Best Sopranos episode

the serial nature and traditional pacing of the show would seem to render a feature film pointless, I gotta admit

i don't think they are (xpost)

are they really still talking about a sopranos film? it seems wholly unnecessary, unless it was some kind of of ultra-pared down, narrowly focused little story the way Pine Barrens was (mostly).

I dunno I just saw some blurb about it on yahoo - wouldn't surprise me that HBO would want to push their other big franchise following the Sex and the City movie's success

by season

1 - boca
2 - the knight in white satin armor
3 - pine barrens (a tip of the hat to 'another toothpick')
4 - whoever did this
5 - long term parking (a tip of the hat to 'marco polo')
6.1 - cold stones
6.2 - the second coming (a.j.'s botched suicide is one of the best scenes in the history of the show imo)

ralph is one of my favorite characters ever - the episodes where he was most prominently involved is maybe my favorite stretch of the show

1 - college
2 - house arrest
3 - pine barrens
4 - the weight
5 - cold cuts...or long term parking...or in camelot
6.1 - the ride
6.2 - this is really impossible. soprano home movies, remember when, or any of the last 4 episodes. kennedy and heidi!

i think The Weight might be my favourite overall

a&e plays sopranos at 1 central -- love coming home and kicking it w/ it on in the background

everyone looks soo young

man i fucking love silvio

ralph is one of my favorite characters ever - the episodes where he was most prominently involved is maybe my favorite stretch of the show

the ep where he tells the story about tony and jackie sr knocking off the poker game when they were kids, leading to jackie jr and his stoner buddies trying to rob moltisanti's game is one of my alltime faves. such a manipulative dude. plus some good pasta cooking tips.

I totally use Ralph's sauce tip every time I cook pasta!

Ralph is too much of a 1990s extreme/Se7en/Tarantino/sadist/nihilist element of the show for me. Too easy of a nemisis, compared to Blundetto or Vincent Whathisname. Loved Ralph's clothes, though.

Frank Vincent, I mean.

me too on the ralphie "breaking the seal" pasta tip

naw ralphie isnt a cartoony bad guy, he's way more complicated and weird than that

it made total sense that he was a submissive in bed

richie aprile is my favorite nemesis character

tone talking to janice about burying richie on a hill near some birds and trees is memorably great

http://cdn.cloudfiles.mosso.com/c54102/x2_a23d0f

i think people voted for pine barrens because it's the only one that they could remember what it was about.

i think it's the only one with a name they remembered.

Had some scenery.

guys Ralphie does yoga

"manson lamps"

er RICHIE does yoga

was home sick the other day, idly caught some old episodes. all the malapropisms still crack me up... "hyperbolic chamber", "revenge is like serving cold cuts"

Quasimodo predicted all of this

We're in a fucking stagmire

the sacred and the propane

Why are you ostrafrying me

richie aprile is my favorite nemesis character

― ('_') (omar little), Sunday, January 31, 2010 12:32 PM Bookmark

I think that's Richie in Omar's dn!

I don't ever, ever remember the names of episodes, only seasons.

mayham!

hair apparent

Worst: absurdly rushes ep where Carmela and English teacher go from cuddle to sweatyfucks to breakup, buscemi from con down on his luck to American dream to Scarface, all in an hour.

First objectively terrible hour.

Cold cuts so fuckin good

Lauren Bacall. "Big fan. The haves and the have nots"

I think I missed the whole season with buscemi, still love this show better than nearly everything that came in its wake

Little Carmine never failed to deliver the goods. That dream he had about the "mellifluous box" still cracks me up.

I love re-watching old Scorsese movies to play Spot The Sopranos. Saw "Mean Streets" the other night, was cool to see the young Richie Aprile and also the guy who was the doc's ex as a heavy.

you can do the same w late 80s/early 90s Woody Allen movies

For me it is like The Larry Sanders Show. Keep re-watching it and the magic is still there.

like half the sopranos crew appears in goodfellas iirc,

looking it up, according to wikipedia there are 27 actors who are in both

a bunch of those are extra/non-speaking roles

Janice, Richie, Phil Leotardo, + some others all have parts in Allen films iirc

oh, Hesh is in Manhattan Murder Mystery

hmm scratch Phil Leotardo/Frank Vincent

oh lol I made a thread
Sopranos actors in other things

I keep lol'ing @

"She couldn't even handle a "Nancy Drew." It was too mysterious!"

I probably don't have a totally comprehensive rewatch of this show in me but I think about Pine Barrens a lot

Still working my through the rewatch--just finished "The Two Tonys," the S5 opener (0 votes above). Thought it was easily one of the greatest episodes. So much happening--the old-timers getting out of jail, the bear, Tony pursuing Dr. Melfi, Chris and Paulie fighting over tabs--and they move back and forth seamlessly. In the first scene, when you see the news report on the old guys getting out--and see, in quick succession, Steve Buscemi, Frank Vincent, and Robert Loggia--you know things are going to get really good. Also really liked Emmylous Harris's "Heaven Only Knows" at the beginning and end.

Great moments at the end of "Where's Johnny?": "I mean, don't you love me?"

(singular)

Steve Schirripa and Michael Imperioli pick their highlights:

Ten of the best Sopranos episodes, chosen by its stars

My first day on the set Vinnie came up to me and said: “You’re going to replace me. How many fat fucks could they have on one show!”

Imperioli wrote some great episodes, is my takeaway from that article