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So... what\'s the anvil?


* {{Anvilicious}}: In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: Paulie.
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* Jesus Rossi counts as one. He brutally rapes Dr. Melfi and shows no remorse over his crimes.

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* ** Jesus Rossi counts as one. He brutally rapes Dr. Melfi and shows no remorse over his crimes.



** The two sequences in the season three premiere where the ''Peter Gunn'' theme and "Every Breath You Tkae" are played over each other. The two songs have the exact same beat and mesh perfectly.

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** The two sequences in the season three premiere where the ''Peter Gunn'' theme and "Every Breath You Tkae" Take" are played over each other. The two songs have the exact same beat and mesh perfectly.
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* Jesus Rossi counts as one. He brutally rapes Dr. Melfi and shows no remorse over his crimes.
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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWUW2Vcb_-k Woke Up This Morning]]" By Alabama 3.

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* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWUW2Vcb_-k Woke Up This Morning]]" By by Alabama 3.3, a song whose tone and lyrics are so perfectly suited to the show that you'll be astonished it wasn't composed for it.

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* Wallbanger: Carmella repeatedly asserts that the main reason she stays with Tony is because the Catholic Church frowns on divorce. It never seems to occur to her that God might frown a bit more heavily on aiding and abetting a CompleteMonster.
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* Wallbanger: Carmella repeatedly asserts that the main reason she stays with Tony is because the Catholic Church frowns on divorce. It never seems to occur to her that God might frown a bit more heavily on aiding and abetting a CompleteMonster.

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Jesus dude, SPOILERS. Thanks for ruining the last few episodes for me.


*** To a far lesser extent, Paulie Walnuts also demonstrates a capacity to empathize with those around him. Upon discovering that Nucci is not his mother, he first reacts by disowning her. However, over time, he gradually finds it within his heart to forgive her and make amends with her before she dies. This is clearly demonstrated by his visible grief over her death during the course of her funeral. Moreover, he is also seen grieving (albeit restrainedly) over the death of Christopher Moltisanti and even expressing regret over his cruelty towards him during the course of their time together.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWUW2Vcb_-k Woke up this morning, got yourself a gun!]]" By Alabama 3.

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*** To a far lesser extent, Paulie Walnuts also demonstrates a capacity to empathize with those around him. Upon discovering that Nucci is not his mother, he first reacts by disowning her. However, over time, he gradually finds it within his heart to forgive her and make amends with her [[spoiler: before she dies. This is clearly demonstrated by his visible grief over her death during the course of her funeral. ]] Moreover, he is also seen grieving (albeit restrainedly) over the death of [[spoiler: Christopher Moltisanti Moltisanti]] and even expressing regret over his cruelty towards him during the course of their time together.
* CrowningMusicOfAwesome: "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWUW2Vcb_-k Woke up this morning, got yourself a gun!]]" Up This Morning]]" By Alabama 3.


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* PsychopathicManchild: Paulie Walnuts, though many of the mobsters display some shades of this.
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* CharacterDerailment: Meadow, who at the start of season four became a literal pod person as opposed to someone who was truly at odds with her family's corrupt true nature.
** YourMileageMayVary - Some see it as CharacterDevelopment in that she started to embrace some of the benefits of being a MafiaPrincess and set aside her disgust, as Carmela had done.
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* KickTheDog: The murder of [[Bobby and the grave wounding of Silvio]] certainly qualify for Phil.

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* KickTheDog: The murder of [[Bobby [[spoiler: Bobby and the grave wounding of Silvio]] certainly qualify for Phil.
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* KickTheDog: The murder of [[Bobby and the grave wounding of Silvio]] certainly qualify for Phil.

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** The finale split people into camps of "lifers" and "deadheads" for months after with people on one side occasionally claiming that if you didn't agree with their take you weren't a real fan and simply didn't get the show.



* FanDisservice: Tony in his robe and underwear. Especially his sex scenes.
* GainaxEnding: A subtler example than most, but ''damn''.



* FanDisservice: Tony in his robe and underwear. Especially his sex scenes.


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* SeasonalRot: Varies depending on who you talk to. Seasons 1,2 and 5 are whats generally agreed upon as being great. Season 6 Part 1 and Season 4 generally receive the highest complaint value though season 4 has its fans. YourMilageMayVary on Season 6 Part 2 and Season 3.
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* TheWesley: Vito in season 6. Alot of fans saw his arc as dragged out filler that could have been resolved sooner to make season 6 shorter and aired as one season instead of in two parts.

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* TheWesley: Vito in season 6. Alot of fans saw Partly because his big arc as dragged out was largely filler that could have been resolved sooner designed to make pad out the first half of season 6 shorter six, due to Chase and aired as HBO wanting to drag out the series for one season instead final batch of in two parts.episodes with Chase himself having not even started writing said final batch of episodes yet.
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* TheWesley: Vito in season 6. Alot of fans saw his arc as dragged out filler that could have been resolved sooner to make season 6 shorter and aired as one season instead of in two parts.
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* {Anvilicious}: In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.

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* {Anvilicious}: {{Anvilicious}}: In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.
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In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.

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* {Anvilicious}: In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.
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* [[Anvilicious]]: In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.

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* [[Anvilicious]]: In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.
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* ''Anvilicious'': In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.

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* ''Anvilicious'': [[Anvilicious]]: In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.
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* Anvilicious: In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.

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* Anvilicious: ''Anvilicious'': In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.
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* ((Anvilicious)): In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.

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* ((Anvilicious)): Anvilicious: In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.

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* Anvilicious: In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.

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\n* Anvilicious: ((Anvilicious)): In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.
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* Anvilicious: In a late episode, two New York mafiosos leave their Little Italy restaurant and start walking and talking about their business. Two blocks later, they stop and realize that they have walked right into Chinatown.
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* TheWoobie: [[spoiler: Adriana. Almost a ButtMonkey but you'd have to be a cold bastard not to feel some sympathy for her...or a member of the mob.]]
** For that matter [[spoiler: Christopher can sometimes fall here when he isn't a complete psycho. For example, when he was being bullied by the two Tonies.]]
** Carmela. [[spoiler: Most of the time (due to Tony’s philandering, among other reasons), but particularly in Season 5 where she’s separated from Tony and constantly blamed, berated and generally pushed to breaking point by an adolescent and abusive A.J.]]
** Bobby Baccala. Nobody else compares. [[spoiler: Father killed off one season, his wife the next]]
*** [[spoiler: And then he ''married Janice.'' Poor bastard.]]
**** [[spoiler: And then Tony goads him in to punching Tony in the mouth. Then Tony forces Bobby (who is not AxCrazy like his comrades) to commit a murder as a punishment.]]
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** [[spoiler: Christopher ratting out Adriana, leading to her murder.]]

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** [[spoiler: Christopher ratting out Adriana, leading to her murder.]]]]
* SpecialEffectsFailure: One episode has Tony and co. cheering at what is obviously stock footage of a horse race.
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* MagnificentBastard: Although Tony tried, it was his mother Livia who could have defined it.
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* JerkassWoobie: Almost all the main cast qualify at one point or another, but Tony and especially Paulie exemplify this.
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* InternetBackdraft: The web was a scary place to be after the series finale.
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* HilariousInHindsight: One of the subplots of the final season was Tony losing a grip on his gambling addiction, culminating in a scene where he loses thousands of dollars on a NY Jets game. New York had the game in hand, until Buffalo Quarterback J.P. Losman fumbled the ball, picked it back up again, and ran it in for a touchdown to win the game. Flash forward to when that game was actually played in New Jersey: Buffalo has the game in hand, until J.P. Losman fumbles the ball to the ''Jets'', who then run it in to win the game.
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* GeniusBonus: Not so much "genius" as "location", for obvious reasons, Jersey people get a big kick out of this show.
** New Jersey-based sportswriter Peter King bragged in his column that he interviewed Michael Strahan in the same booth where the show endntBastard Li]][[IClaudius via]].

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