relevant to the plot, and references to other fictional works are common. Tony himself is a movie buff with a great VHS and DVD collection and at one point the roots of gangster cinema are discussed, including the The Public Enemy (1931), the film cited by Creator David Chase as one of his major influences building the main characters.
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The Sopranos / int_49180a5f	type	Non-Actor Vehicle
The Sopranos / int_49180a5f	comment	Non-Actor Vehicle: Steve Van Zandt is primarily a musician. Silvio was his first acting role (it gets somewhat resumed in Lilyhammer). Van Zandt also served as a music consultant for the show and picked songs for the soundtrack from time to time.
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The Sopranos / int_493bc214	type	Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie
The Sopranos / int_493bc214	comment	Bury Me Not on the Lone Prairie: Tony angrily mocks this when Janice asks him what was done with Richie's remains. "We buried him on a hill overlooking a little river, with pine cones all around. C'mon Janice, what the fuck? You want to know?"
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The Sopranos / int_49f20c6a	type	Gory Discretion Shot
The Sopranos / int_49f20c6a	comment	Gory Discretion Shot: Most of the mob executions are shown in their bloody entirety... except Adriana's.
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The Sopranos / int_49f6a9e4	type	Most Writers Are Writers
The Sopranos / int_49f6a9e4	comment	Most Writers Are Writers: In addition to the strong theme of characters referencing movies and literature, Christopher is a cinephile and aspiring screenwriter who gets involved in a lot of screenwriting-related plots.
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The Sopranos / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
The Sopranos / int_4a4d6f7c	comment	Comedic Sociopathy: While the series on the whole is aimed at creating disgust with the mob's brutality, the violence is often played for laughs. Paulie is particularly a bit of a Comedic Sociopath.
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The Sopranos / int_4aa24ad9	type	I Have a Family
The Sopranos / int_4aa24ad9	comment	I Have a Family: A waiter uses this argument when he comes out to confront Christopher and Paulie over the small tip he was left. It doesn't help his cause.
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The Sopranos / int_4b17763f	type	Technology Marches On
The Sopranos / int_4b17763f	comment	Technology Marches On: Used in-universe to deconstruct several tropes: Shame If Something Happened + Stealing from the Till can no longer be used in a protection racket because everything is accounted for in the computers. "It's over for the little guy." Disposing of a Body can't be done butchery-style inside Satriale's anymore because of DNA forensics.
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The Sopranos / int_4b316d47	type	Break the Cutie
The Sopranos / int_4b316d47	comment	Break the Cutie: Tracee gets no respect from anyone she tries to impress and is beaten to death by Ralphie.
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The Sopranos / int_4b50895	type	Taking the Kids
The Sopranos / int_4b50895	comment	Taking the Kids: Done in a consensual manner; A.J. moves quite happily with his father for a while, but it doesn't work as Tony is not exactly a pushover.
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The Sopranos / int_4b7364d	type	Dead Man Honking
The Sopranos / int_4b7364d	comment	Dead Man Honking: When The Mafia disposes of two would-be assassins to be absolutely certain that they won't tell tales, they crash their car so the dead driver slumps over and sounds the horn as the mobsters make their own getaway. Evoked with Tony Soprano. In two separate car crashes caused by an assassination attempt and a panic attack, Tony is incapacitated and falls onto the steering wheel, leaving his Suburban honking.
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The Sopranos / int_4c9d2176	type	Formerly Fat
The Sopranos / int_4c9d2176	comment	Formerly Fat: Vito Spatafore loses 160 lbs between seasons 5 and 6. This was Real Life Writes the Plot, as actor Joseph R. Gannascoli had lost a similar amount of weight for health reasons.
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The Sopranos / int_4cca4ac7	type	Trapped by Gambling Debts
The Sopranos / int_4cca4ac7	comment	J.T. Dolan is a relatively minor character who is roped into helping Chris write a movie script due to being Trapped by Gambling Debts. He's deep in debt and at points addicted to heroin due to the stress, but after the movie comes out, his debt is cancelled, he gets himself clean, and he's back in honest work with no connection to mobsters. Then Chris kills him in a drunken fit of rage one night for basically no reason.
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The Sopranos / int_4da6ac	type	Rated M for Manly
The Sopranos / int_4da6ac	comment	Rated M for Manly: Sex, drugs, violence, male bonding, fatherhood, and diatribes about the emasculated state of contemporary Western society abound. The show is a deconstruction and frequently subverts itself, though, by reminding viewers that most of the "manly men" in question are in fact morally bankrupt human beings whose inability to express themselves in any way other than aggression makes both them and their families miserable.
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The Sopranos / int_4e07ef21	type	Acid Reflux Nightmare
The Sopranos / int_4e07ef21	comment	From the season 2 finale: "You know I've been working with the government, right, Ton'?" It was heavily implied since about halfway through the first season, though, and this is in an Acid Reflux Nightmare where a fish is speaking in Pussy's voice; the wham isn't in the confirmation that Pussy is The Mole, but rather in Tony finally admitting as much to himself.
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The Sopranos / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
The Sopranos / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Everyone loses by the end: Even though Phil Leotardo is killed and the New Jersey and New York crews successfully call a truce, the future of the DiMeo crime family is pretty grim; most of Tony's key guys are either dead or otherwise incapacitated. Even worse, Carlo, one of the last trusted members of the organization, decides to go into witness protection. While A.J. finally gets his life back on track, Meadow has embraced the Mafia Princess life, with prospects of becoming an Amoral Attorney (to the dismay of Carmela). Uncle Junior completely loses himself and is left to die in a mental hospital, and Bobby's kids are stuck with Janice, who's essentially become her and Tony's late mother Livia. Dr. Melfi abruptly drops Tony as a patient after she realizes he cannot be saved, ending their therapy sessions. Finally, the last scene of the series implies Tony may or may not have just been killed in front of his family. Even if he weren't, he's likely to spend time in prison on RICO charges. Paulie and Patsy are the only ones not shown to have anything bad happen to them immediately, so make of it what you will. Of course, with Carlo becoming a federal witness and the DiMeo family near the point of collapse, they're probably going to have to tighten their belt in the near future at the very least even if Carlo doesn't directly implicate them.
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The Sopranos / int_4e6cb27f	type	Rambling Old Man Monologue
The Sopranos / int_4e6cb27f	comment	Rambling Old Man Monologue: During a period while Tony has had a falling out with Dr. Melfi, he briefly tries to enlist Hesh as a surrogate, but it doesn't work since everything Tony tries to confide just gets Hesh started on a rambling anecdote.
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The Sopranos / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
The Sopranos / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: "I'm sure he's tellin' his psychiatrist it's all his mother's fault." "I used to fuck your husband." From the season 2 finale: "You know I've been working with the government, right, Ton'?" It was heavily implied since about halfway through the first season, though, and this is in an Acid Reflux Nightmare where a fish is speaking in Pussy's voice; the wham isn't in the confirmation that Pussy is The Mole, but rather in Tony finally admitting as much to himself. "Can I tell you something, Tony? The last year I have been dreaming, and fantasizing, and in love with Furio." "Angelo got it. Last night. Probably Phil." That line, received by Tony over the phone by Silvio, immediately lets Tony and the viewers know that when the highly volatile Tony B. hears that his old friend and mentor has been murdered, bad, bad shit is about to go down. Phil has two when he escalates the conflict to unprecedented levels:
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The Sopranos / int_4ec4c5ab	type	Harsher in Hindsight
The Sopranos / int_4ec4c5ab	comment	Harsher in Hindsight: In-universe example: Chris groused about the Feds not investigating him like they were the senior Mafiosi, and he even bought a stack of newspapers that referred to him as a "local mobster". One has to wonder if he ruefully reflected on this in later seasons when the FBI spent what must have been thousands of taxpayer dollars to specifically bring him down â€” oh, and it indirectly/directly resulted in Adriana's death, too.
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The Sopranos / int_4efe80e1	type	Lazy Bum
The Sopranos / int_4efe80e1	comment	Distinguished Meadow and lazy airhead A.J.
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The Sopranos / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
The Sopranos / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The first season is a mild example, playing somewhat more like a lampoon of the gangster genre. It emphasizes the zaniness of Tony's two lives as a family man and a "Family" man. His wife gets this treatment as well. In one scene she expertly cocks and loads an AK-47 when she thinks there's an intruder. In the following seasons, she's just a typical housewife. The supporting gangsters are also constantly quoting famous mob movies, showing that modern mob culture is partially based on imitating fiction. This is de-emphasized in the rest of the show, though never completely goes away. In the pilot episode, it clearly has not yet been established that Tony has sisters. In the pilot, the pork store used as the mob's hangout is named Centanni's Meat Market instead of Satriale's Pork Store. Tony giving Ralph a beating after the Tracee incident is the source of a lot of conflicts, as physically assaulting a made man is against the Mafia's rules. He attacked Mikey Palmice, another made man (and Junior's right-hand man to boot) in the first season with no such drama.
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The Sopranos / int_4f62bde6	type	Kavorka Man
The Sopranos / int_4f62bde6	comment	Kavorka Man: Despite being a criminal prone to violent outbursts and not being particularly attractive in terms of appearance (he's middle-aged, balding, and noticeably overweight), Tony finds himself in relationships with several women throughout the show in addition to his wife, Carmela. All Girls Want Bad Boys working in his favor, no doubt. As does wanting to get ahead at the Bing.
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The Sopranos / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Sopranos / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Jackie Aprile Jr., who is all cool persona and zero competence. Varying cases could be made for a lot of the main cast too. His stepfather Ralphie is probably the worst one in the series.
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The Sopranos / int_4f8b159a	type	Passed-Over Promotion
The Sopranos / int_4f8b159a	comment	Passed-Over Promotion: One of the factors that trigger a power struggle between Tony and Junior, acting boss and nominal boss respectively. Tony does this to Ralph, who was a veteran of his crew and a big earner but obnoxious and erratic; he gives a captaincy to Gigi, who was from another crew, but also more docile and easier to control. Junior lightly reproves Tony for this move, but then admits Tony didn't really have any good options for the captaincy at that point. Both Silvio Dante and Patsy Parisi feel severely slighted when Christopher Moltisanti is declared temporary captain of Paulie Walnuts' crew, and unofficially Tony's successor. In retaliation, they conspire to undermine Christopher's authority and torpedo his endeavors.
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The Sopranos / int_4fa68c72	type	Like Parent, Like Spouse
The Sopranos / int_4fa68c72	comment	Like Parent, Like Spouse: Dr. Melfi helps Tony realize that his tumultuous relationship with his mother leads him to attempt relationships with women almost exactly like her personality-wise. His girlfriend of the third season, Gloria, is arguably the worst in this regard (even using the same "Poor you" catchphrase as his mother), and the consequences are disastrous.
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The Sopranos / int_508d91a2	type	Pre-Mortem One-Liner
The Sopranos / int_508d91a2	comment	Pre-Mortem One-Liner: One of the most iconic instances of this trope on this show comes from Tony to Matt Bevilaqua: "'Cause that sugarless motherfucker, it's the last fucking drink you're ever gonna have." Silvio and Chris taunt the government informant Jimmy Altieri before shooting him. Gigi Cestone before killing Philly Spoons: "Here YOU go, you big mouth fuck! Fuck!" Silvio to Adrianna: "Come on, come on! Fuckin' cunt!"
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The Sopranos / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
The Sopranos / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: Ralphie makes a joke about Ginny Sack's weight. Johnny Sack's reaction? He attempts to place a hit on him. "Doc" Santoro takes a piece of food off Phil Leotardo's plate during a very private meeting. Phil's reaction? He orders a few hitmen to shoot him and his bodyguard multiple times.
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The Sopranos / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Crazy Jealous Guy: Christopher could be this way with Adriana.
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The Sopranos / int_50ca4422	comment	Also Furio, because of the Unresolved Sexual Tension between him and Carmela.
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The Sopranos / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
The Sopranos / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Tony Soprano and many other mobsters are very noticeably overweight or even obese. Tony even calls other people "fat fuck". Averted with Bobby Baccalieri, who's both the fattest mobster and the Token Good Teammate.
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The Sopranos / int_517f8d71	type	Delusions of Eloquence
The Sopranos / int_517f8d71	comment	Delusions of Eloquence: Little Carmine Lupertazzi, in his constant efforts to demonstrate erudition he never had and couldn't begin to spell, fell prey to this with monotonous regularity.
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The Sopranos / int_51a3ba7	type	We Used to Be Friends
The Sopranos / int_51a3ba7	comment	We Used to Be Friends: Tony bitterly comments this regarding Johnny Sack as the New York boss gets more ruthless and less pragmatic and amiable. Still, Tony is very sad when Johnny passes away and still loves him despite some of his final actions.
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The Sopranos / int_51f336bf	type	Joggers Find Death
The Sopranos / int_51f336bf	comment	Joggers Find Death: Mikey Palmice is killed by Chris and Paulie in the middle of his jogging routine.
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The Sopranos / int_52196c03	type	Age-Gap Romance
The Sopranos / int_52196c03	comment	Age-Gap Romance: Virtually all of the "goomahs" of the mob men are significantly younger than them. Irina is 12+ years Tony's junior, Bobbi even more to Junior. Tracee is 20 years old with the 40+-year-old Ralphie, making her murder at his hands all the more tragic. A 20-year-old AJ starts a relationship with Blanca, a 30-year-old single mother. His parents disparage the relationship (Tony because she's Puerto Rican, Carmella because of the age gap), but figure it's a good thing that she's at least Catholic. The relationship doesn't last; it's implied that while Blanca recognizes that AJ has a good heart, she was better off with someone her own age. AJ becomes so depressed that he attempts suicide.
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The Sopranos / int_52e23ce	type	Inn Between the Worlds
The Sopranos / int_52e23ce	comment	Inn Between the Worlds: In "From Here to Eternity", Chris has a near-death experience where he visits Hell or Purgatory that's an Irish bar where every day is Saint Patrick's Day and you spend all eternity getting beaten in card games.
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The Sopranos / int_530350d5	type	Trouble Entendre
The Sopranos / int_530350d5	comment	Trouble Entendre: In the first episode, Tony is about to tell Melfi what he did to a guy who owed him money when she interrupts by telling him that knowing the details of his crimes would put her in a very precarious legal situation. So Tony tells her that he took the guy out for coffee. The scene then cuts to a flashback of Tony running the guy over and beating him up. Tony slips some feeble truth in the story, as he was finishing a coffee in the meantime.
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The Sopranos / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
The Sopranos / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Implied. Although the show's infamous Ambiguous Ending makes it difficult to know for sure, it's strongly hinted that the final season begins and ends with Tony getting shot, and with a man in a "Members Only" jacket shooting someone to death in a diner.
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The Sopranos / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
The Sopranos / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: Used occasionally to recall significant events of Tony's life.
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The Sopranos / int_53f0f67e	type	Dreaming the Truth
The Sopranos / int_53f0f67e	comment	Dreaming the Truth: Tony had a dream where he was forced to face that he knew Big Pussy was wearing a wire. Dr. Melfi has a dream which leads her to realize that she can, if she wants to, have Tony punish her rapist â€” though she chooses not to. Carmela has a dream where she's forced to confront the possibility that Adriana was killed. Previously, she'd been led to believe that the latter had abandoned the family.
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The Sopranos / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
The Sopranos / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Abundant. Paulie, Sil, and even Christopher serve in this role for Tony. Johnny Sack was Carmine Lupertazzi's, and later on, Phil Leotardo was Johnny's.
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The Sopranos / int_546dac59	type	Death Amnesia
The Sopranos / int_546dac59	comment	Death Amnesia: Tony's coma dream flows steadily out of his memory, with the exception of the beckoning light.
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The Sopranos / int_54f06874	type	Criminal Craves Legitimacy
The Sopranos / int_54f06874	comment	Criminal Craves Legitimacy: Carmela is in deep denial about her husband Tony's crimes, but they do give her a life of luxury. The only way she truly expresses how much she truly knows is that she's desperate for her and Tony's daughter Meadow to become a paediatrician, a highly-respected career that's nothing to do with the mob. It doesn't happen. Meadow switches majors and is well on her way to becoming a mob lawyer.
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The Sopranos / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
The Sopranos / int_558f5da6	comment	Cryptic Conversation: The mobsters actively avoid using incriminating words and have colorful euphemisms and Trouble Entendre for their illegal enterprises. Tony tells a guy that a job might involve "getting messy, real wet work". The FBI agents listening prick up their ears, only to realize a few seconds later he's asking a plumber to fix his burst water heater. Parodied in the last season when Johnny Sack's 'civilian' brother-in-law gives a shot at the Spy Speak, but his efforts comically complicate the conversations.
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The Sopranos / int_55cd4012	type	"Everybody Dies" Ending
The Sopranos / int_55cd4012	comment	"Everybody Dies" Ending: The last few episodes "take care of" Christopher, Bobby Bacala, and Phil Leotardo while Silvio is in a coma he may never wake up from, and Tony himself may have been shot in the final scene.
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The Sopranos / int_55ee648c	type	MommyIssues
The Sopranos / int_55ee648c	comment	Tony Soprano, in spite of his serious Mommy Issues, will instinctively defend his mother. In an early episode, he goes berserk when Dr. Melfi diagnoses Livia with borderline personality disorder and reads the symptoms to him. It's zig-zagged many times, as Tony is full of love and hate.
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The Sopranos / int_56240281	type	Country Matters
The Sopranos / int_56240281	comment	Country Matters: Regularly. It's generally not treated as a big deal nor used for shock value, with some exceptions. Season two has a scene where Tony applies the word to Big Pussy's wife, causing Carmela to stop him mid-sentence and shut him up. Tony insults Melfi with the term when she carefully refuses his advances. He gets called on it when he later apologizes. Silvio's Pre-Mortem One-Liner delivered to Adriana: "Come on, come on! Fuckin' cunt!" Paulie refers to the old lady who is mean to his mother as a "malignant cunt." Uncle Junior, a by-definition old geezer, breaks his hip in the shower and exclaims "YOUR SISTER'S CUNT!" In another case, Christopher gets to go on a movie set and suggests a curse word alternative to bitch â€” pucchiacha. When asked what it means, he simply deadpans: "Cunt."
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The Sopranos / int_565106b3	type	Women Are Wiser
The Sopranos / int_565106b3	comment	Women Are Wiser: Played straight more often than not; while there are certainly a few dimwitted or crazy women in the cast, the major female characters tend to be wiser or at least more mentally stable than the men.
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The Sopranos / int_5679208c	type	No Bisexuals
The Sopranos / int_5679208c	comment	No Bisexuals: Despite Vito Spatafore having a wife, children, and mistress he is viewed by everyone as exclusively gay when it becomes apparent that he secretly sleeps with men on the side. The word "bisexual" is never even mentioned throughout the entire story arc. Although, a least partially Justified by the fact that mobsters wouldn't have the most nuanced view of sexuality, and anything less than 100% stereotypical macho heteronormativity would be viewed as "gay" by them, in an earlier episode it's revealed that even performing oral sex on a woman is considered potential evidence of homosexuality.
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The Sopranos / int_56fcb1b0	type	Goths Have It Hard
The Sopranos / int_56fcb1b0	comment	Goths Have It Hard: Vito Spatafore is murdered by his cousin-in-law Phil Leotardo for being gay, which is a huge no-no in the highly homophobic mafia. His son, Vito Spatafore Jr., starts to dress in all black and act out in school. Phil rather sanctimoniously tries to teach him to "man up" and take charge of his family now that his father is gone, and when he still refuses, Tony has him shipped off to a Military School.
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The Sopranos / int_5744f019	type	Lucky Charms Title
The Sopranos / int_5744f019	comment	Lucky Charms Title: A Beretta pistol pointed downwards serves as the "r" in the show's logo.
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The Sopranos / int_586db75d	type	My Girl Is Not a Slut
The Sopranos / int_586db75d	comment	My Girl Is Not a Slut: Almost all the gangsters cheat on their wives and have sex with prostitutes while expecting 100% faithfulness from their wives â€” a rumor of infidelity leads to one woman being brutally beaten while already injured from a car crash â€” and viewing prostitutes as worthless.
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The Sopranos / int_590760d9	type	Arcade Sounds
The Sopranos / int_590760d9	comment	Arcade Sounds: Bobby Baccalieri's son plays a computer full of generic laser blasts, beeps, doots, and other such game noises. The game he's playing is Max Payne...
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The Sopranos / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
The Sopranos / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: Tony's signature cigars. It gets visually lampshaded when Winston Churchill, another badass Cigar Chomper, shows up in a documentary that Tony is watching.
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The Sopranos / int_59907e4f	type	Police Are Useless
The Sopranos / int_59907e4f	comment	Police Are Useless: Apparently there is no law enforcement in the state of New Jersey. Tony and his crew are endlessly worrying about the FBI, but there's never a hint of state and local cops investigating them for their various crimes. It's hinted and shown that the Mafia has influence and leverage over the civil servants who can control the local police (e.g. Zellman) and some cops are on the Mafia's payroll; Bobby mentions local police as one of his sources of information. Season 1 explores this with Vin Makazian, the detective who feeds information to Tony, and yet Tony treats him with contempt and not as a valuable asset.
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The Sopranos / int_599ad6d5	type	Contrived Clumsiness
The Sopranos / int_599ad6d5	comment	Contrived Clumsiness: Paulie Walnuts drops Valery's universal remote and gives a sarcastic oops after Valery tells him sternly, in his thick Russian accent, that "remote goes on docking station". Unsurprisingly, the conflict escalates from there.
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The Sopranos / int_59ca0c8a	type	Mob-Boss Suit Fitting
The Sopranos / int_59ca0c8a	comment	Mob-Boss Suit Fitting: "Pax Soprana" shows Corrado "Junior" Soprano, newly designated head of the Di Meo crime family of New Jersey, being fitted for a new suit. His tailor tells "Uncle Junior" that the tailor's grandson recently committed suicide due to drugs sold to him by a member of the Soprano crew. Junior promptly has the dealer killed.
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The Sopranos / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
The Sopranos / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: So did Ralphie really kill Pie-Oh-My? What happened to the Russian? Did Hadyu really kill Christopher's father? Was the psychic really communicating with Paulie's victims? And what about that ending?
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The Sopranos / int_5b1a2f4e	type	Ain't Too Proud to Beg
The Sopranos / int_5b1a2f4e	comment	Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Christopher in Season 1 when he suffers a mock execution. Reversed later in Season 5 when Tony is about to kill him and Chris doesn't back down from an accusation. Lorraine Calluzzo offers to blow the Leotardo brothers during what turns out to be a mock execution. Matthew Bevilaqua's last action was to pitifully beg for his life. Tony wasn't moved. Fabian "Febby" Petrulioâ€™s last words before Tony garrotes him: "Please, Tony...Iâ€™m begging you".
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The Sopranos / int_5b4573b1	type	Near-Death Experience
The Sopranos / int_5b4573b1	comment	Near-Death Experience: After Tony is shot in the season 6 premiere by a senile Uncle Junior, he goes into a coma where he dreams about being in another city when his wallet and ticket back home get stolen. Before he wakes up he's standing in front of a house party where a person he had killed offers to take his bag and tells him to come inside, but he's distracted from moving on by voices in the wind calling for him (his family in the hospital).
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The Sopranos / int_5b565147	type	Meaningful Background Event
The Sopranos / int_5b565147	comment	Meaningful Background Event: The FBI approaches Johnny Sack from behind when he is talking with Tony, who reacts in time.
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The Sopranos / int_5b64e6d4	type	Red Herring Mole
The Sopranos / int_5b64e6d4	comment	Red Herring Mole: Subverted. Tony suspects that Big Pussy, one of his oldest friends in the mob, has become an informant for the Feds. After Paulie tries to confirm that Pussy is carrying a wire by taking him to a sauna, Pussy refuses to take his clothes off and skips town. Tony discovers that Jimmy Altieri (who also fits the physical description he was given) has been working with the Feds and has him killed with Uncle Junior's approval while worrying that Paulie killed Pussy on his own initiative. Pussy later returns, now actively working as an informant behind Tony's back, before he too is found out and killed by Tony, Paulie, and Sal.
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The Sopranos / int_5ca80293	type	Pragmatic Villainy
The Sopranos / int_5ca80293	comment	Pragmatic Villainy: Displayed numerous times; the level-headed mobsters know when to avoid high-profile crimes, because being flashy is bad for business. One specific example has Tony berating Richie for selling drugs in the garbage routes, but only because it will draw the attention of the Federal Government, not out of any moral qualms. An issue explored in other works of the genre alluded to in-universe and Truth in Television.
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The Sopranos / int_5ce7dbb9	type	Central Theme
The Sopranos / int_5ce7dbb9	comment	Central Theme: Being Evil Sucks, no matter how one tries to deny or justify it.
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The Sopranos / int_5e68bb61	type	Gayngster
The Sopranos / int_5e68bb61	comment	Vito Spatafore boasts about "how close" he got with Adriana La Cerva, Christopher's girlfriend after it seems that she had an affair with Tony behind Christopher's back. Not only is Vito a closeted gay man, but Adriana is also his first cousin; Richie Aprile is both Vito's and Adriana's uncle. Perhaps a result of the writers simply forgetting who was related to who.
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The Sopranos / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
The Sopranos / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Pretty much everyone, bordering on Food Porn. They're eating in every episode: big, heavy, Italian meals of pasta and meat and sauces and alcohol.
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The Sopranos / int_60f992e8	type	Florence Nightingale Effect
The Sopranos / int_60f992e8	comment	Florence Nightingale Effect: Discussed. Tony quickly develops feelings towards his therapist, which are unrequited for pragmatic reasons.
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The Sopranos / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Sopranos / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: "Furio," lampshaded in his introduction.
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The Sopranos / int_61313315	type	Off the Wagon
The Sopranos / int_61313315	comment	Much of Christopher's story involves him attempting to get respect from Tony and the other capos as a made man, to settle down with a family, and to kick his debilitating addiction to substances. Although he does get a wife and daughter, he fails every one of these goals by the end, due to repeatedly going Off the Wagon as a result of his impulsive decisions and inferiority complex. Eventually, even Tony, the one person who repeatedly gave Christopher far more chances than he deserved, loses respect for Chris when realizes his drug addiction makes him a danger to everyone around him, and finishes him off after Chris is badly injured in a car accident (due to driving high).
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The Sopranos / int_6159beb1	type	It Tastes Like Feet
The Sopranos / int_6159beb1	comment	It Tastes Like Feet: In "The Strong, Silent Type," Tony and Junior are sampling some wine Furio brought back from Italy, which Junior grumps "reminds [him] of people's feet." After which, he continues drinking it.
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The Sopranos / int_615fdb1f	type	Dream Sequence
The Sopranos / int_615fdb1f	comment	Dream Sequence: Done several times over the course of the show, but exaggerated in "The Test Dream", in which the titular dream lasts a full 20 minutes. It's taken even further in "Join the Club" and "Mayham", where Tony falls into a coma after getting shot and has a long dream that extends over ''two episodes''.
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The Sopranos / int_619bc34b	type	High-Class Gloves
The Sopranos / int_619bc34b	comment	High-Class Gloves: Carmela and Meadow have a tradition of going out to a fancy restaurant wearing long gloves on her birthday. Meadow decides that it's a childish custom and refuses to participate.
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The Sopranos / int_62663d88	type	Men Don't Cry
The Sopranos / int_62663d88	comment	Men Don't Cry: Phil Leotardo loses all respect for Johnny Sack when he cries in public.
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The Sopranos / int_627264e0	type	Death Glare
The Sopranos / int_627264e0	comment	Death Glare: Tony gives Chris a venomous one at the meeting with Johnny Sack... Tony warned Chris to stay quiet beforehand. Chris keeps yapping, and the situation goes south pretty fast.
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The Sopranos / int_62b72e	comment	Perilous Marriage Proposal: Christopher's proposal to Adriana is bad for both of them, though ultimately much worse for her. It already takes place in perilous circumstances; she's already broken up with him for his physical and emotional abuse. Her mother warns her that if she takes Christopher back, she won't be able to come back when it (inevitably) goes wrong again, but she says yes anyway. All of that happens, and then right after the proposal, Christopher gets betrayed and shot (though he does recover with Adriana caring for him). This also turns out to foreshadow exactly how bad her engagement to Christopher would be for Adriana, which ultimately led to her being recruited as an FBI informant because she was Christopher's fiancÃ©e, suffering years of mental anguish, being increasingly physically abused as he descended into drug addiction, and being betrayed by Christopher and murdered when he found out she was an informant, all the while holding onto her Tragic Dream that they would get married.
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The Sopranos / int_6331ba26	type	Plot Hole
The Sopranos / int_6331ba26	comment	Plot Hole: In Season 1, Livia's house is sold by Tony and she is told about it in no uncertain terms, an event which plays a major part in making her angry and colluding with Junior to take Tony out. Come Season 2 and the house is only "on the market", and eventually inhabited by Janice and Livia again.
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The Sopranos / int_635963c	type	You Always Hear the Bullet
The Sopranos / int_635963c	comment	You Always Hear the Bullet: Discussed and debunked by Tony, Bobby, Silvio, and physically averted in the final scene, according to the main theory.
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The Sopranos / int_639cefd2	type	Go into the Light
The Sopranos / int_639cefd2	comment	Go into the Light: When Tony Soprano is comatose after a shooting, he dreams that he's going to a family reunion. He's greeted in front by his dead cousin, who urges him to hand over his briefcase (despite his protest that "my whole life's in here") and go into the party in the white building they're standing in front of. As he approaches the door, the inside of the house becomes a white blur—but he hears his family calling him to come back, refuses to hand over the briefcase, and wakes up on the hospital bed.
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The Sopranos / int_63b02752	type	Hair-Trigger Temper
The Sopranos / int_63b02752	comment	Hair-Trigger Temper: Anyone would want to watch their step around pretty much anyone in the cast. While there are a few exceptions that are a little more level-headed, they all fly into a rage pretty quickly.
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The Sopranos / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Sopranos / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Mobsters might be amoral bastards, but family is a big deal to them. For all of Dr. Melfi's accusations that Tony is a sociopath, he does clearly love his family in his own way. He feels guilty about what he puts his wife through, sees Meadow as an innocent in need of protection, and is tortured by AJ's floundering. Phil Leotardo really loved his brother and mourns his murder bitterly for years afterward. Johnny Sack's family seems to be quite loving.
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The Sopranos / int_6448ac10	type	Did You Get a New Haircut?
The Sopranos / int_6448ac10	comment	Did You Get a New Haircut?: In "All Happy Families...", AJ's friends shave his eyebrows off while stoned. It takes Tony a minute to catch on the first time he sees him.
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The Sopranos / int_64e975cf	type	Manly Tears
The Sopranos / int_64e975cf	comment	Phil Leotardo. After nearly dying from a heart attack and crying in front of Tony when he gave him advice at the end of Part 1 of season 6, it seemed like he was finally going to change his ways. And then Part 2 came out.
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The Sopranos / int_659ef759	type	Implacable Man
The Sopranos / int_659ef759	comment	Paulie and Chris, when they realize Valery is more than they bargained for and again when they realize they are lost in The Pine Barrens.
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The Sopranos / int_65acf9db	type	He Knows Too Much
The Sopranos / int_65acf9db	comment	Paulie and his cronies pointlessly bully Christopher and disrespect his daughter. In turn, the evoked sympathy is lost when Chris kills Dolan, his sponsor and only friend as a consequence of his disrespect.
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The Sopranos / int_661d7909	type	Maligned Mixed Marriage
The Sopranos / int_661d7909	comment	Maligned Mixed Marriage: Everyone connected to the mob resists the idea of dating outside of Italians. The farther away from Italy, the stronger the objection. Tony has fits that Meadow dates a man who is half-Jewish and half-black, seeming to resent the black side much more than the Jewish. It creates serious drama in the household, and Carmela isn't happy about it either. Carmela smiles politely to AJ's long-term girlfriend Blanca, but behind her back, she balks at the fact that she's Puerto Rican. Tony points out that at least she's Catholic. Christopher claims that he doesn't bring his goomar around because she's black and knows that guys like Paulie wouldn't be OK with it. The others find this sentiment wise.
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The Sopranos / int_6627695f	type	Author Appeal
The Sopranos / int_6627695f	comment	Author Appeal: Many references to media figures reflect the tastes of the show makers. The band Scout appears as the fictional band Miami Relatives because the episode's writer Michael Imperioli is a fan. A W. C. Fields film is on the television in the same episode because David Chase is a fan.
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The Sopranos / int_6679436	type	Leatherman
The Sopranos / int_6679436	comment	Leatherman: Vito is seen by some low-ranking soldiers attending a gay bar in one of these outfits, which seals his fate.
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The Sopranos / int_66b98472	type	Erotic Dream
The Sopranos / int_66b98472	comment	Erotic Dream: Tony Soprano has had more than a few erotic dreams throughout the series, including one with his psychiatrist Dr. Melfi in her office, and another one with his friend Artie Buco's wife as he's cheering them on. Interestingly, Dr. Melfi also dreams about having sex with her patient at one point.
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The Sopranos / int_678a72a9	type	And a Diet Coke
The Sopranos / int_678a72a9	comment	And a Diet Coke: Vito orders a Grande Nacho and a Diet Coke at Crazy Horse in "Pie-O-My".
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The Sopranos / int_67c287fe	type	Karmic Twist Ending
The Sopranos / int_67c287fe	comment	Karmic Twist Ending: Despite Tony's Karma Houdini tendencies, the series ends with him facing prison time and very possibly murdered.
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The Sopranos / int_680f950	type	Gilligan Cut
The Sopranos / int_680f950	comment	Gilligan Cut: Uncle Junior confides in Tony that he has cancer, and makes him promise not to tell anyone. Tony assures him he will not. Next scene- Ralph Cifaretto's son Justin is accidentally shot with an arrow, resulting in significant blood loss and brain damage. Rosalie Aprile comforts Ralph, telling him "He's gonna be fine." Cut to Rosalie then telling Carmela, "He's gonna be a vegetable."
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The Sopranos / int_683bb900	type	Last Disrespects
The Sopranos / int_683bb900	comment	Last Disrespects: Deconstructed. Upon Livia's death, Janice decides to throw a wake for her despite her own expressed wish not to have one. After many phony expressions of sympathy and mourning from all attendees, it finally takes Carmella to speak up that she was a horribly dysfunctional and manipulative woman who spread misery to everyone who spent time with her and didn't want a funeral because she thought no one would miss her. No one argues with this assessment, least of all Tony (she even gets a hear hear).
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The Sopranos / int_6861146e	type	Epiphany Therapy
The Sopranos / int_6861146e	comment	Epiphany Therapy: Subverted to hell and back; Tony mostly uses what he learns in therapy to be a more efficient mob boss. Dr. Melfi eventually realizes this and terminates the sessions for good.
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The Sopranos / int_6ac3af76	type	Divorce Is Temporary
The Sopranos / int_6ac3af76	comment	Divorce Is Temporary: Season 4 ends with a violent confrontation between Tony and Carmela and she insists that they separate. A season later he's Out-Gambitted her in the divorce proceedings because he's talked to most of the major divorce attorneys in town and the others won't take Carmela's case because of Tony's reputation. Later on he wins her back and they stay together for the rest of the series.
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The Sopranos / int_6ae4dedd	type	The Unfair Sex
The Sopranos / int_6ae4dedd	comment	The Unfair Sex: Averted. Annalisa Zucca and Lorraine Calluzzo, the two female Mafioso characters who appear on the show, are as ruthless as the male gangsters. There's also Evil Matriarch Livia and immoral Janice. The wives on the show are depicted as hypocritical for claiming to be religious while living off blood money.
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The Sopranos / int_6b35bdff	type	Serious Business
The Sopranos / int_6b35bdff	comment	Serious Business: Junior ends his relationship with his girlfriend (who he quite genuinely loves) and comes within a hair's breadth of physically abusing her after he realizes that she told her friends he was performing oral sex on her. He told her not to, and she tried to keep it a secret, but she let it slip, and it ended up trickling down to Tony, who used it to mock his uncle. This utterly baffles Junior's poor girlfriend, who can't understand why it's such a big deal. It doesn't help that Junior's explanation is that the people he hangs out with consider a man going down a woman evidence that he's actually gay.
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The Sopranos / int_6b3c357e	type	Ivy League for Everyone
The Sopranos / int_6b3c357e	comment	Ivy League for Everyone: Meadow is an undergraduate student at Columbia. However, it's made clear she only got in because Carmela implicitly uses the nefarious power of their surname to grant her admission.
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The Sopranos / int_6b983bf7	type	Unstoppable Rage
The Sopranos / int_6b983bf7	comment	Tony Soprano's Wrath and short fuse sometimes got the better of him.
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The Sopranos / int_6bbeff0b	type	Asian Airhead
The Sopranos / int_6bbeff0b	comment	Asian Airhead: Of the Indian variant - Ambujam, Meadow's college acquaintance who appears in maybe 2 scenes. "Fock you, betch!" and "Mead, he was soch a drep!" referring to Jackie Jr.
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The Sopranos / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Sopranos / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Livia, who shares her name with the Magnificent Bastard mother in I, Claudius. A "soprano" is a woman with a high-pitched singing voice. In times past, choirboys would be castrated before puberty in order to retain their soprano voice. At the beginning of the series, Tony Soprano is a man who's afraid that he's losing hold of his masculinity. The musical term "soprano" is derived from the Italian word "sopra", which means "above". This could be a reference to Tony's status as the head of the Jersey family. Many people have pointed out that Dr. Melfi's last name sounds very similar to "milfy," which is exactly how Tony sees her. Vesuvio is named for Mount Vesuvius, a volcano that destroyed several Roman cities. Vesuvio burns down.
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The Sopranos / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Sopranos / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Vin Makazian, Gloria Trillo, and Eugene Pontecorvo. A.J. and Artie both attempt it, but fail. Satriale's aka the pork store that Tony and company hang out in was acquired by Johnny Boy Soprano when the owner Mr. Satriale killed himself over his debts to the mafia.
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The Sopranos / int_6df4d991	type	Native American Casino
The Sopranos / int_6df4d991	comment	Native American Casino: Tony makes a deal with the owner of such an establishment (and even visits his casino) in an attempt to use backdoor politics to stop a Native American protest of a Christopher Columbus parade.
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The Sopranos / int_6ee10e0	type	My Greatest Failure
The Sopranos / int_6ee10e0	comment	My Greatest Failure: Villainous variety. Tony Soprano eventually gets to evaluate Christopher as this.
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The Sopranos / int_6ef09297	type	Masquerade
The Sopranos / int_6ef09297	comment	Masquerade: Tony tries to shield his children from the truth and denies the existence of The Mafia, but Meadow is too smart for that. She gradually embarks on the same masquerade in front of outsiders, a thing noted by her parents.
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The Sopranos / int_6fb59931	type	Being Personal Isn't Professional
The Sopranos / int_6fb59931	comment	Being Personal Isn't Professional: One notable concept that Tony never neglects. Particular examples include David Scatino, Tony B, Vito, and Christopher.
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The Sopranos / int_6fb5cb83	type	I Gave My Word
The Sopranos / int_6fb5cb83	comment	I Gave My Word: When Carmella and Tony are discussing ratting out other criminals and going into witness protection, Tony says this. Carmella replies: "What are you, a kid in a treehouse?" A nice way to point out how ridiculous this trope can be when the choice is following your word or protecting your family.
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The Sopranos / int_70c73c20	type	TheUnseen
The Sopranos / int_70c73c20	comment	The Unseen: Janice's son Harpo, who is mentioned repeatedly but never appears.
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The Sopranos / int_71384f0e	type	Two-Person Pool Party
The Sopranos / int_71384f0e	comment	Two-Person Pool Party: Tony and Carmela in the episode "Marco Polo".
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The Sopranos / int_716cdf08	type	Vorpal Pillow
The Sopranos / int_716cdf08	comment	Vorpal Pillow: Tony grabs a pillow and is going to smother his mother, but he gets interrupted. Melfi makes a Call-Back to it much later, but Tony is in denial. Paulie smothers an old woman with a pillow when she surprises him by breaking and entering.
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The Sopranos / int_7276d0de	type	Mugging the Monster
The Sopranos / int_7276d0de	comment	Mugging the Monster: Bobby goes to make his pickups from an inner-city Newark "client" late at night and winds up getting robbed by some street kids. Because he didn't bring any backup, they get away with it, and the rest of Tony's crew mock Bobby for quite some time. Paulie and Christopher needlessly pick a fight with Valery, who turns out to be a Russian special forces veteran and ends up causing them a lot of trouble.
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The Sopranos / int_72852a93	type	Henpecked Husband
The Sopranos / int_72852a93	comment	Henpecked Husband Tony's father. Artie is under constant criticism from his wife Charmaine, mostly about his decisions when running the restaurant. This and other factors lead to the two nearly divorcing.
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The Sopranos / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Sopranos / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: Loan Shark Tony takes an SUV used by David Scatino's son as collateral from the busted-out Scatino, and then gives it to Meadow, who is a close friend of the boy. Not surprisingly, a fight emerges between father and daughter. Tony is normally a lot cannier than that.
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The Sopranos / int_729c69f3	type	Politically Incorrect Villain
The Sopranos / int_729c69f3	comment	Politically Incorrect Villain: Well, pretty much all of the male gangster characters are quite politically incorrect and are (obviously) professional criminals. Phil might count in particular, as he is a more homophobic/generally unpleasant person than Tony (although not necessarily much eviler). Nicely illustrated during a conversation about Vito's strayed son. An aversion exists with Pasquale "Patsy" Parisi. When it comes out that Vito is gay, while he laughs at some of the jokes, he makes it clear that he is the only person in the family that has no problem with homosexuality. Notably, most of the characters are apparently self-aware enough to know that they lack N-Word Privileges and tend to use variations of the Italian mulignan (from mulignana, lit. eggplant) or ditsoon (from tizzun, lit. charcoal). One very odd case is Richie Aprille, who prefers the Unusual Euphemism Nigerian.
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The Sopranos / int_72cdfc33	type	Big Bad Ensemble
The Sopranos / int_72cdfc33	comment	Big Bad Ensemble: Season 2 initially sets up both Richie Aprile and Big Pussy as the plot's main antagonists. Upon being released from prison, Richie actively undermines Tony's authority as boss of the DiMeo crime family and ultimately moves to have him killed towards the end of the story arc. As for Pussy, he is revealed to be a FBI informant whose likable persona is revealed to be a facade masking his growing bitterness towards Tony. However, whereas Richie's actions are a constant threat to Tony's control over the family, Pussy ultimately proves to be an unreliable asset to his FBI handlers and is abruptly whacked in the season finale after having little impact on the course of the plot.
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The Sopranos / int_72e1bd14	type	Bungled Suicide
The Sopranos / int_72e1bd14	comment	Bungled Suicide: A.J. tries to drown himself in his pool by tying a cinder block to his feet. A last minute change of heart leaves him stranded in the middle of the pool with his head barely above water.
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The Sopranos / int_72e54916	type	Retired Monster
The Sopranos / int_72e54916	comment	Retired Monster: How some of the older members of the mob end their careers - the lucky ones. Then again, Uncle Junior's gradual descent into dementia, eventually rendering him a frail, senile husk of his former self condemned to spend the remainder of his life in a dank state-run facility unable to even recognize his family or recall his own accomplishments is one of the most depressing and haunting plotlines in the show.
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The Sopranos / int_734632b0	type	Noble Bigot
The Sopranos / int_734632b0	comment	Noble Bigot: Tony is more tolerant than many of his friends and colleagues, but... Even he freaks out when he discovers Meadow is dating a half-black, half-Jewish classmate from a wealthy New York family. He also spews a lot of homophobic slurs after finding out Vito is gay, but when Dr. Melfi points out that he doesn't sound like he means it, he admits that his true feelings are closer to "Who gives a shit?" He even initially tries to find a way to keep Vito in the fold, but the realities of mob culture conspire against him.
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The Sopranos / int_7360806f	type	In-Series Nickname
The Sopranos / int_7360806f	comment	In-Series Nickname: "Big Pussy" gets a second one, much to his chagrin, Tony keeps calling him "beached whale". Phil gets called "The Shah of Iran". He resents it and brings it up when he summarizes the reason why the DiMeo family sucks.
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The Sopranos / int_73f79f91	comment	Released to Elsewhere: Appears to be played straight with Tony, though it's subverted in that his father actually does send the dog to live with a nice family.
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The Sopranos / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
The Sopranos / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Oh, poor you," Livia's sarcastic rejoinder to Tony's complaints. When his mistress also says it, Tony realizes he'd sought her out because she is like his mother. In season 6, Tony in turn says it to his son.
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The Sopranos / int_74f57438	type	Cell Phones Are Useless
The Sopranos / int_74f57438	comment	Cell Phones Are Useless: Poor telecommunication service is the source of problems in "Pine Barrens", where Paulie and Chris get lost in a frozen forest. Tony gets gradually more and more agitated and has to give them orders very loudly and full of profanity while his parents-in-law are in his house. Justified to no small degree; if any part of New Jersey would have patchy/poor/nonexistent cell phone coverage in 2001, it would be the Pine Barrens.
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The Sopranos / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
The Sopranos / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: Finn, who put himself on a bus to San Francisco because he discovered Vito was gay. Also Furio, because of the Unresolved Sexual Tension between him and Carmela. Also Tony puts Janice on a bus to Seattle, after she shoots her fiance, Richie Aprile. Tony's solace is short-lived; she comes back 'for good' on a plane (that Tony has to pay for) the next season... two episodes later. Lots of averted examples. Johnny Sack managed to last for another season after being sent to jail, Rosalie and Angie appeared throughout most of the series despite their husbands being whacked fairly early on, and Junior made several appearances in his psychiatric hospital.
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The Sopranos / int_75e2bf23	type	Chiaroscuro
The Sopranos / int_75e2bf23	comment	Chiaroscuro: Used frequently in the lighting setup, to show the moral ambiguity of all the characters.
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The Sopranos / int_75f626a5	type	Nostalgia Filter
The Sopranos / int_75f626a5	comment	Nostalgia Filter: A common theme is various gangsters missing the good old days, when the Mafia had more power, men were more honorable and acted like "the strong, silent type". The flashbacks we see make it clear that men like Johnny Boy and Junior were as bad, probably worse, than the current generation.
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The Sopranos / int_767caf1f	type	Multiple Demographic Appeal
The Sopranos / int_767caf1f	comment	Multiple Demographic Appeal: The mafia action appealed to fans of mob movies (up to and including actual mobsters), the well-realized characters and drama appealed to fans of family dramas, the excellent acting, directing, and production values appealed to film lovers, the excellent soundtrack appealed to rock lovers, the wry wit and middle-aged characters appealed to older audiences, and the complex themes appealed to intellectuals.
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The Sopranos / int_769ad308	type	Hidden Weapons
The Sopranos / int_769ad308	comment	Hidden Weapons: When assassinating Chucky, Tony hides a gun in a fish; this is because he's ambushing the guy at the docks.
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The Sopranos / int_76df59f1	type	Thicker Than Water
The Sopranos / int_76df59f1	comment	Thicker Than Water: Family is a key theme of the show, and the importance of blood and marriage is played in every which way. Tony and Christopher's relationship is the premier example, although their actual blood ties are a bit vague (an FBI agent has to pick Adriana's brain to make sense of it: Chris is Carmela's cousin by blood, and Tony's honourary nephew... but Ade claims they're actual cousins too through extended family). Tony trusts and favors Christopher over more proven and competent underlings, as their familial bond ensures his loyalty. In theory, at least — Christopher's constant fuck ups and poor judgment eventually torpedo Tony's plan to groom him as an heir.
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The Sopranos / int_77468805	type	God Is Dead
The Sopranos / int_77468805	comment	God Is Dead: Stated by A.J in season 2, as part of his briefly becoming a Straw Nihilist.
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The Sopranos / int_77b03c0a	type	Remember the New Guy?
The Sopranos / int_77b03c0a	comment	Remember the New Guy?: Ralph is in Miami during the first two seasons before he shows up in Jersey. Richie Aprile, Tony B, and Phil Leotardo, who were in jail since '83. The Jersey crew avoiding their pinched guys (Paulie in season 4) is internally coherent; the big boss Ecole DiMeo is "a guest of the government" and he is rarely alluded to, if ever, after the first episodes. Lampshaded when Bobby Jr. mentions that he's never heard of Tony B. Avoided with "Feech" LaManna, released together with Tony B and Phil Leotardo at the beginning of season 5, but who was frequently mentioned and referred to in season 3, with Ralph recounting how "Feech's" card game was hit and inspiring his stepson to attempt to reenact it. The same anecdote is replayed once "Feech" is released.
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The Sopranos / int_7815ba15	type	N-Word Privileges
The Sopranos / int_7815ba15	comment	Notably, most of the characters are apparently self-aware enough to know that they lack N-Word Privileges and tend to use variations of the Italian mulignan (from mulignana, lit. eggplant) or ditsoon (from tizzun, lit. charcoal). One very odd case is Richie Aprille, who prefers the Unusual Euphemism Nigerian.
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The Sopranos / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
The Sopranos / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Nancy Marchand (Livia Soprano) died between seasons. The writers gave her a final scene with Tony, cut from her previous work with him. Most jarring was that Livia's lines are pretty generic with Tony's dialogue made to fit. Tony Sirico (Paulie Gualtieri) underwent back surgery around season 4 and was thrown in a jail to reduce his appearances. His role was fully restored once the actor recovered. Vito's weight loss was written into the plot due to actor Joseph R. Gannascoli's actual weight loss. It's made surprisingly tragic.
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The Sopranos / int_786d6cf6	type	You Wouldn't Shoot Me
The Sopranos / int_786d6cf6	comment	You Wouldn't Shoot Me: Lost in Pine Barrens and fearing for his life, Chris draws a gun on Paulie, who tries to calm him down:
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The Sopranos / int_78c5ce7e	type	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!
The Sopranos / int_78c5ce7e	comment	Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: Only implied. Given the realistic approach of the show, Tony making unilateral life and death decisions is a departure from the Mafia code, as a high-level sit-down is required before the liquidation of a made-man gets approved.
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The Sopranos / int_79a0e313	type	Bolivian Army Ending
The Sopranos / int_79a0e313	comment	Bolivian Army Ending: The famous ending uses this somewhat. Fans have long debated whether the cut-to-black means somebody shot Tony, or if a deeper symbolism is in play.
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The Sopranos / int_79e43350	type	Bleak Abyss Retirement Home
The Sopranos / int_79e43350	comment	Bleak Abyss Retirement Home: Inverted. Livia constantly refers to her nursing homenote as if it's a hell-hole (and that Tony doesn't visit her often), but on the whole it's shown to be a relatively pleasant place to live (and that Tony visits as frequently as his schedule allows, and substantially more often than a lot of others might).
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The Sopranos / int_7a3dd888	type	Real Men Wear Pink
The Sopranos / int_7a3dd888	comment	Real Men Wear Pink: Bobby Baccala and his love of toy trains, though it goes toward characterizing him as something of a Manchild who was unfortunately born into the Mafia life. Furio's Eurotrashy silk shirts, due to being a mobster raised in Italy.
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The Sopranos / int_7aa858c1	type	Consummate Liar
The Sopranos / int_7aa858c1	comment	Consummate Liar: Lying and deceiving is a second nature to most of the characters. Tony is so adept at it that he can smell most lies a mile away.
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The Sopranos / int_7b0b0907	type	All Jews Are Cheapskates
The Sopranos / int_7b0b0907	comment	Tony himself ends up 'chasing it' after a bad luck streak. Being rich and powerful, he can afford it, but goes through it in a very unpleasant mood and insults his friend and moneylender Hesh with the All Jews Are Cheapskates trope.
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The Sopranos / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
The Sopranos / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Meadow catches Tony off-guard when she asks him "Are you in the Mafia?". Tony replies there is no Mafia and discloses that he's indeed into some illegal activities such as gambling. Tony asks "Don't you love me?" to Junior who is going through the early stages of dementia and has behaved badly toward Tony. Junior is left shaken, speechless, and showing a Single Tear. "Hey, Pussy... did she even really exist?" Carmela to Tony after he says he was attracted to the one-legged Russian because he could converse with her: "what about the thousand other fucking pigs you had your dick in over the years, the strippers, the cocktail waitresses. Were you best friends with all of them too?"
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The Sopranos / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
The Sopranos / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: In one episode, Tony watches The Fugitive — oddly, he doesn't notice that Ralph Cifaretto has a minor role in it. Same goes for The Matrix DVD that AJ buys for Carmela. Goodfellas. It's mentioned quite a few times in the series, even though half of the major cast are in it, including but not limited to Michael Imperioli (Christopher), Vincent Pastore (Pussy), Tony Sirico (Paulie), Frank Vincent (Phil), and Lorraine Bracco (Dr. Melfi), who played a major supporting role in the film as Henry Hill's wife. Other actors who appear in Goodfellas and have secondary roles include Tony Darrow (Larry Bares) and Charles Lewis Low (Shlomo). Similarly, The Godfather Part II is referenced a number of times, in which Dominick Chianese (Uncle Junior) has a supporting role as Johnny Ola. Christopher mentions Scarface (1983) as a film in the first season. In season 5 Robert Loggia, who played Frank Lopez in the film, appears as Feech la Manna. "Everybody Loves Raymond" can be heard on the TV in Adriana and Christopher's apartment in a few episodes. David Proval appears in several episodes as a native Italian character similar in tone to Richie Aprile. Frankie Valli is mentioned several times, is an acquaintance of Tony's and the names of some of his songs are used in a few episode titles. He appears in seasons 5 and 6 as Lupertazzi capo Rusty Millio. Bruce Springsteen is referenced several times, even though Steven Van Zandt (Silvio) is the guitar player for the E Street Band. Noah Tannenbaum's father, a Hollywood attorney who frequently represents celebrities, claims to have met the actor Tim Daly before. Tim Daly would later go on to play the recurring character J.T. Dolan. The similarities between Tony's life and Analyze This don't go unnoticed, but no one seems to note that Benny Fazio (Max Casella) has a small role in it. Tony gives his mother an audio version of Mario Puzo's Omerta, read by none other than Christopher. Christopher watches Saw leading up to his making Cleaver - Tobin Bell plays both Jigsaw and the administrator of the Hudson Military Institute, Major Zwingli. Bell also played the parole officer of Jimmy Conway (played by Robert De Niro) in Goodfellas (see above). In the finale, Tony hums the Rocky theme. Burt Young (Paulie) also played Bobby's father.
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The Sopranos / int_7c9933de	type	Laughably Evil
The Sopranos / int_7c9933de	comment	Laughably Evil: Paulie "Walnuts" Gualtieri. A ridiculously rapacious and cheap bastard. Comically absurd like many of his shenanigans.
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The Sopranos / int_7cbba5d3	type	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters
The Sopranos / int_7cbba5d3	comment	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters: While the New Jersey home team is not made of Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters, Furio from the old country is introduced as a fiercer type of enforcer and the antagonist mobsters from New York have an even nastier vibe, especially Phil Leotardo. Several strategic hits are outsourced to Professional Killers from Italy or to black Gangbangers to maintain Plausible Deniability.
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The Sopranos / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
The Sopranos / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: Silvio is not a pleasant guy to be around when he's losing at poker.
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The Sopranos / int_7d89315b	type	"The Reason You Suck" Speech
The Sopranos / int_7d89315b	comment	"The Reason You Suck" Speech: During his intervention, Christopher responds to the criticism of his drug habit by calling out Tony, Sil, and Paulie for their own screw-ups.
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The Sopranos / int_7dbfa45b	type	Spy Speak
The Sopranos / int_7dbfa45b	comment	Parodied in the last season when Johnny Sack's 'civilian' brother-in-law gives a shot at the Spy Speak, but his efforts comically complicate the conversations.
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The Sopranos / int_7de3aec2	type	What Does She See in Him?
The Sopranos / int_7de3aec2	comment	What Does She See in Him?: Adriana and Chris. His looks aside, his demeanor, in general, was extremely creepy, and he certainly did not treat Adriana well. Tony says it himself:
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The Sopranos / int_7e081ea0	type	Slice of Life
The Sopranos / int_7e081ea0	comment	Slice of Life: The show is a character study rather than a thesis-oriented work.
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The Sopranos / int_7efe1c56	type	Critical Psychoanalysis Failure
The Sopranos / int_7efe1c56	comment	Critical Psychoanalysis Failure: In the first few seasons, Dr. Melfi gradually gets distraught by her therapy sessions with Tony Soprano, leading to weight gain, drinking, and needing therapy herself. In season 6, Dr. Melfi learns of a psychological study which discourages the use of traditional psychoanalysis with career criminals, as it too often validates the use of hypocrisy and deception for them; this is apparently a significant factor in her decision to end Tony's therapy.
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The Sopranos / int_7fbb2a3	type	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
The Sopranos / int_7fbb2a3	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: The whole business (and misery for all involved) with Valery was totally unnecessary. It all occurred because Paulie was in a rotten mood and acted like a dick.
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The Sopranos / int_80251be3	type	How We Got Here
The Sopranos / int_80251be3	comment	How We Got Here: Done at the beginning of an episode when Tony suffers a panic attack, the action is literally rewinded to the moment he meets Meadow's black-Jewish new boyfriend.
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The Sopranos / int_8042e814	type	Actually Pretty Funny
The Sopranos / int_8042e814	comment	Actually Pretty Funny: There are many times throughout their therapy sessions where Melfi can't stop herself from laughing at a remark of Tony's.
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The Sopranos / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
The Sopranos / int_808cbaeb	comment	Phil gets called "The Shah of Iran". He resents it and brings it up when he summarizes the reason why the DiMeo family sucks.
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The Sopranos / int_80eb641c	type	Straw Nihilist
The Sopranos / int_80eb641c	comment	Straw Nihilist: Anthony Jr. briefly becomes one in season 2. To his parents' dismay, he suddenly starts espousing a nihilistic worldview, questions the purpose of life, name-checks Nietzsche, and declares that God Is Dead. It pops back up again in season 6 after his girlfriend dumps him.
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The Sopranos / int_8163e2bb	type	Dramatic Drop
The Sopranos / int_8163e2bb	comment	Dramatic Drop: Meadow drops the phone after she's informed of Jackie Jr.'s death. The same situation happens again when Kelli is told the news about Christopher's death.
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The Sopranos / int_81ae2774	type	Evil Matriarch
The Sopranos / int_81ae2774	comment	Evil Matriarch: Livia is the mother of Tony and has held a vice grip over his emotions for many years, using spite, jealousy, and guilt as her weapons.
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The Sopranos / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
The Sopranos / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: The mafia is shown like this, a tired organization nostalgic for the golden days, tracked by the FBI, avoiding conflict with other gangsters, rotten with internal strife, and having problems renewing its ranks. It can still produce a lot of damage to society, though.
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The Sopranos / int_820133fd	type	Tragic Hero
The Sopranos / int_820133fd	comment	Tragic Hero / Tragic Villain: Tony does try to be a good person for his family and friends. The fact he's a sociopath does kind of hinder that, though.
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The Sopranos / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
The Sopranos / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: You'll be hard-pressed to find a single regular character that doesn't suffer from deep psychological issues manifesting as either hysteria or sociopathy. At the very least, the characters will be involved in dysfunctional relationships. An interesting example in a world that averts There Are No Therapists; it's just that the therapist herself is also dysfunctional.
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The Sopranos / int_82169238	type	Conversation Casualty
The Sopranos / int_82169238	comment	Conversation Casualty: Christopher shoots Emil Kolar in the back of the head after a polite discussion.
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The Sopranos / int_82accf22	type	Gainax Ending
The Sopranos / int_82accf22	comment	Gainax Ending: The series famously ended with a mid-scene cut to black. This may or may not have signified Tony's death. The explanation of the showrunners has it make a lot more sense. Since he is unable to bring himself to leave his life of crime, every day brings the uncertainty of being mundane or the day he is whacked. The audience does not know whether he experiences a routine day or finally meets his fate, and that's how he's going to have to live the rest of his life.
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The Sopranos / int_8313a744	type	Dark Lord on Life Support
The Sopranos / int_8313a744	comment	Dark Lord on Life Support: Jackie "The Chemo-sabe" Aprile Sr.is a realistic example, until the cancer finally kills him. Later, Johnny Sack becomes this as well, also due to cancer.
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The Sopranos / int_8391b1c7	type	Artistic License â€“ Law
The Sopranos / int_8391b1c7	comment	Artistic License â€“ Law: Or at the very least, Legal Voodoo Shark, respecting Junior's indictments and jail in Seasons 1-2. The indictments appear to be federal ones, but then Junior is apparently detained before the hearing. After a few weeks, his lawyer gets him out by claiming health problems, allowing Junior to be held on house arrest. All of this is a big to-do in the family. However, federal defendants are rarely held before trial and rarely have to post bail; instead, they are simply detained, released with conditions (like Junior's house arrest), or released without conditions, and this decision is made within a few days of the arrest. Junior would have never been held for more than 2-3 days in a real federal prosecution. Now, Junior could have been held longer on state charges (at the time; New Jersey would later adopt a federal-like system), but the charges are clearly federal. Adding to the confusion is that the judge who hears the motion to put Junior on house arrest has a New Jersey flag in his chambers (federal judges generally only have U.S. flags), but also clearly refers to the prosecution as "the Government" (which is only done in federal prosecutions; in a state criminal case in N.J., the prosecution is "the State"). Several episodes show convicted felons like Phil Leotardo visiting prisoners who are incarcerated. Unless they are blood relatives, this is not allowed by most prison systems, including the ones shown in the series.
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The Sopranos / int_83a903f6	type	Stepford Smiler
The Sopranos / int_83a903f6	comment	Tony describes himself as one, in the Stepford Smiler sense; putting on a happy, joking face to his family and friends while keeping his pain locked away. His claims — contested by Dr. Melfi — come across more as self-pitying than anything else, given his behavior throughout the series.
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The Sopranos / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
The Sopranos / int_8409a385	comment	"Pine Barrens" takes the series on a rare trip to South Jersey, going as it does to, um, the Pine Barrens.
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The Sopranos / int_84249fbc	type	Nerd Glasses
The Sopranos / int_84249fbc	comment	Nerd Glasses: Uncle Junior wears these. Dominic Chianese said that these glasses pretty much were Junior.
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The Sopranos / int_8426d2ac	type	Inherently Funny Words
The Sopranos / int_8426d2ac	comment	Inherently Funny Words: A lot of the series' more light-hearted (or, blackly comedic) moments tend to involve the characters' favorite foods, which always seem to have really silly names. Choice examples include "gabagool"note Over here!, "buffalo mozzarella"note pronounced "moozarell", and of course, that time Chrissy shot a rude bakery cashier in the foot over a box of sfogliatellenote pronounced "Shfuyatelle", due to lingustic drift and the fact most Italian-Americans came from Southern Italy, before Standard Italian based on the Tuscan language spoken in Northern Italy took a hold there, doesn't help and cannolisnote he did not leave the gun.
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The Sopranos / int_853df68b	type	Rail Enthusiast
The Sopranos / int_853df68b	comment	Rail Enthusiast: Nice-guy mobster Bobby Baccalieri has a big interest in trains and can be seen building and playing with model trains in his garage (sometimes while dressed as a conductor). He gets made fun of for this hobby and he is eventually killed while buying a model train at a hobby shop.
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The Sopranos / int_85557b38	type	Reality Is Unrealistic
The Sopranos / int_85557b38	comment	Reality Is Unrealistic: In contrast to typical Hollywood portrayals, the experience of being shot in the head at close range would in fact be very much like "cutting to black" — the bullet would pierce the brain before it could process the sound of the gunshot.
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The Sopranos / int_857abc33	type	Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters
The Sopranos / int_857abc33	comment	Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters: The Jersey mobsters still have a few traditions from the old times that attempt this: They throw a traditional Santa Claus party and distribute presents to local children during the Christmas season. The mob is responsible for putting on a carnival during the Feast of St. Joseph. When Paulie cuts corners that cause a ride to malfunction, Tony criticizes him for the bad press. Junior liquidates a drug dealer for selling drugs to children. This is viewed as old-fashioned and the other capos resent him, as it was a bad business decision. Tony praises the neighborhood where he has business ventures for being an old-fashioned place that hasn't been swallowed by corporations. He's seen as a community leader in the area, as evidenced by an old lady who asks him to speak to some Puerto Rican business owners for playing their music too loud. Later, he sells the business she was sitting outside of to Jamba Juice.
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The Sopranos / int_85f0f0fb	type	World of Snark
The Sopranos / int_85f0f0fb	comment	World of Snark: While some characters are more sarcastic than others, most characters make at least one memorable sarcastic quip. It's particularly notable in the "meeting of minds" between Tony and Phil, which features these exchanges: Then a few seconds later:
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The Sopranos / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Sopranos / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Or to the Russian. It gets discussed briefly and handwaved in season 5, as David Chase deemed it unimportant.
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The Sopranos / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
The Sopranos / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Chris and Tony, Tony with his father, uncle, and other old-schoolers. Zig-zagged most of the time as things are never black or white and the character's internal struggle is one of the dynamics of the show.
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The Sopranos / int_86e17259	type	Alas, Poor Yorick
The Sopranos / int_86e17259	comment	Alas, Poor Yorick: Christopher holds a skull this way when he is relocating the bones of an old murder.
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The Sopranos / int_875615dd	type	Truth in Television
The Sopranos / int_875615dd	comment	Truth in Television: Junior's gradual descent into senile dementia was realistically done, including accurate depictions of the victim's good and bad days, and the eventual separation from reality. The depiction of Tony's depression is also excruciatingly realistic, with his condition rising and falling continuously even after he starts therapy and medication.
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The Sopranos / int_8829dfa0	type	What the Hell Is That Accent?
The Sopranos / int_8829dfa0	comment	What the Hell Is That Accent?: James Gandolfini's signature Joisey accent drops significantly during his season 6 Adventures In Coma Land.
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The Sopranos / int_8871bbd8	type	Eye Beams
The Sopranos / int_8871bbd8	comment	Eye Beams: Paulie mentions hallucinating Uncle Junior doing this after taking LSD in the 60s.
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The Sopranos / int_88a97dd4	type	Stiff Upper Lip
The Sopranos / int_88a97dd4	comment	Stiff Upper Lip: Ben Kingsley never loses his polite and calm demeanor when he is uncomfortably approached by some mafia men, who are in fact deflected by his suave manners and refrain from further pressure. The mobsters, however, get frustrated by it and they violently mug an 81-year-old Lauren Bacall so they don't leave their trip empty-handed. Kingsley gets to express some restrained disdain and profanity when he finds himself sharing a flight with the gangsters. It's implied he knows they are the ones behind his friend Bacall's incident.
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The Sopranos / int_890d4ef2	type	Humiliation Conga
The Sopranos / int_890d4ef2	comment	Humiliation Conga: Season six includes a neutral one with Johnny Sack going through hell once he's the big boss; arrested, incarcerated, embargoed, and humiliated in front of his family and friends on the day of his daughter's wedding. He shames himself by breaking the OmertÃ code of silence to lower his sentence, only to die of cancer not much later.
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The Sopranos / int_898ff050	type	Villain Protagonist
The Sopranos / int_898ff050	comment	Villain Protagonist: Tony himself isn't one of the show's best protagonists. He is a thug who kills other mobsters, is a womanizer and adulterer who cheats on his wife behind her back, has a gambling addiction in the form of horse races, not a nice mafia boss to work for, and not to mention, being an asshole who frequently curses.
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The Sopranos / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
The Sopranos / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Meadow during the first few seasons. Of course, what teenager wouldn't be a little bratty with parents like Tony and Carmela?
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The Sopranos / int_8a16409a	type	Shovel Strike
The Sopranos / int_8a16409a	comment	Shovel Strike: Former Russian special forces soldier Valery does this to (try to) escape Paulie and Christopher in "Pine Barrens". Paulie gets the drop on two landscapers with this technique in "Where's Johnny?"
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The Sopranos / int_8a295a46	type	Cool Car
The Sopranos / int_8a295a46	comment	Cool Car: Lots of them, as befits the lavish lifestyle of the mobsters. One of the primary Conspicuous Consumption objects. Examples with plot relevancy include: The Jersey crew steals high-end vehicles which are later sold to the Camorra in Napoli (yes, like in Italy), which then sells them in Eastern Europe. Gloria Trillo is a saleswoman for Mercedes. Johnny Sack buys a striking Maserati during his happy days. The car has to be sold later unofficially to Christopher and is finally impounded.
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The Sopranos / int_8a2d8868	type	Not Afraid to Die
The Sopranos / int_8a2d8868	comment	Not Afraid to Die: Ariel in "Denial, Anger, Acceptance" is willing to die before he hands over a 50% stake in his business to his father-in-law, much to Tony's exacerbation. Ariel considers the threat of a Crippling Castration a Fate Worse than Death, however...
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The Sopranos / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Sopranos / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Jesus Rossi, Melfi's rapist, may be one of the least sympathetic characters in the whole series. It's worth noting that the main characters, as despicable and morally bankrupt as they are, were not known to be rapists and considered it to be a reprehensible crime. The only semi-regular character who is hinted to be sexually abusive is Richie Aprile, who is regarded as a hateful prick even by mob standards. Phil Leotardo, one of the most depraved mobsters in the series, attempted to have a rookie FBI agent gang raped and beaten. This is one of the reasons that Harris decides to team up with Tony to take Phil down.
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The Sopranos / int_8ae880f7	type	Deconstruction
The Sopranos / int_8ae880f7	comment	Deconstruction: Easily one of the biggest deconstructions of The Mafia. Instead of portraying the Mafia as a synonym of loyalty, power, and success (like The Godfather), here it's the opposite. Very few members are really loyal (it's telling something that Silvio was the single most loyal member of the mob) and most of them are more than willing to betray their partners for vengeance, resentment, or greed. Also, while many of the mobsters live in the lap of luxury, it comes at the cost of being in constant fear over imminent death or indictments, in which all of that wealth and status can completely evaporate.
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The Sopranos / int_8af7b342	type	Sibling Yin-Yang
The Sopranos / int_8af7b342	comment	Sibling Yin-Yang: Distinguished Meadow and lazy airhead A.J. Richie Aprile is covetous and bloodthirsty, while Jackie is benevolent and easygoing.
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The Sopranos / int_8b568cb7	type	Posthumous Character
The Sopranos / int_8b568cb7	comment	Posthumous Character: "Johnny Boy" Soprano (a.k.a. Tony's father) plays an important role in several characters' backstories and appears in numerous flashbacks, but has already been dead for years by the time the series begins. Jackie Aprile, while alive at the beginning, dies of cancer after a few episodes and only a few minutes of screen time, but continues to be talked about by his friends, family, and associates throughout the series.
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The Sopranos / int_8b606a51	type	There Is No Kill Like Overkill
The Sopranos / int_8b606a51	comment	There Is No Kill Like Overkill: In retribution for an attempt on Christopher's life, Matthew Bevilaqua is shot over twenty times by Tony and Big Pussy. Christopher and Ally Boy Barese shoot Dino Zerilli in the head three times...and then Christopher walks up to his corpse and shoots him in the head two more times. This happens after the Pine Barrens incident, and Chris has valid reasons for making sure a dead body stays dead. A capo who disrespected Phil Leotardo is whacked by a few hitmen. One of them shoots him in the eye, and then riddles his abdomen with bullets. An unintentional example occurs in the final episode, "Made in America". The New Jersey/New York mob war ends when Tony discovers Phil Leotardo's location and Soprano family members Benny Fazio and Walden Belfiore shoot Phil in the head at point-blank range outside his Ford Expedition. By sheer happenstance, Leotardo's dead body falls under the car and the large SUV rolls forward, crushing the mob boss's skull.
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The Sopranos / int_8bf19707	type	No Dead Body Poops
The Sopranos / int_8bf19707	comment	No Dead Body Poops: Averted during the suicide of Eugene Pontecorvo, who also gets A Death in the Limelight.
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The Sopranos / int_8bf802dd	type	Golf Clubbing
The Sopranos / int_8bf802dd	comment	Golf Clubbing: "Mustang" Sally cracks Bryan Spatafore's head with a putter for talking to his girlfriend. Of course, because the man he did this happens to be Vito's brother, Sally gets a bullet to the head shortly thereafter.
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The Sopranos / int_8ce68789	type	Rambunctious Italian
The Sopranos / int_8ce68789	comment	Rambunctious Italian: Tony Soprano is an aggressive, belligerent, and short-tempered Italian-American.
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The Sopranos / int_8d718b9e	type	Bears Are Bad News
The Sopranos / int_8d718b9e	comment	Bears Are Bad News: In season five, a marauding bear drops by the Sopranos' compound a number of times, alarming Carmela and panicking A.J. At that moment, Tony isn't living there, so he posts some of his underlings as guardians. Eventually he defends the fort himself, posted through the night with weapon in hand, emphasizing the necessity of a strong male family leader.
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The Sopranos / int_8da65890	type	Commuting on a Bus
The Sopranos / int_8da65890	comment	Tony Sirico (Paulie Gualtieri) underwent back surgery around season 4 and was thrown in a jail to reduce his appearances. His role was fully restored once the actor recovered.
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The Sopranos / int_8e04fdd7	type	Dragon with an Agenda
The Sopranos / int_8e04fdd7	comment	Dragon with an Agenda: In season 1, Tony allowed his Uncle Junior to become the official Boss of the family since he would become the FBI's main target instead of Tony, who could still exercise power through the other capos, who recognized him as de facto leader. Eventually, it resulted in a minor Mob War when Junior realized that his nephew had fleeced him, one which Tony won.
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The Sopranos / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Sopranos / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: "College", has a rather famous invoked example. It was the first episode in the series' run that actually showed Tony Soprano committing a murder on-screen; before it, he had always left the dirty work to his underlings. Being an early episode, though, network executives at HBO still had their doubts about whether or not the show could sustain an audience in the long-term, and they argued that viewers would drop out in droves if they had to see the show's protagonist remorselessly killing an FBI informant without consequences. First, they tried to convince David Chase to write an alternate version with Tony letting the informant live, or just having Christopher kill him instead. When that didn't work, Chase compromised by agreeing to make the guy as unsympathetic as possible, writing in additional scenes where he's seen peddling drugs to local teenagers. Towards the end of Season 4, Paulie suffocates an elderly woman to death while trying to steal her money. However, she was a snobby bitch who was mean to Paulie's mother for picayune reasons, and Paulie (at first) had no intentions of killing her. No one even rose an eyebrow after she died.
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The Sopranos / int_8efbd9d2	type	Meaningful Funeral
The Sopranos / int_8efbd9d2	comment	Meaningful Funeral: Frequent for violent and natural reasons; big families have a lot of relatives. Against Tony's opinion, Janice tries to forcefully do one for Livia, but it totally backfires. A stoned Christopher delivers a bizarre eulogy, the relatives don't have anything good to say about the deceased, Carmela and her father explode against Livia, and their rant is shared by others. Season 3 ends with Jackie Jr.'s wake and half the cast bawling to Uncle Junior's Italian song. Subverted with Junior, as he doesn't actually care about some deceased individuals and he just wants to attend to any planned funeral to dodge his house arrest for a while.
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The Sopranos / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
The Sopranos / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Little Carmine, the Inadequate Inheritor of the Lupertazzi crime family, is the one-time lover of his second cousin Lorraine Calluzzo, a minor associate. Johnny Sack, the underboss to Carmine Sr., is disgusted by it. Vito Spatafore boasts about "how close" he got with Adriana La Cerva, Christopher's girlfriend after it seems that she had an affair with Tony behind Christopher's back. Not only is Vito a closeted gay man, but Adriana is also his first cousin; Richie Aprile is both Vito's and Adriana's uncle. Perhaps a result of the writers simply forgetting who was related to who.
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The Sopranos / int_9053903	type	Ignored Epiphany
The Sopranos / int_9053903	comment	Ignored Epiphany: Nearly every character: One of the sharper examples is Phil Leotardo, who wages a brutal turf war against Tony during the final seasons. Tony attempts to put an end to it while Leotardo recovers from a heart attack in the hospital, pleading that they could bury the hatchet and live long enough to see their grandkids, which moved Phil to tears. But ultimately Phil's anger and resentments overrode his willingness to compromise, with disastrous results. Tony, of course, struggled constantly with the bad man that he is, and his therapy sessions often forced him to admit his faults. But his attempts at self-improvement never really take, and by the end of the show, it's difficult to say that he's changed much at all. Janice also saw a therapist for anger management, though her sessions were court-ordered. She seemed to be making progress at first, but Tony goads her into losing control basically out of resentment shortly after. By the end of the show, whatever stability and self-control she'd managed were completely undone after the murder of her husband.
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The Sopranos / int_90f6d157	comment	Confessional: Carmela requires it during one of her crises of conscience.
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The Sopranos / int_90ff49cb	type	Robbing the Mob Bank
The Sopranos / int_90ff49cb	comment	Robbing the Mob Bank: In "46 Long", Christopher and Brendan Filone start hijacking trucks. The owner of the trucks pays Junior for protection and Junior orders them to stop, but their need to feed their drug addictions forces them to continue. After a driver is accidentally killed, Junior orders retaliation against them. Brendan is killed in his bathtub while Christopher is subject to a mock execution. In "Amour Fou", Jackie Aprile Jr. and his idiot stoner friends rob a mob poker game, trying to replicate the legendary stunt that marked out Jackie Sr. and Tony for greatness. Unfortunately, they mess it up, wound Furio (a made man), and kill a bystander, and Jackie's stepdad doesn't shield them the way Tony's father and uncle did, and they are swiftly killed in retaliation.
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The Sopranos / int_913f683a	comment	Discussed when Christopher runs into gangsta rapper Massive Genius and is invited to a party at his villa to set up a meeting with Hesh, one of the Soprano Family's associates. The rapper is outrageously smug, purposely showing off his vast wealth and success (including his Bling-Bling-BANG!) and generally trying to act as tough as possible to Christopher, a character the audience knows full well to be a sociopathic murderer. Christopher later laments that in the modern day being a fake gangster is clearly a lot more profitable than being an actual one. In a subtle dig, Massive Genius admits to having seen The Godfather 200 times (a favorite among Tony's crew, who frequently quote it), illustrating that Tony's crew are looking back at the old Mafia days with rose-tinted glasses just as much as a genuine outsider.
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The Sopranos / int_9209b4fc	type	More Hateable Minor Villain
The Sopranos / int_9209b4fc	comment	More Hateable Minor Villain: Both Jesus Rossi from "Employee of the Month" and coach Don Hauser are the most blatant examples of this trope, as both are not even in The Mafia; however, they compensate by being particularly despicable rapists with no redeeming traits. It's telling that in a series where even the most brutal mobsters of the show were humanized to a degree, rape is depicted as the lowest of the low, a crime none of the main cast (not even the most despicable members of the DiMeo Crime Family) committed throughout the series.
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The Sopranos / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
The Sopranos / int_927b2f11	comment	Also Tony puts Janice on a bus to Seattle, after she shoots her fiance, Richie Aprile. Tony's solace is short-lived; she comes back 'for good' on a plane (that Tony has to pay for) the next season... two episodes later.
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The Sopranos / int_93ca906	type	Burner Phones
The Sopranos / int_93ca906	comment	Burner Phones: Tony and other mafia figures would use burner phones from time to time in order to avoid eavesdropping by law enforcement.
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The Sopranos / int_93dc4e37	type	Villain of Another Story
The Sopranos / int_93dc4e37	comment	Villain of Another Story: Tony's glorified crew sometimes has to deal with similar mafia organizations, particularly the Lupertazzi family in New York. Sometimes allies and sometimes rivals, the Lupertazzis are indicated to be much larger and have a much wider reach than Tony does but their criminal empire never really comes into focus since they're not the main characters. Even within the Soprano family itself, most of the characters we see are upper management (bosses, underbosses, capos, and consiglieres), while most of the soldiers are out doing their own thing and kicking money upstairs.
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The Sopranos / int_9492d6a5	type	Evil Is Easy
The Sopranos / int_9492d6a5	comment	Evil Is Easy: Tony's curse is that he has a measure of self-awareness, and on some vague, ephemeral level he wants to be a "good guy." He's just completely unwilling to accept any sacrifice or inconvenience required to actually be one because it's just easier for him to do what he's always done — hurt people for profit.
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The Sopranos / int_950bbfa7	type	Take a Third Option
The Sopranos / int_950bbfa7	comment	Take a Third Option: In the pilot, Junior wants to kill Pussy Malanga, one of his underlings and insists on doing it in Artie Bucco's restaurant. Tony, knowing that would destroy his friend's business, tries to stop Junior. When Junior refuses to be swayed, Tony burns the restaurant down so Artie can at least take the insurance and start over. After some time, Artie gets suspicious and resents Tony for it, who feels a victim of the No Good Deed Goes Unpunished syndrome. During the alleged Tony-Adriana affair, the two suffer a car accident that arouses much suspicion and gossip. Chris refuses to believe Tony's innocence plea and Tony feels his only option is to kill the erratic Chris for it. Blundetto meddles and suggests an alternative; they go and ask the E.R. guy who treated the car accident. Blundetto, thanks to his medical knowledge, asks the right questions that debunk the rumors about Adriana and Tony (the driver receiving a blowjob, mind you).
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The Sopranos / int_953626a3	type	Literalist Snarking
The Sopranos / int_953626a3	comment	Literalist Snarking: Richie Aprile, who runs over a man with his car.
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The Sopranos / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
The Sopranos / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Tony's panic attacks are triggered by repressed phobias, thoughts, feelings, and some unpleasant situations. He also can't go an episode without breaking down in anger or throwing a temper tantrum.
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The Sopranos / int_95b7c400	type	Faux Affably Evil
The Sopranos / int_95b7c400	comment	Faux Affably Evil: Tony Soprano Zigzags between this and Affably Evil. He can be genuinely friendly and does make an effort to look out for those he cares about, but he gradually loses any real redeeming qualities. He will often act friendly to those he is just about to do something horrible to, like Jackie Jr and Phil Leotardo, just to taunt them. This is mostly relegated to people who piss him off, but Tony clearly gets a kick out of it.
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The Sopranos / int_96976adb	type	Deadly Closing Credits
The Sopranos / int_96976adb	comment	Deadly Closing Credits: The series might have ended with this. Maybe. We don't really know for sure.
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The Sopranos / int_96a2363c	type	Bathos
The Sopranos / int_96a2363c	comment	Bathos: Nearly all the characters are horrible people doing horrible things and caught in bleak and violent situations, which only gets worse as the series progresses, but it's kept from getting too grim by continuous comedic moments, silly juxtapositions, and lots of fast-paced witty dialogue. For example, Tony's realization that his friend Big Pussy has turned government informant comes from a fever dream where Pussy is a talking fish (who makes a "sleeping with the fishes" joke to boot).
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The Sopranos / int_96a33f11	type	Riddle for the Ages
The Sopranos / int_96a33f11	comment	Riddle for the Ages: What makes "Pine Barrens" such a well-known episode. What the hell did happen to that Russian mobster? What happened to Tony in "Made in America" after there was a Smash to Black? According to Matt Servitto, the scene was at least meant to be less ambiguous with his character coming out of the bathroom and walking towards Tony. Still doesn't explain if he was going to kill him or if he just wanted to talk to him.
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The Sopranos / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
The Sopranos / int_970c790a	comment	After essentially being the Big Bad for the first season, Uncle Junior was gradually phased out as his ailments got worse and worse. In season 5 he only appeared in half of the episodes and season 6 carted him off to a nursing home where he spent most of his time offscreen. Notably, Junior only appears in two episodes during the final batch of 9 episodes.
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The Sopranos / int_9718a22a	type	You Remind Me of X
The Sopranos / int_9718a22a	comment	You Remind Me of X: As pointed out by his shrink, Tony's goomahs bear a resemblance to his unpleasable mother — dark hair, contemptuous, and with issues — and even to Dr. Melfi herself — interesting, independent, and sophisticated women. Tony asks his first and simplest lover to dress more businesslike, with Melfi in mind. Later on, Tony makes an explicit mother connection with the troubled Gloria Trillo.
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The Sopranos / int_976cb22	type	Written by Cast Member
The Sopranos / int_976cb22	comment	Michael Imperioli wrote five episodes and was the only actor to write multiple episodes. This would probably explain Christopher's interest in screenwriting and production.
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The Sopranos / int_97b4c1fd	type	Cut Himself Shaving
The Sopranos / int_97b4c1fd	comment	Cut Himself Shaving: After the "intervention" for Chris' drug addiction (where he gets the crap beaten out of him), he is taken to the ER. Tony explains to the nurse that he sustained his injuries "slipping off the kitchen counter while spraying for ants". At her skeptical look, Tony elaborates, "Well, he was wearing socks."
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The Sopranos / int_97d54bb0	type	Tragic Keepsake
The Sopranos / int_97d54bb0	comment	Tragic Keepsake: Tony actively defies it with an artistic picture of Pie-O-My. He gets rid of it because it brings painful memories and gets very angry when he discovers that Paulie rescued it from the garbage and restored it. The picture is finally disposed of for good.
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The Sopranos / int_9843be73	type	As You Know
The Sopranos / int_9843be73	comment	As You Know: In season 5, Barbara's first scene after being recast, she greets Tony with a "Hello, big brother!" to help the audience figure out who she is.
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The Sopranos / int_99ddfcec	type	Unwitting Instigator of Doom
The Sopranos / int_99ddfcec	comment	Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Ralphie's cruel joke about Ginny Sacrimoni resulted in a lot of headaches for everyone. A war nearly started when John found out, and Ralphie, Paulie, and even John himself came very close to being killed over the fallout.
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The Sopranos / int_9a573352	type	Wager Slave
The Sopranos / int_9a573352	comment	Wager Slave: What David Scatino becomes to Tony when he "busts him out."
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The Sopranos / int_9a5eca2e	type	Mob Debt
The Sopranos / int_9a5eca2e	comment	Mob Debt: This is standard operating procedure for The Mafia. Most notably, Tony's crew runs an illegal card game which usually attracts several high rollers who can take the hits, but Tony also allows his gambling addict friend David Scatino into the game and racks up a huge debt (after David already owed money to a different mobster). David is an ordinary middle-class guy so he cannot pay them out of pocket and is forced to make Tony and his guys "partners" in his hardware store. They proceed to bust the place out, maxing out all of David's company credits until he's forced to shut down and declare bankruptcy. Inverted when Tony himself borrows close to half a million from Hesh, a Jewish music producer and an associate of the DiMeo Family. He repays the debt little by little, but Hesh is very worried that Tony will still kill him if he makes a big fuss about it.
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The Sopranos / int_9ac41195	type	A Day in the Limelight
The Sopranos / int_9ac41195	comment	The FBI has A Day In The Lime Light episode where the procedure regarding how to plant a surveillance bug in Tony's house is shown in detail. Tony is a Properly Paranoid boss who regularly sweeps his headquarters for bugs, relies on payphones, and avoids talking shop inside his house, but he is vulnerable in the noisy basement. The bug has very limited use and the trope is subverted because the judge is adamant and the FBI is only given one shot at this method that is never used again.
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The Sopranos / int_9ae0ead1	type	Villains Out Shopping
The Sopranos / int_9ae0ead1	comment	Villains Out Shopping: Omnipresent, since the show focuses on both the personal and professional lives of the mobsters.
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The Sopranos / int_9ba53911	type	Stranger in a Familiar Land
The Sopranos / int_9ba53911	comment	Stranger in a Familiar Land: A lot of the released Mafiosi — including members of "the Class of 2004" — who were in the can for 20 years are jolted by the changes since The '80s, particularly the increasing laxness respecting Mob tradition. Phil Leotardo is a particular example.
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The Sopranos / int_9bca83eb	type	Death by Irony
The Sopranos / int_9bca83eb	comment	Death by Irony: The ends with an infamous Ambiguous Ending, but it's very strongly implied that Tony suffered this in the final scene of the series. In "Johnny Cakes", AJ mentions that Tony's favorite movie scene of all time is the famous scene in The Godfather where Michael Corleone shoots Sollozzo and Captain McCluskey in a restaurant after retrieving a hidden gun from the bathroom. In the final episode, it's very possible that Tony is murdered in exactly the same way; while having dinner with his family in a diner, he gets several suspicious glances from a mysterious fellow in a Members Only jacket, who is last seen walking into the bathroom. Of course, the screen abruptly cuts to black before we actually learn whether he lives or dies.
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The Sopranos / int_9ce377f1	type	Cure Your Gays
The Sopranos / int_9ce377f1	comment	Cure Your Gays: When Finn asks what is going to happen with Vito, Chris tries to ease his mind by telling him that they'll make Vito pay for some therapy. A classic mix of Blatant Lies with amusingly ignorant comments so prevalent in the show. Vito also tries to discuss it with Tony, to no avail.
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The Sopranos / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
The Sopranos / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: In the Season 5 episode "All Due Respect," Carlo Gervasi asks Bobby "Baccala" Baccalieri, "You really think New York would come after you?" After Johnny Sack confesses in court his involvement in the mafia and is sent to prison, a disgusted and infuriated Tony tells Silvio: At Christopher's intervention, Tony threatens to suffocate him. Later on, he does. In the Season 1 finale, the feds tell an incarcerated Junior that the guy they're really interested in busting is Johnny Sack. Come the Season 5 finale...
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The Sopranos / int_9d72c7fe	type	Fan Boy
The Sopranos / int_9d72c7fe	comment	Ralphie is a fanboy of Gladiator who disregards Spartacus — a recommendation from Chris — as unrealistic, and who reenacts one scene on Georgie's head.
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The Sopranos / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
The Sopranos / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Many episodes reference very minute details from several seasons ago. Unemphatic Continuity Porn. Some examples: In "46 Long," which was barely the second episode in the series, Tony stops by his mother's house and starts looking over her pictures; one of them shows a younger Livia Soprano enjoying a cigarette. In Season 5, years after Livia's death, Tony notices and briefly examines the same picture hanging in his Aunt Quintina's house. At the end of Season 1, "Larry Boy" Barese is formally indicted along with Junior Soprano, and is not seen or heard from again until much later. He shows up briefly at a mob event and is dragged away by police for violating his house arrest. He appears non-verbally in Season 4 during Junior's trial because they were both taken into custody as part of the same wave of indictments, and are therefore being tried for the same crimes at the same time. In an early episode, Tony tells A.J., "There's an old Italian saying: you screw up once, you lose two teeth." Much later on, in season five, Tony has a lengthy dream and during it, he loses two of his teeth. Pussy Malanga, the enemy that Junior wants dead in the pilot episode, shows up again in Junior's mind in the first episode of the last season. Christopher is shot in the torso and critically wounded in Season 2. While he recovers, the scarring is visible on his stomach for the duration of the series. He also mentions later that he had to have his spleen removed. Carmine Sr. dismissively calls the Jersey Family "a glorified crew" in Season 4. Phil Leotardo cites his words near the end of the show. In Season 3, Tony sees Carmine Sr. telling Johnny Sack to "answer the fucking thing," referring to the latter's phone. In a dream sequence two seasons later, Carmine appears telling Tony to "answer the fucking thing," referring to a ringing hotel phone. In Season 4, Christopher references the crow that was ostensibly watching him when he got made the prior the season. Also in Season 4, Carmela's cousin Brian secretly meets with Tony under the pretense of picking up a power drill, taking the tool with him as he leaves. A season later, Tony searches for the tool to no avail.
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The Sopranos / int_9e07f1f8	type	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be
The Sopranos / int_9e07f1f8	comment	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be: A running theme. Tony often laments that the then-current Mafia (the late 90s/early 00s) is nothing like it used to be. He imagines the mob in the days of his father (mid to late 70s), picturing loyal mobsters who would never turn state's evidence and instead just take their prison sentences like "real men", as a period where the mob was "honorable" and well respected by the community. Flashbacks indicate that if anything, his father's day was just as bad or even worse. Uncle Junior, in turn, misses the good ol' days of the 1950's, though Tony is actually savvy enough to point out how ridiculous that notion is. The very clear implication is that mob figures are fundamentally empty and unhappy men, lamenting a non-existent Golden Age where they assume they would have been more successful — the mobsters in the 50's probably talked about the good ol' days of Prohibition in the 20's and 30's.
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The Sopranos / int_9e727954	type	Indulgent Fantasy Segue
The Sopranos / int_9e727954	comment	Indulgent Fantasy Segue: Tony has several sex fantasies, including one where we see him with a woman while wearing a Centurion uniform. Melfi even has one about Tony!
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The Sopranos / int_9f46ebc4	type	Just Got Out of Jail
The Sopranos / int_9f46ebc4	comment	Just Got Out of Jail: Various characters (Richie Aprile, Tony Blundetto, and Phil Leotardo, most prominently), only show up once they're released from jail, as a fairly justified way of having the characters be old friends without using Remember the New Guy?.
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The Sopranos / int_9f6c3cd9	type	Grin of Rage
The Sopranos / int_9f6c3cd9	comment	Grin of Rage: Tony Soprano does this very effectively, often smiling or grinning as a way to hide how angry he is, but also as an intimidation tactic. It usually doesn't take long for the mask to slip, making the other person realize a little too late that they're seriously screwed.
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The Sopranos / int_9fb5d589	comment	Not Now, Kiddo: Chris gets this occasionally, an important one when he — long-time Captain by then — brings a serious feud he has with Paulie only to be nagged by Tony for the interruption.
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The Sopranos / int_9fbe06a5	comment	Badass in a Nice Suit: Zig-zagged. The mobsters like to wear plain sportswear, showcasing their rather common and vulgar hoodlum condition, but they tend to dress up according to their fancy businessmen status when the occasion requires it. Members of the Lupertazzi crew can usually be seen in suits, befitting their more successful and refined nature when compared to the Jersey crew. Carmine Lupertazzi keenly states to Tony that "a Don doesn't wear shorts".
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The Sopranos / int_9fe35833	comment	Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: Deconstructed. While the values of mafia and home life nominally require the men of the series to show respect and affection towards their mothers, the show also shows how mothers end up receiving the brunt of their sons' scorn. Tony Soprano, in spite of his serious Mommy Issues, will instinctively defend his mother. In an early episode, he goes berserk when Dr. Melfi diagnoses Livia with borderline personality disorder and reads the symptoms to him. It's zig-zagged many times, as Tony is full of love and hate. Paulie Walnuts is extremely protective of his mother and serves as a doting son. It's his one virtue. However, even his love is tested when he finds out that his mother is actually his aunt and has been lying to him his whole life. He gets over it, however, and soon reconciles with her. In season 6, he mourns his mother's passing and is enraged at the skimpy showing at her funeral. Christopher has also a soft spot for his mother, and Phil Leotardo harassing her comes out as one of the nastier Kick the Dog moments for Phil.
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The Sopranos / int_9ff2b000	comment	The Consigliere: Silvio Dante has that official role in Tony Soprano's crew/family. On several occasions, we see other mobsters complaining about Tony's decisions behind his back, and Silvio is the one to raise the issue with Tony face-to-face.
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The Sopranos / int_a084f0e0	comment	Never Speak Ill of the Dead: A variation Tony once notes that despite the hostility his mother held for his father when he was alive, she's viewed him as a saint ever since his death. Livia, however, is mostly directly invoking the idea for manipulative persons (usually comparing Tony to his father to himself or somebody else, or calling herself a victim for being deprived of him and stuck with the living). Subverted when Livia dies. At first, everyone is mourning her death and consoling her family. However, Carmela eventually calls her a sick and twisted woman when they try to think of good things about Livia, and everyone remembers that she was a senile old woman who was generally unpleasant.
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The Sopranos / int_a188ac4b	type	Overly Long Gag
The Sopranos / int_a188ac4b	comment	Overly Long Gag: Paulie's habit of repeating his jokes is a funnier quirk on its own.
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The Sopranos / int_a1d48853	type	Stupid Crooks
The Sopranos / int_a1d48853	comment	Stupid Crooks: A few of the younger mobsters prove themselves ill-suited to the life through sheer stupidity and terrible decision-making. Brendan Filone, warned multiple times to behave himself, can't help but disrespect those who command actual respect and has the bright idea to screw with the acting boss of the family. Junior eventually has enough and has him shot in the bath. Matt and Sean, two overambitious imbeciles attached to Christopher, hedge all the wrong bets and fail miserably to endear themselves to Tony. They then get the absurd idea to whack the boss' nephew as a "favor" to another mobster, who doesn't like Chris. The hit is a total failure and leaves one of them dead anyway, and all it does it mark the other for death. Even Richie, guilty himself of dipping into this trope where drugs are concerned, is aghast at how utterly idiotic this plan was (not least of all because it could see him dead, too, if Tony believes he had something to do with it). Jackie Jr., the late boss' son, throws his weight around and invokes his revered father's name to get his way. He's a fine soldier, but lacks the brains for the boss-like image he'd like to cultivate; he is manipulated by Ralphie into robbing a card game, with fatal consequences.
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The Sopranos / int_a1d70162	type	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
The Sopranos / int_a1d70162	comment	I Just Shot Marvin in the Face: One of Brendan's truck-robbing associates in "46 Long" accidentally kills the driver when his gun slips out of his waistband and discharges.
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The Sopranos / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Sopranos / int_a2b38d3b	comment	A capo who disrespected Phil Leotardo is whacked by a few hitmen. One of them shoots him in the eye, and then riddles his abdomen with bullets.
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The Sopranos / int_a2ff4e6f	type	Single Tear
The Sopranos / int_a2ff4e6f	comment	Tony asks "Don't you love me?" to Junior who is going through the early stages of dementia and has behaved badly toward Tony. Junior is left shaken, speechless, and showing a Single Tear.
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The Sopranos / int_a34e512f	type	Foe Cooties
The Sopranos / int_a34e512f	comment	Foe Cooties: Tony was more than happy to have sex with his rival Ralphie's girlfriend, Valentina, but refused to make her his permanent mistress until he found out she never had sex with Ralph (due to sexual tastes being for S&M rather than conventional sex).
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The Sopranos / int_a39d6056	type	Nice to the Waiter
The Sopranos / int_a39d6056	comment	Georgie gets gratuitously beaten up on a regular basis.
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The Sopranos / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
The Sopranos / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Used occasionally in episode names: "Boca" (Spanish for "Mouth") revolves around Uncle Junior's relationship with his mistress in Boca Raton, Florida, but it also involves a sensitive bit of word-of-mouth gossip that Tony exploits to damage Junior's reputation. For the hat trick: the gossip involves Junior's willingness to give his mistress oral sex, which is seen as unmanly in the Mafia. "Eloise", the penultimate episode of Season 4, includes a pivotal scene where Meadow and Carmella have brunch at the Plaza Hotel under the famous painting of the eponymous character of Eloise at the Plaza. More subtly, though, the title alludes to Carmella's dissatisfaction in her marriage and to the Unresolved Sexual Tension between her and Furio, which evokes the tragic love affair of Abelard and Heloise. The latter meaning is made clearer in the following season when Carmella takes an interest in the letters of Abelard and Heloise shortly after separating from Tony. "Rat Pack", which can refer to the famous Rat Pack from the 60s, a picture of which Tony receives as a present, though the same episode also focused on the FBI's multiple informants within the Mafia, making them a "rat pack" too.
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The Sopranos / int_a49914aa	type	Bowdlerization
The Sopranos / int_a49914aa	comment	Bowdlerization: The syndicated version survives relatively unscathed sex and violence-wise, as David Chase filmed alternate scenes (the scenes at the Bada Bing Strip Club have scantily-clad dancers who don't take off their clothes and the violent deaths are often replaced with shots of someone's face or shown at an angle so the violence won't be as severe). However, all of the profanity and explicit sexual lines are redubbed with toned-down versions that either weaken the dramatic impact or are just plain Narmy. One particularly notorious instance of editing came when the line "...sucking on a Cub Scout's dick" became "...chewing on a Cub Scout's ear" note which still implies sexual molestation to a Boy Scout, no matter how you slice it. Before the show went syndicated, MADtv had a parody of the show that depicted just how disjointed they thought the show would be if it was shown on a non-premium cable channel and edited for all manners of violence, sex (the scene of Tony getting a lap dance was so severely edited that it just showed the stripper coming in and finishing up), and foul, abusive language (even going as far as editing out all mention of Big Pussy's name). The actual syndicated version on A&E isn't as bad as the parody MADtv came up with (which depicted The Sopranos on PAX, of all channels, and featured an entire episode lasting less than five minutes), but it's still pretty funny that the show predicted how the show might be Edited for Syndication.
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The Sopranos / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
The Sopranos / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: Often masterfully done. Scenes of deep introspection or lighthearted comedy will sometimes, without warning, erupt into frantic violence.
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The Sopranos / int_a5096c48	type	Joisey
The Sopranos / int_a5096c48	comment	Joisey: Most of the series takes place in Essex County, and much of the rest is in Hudson County. Tony was born in the Ironbound neighborhood of Newark; like any true Newarker of his age he calls the neighborhood "Down Neck." Livia's house (later Janice's and then Tony's during his separation) is here, as is Uncle Junior's. Uncle Junior's trial also takes place in Newark, at the federal courthouse. Additionally, "the Esplanade", one of the most important plot points in the series, is an urban redevelopment project in Newark. The Soprano McMansion is in North Caldwell. The series makes the occasional foray into Montclair. Furio's house is in Nutley. It's not quite clear where Bada Bing and Satriale's Pork Store are supposed to be (there are some indications that Satriale's is supposed to be in or very near Newark, as there's a sign with directions to the PATH right next to it); the place that doubled for Satriale's is in Kearny and the place that doubled for the Bing is in Lodi. "Pine Barrens" takes the series on a rare trip to South Jersey, going as it does to, um, the Pine Barrens. A few episodes also take us to Atlantic City.
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The Sopranos / int_a5398aba	type	Authority in Name Only
The Sopranos / int_a5398aba	comment	Tony, who is nominally the acting boss for Junior and for the now jailed Don, Ercole DiMeo.
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The Sopranos / int_a588c1cf	type	Cool Horse
The Sopranos / int_a588c1cf	comment	Cool Horse: Pie-O-My, Ralph Cifaretto's racehorse. Tony grows immensely fond of the horse, referring to it as "our girl," in direct contrast to Ralph, who brusquely instructs the trainer to whip it good. Tony's growing expectation of an increasing share of the winnings creates tension between the two. The poor animal dies in a mysterious fire which ends up ruining a few lives and sending ripples through the entire criminal underworld.
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The Sopranos / int_a5e0c01	type	As Himself
The Sopranos / int_a5e0c01	comment	As Himself: Frank Sinatra Jr. is a player at a high-stakes poker game hosted by the DiMeo family in Season 2. Jon Favreau plays a manipulative version of himself who screws Chris out of his ideas. Janeane Garofalo and Sandra Bernhard appear in a movie directed by Favreau. Ben Kingsley and Lauren Bacall make a cameo when Christopher is pitching his own movie. The role finally goes to Daniel Baldwin. Nancy Sinatra is the entertainment at a party hosted by Phil Leotardo. Invoked in "The Test Dream". Annette Bening is playing Finn's mother in Tony's dinner dream. He recognizes her, and later in Tony's episode-long dream, she appears as herself.
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The Sopranos / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
The Sopranos / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Many characters start out with minor roles and grow more prominent as the series goes on. Johnny Sack and Vito Spatafore are both barely seen in Seasons 1 and 2 but are major players later on (In Vito's case, his actor Joseph R. Gannascoli plays an innocent bystander during an incident with Christopher at a bakery in Season 1) Bobby Bacala is another notable example. Adriana originally appeared in the series pilot as an unnamed hostess at Artie Bucco's restaurant with just a couple of lines. However, producers of the show were so impressed by what they saw of Drea de Matteo's acting skills, that she was quickly promoted as Christopher's love interest and a major character in the show.
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The Sopranos / int_a6cda066	type	Rule of Three
The Sopranos / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Alluded to by Tony regarding his close encounters with death, after the second one.
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The Sopranos / int_a6ec25e4	type	Protection Racket
The Sopranos / int_a6ec25e4	comment	Protection Racket: Played with in the final season. One of the family's minor protected businesses folds and is replaced with a Brand X Starbucks. Patsy Parisi and one of his guys go in to try this routine on the new manager. The manager recognizes what they are doing, but in an almost sympathetic tone he points out that the company is a billion-dollar multinational with complete insurance so they won't care â€” or even notice â€” if the place is vandalized. What's more, every single bean is in the computer so he can't even cave under personal threats, since if he started skimming for the mob he'd be fired immediately and a new manager brought in. The two mobsters leave, complaining about the state of modern business and how tough things have gotten for 'the little guy'. The episode ends with Tony Soprano himself selling one of his buildings in Newark to Jamba Juice who push out the current tenant to install a franchise, and when Patsy learns about that he wonders what is even happening to the city.
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The Sopranos / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
The Sopranos / int_a70223	comment	Paulie and Patsy are the only ones not shown to have anything bad happen to them immediately, so make of it what you will. Of course, with Carlo becoming a federal witness and the DiMeo family near the point of collapse, they're probably going to have to tighten their belt in the near future at the very least even if Carlo doesn't directly implicate them.
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The Sopranos / int_a7382a73	type	Imagine Spot
The Sopranos / int_a7382a73	comment	Imagine Spot: Adriana has a particularly sad one in "Long Term Parking".
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The Sopranos / int_a783166f	type	StockSoundEffect
The Sopranos / int_a783166f	comment	Stock Sound Effect: When Tony gets food poisoning, the noises coming from his bathroom are obvious generic farting sound effects.
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The Sopranos / int_a796d2a6	type	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
The Sopranos / int_a796d2a6	comment	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: A few times in the series, most notably when Matthew Bevilacqua and Sean Gismonte attempt a hit on Christopher. Sean connects with the first shot, then empties his clip at a range of only a few feet, managing only to graze his shoulder. Matthew fires over 15 shots and doesn't even come close once.
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The Sopranos / int_a7b3134	type	I Just Want to Be Loved
The Sopranos / int_a7b3134	comment	I Just Want to Be Loved: With the overall poor parenting of his father and mother, Tony has one chip on his shoulder when it comes to parental figures. He tries to bond with his uncle Junior, but the latter's increasing dementia makes it hard for them to make a full connection. Having lost his father at a very young age, Christopher always tries to find a surrogate. The most obvious choice is Tony, but given their line of work, their chain of command, and their respective mental situations, the relationship slowly sours until it's rotten.
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The Sopranos / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
The Sopranos / int_a8559a9f	comment	The DiMeos were based on the Real Life DeCavalcante crime family, which controls much of central New Jersey (South New Jersey is part of the Philly Mob's turf, while northern New Jersey is controlled by the Five Families, especially the Genovese and Lucchese families).
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The Sopranos / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
The Sopranos / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: Everyone is Catholic. Justified, in that they're all members of the same big Italian family. Subverted when heâ€™s visited in the hospital by a Protestant minister who preaches young-earth creationism. Tony and his mobster friends are simply baffled. (Truth in Television, as the Catholic Church has long accepted evolution.)
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The Sopranos / int_aa245ded	type	Mob War
The Sopranos / int_aa245ded	comment	Season 6 dives into an all-out Mob War, with Phil's ascension to the boss. More savage and ruthless than any of Tony's prior enemies, Phil decapitates most of the Jersey crew's leadership when things go sour between him and Tony, before finally being undone by an Enemy Mine between Tony and FBI agent Harris.
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The Sopranos / int_aab624e5	type	Is That a Threat?
The Sopranos / int_aab624e5	comment	Is That a Threat?:
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The Sopranos / int_aabe2fb	type	Deliberate Values Dissonance
The Sopranos / int_aabe2fb	comment	Deliberate Values Dissonance: In its desire to authentically depict the Italian-American criminal subculture, the series does not shy away from the casual racism, sexism, gay-bashing and Moral Myopia that are commonplace within it, even among the (by comparison) more sympathetic characters. Among other things, Tony disapproves that his daughter dates a black man in college; it's seen as normal for mafiosos to have affairs with women but a mob boss' wife having an affair is generally not tolerated; the crew are considering giving the gay Vito a pass for his homosexual activity until they find out he's the receiver; and even Hesh catches a few slurs (clearly intended as affectionate, but the character often seems to be holding back irritation when it happens).
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The Sopranos / int_aacd292e	type	Offing the Mouth
The Sopranos / int_aacd292e	comment	Offing the Mouth: While Jackie and two accomplices are robbing the Pontecorvo poker game at gunpoint, dealer Sunshine heckles them in an attempt to make them leave. Jackie shoots him, which mostly seems to be an act of panic.
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The Sopranos / int_aba8065b	type	Fatal Flaw
The Sopranos / int_aba8065b	comment	Fatal Flaw: Tony Soprano's Wrath and short fuse sometimes got the better of him. Despite being one of the most ruthless characters in the series, Phil Leotardo considers himself too agreeable in nature and willing to compromise for his own good. In reality, it is his obsession with preserving his alpha-male persona at all costs that proves to be his downfall. Christopher Moltisanti's Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster! tendencies. He doesn't realize being a made man in The Mafia comes with a lot of responsibility, which means he cannot goof around when he's under tremendous pressure from his bosses to earn more money. By the time of his death, Tony had realized that Chris was The Load to the family. While being a mafioso has its perks, Chris should have known that some parts of a mobster's life can be boring and dangerous at times.
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The Sopranos / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
The Sopranos / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Non-diegetic music is relatively rare on the show, and when it does appear it's often incongruous.
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The Sopranos / int_ac09dc0f	type	Alas, Poor Villain
The Sopranos / int_ac09dc0f	comment	Alas, Poor Villain: In a rare occurrence, Johnny Sack is given a touching and empathic death scene, dying after a long illness and surrounded by his anguished family. The show makes a point about a broken mobster dying of cancer is still a human being, a father and a husband. In-universe, even the mobsters who felt betrayed by the man mourn his loss and honor his memory.
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The Sopranos / int_acecb17d	type	Chekhov's Skill
The Sopranos / int_acecb17d	comment	During the alleged Tony-Adriana affair, the two suffer a car accident that arouses much suspicion and gossip. Chris refuses to believe Tony's innocence plea and Tony feels his only option is to kill the erratic Chris for it. Blundetto meddles and suggests an alternative; they go and ask the E.R. guy who treated the car accident. Blundetto, thanks to his medical knowledge, asks the right questions that debunk the rumors about Adriana and Tony (the driver receiving a blowjob, mind you).
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The Sopranos / int_acf8f71a	type	Dispense with the Pleasantries
The Sopranos / int_acf8f71a	comment	Dispense with the Pleasantries: Tony Soprano usually has little tolerance for beating around the bush, particularly when in an irritable mood (which is a lot of the time). He's very much a "let's get straight to business" kind of guy.
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The Sopranos / int_ad17a1ac	type	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse
The Sopranos / int_ad17a1ac	comment	Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Whenever Meadow's boyfriend Finn voices his reservations regarding Tony and his associates' work, Meadow justifies on the basis that the poverty and dire conditions of Southern Italy bred their mindset and it can't be helped. Finn finally calls bullshit on this after he's forced to tell the mobsters he saw Vito giving a man a blowjob, telling her that they are generations separated from that environment and nothing their ancestors went through justifies executing a person just because they're gay.
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The Sopranos / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Sopranos / int_ad1db87c	comment	Adriana zones out while Sil drives her across the state to a hospital to see her fiancÃ©â€”and has an Oh, Crap! when the car stops in the middle of the woods, and she realizes what the drive was really for.
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The Sopranos / int_ad5c41b7	type	Black Screen of Death
The Sopranos / int_ad5c41b7	comment	Black Screen of Death: Debatably used in the finale, as Tony Soprano may have been killed just after a quick cut to the credits. Among the suspects: a character identified in the credits as "Members Only", plausibly, a Call-Back to the episode of the same name.
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The Sopranos / int_ad786c6b	comment	Hookers and Blow: The Bada-Bing is a magnet for this.
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The Sopranos / int_ad9fbc1e	type	Pyrrhic Victory
The Sopranos / int_ad9fbc1e	comment	Pyrrhic Victory: In the second half of the last season, an open Mob War finally erupts between the DiMeo and Lupertazzi crime families. It ends when Phil's men lose faith in his leadership and allow Tony to assassinate their boss. However, Tony lost three of his closest subordinates in the fight, one of whom turned government informant and agreed to testify against Tony. With a severe loss in loyal manpower and a probable indictment hanging over his head, as well as worsening personal family troubles in the midst, it can't really be said that Tony "won".
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The Sopranos / int_adfd3165	type	For the Evulz
The Sopranos / int_adfd3165	comment	"Fat Dom" Gamiello takes rather obnoxious glee at gloating over Vito Spatafore's death to Silvio and Carlo. Bad move.
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The Sopranos / int_ae372576	type	I Warned You
The Sopranos / int_ae372576	comment	Most of Tony's angst derives from his position as boss. He mentions the trope often, argues that his greedy underlings have no idea how hard it is to be a boss, and warns his friend Johnny Sack about it several times.
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The Sopranos / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
The Sopranos / int_ae3d6438	comment	Deadpan Snarker: Almost the entire cast. Silvio, Carmela, Junior, and Dr. Melfi deserve special mention, although Tony can hold his own with them himself.
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The Sopranos / int_aed65980	type	All for Nothing
The Sopranos / int_aed65980	comment	All for Nothing: The show invests significant time in Tony's therapy, building out Dr. Melfi as a character and using the therapy sessions as a way to look into Tony's psychology and motivations. Ultimately, though, Tony's therapy fails to meaningfully change his behavior. At the end of the series, Dr. Melfi comes to the rather horrified realization that, for some sociopaths, therapy isn't just worthless, it can actually make things worse by giving the individual a new set of therapeutic tools and languages with which to manipulate people. She ends her sessions with Tony at that point.
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The Sopranos / int_af3ea0e3	type	Faceâ€“Heel Turn
The Sopranos / int_af3ea0e3	comment	Faceâ€“Heel Turn: From Phil's point of view, "The Leotardo family has been taking shit from everybody the minute they got off the boat from Italy."
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The Sopranos / int_af696bef	type	Fish out of Water
The Sopranos / int_af696bef	comment	Fish out of Water: Chris and Paulie in "Pine Barrens". The visit to the Mother Country in "Commendatori".
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The Sopranos / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
The Sopranos / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Melfi gets an awesome one of these in season three. After getting raped, she realizes that she could tell Tony, and he would ensure that the rapist died screaming... and chooses not to.
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The Sopranos / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
The Sopranos / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Adriana. If she's not parading around in her undies for Chris, she's bending over a trash can wearing very tight pants. Lampshaded in the third season opener when the FBI agent keeping tabs on her prays to God that he not be reassigned.
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The Sopranos / int_b06bbf4b	type	Be Careful What You Wish For
The Sopranos / int_b06bbf4b	comment	Be Careful What You Wish For: In Season 1, Chris is upset that he is too unestablished for the FBI to bother targeting him. In later seasons, the FBI actually does make Chris a major target... and it ultimately ruins his life.
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The Sopranos / int_b0855ef3	type	No Historical Figures Were Harmed
The Sopranos / int_b0855ef3	comment	No Historical Figures Were Harmed: The DiMeos were based on the Real Life DeCavalcante crime family, which controls much of central New Jersey (South New Jersey is part of the Philly Mob's turf, while northern New Jersey is controlled by the Five Families, especially the Genovese and Lucchese families). Ercole "Eckley" DiMeo, the crime family's namesake, was based on Simone "Samuel" DeCavalcante, who was nicknamed "Sam the Plumber" because he owned and operated a heating and plumbing company in Kenilworth, NJ. But he loathed that nickname and preferred to be called "the Count" because he often claimed that he was of Blue Blood. Tony Soprano was based on real-life New Jersey mobster Vincent "Vinny Ocean" Palermo, who later became the DeCavalcante crime family's acting boss (acting on behalf of Giovanni Riggi) before becoming an FBI informant in 2003. Elements of Sam DeCavalcante were also added to Tony Soprano. Corrado "Junior" Soprano was based on Giovanni "John the Eagle" Riggi, who became boss of the DeCavalcante crime family after Sam DeCavalcante stepped down in 1982.
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The Sopranos / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Sopranos / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Tony and Carmela also genuinely love Meadow and A.J., and Carmela especially tries to do what's best for them (such as getting Meadow out of the life), although they range from ineffective to aggressive, although it's still pretty impressive given that Tony was raised by Livia.
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The Sopranos / int_b1fcaa08	type	Jammed Seatbelts
The Sopranos / int_b1fcaa08	comment	In season 2, Matt Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte, two small players, decide to try and kill Christopher in an attempt to please Richie Aprile, who despises him, with the hopes that they'll get promoted. It doesn't work. Sean is killed by Christopher in self-defense during the attack when his seatbelt jams, while Matt gets hunted down and butchered by Tony. It doesn't even succeed in impressing Richie, who Hot-Blooded as he may be, sees immediately how stupid it is and chases Matt off for fear of being connected to the hit.
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The Sopranos / int_b30b4c06	type	Military School
The Sopranos / int_b30b4c06	comment	Military School: In "Army of One", Tony and Carmela disagree vehemently over whether to send A.J. to a Military School after he gets expelled from his original Catholic school, Verbum Dei. It turns out that A.J. gets panic attacks like his fatherâ€”and, it seems, like the whole Soprano line going back generationsâ€”and couldn't go to military school for health reasons.
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The Sopranos / int_b42b7e7b	type	Moral Myopia
The Sopranos / int_b42b7e7b	comment	Moral Myopia: The mobsters' extreme case of it is a frequent source of both Hypocritical Humor and drama.
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The Sopranos / int_b4eff8a8	type	Epic Fail
The Sopranos / int_b4eff8a8	comment	Matt and Sean, two overambitious imbeciles attached to Christopher, hedge all the wrong bets and fail miserably to endear themselves to Tony. They then get the absurd idea to whack the boss' nephew as a "favor" to another mobster, who doesn't like Chris. The hit is a total failure and leaves one of them dead anyway, and all it does it mark the other for death. Even Richie, guilty himself of dipping into this trope where drugs are concerned, is aghast at how utterly idiotic this plan was (not least of all because it could see him dead, too, if Tony believes he had something to do with it).
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The Sopranos / int_b4fce1ab	type	Obfuscating Insanity
The Sopranos / int_b4fce1ab	comment	Obfuscating Insanity: Old mafia widow Livia Soprano engineers a hit on her son Tony, and though she is definitely somewhat senile, it's heavily implied that she's playing it up to give herself some plausible deniability after the plan fails.
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The Sopranos / int_b53077b3	type	Take That!
The Sopranos / int_b53077b3	comment	Take That!: When J.T. attempts to pawn his Emmy Award in order to pay Chris what he owes him, the dealer only offers him $15. "Maybe if it was an Oscar, you know, an Academy Award... but TV?" In "Kaisha," Chris offers to watch a DVD of Get Rich or Die Tryin' with his goomar:
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The Sopranos / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Sopranos / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: Some of the minor characters are positively suicidal. For example: In season 2, Matt Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte, two small players, decide to try and kill Christopher in an attempt to please Richie Aprile, who despises him, with the hopes that they'll get promoted. It doesn't work. Sean is killed by Christopher in self-defense during the attack when his seatbelt jams, while Matt gets hunted down and butchered by Tony. It doesn't even succeed in impressing Richie, who Hot-Blooded as he may be, sees immediately how stupid it is and chases Matt off for fear of being connected to the hit. Then there's also Darwin Award winner Jackie Aprile Jr., who tries the same thing in season 3 by robbing Tony's gang. The waiter in "Two Tonys". He chooses to accost no less than Christopher and goddamn Paulie Walnuts while they're in the midst of a heated argument and apparently about to come to blows, and nag them about the low tip he received. Also, in season 6, after Vito gets brutally murdered because it was discovered he's gay, one of the visiting New York guys openly implies in front of Silvio and Carlo that they had gay sex with him. Hilarity ensues. New York mobster Salvatore "Coco" Cogliano spots Meadow having dinner with her fiance, and has the bright idea to come over and sexually harass her. He's lucky he was only beaten within an inch of his life by Tony.
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The Sopranos / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
The Sopranos / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: Neil Mink and Harold Melvoin, traditional and very expensive mob-lawyers who reinforce the genre-savviness of the bosses and their ability to commit crime or get away with it.
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The Sopranos / int_b5b4bd37	type	The Don
The Sopranos / int_b5b4bd37	comment	The Don: Tony, who is nominally the acting boss for Junior and for the now jailed Don, Ercole DiMeo. Carmine Lupertazzi in New York. He scolds Tony for doing un-Don-like things like wearing shorts, and disregards the Jersey Family as "a glorified crew".
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The Sopranos / int_b6927d71	type	Hot for Preacher
The Sopranos / int_b6927d71	comment	Hot for Preacher: The sexual tension between Carmela Soprano and Father Intintola is a plot point in season 1.
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The Sopranos / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
The Sopranos / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: The writers didn't really have any. The characters, on the other hand...
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The Sopranos / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
The Sopranos / int_b6ec7566	comment	Even he freaks out when he discovers Meadow is dating a half-black, half-Jewish classmate from a wealthy New York family.
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The Sopranos / int_b707726f	type	Hypocritical Humor
The Sopranos / int_b707726f	comment	Ralph is obsessed with the movie Gladiator, notes he's seen it many, many times, and quotes from it endlessly. In a bit of Hypocritical Humor, the other mobsters roll their eyes at him even though they do the same thing with mafia movies. AJ shares Ralph's fondness for the movie, at least.
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The Sopranos / int_b8e3f20a	type	Demoted to Extra
The Sopranos / int_b8e3f20a	comment	Demoted to Extra: Lorenzo Barese. After he is sent to jail in the season 1 finale he only appears from time to time but maintains his captaincy throughout the series. Father Intintola is a major character in the first season, making only occasional appearances afterward. Irina Peltsin is Tony's regular mistress until he dumps her. She makes continues to make occasional appearances over the next couple of seasons, but her role is greatly reduced. Undercover FBI agent Deborah Ciccerone is introduced in season three and has a major role through a number of episodes in season four. We even get scenes from her point of view with her husband and child. Once her cover as Adriana's friend is blown, however, Adriana gets a new handler in Robyn Sanseverino. From that point on, Deborah only appears in a few brief office meetings and has no further effect on the plot.
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The Sopranos / int_b90ddf3c	type	Perverted Sniffing
The Sopranos / int_b90ddf3c	comment	Perverted Sniffing: In "Second Opinion", newly "made" man Christopher receives a surprise, late-night visit at his apartment from his immediate superior in the crime family Paulie Walnuts and Patsy Parisi. The two gangsters comb through Chris and his girlfriend Adriana's belongings to cherry-pick Christopher's stolen swag. Chris catches Paulie taking a mighty sniff of a pair of panties from Adriana's lingerie drawer.
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The Sopranos / int_b9f1f587	type	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue"
The Sopranos / int_b9f1f587	comment	Her Codename Was Mary Sue: Christopher produces a horror film, Cleaver, where undead mobster Michael comes back for revenge on his boss Salvatore and his cheating fiancÃ© It's quite obvious that Michael is a stand-in for Christopher, Salvatore for Tony, and Michael's fiancÃ©e for Adriana, but Christopher vehemently denies it.
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The Sopranos / int_ba0b808e	type	Tantrum Throwing
The Sopranos / int_ba0b808e	comment	Tantrum Throwing: Tony is prone to this, a trait later recreated by the boss in Cleaver. Tony is also at the receiving end of a steak when he infuriates Gloria Trillo.
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The Sopranos / int_ba236071	type	It Makes Sense in Context
The Sopranos / int_ba236071	comment	Gigi Cestone before killing Philly Spoons: "Here YOU go, you big mouth fuck! Fuck!"
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The Sopranos / int_ba3b41d6	type	Ironic Echo Cut
The Sopranos / int_ba3b41d6	comment	Ironic Echo Cut: "Whoever Did This" has a darkly funny example: Ralphie's son Justin is tragically injured, and he suffers significant blood loss and brain damage, with doctors saying that he could potentially end up being disabled. Later on, as Ralphie sits beside Justin's hospital bed, Rosalie Aprile comes into the room. She consoles him, saying:
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The Sopranos / int_ba759edf	type	Naturalized Name
The Sopranos / int_ba759edf	comment	Naturalized Name: Phil Leotardo tells a bunch of kids about how his family's name was changed at Ellis Island — it was originally "Leonardo," but the American clerks screwed up and registered the name as "Leotardo." Notably, Phil doesn't treat this as a charming story of his family's assimilation — he's actually still really pissed off about it, as "Leonardo" is a noble name associated with a brilliant artist and inventor, while "Leotardo" is associated with an obnoxious piece of exercise wear.
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The Sopranos / int_bb01ad0e	type	Cool Boat
The Sopranos / int_bb01ad0e	comment	Cool Boat: Tony's yacht, The Stugots. Envied and praised by some characters, and a common place for Tony's escapades. The name is a derivative of stu cazzo, the Napolitan term for "these testicles" (or perhaps more fittingly, "deez nuts"), and an insult.
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The Sopranos / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
The Sopranos / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Livia Soprano. She's always complaining about how everyone's mistreating her and how her son does not appreciate her. Janice makes a big show of being an all-loving, progressive hippy, but she's extremely self-centered and manipulative, twisting every situation around her own feelings and insecurities.
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The Sopranos / int_bb2d4227	type	Cast Full of Crazy
The Sopranos / int_bb2d4227	comment	Cast Full of Crazy: Pretty much inevitable for a mafia show. Special emphasis on Ralph, Ritchie, and Phil.
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The Sopranos / int_bbf11c0	type	Genius Bruiser
The Sopranos / int_bbf11c0	comment	Genius Bruiser: Tony Blundetto's IQ was revealed to be 158. Given his line of work, he almost certainly qualifies for the bruiser aspect as well.
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The Sopranos / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
The Sopranos / int_bc00493f	comment	Kingsley gets to express some restrained disdain and profanity when he finds himself sharing a flight with the gangsters. It's implied he knows they are the ones behind his friend Bacall's incident.
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The Sopranos / int_bc103f8b	type	Subverted
The Sopranos / int_bc103f8b	comment	Subverted: After Tony finds out that his mother tried to have him killed, he goes to her retirement home to call her out, only to find that she's had a stress-induced stroke, and is probably unable to consciously hear any of his rage-fueled confrontations. This continues in later seasons, as Tony tries to call her out more than once about her attempt at killing him, and the heaps of psychological abuse she's put on him and his family over the years. Each attempt never comes to any kind of definitive resolution of their issues. In the end, she dies at the beginning of the third season, leaving Tony psychologically scarred with no clear picture or resolution of his feelings toward his mother, and this affects him for years afterward.
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The Sopranos / int_bc1a0bb1	type	The Last Dance
The Sopranos / int_bc1a0bb1	comment	The Last Dance: Baccala Sr. has a pretty awesome/brutal one, while in the terminal stages of lung cancer.
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The Sopranos / int_bc437105	type	Bambification
The Sopranos / int_bc437105	comment	Bambification: A minor character has a quiet moment with a deer. Then it runs away and Tony brutally garrotes him.
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The Sopranos / int_bc74ef27	type	Berserk Button
The Sopranos / int_bc74ef27	comment	Berserk Button: Tony always loses it when he learns of animals being harmed. Chris and Ralph learn it the hard way when they kill a dog and presumably a horse. Johnny Sack is usually calm and collected unless someone makes a remark about his wife. Tony doesn't take it well when he is reminded on several times that he never had the makings of a varsity athlete. At one point, Tony thinks Janice is acting way too nice and out of character, so he deliberately invokes Janice's button by asking questions about her strayed son. Janice being Janice, it's malignant and amusing at the same time.
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The Sopranos / int_bccb6703	type	Cement Shoes
The Sopranos / int_bccb6703	comment	Cement Shoes: In "The Second Coming", AJ tries to commit suicide in a manner similar to this. Also Subverted: In "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano", you are led to believe that, since Tony plans to have Chucky Signore whacked on or around a boat, cement shoes or something like it are in the offing; it turns out that no, Tony shoots him in port and then takes him out to sea to dispose of the body.
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The Sopranos / int_bd3293fc	type	Sleeping with the Boss's Wife
The Sopranos / int_bd3293fc	comment	Sleeping with the Boss's Wife: This forms a major subplot in season 4, when there is massive Unresolved Sexual Tension between Tony's underling Furio and Tony's wife Carmella. They never consummate it, but Furio does consider murdering Tony before skipping the country and going back to Italy. When Tony finds out, he has a contract put out on him.
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The Sopranos / int_bdf2a460	type	Tragic Dream
The Sopranos / int_bdf2a460	comment	Tragic Dream: Adriana has her dream to get married and have kids with Christopher. It's pretty clear to the observer that this won't end well, given that Christopher is extremely violent to her. And Adriana has stated fertility problems, and then she flips and turns informant. She still holds out hope that she and Christopher will run away together, and he seems to briefly consider it...then he tells Tony. Carmela has her hope that the intelligent Meadow will become a doctor, giving her mainstream social respect and putting her out of the mob's reach. Then, after some back-and-forth where it seems like it might come true, Meadow opts instead to be a lawyer, putting her right back in the mob's pocket.
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The Sopranos / int_be30e493	type	Undignified Death
The Sopranos / int_be30e493	comment	Undignified Death: Gigi Cestone, who suffers a heart attack while constipated on the toilet and surrounded by porn magazines.
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The Sopranos / int_bead8edd	type	Injun Country
The Sopranos / int_bead8edd	comment	Injun Country: Tony visits an Indian casino that is owned and run by a shady white businessman with perhaps a drop of Indian ancestry.
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The Sopranos / int_beb932ca	type	Big Applesauce
The Sopranos / int_beb932ca	comment	Big Applesauce: The much larger NY families become major players in the final seasons.
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The Sopranos / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Sopranos / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Dwight Harris is the Knight in Sour Armor variant. He possesses a cold and humorless demeanor, but he is a good guy who is doing his job to maintain the peace.
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The Sopranos / int_bedae243	type	Relative Button
The Sopranos / int_bedae243	comment	At one point, Tony thinks Janice is acting way too nice and out of character, so he deliberately invokes Janice's button by asking questions about her strayed son. Janice being Janice, it's malignant and amusing at the same time.
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The Sopranos / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
The Sopranos / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Several.
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The Sopranos / int_bf051ba3	type	Don't Ask
The Sopranos / int_bf051ba3	comment	Don't Ask / You Do Not Want To Know: A rare instance where Tony slips some true information about whackings to Carmela when she asks about the Janice and Richie situation.
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The Sopranos / int_bf74d357	type	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
The Sopranos / int_bf74d357	comment	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife: Almost every single male character is married or in a relationship with insanely hot women, while usually also cheating on them with other even hotter women. Subverted with Johnny Sack: due to his high rank in the New York crew, it's assumed that like all the others, he has a hot wife with affairs on the side. In season 3, however, we see that his wife is an obese woman whom he loves deeply and does not cheat on.
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The Sopranos / int_bf8daa02	type	Better with Non-Human Company
The Sopranos / int_bf8daa02	comment	Better with Non-Human Company: Tony Soprano loves animals and animal abusers are a major Berserk Button for him but he has absolutely no problem maiming, torturing, or killing someone. This is part of what makes his therapist realize he's an incurable sociopath and sever ties with him.
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The Sopranos / int_c00afbbd	type	With Due Respect
The Sopranos / int_c00afbbd	comment	With Due Respect: Done in the episode "All Due Respect." Silvio pulls this with Tony when Tony seems willing to go to war against New York over the Blundetto-Leotardo situation. Tony gives it right back to him: Tony with Johnny Sack in a heated discussion regarding the Blundetto situation. Tony then gets tired of this formality and delivers an outright insult.
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The Sopranos / int_c0d6d1a	type	Loud of War
The Sopranos / int_c0d6d1a	comment	Loud of War: Tony resorts to this against a man who refuses to return him the entrance fee of a house that Tony no longer wants. The man lives by the sea, so Tony's men play invasive crooner music day and night from a boat with almost sheer impunity until the man finally caves in.
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The Sopranos / int_c0e5fc39	type	Celeb Crush
The Sopranos / int_c0e5fc39	comment	Celeb Crush: A throwaway line by Uncle Junior after he's been arrested by the FBI and they're trying to get him to turn federal witness:
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The Sopranos / int_c2393191	type	Show Within a Show
The Sopranos / int_c2393191	comment	Done in-universe. The nasty boss from Cleaver is modeled almost verbatim after Tony, who fails to realize this at first. It becomes a major wedge between him and Chris. Chris, terrified by the implications, strong-arms the nominal writer into taking credit for the character. He claims that he stole the character from another movie, but Tony (who's on the fence about the thing) easily sees past the lie, checks the original movie, and takes serious offense to the whole issue.
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The Sopranos / int_c287be68	type	Family-Values Villain
The Sopranos / int_c287be68	comment	Family-Values Villain: While there is some serious variability in how good they are at it, most of the mobsters at least attempt to do this. Livia Soprano seems at first to merely be a grumpy old lady. She is very insistent that nobody swears or smokes in her presence. Then she all but encourages her brother-in-law to put a hit out on her own son.
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The Sopranos / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
The Sopranos / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: Tony and Richie viciously rely on the pedal to enforce their wills over hirkers.
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The Sopranos / int_c32ff031	type	Xanatos Gambit
The Sopranos / int_c32ff031	comment	Artie tries to borrow money for an investment deal from Ralphie, who hears him out but ultimately refuses, reasoning that if Artie couldn't pay, he'd have to beat him up, and he doesn't want to be put in that position. Tony gets offended that Artie didn't come to him first and insists on loaning Artie the money. Artie's investment falls through, leaving him in a hopeless situation. Tony ultimately forgives the debt and lets Artie repay him with free meals at his restaurant. Artie is grateful, but he also accuses Tony of realizing that lending him money was a Xanatos Gambit all along. Their friendship is never quite the same.
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The Sopranos / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Sopranos / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Tony, along with Silvio and Jackie Aprile ascended in the Mafia at a young age by some audacious violations of mob protocol, as they were respected for their moxie. Brendan Filone, Jackie Aprile Jr, Dino Zirelli, Carlo Renzi, Matthew Bevilaqua, Sean Gismonte... pretty much the entire cast of young De Meo gangsters aside from Chris... are all killed trying to follow this example.
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The Sopranos / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
The Sopranos / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: After appearing in several episodes, including one with a subplot focused on her, AJ's fantastically rich girlfriend Devin disappears between seasons 5 and 6. He shows up to the wedding of Allegra Sacrimoni with an new, unnamed girlfriend.
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The Sopranos / int_c36cba70	type	Mooks
The Sopranos / int_c36cba70	comment	Subverted during an episode after Tony believes the FBI is about to pinch him for executing one of the mooks who shot Christopher. While he doesn't get pinched, Tony's lawyer suggests he clock in at his trash collection company just to create the mask of a "respectable businessman." The job bores Tony to tears and he even develops a rash from the change in routine. So he goes back to hanging out at his restaurant with his crew and everything goes back to normal.
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The Sopranos / int_c3782352	type	Exiled to the Couch
The Sopranos / int_c3782352	comment	Exiled to the Couch: Self-exile in "Army of One": In the midst of their fight about sending A.J. to Military School, Carmela starts picking up blankets and pillows; then Tony grabs them, and says, "leave it to me!"
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The Sopranos / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Sopranos / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: After her fallout with Christopher regarding the FBI, Adriana is seen driving alone with a suitcase and possibly leaving everything behind to start a new life. Turns out it's just a daydream and she's a passenger with Silvio at the wheel, taking her on the last car ride of her tragic life.
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The Sopranos / int_c3c2eea0	type	Heritage Disconnect
The Sopranos / int_c3c2eea0	comment	Heritage Disconnect: A recurring theme throughout the show is that, while the mobsters and their families take a lot of pride in their Italian roots and culture, the things they know and practice are really a bastardized version of it caused by being generations separated from living in Italy and the insular nature of their group. The result is that many native Italians and even civilian Italian-Americans look down on the group and consider them a bunch of uneducated, boorish louts. It's best shown when Tony, Christopher, and Paulie travel to Naples and the mobsters there witness Paulie's behavior:
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The Sopranos / int_c3c7d2e5	type	Criminal Procedural
The Sopranos / int_c3c7d2e5	comment	Criminal Procedural: Organized crime variety. A relatively "blue-collar" gangster family overshadowed by New York. The focus is set on how the professional and personal issues tend to overlap and conflict.
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The Sopranos / int_c45c9fcd	type	Ass Shove
The Sopranos / int_c45c9fcd	comment	Ass Shove: It's mentioned off-handedly that Vito Spatafore was sodomized with a broomstick while they were murdering him.
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The Sopranos / int_c5a2d75f	type	In Love with the Gangster's Girl
The Sopranos / int_c5a2d75f	comment	In Love with the Gangster's Girl: Furio with Carmela. Subverted in that Furio is a gangster too, but Tony is the boss.
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The Sopranos / int_c660bc15	type	Fan Disservice
The Sopranos / int_c660bc15	comment	Fan Disservice: Whenever Tony gets at least half-naked, especially during his sex scenes. Lorraine Calluzzo in season 5. She's in the shower when Phil Leotardo and the hitmen go after her, and she runs through the house completely naked before they shoot her. It's not pretty.
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The Sopranos / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
The Sopranos / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Jackie Aprile Jr., the spoiled and overly-ambitious son of a deceased mobster who thinks he can rise through the ranks like Tony did and become the boss. Nobody wanted him in the business, not even his father, but he insists on pushing his way in and feels entitled to respect because of his heritage. All he ends up doing is causing tensions with the DiMeo crime family after he stupidly attempts to rob a card game held by them, which results in his crew getting slaughtered when the robbery predictably goes south. He never once approaches anywhere near the power needed to take on Tony and the second it looks like he might, Tony casually has him killed. A later example is Feech la Manna. Like Jackie, he tries to scheme his way to the top, but by that point, Tony's learned to nip this sort of nonsense in the bud and manipulates him into getting sent back to prison before he can cause trouble.
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The Sopranos / int_c6b8d37a	type	Cliffhanger
The Sopranos / int_c6b8d37a	comment	Cliffhanger: Notably averted. Creator David Chase considered them a cheap narrative device and the sequences are never split between episodes. One very rare cliffhanger is used at the end of Season 6 opener — Tony laying on the ground with a bullet wound — and the end of the second to last episode could be interpreted as one.
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The Sopranos / int_c6c63509	type	Apparently Powerless Puppetmaster
The Sopranos / int_c6c63509	comment	Apparently Powerless Puppetmaster: Played with in regard to Corrado "Junior" Soprano. After a brief power struggle in the first few episodes, he winds up under house arrest and, now that he's removed from direct power, his nephew Tony allows him to believe he's The Don while Tony is the de facto boss. However, Junior still tries his best to leverage his seniority and the loyalty of his underlings to run things behind Tony's back, undermining and even attempting to organize a hit on his nephew. To the feds, of course, he plays the part of a bemused senior who doesn't know anything, while simultaneously trying to act tough and in-control around Tony and the other gangsters; the truth is somewhere in the middle, and as he gets older he begins to show signs of genuine dementia.
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The Sopranos / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Sopranos / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: A staple of the show. Loads and loads of them, and then more. Examples include: Tony rates The Godfather Part II above the original and is not very fond of Part III. The gang starts to watch the movie after they steal some DVDs. And of course, there's Sil's famous Michael Corleone impressions... In the first season, Christopher is Wrong Genre Savvy and thinks any business-related problem is resolved with violence, bazooka in hand, and More Dakka Ã la Scarface (1983). Junior comes across an episode of HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm and thinks it's a cheap Made-for-TV Movie about his trial. The resemblance is certainly there. A playful one when Johnny Sack, on the day of his daughter's wedding, asks Tony for a professional favor. Christopher casually points out that Tony can't refuse, as the whole thing is identical to the one from The Godfather; Tony corrects him by telling him it's the other way around, the father of the bride is the one who cannot refuse. There's another nod to The Godfather when Tony visits an undertaker to discuss Livia's funeral. The undertaker even offers to use "all my powers, all my skills..." Ralphie is a fanboy of Gladiator who disregards Spartacus — a recommendation from Chris — as unrealistic, and who reenacts one scene on Georgie's head. Tony revers Gary Cooper, "The strong, silent type". Tony seems to blur the lines between reality and fiction with High Noon and the film appears in his dreams. Funnily enough, he also loves its Spiritual Antithesis Rio Bravo, especially the song "My rifle, my pony and me." Silvio and Tony have a Friendship Moment in which they mimic boxing moves while Cavalleria Rusticana plays. Numerous little nods and subtle references here and there to Goodfellas, a film defined by David Chase as "My Koran". For example, several characters joke about how scared Christopher is when he becomes a "made man", telling him he "watches too many movies"; in Goodfellas, Tommy's induction ceremony is a ruse to kill him. Tony praises The Art of War, ranks it way above The Prince, and gives practical use to the teachings that Sun-Tzu provides in it. Later on, Paulie tries to emulate Tony and reads it in audiobook form. On one occasion, he tries to boast about it, but can't even say the author's name properly (he utters something like Soon-Tizoong) and gets mocked for being an obnoxious brown-noser.
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The Sopranos / int_c76f81b8	type	Non-Idle Rich
The Sopranos / int_c76f81b8	comment	Non-Idle Rich: Despite being a Mafia Princess, Meadow works for a time as a social worker: hardly good pay, and you work with the poor.
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The Sopranos / int_c7e7529c	type	Five Stages of Grief
The Sopranos / int_c7e7529c	comment	Five Stages of Grief: Alluded to from time to time. One season 1 episode is titled "Denial, Anger, Acceptance".
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The Sopranos / int_c868a42a	type	Freudian Excuse
The Sopranos / int_c868a42a	comment	Freudian Excuse: Constantly explored. He hates the mere concept of the excuse, yet he's diagnosed with a very powerful one; Tony was literally born into the mob, and his abusive parents wrote the proverbial book about how not to raise a model citizen. His mommy issues are one of his major malfunctions. He still goes out of his way to please his miserable mother, a manipulative, self-pitying control freak who resents her children for being happier than her. The Moral Event Horizon comes when she tries to put a hit out on him. Despite this, Tony seems to be a much better parent. Janice, on the other hand, inherited her narcissism, self-pity, and lack of empathy.
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The Sopranos / int_c8a8c595	type	Retirony
The Sopranos / int_c8a8c595	comment	Retirony: Tony points out to Christopher a man enjoying his retirement party in the nearby restaurant as being the Corrupt Cop who murdered his father. When an understandably incensed Christopher asks him why he's only just now being told this, Tony explains the man has been useful. Until tonight, of course.
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The Sopranos / int_c8ce7b2d	type	Smash to Black
The Sopranos / int_c8ce7b2d	comment	Smash to Black: The infamous ending, in the middle of a scene, hell, in the middle of a Journey lyric.
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The Sopranos / int_c9ebcaae	type	Never Lend to a Friend
The Sopranos / int_c9ebcaae	comment	Never Lend to a Friend: Very frequent: Tony tries to keep his childhood friend David Scatino away from his illegal high-stakes poker game. When Scatino insists and runs up a ridiculous losing streak, Tony agrees to lend him the money to cover it, but at the same terms as anyone else. Scatino soon becomes swallowed by the interest, which destroys his business and marriage. Tony is unmoved by Scatino's plight. Artie tries to borrow money for an investment deal from Ralphie, who hears him out but ultimately refuses, reasoning that if Artie couldn't pay, he'd have to beat him up, and he doesn't want to be put in that position. Tony gets offended that Artie didn't come to him first and insists on loaning Artie the money. Artie's investment falls through, leaving him in a hopeless situation. Tony ultimately forgives the debt and lets Artie repay him with free meals at his restaurant. Artie is grateful, but he also accuses Tony of realizing that lending him money was a Xanatos Gambit all along. Their friendship is never quite the same. Tony himself runs up some gambling debts and ends up owing money to his Jewish friend Hesh. When Hesh asks for it back, Tony gets defensive and resentful and starts making Greedy Jew jokes. Their long friendship ends. Christopher's friend JT Dolan from AA runs up a large gambling debt, and Chris lends him the money to cover it. Dolan balks at the fact that Christopher charges him the same punishing vig as anyone else, but Christopher counters that he won't enable Dolan's bad decisions. Dolan has trouble paying the money back, causing Christopher to pummel him and steal his possessions, ultimately costing Dolan everything but the shirt off his back. From then on, Dolan is resentful and afraid of Chris, but Chris doesn't seem to notice.
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The Sopranos / int_ca87e3ec	type	No Name Given
The Sopranos / int_ca87e3ec	comment	No Name Given: Tony is seen on dates and in bed several times with a blond, Scandinavian flight attendant who is never referred to by name and always credited as "Miss Reykjavik."
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The Sopranos / int_caf8c66c	type	The Chains of Commanding
The Sopranos / int_caf8c66c	comment	The Chains of Commanding: Most of Tony's angst derives from his position as boss. He mentions the trope often, argues that his greedy underlings have no idea how hard it is to be a boss, and warns his friend Johnny Sack about it several times. In season 6 Silvio doesn't last more than a few days as regent because the responsibility quickly takes a toll on his health.
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The Sopranos / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
The Sopranos / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: Christopher's trip to Hell (Purgatory?) and Paulie's complaints about hauntings and curses might be legit or just the result of troubled minds and mafioso superstitions. We never get a definite answer either way. Paulie visits a psychic who seems to have knowledge of Paulie's murder victims beyond what a common shyster could fake. All the various dreams that characters have. Are they just premonitions and guilt, or are they messages from the other side?
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The Sopranos / int_cc28f3bf	type	Not That Kind of Doctor
The Sopranos / int_cc28f3bf	comment	Not That Kind of Doctor: In "Marco Polo", a revered (and rather snooty) erudite named Dr. Russ Fegoli attends the 75th birthday of Carmella's father Hugh. Tony, upon meeting him:
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The Sopranos / int_ccc73c34	type	Spooky Painting
The Sopranos / int_ccc73c34	comment	Spooky Painting: Tony is sufficiently unsettled by the dreary-looking painting of a barn outside Melfi's office to accuse her of deliberately placing it there to fuck with him.
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The Sopranos / int_ce730b71	type	Death by Recognition
The Sopranos / int_ce730b71	comment	Death by Recognition: One (of several) fan theories about the ending is that it's Tony having a heart attack as he sees who's entering the restaurant.
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The Sopranos / int_ce82c89a	type	Peer Pressure Makes You Evil
The Sopranos / int_ce82c89a	comment	Peer Pressure Makes You Evil: Played with. Tony decides against his initial feelings during the Blundetto crisis. His crew is uneasy, but Tony is a bit shielded, as only Silvio manifests the opposition face to face. It's complicated, as violent pressure from New York is a major consideration too. Tony decides against his personal criteria during the Vito situation in season 6; his soldiers and captains are openly rebellious about it, and he finally gives the go-ahead basically because of peer pressure. A moot dilemma in the end because Phil beats him to the punch. Averted by A.J., who befriends some gangster wannabes who idolize him for being the son of the big man and make him an accessory to some violent extortions, but he is unaffected.
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The Sopranos / int_ce993654	type	Hollywood Genetics
The Sopranos / int_ce993654	comment	Hollywood Genetics: Meadow has a noticeably darker complexion than everyone else in her family. Jamie-Lynn Sigler is actually half Cuban and half Ashkenazi Jew rather than Italian-American. This gets brought up in dialogue in the fifth season when Carmela recalls how her mother lamented "She's so dark!" when she first saw her granddaughter.
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The Sopranos / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
The Sopranos / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Tony's (truthful) denials that he had an affair with Adriana are disbelieved by pretty much everyone, given his reputation as The Casanova and a serial philanderer.
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The Sopranos / int_cfa546f4	type	Mother Russia Makes You Strong
The Sopranos / int_cfa546f4	comment	Mother Russia Makes You Strong: One-legged and determined Svetlana remarks that Americans don't know what a real problem is and live an easy existence compared to the average miserable life in Russia/USSR, yet they are wimpy complainers. Valery, a Mafiya member and former Spetsnaz who boasts in a frozen forest about harsh weather being warm to him, and gets away from Chris and Paulie when he was suppressed and about to be executed. He seemingly gets his throat crushed and his headshot but manages to escape into the pine barrens. His uncertain fate leads to a WMG that David Chase deliberately HandWaved in the season 5 opener.
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The Sopranos / int_cfbbd075	type	Porn Stash
The Sopranos / int_cfbbd075	comment	Porn Stash: When the FBI raids the Sopranos' compound, the main concern of the Soprano children is the discovery of A.J.'s computer, full of porn.
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The Sopranos / int_d001deb0	type	Naked in Mink
The Sopranos / int_d001deb0	comment	Naked in Mink: Some ladies would wear fur with nothing underneath.
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The Sopranos / int_d1b35f28	type	Stolen Good, Returned Better
The Sopranos / int_d1b35f28	comment	Stolen Good, Returned Better: Dr. Melfi is having trouble with her car, and with the mechanics who are fixing it. When Tony learns this during one of his therapy sessions, he has her car stolen, fixed, and returned that night. She's grateful, but not happy about it.
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The Sopranos / int_d247a7c3	type	Beauty to Beast
The Sopranos / int_d247a7c3	comment	Beauty to Beast: Valentina loses her beauty after being disfigured in a kitchen fire.
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The Sopranos / int_d34cbda2	type	Implausible Deniability
The Sopranos / int_d34cbda2	comment	Implausible Deniability: This describes the Mafia code of silence, or omerta, in which members of the mob not only deny their involvement with it, but also argue that it doesn't even exist in the first place, in spite of evidence to the contrary. Tony first demonstrates this in "College", where, when Meadow presses him about his mafia connections, tries to argue he's not involved, and that there is no mafia, before admitting that, yes, he is involved in some illegal activities.
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The Sopranos / int_d3d94018	type	Girls with Moustaches
The Sopranos / int_d3d94018	comment	Girls with Moustaches: In one episode, several of the wiseguys are sitting around their no-work jobs, "breaking balls" about each other's girlfriends. One teases another, saying his girl had a mustache so bad it must have been like kissing a fireman.
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The Sopranos / int_d43a63c3	type	Elvis Impersonator
The Sopranos / int_d43a63c3	comment	Elvis Impersonator: Big Pussy kills an Elvis impersonator named Jimmy Bones for running into him while meeting with his FBI handler.
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The Sopranos / int_d46899fc	type	Business Trip Adultery
The Sopranos / int_d46899fc	comment	Business Trip Adultery: Tony does this throughout the series. In one episode, he goes to Vegas to inform Chris's ex-mistress of his death. Not surprisingly, they have sex that night and do peyote. Carmela asks about the "business trip" when he returns home, unaware of what it entailed. He sweetens her up with a new gold watch.
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The Sopranos / int_d4ba9971	type	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit
The Sopranos / int_d4ba9971	comment	Deceased Fall-Guy Gambit: The FBI investigates the killing of Willie Overall, Tony's first murder way back in 1982. After Overall's body is found and excavated, the investigation is eventually called off, when, thanks to misinformation provided by Di Meo capo "Larry Boy" Barese, the decades-old murder is pinned on Jackie Aprile, Sr., who has been dead himself for several years.
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The Sopranos / int_d51263b9	type	Fake Shemp
The Sopranos / int_d51263b9	comment	Fake Shemp: Nancy Marchand died between seasons two and three. Her final scene was in the premiere of the following season and was cobbled together using voice clips from previous scenes and a CGI head of her character (whose lighting does not match the rest of the scene) pasted onto a body double. Several seasons later, while Tony is in a coma and envisions standing before a house that is implied to be the gateway to the afterlife, there's a shot of an old woman at the door who turns away before we see her face â€” based on her hairstyle and movements, this is almost universally interpreted as being Marchand's character (Tony's mother).
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The Sopranos / int_d5139ac	type	Reality Has No Soundtrack
The Sopranos / int_d5139ac	comment	Reality Has No Soundtrack: The series generally avoids non-diegetic music. When it does appear, it's always very noticeable, and the most dramatic scenes tend to be music-free.
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The Sopranos / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
The Sopranos / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: If you ask most characters, being a mafioso or abetting a family member of one doesn't go in the way of being a good Christian or upstanding citizen.
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The Sopranos / int_d57f4a99	type	The Nothing After Death
The Sopranos / int_d57f4a99	comment	The Nothing After Death: The last season in particular. The finale, if one interpretation is to be believed.
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The Sopranos / int_d5929047	type	Revealing Injury
The Sopranos / int_d5929047	comment	Revealing Injury: Tony Blundetto is identified as the killer of Joey Peeps after witnesses claimed Peeps' killer ran away with a limp. Blundetto received the injury when Peeps' car ran over his foot.
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The Sopranos / int_d5dfb30a	type	Professional Butt-Kisser
The Sopranos / int_d5dfb30a	comment	Professional Butt-Kisser: Paulie is a servile brown noser who shows his true allegiance the minute his boss Tony gets indisposed.
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The Sopranos / int_d5f35258	type	Adventures in Comaland
The Sopranos / int_d5f35258	comment	Adventures in Comaland: After getting shot by a delirious Uncle Junior in season six, Tony spends a few episodes in a coma dream sequence. He was in a distant city, where he'd accidentally switched his wallet and briefcase with a man named Kevin Finnerty, and everyone else thinks he actually is this man. Curiously, in this dream, Tony's heavy New Jersey accent drops significantly and his posture is better.
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The Sopranos / int_d61c920b	type	Confess in Confidence
The Sopranos / int_d61c920b	comment	Confess in Confidence: Discussed early in the show. In theory, everything said during therapy falls under doctor-patient privilege and is out of reach from the law, but there are instances where this doesn't apply so Tony remains cryptic in many conversations, hindering the effectiveness of his treatment and frustrating his doctor. The doctor-patient privilege is also used to have meetings with Junior in his doctor's office when he's on trial, as the government can't wiretap the doctor's office. The feds get around this by having a female agent pose as a nurse and listen in on Junior's conversations, as well as detail the people present in their meetings. Junior also uses his lawyer's office for the same purpose, as the same rules apply.
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The Sopranos / int_d63358ae	type	Give Him a Normal Life
The Sopranos / int_d63358ae	comment	Jackie Aprile Sr. also felt this way towards his own son, and arranged with Tony to make sure this wouldn't happen before he himself died in the fourth episode. Tony doesn't succeed and Jackie Jr. ends up dead later on, further strengthening his decision to keep A.J. out of it.
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The Sopranos / int_d64491d8	type	Meaningless Meaningful Words
The Sopranos / int_d64491d8	comment	Meaningless Meaningful Words: Parodied. Most of the characters do this from time to time but the most egregious perpetrator, by far, is Little Carmine. He would frequently misuse or mispronounce big words in an effort to sound smart or eloquent. Even characters on the show recognized his stupidity.
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The Sopranos / int_d66c4f39	type	Matricide
The Sopranos / int_d66c4f39	comment	Matricide: Subverted in the season 1 finale. Livia Soprano manipulates Uncle Junior to arrange a hit on her son Tony (Junior's nephew) out of resentment for putting her in a nursing home. After Tony's faction wins the civil war against Junior, Tony tries to smother Livia with a pillow, but ultimately decides against it.
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The Sopranos / int_d6b5f05f	type	Friendship Moment
The Sopranos / int_d6b5f05f	comment	Silvio and Tony have a Friendship Moment in which they mimic boxing moves while Cavalleria Rusticana plays.
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The Sopranos / int_d72edeb0	type	Fake Guest Star
The Sopranos / int_d72edeb0	comment	Fake Guest Star: Jerry Adler guest-starred as Hesh Rabkin in 27 episodes throughout the course of the series yet never received billing. This was in a series that tended to eventually give in-episode billing to actors in recurring roles.
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The Sopranos / int_d77d719d	type	Distracted by the Luxury
The Sopranos / int_d77d719d	comment	Distracted by the Luxury: One of the main traits of Carmela Soprano. For her husband and mob boss Tony, the standard way out of a marital problem is to bury it under gifts or loads of money.
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The Sopranos / int_d7f6f486	type	The Other Darrin
The Sopranos / int_d7f6f486	comment	In the pilot, shot a year before the dubious greenlight, Tony is already a peerless boss, not a mere capo, and provides a voiceover. Some later recasts and several physical changes are noticeable.
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The Sopranos / int_d7fc9fd0	type	Vitriolic Best Buds
The Sopranos / int_d7fc9fd0	comment	Vitriolic Best Buds: Chris and Paulie, sometimes. Their relationship varies from brotherly buddies to hating each other's guts. They tend to be polar in this regard.
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The Sopranos / int_d820f28	type	Reaction Shot
The Sopranos / int_d820f28	comment	Reaction Shot: One explanation for the abrupt cut-to-black ending is that the final scene builds up a pattern of reaction shots establishing that we are seeing Tony being whacked, from Tony's point of view.
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The Sopranos / int_d854e1cb	type	A Beast in Name and Nature
The Sopranos / int_d854e1cb	comment	A Beast in Name and Nature: Phil Leotardo takes to referring to Tony Blundetto as "Animal Blundetto" after the latter murdered his brother Billy during the Lupertazzi civil war. In reality, Tony B. was more of a Beware the Nice Ones-type guy who got in over his head when he recklessly tried to make a name for himself, with the vicious, hotheaded Phil himself being a much better candidate for that title.
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The Sopranos / int_d8573ef9	type	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!
The Sopranos / int_d8573ef9	comment	Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: Paulie resents Chris for playing the blood relation card too many times, but he is not above enforcing the trope shamelessly; his attitude towards Finn takes a radical turn once he learns he is Meadow's boyfriend. Carmela implicitly uses the nefarious power of her surname to grant Meadow admission to Columbia. Tony and his pals were given a free pass after robbing the cards game of Feech LaManna because his father Johnny Boy Soprano was an influential capo.
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The Sopranos / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
The Sopranos / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Matush when he hears a gunshot during Jackie Jr.'s card game heist. And then later, Jackie himself, who steals a car and leaves his friend Dino to get slaughtered.
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The Sopranos / int_db2f3581	type	All Girls Want Bad Boys
The Sopranos / int_db2f3581	comment	All Girls Want Bad Boys: Played straight for almost all the female characters. Played with by Melfi, who feels an unhealthy attraction to Tony but is able to fight it off. Noticeably subverted in AJ's case. As the series goes on, he dates a succession of very attractive young women, despite being a sullen, scrawny wimp.
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The Sopranos / int_db454784	type	Offscreen Inertia
The Sopranos / int_db454784	comment	Offscreen Inertia: The ending of the series. Complete with soundtrack. Uncle Junior gets his hand stuck in the drain of the kitchen sink. Near the end of the episode, we discover that Uncle Junior never got his hand unstuck, and has been standing in the kitchen for an entire day.
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The Sopranos / int_dba4ae4f	type	Arc Welding
The Sopranos / int_dba4ae4f	comment	Arc Welding: At the end of the first season, Big Pussy has vanished. No one knows anything. The writers were just going to let it go at thatâ€”people do, indeed, vanish with no explanation, though it's rare. However, when they heard how the fans were wondering what happened to him, they welded Pussy into the story of Jimmy's being The Mole, with him being a second one.
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The Sopranos / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
The Sopranos / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Deliberately subverted with Valery the Russian in "Pine Barrens". After his one big appearance, he seemingly escapes from Paulie and Christopher despite being wounded. The viewer is left expecting him to return in some way eventually and bring hell down on the protagonists. He never does. He becomes just one of those unsolved mysteries of life, his fate forever unknown. Subverted by the "Man in Members Only Jacket" in "Made in America". Played straight by Tony Blundetto, whose actions in the fifth season are arguably the main catalyst for the New York-New Jersey War in the last season. Subverted with Furio. He goes back to Italy, seemingly intent on killing Tony so he can be with Carmela... and we never see him again. Subverted with the cat in the final episode. It keeps staring ominously at Chris's photo on the wall of the pork store, even after Paulie moves it. We never find out why.
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The Sopranos / int_dcf1e0e2	type	Punch a Wall
The Sopranos / int_dcf1e0e2	comment	Punch a Wall: In "Whitecaps", after Carmela reveals to Tony that she has been secretly in love with Furio for months. He then punches the wall behind her several times in anger.
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The Sopranos / int_dd22df26	type	Hands-On Approach
The Sopranos / int_dd22df26	comment	Hands-On Approach: A throwaway subplot in season three sees a lesbian tennis coach show blatant favoritism towards Adriana when she and Carmela take up tennis. The reason why is all but spelled out, but Adriana herself doesn't get it.
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The Sopranos / int_dd45df38	type	Unfortunate Names
The Sopranos / int_dd45df38	comment	Unfortunate Names: Phil Leotardo openly complains that his legal family name used to be "Leonardo," as the painter. But an Ellis Island bureaucrat goofed it up, and now he's saddled with a name for a ballet outfit.
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The Sopranos / int_de414a38	type	Bad Guys Play Pool
The Sopranos / int_de414a38	comment	Bad Guys Play Pool: The Bing's back room.
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The Sopranos / int_de7b7cbf	type	Drugs Are Bad
The Sopranos / int_de7b7cbf	comment	Drugs Are Bad: Christopher struggles with heroin and cocaine addictions and is berated and judged hopeless and unworthy by Tony and the gang. Paulie particularly. They resent more the weak nature of Christopher than the badness of drugs since the mobsters casually indulge in the habit too and selling them is a regular source of income. Truth in Television, as Mafia members are supposed to be banned from dealing in drugs. Not due to any moral objections, but because the prison sentences associated with drug trafficking are so severe that those who are caught inevitably turn on their associates and become government informants to save themselves. This is exactly what happens with Big Pussy, Eugene Pontecorvo, and Carlo Gervasi (to save his son).
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The Sopranos / int_de89c0a1	type	Dating What Daddy Hates
The Sopranos / int_de89c0a1	comment	Dating What Daddy Hates: Tony gets very angry when his daughter dates a boy who is half African American and half Jewish. Downplayed with AJ, who dates a Puerto-Rican/Dominican girl ten years his senior (and mother to another man's child to boot), as Tony is much more forgiving of his son dating outside their race.
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The Sopranos / int_deecc9eb	type	Awful Wedded Life
The Sopranos / int_deecc9eb	comment	Awful Wedded Life: Johnny Sacks being Happily Married to Ginny is an outlier for the mob family. Husbands having several "goomahs" is simply expected; being emotionally or even physically abusive to their wives even moreso. Divorce is out of the question, however, largely due to the characters' Catholic upbringings. One such example is Angie Bonpensiero, wife of "Big Pussy," who devolves into a nervous wreck when he returns home. Carmela is sympathetic, but actively tries to steer Angie away from divorcing him.
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The Sopranos / int_dfb71617	type	Male Gaze
The Sopranos / int_dfb71617	comment	Male Gaze: Tony Blundetto lets his minicam linger on Carmela's ample posterior for a nice long while in "Marco Polo". An FBI agent ogles Adriana's lithe figure in her skimpy tennis outfit, then nearly explodes when both she and her svelte tennis instructor bend over at the same time.
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The Sopranos / int_e0140e6c	type	From the Mouths of Babes
The Sopranos / int_e0140e6c	comment	From the Mouths of Babes: An occasional source of humor: the adults swear constantly, but when a child (especially their own) does the same they're appalled.
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The Sopranos / int_e057ad12	type	I'm Not Here to Make Friends
The Sopranos / int_e057ad12	comment	I'm Not Here to Make Friends: Mentioned often by Tony. "I'm running a fuckin' business, not a popularity contest!" Besides his close family and business associates, he has no real friends; he manages to alienate Artie, David Scatino, Hesh Rabkin, and Zellman among others.
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The Sopranos / int_e069fae8	type	Bad Guy Bar
The Sopranos / int_e069fae8	comment	Bad Guy Bar: The Bing.
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The Sopranos / int_e0789c2a	type	Your Head A-Splode
The Sopranos / int_e0789c2a	comment	Your Head A-Splode: In the series finale, the fate of Phil Leotardo after his head is run over by a tire. Off-screen. Given his nature, that was probably something the viewers wanted to see.
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The Sopranos / int_e08f3fed	type	Chair Reveal
The Sopranos / int_e08f3fed	comment	Chair Reveal: During Tony's Nightmare Sequence in "Meadowlands", Dr. Melfi is replaced by his mother, who reveals herself to him in this manner.
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The Sopranos / int_e098de6c	type	Oblivious to Hints
The Sopranos / int_e098de6c	comment	Oblivious to Hints: Robert Wegler, a school official Carmela is having an affair with, calls her for sexy talk when Tony is standing a few feet away in the kitchen. He ignores some pretty obvious brush-off attempts on her part.
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The Sopranos / int_e0aed924	type	No Antagonist
The Sopranos / int_e0aed924	comment	Season 4 takes an introspective turn, with No Antagonist until the end of the season, when Carmine Lupertazzi positions himself as Tony's major foe. Things do get messy, but the two bosses settle things amicably; their conflict is more a taste of what's to come than a real war.
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The Sopranos / int_e12670cd	type	Freudian Threat
The Sopranos / int_e12670cd	comment	Freudian Threat: In Season One, Tony Soprano is having a guy beaten up, but he proves stubborn. He's advised to try this trope instead, and it works. So we have a Soprano threatening to make someone else a soprano.
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The Sopranos / int_e150c4c7	type	Manchild
The Sopranos / int_e150c4c7	comment	Bobby Baccala and his love of toy trains, though it goes toward characterizing him as something of a Manchild who was unfortunately born into the Mafia life.
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The Sopranos / int_e2cbeee9	type	Gangsta Style
The Sopranos / int_e2cbeee9	comment	Gangsta Style: In "46 Long", Brendan berates Special K for holding his gun this way during a truck hijacking. The idiot immediately goes back to holding his gun this way afterward. This is primarily to show them to be Stupid Crooks; the hijacking inevitably goes bad and they end up dead as a result when word gets back to the boss.
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The Sopranos / int_e2ccee25	type	Animal Motifs
The Sopranos / int_e2ccee25	comment	Animal Motifs: Several used as symbolism throughout the series, e.g felines represent Adriana or Chris and migratory ducks the fragile family of Tony. A more concrete example is the parting gift Tony gives to his goomahs, a horseshoe-shaped jewel.
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The Sopranos / int_e2f13529	type	World of Jerkass
The Sopranos / int_e2f13529	comment	World of Jerkass: Even for a show about the mafia, it's easier to name the characters who aren't reprehensible assholes.
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The Sopranos / int_e39638a1	type	Turncoat
The Sopranos / int_e39638a1	comment	Turn Coat: A disgruntled Paulie tries to defect to New York, so he starts feeding sensitive information to a cajoling Johnny Sack. Paulie discovers he has been duped when he learns that the New York big boss practically doesn't know who he is.
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The Sopranos / int_e399c1dd	type	Manly Gay
The Sopranos / int_e399c1dd	comment	Manly Gay: Vito is a tragically closeted example.
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The Sopranos / int_e431c24c	type	Not Quite Dead
The Sopranos / int_e431c24c	comment	The episode "Pine Barrens" features probably the most heralded example. Paulie and Christopher, making a collection for Silvio, assault former Russian special agent Valery, attempting to dispose of his supposed dead body in the eponymous woods. But when Valery turns out to be Not Quite Dead and turns the tables on his assailants, escaping into the wilderness even after being shot in the head, Paulie and Chris end up getting lost overnight in the freezing cold. All because Paulie felt like being a dick and needlessly broke the guy's universal remote.
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The Sopranos / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
The Sopranos / int_e4f48a7f	comment	Against Tony's opinion, Janice tries to forcefully do one for Livia, but it totally backfires. A stoned Christopher delivers a bizarre eulogy, the relatives don't have anything good to say about the deceased, Carmela and her father explode against Livia, and their rant is shared by others.
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The Sopranos / int_e52a0409	type	Calling the Old Man Out
The Sopranos / int_e52a0409	comment	Calling the Old Man Out: Subverted: After Tony finds out that his mother tried to have him killed, he goes to her retirement home to call her out, only to find that she's had a stress-induced stroke, and is probably unable to consciously hear any of his rage-fueled confrontations. This continues in later seasons, as Tony tries to call her out more than once about her attempt at killing him, and the heaps of psychological abuse she's put on him and his family over the years. Each attempt never comes to any kind of definitive resolution of their issues. In the end, she dies at the beginning of the third season, leaving Tony psychologically scarred with no clear picture or resolution of his feelings toward his mother, and this affects him for years afterward. Meadow calls Tony out a number of times on his hypocrisy and line of work. Tony calls her back, pointing out he is the one who puts food on the table and that everything she enjoys is based on that. She gradually becomes less rebellious and more assimilated by the masquerade.
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The Sopranos / int_e52a0cac	type	He Who Must Not Be Seen
The Sopranos / int_e52a0cac	comment	He Who Must Not Be Seen: Janice's estranged son Harpo is mentioned repeatedly over the course of the show, but never seen.
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The Sopranos / int_e5421161	type	Expy
The Sopranos / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Done in-universe. The nasty boss from Cleaver is modeled almost verbatim after Tony, who fails to realize this at first. It becomes a major wedge between him and Chris. Chris, terrified by the implications, strong-arms the nominal writer into taking credit for the character. He claims that he stole the character from another movie, but Tony (who's on the fence about the thing) easily sees past the lie, checks the original movie, and takes serious offense to the whole issue. Steven van Zandt takes Silvio on the road wholesale for the show Lilyhammer.
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The Sopranos / int_e563bf09	type	Insistent Terminology
The Sopranos / int_e563bf09	comment	Insistent Terminology: Tony has an issue with a "retirement community" being called a "nursing home" and corrects the term every time. In later seasons when his mother is no longer in one, he does the opposite correction.
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The Sopranos / int_e5c64f3f	type	Shame If Something Happened
The Sopranos / int_e5c64f3f	comment	Shame If Something Happened + Stealing from the Till can no longer be used in a protection racket because everything is accounted for in the computers. "It's over for the little guy."
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The Sopranos / int_e6291d05	type	Percussive Maintenance
The Sopranos / int_e6291d05	comment	Percussive Maintenance: In "Commendatori", Paulie Walnuts deals with a recalcitrant DVD player with what his Army Signal Corps training referred to as a "brogan adjustment". It works about as well as you'd expect a Paulie Walnuts plan to work.
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The Sopranos / int_e6b5d22f	type	Catchphrase
The Sopranos / int_e6b5d22f	comment	Catchphrase: Tony has "You've gotta be fuckin' kiddin' me", "End of story", and "She's dead to me" in Season 2. "Fuhgeddaboutit" and overuse of OH! for everybody. "Always with the drama!", recurringly used by Johnny Boy, Tony, and AJ Soprano. Silvio's impersonation of Michael Corleone in the first season invokes "Just when I thought I was out, they pulled me back in." Livia mournfully saying "He was a saint" regarding her late husband.
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The Sopranos / int_e70127	type	The Mole
The Sopranos / int_e70127	comment	The Mole: Big Pussy, Adriana la Cerva, and Raymond Curto are the three most notable ones.
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The Sopranos / int_e75d1aee	type	Friendly Local Chinatown
The Sopranos / int_e75d1aee	comment	Friendly Local Chinatown: The New York family that Tony's feuds with hang out in Little Italy, which is rapidly being swallowed by Chinatown in real life. The characters comment on this.
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The Sopranos / int_e7bf8b4d	type	Disappearing Bullets
The Sopranos / int_e7bf8b4d	comment	Disappearing Bullets: Many mobsters who have talked to the Feds, pissed off the wrong capo, or just outlived their usefulness to the organization get clipped in a car. Apparently, the side windows of their cars are bulletproof.
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The Sopranos / int_e81f5639	type	Moe Greene Special
The Sopranos / int_e81f5639	comment	Moe Greene Special: Big Pussy uses that exact name and cites the source of the term after Brendan gets whacked.
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The Sopranos / int_e8b295de	type	PlayedWith
The Sopranos / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With in "Denial Anger Acceptance]]". A woman in a Hello Nurse outfit comes to check on Jackie Aprile, who insists she's not his nurse. About the point her tits start falling out of her jacket, he realizes that she's one of the girls from the Bada Bing club, whom Tony hired to come out and show Jackie a good time.
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The Sopranos / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
The Sopranos / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: Tony has one about Vito in the season six episode "Live Free Or Die."
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The Sopranos / int_e8f16dc2	type	Automobile Opening
The Sopranos / int_e8f16dc2	comment	Automobile Opening: The intro features Tony driving from New York to his home in New Jersey. His route is deliberately inefficient to provide more interesting visuals: it runs through Newark and Kearney to get to Tony's house in North Caldwell, but any reasonable driver going from New York to North Caldwell would never get as far as Newark on the Turnpike but rather get off the Turnpike onto NJ Route 3 at Secaucus and get home from there. One supposes that perhaps Tony intends to visit Satriale's (fictively in Newark, with the actual building being in Kearney), but we don't see that in the intro.
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The Sopranos / int_e98afc99	type	Opinion-Changing Dream
The Sopranos / int_e98afc99	comment	Opinion-Changing Dream: Several characters have opinion-changing dreams. Tony has one about Big Pussy which finally forces him to confront the truth that he had betrayed them, and has another after being seriously wounded that lasts several episodes.
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The Sopranos / int_e993da98	type	Equal-Opportunity Evil
The Sopranos / int_e993da98	comment	Equal-Opportunity Evil: When it comes out that Vito was spotted at a gay bar, most of the crime family's members are either crying out for his blood or at the very least, calling for him to be removed completely. Patsy is the only one to declare that he has no problem with homosexuality. While Tony does have a problem with it, he has a far bigger problem with the fact that Vito is extremely competent and makes him vast amounts of money and wants to keep him on in an indirect fashion. However, his most homophobic members start crying too loud for him to ignore. Though the decision is eventually taken out of his hand by an even more homophobic member of another family.
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The Sopranos / int_e9c022ea	type	Secretly Wealthy
The Sopranos / int_e9c022ea	comment	AJ waxes philosophical about the trials of being born rich. Then he's embarrassed to discover that his girlfriend is Secretly Wealthy and lives in a stately mansion far greater than his own home. The Sopranos, for all their underworld power, are upper-middle class at best.
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The Sopranos / int_e9e28bd7	type	Sexy Priest
The Sopranos / int_e9e28bd7	comment	Sexy Priest: Father Intintola, who also develops feelings for Carmela and needs to beat a hasty retreat out of town after Carmella accuses him of using his position to gain intimacy and gifts from female parishioners.
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The Sopranos / int_ea2e9f2d	type	No Ending
The Sopranos / int_ea2e9f2d	comment	No Ending: Probably the most notorious example. Take a look at this to see portions of the ending, as well as details that pop up in it. As for the actual ending itself: Tony and his family sit and eat in a restaurant, with Tony continually looking up at the door to see who walks in, obviously expecting his family. Just as Meadow walks in, the show immediately cuts to black, and after a few seconds the credits roll.
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The Sopranos / int_ea85d6ea	type	All Just a Dream
The Sopranos / int_ea85d6ea	comment	All Just a Dream: The series has a lot of these as a way to get into Tony's head, although it was made apparent to the audience what they were.
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The Sopranos / int_eaa56450	type	TV Never Lies
The Sopranos / int_eaa56450	comment	TV Never Lies: Adriana gets the idea from a TV legal show she's watching that married people can't testify against their spouses, and decides to marry Chris to gain this protection. But a real lawyer tells her it doesn't work that way, mentioning retroactivity and precedents where the Department of Justice circumvented the privilege.
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The Sopranos / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Sopranos / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Mobsters fight dirty.
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The Sopranos / int_eb391316	type	Widow Mistreatment
The Sopranos / int_eb391316	comment	Widow Mistreatment: Subverted with Big Pussy's widow Angie Bonpensiero. After her husband is "disappeared" by Tony and his crew for being a government informant, she voices her financial problems to Carmela, Tony's wife. While he initially considers helping her out, he decides to vandalize her car and tells her to come directly to him with any problems. Later on, she is forced to become a cashier at a supermarket to make ends meet. Tony takes pity on Angie and puts her in charge of Pussy's former car shop. Angie excells at the job and becomes an integral part of Tony's operation, far moreso than the other mob wives.
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The Sopranos / int_eb502d31	type	Gangsterland
The Sopranos / int_eb502d31	comment	Gangsterland: New Jersey is portrayed as this in the series. It's a city filled with drug dealers, Loan Sharks, drug cartels, contract killers, criminal organizations, illegal business, corruption, illegal gambling, and mobsters.
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The Sopranos / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
The Sopranos / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: The show doesn't shy away from portraying the Mafia as full of people with anti-social behavior or outright sociopathy, and while a lot of guys do qualify, nobody matches up to the level of sheer obnoxiousness that is Ralph Cifaretto, who stands out as the meanest character in the show; rude, disrespectful, obnoxious, depraved and pointlessly violent. Tony is rude, racist,verbally abusive to his underlings, a serial womanizer and has high standards for people that he fails to meet himself. He is also a violent criminal.
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The Sopranos / int_eb8f64a6	comment	In the pilot, Junior wants to kill Pussy Malanga, one of his underlings and insists on doing it in Artie Bucco's restaurant. Tony, knowing that would destroy his friend's business, tries to stop Junior. When Junior refuses to be swayed, Tony burns the restaurant down so Artie can at least take the insurance and start over. After some time, Artie gets suspicious and resents Tony for it, who feels a victim of the No Good Deed Goes Unpunished syndrome.
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The Sopranos / int_eb9afb9d	type	Evil Old Folks
The Sopranos / int_eb9afb9d	comment	Evil Old Folks: Possibly the evilest person in the show (which, for the record, is about Mafiosi) is Livia Soprano, Tony's aged mother. Extraordinarily manipulative, and not above putting a hit on her own son if it gets her what she wants. Uncle Junior, Tony's uncle, and of Livia's generation. In the first episode, he is plotting to kill a rival at his favorite restaurant. He becomes boss of the North Jersey Mob shortly thereafter and conspires with Livia to kill Tony.
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The Sopranos / int_eba4a0e7	type	Chronic Villainy
The Sopranos / int_eba4a0e7	comment	Chronic Villainy: Played for tragedy in the case of Cousin Tony.
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The Sopranos / int_eba4e300	type	Honorary Uncle
The Sopranos / int_eba4e300	comment	Honorary Uncle: The mob guys are all honorary uncles towards their associates' respective children.
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The Sopranos / int_ebb900a7	type	Resignations Not Accepted
The Sopranos / int_ebb900a7	comment	Resignations Not Accepted: Eugene Pontecorvo requests a resignation from the mob to retire to Florida after getting a hefty inheritance from his aunt. Tony brings up omerta and disallows Pontecorvo's retirement. It also turns out that Eugene is an FBI informant, and they also disallow his retirement, insisting that he continue to spy on the mob. Tony tells Dr. Melfi on a few occasions that for a guy in his position, the only way out is prison or a bullet in the head. In "Another Toothpick," Bobby Bacala's father is called out of retirement to carry out a hit. Later in the episode:
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The Sopranos / int_ebbf48c0	type	Silent Credits
The Sopranos / int_ebbf48c0	comment	Silent Credits: After the infamous finale. Executive Meddling vetoed an intended Fade to Black with no credits at all.
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The Sopranos / int_ebee7b3a	type	Parking Garage
The Sopranos / int_ebee7b3a	comment	Parking Garage: Dr. Melfi is raped in one.
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The Sopranos / int_ec40626	type	Love Martyr
The Sopranos / int_ec40626	comment	Love Martyr: Adriana is this to Christopher. She believes that deep down Christopher is a good person and would choose her over the mob in a heartbeat. When she is forced to become an informant to the FBI, she tells Christopher and after the third beating, she gives him the choice. Christopher chooses the mob and it results in Adrianna's death.
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The Sopranos / int_ec9a5f50	type	Deconstructed Character Archetype
The Sopranos / int_ec9a5f50	comment	Deconstructed Character Archetype: Tony Soprano deconstructs The Don. He's not a ridiculously powerful kingpin with high resources like most Mafia bosses in fiction. Sure, he's well-off, but these resources are limited. It makes sense as the show is set in modern times, where tougher anti-racketeering laws and possible informants give Tony nightmares. Besides, his crime family shows that the Mob today is at a downfall from informants, the government, hostility from other families, and drugs. All these attributes make him one of the most realistic representations of an American mob boss in the modern-day.
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The Sopranos / int_ecc8b108	type	Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster!
The Sopranos / int_ecc8b108	comment	Christopher Moltisanti's Damn, It Feels Good to Be a Gangster! tendencies. He doesn't realize being a made man in The Mafia comes with a lot of responsibility, which means he cannot goof around when he's under tremendous pressure from his bosses to earn more money. By the time of his death, Tony had realized that Chris was The Load to the family. While being a mafioso has its perks, Chris should have known that some parts of a mobster's life can be boring and dangerous at times.
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The Sopranos / int_ecf76ce6	type	Decapitated Army
The Sopranos / int_ecf76ce6	comment	Decapitated Army: Invoked by Phil in season six. Killing Jersey's leadership would make its crew assimilable or at least easier and cheaper to deal with.
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The Sopranos / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
The Sopranos / int_ed05cfee	comment	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer: The FBI sends a younger agent to "turn" Adrianna because they think she'll respond better to a young woman. When Adrianna is discovered and murdered by Silvio, Chris plants her car at the airport long-term parking to suggest that she ran away. Only the new FBI agent believes it, and the other agents' laughter at her gullibility is a serious Tear Jerker.
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The Sopranos / int_ed581814	type	Dismembering the Body
The Sopranos / int_ed581814	comment	Dismembering the Body: The Soprano crime family uses a bunch of different methods to clean up murders that they generally do not want to become public (unless that's the point). Most commonly, they dismember the body and bury the pieces in different places. Ralphie Cifaretto and "Fat Dom" Gamiello, both of whom were murdered over personal beefs instead of business reasons, had this happen to them.
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The Sopranos / int_ed68bcc9	type	Dwindling Party
The Sopranos / int_ed68bcc9	comment	Dwindling Party: By the end of the series, almost all the significant members of the DiMeo crime family are dead, incarcerated, have disappeared from the narrative, have gone into witness protection, or have suffered an arguable Fate Worse than Death. It's basically just Tony, Paulie, and Patsy at the end.
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The Sopranos / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
The Sopranos / int_edaedf90	comment	Vomit Discretion Shot: Averted. Frequently. If someone pukes on this show, there's a 95% chance the bile will be shown. One messy example has the FBI guys affected by the splash.
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The Sopranos / int_ee64a5d7	type	Fever Dream Episode
The Sopranos / int_ee64a5d7	comment	Fever Dream Episode: "Funhouse" contains multiple fever dreams after Tony gets a bad case of food poisoning. In one of them, Tony douses himself with gasoline and lights himself on fire. Similarly in some early Season 6 episodes, after falling unconscious from some gunshot wounds, Tony has a series of strange dreams during his coma.
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The Sopranos / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
The Sopranos / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Completely averted, repeatedly. A lot of strange nicknames made up for it, though. Even the nicknames start to overlap, though... In the pilot, there is some consternation when rumors get around that Uncle Junior wants to kill "Big Pussy" — one of Tony's right-hand men, and not "Little Pussy" — one of Junior's. The two Tonys, Soprano and Blundetto, were referred to as "Tony Uncle Johnny" and "Tony Uncle Al" as children, later simplified as Tony A. and Tony B. Also subverted. Tony and his son have the same first name, but the latter is always called A.J. to prevent confusion. The name "Jason" has to take the cake for most common among satellite characters. You have Jason La Penna, Jason Blundetto, Jason Barone, the "two Jasons" Gervasi and Parisi, and Lorraine Calluzo's younger boyfriend Jason. Tony worries Uncle Junior might be going senile when Junior mentions meeting a long-dead friend earlier that day, and Junior has to angrily clarify that he meant Jr., not Sr.
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The Sopranos / int_ee7ed46e	type	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything
The Sopranos / int_ee7ed46e	comment	The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: The mobsters all have "legitimate" jobs, which they never show up for, and don't actually work when they do. Getting such "no-show" jobs is an important point during negotiations; the mobsters have to have a legitimate job for tax and medical insurance purposes. Christopher is the only one seen regularly earning, but then again, he is a rookie while the rest of the characters we mostly see are bosses and spend most of their time hanging around Bada Bing or Satriales. Explained by the hierarchical system; senior mobsters have their own crews and do mostly managerial work or collections, but do perform delicate tasks or street jobs from time to time — Paulie assaults Columbian drug dealers in Season 6. Subverted during an episode after Tony believes the FBI is about to pinch him for executing one of the mooks who shot Christopher. While he doesn't get pinched, Tony's lawyer suggests he clock in at his trash collection company just to create the mask of a "respectable businessman." The job bores Tony to tears and he even develops a rash from the change in routine. So he goes back to hanging out at his restaurant with his crew and everything goes back to normal. Begets major plot points later: When Meadow uses her dad to get Finn an allegedly "No Work" job at a construction site, he's not comfortable spending time with the mobsters, so he actually works. And being the young go-getter that he is, he shows up early to see Vito and another man having sex in the parking lot. Later, the man who owns Barone Sanitation dies, and his son (unaware of his father's "arrangements") tries to sell, threatening Paulie's legitimate income cover. Paulie viciously attacks him.
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The Sopranos / int_eedee4d	type	The Starscream
The Sopranos / int_eedee4d	comment	The Starscream: Just about everyone. One of the episodes lampshades this completely.
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The Sopranos / int_ef2d2bae	type	Mafia Princess
The Sopranos / int_ef2d2bae	comment	New York mobster Salvatore "Coco" Cogliano spots Meadow having dinner with her fiance, and has the bright idea to come over and sexually harass her. He's lucky he was only beaten within an inch of his life by Tony.
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The Sopranos / int_efbd4c52	type	All Bikers are Hells Angels
The Sopranos / int_efbd4c52	comment	All Bikers are Hells Angels: "The Ride" had Tony and Christopher coming across two bikers stealing fine wine. When they decide to steal the wine from them, the bikers arrogantly proclaim, "We're with The Vipers!" Tony and Christopher are naturally unimpressed.
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The Sopranos / int_f0f03464	type	TheSeventies
The Sopranos / int_f0f03464	comment	In "The Blue Comet", Paulie says, "I lived through The '70s by the skin of my nuts when the Colombos were goin' at it." Tony Sirico, the actor who plays Paulie, actually was an associate of the Colombo crime family before turning to acting.
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The Sopranos / int_f1919d5b	type	Being Evil Sucks
The Sopranos / int_f1919d5b	comment	Being Evil Sucks: Though the series has a Do Not Do This Cool Thing element, it does also show the Mafia to be an insecure life of murder, violence, threats, paranoia, betrayal, and relentless police investigations, that often ends in a sudden and violent death (Tony himself says the only outcomes for a guy like him is an early grave or ending up in the can). It is suggested, particularly by Dr. Melfi, that Tony's business is actually the cause of his health problems.
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The Sopranos / int_f23ad6de	type	Food Porn
The Sopranos / int_f23ad6de	comment	Food Porn: The series is a delight for food-watchers, as they're eating in almost every scene. Chef Artie Bucco is a particular purveyor of this as he loves to discuss his ingredients at length.
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The Sopranos / int_f23c26ab	type	Food Slap
The Sopranos / int_f23c26ab	comment	Food Slap: An enraged Gloria Trillo throws a steak at Tony's head. Christopher throws a sandwich at Vito and insults his weight. A literal example happens when Christopher slaps an ice cream out of Patsy's hand. Artie and Tony's frustration with each other culminates in a childish food fight after Artie throws bacon at him. Junior breaks up with his talkative girlfriend with a dramatic Pie in the Face. A shout-out to The Public Enemy (1931). Carmela is about to throw a glass at Tony's face when he is making a confession. Subverted as soon as she hears the topic is the start of his therapy.
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The Sopranos / int_f26d5e66	type	Brainless Beauty
The Sopranos / int_f26d5e66	comment	Brainless Beauty: Lorraine Calluzo's "life partner" (aka boyfriend) Jason Evanina. Made obvious when Jason tries to weigh in about Phil in a meeting and Lorraine tells him "Jason, be quiet. Men are talking". Adriana is so dumb she believes a drug dealer when he says that the money from drug dealing goes towards poor children. Jackie Jr is a great example of this. Uncle Junior states that he once came close to drowning in three inches of water.
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The Sopranos / int_f2ffc218	type	High Turnover Rate
The Sopranos / int_f2ffc218	comment	High Turn Over Rate: The Aprile crew experiments an even higher mortality rate than the rest of the organization, with the other members believing the head position is jinxed.
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The Sopranos / int_f3ae169c	type	Knee-capping
The Sopranos / int_f3ae169c	comment	Knee-capping: Paulie threatens a sports teacher who inherits the garbage business with this. Later on, Paulie obliges. Furio does this to a massage parlor owner who owes Tony money in "Big Girls Don't Cry", beating him with a pipe and slapping the man's wife around for good measure.
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The Sopranos / int_f42f96fa	type	Would Hit a Girl
The Sopranos / int_f42f96fa	comment	Would Hit a Girl: Christopher and Tony. Subverted in the Season 4 finale, when Tony stops himself from hitting Carmela and punches the wall. Ralphie takes this to the extreme and not only punches a pregnant woman but beats her to death. Hot-headed Richie Aprile hits Janice. She hits him back. With a bullet to the chest.
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The Sopranos / int_f511ea9b	type	Product Placement
The Sopranos / int_f511ea9b	comment	Product Placement: If characters aren't drinking alcohol at the dinner table, they'll almost invariably have Coca-Cola or Diet Coke. Tony frequently fetches and drinks Tropicana orange juice from the fridge. He even argues with Carmela that he prefers the variety with "some pulp." In some scenes, a carton is simply sitting out on the kitchen counter. One must wonder whether Mercedes-Benz paid for the season three plot line where Tony has an affair with a Benz saleswoman. The cars are prominently featured and the company is brought up frequently as a high-end brand. In season 5, Tony buys Tony B a new cell phone. One of his contacts asks, "Is that the new Motorola?" Tony replies, "Yeah, it's supposed to be the best." When Tony calls Tony B, he makes a pretense of asking about how the phone is working. Tony says that the signal is great even though he's in his mother's basement. What a phone! Tony buys AJ a Nissan SUV and crows about how it's top of the line and has Nissan's "triple safety philosophy. Tony spends a whole scene fawning over Johnny Sack's new Maserati, with Sack supplying a variety of technical details about the car. The pilot plugs laserdisc. In one of the most shocking betryals of the series, the next episode pugs DVD.
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The Sopranos / int_f5e59782	type	A Real Man Is a Killer
The Sopranos / int_f5e59782	comment	A Real Man Is a Killer: Implied by a spiteful Tony when he assigns Bobby a mission to pop his cherry.
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The Sopranos / int_f6214be1	type	Hollywood Psych
The Sopranos / int_f6214be1	comment	Hollywood Psych: Dr. Melfi acts as both a psychiatrist (a medical doctor that prescribes the medication) and a psychologist (a counselor or therapist who engages in talk therapy). In reality, those are two separate professions, a psychiatrist generally only sees you for about 15-20 minutes once a month to adjust medication levels while a psychologist is the one who will see you for an hour a week to talk through issues (but cannot prescribe medication).
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The Sopranos / int_f6c3d469	type	Fanservice Extra
The Sopranos / int_f6c3d469	comment	Fanservice Extra: Any stripper we see on stage at the Bada Bing qualifies, unless, of course, one of them becomes part of the episode's plot.
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The Sopranos / int_f7f8f963	type	Dumbass Teenage Son
The Sopranos / int_f7f8f963	comment	Dumbass Teenage Son: Anthony Junior (AJ) is a lazy and spoiled kid without any real drive or ambitions in life. He frequently performed poorly in school, until eventually dropping out of college.
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The Sopranos / int_f818b637	type	Dude, Where's My Respect?
The Sopranos / int_f818b637	comment	Dude, Where's My Respect?: A major issue for Christopher. He spends the entire show carving a status for himself, yet after deep personal sacrifices and the rank of Captain, he gets and feels disrespected. Near the end of the show, after a long struggle, he seems redeemed and happy; he is a captain, has a new and stable family, and his long-awaited movie project is a reality. Then comes an ugly feud with Paulie, some disrespectful jokes, and a general lack of empathy with Tony, which, when combined, make him snap and relapse into his drug habits, with fatal consequences. Bobby struggles to be taken seriously by his fellow mobsters. In season one he's a glorified gofer for Junior Soprano. He complains a lot about it, and eventually rises to become Tony's de facto third in command.
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The Sopranos / int_f8600b	type	Cool Big Sis
The Sopranos / int_f8600b	comment	Cool Big Sis: Carmela is angry with Meadow for covering up for little brother Anthony getting a downtown hotel room and getting drunk with his friends; Tony responds, based on his own childhood, that that's what big sisters should do.
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The Sopranos / int_f8ffd45	type	Pictorial Letter Substitution
The Sopranos / int_f8ffd45	comment	Pictorial Letter Substitution: A Beretta pistol pointed downwards serves as the "r" in the show's logo.
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The Sopranos / int_f933e594	type	How the Mighty Have Fallen
The Sopranos / int_f933e594	comment	How the Mighty Have Fallen: Silvio, by the end of the show. Throughout the series, he swaggers around his strip club, always totally in control of "his girls." At the pork store, he always knows what to say as Tony's consigliere. As an executioner, he is able to take out victims like Adriana La Cerva and Burt Gervasi with ease. By the finale, after nearly getting shot to death in the previous episode, Silvio is in the hospital, comatose and breathing through a respirator. (Symbolized by his hair, of all things: his pompadour is gone, for the first and only time in the entire series.)
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The Sopranos / int_f9671119	type	Death Equals Redemption
The Sopranos / int_f9671119	comment	Death Equals Redemption: After his son is shot in the chest with an arrow, Ralphie starts to regret the bad things he's done; soon after, he is killed by Tony during a fight over Ralphie's "possible" involvement with killing Pie-O-My. Tony even had a dream about him that showed a caterpillar one moment and a butterfly the next, all while perched on his bald head.
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The Sopranos / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
The Sopranos / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Silvio's Al Pacino impression.
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The Sopranos / int_fabef10f	comment	Don't Explain the Joke: Johnny Sack describes the joke Ralphie made about his wife. "He said she was having a 90-pound mole removed from her ass. The implication was that her ass is so big she could have a mole that size removed from it." Paulie has a habit of repeating the setup and punchline to his jokes.
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The Sopranos / int_fb03c2ca	comment	Relationship Reveal: Christopher has a new girlfriend, Kaisha; he tells his boss Tony that he's never brought her around because he doesn't want to deal with the racism of the other Mafiosi. A couple of scenes later, we realize he was lying; his girlfriend is actually Julianna, the hot realtor that Tony has been unsuccessfully trying to hook up with.
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The Sopranos / int_fb5ab090	comment	Loan Shark: Used quite a lot. It's all but stated that this is one of their main sources of income. David Scatino is a local sporting goods store owner who gets in over his head in poker debts to Tony. Tony then "busts out" Scatino's store, buying random crap and exhausting its assets and lines of credit until it is forced into Chapter 7 bankruptcy (liquidation). (Scatino says in-universe it's going to be Chapter 11. While he may have intended to file for Chapter 11—reorganization of debts, with creditors to be repaid from future profits—we very clearly see the liquidators roll into the store, take everything, and put up a "for lease" sign, so we can be reasonably sure that even if he filed an 11, it was converted to a 7). This culminates when Tony, in a genius move, gives Meadow an SUV that he took as collateral from Scatino, her boyfriend's father. This situation actually presents a very peculiar circumstance for a bankruptcy attorney: after the "bust-out", Scatino's debts must have been staggering, but in theory at least, all the crap Scatino's business "gave" for the mobsters to sell (or take for themselves) were a fraudulent transfer or an unfair preference, so David and/or the trustee would be well within their rights to sue Tony to make him give the money back, and Scatino would win given the amount of evidence in his favor (then again, who in their right mind sues a mobster?). The FBI could've also used this as a means to flip David. Christopher loaning to, beating, and ultimately murdering his Narcotics Anonymous sponsor. One of the thugs exploits Vito by borrowing money from him, then turning him in to the rival New York family that wanted him dead. Even Angie Bonpensiero gets in on the game, "putting money out on the street" after she gets ahold of Big Pussy's old body shop. (She doesn't do any beating herself, but it's obvious she controls guys who do).
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The Sopranos / int_fbd285b7	comment	Comically Missing the Point: Christopher is the major offender, seconded by Paulie. Tony debriefs Paulie and Chris over the phone about a guy they have to deal with: Silvio and Chris get Tony exasperated when he argues about his strong, silent type role model: Paulie during a dinner, trying to appear cultivated: Christopher, discussing Johnny Sack's daughter's name: Subverted by Christopher when he punctures through a Young Earth Creationist theory.
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The Sopranos / int_fc39769d	comment	Gunboat Diplomacy: A real estate agent refuses to do business with Tony, so he has some of his men park a boat next to the agent's beach house and play loud music.
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The Sopranos / int_fc451ba4	comment	Follow the Leader: An in-universe example. Jackie Jr. learns that Tony and co. had their major breakthrough in the criminal world when they robbed Feech la Manna's poker game, so Jackie decides to follow the example. It ends badly, Furio is injured, while the card dealer is killed, and Jackie Jr. gets whacked for it.
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The Sopranos / int_fc4f5f19	comment	Go-Karting with Bowser: Once the FBI agent tasked with Tony's crew is reassigned to anti-terrorism, he starts frequenting Satriale's, Tony's hangout, because the sandwiches are so good.
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The Sopranos / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Several, but the one with the longest payoff between setup and punchline involves Phil Leotardo. When he is first introduced, one of the first things you hear anyone say about him is that he is "a pimple." His last scene has him shot multiple times, falling to the ground in such a way that an SUV left unattended rolls over his head, crushing it, followed almost immediately by an FBI agent informing Agent Harris that "Phil Leotardo got popped."
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The Sopranos / int_fe1ccea	type	Evil Parents Want Good Kids
The Sopranos / int_fe1ccea	comment	Tony and Carmela work to help their kids become as successful and try and keep them away from the criminal side of their family whenever possible. Ultimately, they failed with Meadow, who gradually becomes more accepting of Tony's status as a mobster, repeatedly defending his lifestyle, dropping out of medical school to become a white-collar crime lawyer, and marrying the son of one of Tony's soldiers, much to Carmela's dismay. By comparison, A.J. is slightly better off; although he does not become remotely successful, struggles with depression, flounders aimlessly for years, and even tries to kill himself once, he still has a small hope of escaping his family's legacy.
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The Sopranos / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: The mobsters all do horrible things at various points but still find time to be complete dicks too. Notable examples include: Tony forces the kind, gentle Bobby to commit murder, his first, as payback for Bobby offending his pride by beating him in a fight. This was after Tony deliberately and repeatedly antagonized Bobby's wife Janice with crude insults, even after Bobby asked Tony to stop. Paulie is especially petty. For instance, when Chris is forced to pick up the tab, he pointedly drives up the bill any way he can. Ralphie Ciferetto is passed over for the promotion to capo in favor of Gigi. Ralphie immediately starts antagonizing Gigi every single opportunity he gets. "Fat Dom" Gamiello takes rather obnoxious glee at gloating over Vito Spatafore's death to Silvio and Carlo. Bad move. Christopher seems to have a genuine friend in his AA sponsor, a man who he met while in rehab for his drug use. Chris then gets the guy to play in Tony's card game, covers his losses, then ensnares him in the same debtor cycle gangsters have been subjecting people to for centuries. He even beats the hell out of the guy for not paying up. When the guy understandably relapses, Chris looks at him with disgust and eventually takes possession of his car to cover part of the loan.
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The Sopranos / int_fe938414	comment	Sympathy for the Hero: Tony eventually comes to feel this for Officer Leon Wilmore after seeing the damage he's done to Wilmore's life.
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The Sopranos / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Literally. One of Tony's few virtues is a love of animals. It was used against him via Melfi's fellow shrink friends, who point out that Tony's empathy for animals is also a sign of being a cold-blooded monster since animals often mean more to such people than humans.
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The Sopranos / int_ff89e65b	comment	Not in the Face!: Pussy resorts to this before being killed.
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The Sopranos / int_ff9e9dde	type	Once a Season
The Sopranos / int_ff9e9dde	comment	Once a Season: At some point in the season, Tony will walk to the front of his house in his bathrobe to pick up the newspaper, usually in the first episode. One episode per season to showcase Tony's dream sequences. In every season, even seasons where his storyline is not particularly prominent, everything will stop so we can focus on Christopher. Other characters receive episodes featuring them prominently but most of these episodes focus almost solely on Christopher's development or he is at least most central to the storyline: Season 1: "The Legend of Tennessee Moltisanti" Season 2:" D-Girl" and to a certain extent "Full Leather Jacket" Season 3: Fortunate Son Season 4: This one's debatable but the season premiere and "The Strong Silent Type" are the prime candidates. Season 5: "Long Term Parking" Season 6 part 1: "The Ride" Season 6 part 2: "Walk Like a Man"
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The Sopranos / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The writers carefully researched the ways in which mobsters controlled and laundered their money in order to make Tony Soprano as realistic as possible, and they employed New York Assistant District Attorney Dan Castleman to advise them on this issue. When Castleman was asked how much they had decided Tony would really be worth, he stated that it was roughly $5-6 million, an amount that fluctuated, of course, because of Tony's substantial gambling problem.
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The Sopranos	hasFeature	Goths Have It Hard / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Grin of Rage / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Had the Silly Thing in Reverse / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Hands-On Approach / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	He Who Must Not Be Seen / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Helicopter Blender / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Henpecked Husband / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Her Code Name Was "Mary Sue" / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Heritage Disconnect / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Heteronormative Crusader / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Hidden Weapons / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	High-Class Gloves / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	High Turnover Rate / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Homophobic Hate Crime / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Honorary Uncle / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Hospital Hottie / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Hot for Preacher / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Hot Guy, Ugly Wife / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Humans Are Flawed / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	I Gave My Word / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	I Just Want to Be Loved / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	I Want Grandkids / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Idealized Sex / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Idiosyncratic Cover Art / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Ignored Epiphany / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Impairment Shot / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	In Love with the Gangster's Girl / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	In the Blood / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Inherently Funny Words / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Initiation Ceremony / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Injun Country / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Inn Between the Worlds / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Interrupted by the End / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Ironic Nursery Tune / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Is That a Threat? / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	It Can't Be Helped / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	It Tastes Like Feet / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	It's All Junk / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	It's Cuban / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	It's the Same, Now It Sucks! / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Jammed Seatbelts / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Joggers Find Death / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Joisey / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Jury and Witness Tampering / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Just Got Out of Jail / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	"Just Joking" Justification / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Just Keep Driving / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Karmic Nod / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Karmic Overkill / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Kavorka Man / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Kick Them While They Are Down / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Kids Driving Cars / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Kissing Cousins / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Known by the Postal Address / int_f6eed39
KolchakTheNightStalker	seeAlso	The Sopranos
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Kosher Nostra / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Last Disrespects / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Laughably Evil / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Lawful Evil / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Lazy Bum / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Life-Saving Encouragement / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Like Parent, Like Spouse / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Little "No" / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Loan Shark / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Local Hangout / int_f6eed39
LorraineBracco	seeAlso	The Sopranos
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Losing a Shoe in the Struggle / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Loud of War / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Love Martyr / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Lower-Deck Episode / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Mafia Princess / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Manly Gay / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Market-Based Title / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Matricide / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Meaningful Funeral / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Meaningless Meaningful Words / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Meme Acknowledgment / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Men Are the Expendable Gender / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Men Don't Cry / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Military School / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Mixed Ancestry is Attractive / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Mixed Metaphor / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Mob-Boss Suit Fitting / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Mob Debt / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Mob War / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Moe Greene Special / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Mother Russia Makes You Strong / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Multiple Demographic Appeal / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Music Video Syndrome / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Must Have Nicotine / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	My Girl Is Not a Slut / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Naked in Mink / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Native American Casino / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Naughty Nurse Outfit / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Near-Death Experience / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Neighbourhood-Friendly Gangsters / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Nepotism / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Nerd Glasses / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Neutral Evil / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Never Lend to a Friend / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Never Speak Ill of the Dead / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Never Win the Lottery / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Nightmare Fuel Station Attendant / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	No Bisexuals / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	No Dead Body Poops / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	No Historical Figures Were Harmed / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Nominal Hero / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Nostalgia Ain't Like It Used to Be / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Nostalgia Filter / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Not in the Face! / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Not-So-Phony Psychic / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Not That Kind of Doctor / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Nouveau Riche / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Obfuscating Insanity / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Oblivious to Hints / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Offing the Mouth / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Offscreen Inertia / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Once a Season / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	One-Hit Wonder / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Only Cares About Inheritance / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Open Heart Dentistry / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Opinion-Changing Dream / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Pac-Man Fever / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Parking Garage / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Parting-Words Regret / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Percussive Maintenance / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Perilous Marriage Proposal / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Permissive Parents / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Perverted Sniffing / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Pictorial Letter Substitution / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Popularity Polynomial / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Porn Stash / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Post-9/11 Terrorism Movie / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Pretender Diss / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Prison / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Professional Butt-Kisser / int_f6eed39
Profit	seeAlso	The Sopranos
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Promoted to Scapegoat / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Protection Racket / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Punch a Wall / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Put on a Prison Bus / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Rail Enthusiast / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Rambling Old Man Monologue / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Rambunctious Italian / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Rasputinian Death / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Rated M for Manly / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Real Song Theme Tune / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Reality Has No Soundtrack / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Red Herring Mole / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Relationship Reveal / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Released to Elsewhere / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Resignations Not Accepted / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Retired Monster / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Retirony / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Revealing Hug / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Revealing Injury / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Ridiculous Counter-Request / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	"Rise and Fall" Gangster Arc / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Road Apples / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Robbing the Mob Bank / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Rogue Juror / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Rouge Angles of Satin / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Ruthless Foreign Gangsters / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Sad Clown / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Scatterbrained Senior / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Seinfeldian Conversation / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Self-Censored Release / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Separated-at-Birth Casting / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Sequel in Another Medium / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Sexily Modest / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Sexposition / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Sexy Priest / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Short Teens, Tall Adults / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Shot in the Ass / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Shovel Strike / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Sibling Rivalry / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Silent Credits / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Situational Sexuality / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Sleeping with the Boss's Wife / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Sleepy Depressive / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Slowly Slipping Into Evil / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	So Unfunny, It's Funny / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Spaghetti and Gondolas / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Speak Ill of the Dead / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Speech-Centric Work / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Spousal Privilege / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Spy Cam / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Spy Speak / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Staging an Intervention / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Steel Ear Drums / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Stolen Good, Returned Better / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Stop Being Stereotypical / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Straight Gay / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Straw Nihilist / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Stress Vomit / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Stringing the Hopeless Suitor Along / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Succession Crisis / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Suicide by Cop / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Sunday Evening Drama Series / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Supreme Chef / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Surprisingly Sudden Death / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Suspicious Spending / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Tactful Translation / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Take a Number / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Tastes Like Disdain / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Teacher/Student Romance / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Team Switzerland / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Teens Are Short / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Teeny Weenie / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Thanksgiving Episode / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	That's What She Said / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Beard / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Can Kicked Him / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Cast Showoff / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Consigliere / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Don / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Gambling Addict / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Help Helping Themselves / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Informant / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Internet Is for Porn / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Joy of X / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Mistress / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Parent-Produced Project / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Patriarch / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Public Domain Channel / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Queenpin / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Scrooge / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Un-Reveal / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Villain Knows Where You Live / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Thematic Theme Tune / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Themed Stock Board Game / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Therapist in Therapy / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Therapy Backfire / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Therapy Is for the Weak / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	These Gloves Are Made for Killin' / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	This Is Reality / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Token Good Cop / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Totally Not a Criminal Front / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Toyota Tripwire / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Tragic Hero / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Transplant / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Trapped by Gambling Debts / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Trophy Violence / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Trouble Entendre / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Troubled Sympathetic Bigot / int_f6eed39
TV's Greatest Surprises	seeAlso	The Sopranos
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Two-Person Pool Party / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Twofer Token Minority / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Ugly Guy, Hot Wife / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Undignified Death / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Unions Suck / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Unscrewed Salt Shaker / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Unwanted Gift Plot / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Vengeance Denied / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Very Loosely Based on a True Story / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Villain of Another Story / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Villainous Friendship / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Visions of Another Self / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Visual Innuendo / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Vomit Indiscretion Shot / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Vorpal Pillow / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Wealthy Yacht Owner / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	What Does She See in Him? / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	When All You Have Is a Hammerâ€¦ / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Where da White Women At? / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Where Everybody Knows Your Flame / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	White-Collar Crime / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	White Sheep / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Widow Mistreatment / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	With Due Respect / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Witness Protection / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Word of Saint Paul / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	World of Jerkass / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Worst Wedding Ever / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Worthless Foreign Degree / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Write Who You Know / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	You Always Hear the Bullet / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	You Bastard! / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	You Know What They Say / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	You Watch Too Much X / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Yo-Yo Plot Point / int_f6eed39
Boardwalk Empire	seeAlso	The Sopranos
Mad Men	seeAlso	The Sopranos
Twin Peaks	seeAlso	The Sopranos
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Fake American / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	Not Good with People / int_f6eed39
The Sopranos	hasFeature	The Chains of Commanding / int_f6eed39
thesopranos	sameAs	The Sopranos

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