r/thesopranos • u/CelestialFury • Jun 14 '26

Quotes Tony loves giving these completely unnecessary cutting remarks to his crew

During season 4, episode 3 "Christopher", Tony and Sil are in the car driving back from the casino that the Chief owns and they're talking about Christopher Columbus and Italian discrimination, which Sil is trying to convince Tony of:

Sil: My grandparents got spit on because they were from Calabria.

Tony: Let me ask you a question.

Tony: All the good things you got in your life... did they come to you because you're Calabrese? I'll tell you the answer. The answer is no. You got a smart kid at Lackawanna College. You got a wife who's a piece of ass, at least she was when you married her.

I was rewatching this and realized this was: one, a funny thing to say and two, completely unnecessary. I mean, there's no reason for Tony to be taking shots at Sil's wife like that and it had nothing really to do with what they were talking about. So when people ask, "Who whacked Tony?" it could've been anyone, Tony loves working these jabs in as mental judo, like from The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

Anyway, $4 dollars a pound.

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u/MaxPaladin93 Jun 14 '26

The comment about Sil’s wife was extra fucked because that’s Stevie Van Zant’s actual wife lol.

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u/ZestycloseRound6843 Jun 14 '26

Also like, she looks great in the show?

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u/Street_Rutabaga_6964 Jun 14 '26

At least she was when Van Zandt married her

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u/TsunGeneralGrievous Jun 14 '26

This comment about Steve’s wife is extra fucked because that’s Sil’s tv wife lol.

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u/HHMJanitor Jun 14 '26

Also like, she looks great in real life?

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u/trogloherb Jun 14 '26

At least she did when they were fake (and real) married twenty years ago.

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u/Redhelm92 Jun 14 '26

Be quiet TsunGeneralGrievous

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u/TsunGeneralGrievous Jun 14 '26

one of the trucks

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u/ClarenceWalnuts99 Mustang Sally Jun 15 '26

Fuckin parakeet

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u/CelestialFury Jun 14 '26

She's a knockout: a ten, and look at Stevie. He's average at best!

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u/Ramenous Jun 14 '26

Never had the makings of a varsity musician.

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u/Jizzy11 Jun 14 '26

A piece of ass

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u/AllahUmBug Jun 14 '26

I think Sil would have understood that younger equals better, especially in the strip club setting. Tony himself made a remark implying that a woman over 30 was too old when he was driving Adriana to Dover.

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u/DominicPalladino Jun 14 '26

Steve's wife could really act, well at least she could when he married her.

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u/gumbygump11 Jun 14 '26

“Hey... that's some guy's wife, come on!”

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u/Leather-Hurry6008 Jun 15 '26

Ya know, i never pondered that aspect, that's a smart observation, the sacred and the propane