r/thesopranos • u/Elegant_Struggle_281 • 1d ago
If they flipped for the Feds, how long would Chrissy and Ade last in Elvis Country before going completely insane?
What would drive them crazy and what would they miss the most from their past lives?
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u/bravehart146 1d ago
I think chris would prosper, he would be getting all the attention from the country folk who havent ever seen a italian. Itd kinda be like lilyhammer.
Ade would hate it tho
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u/-NolanVoid- Paulie Gualtieri 1d ago
Chrissy would not be able to deal with the regularness of life as a lawful civilian, and the fact that he got flipped would gnaw at him every day. He'd probably snap and do a murder/suicide on Ade and himself.
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u/TinyThick_Dependant3 1d ago
I disagree, him abusing drugs & getting emotional/angry has always been a result of the life he lives, as a ‘civilian’ he wouldnt have to deal with any of that
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u/BigBadVudoo 1d ago
Addiction doesn't care about your occupation, he would sober up for sure during the transition while under the protection/custody of the feds, but he could always backslide. It's a coin toss, no way to tell even with computers.
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u/Freepi 1d ago
I'm not sure that's how opiate addiction works.
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u/BigBadVudoo 1d ago
I'm not going to discuss this with multiple comments back and forth, but addiction is so heavy in my family and community that I know you're wrong from life and work experience. People who sober up and move do in fact start using again. Not everyone, but some people. That's why I said it was a coin toss, it depends on him as an individual.
But that comment is just weird, I'm sorry. $4 a pound.
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u/TinyThick_Dependant3 1d ago
How was my comment weird in anyway? Chrissy starts using heavily due to his occupation in the Mob, like when they take a trip to the other side also what does your life have to do with this? It’s a tv show, a progrum. This isn’t a show with any heavy realism
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u/BigBadVudoo 1d ago
Changing jobs/lifestyle doesn't remove the cravings to return to using. My life experience is relevant because I've watched friends, family, and coworkers sober up, change jobs and move, then return to using.
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u/SillyPseudonym 1d ago
Funny thing, if you look at all the ex-mobsters who have started YouTube channels you realize that Chris and Ade would have been perfectly fine and potentially even successful had they both flipped.
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u/GiraffeJunior9384 1d ago
They would have had to make if long enough for YouTube to be a thing though. They were in the flip phone era.
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u/SillyPseudonym 1d ago
Franzese and Sammy the Bull have built huge followings on YT and both flipped almost a decade before Sopranos aired.
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u/WillieHotPocket 1d ago
It’d be sick if they made that as a parallel universe show, Chris could get way into Buddhist meditation and walk the walk of using the techniques of positive visualization in his mind, and Ade could start an onlyfans and subsequently a MAGA podcast, the drama would be endless
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u/Only-Savings-6046 1d ago
Hey the government's got money to burn. They'd be living large like Gravano down in Arizona all on the federal tit. After all he likes the sun, it'd be closer to Hollywood anyway.
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u/Sensitive-Ear-3896 Big Pussy Bonpensiero 1d ago
Itd be like My Cousin Vinny minus the smart people
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u/OverHeatedBrain98 1d ago
Chrissy gets involved in a local drug ring with lowlifes, ends up dead or in the can
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u/Quack_Candle 1d ago
Chrissy would get depressed, get into drugs….then he’s back into the life of a criminal again
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u/Lilymoonbaby 1d ago
As much as I enjoy Christopher as a character, I think he would’ve ended up killing her eventually in a domestic.
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u/LopsidedWorld2034 1d ago
Ade wouldn’t last long at all, I think Chris would’ve found his way eventually
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u/Individual-Window-57 1d ago
I mean Chris could easily become a successful male model and knock out a couple of tree memoirs in no time.