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"Meet Me Half Way" by Kenny Loggins starts playing…

Is this what it's come to?  Beer puns?

Would that be his twin brother that recently converted to Judaism?

You're right.  Starting with season 3, Buscemi directed one episode per season.

He's dyslexic.

Get a mop.

I worked in a pizza place for a few months years ago, and I cannot tell you how many people asked for "pasta faggy oh lee".

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How could it be okay if it's askew?

I don't think it was so much Tony being an idiot as refusing to see the truth.  Sort of a subconscious mental block.  According to him, his father was infallible, so it's as if his mind prevented him from actually thinking about the whole "Tippy went to live in a farm" story.  Especially with how he feels about…

He's a goddamn hot house flower, that's his problem.

I've seen the show, that's why I said "I never quite understood why the Emmys started throwing statues at Spader and Shatner…"

I think Richie also symbolized, in Tony's mind, a debt owed.  As someone mentioned in the comments for the last episode, Tony hates when he thinks he owes somebody, as this season shows with Tony B.  Richie and Johnny Boy were responsible for Tony and Jackie getting away with robbing Feech's (a well-respected and…

I've heard this theory before, but think about it, was she just wandering the cemetary for days at a time?  Hoping she'd meet up with Tony at some point?  Tony visiting his father's grave was sort of an afterthought, they were there for Uncle Zio's funeral, how would Fran have even know that?

Now that I think about it, Livia's memory of Johnny changed depending on who she was talking to.  If it were Tony or Carmela, he was a saint.  But when Janice shows up, suddenly it's "You don't know what kind of man your father was, you don't know what I went through!"

James Spader instead of Gandolfini and Alison Janney instead of Falco for season 5

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"Plus, that was Johnny's gal"

It does come up.  Johnny Sack gives Tony a bunch of shit about it in the very next episode.  Tony, as a Boss, had a legitimate beef because he was owed money and Phil was obviously ducking him.  But at the same time, Johnny demands that Tony make it right by paying for the car and apologizing.