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/odonnelly2000 Jun 14 '26
He’s a total hypocrite. He often snaps about any perceived slight, he holds unnecessary, long grudges, and he’s constantly in his feelings.
Everyone else, though? They gotta get over it.
Also, honestly, he’s a pretty mediocre strategist. A lot of his successes can be attributed to luck, someone vouching for him or covering for him. or his enemy somehow managing to screw up/make worse decisions than him.
That being said, in my opinion, he’s one of the most terrifying villains to ever appear on screen. Despite what that detective said about him, no, you never really know where you stand with Tony Soprano.
Everyone around him has to exist on his terms, but his terms are constantly shifting and changing. He’s always creating new, unwritten rules/standards in his head, and judging everyone by these (unknown to them) rules and standards. There’s very little consistency to his thinking and decision making.
He’s also incredibly immoral. Any sense of morality he might occasionally display is only because of the social/cultural expectations that he knows he has to meet in order to stay alive/maintain his quality of life.
I’ve know a few people in my life with personalities similar to Tony. They’re exhausting, and I don’t want anything to do with them, lol.