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Because we don't discuss The Sopranos enough. Which character should have their own spin-off show?

I think a sitcom starring Pauly Walnuts would be great. He'd be trying to go straight, and each week he'd try out a different job, be totally useless at it, and end up whacking everybody out of frustration.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Meadow's Late-Night Sexcapades

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm just fine with the sopranos the way it is. Can't imagine a show without Tony.

― Gold Teeth II (kenan), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

The FBI girl who bouffed up her hair and befriended Adriana, please.

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

adriana

― stelfox, Friday, 8 October 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Janice!

― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

The most attractive girl who's ever been in the Sopranos in that unbeliveably fit Russian girl who used to be Tony's gumara.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

the one with the wooden leg?

― Freelance Hiveminder (blueski), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

No, the one with black hair who's her cousin. She tried to kill herself once.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

since big pussey's death, it's been christopher all the way... though paulie walnuts is great too

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I miss Big Pussy. Two seasons weren't enough for such a strong character. Oh well. He shouldn't have ratted. Anyway, it's gotta be Paulie at this point.

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Friday, 8 October 2004 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Uncle Junior's always great value.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Baccala is teh funny too, and loveable. And he loved his wife so much!

― Markelby (Mark C), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

what was i thinking? Richie Aprile was the best sopranos character of all time!

most disappointing character: the steve buscemi character... total waste of talent.

― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, I like him. I like how they haven't felt compelled to give him an enormous part just because he's Steve Buscemi. I prefered it when he was trying to go straight, though.

― Wooden (Wooden), Friday, 8 October 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

How about Anthony Jr. goes all emo at college? Occasional cameos from other regulars as needed.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Friday, 8 October 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

and from these guys:

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― Gold Teeth II (kenan), Friday, 8 October 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

buscemi was amazing!!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 9 October 2004 03:02 (twenty-one years ago)

No matter what, it should co-star Bernadette Peters. Now that'd be...interesting.

― Girolamo Savonarola, Saturday, 9 October 2004 03:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Carmela

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Saturday, 9 October 2004 04:26 (twenty-one years ago)

the priest, from season one.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 9 October 2004 12:08 (twenty-one years ago)

has converted occupations and now plays an undertaker who is quiet and too nice.

― cºzen (Cozen), Saturday, 9 October 2004 12:09 (twenty-one years ago)

a sopranos spin-off wouldn't work because all the characters are unlikeable monsters. Ralphie was at least funny though. and Furio and Paulie. (nb. they all started sucking when the show decided to take them seriously)

― \(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Saturday, 9 October 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

The brilliant thing about The Sopranos, though, is how it makes you identify with and root for all the unlikeable monsters.

― Wooden (Wooden), Saturday, 9 October 2004 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, except that it doesn't. I dunno, Meadow, AJ and carmella to a lesser degree have had their moments, but the show goes to such cartoonish lengths to make the cast as venal and outlandishly unsympathetic as possible. and i'm sure that's the point, but it doesn't make it fun to watch, and i think it's demonstrative of some contempt for the audience.

the reason Ralphie, Furio et al are likeable is because they're such a contrast to the gloomy, doomed robots that pass for a cast. they seemed more human in view of the ludicrous misanthropy on display. and i guess getting me to root for Ralphie before he was killed - a guy who beat a pregnant stripper to death - is an accomplishment of some kind. the problem is that there's no counterpoint to this kind of stuff, and most of the time the characters just seem like avatars intended to service a series of awkward, badly written plot points. it's very dehumanising (and unrealistic). (cf. The Wire, a show that manages to imbue its cast of fuck-ups, junkies, drug dealers and murderers with a heartbreaking amount of humanity)

― \(^o^)/ (Adrian Langston), Saturday, 9 October 2004 13:59 (twenty-one years ago)

as far as great women go, of course I dig Dr. Melfi's legs, who would not? Sofia Milos as the mob boss the boys visited in Italy in season 2? I think? was fantastic-looking...

I have a soft spot for Hesch, who wrote several r&b hits...

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Saturday, 9 October 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

tony is really the best character on a show full of great characters

― s1ocki (slutsky), Saturday, 9 October 2004 20:10 (twenty-one years ago)

SGS and I are getting deep into series 1 of "Six Feet Under" and Ruth Fisher is one of the greatest characters (and greatest acting performances) ever. I wish she was my aunt.

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 9 October 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Sofia Milos as the mob boss the boys visited in Italy in season 2?

Oh god yes. And Tony didn't fuck her when he finally had the chance! Amazing.

Also along those lines .. that Italian exchange student that, in his fever, Tony imagined was staying next door at the Cusamanos. Yowza.

I have a soft spot for Hesch, who wrote several r&b hits...

Did Hesch write those hits, or did he just produce them? Either way, he screwed the artists out of royalties. Remember, that was the whole premise behind the sit-down with "Massive Genius" !

― Roy Williams Highlight (diamond), Saturday, 9 October 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

The Russian who went missing in the woods.

However, It's Paulie! would be the best sitcom ever.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 9 October 2004 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Also, Lorraine. That was a sun that set too quickly.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 9 October 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

no, of course Hesch didn't write the hits! I recently re-watched the episode where Chris and Adriana try to get into the music biz and Hesch gets threatened by Massive Genius. A great one, right up there in my estimation with the episode featuring Frank Sinatra Jr. and the poker game...I like the way Hesch, who seems a civilized man with a historical sense not gleaned from the History Channel, balances out the other characters. And yeah, Tony didn't fuck the Sofia Milos character? What? That scene in which she's hitting the golf balls is one of the hotter moments in the series.

― eddie hurt (ddduncan), Sunday, 10 October 2004 00:43 (twenty-one years ago)

SGS and I are getting deep into series 1 of "Six Feet Under" and Ruth Fisher is one of the greatest characters (and greatest acting performances) ever. I wish she was my aunt.

i love her so much!

― s1ocki (slutsky), Sunday, 10 October 2004 17:05 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Velveteen Bingo (Chris V), Monday, 11 October 2004 12:05 (twenty-one years ago)

eight years pass...

watching reruns lately and i am struck by how i can imagine every single line that a.j. says being delivered by tony; like, any given a.j. line no matter how completely ridiculous could just as easily be a tony line if he were in some parallel situation, only imbued with anger rather than awkwardness.

a.j.'s character always was kind of confounding to me, but i swear it just clicked after watching some eps and imagining a.j.'s lines said by tony in my head. robert iler is great too.

― sleepingbag, Wednesday, 6 February 2013 01:51 (twelve years ago)

four years pass...

the random customer Joseph R. Gannascoli played in the pastry shop that wasn't Vita Spatafore

― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Thursday, 23 November 2017 18:22 (eight years ago)

two weeks pass...

how the fuck did I not realize that the dude who played Matthew Bevilacqua did a prison bid?

― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Sunday, 10 December 2017 02:31 (eight years ago)

I didn't either till this Ringer story a couple months ago: https://www.theringer.com/2017/7/11/16077710/lillo-brancato-bronx-tale-sopranos-crime-comeback-a05f2d137199

― orifex, Sunday, 10 December 2017 07:01 (eight years ago)

a lot of those guys had done bids in the past & were basically just 'playing' modified versions of their past selves. The difference is that Bevilacqua was doing both simultaneously (see also: Snoop/Felicia Pearson from The Wire).

Pauly, tho. the correct answer is Pauly.

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