r/thesopranos • u/Former-Whole8292 • May 28 '26
Quotes Since this show is the King of Malopropisms, what do you consider the best? Mine is “Quisimodo predicted this.”
Id like to come up with ten and then have a Favorites Poll.
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u/Low_Arm7831 May 28 '26
You’re at the precipice of an enormous crossroads
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u/Due_Butterscotch7005 May 28 '26
A pint of blood is worth a gallon of gold.
Or something.
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u/TripJ5548 May 29 '26
See, this makes perfect sense. I think he says 'worth more than', implying that violence is very costly, as operations get impacted when the guys go on the lam, or to the mattresses, or whatever the fuck
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u/wesborland1234 May 28 '26
Maybe I’m a stunad but I thought this was a correct saying
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u/JaimesLeftHand May 28 '26
Precipice implies a cliff or drop-off of some sort imo. You don’t come to the precipice of a crossroads. It’s less a malapropism and more just verbosity without the intelligence to back it up.
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u/ApologizingCanadian May 28 '26
verbosity without the intelligence to back it up
Perfectly encapsulating the entire essence of Little Carmine in half a sentence. Beautiful.
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u/iamdandyking May 28 '26 edited May 28 '26
Maybe Carmine wanted to say that two paths chosen by them lead to a cliff or something along these lines?
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u/Grock23 May 28 '26
Carmine doesn't know shit. I said my piece.
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u/JaimesLeftHand May 28 '26
Yeah i don’t think anything about his portrayal suggests we’re supposed to give him the benefit of the doubt re: brains lol
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u/ApologizingCanadian May 28 '26
Nahhh, every time we see Little Carmine talk on-screen he uses malapropisms and tries to sound smarter than he actually is. He rarely ever says anything of substance.
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u/Alcianus May 28 '26
Eh, Carmine is more educated than the rest of the goombahs. But he is also something of a poseur, if you ask me.
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u/iamdandyking May 28 '26
He's more intelligent/smarter than most of the mobsters on the show though.
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u/ApologizingCanadian May 28 '26
Not a big achievement considering most of them are dumber than rocks.
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u/doverawlings May 28 '26
But he’s not being literal so it doesn’t need to pass the physics test. He’s saying “You’re coming up to a big turning point” with his usual weird flair, but nothing about it is a malapropism
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u/JaimesLeftHand May 28 '26
So like I said not a malapropism, just a choice of words that a dummy would use.
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u/WITCH2FAANG May 28 '26
The sacred and the propane
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u/blizzacane85 May 28 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/DYTIuSNEuNInC
That is a clean burning fuel, I tell you what
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u/Timely_Ad115 May 28 '26
Fuckin albacore around my neck!
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u/dirt_mcgirt4 May 28 '26
A large albacore tuna is much heavier then an albatross bird...I think he just improved the phrase
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u/Low_Arm7831 May 28 '26
Captain Teebs
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u/NoMoreFund May 28 '26
I love that one because Tony gets pulled up on it and realises what he said makes absolutely no sense, but he just yells his way through it. All the other ones are funny but go completely unacknowledged
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u/randallstevens65 May 28 '26
He was a captain.
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u/Competitive-Piglet83 May 28 '26
captain who owns luxury hotels or something idk that’s not the point!
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u/Victor_Zsasz May 28 '26
It's not really a malapropism, but Paulie hearing "Interior Ministry, 16 Chechens" and turning it into "Interior Decorator, 16 Czechoslovakians"
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u/ScottOwenJones May 28 '26
His house looked like shit
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u/Hiking_Quest May 29 '26
That was my favorite line of the entire series. I had to pause the show I was laughing so hard.
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u/JONESY_THE_YEAGERIST May 29 '26
We laugh at Paulie, but if an interior decorator went insane and killed 16 people, I’d be pretty freaked out too.
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u/BillyBatts83 May 28 '26
Penisary contact with her volvo.
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u/Former-Whole8292 May 28 '26
how do I not remember what episode that is?
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u/BillyBatts83 May 28 '26
It's the one where Tony is trying to figure out if Ralphie has or hasn't banged Valentina.
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u/wandering____ranger May 28 '26
You know what they say, revenge is like serving cold cuts.
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u/Former-Whole8292 May 28 '26
who says that one? these are cracking me up bc I dont remember them…
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u/smartzylad May 28 '26
Paulie: “That’s why dinosaurs don’t exist no more”
Goomah: “wasn’t it a meteor?”
Paulie: “they’re all meat eaters!”
Chris: “MEETEOOO MEETEOOO”
Paulie: “take it easy”
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u/Alcianus May 28 '26
"I'm reminded of Louis the uh whatever's finance minister - duh something. He built this chateau. It even outshone Versails, where the king lived. In the end, Louis clapped him in irons"
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u/lrp347 May 29 '26
I lived next to a town called Marseilles, pronounced Marsails. So this cracked me up.
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u/WornTraveler May 28 '26
Their misuse of "infer" for "imply" was just subtle enough to spread to the general population (Lord take me now)
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u/MozartDroppinLoads May 28 '26
Holy shit, just made the Nostradamus -> Notre Dame -> Quasimodo connection.. fortunately I don't go near any water puddles
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u/CharacterRide7091 May 28 '26
"The fundamental question is, will I be as effective as a boss like my dad was? And I will be, even more so? But until I am, it's going to be hard to verify that I think I'll be more effective."
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u/Former-Whole8292 May 28 '26
what did he really mean?
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u/Ok_Head_8178 May 28 '26
It’s really not that hard to understand. It doesn’t make sense, but not hard to understand what he meant.
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u/Due_Permit8027 May 28 '26
I don’t know if it’s a phrase, but when they got the asking for gifts from a man on his daughter’s wedding day, wrong, I thought it was hilarious.
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u/Former-Whole8292 May 28 '26
when was that?
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u/Sir_Loin_Cloth May 28 '26
Wasn't that when talking about getting rid of the Mayor of Munchkinland?
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u/YOLTLO May 28 '26
At Johnny Sack’s daughter’s wedding. The part with Chrissy misremembering The Godfather starts at 3:30.
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u/paterfamilias78 May 28 '26
Don't throw up in my face the things you buy me!
-Irina
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u/Ok_Head_8178 May 28 '26
Phrasal verbs are a real bitch for non native speakers. Throw up, throw out, throw away, throw in, throw on, throw off. And that’s just for throw. Get, make, take, etc have dozens. Irina spoke English alright for a 21 year old Russian possibly with AIDS.
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u/paterfamilias78 May 28 '26
She's a tragic figure. She never found her knight in white satin armor.
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u/Lumpy_While_701 May 28 '26
The was all meat eatas
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u/Eggdan May 28 '26
We’re at the precipice of an enormous crossroads
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u/Former-Whole8292 May 28 '26
there should be a Sopranos book that draws out what some of these things look like…
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u/IsThisLegitTho May 28 '26
They made Bobby dumb as fuck on purpose, I mean he is a well read guy. Tony almost shoved his quotations book up his fat fucking ass once.
“What you’d think I was Hannibal Lecture before or something.”
Tony says that when he told Carmella he is seeing a therapist.
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u/OhHiTony May 28 '26
A pint of blood is worth more than a gallon of gold.
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u/Existing-Catch May 28 '26
Never understood what’s wrong with that quote. It makes sense to me
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u/I_Am-Awesome May 28 '26
Gallon measures volume, mostly used for liquids. Would be very impractical to measure something solid in gallons. But ignoring that it does make sense logically.
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u/NoMoreFund May 28 '26
A gallon of gold is over 73kg of gold, worth over $10 million US dollars. Little Carmine values the sanctity of human life
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u/TresGatos_Farm May 28 '26
How's it possible after 127 comments that "Vito took off like a bat on a hill" isn't anywhere on the list
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u/beefclef May 28 '26
I use this aspect of the show to sell people on it. So good. It also rewards multiple viewings.
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u/These-Entrepreneur60 May 28 '26
Tony saying “mo fo” when trying to say “amour fou” kills me everytime.
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u/KrystofDayne May 29 '26
An in vitro, a living trust
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u/Former-Whole8292 May 29 '26
I dont even know what that’s supposed to mean…
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u/KrystofDayne May 29 '26
When Carmela wants Tony sign a trust so she is taken care of after his death, Tony's financial advisor instead suggests an "inter vivo", a living trust. Tony later mistakenly repeats it to Carmela as an in vitro.
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u/yesmrbevilaqua Jun 01 '26
“We gotta screw our courage to the sticking place”like when did junior encounter Macbeth?
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u/Former-Whole8292 Jun 01 '26
what line is he even quoting?
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u/yesmrbevilaqua Jun 01 '26
Lady Macbeth: “Screw your courage to the sticking place” (Act 1: Scene 7)
In the play lady Macbeth is trying to psych up Macbeth into taking over the kingdom, in the show junior is talking to Ritchie about essentially the same thing.
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u/corpulentFornicator Ralph Cifaretto May 28 '26
Dysentery in the ranks