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I agree, never thought that scene was funny and I don t think it was intended to be funny. I still remember my wife s gasp when Tony uttered that phrase.

(BTW, by "plausible" I mean that there are people who claim to have that kind of visions, not that they actually had them).

What a about the poison ivy? I liked the Chris in hell thing because (besides of being very funny, as i said above) I once read or watched on TV about some (real) support group for people who (in those near death experiences) instead of seeing the bright light and hearing their beloved calling them, had a vision of…

Seconded, and as always, Imperioli does a great work delivering that kind of line.

I m sorry Rowan, didn t mean to ruin it for you (I honestly thought that the "how casually he writes that…" part was enough of a warning; will be more careful).

I don t know if there s a "larger satirical point" here, I always saw in that scene that Carmela was clearly threatening Cusamano s sister in law, and saw that as a little character development: for all her guilt and whining, she loves being a mob wife (SPOILERS: also, when she threatens David Strathairn).

Bwah!
I loved how Todd filled the sentence about the one good therapist with spoilers alerts and how casually he writes that "Adriana will seemingly remain Christopher's fiancee for the rest of time. Well, until she's killed." (I know that line is in "speaking with the fishes, but still).

@DPA, I agree that very few people are shown under a good light in the Sopranos, but I don t think that it is a coincidence that only one shrink (Melfi aside) was able to offer sound advice in the whole series; on top of it, that advice (leave your murderer husband) didn t have much to do with psychology as a…

"The Melfi's therapy scenes really serve to underline just how useless the show finds therapy, I think."

Well, as I said, I don t remember exactly what s Meadow s motive for cleaning the house. As Eponymous said, I loved Janice s transformation when she opened the door at Livia s. Anyway, Tony has a better tool for controlling his children (and Carmela, for that matter), and that s very clear (SPOILER) in the final…

Her parents are in control?
I haven t seen this episode in years, but I think that it s here that Tony says about Meadow something like "If she realizes that there s nothing we can do, we re fucked".
I m sure that it was Janice (right after telling Tony and Carmela that they should cut their daughter some slack) who…

He s got an insane amount of self confidence, the minute he sees a girl he would like to fuck, he knows he will nail her.

If Chase felt frustrated because of the audience identifying with Tony (or al least, not disliking him enough), that s his own fault.
You can t expect to tell a story from a character s point of view, showing him (sometimes) as a family man, watching him deal with the same things that almost everyone must deal with…

Ah, touche, monsieur Pancakes.

@Politborough and the disproportion between crime and punishment: I m not familiar with U.S. laws: what s the penalty for stealing a Hurt Locker DVD at any store?

"suing people for being fans"???
I won t say I haven t downloaded something here and there, but saying that "suing people for being fans is just quite stupid" is just quite stupid.

Well, that usually happens when a show gets picked up, specially in this case, in which a long time passed between the pilot and the rest of the episodes.
But, I don t recall that they even implied that Tony was the boss; I think that the room where they kill Emil is in Satriale s; and after the pilot, Christopher and…

1. Ralphie Cifaretto (just because he had it coming).
2. Big Pussy (best whacking in the whole series, IMO).
3. Ritchie Aprile.
4. E-mail.
5. The Bevilaqua moron.

Well, they can t name him at this point, it would suck if the guy s a Fred or something like that.