What is your favourite sopranos episode? For me it is the episode of Chrissy and Paulie lost in the woods from season 3 (I think) hands down.
What is your favourite sopranos episode? For me it is the episode of Chrissy and Paulie lost in the woods from season 3 (I think) hands down.
That would be the episode named "Pine Barrens".
My favorite remains the last episode of season one "I Dream of Jeannie Cusamano".
That is the episode with all the hits and when Tony tells Melfi she need to lamb it for a while.
edie falco wrote:
What is your favourite sopranos episode? For me it is the episode of Chrissy and Paulie lost in the woods from season 3 (I think) hands down.
My favorite too! Funny.
Chrissy can't get good reception on his cell phone. Tony calls and says, "Be careful with this Russian, he's from the Interior Department (KGB). but the connection isn't good. Christopher hangs up and says, "hhmmm, this guy, he's an interior decorator or something. His apartment looked like shit."
They fight over a tick tac, Paulie loses his shoe, they walk in circles, they use carpet for a blanket, they can't seem to destroy the Russian Bear. The whole episode shows you just how unsophisticated these tough guys are - they have no survival skills, and would never make it outside of the mob.
The whole show is ingenious.
I always thought the Russian would show up in the final episode.
Great episode, but my favorite is the one where Tony takes Meadow to visit a college.
Phenomenal.
here it is. I forgot about the Czech's.
Cut back to the Pine Barrens, with Paulie answering his cell phone once again. Tony explains that he's going to talk fast, and relates that Drunk Guy once killed sixteen Chechens with his bare hands. He was some sort of Russian "Green Beret" commando with the Interior Ministry (read: KGB, or FSB, or whatever they're calling it these days). Tony is emphatic: "This guy cannot come back to tell his story, okay?"
That much Paulie did hear.
The connection gets broken, and just like in every game of telephone you ever played as a child, the story gets a little twisted when Paulie passes it along to Christopher.
"You’re not going to believe this. The guy killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. He was an interior decorator." Chris is more than a little confused by this, saying, "His house looked like shit." Yeah, but I so want that universal remote. I have to hit like seventeen buttons just to turn on the damn VCR.
wise guys, but not so smart in the woods.
The first ever episode.
Either, "The Blue Comet" which is the second to last episode in the last season where Bobby and Silvio get popped, and Tony goes to the safe house. That music that plays at the end when Tony is sitting in bed with the machine-gun Bobby gave him is perfect.
Or, "College" which is the episode in the first season where Tony takes Meadow to visit some colleges and accidentally finds a rat who was put in witness protection and kills him. I like it so much because Tony and Meadow are being honest with each other, and she really starts to understand who he is "Dad, are you in the Mafia?".
My favorite series ever, I could talk about it for hours.
Other favs. "Kennedy and Heidi" (demise of Christopher at the hands of Tony). "Made in America" (obviously). "Pilot" (first episode. The first few meetings between Tony and Melfi are classic).
The last episode of Season 3, "Army of One," where Tony whacks Jackie Jr. It really hits home that T runs the show, and doesn't care about even the ex bosses son.
Really though, the last 3 episodes of Season 3 (Pine Barrens, Armour Fou (with Gloria), and Army of One) are amazing.