I like how all Fran had to say was "I was a friend of your father's" and Tony goes "Oh…" then smiles "Ooohh! You're the lady from Bamberger's! The fur department!"

Actually, I got the impression that Tony B. was the only one that knew the story was bullshit and only getting more unbelievable as Tony kept talking.

How long you known me, Bub?  She's a little pale for my taste.

They all say that. That same farm's gotta have twenty billion dogs on it, dog shit up to the rafters.

I have to say, I always enjoy your one or two sentence summaries of each episode.

Even with all the dream sequences and other bizarre imagery through out the series, I still think the "Happy Birthday" scene is one of the most Lynchian things Chase ever pulled off.

Exactly.  I think Livia decided at that moment that Tony was exactly like Johnny, and afterwards treated him as such.  No matter what Tony did for her in the years between the miscarriage and her death, it wouldn't change the fact that he lied for his father because Johnny was busier with his comare than being with…

When you've seen the entire series, something as seemingly insignificant as Tony causing a fuss with Hesh and Phil because Fran says she was screwed out of the race track sale Johnny promised her before he died ends up being really important.  It's actually the beginning of the entire Tony/Phil feud that goes on until…

…you want to end sexism, but anime is what you care about the most?  How did you even type that without your head exploding?

During the "Class of '04" news story in "Two Tonys" the reporter mentions that Tony B. was the suspect in a few murders, including a car bombing.

He also played the SORT team member that helped Edie Falco's prison guard character cover up a murder on 'Oz'.

I remembered the gingko and shit like that, but I honestly couldn't recall her saying "fake rhino".  Don't worry, I wasn't taking it personally, I'm not David Chase.

…when the fuck does she talk about getting a fake rhino?  Why would that even come up?

Yeah, I was about to point that out myself.

It's stated in "Two Tonys" and several times through out the season that Tony B. and Angelo were cellmates, that's why they had grown so close.  Plus, being that Tony B. wasn't made, yet still connected, he was probably a big target in prison.  Angelo, as the former consiglieri of a New York Family, must have provided…

Yeah, that might have saved him.

That was actually in season four when Minn Matrone and Cookie (the principal's mother) were treating Paulie's mother like shit.

What?  Kim doesn't try to shake him down, he says "So partner, we open in three days?" and that's what sets Tony B. off.

Something I never picked up on until watching this episode again: The only time Carmela is ever seen naked in the entire series is the one time she's actually with another man.

Pssst…it was his sled…