Kaisha (The Sopranos) Puns

"Kaisha"

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Casablanca is a part of a French colony. Tony is seen moments later wearing a French beret. Earlier in the series, Arty Bucco is swindled by that frog–eating faccia di cazzo Frenchmen that Tony later gets his money back on. Notice he sends Furio in that scene.. why not Paulie? hear me out.. Cut back to the scene in Kaisha and Bobby watching Casablanca. Aj brings in his new GF, "Blanca" into the Soprano's house, which is white.. Casablanca means white house in Spanish. Then it cuts to Hugh De Angelis and the audience is supposed to make the connection that Carmella's maiden name is Carmella De Angelis which abbreviates to CD... In the first episode Tony buys his mom a CD player. Her initials? LS. Who usually plays CDs? an MC. Who else was an MC.. Minn Matrone aka Malignant Cunt. Minn Matron was a Malignant Cunt.

I got the bootleg DVD of the series down in my trunk. They were giving it away at the car wash today along with that 50 Cent movie.

Anyway my girlfriend Kaisha's birthday is coming up and I was looking to pick up the Luther Vandross box set. Any idea where I could find it? Car wash was all out.

Hi!

I’ve been thinking about opening a GK, and I thought that you would be able to help me with the decision.

My situation is following

• I run a sole proprietorship for last 3 years
• I do my own taxes with a help of Freee
• I work from home, although I might rent a small office space in the future
• My earnings are somewhere between 7 and 10 million JPY
• Costs of running my business are low - mostly software, internet, power, new laptop etc.
• I don’t hire anyone, but it might change in the future
• All my clients are from abroad, and it won’t change anytime soon
• I am not looking for funding or for business partners

I am mostly thinking about the costs of running a GK. I understand that it costs around 60,000 JPY to open the business, and then around 20-30k per month to pay for an accountant, anything else? Would my taxes increase significantly, if my costs are not big?

My main concern with sole proprietorship is credibility. Even though my situation is very stable and I own a credit card (with pretty low limit), I bet I wouldn’t be able to get a car loan, just because I am a sole proprietor.

Thanks in advance

Edit: fixed formatting

I was working on a file with a different spelling of the name and was reminded that Chrissy made up an imaginary black girlfriend with the name. I was sitting at my desk laughing and my only other coworker in office is like 60 and she probably doesn't watch The Sopranos and wouldn't get it.

I mean … Benny killed her baby’s father just when he was about to get caught up on child support (from the called off Carmine hit) and then later when Chrissy couldn’t even bring her around because of how racist the crew was.

Season 2 Episode 11 "House arrest" Most of the crew still alive and feels like just another day with the ending left open

Season 6 Episode 12 "Kaisha" Just another Christmas at the Soprano residence with some tension among relatives and Tony ad Phil setting things aside and "Burring the hatchet" after Phil's heart attack would've been a nice ending.

What is the tea Chris’s side piece recommends as to having sedating effects? It’s when they’re on her couch and she’s like “you know if you take 10 bags of such and such tea it feels like a benzo.”? Anyone remember off hand.

The Sopranos has always explores the prospect of moral improvement and the dichotomy between how one wants to be perceived vs who they really are. Not only are Lil Carmine and Phil foils to Tony they are also foils to Christopher and Aj. Like Lil Carmine Christopher only gained status and moved up the ranks because of his familial relationship with the boss and like Phil he has a volatile temper, is narcissistic and seething with insecurities.

While many have negative thoughts about Johnny Cakes because of its focus on Vitos romance, the title itself also alludes to Tony himself. After Aj's failed assassination attempt on Junior, because of his own last minute decision and getting tackled by the facility guards, Tony reprimands Aj for being stupid and then trashes him for not having the gall to actually do what he had planned. Aj starts crying and Tony stops and realizes how fucked up it is that he is criticizing Aj for not going through with the murder. Even if Tony keeps him away from the business, because he is his son Aj will always be directly associated with organized crime regardless of his choices. Tony regrets what he said and says Aj is a good kid however that seems to do little as at the end of the episode Aj has a panic attack, showing that while he lacks his street smarts and charisma Aj has inherited his dads insecurities, entitlement, self loathing and depression.

Like Junior throwing up after ordering Tonys death, Big Pussies back pains about being a rat and Tony getting food poisoning when he comprehends his subconscious knowledge that Big pussy is a rat and must be whacked, Phil guilt also manifests into physical symptoms. Soon after whacking Vito Phil has a heart attack. When Tony hears this he is vocally happy at first but recognizes that Phil like anybody else is only human and hurting. While Tonys decision to talk about his experience in the coma with Phil is diplomatic it is also sincere. Tonys own subordinates kicked and screamed for Vito to be whacked, Tony understands that if Phil didn't kill him he could possibly lose his standing with his subordinates and could possibly lead to them question exactly what did happen to him in the can. The murder was committed to preserve his image. It is shown that Phil and Vito were friends and he enjoyed his company. Comparatively any scene where Phil is with his wife he is unhappy. When Tony arrives at the hospital Patty whines that this is some Christmas to Tony and tells Phil that God lo

My mother grew up in Newark New Jersey and my grandfather was a barber. He used to cut a lot of wise guys hair and she would visit him often. She'd get to know a lot of the guys and sometimes the wives or girlfriends would be getting their hair done too.

Anyway, in real life there really were guys named Big Pussy and Little Pussy and she was amazed that the writers would use these characters names and loved to tell me about the real Big Pussy and Little Pussy.

And while that's wonderful and interesting; hearing your mother constantly say Big Pussy and Little Pussy is exactly as terrible as you can imagine. Big Pussy this. Little Pussy that. I wish the lord would take me now.

I just had this thought after finishing Season 4 of my third full rewatch and figured you gavones might like it.

I watched Breaking Bad before The Sopranos, and for a long time I believed that Breaking Bad was the undisputed number one TV show. Even after I watched The Sopranos for the first time at 17-18, I put the two of them at about equal on the list.

I finally got around to rewatching The Sopranos before TMSON came out. The show is even better on a second viewing, in my opinion. Every moment registers on a totally different level knowing where all the characters end up by the end of the show. Having gotten older and gained more life experience since I first watched it, it's become increasingly evident that the show is a huge slice of life and character study, and every moment has some significance. I didn't quite understand the depth of it until I watched it a second time and pick up on all the things you miss on a first viewing.

I still adore Breaking Bad, and I think it will always be second on my list. But every time I've tried to binge the whole thing again, I've fizzled out quickly. It's an excellent show, and the performances from the main cast are just as good as some of the performances on The Sopranos, IMO. Breaking Bad is just more of a cinematic experience, I think. A huge part of the excitement comes from the big and intense moments and cliffhangers, rather than the way the plot slowly unfolds in The Sopranos. It's a tight story focused on a more limited set of characters, and it accomplishes that goal beautifully - but it isn't as much of an introspection of a whole subculture the way The Sopranos is.

As much as I love and have enjoyed Breaking Bad, it just doesn't have that same way of getting in your head as The Sopranos. I can sit around with the boys quoting it and laughing at clips for hours. I just recently got my girlfriend into it, and after the big argument in Whitecaps she pointed out that the interactions feel real to the point that it's almost impossible to forget that these are actors reciting a script. Both Tony and Carmela had both explicit and subtle motivations, frustrations, and flaws, giving the scene a realism I've only ever seen on The Sopranos.

Anyway, four dollars a pound.

It has no respect for this thing. Not really! It stepped over all our quotes to take the karma for its self. And the way it does it is all fucked up. It has no rhyme or reason, it just repeats itself. Either these quotes have meaning or they don't.

I work for a massive GC, and I can’t even comprehend to see how someone in organized crime can impact how my job site is run. Was this actually a thing back in the day?

I can see no-show jobs being a thing I guess? There’s no way a bunch of people without PPE lounging in lawn chairs, not doing real work, wouldn’t raise red flags to literally everyone. Also, there’s no way some fake osha inspector / whoever can just shutdown a job site for days because of bullshit “environmental” concerns. Where is the owner and stakeholders in all this??

Have you ever seen some shady shit go down, similar to what is portrayed in The Sopranos?

Don’t snitch on yourself if true I guess.

I’ve seen INTERNALLY fraud / bad practices to make more money as a small sub, but I’m talking mafia related / maybe political influences I guess?

Here's mine that I'm pretty sure is a bona fide unpopular opinion - I don't like Whitecaps. Like at all. And I don't mean in that 'it feels too raw and real to revisit' way. The episode just doesn't work for me.

There's the fact that ultimately it kicked off the protracted seperation arc that imo is weak and just fizzles out. The blowout and fighting also feels unnatural for a show that always favoured the anticlimax of real life over spectacle of movie/ TV fireworks. But most importantly, in my frank opinion, it's unnecessary and redundant in the wake of what I genuinely believe was the perfect climax of the Tony/Carmela tension arc of season 4 - the ending of Mergers and Acquisitions. Carmela finds out about what Tony did, and gets what she feels is her due by taking his birdfeeder money. Tony finds out about the missing money and Carmela's discovery of his infidelity, and looks the other way, believing one excuses the other. Both try to goad the other but in the end settle for uncomfortable stalement.

It's perfect. That's how The Sopranos dealt with problems like that - by having people come to uncomfortable comprises and making the best of what they got. I genuinely believe the show would have been better off by concluding that particular arc with that ending (Season 5 could still have shown their relationship being frosty and slowly thawing over the course of the season)

What's your actually unpopular Sopranos opinion?

They don't have to have the same premise/genre just a show that has amazing writing as The Sopranos

You guys are supposed to be quoting out there! r/Carlo what happened to creating a sister subreddit to spread soprano quotes all over the internet? It what? Died on the vine? Get out there and spread some fucking sopranos quotes!!!! And none of that cookie shit I don’t trust it!!!

I’ll go first… I learned to never show up somewhere empty-handed

For me, it's the scene where that guy or wtv pops up in the mirror in the second episode of season 3. For sum reason that just creeped me out.

Gabagool was baffling to me the first time I heard it (I live in New Zealand). I remember thinking like wtf gibberish did Tony just say and googling it because it was just a bizzare phrase.

Honestly, one of my favorite shows of all timeeee. It is probably second, only losing first place to Buffy the vampire slayer. I loved it so fucking much and I will be quoting it till the day I die. I never expected it to be so funny yet so emotionally complex.

There really wasn’t a bad season but I definitely wasn’t a fan of 6a. If I had to rank it would go 2,5,6b,3,4,1,,,,,6a.

I was also not a fan of the ending and really hated the rushed feeling some of the storylines got. I felt meadows ending was awful and so was the conclusion to tony and melfis relationship. Aj really grated on me as well and I just dislike him as a person/character. I love tony and he’s one of my fav characters but he was so hard to root for in season 6. I also wish carmella had stayed separated from tony and learned to live on her own. You know, give the characters some development. However, I felt all the characters regressed which I kind of liked better in a way. It made me more intrigued by them and their lives. I was hoping so bad they would change and they just couldn’t. The money and power was too addictive.

Favorite character easily was Adriana for sureeeee. Her storyline was the highlight of the show for me and so fucking sad.

Fav episode goes to employee of the month. Brutal episode but rang true for many victims of SA. I also love how melfis will and purity was tested in this episode. Def one of my fav endings to an episode.

The show has a killer choice in their music, but I’m a simple man;

1. MEOW - Visiting Day (Shut the fuck up hesh)(you are old) (massive g liked it)
2. Wrapped in my memory - Shawn smith
3. Dolphins - Fred Neil
4. Living on a thin line - The Kinks
5. The Valley - Los Lobos
6. I saved the world today - Eurythmics

https://youtu.be/mxxpS9sCCLI

Notes:

1. Ralph did kill Pie O My.

2. Phil coming out of the closet to kill Vito and the extreme hatred for anything remotely gay was all INTENTIONAL and meant to imply that subconsciously Phil was a deeply closeted guy, to a point where even he didn't probably realize it on the surface. So

3. He doesn't regret or think any character was killed off too early. Although missed Big Pussy because of the actor.

4. Tony's ending is back to being ambiguous, and if anything Chase kind of more implied (to ME, could be wrong) that Tony was meant to be alive. He said his words were misinterpreted by people (including me) he never said Tony was dead, he said that was an ORIGINAL plan, that he gets killed coming back or going to new York. But they didn't go with that. But still left it mostly ambiguous.

Edit: I was unsure whether to give much stock to this, but seeing another post about it, I have to mention that he still couldnt help himself. Immediately after denying saying Tony is dead, when Steve said he believes Tony's alive and well, Chase kind of did "in an alternate universe" joke, mentioning that it's possible tony's alive in alternate universe and basically implying again that Tony did die. Frustrating guy, he can be.

5. Most baffling answer, he doesn't think Tony got worse a person by the end of the show and he doesn't get why people think that or that the show got darker. Which is just baffling.

6. He doesn't think MSON sequels are gonna be there but "allegedly" HBO are interested in a 6 episode miniseries. From the *end of the movie or Tony being made to right before the start of the show.

7. And also, MSON being advertised as a sopranos movie was NOT David Chase's Idea. Especially when it was shot.

8. The Final Talking Sopranos was exactly as any other TS. Steve talked about food, Michael was being existential, some breaking balls, and a fun ending.

From chrissy being upset that he may not be indicted to phil having his head run over by his car this show is more hilarious than I believe it was intended to be. One of my favorite scenes is when chrissy goes to the hood with a neck brace and beats a dealer for passing up to jr instead of him. Clever and hilarious show

Looking for a new show to watch (between rewatches). I've already seen The Wire and Succession which IMO come closest to this quality. I've also seen Breaking Bad, Six Feet Under and Deadwood which are also good. Any other suggestions?

Edit: Thank you all so much for the suggestions!! I’ll add that I loved True Detective Season One. Mare of Easttown is incredible.

I’ve just started Escape and Dannemora. It doesn’t really have Sopranos DNA, but I’m enjoying it, and thought I’d mention it since I haven’t seen it come up.

For me it’s

1. Deanne Pontecorvo- didn’t get much screen time throughout the series so some fans forget about her but she was one boo-ya hottie!

2. JoJo Palmice- Just an overall very pretty woman. The scene in the kitchen where she’s arguing with Mikey… her ass looks fuckin’ amazing with those pants on. Bobby fucked up by choosing Janice over JoJo.

3. Charmaine Bucco- Not only is she a smoke show but her personality throughout the series was great. I really liked how she was no-nonsense about almost everything.

4. Sonya Aragon- The girl Tony met up with in Vegas after he killed Chrissy. I GET IT!!!!!!

5. Meadow Soprano- Now how could I miss Maedo? Or Fielder is it? Either way she’s mad ripe bro.

• David Chase [Producer, co-writer of Many Saints] – Chase created The Sopranos and had many jobs on the series: showrunner, producer, writer (30 episodes), director (2 episodes), actor (3 episodes)

• Lawrence Konner [Producer, co-writer of Many Saints] – Konner wrote 3 episodes of The Sopranos: "Second Opinion", "Army of One" (with David Chase), "Mergers and Acquisitions" (teleplay only)

• Alan Taylor [Director of Many Saints] – Taylor directed 9 episodes of The Sopranos: "Pax Soprana", "The Strong, Silent Type", "Rat Pack", "The Fleshy Part of the Thigh", "The Ride", "Kaisha", "Stage 5", "Kennedy and Heidi", "The Blue Comet"

• Bob Shaw [Production Designer for Many Saints] – Shaw was a production designer for The Sopranos for 73 episodes (seasons 2 – 6); as an actor, he had a minor role (1 episode) in the series

Honorable mentions:

• Michael Gandolfini [Actor in Many Saints] – his father, James Gandolfini, portrayed Tony Soprano in The Sopranos

• Nick Vallelonga [Actor in Many Saints] – his father, Tony Lip, portrayed Carmine Lupertazzi in The Sopranos

Am I missing anybody?

I’m 34, and this show feels very relevant to me, in a nostalgic way.

I work with some young twenty-somethings, and they find me to be quite dated in my references and styles.

Is there any young people here that watch? What do you think about the show. Does AJ’s experiences feel familiar in a universal way, or unrelatable? Does the technology, cars, and style feel relatable or from a different era?

And how does this effect viewing experience and opinions on the show? Does anyone have younger friends/family that watched that can expound upon differences in opinions in the show versus those of us that were older when the show was made and can relate with the styles and current events in the show?

Season 01 Episode 08:

Christopher Moltisanti: You ever feel like nothin' good was ever gonna happen to you?

Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Yeah. And nothin' did. So what? I'm alive, I'm survivin'.

Christopher Moltisanti: That's it. I don't wanna just survive. It's says in these movie writing books that every character has an arc. Understand?

Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: [shakes head]

Christopher Moltisanti: Like everybody starts out somewheres. and they do something, something gets done to them and it changes their life. That's called an arc. Where's my arc?

The man's sexist/racist/homophobic, but what's the most open-minded he's ever been? The two examples that come to mind for me are how he wasn't quite so racist as to refuse to accept AJ's girlfriend like he did with Noah, or how he argued that Vito's homosexuality didn't really matter because Vito made him big bucks.