Vito exemplified how these men have to deny crucial parts of themselves in order to be mobsters and that they do it because the alternative requires them to do real work. In short, Vito's Gay Adventure was a thematic parallel to Tony's Adventures in Coma Land.

Gee-man pretty much nails it—those fives albums are Devo. "Shout" and "Total Devo" have their merits. I fear I have little use for either Smooth Noodle Maps or for this new album.

God'dam'n mis'place'd apostrophe.

How many of those women dance because they've been subjected to far worse than Allie? If child molester's disappeared, strip clubs and porn would lose 80% of their talent pool.

"Nothing ever goes my way." Christopher Moltisanti

It's all about when the credits roll. We've all experiences when great promise lead to great disappointment (I hope we all have because if its just me, Ima kill mahself fo sho). had the dcredist rolled on the moment of promise, we would assume a happy ending. Think Khan and Ceti Alpha V.

Exactly. At the end one episode, Carmela strongarms Tony into sending her to Europe. And we assume she goes. Only we find out much later that she never went because of some shit with AJ. Also (SPOILER?), Chris's new gf, Kelli, is introduced only when she finds out she's pregnant. I remember my Mom complaining…

Bobby Baccala runs into her off-screen but reports that she wants nothing more to do with Junior.

@ My Two Sense: You have it exactly backwards. Chase wanted to do a show about therapy and about his fucked up relationship with his fucked up mother. The mobster element was added to sweeten the pot and started out as nothing more than a wholesale lift from Goodfellas. Initially, Chase wanted Ray Liotta as Tony…

Amen.

William Gibson handles this retro-futurism theme rather well in "The Gernsback Continuum."

Bobby Junior speaks to the audience's frustration when he asks Tony B. why he (Bobby Jr.) had never heard of him.

DO NOT SHORTEN THE RECAPS.

His name is Gino here. he's not the same guy, not even retconned, as Drea DiMatteo's unnamed, one-shot hostess from NYC was quickly retconned into Adriana.

I don't think Bobbi talked Junior into anything
I think Junior went down on her because he wanted to, because he likes it.

The half of Boca that's about the soccer coach…
…is a good indication of what the show would have been had it been picked up by Fox—it's pure television twaddle, complete with Tony's bullshit moral triumph, which would have been the first glimmer of his eventual redemption. If not for the half that gives the episode…

Kirk Cameron Left Me Behind, that better be the last airbender!

A Jew for Jesus is a Jewish Christian; he or she is like the original followers of Christ, who never renounced their Jewishness but rather saw Christ as the ultimate expression of Judaism. Most Christians—even former Jewish converts—take the more Paulinian approach that Christianity is somehow a liberation form the…

It was that damn that made me re-evaluate my "fondness" for Pynchon and discover it was largely a sham.

If I had to chose, I'd say wallflower's explanation is the most likely. Dick was very much obsessed with how our uncertainty about our own humanity and identity is directly linked to our uncertainty about reality, i.e "What is human?" and "What is real?" This scene is perhaps Dick's most naked blending of the two…