# Your favorite scene from The Sopranos. (RIP, James Gandolfini.) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 20, 2013, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-scene-from-the-sopranos-rip-james-gandolfini/661413 "2013-06-20T00:53:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-scene-from-the-sopranos-rip-james-gandolfini/661413/61 "2013-06-21T19:36:15Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > I just watched Season 1, eps 1 & 2, which I haven’t seen in years. This thing was unbelievably good right from the get-go, and still holds up today. Yes, it was. Before binge-watching TV shows was a big thing, I think I watched all of season one on VHS one night after somebody showed me the first episode. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-scene-from-the-sopranos-rip-james-gandolfini/661413/62 "2013-06-21T21:45:09Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > Another one I liked was when the two wise guys go to the Jamba Juice or Starbucks or whatever it was and try to put the protection squeeze on the place. The manager tells them they will have to take it up with corporate. (Paraphrasing) " Kill me and corporate will have another guy just like me here tomorrow." > > Yeah…not a Tony scene. Breaking my own rule. Patsy, always interesting. “Every last fucking coffee bean is in the computer and has to be accounted for! …” “[It’s over for the little guy!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxFQYw_MmAA)” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Great\_Cornholio](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ed8c4c/32.png) [@The\_Great\_Cornholio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Great_Cornholio)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-scene-from-the-sopranos-rip-james-gandolfini/661413/63 "2013-06-21T23:40:57Z")
My favourite is when Furio and Tony truck up to the doctor on the golf course, swerving in front of him, and advise him that he’d better show Uncle Junior the respect he deserves. Furio telling him that golf is a “fucking-a stupid game” and knocking his cap off (“You got a bee on-a your 'at”) had me cheering. Which of us doesn’t want to instill a little fear into our doctors to make them just a little less smug and ensure they concentrate completely on making us well instead of their golf swing? Just me again? Oh well… ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 11:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-scene-from-the-sopranos-rip-james-gandolfini/661413/64 "2013-06-22T11:29:21Z")
> [@joebuck20](#): > > Probably the scene where Tony is beating up David Scatino, the guy who owned the sporting goods shop and ended up losing a bunch of money in a poker game. I liked that it showed Tony for the real bastard that he was, willing to let a childhood friend with a gambling problem get heavily indebted to him. Its things like that, that made me enjoy the whole story, from first to last episode. In the past heroes were incredibly good but tough people. Then they were emotionless people, but still very, very tough. In the Sopranos it shows that people in that line of work can be brutal and sadistic while working, but seemingly ordinary family men, with all of their minor family and domestic problems when not working. But often without any apparent “trigger”, they can go from a standing start into people we don’t ever want to see. And then moments later they’re back to normal. One of the finest programmes shown on tv EVER ! ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 1:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-scene-from-the-sopranos-rip-james-gandolfini/661413/65 "2013-06-22T13:15:58Z")
They had a [good clip](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-20-2013/moment-of-zen---james-gandolfini-tribute) on The Daily Show as a Moment of Zen tribute. ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-scene-from-the-sopranos-rip-james-gandolfini/661413/66 "2013-06-22T13:44:41Z")
> [@lisiate](#): > > I liked the scene at the end when Tony just didn’t understand why Meadow was upset when he gave her the SUV - which had been owned by the son of the sporting goods guy and been ‘reposessed’ to pay off part of the gambling debt. I think that may be my favorite scene, when he yells at her and tells her to “take that high moral ground and go sleep in the fuckin’ bus station if you want!” It’s Tony Soprano, spelling out the real world, or at least _his_ version of the real world, to his daughter, in no uncertain terms. “A grown man made a wager. He lost. He made another one. He lost again. End of story!” ---
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-scene-from-the-sopranos-rip-james-gandolfini/661413/67 "2013-06-22T14:12:55Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > I am also remembering when Tony went golfing with the guys from the upper crust neighborhood Tony lived in, who were getting off on the idea of hanging out with a mobster. Series One - Episode 10. Later on Tony decides to play a joke as retribution on his neighbour Bruce Cusamano who originally invited him to the golf game. Tony wraps sand in a brown paper parcel, then talking confidentially to Bruce over the fence, hands over the parcel and asks Bruce to keep it for him (with a wink) for a while… Gulp! Beautiful script writing and wonderful acting. ---
**Author:** ![Ken001](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/43a26b/32.png) [@Ken001](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ken001)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-scene-from-the-sopranos-rip-james-gandolfini/661413/68 "2013-06-22T14:22:16Z")
> [@Svejk\_1](#): > > That’s Chris and Paulie, in _Pine Barrens_. It was not a KGB officer, though, just regular army. Great episode nonetheless, directed by Steve Buscemi. Since I’ve known that, it always reminds me of Fargo, which also has a lot of pain and suffering in the snow. Aww fuggedaboudit, The Pine Barrens is one of the very best episodes. And he wasn’t KGB or Russian army, he was an interior decorator, killed sixteen Czechoslovakians. 😛 But yeah, his apartment looked like schiesen Actually Valery the Russian was ex-Spetsnatz which explained why he was so hard to kill and indeed we do not know to this day if he survived. I always thought he’d turn up on Paulie’s doorstep. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-scene-from-the-sopranos-rip-james-gandolfini/661413/69 "2013-06-22T14:28:14Z")
> [@zoog](#): > > They had a [good clip](http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-june-20-2013/moment-of-zen---james-gandolfini-tribute) on The Daily Show as a Moment of Zen tribute. Lorraine Bracco’s response to that line is so natural, I’m wondering if it was sprung on her to get that belly laugh from her. ---
**Author:** ![Fluffy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Fluffy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fluffy)\ **Post date:** [June 22, 2013, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-scene-from-the-sopranos-rip-james-gandolfini/661413/70 "2013-06-22T22:51:43Z")
During the Sunday dinner scene at Junior’s…Junior says to AJ that Tony never had the makings of a Varsity Athlete and that he had small hands. After arguing back and forth Tony says, “When I was a kid, you told the girl cousins the same thing and it was very hurtful.” I don’t know why, but this scene makes me laugh my ass off! Of course Christophers intervention. Tony finds out Christopher suffocated Aedrianna’s dog. “You killed little Cosette…I ought to suffocate you, you little prick.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-scene-from-the-sopranos-rip-james-gandolfini/661413.md?page=3)