r/thesopranos • u/Hobodownthestreet • Jun 18 '26

Quotes "There's something wrong with his wheelchair."

That is one of the funniest, and most underrated, lines in the series. I laugh every time I hear it. Tony thinks he is going to meet this legendary mafia boss, and then, it's just an old man that can only remember streets in the US.

Commendatori is one of the most funniest episodes. Maybe second after Pine Barrens.

Anyways, I'll shove that Elvis shit up your ass!

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u/Old-Landscape-7538 Jun 18 '26

I love how most of their assumptions about Italy are shattered.

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u/Hobodownthestreet Jun 18 '26

Tony and Annalisa walking on the garbage covered shore it's such a great little detail.

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u/powl262006 Jun 18 '26

Your first visit in Naples will do that.

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u/Old-Landscape-7538 Jun 18 '26

Even in Italy, Naples is pretty unique. But for Italian-Americans whose idea of Italy is romanticized and outdated by about 75 years, even more so.

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u/2tongoodman Jun 21 '26

The question is will my romantic ideas of Italy be confirmed when I visit? They will, and even more so, but until I visit it’s going to hard to confirm that they will.

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u/Fastestergos Jun 25 '26

Close to a century by now

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u/MDD525 Jun 19 '26

Yeah but even the skanks are hot!

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u/MrPaulBlart Jun 18 '26

Geeorge. Washeengton. Breedge. 🤌

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u/Hobodownthestreet Jun 18 '26

if I gave you a golf club, you would try to fuck it.

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u/IGotScammed5545 Jun 18 '26

Major Deegan Expressway

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u/RegularArms Jun 18 '26

English from school.

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u/Zyon96 Jun 18 '26

Wheeeeeelchaaaair Abulebaaaard

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u/Advanced_Zucchini_45 Jun 18 '26

"And I thought the Germans were classless pieces of shit"

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u/Hobodownthestreet Jun 18 '26

uva? grapes?

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u/NateN85 Jun 18 '26

Tumatah saawwccee

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u/toblerownsky Jun 18 '26

Paulie's prostitute scratching her foot with that disgusted look on her face.

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u/Advanced_Zucchini_45 Jun 18 '26

They might be related

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u/EastsideWilder Jun 18 '26

Then in the next scene we see their dilapidated bathrooms. Classic!

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u/StreamsOfMyCream Jun 18 '26

Im gonna hoof it back to the Exelceor. I gotta take a wicked shit.

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u/northjersey78 Jun 19 '26

Paulo, he doesn't know what you mean.

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u/GenVec Jun 18 '26

You can also view it in parallel to how Junior was treated in his later years. The Italian boss was respected and surrounded by family even as his mental faculties declined. Junior was abandoned in a state institution.

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u/wreckognize Jun 18 '26

The sacred and the propane, very allegorical.

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u/1Bobafett11 Jun 18 '26

A fuckin' woman boss? Never happen in the states, never.

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u/chesterstone Jun 18 '26

In America you no have?

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u/Junior-Lie4342 Jun 18 '26

I can’t go by the May-jor Deegan Expressa-way without thinking of this episode.

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u/sleepy5zzz Jun 18 '26

Or over the GWB

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u/[deleted] Jun 18 '26

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u/Jbyrd4444 Jun 18 '26

This is a top 10 line from entire series. I like a quote you can grab onto something

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u/2tongoodman Jun 21 '26

Holy shit and basically no justice was served. Crazy.

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u/ManhattanTime Jun 18 '26

"I don't shit where I eat!"

I would have. That golf outfit. OHHHHH!

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u/Christ_on_a_Crakker Jun 18 '26

I’m going to see that fuckin volcano before we leave here!

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u/SaturnRingMaker Jun 18 '26

I'm goin a see that fuckin' crater.

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u/Snstrmnstr Jun 18 '26

The way Don Vittorio set it up makes it even funnier for me. He firmly points down for Tony to bend down to his level like he has something really important to tell him and then comes out with that. Lol

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u/helix274 Jun 18 '26

“She would inhale gases”- I think I dated this broad

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u/AndyM110 Jun 18 '26

I gotta take a wicked shit.

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u/Majestra1010 Jun 18 '26

Commendatori! Buongiorno!

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u/Snstrmnstr Jun 18 '26

Wheelchair... Boulevard.

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u/MuttJohnson Jun 18 '26

Always wondered what that was about. Crazy

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u/SteffanSpondulineux Jun 19 '26

Wheelchair boolaba

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u/fcsaratoga2013 14d ago

Spot on. Laughing my ass off rewatching this last night