Time to wrap it up.

Post your list of seasons (best-to-worst)

AND

Post your fav episode from each season.

It can be done in the same list...here's mine:


Season 3 (best season) : Pine Barrens (best episode)
Season 2 : Full Leather Jacket
Season 1 : College
Season 4 : Whoever Did This
Season 6 : Kennedy and Heidi
Season 5 : The Test Dream

Season 4: TIE- Mergers and Acquisitions and Whoever Did This
Season 5: All Due Respect
Season 3: Pine Barrens (DUH)
Season 2: Bust Out
Season 6A: Mr and Mrs. John Sacrimoni Request
Season 6B: Stage 5
Season 1: Isabella

Season 1: Isabella
Season 2: Toodle -fucking- Oo
Season 5: Long Term Parking
Season 6B: Blue Comet
Season 6A: Mayham
Season 3: Pine Barrens
Season 4: White Caps

Season 1 is my favorite season with the following episode being my favorite from that season:


Season 1 Episode 3 - "Denial, Anger, Acceptance"

A Hasidic man agrees to give Tony 25 percent of his motel in return for "persuading" his son-in-law to give his daughter a divorce. After Tony, Silvio, and Paulie spent the better part of the night getting the old man what he wanted, he tries to renege.

That episode just cracks me up.

But one of my favorite scenes from season 1 is when Paulie and Pussy are in the Starbucks style coffee shop looking for information about AJ's teacher's car, and Paulie loses his mind because of the money that he sees them charging. When he heists the coffee pot.." Fuck this, we invented this shit"... and sticks it in his jacket, he just kills me!

Season 5: All Due Respect
Season 2: Funhouse
Season 3: Pine Barrens
Season 1: College
Season 4: Whoever Did This
Season 6b: Walk Like a Man
Season 6a: Kaisha

Season 2 is my second favorite season with the following episode being my favorite from that season :


Season 2 Episode 17 - "Commendatori"


Tony goes to the old country to conduct new business. When they arrive in Naples, Tony and the guys soon discover that their Coppola-inspired images of their old world counterparts are disconcertingly inaccurate. Zi Vittorio is now a wheelchair-bound old man whose conversation consists of blurting out the names of American highways. And it turns out it ain't for nothing that "the Boot" is a high-heeled one: Zi Vittorio's organization is really run by a woman -- his daughter, Annalisa. Annalisa is tough enough to make Livia look like the singing nun, but Tony still finds it difficult to accept her as the head of a family. He's favorably impressed, however, by the ferocity and loyalty of the Italian cugines and so he strikes a bold deal with Annalisa: Tony will cut the price of the cars he supplies to Naples if she'll send her best man to Jersey to work for him. Thus Furio Giunta becomes the newest member of the Soprano crew.

Season 1 - College, Isabella
Season 3 - Pine Barrins
Season 2 - Funhouse, Bust Out
Season 4 - For All Debts Public & Private, Christopher - "he was gay gary cooper?"
Season 6b - Heidi & Kennedy, Blue Comet
Season 5 - Long Term Parking
Season 6a - Mayham

I really loved Season 6, especially the Kevin Finnerty sequences. But if I had to pick ONE favorite episode from that season, it would be the following :



Season 6 - Episode 66 - "Members Only"

Junior's mind is playing tricks again-he's convinced that Pussy Malanga is stalking him, and that he stole 40 Gs from a job back in the '70s. Tony can't take it. But when he complains to Melfi and she suggests assisted living, Tony cites family loyalty. Melfi hammers at Tony about his mother and his denial about her, and he turns on her: "What was your mother like?" But Melfi's not fazed: "She was controlling and manipulative at times. She also never tried to kill me."

Tony makes dinner while Junior goes to look for his teeth. But the aging wiseguy finds a gun instead, and in a fit of paranoia, shoots Tony in the stomach. Junior hides in the closet while Tony struggles to make it to a phone to call 911.


I'll never forget the shock I felt at the end of that episode.