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** The worst case of this is Ralph Cifaretto, a depraved, AxCrazy mobster. We are supposed to feel sorry for him during his [[JerkassWoobie sympathetic moments]] [[spoiler: before his death]]. However, it's difficult to side with Ralph when you realize that this is the same man who [[spoiler: killed a pregnant woman with his bare hands]].
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** The worst case of this is Ralph Cifaretto, a depraved, AxCrazy mobster. We are supposed to feel sorry for him during his [[JerkassWoobie sympathetic moments]] moments]], such as the genuine love he has for his son, [[spoiler: before his death]]. However, it's difficult to side with Ralph when you realize that this is the same man who [[spoiler: killed a pregnant woman with his bare hands]].hands]] and has only been shown as a selfish, sociopathic, and slimy person up until his last appearance, so this attempt to humanize him with the bare minimum empathy comes off "too little too late" to care about.
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*** The best example of this is when he cries to Tony about how he loved Adriana after she was killed, which would be tragic… [[MoralEventHorizon except he told Tony about her being a rat in the first place]]. It seems borderline out of character considering how little Christopher seemed to care about Adriana before this, even disregarding his physical and emotional abuse of her.
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*** The best example of this is when he cries to Tony about how he loved Adriana after she was killed, which would be tragic… [[MoralEventHorizon except he told Tony about her being a rat in the first place]]. It seems borderline out of character considering how little Christopher seemed to care about Adriana before this, even disregarding his physical and emotional abuse of her.her, and how little he thinks of her afterwards.
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* EvilIsSexy:
** Furio Giunta is a very striking man despite his often unfortunate wardrobe. [[EatingTheEyeCandy Carmela certainly notices]]. That said, AllGirlsWantBadBoys is in full effect in this show: power, money, and dangerous living are shown to work in the mobsters' favor.
** Annalisa Zucca. She's considered by fans to be the most attractive woman Tony ''hasn't'' slept with.
** Christopher, when he's not being a junkie or an abusive boyfriend to Adriana. He dressed sharp in suits and leather, has some great one liners, and oozes that bad boy charisma. Despite being considered average by Tony in terms of looks ([[UnreliableExpositor Tony may have deliberately been talking Chris down]], given that Tony himself is an ugly, overweight KavorkaMan and is often shown to be DrivenByEnvy, and he also made those comments after he ''tried to cuckold Christopher''), Christopher certainly compensates this with other traits.
** Furio Giunta is a very striking man despite his often unfortunate wardrobe. [[EatingTheEyeCandy Carmela certainly notices]]. That said, AllGirlsWantBadBoys is in full effect in this show: power, money, and dangerous living are shown to work in the mobsters' favor.
** Annalisa Zucca. She's considered by fans to be the most attractive woman Tony ''hasn't'' slept with.
** Christopher, when he's not being a junkie or an abusive boyfriend to Adriana. He dressed sharp in suits and leather, has some great one liners, and oozes that bad boy charisma. Despite being considered average by Tony in terms of looks ([[UnreliableExpositor Tony may have deliberately been talking Chris down]], given that Tony himself is an ugly, overweight KavorkaMan and is often shown to be DrivenByEnvy, and he also made those comments after he ''tried to cuckold Christopher''), Christopher certainly compensates this with other traits.
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** Jackie Aprile Jr., both in and out of universe. He manages to combine being a BrainlessBeauty with having an absurdly pathetic SmallNameBigEgo. He succeeds in neither the civilian world or the criminal one, is treated with disdain by all the real mafiosos, gets beaten up by Tony several times for being suck a fuck-up and dishonoring his father's wishes, and ultimately [[spoiler:gets whacked by a parade float and called a moron at his own funeral]].
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** Jackie Aprile Jr., both in and out of universe. He manages to combine being a BrainlessBeauty with having an absurdly pathetic SmallNameBigEgo. He succeeds in neither the civilian world or the criminal one, is treated with disdain by all the real mafiosos, gets beaten up by Tony several times for being suck such a fuck-up and dishonoring his father's wishes, and ultimately [[spoiler:gets whacked by a parade float and called a moron at his own funeral]].
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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: It's pretty hard to appreciate just how groundbreaking the show was at the time. A drama with such a nuanced storyline and dark subject matter, focusing on an AntiHero, was very novel for the time, but fairly standard for today's prestige television. Most notably, Creator/DavidChase had to fight tooth and nail for Tony to be allowed to kill the informer in the fifth episode, as HBO execs were sure no one would watch the show again if he did it.
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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: It's pretty hard to appreciate just how groundbreaking the show was at the time. A drama with such a nuanced storyline and dark subject matter, focusing on an AntiHero, was very novel for the time, but fairly standard for today's prestige television. Most notably, Creator/DavidChase had to fight tooth and nail for Tony to be allowed to kill murder the informer informant in the fifth episode, as HBO execs were sure no one would watch the show again if he did it.
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** The series is often looked upon as a redefining show that forever changed the landscape of TV and Cable TV forever and established the ways a show ''should'' be with themes of AnyoneCanDie and complex characters in a dark-like setting. But ask anybody about the show and chances are they'll just mention the infamous [[NoEnding ending]].
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** The series is often looked upon as a redefining show that forever changed the landscape of TV and Cable TV forever and established [[GrowingTheBeard established]] the ways a show ''should'' be with themes of AnyoneCanDie and complex characters in a dark-like setting. But ask anybody about the show and chances are they'll just mention the infamous [[NoEnding ending]].
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** Vito's several episode-long story arc after being outed as a homosexual. While it seems to be trying to humanize and sympathize him to the audience due to his difficult plight, it's hard to feel any sort of sadness for a character who was little more than a very minor FatComicRelief for most of the show, and just as cold-blooded, power-hungry, and psychotic as the other mobsters, previously killing Jackie Jr. in cold-blood and attempting to start a coup against Tony. Furthermore, his decision to abandon the chance of a no-strings-attached civilian life with a handsome boyfriend, simply because he found it was boring after ''one day'', to go back to New Jersey to beg Tony for his position back and try and convince him [[ImplausibleDeniability he's not actually homosexual]], apparently deluding himself into thinking that all his extremely homophobic associates would just believe him and forget about the whole thing, makes it hard to feel any sort of compassion for [[TooDumbToLive someone so utterly moronic]].
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** A recurring theme in Tony's therapy sessions is his adherence to "tough guy" masculinity, and how that causes more problems than it solves. Twenty years after the series, discussion of "toxic masculinity" is going strong.
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** A recurring theme topic in Tony's therapy sessions is his adherence to "tough guy" masculinity, and how that causes more problems than it solves. Twenty years after the series, discussion of "toxic masculinity" is going strong.
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** In Season 5, is [=LaManna=] genuine when he apologizes to Tony for his attitude and [[EndOfAnEra promises to get used to how things are now?]] Or, is he only placating Tony [[TheStarscream so that he can later take him out]]? Is Tony being ProperlyParanoid by having him sent back to prison, or TheParanoiac?
** In "[[Recap/TheSopranosS6E12Kaisha Kaisha]]", when Tony and Phil are on the cusp of burying the hatchet, their mediator, Carmine Jr., feels compelled to [[spoiler: bring up Phil's murdered brother at the most inopportune time, which puts a quick end to negotiations and cements Phil's antagonism.]] Fans are divided on whether this was a genuine bout of faux pas or stupidity on Carmine's part, or if he deliberately torpedoed the meeting with this "[[ObfuscatingStupidity accidental]]" remark for his own reasons.
** In "[[Recap/TheSopranosS6E12Kaisha Kaisha]]", when Tony and Phil are on the cusp of burying the hatchet, their mediator, Carmine Jr., feels compelled to [[spoiler: bring up Phil's murdered brother at the most inopportune time, which puts a quick end to negotiations and cements Phil's antagonism.]] Fans are divided on whether this was a genuine bout of faux pas or stupidity on Carmine's part, or if he deliberately torpedoed the meeting with this "[[ObfuscatingStupidity accidental]]" remark for his own reasons.
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** In Season 5, is Feech [=LaManna=] genuine when he apologizes to Tony for his attitude and [[EndOfAnEra promises to get used to how things are now?]] Or, is he only placating Tony [[TheStarscream so that he can later take him out]]? Is Tony being ProperlyParanoid by having him sent back to prison, or TheParanoiac?
** In "[[Recap/TheSopranosS6E12Kaisha Kaisha]]", when Tony and Phil are on the cusp of burying the hatchet, their mediator,Carmine Jr., Little Carmine, feels compelled to [[spoiler: bring up Phil's murdered brother at the most inopportune time, which puts a quick end to negotiations and cements Phil's antagonism.]] Fans are divided on whether this was a genuine bout of faux pas or stupidity on Carmine's part, or if he deliberately torpedoed the meeting with this "[[ObfuscatingStupidity accidental]]" remark for his own reasons.
** In "[[Recap/TheSopranosS6E12Kaisha Kaisha]]", when Tony and Phil are on the cusp of burying the hatchet, their mediator,
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** Is Albert Barese's VerbalTic genuine, and a sign of stupidity? Or, [[ObfuscatingStupidity is he doing it on purpose as a survival strategy?]] His repeating what others say makes a lot of sense if you consider that he is treating every mob-related conversation as an ''interogation''. Therefore, he is purposely giving as little information as possible by parroting others. When you remember how many characters are killed for saying too much at the wrong time, this makes even more sense.
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** Is Albert Barese's VerbalTic genuine, and a sign of stupidity? Or, [[ObfuscatingStupidity is he doing it on purpose as a survival strategy?]] His repeating what others say makes a lot of sense if you consider that he is treating every mob-related conversation as an ''interogation''.''interrogation''. Therefore, he is purposely giving as little information as possible by parroting others. When you remember how many characters are killed for saying too much at the wrong time, this makes even more sense.
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* BadassDecay: Happens to Furio in the fourth season; his screentime is focused more on his fledgling romance with Carmela and less on [[RuthlessForeignGangsters what he was known for]] in previous seasons.
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* BadassDecay: Happens to Furio Giunta in the fourth season; his screentime is focused more on his fledgling romance with Carmela and less on [[RuthlessForeignGangsters what he was known for]] in previous seasons.
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** The ''Madame Bovary'' parallel goes a step further if you also note that the ''other'' major literary work that Carmella and Wegner discuss is ''The Letters of Abelard and Heloise'', with Carmella clearly empathizing with Heloise's isolation and her doomed love affair. ''Madame Bovary'' also includes a major character named Heloise Dubuc, who was Charles Bovary's wife in his unhappy first marriage; their marriage never worked out, in large part, because Bovary was in love with the titular character long before he actually married her. Carmella likely relates to Dubuc as well, since she reads the book as she's just getting used to the idea that Tony never really loved her.
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** The ''Madame Bovary'' parallel goes a step further if you also note that the ''other'' major literary work that Carmella Carmela and Wegner discuss is ''The Letters of Abelard and Heloise'', with Carmella clearly empathizing with Heloise's isolation and her doomed love affair. ''Madame Bovary'' also includes a major character named Heloise Dubuc, who was Charles Bovary's wife in his unhappy first marriage; their marriage never worked out, in large part, because Bovary was in love with the titular character long before he actually married her. Carmella Carmela likely relates to Dubuc as well, since she reads the book as she's just getting used to the idea that Tony never really loved her.
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** Creator/JohnHeard is best known as the dad from ''Film/HomeAlone'' or the RomanticFalseLead from ''Film/{{Big}}''. However, his arc as DirtyCop Vin Makazian in Season 1 is heartbreaking and even earned him an Emmy nomination.
** Creator/DreaDeMatteo was initially seen as just a recurring MsFanservice in her role as Adriana, but as her character's arc progressed throughout the series, she turned out to be much more than that, culminating in her Emmy win.
** Creator/DreaDeMatteo was initially seen as just a recurring MsFanservice in her role as Adriana, but as her character's arc progressed throughout the series, she turned out to be much more than that, culminating in her Emmy win.
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** Creator/JohnHeard is best known as the dad from ''Film/HomeAlone'' or the RomanticFalseLead from ''Film/{{Big}}''. However, his arc as DirtyCop [[DirtyCop Vin Makazian Makazian]] in Season 1 is heartbreaking and even earned him an Emmy nomination.
** Creator/DreaDeMatteo was initially seen as just a recurring MsFanservice in her role asAdriana, Adriana la Cerva, but as her character's arc progressed throughout the series, she turned out to be much more than that, culminating in her Emmy win.
** Creator/DreaDeMatteo was initially seen as just a recurring MsFanservice in her role as
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[spoiler: Although he had Artie's original Vesuvio restaurant burned down, Tony had good reason. Uncle Junior had been planning to stage a hit at Vesuvio on "Little Pussy" Malanga (not to confuse with Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero) and wouldn't change it because Malanga was comfortable there and had the hit went down, all of the regular patrons would be permanently chased away. So Tony had the place firebombed to ensure a win-win for both parties (no-hit at Vesuvio, and Artie could rebuild it with the pay-out from his insurance policy). Also, Tony kinda saved Artie's reputation.]]
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* StrawmanHasAPoint: [[spoiler: Although he had Artie's original Vesuvio restaurant burned down, Tony had good reason. Uncle Junior had been planning to stage a hit at Vesuvio on "Little Pussy" Malanga (not to confuse be confused with Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero) and wouldn't change it because Malanga was comfortable there and had the hit went down, all of the regular patrons would be permanently chased away. So Tony had the place firebombed to ensure a win-win for both parties (no-hit at Vesuvio, and Artie could rebuild it with the pay-out from his insurance policy). Also, Tony kinda saved Artie's reputation.]]
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** Most of the TV sets in the series analog box [=TVs=], with flat screens still being treated novel and luxurious. An HD compatible television is treated a hefty bribe in an early season.
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** Most of the TV sets in the series are analog box [=TVs=], with flat screens still being treated novel and luxurious. An HD compatible television is treated as a hefty bribe in an early season.
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* {{Wangst}}: Most of Chris Moltisanti's screentime throughout Seasons 3 and 4 is spent getting drunk/high and going on long tangents of self-pity to Adriana. After he gets sober, most of his screentime is spent complaining to her and his AA compatriots about how nobody takes his sobriety seriously.
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* {{Wangst}}: Most of Chris Christopher Moltisanti's screentime throughout Seasons 3 and 4 is spent getting drunk/high and going on long tangents of self-pity to Adriana. After he gets sober, most of his screentime is spent complaining to her and his AA compatriots about how nobody takes his sobriety seriously.
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* OnceOriginalNowCommon: It's pretty hard to appreciate just how groundbreaking the show was at the time. A drama with such a nuanced storyline and dark subject matter, focusing on an AntiHero, was very novel for the time, but fairly standard for today's prestige television. Most notably, Creator/DavidChase had to fight tooth and nail for Tony to be allowed to kill the informer in the fifth episode, as HBO execs were sure no one would watch the show again if he did it.
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* SeinfeldIsUnfunny: It's pretty hard to appreciate just how groundbreaking the show was at the time. A drama with such a nuanced storyline and dark subject matter, focusing on an AntiHero, was very novel for the time, but fairly standard for today's prestige television. Most notably, Creator/DavidChase had to fight tooth and nail for Tony to be allowed to kill the informer in the fifth episode, as HBO execs were sure no one would watch the show again if he did it.
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** Jackie Aprile Jr., both in and out of universe. He manages to combine being a BrainlessBeauty with having an absurdly pathetic SmallNameBigEgo, succeeding in neither the civilian world or the criminal one, treated with disdain by all the real mafiosos, getting beaten up by Tony several times for being suck a fuck-up and dishonoring his father's wishes, and ultimately [[spoiler:getting whacked by a parade float and being called a moron at his own funeral]].
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** Jackie Aprile Jr., both in and out of universe. He manages to combine being a BrainlessBeauty with having an absurdly pathetic SmallNameBigEgo, succeeding SmallNameBigEgo. He succeeds in neither the civilian world or the criminal one, is treated with disdain by all the real mafiosos, getting gets beaten up by Tony several times for being suck a fuck-up and dishonoring his father's wishes, and ultimately [[spoiler:getting [[spoiler:gets whacked by a parade float and being called a moron at his own funeral]].
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** Jackie Aprile Jr., both in and out of universe. He manages to combine being a BrainlessBeauty with having an absurdly pathetic SmallNameBigEgo, succeeding in neither the civilian world or the criminal one, treated with disdain by all the real mafios, getting beaten up by Tony several times for being suck a fuck-up, and ultimately [[spoiler:getting whacked by a parade float and being called a moron at his own funeral]].
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** Jackie Aprile Jr., both in and out of universe. He manages to combine being a BrainlessBeauty with having an absurdly pathetic SmallNameBigEgo, succeeding in neither the civilian world or the criminal one, treated with disdain by all the real mafios, mafiosos, getting beaten up by Tony several times for being suck a fuck-up, fuck-up and dishonoring his father's wishes, and ultimately [[spoiler:getting whacked by a parade float and being called a moron at his own funeral]].
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* MemeticLoser: AJ is practically the designated butt monkey to the fanbase, with him often seen as ''the'' fuck up of the Sopranos who couldn't even [[spoiler:commit suicide]] properly.
** Jackie Aprile Jr., both in and out of universe.
** Jackie Aprile Jr., both in and out of universe.
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* MemeticLoser: MemeticLoser:
** AJ is practically the designated butt monkey to the fanbase, with him often seen as ''the'' fuck up of the Sopranos who couldn't even [[spoiler:commit suicide]] properly.
** Jackie Aprile Jr., both in and out of universe. He manages to combine being a BrainlessBeauty with having an absurdly pathetic SmallNameBigEgo, succeeding in neither the civilian world or the criminal one, treated with disdain by all the real mafios, getting beaten up by Tony several times for being suck a fuck-up, and ultimately [[spoiler:getting whacked by a parade float and being called a moron at his own funeral]].
** AJ is practically the designated butt monkey to the fanbase, with him often seen as ''the'' fuck up of the Sopranos who couldn't even [[spoiler:commit suicide]] properly.
** Jackie Aprile Jr., both in and out of universe. He manages to combine being a BrainlessBeauty with having an absurdly pathetic SmallNameBigEgo, succeeding in neither the civilian world or the criminal one, treated with disdain by all the real mafios, getting beaten up by Tony several times for being suck a fuck-up, and ultimately [[spoiler:getting whacked by a parade float and being called a moron at his own funeral]].
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** Tony brings up Rudy Giuliani, then-mayor of New York City, as an example of an Italian American who isn't a criminal. Two decades later, Giuliani would be indicted under RICO charges, the very same he used to jail real life Mafiosos.
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* ValuesDissonance: This occurs if the pinball game has "Adult Mode" turned off. Apparently, cursing and profanity is bad, but committing arson, burying bodies in the Meadowlands, and beating up civilians in shakedowns is okay.
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* ValuesDissonance: This occurs if the game is set with "Adult Mode" turned off. Apparently, cursing and profanity is bad, but committing arson, burying bodies in the Meadowlands, and beating up civilians in shakedowns is okay.
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* ValuesDissonance: This occurs if the game is set with "Adult Mode" turned off. Apparently, cursing and profanity is bad, but committing arson, burying bodies in the Meadowlands, and beating up civilians in shakedowns is okay.
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* ValuesDissonance: This occurs if the game is set with "Adult Mode" turned off. Apparently, cursing and profanity is bad, but committing arson, burying bodies in the Meadowlands, and beating up civilians in shakedowns is okay.
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* MemeticMutation:
** It didn't last very long, but there were dozens of copies and parodies of the final scene all over Website/YouTube immediately after the show ended. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5yN_R5I7dE The Pittsburgh Pirates parody]] was the most famous. Also in one of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shKJk3Rph0E Hilary Clinton's earliest campaign ads]] in the 2008 Presidential Election, when she used it to introduce her new campaign song.
** Phil Leotardo turned himself into a house. [[labelnote: Explanation]]Based on the scene in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS6E19TheSecondComing The Second Coming]]" when Phil refuses to meet with Tony and Little Carmine then yells at them from his attic as they're leaving. The framing of the scene makes it seem like the house itself is speaking in Phil's voice. [[/labelnote]]
** The neverending mystery on how long Phil Leotardo spent time in the can. [[labelnote: Explanation]] Throughout his appearances, Phil would often mention that he spent 20 years in prison as if it entitled him. Fans ran with this and ironically turned it into one of the show's greatest mysteries.[[/labelnote]]
** "He wanted to X, but he compromised. He did Y." [[labelnote: Explanation]]A variation of Phil Leotardo's description of how he spent his 20 years in the can.[[/labelnote]]
** Expect the word "gabagool", the working-class Neapolitan Italian-American way of saying "capocollo" that's common in the Northeastern United States, to come up whenever someone mentions the series online.
** "Soft drinks of choice." [[labelnote: Explanation]]One of the privileges Christopher gets as a made man is free meals and soft drinks at Roy [=DelGuercio's=] pizza parlor. Fans took this line and ran with it, referring to it as a privilege younger mobsters like Matt Bevilaqua and Jackie Jr. aspire for.[[/labelnote]]
** "X was my favorite character. I wish they did more with them." [[labelnote:Explanation]]A meme going around in [=YouTube=] that was initially used for one-shot characters that had an impact on a viewer. It was later ironically appropriated for anything in the show with little significance, from extras to even inanimate objects.[[/labelnote]]
** "It's anti-Italian discrimination." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Silvio Dante's response to Columbus Day being protested in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS4E3Christopher Christopher]]". A screenshot of the quote has become a popular tongue-in-cheek response to perceived slights against Italians or Italian culture.[[/labelnote]]
** "Those two black guys." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Stems from Vito's joking excuse for Eugene hitting Little Paulie in the face with a beer bottle. It's used to refer to any robbery or hit that was pulled off without anyone being caught, sometimes elevating the status of "those two black guys" to MemeticBadass status. Made even funnier because there are ''multiple'' pairs of black hitmen who this could apply to.[[/labelnote]]
** "He never had the makings of a varsity athlete"[[labelnote: Explanation]]During the Soprano dinner at Junior's apartment in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS5E3WheresJohnny Where's Johnny?]]", Junior keeps informing everyone that Tony could never be a professional football player, eventually enraging Tony to the point that he and AJ promptly leave. This phrase is frequently used as a playful tease for people who claimed to have been great athletes in college, but never "made it to the big leagues".[[/labelnote]]
** Tony Soprano Soyjak/Soyprano [[labelnote:Explanation]]A Soyjak variant traced from a moment when Tony yells "Carmela could you please shut the door?".[[/labelnote]]
** "Very allegorical" [[labelnote:Explanation]]One of little Carmine's {{Malaproper}}. Often spammed in response on any analysis of the show, especially if it isn't actually allegorical at all.[[/labelnote]]
** "Quasimodo predicted all of this" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Another {{Malaproper}}, this one from Bobby Baccalieri, mixing up Nostradamus and the Hunchback of Notre Dame.[[/labelnote]]
** Everybody loves "Up 'N Da Club". [[labelnote:Explanation]] A hip hop song that is played once when Furio comes to collect money from Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte. Any time music is played in a ''Sopranos'' YTP, it will be replaced by "Up 'N Da Club", a song that is beloved by every single ''Sopranos'' character.[[/labelnote]]
** Don Borko [[labelnote:Explanation]] [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgoeD3Eqrbizzsklrw2e0Mg Borko]] is a [=YouTube=] channel that (among other things) uploads Sopranos clips and compilations. This is very helpful for people who want to find a specific scene from an episode. So, he has reached MemeticBadass status in the community, with people changing quotes from the show to praise Borko. This reached new levels when HBO started posting Soprano clips, and their comment sections were flooded with people demanding that HBO kick up to Borko.[[/labelnote]]
** "90% of [X] [Y] right before they're about to [Z]" [[labelnote:Explanation]]An exploitable {{snowclone}} popularized by a promotional image of ''Sopranos'' with the caption "Fact: 90% of gamblers quit right before they're about to hit it big" over it, which started going viral as people began replacing "gamblers" with other groups.[[/labelnote]]
** It didn't last very long, but there were dozens of copies and parodies of the final scene all over Website/YouTube immediately after the show ended. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5yN_R5I7dE The Pittsburgh Pirates parody]] was the most famous. Also in one of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shKJk3Rph0E Hilary Clinton's earliest campaign ads]] in the 2008 Presidential Election, when she used it to introduce her new campaign song.
** Phil Leotardo turned himself into a house. [[labelnote: Explanation]]Based on the scene in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS6E19TheSecondComing The Second Coming]]" when Phil refuses to meet with Tony and Little Carmine then yells at them from his attic as they're leaving. The framing of the scene makes it seem like the house itself is speaking in Phil's voice. [[/labelnote]]
** The neverending mystery on how long Phil Leotardo spent time in the can. [[labelnote: Explanation]] Throughout his appearances, Phil would often mention that he spent 20 years in prison as if it entitled him. Fans ran with this and ironically turned it into one of the show's greatest mysteries.[[/labelnote]]
** "He wanted to X, but he compromised. He did Y." [[labelnote: Explanation]]A variation of Phil Leotardo's description of how he spent his 20 years in the can.[[/labelnote]]
** Expect the word "gabagool", the working-class Neapolitan Italian-American way of saying "capocollo" that's common in the Northeastern United States, to come up whenever someone mentions the series online.
** "Soft drinks of choice." [[labelnote: Explanation]]One of the privileges Christopher gets as a made man is free meals and soft drinks at Roy [=DelGuercio's=] pizza parlor. Fans took this line and ran with it, referring to it as a privilege younger mobsters like Matt Bevilaqua and Jackie Jr. aspire for.[[/labelnote]]
** "X was my favorite character. I wish they did more with them." [[labelnote:Explanation]]A meme going around in [=YouTube=] that was initially used for one-shot characters that had an impact on a viewer. It was later ironically appropriated for anything in the show with little significance, from extras to even inanimate objects.[[/labelnote]]
** "It's anti-Italian discrimination." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Silvio Dante's response to Columbus Day being protested in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS4E3Christopher Christopher]]". A screenshot of the quote has become a popular tongue-in-cheek response to perceived slights against Italians or Italian culture.[[/labelnote]]
** "Those two black guys." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Stems from Vito's joking excuse for Eugene hitting Little Paulie in the face with a beer bottle. It's used to refer to any robbery or hit that was pulled off without anyone being caught, sometimes elevating the status of "those two black guys" to MemeticBadass status. Made even funnier because there are ''multiple'' pairs of black hitmen who this could apply to.[[/labelnote]]
** "He never had the makings of a varsity athlete"[[labelnote: Explanation]]During the Soprano dinner at Junior's apartment in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS5E3WheresJohnny Where's Johnny?]]", Junior keeps informing everyone that Tony could never be a professional football player, eventually enraging Tony to the point that he and AJ promptly leave. This phrase is frequently used as a playful tease for people who claimed to have been great athletes in college, but never "made it to the big leagues".[[/labelnote]]
** Tony Soprano Soyjak/Soyprano [[labelnote:Explanation]]A Soyjak variant traced from a moment when Tony yells "Carmela could you please shut the door?".[[/labelnote]]
** "Very allegorical" [[labelnote:Explanation]]One of little Carmine's {{Malaproper}}. Often spammed in response on any analysis of the show, especially if it isn't actually allegorical at all.[[/labelnote]]
** "Quasimodo predicted all of this" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Another {{Malaproper}}, this one from Bobby Baccalieri, mixing up Nostradamus and the Hunchback of Notre Dame.[[/labelnote]]
** Everybody loves "Up 'N Da Club". [[labelnote:Explanation]] A hip hop song that is played once when Furio comes to collect money from Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte. Any time music is played in a ''Sopranos'' YTP, it will be replaced by "Up 'N Da Club", a song that is beloved by every single ''Sopranos'' character.[[/labelnote]]
** Don Borko [[labelnote:Explanation]] [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgoeD3Eqrbizzsklrw2e0Mg Borko]] is a [=YouTube=] channel that (among other things) uploads Sopranos clips and compilations. This is very helpful for people who want to find a specific scene from an episode. So, he has reached MemeticBadass status in the community, with people changing quotes from the show to praise Borko. This reached new levels when HBO started posting Soprano clips, and their comment sections were flooded with people demanding that HBO kick up to Borko.[[/labelnote]]
** "90% of [X] [Y] right before they're about to [Z]" [[labelnote:Explanation]]An exploitable {{snowclone}} popularized by a promotional image of ''Sopranos'' with the caption "Fact: 90% of gamblers quit right before they're about to hit it big" over it, which started going viral as people began replacing "gamblers" with other groups.[[/labelnote]]
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* MemeticMutation:
** It didn't last very long, but there were dozens of copies and parodies of the final scene all over Website/YouTube immediately after the show ended. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5yN_R5I7dE The Pittsburgh Pirates parody]] was the most famous. Also in one of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shKJk3Rph0E Hilary Clinton's earliest campaign ads]] in the 2008 Presidential Election, when she used it to introduce her new campaign song.
** Phil Leotardo turned himself into a house. [[labelnote: Explanation]]Based on the scene in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS6E19TheSecondComing The Second Coming]]" when Phil refuses to meet with Tony and Little Carmine then yells at them from his attic as they're leaving. The framing of the scene makes it seem like the house itself is speaking in Phil's voice. [[/labelnote]]
** The neverending mystery on how long Phil Leotardo spent time in the can. [[labelnote: Explanation]] Throughout his appearances, Phil would often mention that he spent 20 years in prison as if it entitled him. Fans ran with this and ironically turned it into one of the show's greatest mysteries.[[/labelnote]]
** "He wanted to X, but he compromised. He did Y." [[labelnote: Explanation]]A variation of Phil Leotardo's description of how he spent his 20 years in the can.[[/labelnote]]
** Expect the word "gabagool", the working-class Neapolitan Italian-American way of saying "capocollo" that's common in the Northeastern United States, to come up whenever someone mentions the series online.
** "Soft drinks of choice." [[labelnote: Explanation]]One of the privileges Christopher gets as a made man is free meals and soft drinks at Roy [=DelGuercio's=] pizza parlor. Fans took this line and ran with it, referring to it as a privilege younger mobsters like Matt Bevilaqua and Jackie Jr. aspire for.[[/labelnote]]
** "X was my favorite character. I wish they did more with them." [[labelnote:Explanation]]A meme going around in [=YouTube=] that was initially used for one-shot characters that had an impact on a viewer. It was later ironically appropriated for anything in the show with little significance, from extras to even inanimate objects.[[/labelnote]]
** "It's anti-Italian discrimination." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Silvio Dante's response to Columbus Day being protested in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS4E3Christopher Christopher]]". A screenshot of the quote has become a popular tongue-in-cheek response to perceived slights against Italians or Italian culture.[[/labelnote]]
** "Those two black guys." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Stems from Vito's joking excuse for Eugene hitting Little Paulie in the face with a beer bottle. It's used to refer to any robbery or hit that was pulled off without anyone being caught, sometimes elevating the status of "those two black guys" to MemeticBadass status. Made even funnier because there are ''multiple'' pairs of black hitmen who this could apply to.[[/labelnote]]
** "He never had the makings of a varsity athlete"[[labelnote: Explanation]]During the Soprano dinner at Junior's apartment in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS5E3WheresJohnny Where's Johnny?]]", Junior keeps informing everyone that Tony could never be a professional football player, eventually enraging Tony to the point that he and AJ promptly leave. This phrase is frequently used as a playful tease for people who claimed to have been great athletes in college, but never "made it to the big leagues".[[/labelnote]]
** Tony Soprano Soyjak/Soyprano [[labelnote:Explanation]]A Soyjak variant traced from a moment when Tony yells "Carmela could you please shut the door?".[[/labelnote]]
** "Very allegorical" [[labelnote:Explanation]]One of little Carmine's {{Malaproper}}. Often spammed in response on any analysis of the show, especially if it isn't actually allegorical at all.[[/labelnote]]
** "Quasimodo predicted all of this" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Another {{Malaproper}}, this one from Bobby Baccalieri, mixing up Nostradamus and the Hunchback of Notre Dame.[[/labelnote]]
** Everybody loves "Up 'N Da Club". [[labelnote:Explanation]] A hip hop song that is played once when Furio comes to collect money from Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte. Any time music is played in a ''Sopranos'' YTP, it will be replaced by "Up 'N Da Club", a song that is beloved by every single ''Sopranos'' character.[[/labelnote]]
** Don Borko [[labelnote:Explanation]] [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgoeD3Eqrbizzsklrw2e0Mg Borko]] is a [=YouTube=] channel that (among other things) uploads Sopranos clips and compilations. This is very helpful for people who want to find a specific scene from an episode. So, he has reached MemeticBadass status in the community, with people changing quotes from the show to praise Borko. This reached new levels when HBO started posting Soprano clips, and their comment sections were flooded with people demanding that HBO kick up to Borko.[[/labelnote]]
** "90% of [X] [Y] right before they're about to [Z]" [[labelnote:Explanation]]An exploitable {{snowclone}} popularized by a promotional image of ''Sopranos'' with the caption "Fact: 90% of gamblers quit right before they're about to hit it big" over it, which started going viral as people began replacing "gamblers" with other groups.[[/labelnote]]MemeticMutation: [[MemeticMutation/TheSopranos Has its own page here.]]
** It didn't last very long, but there were dozens of copies and parodies of the final scene all over Website/YouTube immediately after the show ended. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5yN_R5I7dE The Pittsburgh Pirates parody]] was the most famous. Also in one of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shKJk3Rph0E Hilary Clinton's earliest campaign ads]] in the 2008 Presidential Election, when she used it to introduce her new campaign song.
** Phil Leotardo turned himself into a house. [[labelnote: Explanation]]Based on the scene in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS6E19TheSecondComing The Second Coming]]" when Phil refuses to meet with Tony and Little Carmine then yells at them from his attic as they're leaving. The framing of the scene makes it seem like the house itself is speaking in Phil's voice. [[/labelnote]]
** The neverending mystery on how long Phil Leotardo spent time in the can. [[labelnote: Explanation]] Throughout his appearances, Phil would often mention that he spent 20 years in prison as if it entitled him. Fans ran with this and ironically turned it into one of the show's greatest mysteries.[[/labelnote]]
** "He wanted to X, but he compromised. He did Y." [[labelnote: Explanation]]A variation of Phil Leotardo's description of how he spent his 20 years in the can.[[/labelnote]]
** Expect the word "gabagool", the working-class Neapolitan Italian-American way of saying "capocollo" that's common in the Northeastern United States, to come up whenever someone mentions the series online.
** "Soft drinks of choice." [[labelnote: Explanation]]One of the privileges Christopher gets as a made man is free meals and soft drinks at Roy [=DelGuercio's=] pizza parlor. Fans took this line and ran with it, referring to it as a privilege younger mobsters like Matt Bevilaqua and Jackie Jr. aspire for.[[/labelnote]]
** "X was my favorite character. I wish they did more with them." [[labelnote:Explanation]]A meme going around in [=YouTube=] that was initially used for one-shot characters that had an impact on a viewer. It was later ironically appropriated for anything in the show with little significance, from extras to even inanimate objects.[[/labelnote]]
** "It's anti-Italian discrimination." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Silvio Dante's response to Columbus Day being protested in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS4E3Christopher Christopher]]". A screenshot of the quote has become a popular tongue-in-cheek response to perceived slights against Italians or Italian culture.[[/labelnote]]
** "Those two black guys." [[labelnote:Explanation]]Stems from Vito's joking excuse for Eugene hitting Little Paulie in the face with a beer bottle. It's used to refer to any robbery or hit that was pulled off without anyone being caught, sometimes elevating the status of "those two black guys" to MemeticBadass status. Made even funnier because there are ''multiple'' pairs of black hitmen who this could apply to.[[/labelnote]]
** "He never had the makings of a varsity athlete"[[labelnote: Explanation]]During the Soprano dinner at Junior's apartment in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS5E3WheresJohnny Where's Johnny?]]", Junior keeps informing everyone that Tony could never be a professional football player, eventually enraging Tony to the point that he and AJ promptly leave. This phrase is frequently used as a playful tease for people who claimed to have been great athletes in college, but never "made it to the big leagues".[[/labelnote]]
** Tony Soprano Soyjak/Soyprano [[labelnote:Explanation]]A Soyjak variant traced from a moment when Tony yells "Carmela could you please shut the door?".[[/labelnote]]
** "Very allegorical" [[labelnote:Explanation]]One of little Carmine's {{Malaproper}}. Often spammed in response on any analysis of the show, especially if it isn't actually allegorical at all.[[/labelnote]]
** "Quasimodo predicted all of this" [[labelnote:Explanation]]Another {{Malaproper}}, this one from Bobby Baccalieri, mixing up Nostradamus and the Hunchback of Notre Dame.[[/labelnote]]
** Everybody loves "Up 'N Da Club". [[labelnote:Explanation]] A hip hop song that is played once when Furio comes to collect money from Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte. Any time music is played in a ''Sopranos'' YTP, it will be replaced by "Up 'N Da Club", a song that is beloved by every single ''Sopranos'' character.[[/labelnote]]
** Don Borko [[labelnote:Explanation]] [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgoeD3Eqrbizzsklrw2e0Mg Borko]] is a [=YouTube=] channel that (among other things) uploads Sopranos clips and compilations. This is very helpful for people who want to find a specific scene from an episode. So, he has reached MemeticBadass status in the community, with people changing quotes from the show to praise Borko. This reached new levels when HBO started posting Soprano clips, and their comment sections were flooded with people demanding that HBO kick up to Borko.[[/labelnote]]
** "90% of [X] [Y] right before they're about to [Z]" [[labelnote:Explanation]]An exploitable {{snowclone}} popularized by a promotional image of ''Sopranos'' with the caption "Fact: 90% of gamblers quit right before they're about to hit it big" over it, which started going viral as people began replacing "gamblers" with other groups.[[/labelnote]]
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*** The best example of this is when he cries to Tony about how he loved Adriana after she was killed, which would be tragic… [[MoralEventHorizon except he told Tony about her being a rat in the first place]].
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*** The best example of this is when he cries to Tony about how he loved Adriana after she was killed, which would be tragic… [[MoralEventHorizon except he told Tony about her being a rat in the first place]]. It seems borderline out of character considering how little Christopher seemed to care about Adriana before this, even disregarding his physical and emotional abuse of her.
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The show abused this trope a lot, especially when [[HateSink the most despicable characters]] were humanized and sympathetic to some degree. Sure, we're supposed to feel sorry for them after their [[MoralEventHorizon awful actions]]...
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* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The show abused this trope a lot, especially when [[HateSink the most despicable characters]] were humanized and sympathetic to some degree. Turns out portraying the Mafia as realistically despicable as possible also makes it hard to make them sympathetic in any way no matter hard the writers try. Sure, we're supposed to feel sorry for them after their [[MoralEventHorizon awful actions]]...
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** Another huge example is Christopher Moltisanti, for those that don’t see him as a JerkAssWoobie. His drug addiction and abuse by Tony and the other capos is supposed to humanize him, but the fact that he’s arguably even more violent and abusive than any of them makes this hard to swallow. While Tony is a JerkAss to him at times, [[MoralEventHorizon outside of killing Christopher near the end of the series]], the worst he ever does is make fun of him and insult his sobriety, making Christopher’s complaints come across as Wangst considering he’s far more abusive to his girlfriend Adriana in comparison. It also doesn’t help that he had multiple opportunities to leave the Mafia life and actually escape Tony’s abuse, but rejected it.
*** The best example of this is when he cries to Tony about how he loved Adriana after she was killed, which would be tragic… [[MoralEventHorizon except he told Tony about her being a rat in the first place]].
*** The best example of this is when he cries to Tony about how he loved Adriana after she was killed, which would be tragic… [[MoralEventHorizon except he told Tony about her being a rat in the first place]].
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** The song playing when Tony is chasing Phil on "[[Recap/TheSopranosS5E7InCamelot In Camelot]]" is Rock The Casbah by The Clash. The song was inspired by the events of the Iranian Revolution, and the overthrow of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran. Tony would later call Phil the Shah of Iran and plan to overthrow him.
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* NauseaFuel:
** When Adriana is caught by the FBI and forced to make a SadisticChoice about either going to jail for a lengthy sentence or becoming an informant, she {{Stress Vomit}}s in response. More than just throwing up, she projectile ''spews'' a geyser of throw-up all over the table and splatters the FBI agents with chunky mush.
** In response to the intense bullying at school, when his father is outed as having been gay after he is found brutally murdered, [[spoiler:Vito Jr. retaliates]] by intentionally crapping himself in the communal shower after gym class, and then steps in the poop with his bare foot. This is shown in great detail, for the pleasure of the viewers.
** When Tony is in the hospital [[spoiler:in an induced coma after being shot in the gut by Uncle Junior]], we get a detailed and prolonged shot of his huge, gaping, and very ''deep'', stomach wound. It helps hammer in how tenuous his survival is, but is also quite viscerally disgusting.
** When Adriana is caught by the FBI and forced to make a SadisticChoice about either going to jail for a lengthy sentence or becoming an informant, she {{Stress Vomit}}s in response. More than just throwing up, she projectile ''spews'' a geyser of throw-up all over the table and splatters the FBI agents with chunky mush.
** In response to the intense bullying at school, when his father is outed as having been gay after he is found brutally murdered, [[spoiler:Vito Jr. retaliates]] by intentionally crapping himself in the communal shower after gym class, and then steps in the poop with his bare foot. This is shown in great detail, for the pleasure of the viewers.
** When Tony is in the hospital [[spoiler:in an induced coma after being shot in the gut by Uncle Junior]], we get a detailed and prolonged shot of his huge, gaping, and very ''deep'', stomach wound. It helps hammer in how tenuous his survival is, but is also quite viscerally disgusting.
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* OneSceneWonder:
** Dr. Krakower made quite an impression in his only scene on the show, since he's just about [[OnlySaneMan the only character who]] [[BrutalHonesty says in plain English, without euphemism or rationalization]], what sort of person Tony is and why Carmela is complicit in his criminal dealings by staying married to him.
** Tony's high school football coach, Coach Molinaro, only appears in one scene, which is a dream sequence at that. However, since said scene consists of him chewing out Tony for getting involved in the mob and [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse shutting down all of Tony's arguments and excuses]], it's one of the show's most memorable scenes.
** Dr. Krakower made quite an impression in his only scene on the show, since he's just about [[OnlySaneMan the only character who]] [[BrutalHonesty says in plain English, without euphemism or rationalization]], what sort of person Tony is and why Carmela is complicit in his criminal dealings by staying married to him.
** Tony's high school football coach, Coach Molinaro, only appears in one scene, which is a dream sequence at that. However, since said scene consists of him chewing out Tony for getting involved in the mob and [[FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse shutting down all of Tony's arguments and excuses]], it's one of the show's most memorable scenes.
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* JerksAreWorseThanVillains: In a cast full of murderous, psychotic gangsters, one of the most easily detestable characters in the entire show is Tony's elderly mother, Livia. Although she's largely divorced from the show's violence and more serious crimes, her deep-rooted narcissism, passive-aggressive sniping, actively spreading misery to everyone she meets, manipulative tactics, and [[PlayingTheVictimCard playing the victim]] [[NeverMyFault at every opportunity]], make her a far more likely person you'd actually encounter in your life and lacks any of the suave or "coolness" factor the other mobsters have. This is on top of her being a terrible mother, spouse, and employer, incredibly racist, and anti-Semitic.
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** "90% of [X] [Y] right before they're about to [Z]" [[labelnote:Explanation]]An exploitable {{snowclone}} popularized by a promotional image of ''Sopranos'' with the caption "Fact: 90% of gamblers quit right before they're about to hit it big" over it, which started going viral as people began replacing "gamblers" with other groups.[[/labelnote]]
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** Is AJ really just the lazy, spoiled brat he is often viewed as or just a young man who was dealing with mental health issues he wasn't even aware of until years later that explained his lack of energy and motivation and whose occasional sincere efforts to improve, such as his interest in history and desire to join the military in his last episodes, were undermined by his environment, leaving him stuck as someone who is smart enough to know he's not suited to the criminal lifestyle but feels he isn't able to do anything else?
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** Is AJ really just the lazy, spoiled brat he is often viewed as or just a young man who was dealing with mental health issues he wasn't even aware of until years later that explained his lack of energy and motivation and whose occasional sincere efforts to improve, such as his interest in history and desire to join the military in his last episodes, were undermined by his environment, leaving him stuck as someone who is smart self-aware enough to know he's not suited to the criminal lifestyle but feels he isn't able to do anything else?
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** Everybody loves "Up 'N Da Club".[[labelnote:Explanation]]A hip hop song that is played once when Furio comes to collect money from Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte. Any time music is played in a ''Sopranos'' YTP, it will be replaced by "Up 'N Da Club", a song that is beloved by every single ''Sopranos'' character.[[/labelnote]]
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** Everybody loves "Up 'N Da Club".[[labelnote:Explanation]]A [[labelnote:Explanation]] A hip hop song that is played once when Furio comes to collect money from Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte. Any time music is played in a ''Sopranos'' YTP, it will be replaced by "Up 'N Da Club", a song that is beloved by every single ''Sopranos'' character.[[/labelnote]]
** Don Borko [[labelnote:Explanation]] [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgoeD3Eqrbizzsklrw2e0Mg Borko]] is a [=YouTube=] channel that (among other things) uploads Sopranos clips and compilations. This is very helpful for people who want to find a specific scene from an episode. So, he has reached MemeticBadass status in the community, with people changing quotes from the show to praise Borko. This reached new levels when HBO started posting Soprano clips, and their comment sections were flooded with people demanding that HBO kick up to Borko.[[/labelnote]]
** Don Borko [[labelnote:Explanation]] [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgoeD3Eqrbizzsklrw2e0Mg Borko]] is a [=YouTube=] channel that (among other things) uploads Sopranos clips and compilations. This is very helpful for people who want to find a specific scene from an episode. So, he has reached MemeticBadass status in the community, with people changing quotes from the show to praise Borko. This reached new levels when HBO started posting Soprano clips, and their comment sections were flooded with people demanding that HBO kick up to Borko.[[/labelnote]]
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** Despite the show being set in a WorldOfJerkass, it's not uncommon to find audiences siding with one character and miss that ''everybody'' is intended to be an unreliable hypocrite with their own self-serving reasons for being less than truthful and to present themselves in a better light. For instance, in "Irregular Around the Margins", a lot of viewers seem to think that Christopher is a CrazyJealousGuy and irrationally paranoid for being angry at Tony and Adriana when they nearly have an affair, easily accept Tony's excuses and rationalizations, and overlook that everybody around Christopher is ''gaslighting'' him after the car crash. Christopher happens to be right in his suspicions, if not the particulars, it's just easy to dismiss him because he's so unlikeable and abusive. [[JerkassHasAPoint The fact of him being right in that suspicion doesn't make him a hero either]].
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** Everybody loves "Up 'N Da Club".[[labelnote:Explanation]]A hip hop song that is played once when Furio comes to collect money from Matthew Bevilaqua and Sean Gismonte. Any time music is played in a ''Sopranos'' YTP, it will be replaced by "Up 'N Da Club", a song that is beloved by every single ''Sopranos'' character.[[/labelnote]]
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David Chase has always wanted the ending to be ambiguous. This is just stating opinion as fact.
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* AudienceAlienatingEnding: This show is particularly controversial [[spoiler:with its abrupt smash cut to black]]. This ''may'' depict [[spoiler: Tony's death]], but it's left very ambiguous and up to the viewer's interpretation. During the original airing of the final episode, angry viewers actually called their cable companies to complain about their signal cutting out, while Creator/DavidChase received many, many accusations that he inserted the NoEnding as a [[TakeThatAudience petulant "fuck you" to the audience]] for, in his view, [[RootingForTheEmpire siding with Tony for too long]]. Binge-watching the second half of season 6 makes it much less ambiguous, [[spoiler:with the clues to Tony's POV murder being very clearly laid out, which might have been less obvious to viewers who watched it week to week.]]
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* AudienceAlienatingEnding: This show is particularly controversial [[spoiler:with its abrupt smash cut to black]]. This ''may'' depict [[spoiler: Tony's death]], but it's left very ambiguous and up to the viewer's interpretation. During the original airing of the final episode, angry viewers actually called their cable companies to complain about their signal cutting out, while Creator/DavidChase received many, many accusations that he inserted the NoEnding as a [[TakeThatAudience petulant "fuck you" to the audience]] for, in his view, [[RootingForTheEmpire siding with Tony for too long]]. Binge-watching the second half of season 6 makes it much less ambiguous, [[spoiler:with the clues to Tony's POV murder being very clearly laid out, which might have been less obvious to viewers who watched it week to week.]]
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I don't know. Too much?
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** AJ gets caught vandalizing the school because the pizza he left behind incriminated him. Andrew Tate [[https://www.newsweek.com/andrew-tate-mocked-after-pizza-tweet-thunberg-may-have-led-arrest-1770278 should have learned from his mistake...]]
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** Despite the show being set in a WorldOfJerkass, it's not uncommon to find audiences siding with one character and miss that ''everybody'' is intended to be an unreliable hypocrite with their own self-serving reasons for being less than truthful and to present themselves in a better light. For instance, in "Irregular Around the Margins", a lot of viewers seem to think that Christopher is a CrazyJealousGuy and irrationally paranoid for being angry at Tony and Adriana when they nearly have an affair, easily accept Tony's excuses and rationalizations, and overlook that everybody around Christopher is ''gaslighting'' him after the car crash. Christopher happens to be right in his suspicions, it's just easy to dismiss him because he's so unlikeable and abusive. [[JerkassHasAPoint The fact of him being right in that suspicion doesn't make him a hero either]].
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** Despite the show being set in a WorldOfJerkass, it's not uncommon to find audiences siding with one character and miss that ''everybody'' is intended to be an unreliable hypocrite with their own self-serving reasons for being less than truthful and to present themselves in a better light. For instance, in "Irregular Around the Margins", a lot of viewers seem to think that Christopher is a CrazyJealousGuy and irrationally paranoid for being angry at Tony and Adriana when they nearly have an affair, easily accept Tony's excuses and rationalizations, and overlook that everybody around Christopher is ''gaslighting'' him after the car crash. Christopher happens to be right in his suspicions, if not the particulars, it's just easy to dismiss him because he's so unlikeable and abusive. [[JerkassHasAPoint The fact of him being right in that suspicion doesn't make him a hero either]].
