@@chayannemendez2743 Cause he pretty much killed two made men from Johnny Sacks NY crew. He should've been killed sooner, but Tony kept sticking up for him.
Love the touch of tony using a shotgun to kill his cousin. He wanted it to be quick with no chance of him having to deal with his cousin reacting in anyway.
@@archivesoffantasy5560 The killing yes, but a shotgun is a guaranteed kill no matter what as long as you hit. A pistol can require multiple shots, you can miss, you can live a gunshot etc. That's what he meant.
There are arguments that it wasn't all 'altruistic' why he did it himself, but the side effect was that he was saved from getting Vito'd by Phil. He really deserved it, but that is another argument for another time.
He had smarts, personality, leadership potential. All the prerequisites to lead young men onto the field of sport. Now look at the stress he lives with.
This is where Tony really started to change to how he was at the end, ready to kill almost anyone close to him. He only had one childhood friend left at that point who was a civilian that cooked him food. Why he went there so often, made him not feel alone.
Yeah but Tony did the right thing here. Tony B really screwed up big time going around killing mobsters and putting the Soprano crew in danger. Tony had to kill his cousin he had no other choice. At least he didn't let Phil get ahold of him alive. Tony B brought all this on himself and made some really stupid selfish decisions.
@@mrsinister8943From the moment he found that money those two black guys threw away he made some real stinkers. Before that he was actually really hardworking and sticking to a generally clean lifestyle after spending 20 years in the can. It's sad when they go young like that.
I always liked the sobering moments of the show like this. It reminds the audience of the harsh realities of criminal life. Imagine being forced to kill your own favorite cousin to avoid his upcoming torture. It makes anyone feel grateful for a more civilized life.
Not even close. He made it as quick and painless as possible. If Phil got a hold of him, and he would, he would have been tortured and kept alive just to torture him some more. There was much compassion in Tony's actions here.
HoyaSaxaSD Surely someone else has replied with the following, I'm just too lazy to check on mobile YT: He was shot on the side you can cover with pancake. I could have fixed his face enough for an open-casket and my only physical experience is with SillyPutty...
I always thought this had to be one of the most realistic depictions of how something like this goes down. No tears, no overwrought "I'm sorry and Goodbye!", no closing Blundetto's eyes with Tony's own fingers lol. You can tell that Tony B meant something to Tony because he did give him a few seconds of thought. Anyone else, and Tony would have just walked away immediately or moved on to the next item of business.
I think Tony S would have liked to have said something like “anyone else and I woulda capped you a long time ago, this is to save you from Phils Torture” or something like that. But by the time he’s said that, Tony B could easily pull out his piece.
@@archivesoffantasy5560 I feel that. But again - and as you mentioned - realism. 😅 In real life, an experienced killer would know: allow NO chance that your target will fight back or run away. In a typical movie or TV Show, Tony S would have given a "You was my brudda!" speech and Tony B would have delivered last words. In real life, you don't give someone time for last words if you really want them dead. Sneak up, BOOM, done.
You’re comparing vastly different scenarios like they are the same. Movies of Wars as well as High Sci-Fi Fantasy genres where everything is known to be overly dramatic due to the very nature of the genre itself. . The sopranos follows a small time Mafia Family in New Jersey during the 1960s. A time of unbridled violence due to the Vietnam war and the aftermath of the Korean War, plus it’s only 15-20 years after WW2 officially ended. . These are cold, hard people who have lived their entire lives surrounded by Death and Desperation. Constant street killings and the desire to obtain Power in any form at all.
He’s not underrated at all. Very well known and cast a lot. And if you become the butt of a Family Guy or Simpsons joke (which he did), you aren’t underrated
Herp berp “ underrated “ deeerp. Why do you fuckin douche bags keep using that word? Trendy fucks. Steve Buscemi is not overlooked. He is also a real hero.
Honestly I don’t know if anyone but Steve Buscemi would’ve fit this role. Gave us one of the best character arcs and characters on the show, and also directed one of the best episodes of the series with Pine Barrens
@@tweezersalad4075 Lol I’d no idea he directed In Camelot and I never would’ve guessed as much. That’s the one where Tony meets Johnny’s comare and she does that cringey song, right?
Yeah. He also directed the ep where Artie fights the French guy and the one where Vito is spotted at the gay bar, so he's still got a banger lineup under his belt@@cnvrgnt
This was mainly done for business. Tony and the family were not able to work with NY the same way while this issue was hanging over them. He took a chance that the NY family would accept Tony killing blunetto himself. Phil didn't, but everyone else wanted to get back to business.
Oh I think Phil would have killed him in the most gruesome way possible. He rammed a pool cue up Vito's ass just for being gay. What do you think he would do to this guy for killing his baby brother?
"The guy playing Tony B has been killed in so many movies, it is not funny, & the worst way I have seen done away with was being fed alive through a wood chipper (forget the movie)." Fargo.
+Charles Martel he actually couldn't really kill Leotardo until after Sacrimoni had passed (his close friend and ally). This really was the best option in order for both him to stay in power/remain respected and to spare his cousin a brutal, slow death.
It's interesting that Tony, while at the same time being the most cold blooded bastard, (killing his cousin), he was being perhaps being his most compassionate, (saving him from being tortured to death by Phil). The layers of this show are astounding.
Back when mob bosses who were conflicted about killing their cousins to avoid a war were really mob bosses who were conflicted about killing their cousins to avoid a war.
@@hunny___ no no. A camera crew was secretary following around the "Soprano" crime family from NJ without them knowing. It was a reality show actually.
Phil is such a hypocrite, he kills a lot of people but gets majorly butthurt when someone close to him dies. I'm sure that Angelo's grandchildren were just as upset when he died as Phil was when Billy got clipped.
It would have been a lot more glorious if he'd actually killed Phil instead of letting him live and causing more problems for everyone in the long run. Tony B threw his life away for one hit and couldn't even get the job done correctly. I guess his genius IQ didn't really count for shit in the end.
@@joemckim1183 Almost every character in the show is a hypocritical self-serving delusional piece of shit. Even guys like Phil that think they're not, they've just convinced themselves better than others.
@@snc_brds That's the great thing about the show... it humanizes people who are complete and total pieces of shit from the outside. And that is what they are. Murderers, thieves, con artists, sociopaths, abusers, betrayers, etc. Doesn't stop them from being incredibly interesting personas.
TheLord SilverCockroach Same thing happened in the Godfather: when you start killing your blood family members to be good for the business "family", you no longer have a family after very long. You become feared instead of loved, obeyed instead of followed.
***** If you going to go by the rules, Tony himself broke a lot of them...And breaking the rules was not the reason for why he killed Tony B, he only did it because the backslash of Tony B shit was getting to big, he knew Phill would find him eventually and the hit would not be fasts, it would be pure, slow cold torture, Tony S with this shotgun did a favor for Tony B by putting him down fast, easy and painless...
***** The difference is that Tony B wasn't a rat. And Tony didn't want to kill him; he had to for the sake of inter-family relations. Tony killed his cousin because he knew that he would have been tortured to death if Phil's crew caught him.
TheLord SilverCockroach and half of his family tried to have him killed. Corrado, his mother, Janice..... In that business your friends and family are your biggest enemies. When will you learn??
It's weird. One of my earliest memories of being on RUclips were a train video, the Yogscast, and the death of Tony Blundetto. Weird seeing this video again after so long.
@@wood4278 for sure, absolute beast , toughest gringo that walked. And yet, Blondie had an admiration for him ( I’d rather him my friend than my enemy!
Funny, I was literally just talking bout this on FB, so lemme just copy n paste right quick... The way Tony B's story plays out is probably one of the realest feeling and most well written and well portrayed arcs of the Sopranos by far. It's a shame that Steve Buscemi is so widely overlooked as the skilled actor he is on account of his looks, because he really sells this role better than almost anyone before him. I mean, if you really think about it, Richie Aprile and Ralph Cifaretto were almost cartoonishly evil. But Tony B... He didn't have me laughing. The way he struggles towards starting a new life, only to be crushed by the realization that it's impossible to thrive, let alone sustain in this life without getting your hands bloody. At no point did I ever feel as though Tony B really ever overacted or underacted in accordance to his situations, and you really feel the emotional highs and lows he goes through on his journey, and man... It's almost like your heart sinks when Tony B hits that pit of despire. Like many who enter Tony Soprano's life, it's almost as if a downward spiral was guaranteed for Tony B.
@@1mmarker Well he betrayed T twice, the first time he was rewarded. The second he got what he deserved, because he himself put his family members in direct danger, by his actions.
@@1mmarker Yeah, but it's not like his Boss and cousin didn't warn him time and time again. He sure as hell didn't have his own family's back, so no wonder that they didn't end up having his. Tony tried to save him and push back against New York but when it became clear that they would not let it go, Tony would either face a war which could get a bunch of his own crew killed and not to mention Tony himself. A lot of guys under Tony would have cut a deal with New York and had Tony and Tony B killed if he hadn't done this.
Both Buscemi as well as Robert Loggia were amazing additions to not only this season, but the entire series. I'm pretty sure this was also the same season Phil was introduced. That's Mr. Pink from Reservoir Dogs, Billy Batts from Goodfellas, and Frank Lopez from Scarface. As far as casting goes it does not get any better than this and the series consistently maintains a steady stream of some of the best talent in the crime drama genre. It's like a kingdom of badasses.
Getting an all star cast to support, at that time, lesser known actors. This was great. This was an all italian cast, and it felt so good for italian americans all over the east coast
What a great scene. Gandolfini was a really great actor. He is wonderful at telling the story, whether using scripted lines or, like he does here, all wordless and deadly serious. I love the strange moment of grief, anger at betrayal, and the most fleeting wistful remembrance of their history. In about 14 seconds. I dunno that many actors who can do that much and still make it soulful and feel lived-in.
The long shot on the red barn as Tony B drives up is a reference to the painting in Dr. Melfi's office from Season 1 - the one that Tony thought was "rotting". Showing it here symbolizes both imminent death and Tony's inner self-destruction. Great scene and a great song, too.
That was a great catch. I had to go back and look up that scene after I read your comment. I loved how this show did this, tying everything together. Made you a more attentive viewer.
***** Tony S looked up to Tony B, as did Chris. But Tony S knew he was not good (rot in the barn). Also, Tony B was a thorn in the side. Tony S had to do.
The fact that Tony waited until Blundetto made eye contact to pull the trigger is so cold. He wanted the last thing he saw to be the man who put him down.
IMO Tony was trying to get it done as quick as possible, but at the same time he had to make sure it was a one shot kill. If he would've missed, he would've wounded Blundetto or even worse he could've missed him and then Blundetto could've pulled out the handgun and shot back. Tony was careful to hit him with a kill shot as quickly as possible.
The Sopranos was so good at presenting a simple and mundane scene only to have it punctuated with the murder of someone you was just watching. I think that’s why viewers were on edge during the last scene of the show. We’d seen it before; a seemingly normal scene with building dread set to the sounds of an older song. And when the tension was built to a fever pitch the show just
In Tony's dream in a previous episode he sees Tony Blundetto kill Phil Leotardo. If you look at Tony B's and Phil's Clothing the had on the dream, it shows that they died in real life with the same clothes they had in the dream of Tony Soprano.
Never occurred to me before but this kind of parallel's Tony's death at the end of the series - the upbeat music interrupted by the shot, the split second before the killer emerges, shot from the side
Didn't matter, they still ended up going to war with them anyways. He legit killed his cousin for no reason and honestly would have been better off just going to war with NY with his cousin by his side.
Let his cousin live, tell him to leave west or down south and never come back. Tell Phil good luck finding him, Tony is out hiding and haven't heard from him.
Yeah cos the mob murders you hear about in the news are the only murders that occur...lol... forensics my ass. The mob take care of their shit. They have been doing it for a century
100 years of film and television... This is the only time I can ever recall seeing someone shoot a gun while wearing latex gloves. I'm wondering why everyone doesn't do it.
Steve was former FDNY not NYPD. And after 9-11. He went and helped out with the clean up and recovery efforts. And not once was lookin for recognition or anything like that. Actually it wasn’t even known till like a year later or somethjng that he was out there helping. So much respect for Steve
@@calyrexcolress2088 You might want to re-read that comment again. He never said NYPD. Though your confusion is warranted as I've always heard it as FDNY not NYFD and both the P and F are easy to mix up in that scenario. Especially if you're glancing over a comment. Also, agree with you on the respect for Steve. He's a class act.
To be fair if phill had got to him first he would have tortured tony beyond vile comprehension And then probably continued his killing spree One old man who didn’t want to be pushed around anymore did so much to destroying the already crumbling New Jersey mob
The song says "and well send glad tidings from New York" ironically referencing the NY crew that put Tony in the situation of having to kill his cousin
This scene has only one problem though. It's clear that Tony in a way was looking out for himself; because if Animal Blundetto wasn't dead/returned to Phil, more than likely there would've been a war. So, Tony didn't want it to look like he killed him though, because if he did Phil would feel that Tony cheated him in a way by not getting to torture and kill Blundetto. So, Tony decided to stage it as a suicide. However : When Tony shot Blundetto, he released a shell. If you shoot and kill yourself with a shotgun, obviously you can't pump it again. Because, well, you're dead. So when Tony did that, eventually when they find the body it would've been apparent that Blundetto didn't kill himself. It would've obviously looked like foul play. So in the end, Tony could've easily fucked himself with that mistake. But Phil was a power hungry mobster that probably wouldn't care. He would've probably said some shit about doing 20 years then forget about it.
Actually the way he sneaks up with the shotgun is the part that looks like Scarface. Remember how everyone was shooting Tony Montana but Sosa sneaking up with the shot gun did him in.
Knowing what Phil did to Vito for being gay I can just imagine what he would've done to Tony B for killing his brother. Definitely a mercy killing if that even makes sense.
@@harizotoh7 Phil was outraged by Vito's-marriage betrayal (or that was his excuse: weren't there hints from other characters that Phil himself might have been a secret gay?).
@@culcune If Phil hadn't gone gay under the stress of 20 years in the slammer, then he must have been one twisted and angry piece of work when he was released.
See this is what I love about this show... The killing scene here is so realistic. No music, no stunts, just hard and cold. Along with a creepy look at the end indicating Tony B saw it was Tony right before the last second
@@jacksons1010 nah depending on the load and shotgun gauge it really does happen. Seen live leak footage in Mexico of a guy closing a glass business door and locking it ‘to keep the cartel thugs out’… dumbass stood there while the cartel dude loaded him up with buckshot through the plate glass wall to wall window. Dude went flying back about 2-4 ft and his entrails were strewn about. Physics is a bitch Flying through the air maybe not. But a few feet backwards for sure is plausible
I remember when I was younger I thought the premise of killing your own cousin like that (a close one too) was somehow unbelievable but then later I learned about all the mobsters who killed their own brothers, fathers and sons lol
Not only mobsters, people in general do that over trivial things like property, inheritance etc, so it's not surprising that mobsters would do or anyone else in place of power
I'm a grandma who actually loathes most everything about the Sopranos, but this scene is perfection. The pacing, the setting, the sounds, and Tony's - accuracy!! Good shot.
that is one way to look at the guys he whacked. but ask yourself - that is quite a clear pattern, throughout the series. so the other way to look at it is that Tony and by extension Sil, Bobby, Carmine Jr, Butch, are a later generation and another type of mafiosi (as opposed to the cinematic standard), that middle class, suburban, liberal 90s America can relate to: softer, more reasonable, more a consumer-materialist-hedonist managerial incarnation of it, the cultural change of America, having changed the mafia too; whereas Blundetto, Richie April, Ralphie, Feech (and Phil) represent the old school gangsters (they are either older or have their credentials tied to the old ways), with plenty of psychopaths among them. that creates a constant moral juxtaposition in the series ('see, Tony is not that bad'), in which Tony knocks off these 'bad guys', in a struggle that is understood as the demise of the old ways of the old mob, but is depicted also as a struggle for Tony's own salvation.. while serving to make a middle class audience continuously identify with Tony as trying to remain decent/reasonable while being flawed/torn/challenged.. and that then in turn hitting Chase's real question home - are we not all Tony, (or Carmella, Meadow), prone to anger fits, psychological trauma, manipulation and violence ?
@@countchoculitis1528 Thank you!! I could tell it was Van Morrison, it kinda has a similar rhythm to Brown Eyed Girl, but I couldn't remember the name. Getting old sucks.
If it was Paulie doing the hit he would have taken the groceries with him afterwards.
Paulie could write a book on Economics
"I gave em ta Ma"
"Madone, the stupid fuck bought soy milk!"
thats our fun and lovable paulie
And his wallet
Poor Blundetto his only crime was all the crimes he committed :(
:(
comment section under Sopranos clips is like watching it for the first time again
Hmmm,boy are you fat
Wait why did he kill him?
@@chayannemendez2743 Cause he pretty much killed two made men from Johnny Sacks NY crew. He should've been killed sooner, but Tony kept sticking up for him.
Tony after shooting, "Mmboy are you dead"
🤣🤣🤣
hire fans
😂😂😂😂😂
Lolololol
And that’s why he was killed in front of his family. 😂😂😂😂 he’s a piece of garbage.
Man even though Animal Blundetto was only around for a season, he nailed his role
Yeah he had a killer ending. “He Killed it”
I cant even say his name.
@@paulmccarthy4277 the wine makes you emotional
It sucks he died so soon tho
@@RedemptioINN He couldn't even say his last words.
That shot sent him all the way back to Atlantic City in the 20s.
Just realized that Nucky was also shot in the face.
I just got it 🤣🤣🤣
Then the shot he got in Atlantic City brought his ass back to the 2000’s
😂😂😂😂😂 fucking lucky Thomson
Ha
Tony was a ninja. Only 300-pound man I know who could sneak up on anybody.
Fr, I think he preferred the stealth approach
Surpassed only by Vito Spatafore.
@@youtert ho! That fag vito shot jackie jr then wobbled back to the car
@@youtert Doesn't count since Vito has teleportation powers
Him and Vito graduated from the same academy of morbidly obese ninjas 🥷🏿
Love the touch of tony using a shotgun to kill his cousin. He wanted it to be quick with no chance of him having to deal with his cousin reacting in anyway.
And it’s actually an act of mercy. Phil guys woulda gave Tony B a slow death
That fat f**k Tony Soprano should have handed that Animal Blundetto over to me!
@@archivesoffantasy5560 The killing yes, but a shotgun is a guaranteed kill no matter what as long as you hit. A pistol can require multiple shots, you can miss, you can live a gunshot etc. That's what he meant.
@@Sarnatuile As long as you hit em with buck I suppose.
@@sailorofthesoul1945 yup not bird.
The fact that they cut to his face 5 times after he died really captured the sadness and the knowing stare of "you just did that to me." Brutal.
It's honestly quite haunting to keep being reminded of his face, just staring back as if we were Tony.
"It's always someone you know" - Henry Hill (IIRC)
Those eyes said "Mmmmboi are u fhaaaat"
Better that than Phil who would have gotten to him eventually!
get your own fucking comment
Gotta love whenever you hear an old rock song, cause that means someone's about to get clilpped.
That song was 30? years "old" back then. Now its 50. Thats like if they used a song from the fifties when it was first shown. Crazy how time flies.
@@kazzapable once a classic always a classic.
"Love grows where my Rosemary goes."
Imagine if they inexplicably played a polka song whenever someone was about to get clipped.
Oh fo sho
Some very good acting by Steve Buscemi pretending he didn't hear the wood creeks from a mile away under all that weight.
He didn't hear the steps over Van Morrison singing in the house.
That joke you made about Tony’s weight, let’s just say it was very unkind
Blundetto’s entire body doing a slam dunk is half as impactful as what Tony left in the bathroom that morning
@Chris Donahue Fuck did you say to me Kid
@Chris Donahue think you just pissed him off.
I always wondered if Tony Blundetto had soft drinks of choice in his grocery bag .
Nope, prolly scotch. Or gentleman jack, but I don't think they had it in the early 2000's.
The proffesional you know!
@@johndsouza842 Gentlemen Jack came out in 1988
@@vengeance7029 interesting.
always with the soft drinks
Tony did him a favor. Phil would've gone medieval on his ass.
There are arguments that it wasn't all 'altruistic' why he did it himself, but the side effect was that he was saved from getting Vito'd by Phil. He really deserved it, but that is another argument for another time.
Yes this is a Of Mice and Men killing
Zeds Dead
With a pair of pliers, a blowtorch and a couple of hard pipe hitting mulinyans?
@@symbiosisai Hell.Yes!!!
Tony B’s eyes still being open makes this scene that much more disturbing. Tony B’s face just says, “wow you really just did that to me.”
I agree
Looked more like an understanding to me. He knew it had to be done.
Tony hated to kill Tony b but it's that or war, Tony did what he had to do.
It was the creepiest hit on that show, the van Morrison song just added more power to it.
His eyes were saying: M'booooy are you faaaat!
It amazes me that in all the years this show was on the air, Tony never once found out that murdering people was illegal!
It's his business.
@@LocalGambler it’s a joke.
@@nuttychickenman Yes, a joke by me.
Guns are legal. So murder must be ok. Right?
@@oggearhound2242 Republican Jesus says it’s ok to kill people to protect property and bomb abortion clinics.
I can't believe he shot up that perfectly harmless box of cereal. Tony's just an out-of-control cereal killer!
LOL.
Only 13 likes after 8 months?!?
Your comic sensibilities deserve more recognition!
Outtake: Tony walks around the corner, wood creaks……..
Tony B. “Boy, are you FAT!!”
Tony probably ate his groceries afterward too.
Someone please edit those clips together 😂
Reginald Van Gleason III
Tony should have checked what was in the bags, maybe he would have found some nice gabagool.
Is that gabagool ovvvvveeer heeeeeeeere
What? No prachute?
@@rulinghabs I’d be lookin for mortadella honestly
Syl was wonderin bout the provolone
@@moemanncann895 It's on the ground
That was a pretty good shot for someone who never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
He had smarts, personality, leadership potential. All the prerequisites to lead young men onto the field of sport. Now look at the stress he lives with.
Yeah right, Mr. Magoo
What the fuck does that mean varisty athlete? I see lot a ya comments saying same thing? Y r u quoting /commenting from beginning seasons?
RutherfordClan junior says it in season 5 to tony soprano.
MF BOZO AKA Reptilian Lizard 2!
This is where Tony really started to change to how he was at the end, ready to kill almost anyone close to him. He only had one childhood friend left at that point who was a civilian that cooked him food. Why he went there so often, made him not feel alone.
He was a sociopathic murderer. He didn't change into one.
Unless you count Silvio.
Yeah but Tony did the right thing here. Tony B really screwed up big time going around killing mobsters and putting the Soprano crew in danger. Tony had to kill his cousin he had no other choice. At least he didn't let Phil get ahold of him alive. Tony B brought all this on himself and made some really stupid selfish decisions.
The moment when Tony Soprano became Heisenberg.
@@mrsinister8943From the moment he found that money those two black guys threw away he made some real stinkers. Before that he was actually really hardworking and sticking to a generally clean lifestyle after spending 20 years in the can. It's sad when they go young like that.
I always liked the sobering moments of the show like this. It reminds the audience of the harsh realities of criminal life. Imagine being forced to kill your own favorite cousin to avoid his upcoming torture. It makes anyone feel grateful for a more civilized life.
And that's that.
...
He even shot Tony in the face, so his mother couldn't give him an open coffin at the funeral.
It was some real greaseball shit
Not even close. He made it as quick and painless as possible. If Phil got a hold of him, and he would, he would have been tortured and kept alive just to torture him some more. There was much compassion in Tony's actions here.
I think they just made him disappear anyways lol
his face looks like egg noodles and ketchup
HoyaSaxaSD Surely someone else has replied with the following, I'm just too lazy to check on mobile YT: He was shot on the side you can cover with pancake. I could have fixed his face enough for an open-casket and my only physical experience is with SillyPutty...
"I'm not gonna lie to you, Tony. Phil's gonna do it, and he's gonna do it his way."
-Johnny Sack
That is why tone said fuck that and did the hit. Kinda sad imo cause it was done to keep him from being brutally tortured.
When they GO!?!?!?!?!?
Did you not see what they did to Vito?
You want dignified john? Go fuck yourself you phil and whoever he's my fucking cousin.. lol
" I'm not gonna lie to you , Tony, I don't have to " *
I always thought this had to be one of the most realistic depictions of how something like this goes down. No tears, no overwrought "I'm sorry and Goodbye!", no closing Blundetto's eyes with Tony's own fingers lol. You can tell that Tony B meant something to Tony because he did give him a few seconds of thought. Anyone else, and Tony would have just walked away immediately or moved on to the next item of business.
I think Tony S would have liked to have said something like “anyone else and I woulda capped you a long time ago, this is to save you from Phils Torture” or something like that. But by the time he’s said that, Tony B could easily pull out his piece.
@@archivesoffantasy5560 I feel that. But again - and as you mentioned - realism. 😅 In real life, an experienced killer would know: allow NO chance that your target will fight back or run away. In a typical movie or TV Show, Tony S would have given a "You was my brudda!" speech and Tony B would have delivered last words. In real life, you don't give someone time for last words if you really want them dead. Sneak up, BOOM, done.
@@WhatAHorribleNight yeah u make a great point bro
You’re comparing vastly different scenarios like they are the same.
Movies of Wars as well as High Sci-Fi Fantasy genres where everything is known to be overly dramatic due to the very nature of the genre itself.
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The sopranos follows a small time Mafia Family in New Jersey during the 1960s. A time of unbridled violence due to the Vietnam war and the aftermath of the Korean War, plus it’s only 15-20 years after WW2 officially ended.
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These are cold, hard people who have lived their entire lives surrounded by Death and Desperation. Constant street killings and the desire to obtain Power in any form at all.
@@johnnyrocket1685You’re off by decades
Buscemi has been involved with some amazing projects over the years, great actor and director.
The sad thing is, whenever Tony thinks back to his cousin, this is the image that will be forever in his thoughts.
Not an issue since the onion ring communion.
Tony soprano will have more talking fish night mares now
No.... because it didn't really happen. Come back to reality now Carinth, it was just a show.
@@avonbarksdale5995 😅, do you not recognize a character observation? Of course I know in reality it's just an actor playing a part.😏
@@Carinth6 🤪 just breakin balls a little. You're a good sport.
Have a nice day sir!
Steve Buscemi, one of the best underrated actors and RIP James gandolfini
I think that he is quite esteemed as an actor
Osbaldo Camacho not just an actor, but a director too.. so good that he was brought in to direct the shows he played in the Sopranos..
Yeah he is definitely not underrated. Everyone knows his name and knows he's awesome.
He’s not underrated at all. Very well known and cast a lot. And if you become the butt of a Family Guy or Simpsons joke (which he did), you aren’t underrated
Herp berp “ underrated “ deeerp. Why do you fuckin douche bags keep using that word? Trendy fucks. Steve Buscemi is not overlooked. He is also a real hero.
This scene hit me in the feels more than any other in the whole series.
To me it was Adriana....
It hit Tony B right in the chest.
In the feels? Wtf does that even mean?
@@RoeJogan-uk2mx you couldn't even guess? Your in for a tough ride in life fella
Honestly I don’t know if anyone but Steve Buscemi would’ve fit this role. Gave us one of the best character arcs and characters on the show, and also directed one of the best episodes of the series with Pine Barrens
Did not know,he directed that.. Wow , and that was probably 1 of the best episodes hands down..
He wrote the character himself iirc
Steve somehow directed the best and worst episodes in the series. Pine Barrens(Best) and In Camelot(worst)
@@tweezersalad4075 Lol I’d no idea he directed In Camelot and I never would’ve guessed as much. That’s the one where Tony meets Johnny’s comare and she does that cringey song, right?
Yeah. He also directed the ep where Artie fights the French guy and the one where Vito is spotted at the gay bar, so he's still got a banger lineup under his belt@@cnvrgnt
In a way, Tony saved his cousin by killing him quickly. If Phil would have gotten to Blundetto, he would have tortured him in the worst possible way.
You dont know that. It was never said what Phil would've done with Tony.
It was implied.
This was mainly done for business. Tony and the family were not able to work with NY the same way while this issue was hanging over them. He took a chance that the NY family would accept Tony killing blunetto himself. Phil didn't, but everyone else wanted to get back to business.
It was absolutely stated that Phil was going to handle it
Oh I think Phil would have killed him in the most gruesome way possible. He rammed a pool cue up Vito's ass just for being gay. What do you think he would do to this guy for killing his baby brother?
Kinda like putting down an old dog. Tony B was a dead man walking, and Tony S saved him from a torturous death at the hands of Phil Leotardo.
Well yeah, I think mostly it was to relieve the tension between the two families, because I dont see why Tony B could not have just left NJ
Truth...they could have found him with a pool cue rammed up his shinebox.
"The guy playing Tony B has been killed in so many movies, it is not funny, & the worst way I have seen done away with was being fed alive through a wood chipper (forget the movie)."
Fargo.
+Charles Martel he actually couldn't really kill Leotardo until after Sacrimoni had passed (his close friend and ally). This really was the best option in order for both him to stay in power/remain respected and to spare his cousin a brutal, slow death.
Jeff Monette yea and Phil a Taste of Tony hahaha
It's interesting that Tony, while at the same time being the most cold blooded bastard, (killing his cousin), he was being perhaps being his most compassionate, (saving him from being tortured to death by Phil). The layers of this show are astounding.
Back when mob bosses who were conflicted about killing their cousins to avoid a war were really mob bosses who were conflicted about killing their cousins to avoid a war.
This was a show.
@@hunny___ wait so Italians aren't real?
@@hunny___ no no. A camera crew was secretary following around the "Soprano" crime family from NJ without them knowing. It was a reality show actually.
I don't care how stupid it was, watching blundetto strike revenge on billy and phil was glorious.
***** Leotardo brothers whacked Angelo Garepe, he was one of Tony B's closest friends
Phil is such a hypocrite, he kills a lot of people but gets majorly butthurt when someone close to him dies. I'm sure that Angelo's grandchildren were just as upset when he died as Phil was when Billy got clipped.
It would have been a lot more glorious if he'd actually killed Phil instead of letting him live and causing more problems for everyone in the long run. Tony B threw his life away for one hit and couldn't even get the job done correctly. I guess his genius IQ didn't really count for shit in the end.
@@joemckim1183 Almost every character in the show is a hypocritical self-serving delusional piece of shit. Even guys like Phil that think they're not, they've just convinced themselves better than others.
@@snc_brds That's the great thing about the show... it humanizes people who are complete and total pieces of shit from the outside. And that is what they are. Murderers, thieves, con artists, sociopaths, abusers, betrayers, etc.
Doesn't stop them from being incredibly interesting personas.
Tony killed half of his family
TheLord SilverCockroach Same thing happened in the Godfather: when you start killing your blood family members to be good for the business "family", you no longer have a family after very long. You become feared instead of loved, obeyed instead of followed.
***** If you going to go by the rules, Tony himself broke a lot of them...And breaking the rules was not the reason for why he killed Tony B, he only did it because the backslash of Tony B shit was getting to big, he knew Phill would find him eventually and the hit would not be fasts, it would be pure, slow cold torture, Tony S with this shotgun did a favor for Tony B by putting him down fast, easy and painless...
***** The difference is that Tony B wasn't a rat. And Tony didn't want to kill him; he had to for the sake of inter-family relations. Tony killed his cousin because he knew that he would have been tortured to death if Phil's crew caught him.
TheLord SilverCockroach and half of his family tried to have him killed. Corrado, his mother, Janice..... In that business your friends and family are your biggest enemies. When will you learn??
Half of Tony's family wanted him dead
It's weird. One of my earliest memories of being on RUclips were a train video, the Yogscast, and the death of Tony Blundetto. Weird seeing this video again after so long.
“Boy are you fat “ was a comment Tony just couldn’t let go
Tony B was awesome, wish he lasted awhile longer
Agreed
Right.I still love the "let's try it my way " scene when Tony was gonna whack Christopher
Put me in coach.
Yeah a very capable guy
Sorry but as a main character introduced in the first episode of a new season, he had to die. It's the rules.
"If you are going to shoot, then shoot. Don't talk." Tuco.
Tuco had the right idea.
Tuco was one tough dude! No one messed with him and didn’t regret it. Well, Blondie being the exception.
"There's two kinds of people in this world, Tuco. Those with loaded guns, and those with groceries strewn all around them."
Tuco was a "BEAST"
@@wood4278 for sure, absolute beast , toughest gringo that walked. And yet, Blondie had an admiration for him ( I’d rather him my friend than my enemy!
Funny, I was literally just talking bout this on FB, so lemme just copy n paste right quick...
The way Tony B's story plays out is probably one of the realest feeling and most well written and well portrayed arcs of the Sopranos by far.
It's a shame that Steve Buscemi is so widely overlooked as the skilled actor he is on account of his looks, because he really sells this role better than almost anyone before him. I mean, if you really think about it, Richie Aprile and Ralph Cifaretto were almost cartoonishly evil.
But Tony B... He didn't have me laughing. The way he struggles towards starting a new life, only to be crushed by the realization that it's impossible to thrive, let alone sustain in this life without getting your hands bloody.
At no point did I ever feel as though Tony B really ever overacted or underacted in accordance to his situations, and you really feel the emotional highs and lows he goes through on his journey, and man... It's almost like your heart sinks when Tony B hits that pit of despire.
Like many who enter Tony Soprano's life, it's almost as if a downward spiral was guaranteed for Tony B.
Its kind of ironic his downfall was trusting his own family would have his back in the end.
lol
@@1mmarker Well he betrayed T twice, the first time he was rewarded. The second he got what he deserved, because he himself put his family members in direct danger, by his actions.
Buscemi was not right for this role. You're crowding us with your unfounded phraise.
@@1mmarker Yeah, but it's not like his Boss and cousin didn't warn him time and time again. He sure as hell didn't have his own family's back, so no wonder that they didn't end up having his.
Tony tried to save him and push back against New York but when it became clear that they would not let it go, Tony would either face a war which could get a bunch of his own crew killed and not to mention Tony himself. A lot of guys under Tony would have cut a deal with New York and had Tony and Tony B killed if he hadn't done this.
Both Buscemi as well as Robert Loggia were amazing additions to not only this season, but the entire series. I'm pretty sure this was also the same season Phil was introduced. That's Mr. Pink from Reservoir Dogs, Billy Batts from Goodfellas, and Frank Lopez from Scarface. As far as casting goes it does not get any better than this and the series consistently maintains a steady stream of some of the best talent in the crime drama genre. It's like a kingdom of badasses.
Wot, no shinebox?
Loggia was good but unfortunately they wrote him off the show because he was getting older and had problems remembering his lines.
Getting an all star cast to support, at that time, lesser known actors. This was great. This was an all italian cast, and it felt so good for italian americans all over the east coast
What a great scene. Gandolfini was a really great actor. He is wonderful at telling the story, whether using scripted lines or, like he does here, all wordless and deadly serious. I love the strange moment of grief, anger at betrayal, and the most fleeting wistful remembrance of their history. In about 14 seconds. I dunno that many actors who can do that much and still make it soulful and feel lived-in.
That's jim gandolfini at his best, awsome actor and better then deniro
@@michaeltonner7768 Deniro at 117 years old in Irishman beating up a guy
@@edweer670 james gandolfini was a better actor, just my opinion
@@michaeltonner7768 i agree
@@edweer670 That’s hilarious 💀I remember seeing that scene thinking, no amount of CGI is hiding that arthritis 😂
the class of 2004 was supposed to make them stronger. how wrong they were.
so fucking true ! :(
When Tony B killed Joey and Billy it became the beginning of the end lol
With old school mentality, comes old school passion and vendetta.
The class of 2004 dammed the Jersey family.
@@bozotheclown666 FnA, the most useless, pathetic class. Old school clueless morons.
“ I PAID ENOUGH JOHN… I PAID A LOT !!!! “ This scene right here is what Tony was referring to 💯
This show will never die… some vino.. some nice cold pasta… forget heating it up… and kick back and watch season 5 of sopranos
Soprano had to kill him swiftly, as you just know Blundetto would've talked his way out of being whacked if Soprano hesitated even for a moment.
tony blundetto was one of my favourite characters. steve buscemi plays him magnificently
His face says it all. He never ever expected tony to personally do the hit
The sopranos was the last show .DAD and I. Watched together before he passed.
@@michaelcline3123 RIP
usually, the milk gets it when somebody has groceries.
lol
+broncodevil Munich
lol. yes.. remember lethal weapon 3 .. i think, chopper rips up guy's office.. his oj became a fountain.
lol true, like in T2 when John Connor's stepmom stabs his stepdad through the milk carton as he takes a drink, DOUBLE KILL
funny how he had the generic basic food groups,great writing on the show but they lost their imagination on this scene
The long shot on the red barn as Tony B drives up is a reference to the painting in Dr. Melfi's office from Season 1 - the one that Tony thought was "rotting". Showing it here symbolizes both imminent death and Tony's inner self-destruction. Great scene and a great song, too.
nice catch man!
That was a great catch. I had to go back and look up that scene after I read your comment. I loved how this show did this, tying everything together. Made you a more attentive viewer.
***** Tony S looked up to Tony B, as did Chris. But Tony S knew he was not good (rot in the barn). Also, Tony B was a thorn in the side. Tony S had to do.
Explains why it was much easier to kill chris.
southshore516 great another Film School student weighing in on a random location shot
The fact that Tony waited until Blundetto made eye contact to pull the trigger is so cold. He wanted the last thing he saw to be the man who put him down.
No he didn't, he loved his cousin.
Wrong! He didn't want to kill him. He had no choice! He was a dead man. New York was going to torture him to death if he didn't.
Yeah, wtf are you on about?
IMO Tony was trying to get it done as quick as possible, but at the same time he had to make sure it was a one shot kill. If he would've missed, he would've wounded Blundetto or even worse he could've missed him and then Blundetto could've pulled out the handgun and shot back. Tony was careful to hit him with a kill shot as quickly as possible.
Tony is one of my fav characters just cause he was so physically imposing, and if he needed someone gone he wasn’t Afraid to do it himself
"i paid john, i paid A LOT"
Damn I really liked Tony B, and he never got to reconcile with his daughter :'(
I forgot about his daughter :(
That’s what joining the mafia does. Rips families apart
He probably should have thought about that before quickly doing two contract murders and going back into the mob. Clearly he had other priorities.
Tony really loved him.
Jimmy is gone but will be loved and missed forever🙏🙏😇💘💘💘💘
I knew this was gonna happen the whole episode but was still mad. I loved tony blundetto
He really didn't wanna do that, but in the end, he might have done him a favour.
Tony B would have died screaming if Phil had got to him first.
0:59, *THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE TONY!*
+J buugi LMAOOO
That dead stare will be costing a lot of expensive therapy at Dr Melfi's
Rare footage of Tony Soprano killing an animal
there is a pay phone on every corner in this show....
They're in huge metropolises the majority of the time and you would find still plenty of payphones in cities during the time this show was on.
The show was on from 1999-2007. People started getting cell phones around that time, but they weren't so popular that pay phones weren't necessary.
This was before cellphones came on the scene and into every child's hand..
They touch on that when they’re looking for Phil in season 6 , they’re more scarce as the seasons go by
This was in the late '90's-early 2000's, before phones were invented. That's why.
It was the falling on the logs that killed him
That “And we’ll send you glad tidings from
New York” as the gun is shown, given the context, is simply perfection.
The Sopranos was so good at presenting a simple and mundane scene only to have it punctuated with the murder of someone you was just watching. I think that’s why viewers were on edge during the last scene of the show. We’d seen it before; a seemingly normal scene with building dread set to the sounds of an older song. And when the tension was built to a fever pitch the show just
In Tony's dream in a previous episode he sees Tony Blundetto kill Phil Leotardo. If you look at Tony B's and Phil's Clothing the had on the dream, it shows that they died in real life with the same clothes they had in the dream of Tony Soprano.
Tony is a latent psyker. He also set his goomah on fire with his mind because he was getting sick of her.
Quasi Modo predicted all this.
@@Anon26535 does that mean tony s is the emperor of mankind?
@@mateol5610 maybe before Big E lost his emotions.
@@mateol5610 "What about the fact that I hate my son? Wasting his time chit-chatting with the fucking Chaos Gods."
Tony had to kill his cousin, because the New York guys were gonna slowly torture him
He had to kill his cousin or else more people in Tony's family were going to suffer or die.
He also just wanted to get Phil off his ass.
@@lpr5269 and to spare his cousin pain too.
Tony B deserved nothing less, he knew the consequences of his actions
Tony's got a thing for killing cousins
Never occurred to me before but this kind of parallel's Tony's death at the end of the series - the upbeat music interrupted by the shot, the split second before the killer emerges, shot from the side
As always with The Sopranos, the camera placements and movements, and then the editing, are so good.
Not killing his cousin would have caused dissent within his crew and a war with NY. Tony showed pragmatic leadership skills.
Dysentery*
Sooner or later he got this war..and in the end he was alone and scared
@@darkspawn88 I agree not killing off my army we just going to war with New York mob ten toes in.
Didn't matter, they still ended up going to war with them anyways. He legit killed his cousin for no reason and honestly would have been better off just going to war with NY with his cousin by his side.
Let his cousin live, tell him to leave west or down south and never come back. Tell Phil good luck finding him, Tony is out hiding and haven't heard from him.
Best thing about murder in the Sopranos is forensics don't exist.
he took the gloves
Body was cleaned up and disposed of before anyone knew anything. Shotgun left for Phil as a F you.
If you notice the police were also mostly paid off in this series too.
Yeah cos the mob murders you hear about in the news are the only murders that occur...lol... forensics my ass. The mob take care of their shit. They have been doing it for a century
What's the problem here?
100 years of film and television...
This is the only time I can ever recall seeing someone shoot a gun while wearing latex gloves.
I'm wondering why everyone doesn't do it.
The Departed?
This was one of the most simultaneously epic and twisted scenes in the entire show.
Steve’s a real mans man ! Former NYFD. Put his boots on and helped during 9-11 post attack . 🇺🇸 💪
Bush did 9/11
Steve was former FDNY not NYPD. And after 9-11. He went and helped out with the clean up and recovery efforts. And not once was lookin for recognition or anything like that. Actually it wasn’t even known till like a year later or somethjng that he was out there helping. So much respect for Steve
@@calyrexcolress2088 You might want to re-read that comment again. He never said NYPD. Though your confusion is warranted as I've always heard it as FDNY not NYFD and both the P and F are easy to mix up in that scenario. Especially if you're glancing over a comment.
Also, agree with you on the respect for Steve. He's a class act.
Definitely a NEW YORK TREASURE STEVIE B.
Denis Leary helped as well
"We send you glad tidings from New York."
Ain't that the truth!
That shotgun was a bottom loader and ejector.....prop or not it ressembled the ithaca deer slayer, police model
David Chase originally wanted to feed him into the woodchipper in the barn but he thought it would be overkill
One of my favorite moments in the whole show, one of the best episodes they ever did.
It looks like Tony flew to Miami to use the same pay phone that Tony Montana used after the attempted robbery by Hector
right after Donnie Brascoe
Say "hello" into my little pay phone.....
You got the yeyo?
@@BenjaminSteber No!...but Tony B got the bullet-o.🤔
loooool true
He had to see that it was Tony Soprano his own cousin who killed him just before he got shot......The betrayal in that split second.... powerful.
To be fair if phill had got to him first he would have tortured tony beyond vile comprehension
And then probably continued his killing spree
One old man who didn’t want to be pushed around anymore did so much to destroying the already crumbling New Jersey mob
the way these scenes are shot, you know you are watching a 'hit' scene straight away
Dude was eyeballing him man, he had to get it on.
Waynegrow!
The song says "and well send glad tidings from New York" ironically referencing the NY crew that put Tony in the situation of having to kill his cousin
This scene has only one problem though. It's clear that Tony in a way was looking out for himself; because if Animal Blundetto wasn't dead/returned to Phil, more than likely there would've been a war.
So, Tony didn't want it to look like he killed him though, because if he did Phil would feel that Tony cheated him in a way by not getting to torture and kill Blundetto. So, Tony decided to stage it as a suicide.
However : When Tony shot Blundetto, he released a shell. If you shoot and kill yourself with a shotgun, obviously you can't pump it again. Because, well, you're dead. So when Tony did that, eventually when they find the body it would've been apparent that Blundetto didn't kill himself. It would've obviously looked like foul play. So in the end, Tony could've easily fucked himself with that mistake.
But Phil was a power hungry mobster that probably wouldn't care. He would've probably said some shit about doing 20 years then forget about it.
1:47 looks like the same scarface shot when he's on the phone.
yeah, no coincedence imo....
Actually the way he sneaks up with the shotgun is the part that looks like Scarface. Remember how everyone was shooting Tony Montana but Sosa sneaking up with the shot gun did him in.
JerseyManShaggy That wasn't Sosa, that was his personal bodyguard.
yeah, also present earlier when they hung that guy from the chopper
Sure does.
Knowing what Phil did to Vito for being gay I can just imagine what he would've done to Tony B for killing his brother. Definitely a mercy killing if that even makes sense.
More like being gay and married to his cousin.
@@harizotoh7 Phil was outraged by Vito's-marriage betrayal (or that was his excuse: weren't there hints from other characters that Phil himself might have been a secret gay?).
@@None-zc5vg it wouldn't have been unheard of considering he 'spent 20 years' in prison.
@@culcune If Phil hadn't gone gay under the stress of 20 years in the slammer, then he must have been one twisted and angry piece of work when he was released.
@@None-zc5vg Well, he did have tissues, grilled cheese sandwiches and a radiator to blow off some of that energy... LOL
Seeing James gandolfini in killing them softly after the sopranos just isn't the same
There aren’t any arguments like in the movies, they come as your friend at a time when you least expect it!
Dude he sneaked up to him with a fucking shotgun, tf are u on about lmaoo
Henry fuckin Hill over here
See this is what I love about this show... The killing scene here is so realistic. No music, no stunts, just hard and cold. Along with a creepy look at the end indicating Tony B saw it was Tony right before the last second
Realistic except for Blundetto flying backwards when shot. That’s Hollywood BS.
Yeah..the flying through the air doesnt happen..with a headshot like that they just crumple like someone turning off a light switch
In real life from that range his head would of come clean off.
Literally music playing too lmao
@@jacksons1010 nah depending on the load and shotgun gauge it really does happen. Seen live leak footage in Mexico of a guy closing a glass business door and locking it ‘to keep the cartel thugs out’… dumbass stood there while the cartel dude loaded him up with buckshot through the plate glass wall to wall window. Dude went flying back about 2-4 ft and his entrails were strewn about. Physics is a bitch
Flying through the air maybe not. But a few feet backwards for sure is plausible
I remember when I was younger I thought the premise of killing your own cousin like that (a close one too) was somehow unbelievable but then later I learned about all the mobsters who killed their own brothers, fathers and sons lol
Not just mobsters. Monarchs and politicians do it all the time, for all time.
Not only mobsters, people in general do that over trivial things like property, inheritance etc, so it's not surprising that mobsters would do or anyone else in place of power
I'm a grandma who actually loathes most everything about the Sopranos, but this scene is perfection. The pacing, the setting, the sounds, and Tony's - accuracy!! Good shot.
"Weary is the head that wears the crown." Tony tries to avoid war with New York, but "appeasement doesn't work, with a guy like Phil."
nucky got wack by tony soprano,
This was a mercy killing, it was only a matter of time before Phil got to Tony b and tortured him to death.
"Dont toss them gloves. They gonna have that DNA shit all on em"- Slim Charles
Tony: "You're not supposed to double bag." BOOM!
Tony b, feech, richie aprile, ralphie, . There's more I'm missing I know, but the crew really could've used these guys towards the end.
that is one way to look at the guys he whacked. but ask yourself - that is quite a clear pattern, throughout the series. so the other way to look at it is that Tony and by extension Sil, Bobby, Carmine Jr, Butch, are a later generation and another type of mafiosi (as opposed to the cinematic standard), that middle class, suburban, liberal 90s America can relate to: softer, more reasonable, more a consumer-materialist-hedonist managerial incarnation of it, the cultural change of America, having changed the mafia too; whereas Blundetto, Richie April, Ralphie, Feech (and Phil) represent the old school gangsters (they are either older or have their credentials tied to the old ways), with plenty of psychopaths among them. that creates a constant moral juxtaposition in the series ('see, Tony is not that bad'), in which Tony knocks off these 'bad guys', in a struggle that is understood as the demise of the old ways of the old mob, but is depicted also as a struggle for Tony's own salvation.. while serving to make a middle class audience continuously identify with Tony as trying to remain decent/reasonable while being flawed/torn/challenged.. and that then in turn hitting Chase's real question home - are we not all Tony, (or Carmella, Meadow), prone to anger fits, psychological trauma, manipulation and violence ?
Puss is a talking fish these days.
Furio was the one they missed a lot in the end.
@@pimvanharten6935
Christopher too. Yes, he was unreliable but he always came through in a gunfight.
Whoever was in charge of the music for the sopranos was a genius
Van Morrison - Glad Tidings
"And we'll send you glad tidings from New York
Open up your eyes so you may see.."
HAHAHAHA!
I think David Chase chose most of it. A lot of Stones -- Chase is a huge Stones fan.
@@countchoculitis1528
Thank you!! I could tell it was Van Morrison, it kinda has a similar rhythm to Brown Eyed Girl, but I couldn't remember the name. Getting old sucks.
@@doorswhofan Yeah, he said that on "Talking Sopranos."
From the Moondance album.
TB,s death look was another nail in Tony's soul.
Good writing.
Even in his death scene product placement was in effect.