This show has some of the best subtle story telling, attention to detail, and acting. The small details and nuggets of information sprinkled throughout gives me goosebumps. Damn I fucking love this show
Tony when other people aren’t being thoughtful: “how can they be so cruel 😭😭” Tony when he ruins lives families and kills the people closest to him: “eh wattya gunna do 🤷♂️”
Lol u tony dick riders. Everything Tony touched turned stone. Tony is a piece of shit character who loves no one and only cares abt himself. A sociopath. He ruined Artie emotionally with all that shit with Jr so please do me a solid and stop saving tony's fat insecure ass. He loved no one.
Cristian T lot of sopranos comments are funny, creative, witty, and original. This comment is none of those things...just a copy pasta with a different noun. So cringe.
That's why Tony burned it down in the first place. He could see that, plus he didn't have the emotional attachment to the place that Artie did so it was an easy decision to him. He was looking out for his friend, whether or not Artie could understand it
Right. I’d be more inclined to return on opening day after the building was renovated after the fire rather than after the blood was wiped off the walls.
I saw a great video on "double speaking" and it referenced the sopranos quite a bit. Tony talks his way out of a lot of situations because his lies have a little bit of truth to them. Politicians and advertisers do it too.
I'm not sure I'd call season 3 light hearted. Season 3 was the one with Dr. Melfi's rape and Ralph beating Tracy to death. Probably the 2 most fucked up scenes in the entire show
Tony shot a guy multiple times in broad daylight in full view of a bridge full of cars and a marina. Even in real life, people don't really watch what's going on around them.
In real life, PLENTY of stuff goes on every day that never gets noticed or makes the papers. Not as much in the age of surveillance cameras everywhere, granted, but still a lot.
@@ezakustam Tony is more selfish and impulsive (antisocial), he lies and is cruel when he sees weakness he finds repulsive that he can take advantage of, Livia is genuinely sadistic and manipulative for the sake of it like all deeply narcissistic people. There is overlap but the tendency to lie compulsively and manipulate people particularly who show what is perceived as weakness is typical of antisocial personality I think, whereas NPD types take it to another level, they manipulate and deny reality so much that they almost seem delusional.
Because any time I want to take out a Mafia boss, the first guy I call is a broken sap with a ball-breaing wife who runs a pizza-pasta joint named after the volcano your ass becomes after you've had the vongole. That's who you want to get a top mobster whacked, not all this paesan from the other side nonsense.
@@AlanHope2013that's exactly why its perfect, tony would never expect a poverty stricken civilian, who is also one of his childhood friends, to carry out a hit on him
Spanish Ramon one of them turned out to be somewhat of a successful restaurant owner and the other ended up becoming a selfish manipulative sociopath murderer
I was hoping Artie would whack Tony right there in the parking lot. That self serving greedy Sociopath and liar had it coming. Artie didn't have the balls . Never did in anything he did. His wife did. But Not Artie. Tony had it coming but good.
The first time watching the parking lot scene with Artie and Tony is very suspenseful but now watching it again and again it's hilarious. Tony's expression when he hears is own terrible plan back to him gets me every time. 😂
I love how Sil says, “ Your friend Artie Bucco”, like Tony needs that explained. Obviously that line was for the viewers in an early episode, but it still amuses me.
5:43-5:47 u can tell Tony gets a little queasy once he realizes Artie is getting uneasy but u can quickly see Tony/James quickly regain his confidence once he figures out what to say, how to manipulate like he always does. Such a crazy good actor, Rest In Peace.
@@DynastyLuminous46 that's what I found comforting when my granddad began to slip. He couldn't hang onto more than two sentences of new information but if you showed him pictures or played old music he'd snap into life with stories that went on forever. The best thing with dementia patients is to not force them into acknowledging the present, just indulge them in the past.
That rifle was such an underrated character. It was all intimidating when it needed to be, but then later, it just snapped when the script called for it. What a range. Wish we could have seen more of it.
@@mattwages7692the one artie holds in this scene is bolt action The one he kills a rabbit with is some sort of pump action varmint rifle Not sure though, might need to recheck the rabbit scene
she did it on purpose. She and Junior wanted her son dead for putting her in a nursing home. She was hoping spilling the beans on Artie's restaurant would push him to kill her son.@@c.g.c.7735
As ridiculous as that does sound, he did manage to rebuild it and have a successful business. It would stop negative press. Doesn't necessarily make it ok tho.
Not going to lie you can't really argue with the logic if that hit would have went down Arties business would have been ruined as messed up as it may sound Tony really did do him a solid by burning down that restaurant
As a matter a fact, he did the right thing, burning down the palce.. The hit would have ruin the joint anyway.... Nobody would have ever come down there to eat, noone wants a bullet in the noodle right? So, bada bing, bada boom!!! And thats that... Now i'll go get some sandwiches or something.. You want some?
Wherever those tickets came from, and I dount Tony actually paid for them, regardless that was probably one of the most selfless things T ever did. He dug up some first class cruise tickets to stop his friend's place from getting fucked over by Junior. Tony had no skin in that game, just that Artie was his only friend from real life. The only person in his entire entourage who would never one day be convinced to have him whacked.
Not a chance, even towards the end Tony tells him "Art you know I'm gonna eat here till I fall off that fuckin chair." Christopher essentially signed his own death warrant too, when he decided to spike up before driving the BOSS to meet the fucking boss of New York in an accident where, Tony could've easily been killed or seriously injured *let alone his baby which is what set Tony off, just like his mother 👀*. He definitely becomes colder and just plain meaner *which is what David Chase wanted*, but it largely isn't inexcusable as he was forced to murder: his best friend since childhood, his 'nephew'/mentor's son, his cousin who was like a brother, and almost "had" to murder his own mother after she tried having him killed.... plus AJ tried to kill himself and kill Uncle Junior who previously shot and tried to kill T in some crazy alzheimer daze, I mean you gotta give the guy some slack, most of the 'horrible' deeds he's done were situations where the person 100% brought it on themselves, putting Tony in that position.
At first, Tony thinks Artie is there with the rifle, being paid to assassinate him by Junior's crew, but then it sinks in really quick how his mother set this all in motion. Artie didn't want to kill Tony even though he knew Tony was probably lying about the fire, but Livia definitely told Artie, so that he would kill Tony, and Tony realized it immediately. This was another time Livia tried to have Tony killed.
@@friezasama91_66 Tony was almost completely irredeemable by the end, I think all those years of being Artie's guardian "angel" would have worn thin during the New York War.
SPOILER ALERT : Yh after Tony Uncle Al you could see how much his mindset changed, Then with Chrissy after the accident, you knew Tonys too far gone smh
I love the way that Tony doesn't care about getting shot if Artie was paid to do it by one of his enemies, but the moment he realizes that Artie is doing cause of a legit and emotional reason he realizes that Artie is still his friend and feels bad. Livia man, she's a devil.
Tony was a bonafide sociopath who was greedy and self entitled. But he had a soft spot for Artie Bucco. No matter what Artie did, pointed a gun at him, took 100k loan from his underlings, got cheated out of it, couldnt pay up and tried to commit suicide, tried to make a move on Chrissys gf, beat up his soldier and muscle and caused a conflict... Everything that Artie did all he had to do was to cry in front of Tony or look sad and Tony was like: Ill fix it! Just you wait!
Yeah, sometimes there's that one person, that one damn good old friend who you know is just shootin' straight, then you're like, yeah, that guy's got a pass
I had a friendship very similar to the "Tony & Artie" dynamic back in high school, except I was the Artie in my situation. I'll call my friend "Mike" because his older brother was a childhood sports prodigy and a local hometown hero who went to become a legendary professional athlete. Mike was a pretty talented athlete in his own right, but he had a tough time living in his older brother's shadow. Anyway, everyone considered Mike pretty self-centered. And everyone I knew thought he was the biggest asshole bc he had no filter and he talked shit on anyone and everyone. However, for some strange reason Mike was ALWAYS super nice to me. Again, he'd talk shit on literally everyone except for me. But I can't remember him ever saying one insult to me or anything mean about me. Not once. He would even ignore his hot girlfriend just to hang out with me. And even though me and Mike went to rival schools and we competed against each other in sports, he'd huge sacrifices to help me that he'd NEVER make for his girlfriend or his own family lol. It almost didn't make much sense, kinda like how Tony went way out of his way to help Artie. Idk I think Mike might've liked that I really didn't care if ppl thought he was an asshole. He was still funny to me, and he was fun to hang out with. Plus, most importantly, I NEVER talked about Mike's brother when we'd hangout whereas everyone else always loved to talk about his brother around him which had to be very annoying.
1:10 "how many hours did I play catch with you" I love this line because in flashback you can clearly see Junior throwing balls at tony's head when they played catch
Everything is so weird the lighting, Angles. And the way the characters develop. Junior was just chilling not worrying and Tony was still chilling too. Tony even had more hair and was skinnier. Chris was still hustling and wasnt that much of a junkie.
This was pivotal for TV, after this, network dramas tried to emulate this level of experimenting and creative cinematography, take a look at breaking bad, especially their openings
That was a masterclass in acting by Gandolfini in the parking lot scene. Artie tells Tony to “look me in the eye,” and say it wasn’t you who burnt down the restaurant. Gandolfini looks him in the eye, then very, very quickly glances to the side and breaks eye contact before he says “I swear on my mother.”
These earlier episodes/series are so much happier and brighter so to speak than the later ones where everything is so dark and everyone is miserable etc
The genius move of Tony pranking Junior within an restaraunt. Imagine you're planning to whack someone in a restauraunt, and you're putting the pieces in motion, then someone whacks you the same way. Mind blown figuratively before mind is blown literally.
Artie once trusted and respected Tony as a friend, regardless of him being a mob boss and never used Tony's bad reputation for personal clout. Tony's only mistake with wanting to protect Artie's career was using a deceitful, criminal solution to solve a gangster problem. After Tony's restaurant stunt, Artie was always looking for the ulterior motive behind every one of Tony's goodwill gestures. Tony could've easily snitched to Artie, so Artie could've warned Junior's intended victim away from the restaurant; Artie, as a civilian, is exempt from the snitch rule especially since he wouldn't be informing the Police.
Breaking Bad took a bunch of ideas from Sopranos. Also the "doing it for his family" quote that is often repeated in Breaking Bad was a line Tony says to Meadow. Fairly sure Tony also repeats it to Carmela at some point.
The don of New Jersey loans Artie $57,000 for a business deal. Artie can’t pay him back, so the don of New Jersey says hey for get about it… that’s how much he loves Artie.. anyone else would’ve been in the ground…it’s truly amazing…. Good for tony, it’s good to have a real friend, Carmela was right everyone was nice to tony because they were scared of Him.. that episode Artie tries going to Ralph for money, Ralph said no, one of my favorite quotes of the whole series.. Ralph says “if you don’t pay me back, I won’t be able to hurt you”
LOL I never noticed that either...the chef assassin. Tony is projecting since he betrayed Artie he assumed Artie would betray him so he jumped to the conclusion that his best friend would perform the hit and not revenge for Tony's betrayal. Tony is one sick fuck, because Artie is so loyal he wouldn't kill Tony for money and he really isn't a hit man, just a unassuming chef.
Interesting point. I always thought "You took their money?" meant that he took the insurance money so he has nothing to complain or get angry over. You are now accomplice Artie.
@@williamblackfyre4866 the way tony says “do it because I don’t a fuck anymore” I thought he was thinking everyone is betraying even my best, oldest, and only friend
You know what? I'm over it. I'm over it! A new seed was planted and it blossomed and actually I should really thank him for the fresh start. So. Here's to you, Ton. Modone! The hell did I do to my cah!?
I love how in the early seasons the most unrealistic scenes take place regularly...like someone standing in a parking lot next to a busy street pointing a rifle at someones head for 10 minutes
Yep 😅 Or how about that hit by the harbour, when Tony pulled the gun out of the fish?Great scene, but definitely a lil unrealistic....not to mention pretty surreal, lol.
Only Artie could have accused Tony of something, pulled a rifle at him, and also thrown some food at him even as a joke - and lived through it all. Understandable why Ralphie refused to give Artie a loan, no way anyone will ever dare do something to Artie Bucco knowing who is his childhood close friend Also, is kind of hilarious that probably the only truly good thing Tony tried to do was to protect his best friend's business from ruin backfired at him.
Crazy thing out of everybody tony really cared about Artie. I mean let’s be honest anyone else other than Artie and Christopher pulls a gun on tony would have been swimming with the fishes.
i think it has to do with him being a pure civilian, in a way Tony wishes he could have his life. the mob doesn't like hurting people that aren't involved "in the life" (generally speaking of course)
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I love how Artie literally reads his plan back verbatim and Tony kinda makes that “now that I think about it, not my best idea” face lol
This show has some of the best subtle story telling, attention to detail, and acting. The small details and nuggets of information sprinkled throughout gives me goosebumps. Damn I fucking love this show
Looking back on it he legitimately and honestly says “why would I do that??”
After watching the saints of Newark, this scene 0:20 has aged too well😂
Tony when other people aren’t being thoughtful: “how can they be so cruel 😭😭”
Tony when he ruins lives families and kills the people closest to him: “eh wattya gunna do 🤷♂️”
Tony does have his Hey Im Mister ChuckleFuck moments where he does crazy shit .
When Tony says "I swear on my mother" is the point he's fully 100% given up on Livia, realizing that she tried to kill him again through Artie.
Well played ha
The soprano family are treacherous, petty, double dealing, and psychotic. It almost seem that family has a generational curse going way back
He used the swear on mom's bro with such sincerity cause he knew at that point he really did wish she was dead. Who could blame him lol
well when you think about it, technically TONY didn’t burn down the restaurant
@@anarchyineffect2215 Yes silvio did it
The proof that Tony loved Artie like a brother is that nobody else could’ve ever pointed a deer rifle at him and lived to tell about it.
Lol u tony dick riders. Everything Tony touched turned stone. Tony is a piece of shit character who loves no one and only cares abt himself. A sociopath. He ruined Artie emotionally with all that shit with Jr so please do me a solid and stop saving tony's fat insecure ass. He loved no one.
Friends like that are hard to come by.
he never had the makings of a varsity deer
didn't some guy HOLD Artie's ARM in BOILING HOT SOUP - and Tony did shit about it?
Cristian T lot of sopranos comments are funny, creative, witty, and original. This comment is none of those things...just a copy pasta with a different noun. So cringe.
Artie: points gun at Tony
Tony: nothing
Artie: beats car
Tony: TAKE IT EASY
Artie the realest in the show.
that was a classic wagon
That wagon is the best.
Big wood paneled station wagons were the best.
Artie was a made man and the wagon wasn't. There was nothing that could be done about it.
You have to appreciate the consistency in the sopranos, the receding hairlines across all the characters were tremendous
Majestic
Lmao 🤣
Dude, you're on EVERYTHING I watch 😭
What are u talking about they were just legit bald irl lmao
@@pistachiodisguisey911 and here I was thinking they were all just wearing bald caps
As fucked up as this is gonna sound, Artie would bounce back much faster from a fire then someone getting murdered in his restaurant.
That's why Tony burned it down in the first place. He could see that, plus he didn't have the emotional attachment to the place that Artie did so it was an easy decision to him. He was looking out for his friend, whether or not Artie could understand it
Right. I’d be more inclined to return on opening day after the building was renovated after the fire rather than after the blood was wiped off the walls.
@@dirtydragon9 I think mean you then not Then.
@@dirtydragon9 You grammar checked me and made a grammar error in the process of doing it. I simply find that amusing.
@@dirtydragon9 Completely insane
Tony is telling the truth, HE didn't burn down the restaurant, Silvio did.
Very good detective work there, L. 😀
@@DevotedDisciple-x
Thanks
Kinda crazy how tony can lie about something like that to his best friend with a gun in his face... true sociopath
I saw a great video on "double speaking" and it referenced the sopranos quite a bit. Tony talks his way out of a lot of situations because his lies have a little bit of truth to them. Politicians and advertisers do it too.
Great catch! I'll use this in the future
“I didn’t burn down your restaurant”...... “I swear on my mother!” 😂😂😂
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THAT swear means nothing.
WELL... it actually was Silvio
Tony hates his madda...
Matthew Barry sorry you didn’t like my joke...here’s a hug 🤗
Swear on my mudda
@Matthew Barry TECHNICALLY ......HE DIIIIIDDDDDNNNNTTTTT. UNLESS YOUR A FED AND A FRIEND OF R.I.C.O.
Seasons 1-3 were so light-hearted compared to the rest.
Yeah the last 3 seasons got really dark and depressing
It all went downhill after the World Trade Center. Quasimodo predicted all this.
Bro....
I'm not sure I'd call season 3 light hearted. Season 3 was the one with Dr. Melfi's rape and Ralph beating Tracy to death. Probably the 2 most fucked up scenes in the entire show
@@haydeng3316 i mean as far as beloved characters dying also while melfi and Tracey were dark you still had a lot of funny stuff in season 3
Artie has a gun aimed at Tony for like 4 minutes straight and not a single person is walking or driving by to notice it and say something
It's a TV show, genius.
Tony shot a guy multiple times in broad daylight in full view of a bridge full of cars and a marina. Even in real life, people don't really watch what's going on around them.
9/10 Times people will just act like they didnt see shit its the 1/10 that calls the cops or pulls there gun
I remember some rapper got shot in a high traffic area and only like 4 people stopped to see if he was ok and traffic was passing by like nothing
In real life, PLENTY of stuff goes on every day that never gets noticed or makes the papers. Not as much in the age of surveillance cameras everywhere, granted, but still a lot.
Only guy who could point a gun at tony and get away with it.
Uncle Joon shot Tony like 3 seasons later cause he was going senile and thought he was Pussy Malanga lulz
@@fugyaself2133 you know who.
besides member's only jacket guy
syed taher : Tony never had the makings a varsity gangster.
David Sharma yeah and did Chris get away with it? No Tony choked him to death
Love how Livia and Tony use the same subtle manipulation in their tone, attitude and words to swing Artie back and forth like a doll.
Well, Artie wanted to be friends with those people.
Deeeeep
That's right
Livia did it to be cruel. That's the difference.
@@ezakustam Tony is more selfish and impulsive (antisocial), he lies and is cruel when he sees weakness he finds repulsive that he can take advantage of, Livia is genuinely sadistic and manipulative for the sake of it like all deeply narcissistic people. There is overlap but the tendency to lie compulsively and manipulate people particularly who show what is perceived as weakness is typical of antisocial personality I think, whereas NPD types take it to another level, they manipulate and deny reality so much that they almost seem delusional.
Three generations of Borko sweated over that stove...
Joe Reimer ban this fool borko
man i just wanted to write this man
Why are you quoting?
@@wq198mnr Ban this Borko fool.
Over that keyboard*
Love how Tony thinks Artie was there to carry out a hit on him at the beginning LOL
Because any time I want to take out a Mafia boss, the first guy I call is a broken sap with a ball-breaing wife who runs a pizza-pasta joint named after the volcano your ass becomes after you've had the vongole. That's who you want to get a top mobster whacked, not all this paesan from the other side nonsense.
@Eskorbuto Crónico Artie would never do it though.
@@AlanHope2013that's exactly why its perfect, tony would never expect a poverty stricken civilian, who is also one of his childhood friends, to carry out a hit on him
"So they got in your ear."
@@AlanHope2013I can tell you don't go outside
Artie tried to quickscope Tony.
96 good enough
What’s up man! Fancy seeing you here lol
This man has got all of our gta online characters out of the hood
Quasimodo predicted all this you know?
No balls. On my mother's life, no balls
Tony’s only true friend
Rasul Daniels Silvio was more of a sycophant
Lol yea right paulie’s a two faced fuck
Silvio was definitely Tony’s only real friend in the mob family
Spanish Ramon one of them turned out to be somewhat of a successful restaurant owner and the other ended up becoming a selfish manipulative sociopath murderer
Yes
Artie holding a gun to Tony always broke my heart, seeing Artie frustrated like that.
I was hoping Artie would whack Tony right there in the parking lot. That self serving greedy Sociopath and liar had it coming. Artie didn't have the balls . Never did in anything he did. His wife did. But Not Artie. Tony had it coming but good.
@@MichaelGiordano777 don't know if he actually was a sociopath. I mean, he did like ducks and some horses
@@UkraineJames2000 the one that he killed? True.. Ooops, she committed suicide because he threatened to kill her
@@xman777b Don't think he's a sociopath just more of an extreme narcissist.
@@xman777b He is sociopath, because he love animals don't means its not one, actually thats one sign of his traits as a sociopath
The guy who played Artie was one of the best actors in the show. He was PERFECT in every single scene.
He had the makings of a varsity chef.
The actor is extremely reserved irl such a great actor to flip his personality from calm to distressedb
@@raymondacbot4007it’s always these types of people, they seem shy but when you talk to them they become very emotional and talkative.
Artie was, WITHOUT QUESTION, one of the best character's on the show...
John Ventimiglia was auditioning for the role of Tony Soprano back then
@@walnutsandbeastiality866 are you kidding?
@@cozartboy1573 no he isn't, he originally wanted to be a big bad guy, but he got cast as a chef lol
Who was the number 1 and two character?
It’s nothing short of a miracle that Artie and Paulie survived the entire series.
That face on Artie after he hears tony might’ve set the fire is some of the best acting I’ve ever seen
Vesuvo is where borko feels safe he been eating here all his life
Will you feel safe if I press "ban this user" option?
You work hard you work so dam hard to see your life’s dream burn down
@@BadDream3r it's being overused.. Same goes for shinebox and varsity athlete(s)
@@borko1990 Agreed. Ban them.
borko thank you I’m glad you agree. So tired of shinebox bullshit
The first time I saw this I got a tear in my eye, their friendship was just beautiful, the writers did a great job building it up.
The first time watching the parking lot scene with Artie and Tony is very suspenseful but now watching it again and again it's hilarious. Tony's expression when he hears is own terrible plan back to him gets me every time. 😂
I love how Sil says, “ Your friend Artie Bucco”, like Tony needs that explained. Obviously that line was for the viewers in an early episode, but it still amuses me.
The pilot was a bit odd.
Yeah asking him about if they where friends despite all knowing each other for decades
Same goes for the guy saying the shit about pussy's name getting mixed up
My grandparents refer to everyone outside of immediate family by their full name even in casual conversation.
@@LukeL007 yeah that’s an oldhead thing lol
“I swear on my mother”
Lmao that’s when you know Tony ain’t telling the truth.
He did tho. He didn't bomb anything.
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@@borko1990 I can't believe it ! I feel like I've been stabbed in the heart !
They are worried Tommy might shoot them in the foot, then wack them the next time they come like spyder got it.
Holy shit T, Uncle Philly looks like Borko.
@@borko1990 fuck outta here he pays me protection at 10 points above the vig lol
For the most part Chris was a terrific soldier in the beginning. However, Sometimes he'd slip up and say dumbshit like he did with Artie.
He was only an associate at first though
No matter what, Tony's got to do the right thing.
Only mistake chris made was drugs and honestly trusting Ade and tony. He was let down by the people he loved most
@@redhood444 exactly
Tony does love him at the beginning but is ultimately using him to cover his own future demise
Chris was speaking out of anger. He just whacked someone to benefit the families profits and didn't have anything to show for it.
Borko, you may run North Belgrade, but you don’t run HBO.
😂😂😂
rugger104 there is no such thing as North Belgrade, but there is New Belgrade for sure
HOW MANY FUCKIN TIME DID I PLAY SHINEBOX WITH YOU?
Tuljan New Belgrade? I may have been away for a while, but Borko is the new Boss and he ain’t respecting old arrangements.
Borkos from Serbia? I'm from New Jersey. Borko maybe you find the travel guide for sunny New Jersey.
If he didn't want his restaurant to explode he shouldn't have named it Vesuvio that's a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Quasimodo predicted all this.
5:43-5:47 u can tell Tony gets a little queasy once he realizes Artie is getting uneasy but u can quickly see Tony/James quickly regain his confidence once he figures out what to say, how to manipulate like he always does. Such a crazy good actor, Rest In Peace.
Even a real G gets nervous when they think they're about to get ventilated
depsite junior suffering from Alzheimer’s/Dementia, he still managed to remember “playing catch” with Tony during their last scene.
Often people with Alzheimer's/Dementia tend to remember memories from long ago rather than more recent ones.
@@DynastyLuminous46 that's what I found comforting when my granddad began to slip. He couldn't hang onto more than two sentences of new information but if you showed him pictures or played old music he'd snap into life with stories that went on forever. The best thing with dementia patients is to not force them into acknowledging the present, just indulge them in the past.
he was TRYING to turn him into a varsity athlete...but Tony didn't have the making of one.
He didn't have dementia yet at this point.
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That rifle was such an underrated character. It was all intimidating when it needed to be, but then later, it just snapped when the script called for it. What a range. Wish we could have seen more of it.
And just when I thought these jokes were getting old they pull me back in again
There was nothing the car coulda done, the gun was a made guy, the car wasnt, real greaseball shit
Season 6. Artie still had the rifle. He used it to kill a bunny that was eating his imported plants.
That rifle never had the makings of a varsity athlete anyway.
@@mattwages7692the one artie holds in this scene is bolt action
The one he kills a rabbit with is some sort of pump action varmint rifle
Not sure though, might need to recheck the rabbit scene
The face on Artie when Tony's mom says you don't blame him for starting the fire... Lmao
I had goosebumps bro during that scene. Livia just couldn't keep her shut.
she did it on purpose. She and Junior wanted her son dead for putting her in a nursing home. She was hoping spilling the beans on Artie's restaurant would push him to kill her son.@@c.g.c.7735
Chris' whole reaction at 2:58 just slays me, man. The death stares and then him getting the fuck out of there lol
Tony's logic: If the hit takes place, Artie will lose business so I'm gonna burn the whole restaurant down to help him
As ridiculous as that does sound, he did manage to rebuild it and have a successful business. It would stop negative press. Doesn't necessarily make it ok tho.
Not going to lie you can't really argue with the logic if that hit would have went down Arties business would have been ruined as messed up as it may sound Tony really did do him a solid by burning down that restaurant
As a matter a fact, he did the right thing, burning down the palce..
The hit would have ruin the joint anyway.... Nobody would have ever come down there to eat, noone wants a bullet in the noodle right?
So, bada bing, bada boom!!!
And thats that... Now i'll go get some sandwiches or something.. You want some?
Sparks Steakhouse is still going 35 years after Gotti whacked Castellano.
This is just a bad plot decision.
It does make sense. A fire is something you can spin you can’t spin a murder
Somebody donated their kneecaps for those tickets, shame Artie couldn't take them.
Saun Krystian hhhhhh
Wherever those tickets came from, and I dount Tony actually paid for them, regardless that was probably one of the most selfless things T ever did. He dug up some first class cruise tickets to stop his friend's place from getting fucked over by Junior. Tony had no skin in that game, just that Artie was his only friend from real life. The only person in his entire entourage who would never one day be convinced to have him whacked.
@@AlanHope2013 20% motivated by friendship, 80% motivated by duck ragu.
@@AlanHope2013 yep
Through all his BS and twisted logic, Tony really cared about and loved Artie like a brother.
Season 6 Tony would have straight up killed Artie for this.
Yup he became a homicidal maniac in season 6. He didn’t care for anyone but himself
Yup tony got harsher and harsher each season
@@theequalizers1983 and his family
Not a chance, even towards the end Tony tells him "Art you know I'm gonna eat here till I fall off that fuckin chair." Christopher essentially signed his own death warrant too, when he decided to spike up before driving the BOSS to meet the fucking boss of New York in an accident where, Tony could've easily been killed or seriously injured *let alone his baby which is what set Tony off, just like his mother 👀*. He definitely becomes colder and just plain meaner *which is what David Chase wanted*, but it largely isn't inexcusable as he was forced to murder: his best friend since childhood, his 'nephew'/mentor's son, his cousin who was like a brother, and almost "had" to murder his own mother after she tried having him killed.... plus AJ tried to kill himself and kill Uncle Junior who previously shot and tried to kill T in some crazy alzheimer daze, I mean you gotta give the guy some slack, most of the 'horrible' deeds he's done were situations where the person 100% brought it on themselves, putting Tony in that position.
@@CommanderLongJohn peer pressure pushed chris back to alcohol. Everyone had their own part in their downfall in this show but never, EVER 100%.
Liv was a legend. If Nancy Marchand hadn’t passed away, her character would have run North Jersey.
If she had been born after those feminists...
@@Whiteboykun (((feminists)))
@@tylerphillips6523 joos
David Chase said his mom, who Livia was based on, would have been a criminal is she had been born male.
@@tylerphillips6523based
Put hunting rifle down on docking station...
Loooool
Hahaha :D
His house looked like shit🤷♂️
i laughed so hard
Hehe
Man back when Chris was a capable member of the team.... those where the days.
TheWaveofbabies
He was always a douche
Highly capable
He didant...
With a capable natural canopy 😂
@@AQUAPHREESH193 he could’ve sniffed that body he clipped under the bridge all the way from Satriales
I love how Tony mimics whacking Junior while he's eating at the restaurant after hearing what his intentions were .
If Charmaine just let Artie and her go on that vacation their restaurant wouldn't have been burned down.
When Tony thought Artie “took their money” to whack him, he was heartbroken in that split second, Artie really was his true friend
He swears on his mother after just calling her crazy and senile.
He swears on her because he really wouldn't mind if evil would befall her.
Which if you're Italian, doesn't matter too much.
I mean technically, Tony is right when he swore to god, he didn't touch Artie's place... Silvio touched it, Tony only talked about it...
Charles Manson didn't kill those people in that mansion either, both was not guilty,so why did they both order the hit ?
@@jamesdemetri5105 I'm only talking about who touched what. I never said anything about guilt or innocence...
It really is impossible to tell whether Tony is lying or not 😂
Are his lips moving? If so, he's lying.
@@christopherlewis1315 plus he didn’t keep eye contact he glanced out same direction each lie _on my mudda_
livia soprano is the greatest maybe villain of all TV. you never know if she's lost her mind or pulling strings.
At first, Tony thinks Artie is there with the rifle, being paid to assassinate him by Junior's crew, but then it sinks in really quick how his mother set this all in motion. Artie didn't want to kill Tony even though he knew Tony was probably lying about the fire, but Livia definitely told Artie, so that he would kill Tony, and Tony realized it immediately. This was another time Livia tried to have Tony killed.
_wwh-I don't KnOw WhAt YoUre TaLkiN aBoUt_
oh poor you!
If Artie had pulled this on Tony in the later seasons, Tony would have killed him personally.
I don’t think so
@@friezasama91_66 Tony was almost completely irredeemable by the end, I think all those years of being Artie's guardian "angel" would have worn thin during the New York War.
i think after he kills Tony B, everybody is fair game.
SPOILER ALERT : Yh after Tony Uncle Al you could see how much his mindset changed, Then with Chrissy after the accident, you knew Tonys too far gone smh
@@friezasama91_66 Why would you say "Drewdog look" like that? Just curious, I'm not an idiot, you didn't have to come at me like I'm ignorant.
“How many hours did I spend playing catch with you”
Not enough to make him a varsity athlete
I love the way that Tony doesn't care about getting shot if Artie was paid to do it by one of his enemies, but the moment he realizes that Artie is doing cause of a legit and emotional reason he realizes that Artie is still his friend and feels bad.
Livia man, she's a devil.
Tony was a bonafide sociopath who was greedy and self entitled. But he had a soft spot for Artie Bucco. No matter what Artie did, pointed a gun at him, took 100k loan from his underlings, got cheated out of it, couldnt pay up and tried to commit suicide, tried to make a move on Chrissys gf, beat up his soldier and muscle and caused a conflict... Everything that Artie did all he had to do was to cry in front of Tony or look sad and Tony was like: Ill fix it! Just you wait!
Yeah, sometimes there's that one person, that one damn good old friend who you know is just shootin' straight, then you're like, yeah, that guy's got a pass
They were childhood friends
Tony was extremely cunning always using artie for his personal gains. Artie was always weak and tony took advantage of that anyway he would .
Tony was a sociopath but deep down he was also sympathetic towards good people.
I had a friendship very similar to the "Tony & Artie" dynamic back in high school, except I was the Artie in my situation. I'll call my friend "Mike" because his older brother was a childhood sports prodigy and a local hometown hero who went to become a legendary professional athlete. Mike was a pretty talented athlete in his own right, but he had a tough time living in his older brother's shadow. Anyway, everyone considered Mike pretty self-centered. And everyone I knew thought he was the biggest asshole bc he had no filter and he talked shit on anyone and everyone. However, for some strange reason Mike was ALWAYS super nice to me. Again, he'd talk shit on literally everyone except for me. But I can't remember him ever saying one insult to me or anything mean about me. Not once. He would even ignore his hot girlfriend just to hang out with me. And even though me and Mike went to rival schools and we competed against each other in sports, he'd huge sacrifices to help me that he'd NEVER make for his girlfriend or his own family lol. It almost didn't make much sense, kinda like how Tony went way out of his way to help Artie. Idk I think Mike might've liked that I really didn't care if ppl thought he was an asshole. He was still funny to me, and he was fun to hang out with. Plus, most importantly, I NEVER talked about Mike's brother when we'd hangout whereas everyone else always loved to talk about his brother around him which had to be very annoying.
1:10 "how many hours did I play catch with you" I love this line because in flashback you can clearly see Junior throwing balls at tony's head when they played catch
Everything is so weird the lighting, Angles. And the way the characters develop. Junior was just chilling not worrying and Tony was still chilling too. Tony even had more hair and was skinnier. Chris was still hustling and wasnt that much of a junkie.
Yup, they made the show brighter early on, and then the last 2 season it was darker so they made it look more gloomy with lighting and color-wise.
I liked Jr. more early on. I wish he had stayed that way for longer
This was pivotal for TV, after this, network dramas tried to emulate this level of experimenting and creative cinematography, take a look at breaking bad, especially their openings
Tony calming down Artie from shooting is like a conversation you have in Fallout when you have max Charisma.
That was a masterclass in acting by Gandolfini in the parking lot scene. Artie tells Tony to “look me in the eye,” and say it wasn’t you who burnt down the restaurant. Gandolfini looks him in the eye, then very, very quickly glances to the side and breaks eye contact before he says “I swear on my mother.”
"Am I that fucking stupid?"
"Yes, yes you are" *BANG*
Artie: "look me in the eye! Is it true,Tonyyy?"
Tony: "No! You fukin' schifosa!
'Your true enemy... has yet... to reveal himself'
Is that Pacino ...Or is that Pacino
I love how Junior was genuinely scared when Tony pranked him.
Artie was a great character on the show no one talks about.
I liked him in the beginning but that one episode he had on him really ruined the character for me
Tony playing it perfectly ... “ you took their money?”... for a second artie is thinking wtf no
These earlier episodes/series are so much happier and brighter so to speak than the later ones where everything is so dark and everyone is miserable etc
After 15th funeral the show got a bit heavy
2:07 paulie stretching in the background always cracks me up
😂
I always loved Artie’s character funny, hardworking, passionate about his cooking. Tonys only true friend.
The genius move of Tony pranking Junior within an restaraunt. Imagine you're planning to whack someone in a restauraunt, and you're putting the pieces in motion, then someone whacks you the same way. Mind blown figuratively before mind is blown literally.
And it's also fucking hilarious
I still can’t get over how much Vito stabbed Paulie in tha heart. That was so uncalled for
"He was blowing the security guard"
"Son of a BITCH"
Amazing how much betrayal one man can take
Vito should’ve stopped and thought about how him being gay would personally effect Paulie
"WHAT?"
@liamfitzgerald2414 you must be new. Haven't finished the series yet?
5:51 = MASTERFUL gaslighting skills from Tony Soprano.
Artie once trusted and respected Tony as a friend, regardless of him being a mob boss and never used Tony's bad reputation for personal clout.
Tony's only mistake with wanting to protect Artie's career was using a deceitful, criminal solution to solve a gangster problem.
After Tony's restaurant stunt, Artie was always looking for the ulterior motive behind every one of Tony's goodwill gestures.
Tony could've easily snitched to Artie, so Artie could've warned Junior's intended victim away from the restaurant; Artie, as a civilian, is exempt from the snitch rule especially since he wouldn't be informing the Police.
And to think Artie was barely agressive, yet he got closer to kill Tony than most out of all people.
Artie took that rifle apart with similar expertise as to when he pummeled Benny.
That one scene in breaking bad where jesse accuses walter of poisoning brock, had to have been inspired by this scene. 4:30
I was thinking the exact same thing!
Breaking Bad took a bunch of ideas from Sopranos. Also the "doing it for his family" quote that is often repeated in Breaking Bad was a line Tony says to Meadow. Fairly sure Tony also repeats it to Carmela at some point.
And Walter also lied at Jesse
BB is literally the sopranos if Artie became tony soprano
0:41 Oof madon! Charmaine Bucco in season 1! 😘👌
It's the miracle of Christmas! Next the blind will see and the lame will walk!
@@irishredenjoyer she definitely had the makings of a varsity MILF..
@@purplesword5536 Hottest wife on the show
NSA she was in High School then you creep!!
@NSA @FBI
One of the most powerful scenes and Soprano clips!
The don of New Jersey loans Artie $57,000 for a business deal. Artie can’t pay him back, so the don of New Jersey says hey for get about it… that’s how much he loves Artie.. anyone else would’ve been in the ground…it’s truly amazing…. Good for tony, it’s good to have a real friend, Carmela was right everyone was nice to tony because they were scared of Him.. that episode Artie tries going to Ralph for money, Ralph said no, one of my favorite quotes of the whole series.. Ralph says “if you don’t pay me back, I won’t be able to hurt you”
2:57
You should do a ten minute compilation of Chris's "people person" skills
Artie outkicked his coverage. Charmaine was a smokeshow!
She was lucky to have me
Can you repeat that in English?
always loved the way he yells “YOU FUCKIN BENT PSYCHO”
4:35 never noticed that Tony thought Artie took a hit man contract until he mentioned his restaurant.
LOL I never noticed that either...the chef assassin. Tony is projecting since he betrayed Artie he assumed Artie would betray him so he jumped to the conclusion that his best friend would perform the hit and not revenge for Tony's betrayal. Tony is one sick fuck, because Artie is so loyal he wouldn't kill Tony for money and he really isn't a hit man, just a unassuming chef.
Interesting point.
I always thought "You took their money?" meant that he took the insurance money so he has nothing to complain or get angry over. You are now accomplice Artie.
I don't think so, but a theory nonetheless.
@@williamblackfyre4866 the way tony says “do it because I don’t a fuck anymore” I thought he was thinking everyone is betraying even my best, oldest, and only friend
Junior just put a hit on him, so Tony was a bit paranoid.
4:14 the expression on his face changing is good acting lmao
You know what? I'm over it. I'm over it! A new seed was planted and it blossomed and actually I should really thank him for the fresh start. So. Here's to you, Ton. Modone! The hell did I do to my cah!?
"I swear on my mother" lmao
0:16 exactly how Tony dies in the last episode
3oclock
He didn't die
@@Victor.Herbert he actually does
@@September666 he actually doesn't
@@BabaBinny look it up the show creator let it slip and said tony does die in the ending
I forgot how colorful the sopranos was from season 1-3 after that it was gritty and depressing dark
I "swear on my mother" like that meant anything to Tony lmao
RUclips is where borko feels safe. He's been uploading here all his life.
I love how he's fine with swearing on his bitter twisted mother
I love how in the early seasons the most unrealistic scenes take place regularly...like someone standing in a parking lot next to a busy street pointing a rifle at someones head for 10 minutes
Yep 😅 Or how about that hit by the harbour, when Tony pulled the gun out of the fish?Great scene, but definitely a lil unrealistic....not to mention pretty surreal, lol.
Or how about ghosts existing canonically when Paulie saw the Virgin Mary in bada bing
@@JohnSmith-dd8bf Don't forget about the psychic
@@alicekranyk4173 That fish was a witness. And he had Tony's fingerprints all over his internals.
pre-9/11
"Look me in my eye an you tell me you didn't lay a finger on my Butterfinger".
Artie's wife was one of the few people not blinded by Tony's bullshit.
And she was sizzlin hot.
Only Artie could have accused Tony of something, pulled a rifle at him, and also thrown some food at him even as a joke - and lived through it all. Understandable why Ralphie refused to give Artie a loan, no way anyone will ever dare do something to Artie Bucco knowing who is his childhood close friend
Also, is kind of hilarious that probably the only truly good thing Tony tried to do was to protect his best friend's business from ruin backfired at him.
Crazy thing out of everybody tony really cared about Artie. I mean let’s be honest anyone else other than Artie and Christopher pulls a gun on tony would have been swimming with the fishes.
The way to a man's heart is through his stomach...
naim muhammad junior shot tony, and put a hit on him and didn't die
Bobby punched him after being antagonized and won the fight.
i think it has to do with him being a pure civilian, in a way Tony wishes he could have his life.
the mob doesn't like hurting people that aren't involved "in the life" (generally speaking of course)
@@MrSoup-zs4rd tony forced bobby to kill somebody though
Guy pointing rifle at another guy for 5 minutes straight, cars passing down the street coolly like nothing's happening. Just another day in 'murica.
That’s just Jersey
I have been to St. Helier...
Didn't get shot, did he? It's fiiiiine.
No-one ever gets shot in St. Helier...
"Someone donated their knee caps for those tickets"
Bloody hilarious!
6:33. Tony’s back in heaven. He didn’t lie. Someone else blew it up. Haha.
Yup. Sil did😂
2:03 such a neat shot. Very colorful
Artie has the most beautiful wife.
Tony hit that too.
Ya but shes a real bitch
I don’t know why I didn’t find her that sexy
The sharpest, too.
@@friezasama91_66 yea...I'm strangely attracted to her as well
Some people are out there stuffing themselves.
Some people are out there stuffing themselves
Fuck'n parakeets.
it died on the vine, the guy moved or something.
@@francoochoa3176 It DIIIIED ON THE VIIIINE
@@ob7272 OH SO NO BODY KNOWS WHAT THE FUCK IM THAKIN ABOUT
Junior's face at 00:17 is priceless. Lol
I really miss the style in which they filmed and composed the Pilot. It felt like a short film, and then morphed into being presented as a soap opera.