Humorous Moments

Possible spoilers for those who haven't seen all the episodes

They've been running repeats of The Sopranos and although I haven't watched all of the repeats, I do enjoy seeing them a second and third time. I love some of the humor, be it unintentional or not.

Last night they had the episode in which Chrissy sits on Adrianna's dog and kills it. I know! Not a funny thing to happen in real life, but it cracked me up how stoned Chris was and then Adrianna's shocked looked when she asked Chris where the dog was and he said he didn't know. There it is under him.

Then, in the same episode they had the surprise intervention for Chris so he hopefully would acknowledge his drug problem. Adrianna starts the session and sobbingly told Chris that he killed her dog. The look on Tony's face!! He says "Hold it! Wait a minute! You killed a dog?" ha ha ha!! He was pissed and he was serious but it's so Tony!!!

Oh, and this was the same episode that Paulie takes the picture of Pie O' My (the horse) and hangs it in his house, with the scene ending with Paulie staring at the picture of the Tony with the horse, looking kind of freaked as though Tony was staring back at him.

Anyone else laugh at moments that aren't necessarily meant to be funny????

I can't wait for it to return

TIS

That was a good episode

There are so many times when these things happen in the Sopranos. Someone will do something that's part of the story, it will seem so played and serious, but the way it's presented, you laugh to yourself. The situation with Chris and Adriana's dog was a prime example.

One of my favorites is when Tony finds out the guy is sleeping with his old Russian girlfriend and he ends up getting upset and beating the shit out of the guy with a belt. The guy was half naked. That was pretty funny and a good example of Tony's bipolarism.

Right, I've just started watching the show again from season one episode one. So I will post here as and when I find these common moments.

Probably not as unintentional as it first may seem, but my first contender is in the Pilot episode: Tony's second panic attack (or, as Livia might say, fit), in the Green Grove retirement home. Livia's complaining, the attention is on her, and Tony just collapses and takes a table with him in the process.

More to come, for sure.
Mick

I have just finished watching the 3rd season for the second time and I totally cracked up in the episode "Pine Barrens"
Tony goes to Junior's house to meet up with Bobby "Bacala" and the reaction to Bobby's deer hunter getup is too much.

Well, "Pine Barrens" is probably the funniest episode of the series. I was laughing during all scenes with Paulie, Christopher and the Russian guy. Paulie's lines are all-time classics!

Just started watching all episodes over again,and the sketch where Silvio and Paulie have to deal with the Chassiddim Jew,really made me laugh!Silvio tells Paulie that he has to say bubkis to the guy,that´s jewish for no,and Paulie says+ This is how i say bubkis,and smacks the guy almost 10 times on the head,with the little hotel bell!

I too am at that episode, the third in the show. One of my favourites, actually.

The fight scene in Pine Barrens, in the Russian's flat, is immense.

Another moment I can't stop laughing at is when Paulie takes the pillow from his mother's friend's face, and he's suffocated her. So morbid. It's a humour which evokes the Coens' macabre quirkiness (I'm thinking when the children pull the wig of the corpse in Miller's Crossing).

Mick

The Pine Barrens: and who could forget Paulie and Chrissy freezin to death in the van, eating ketchup packs.

How about Paulie explaining why he washes his hands after he ties his shoes.....because the lace is in close proximity to the floor and germs could get on them....especially in the bathroom.

POSSIBLE MAJOR SPOILER!!!!! (Season 4 or 5 I think?)


Now I know this wasn't intended to be a humorous moment, and maybe I'm a little sick, I don't know. :p

When Tony whacked Ralphie!! Ha ha I didn't seeing it coming...at least not in that manner. I'll never forget it, being by myself, first shocked and half astonished and half laughing. Of course the way Tony & Chrisopher disposed of him was icing on the cake.

TIS

Also loved the scene where the same Jewish guy i mentioned a few posts ago,is about to get killed by a desperate Silvio and Paulie.This guy starts talking about the Massada,en how 900 Jews defended themselves for 2 years,against 15.000 Romans,rather than to be slaves,they wanted to sacrifice themselves.And then he says:'And where are the Romans now?',and Tony says something like:'You're looking at them right now,asshole' Too funny!!!!

"Mix it with the radish!" LMAO!!! It's the way he desperately rustles it about and can't get enough of it.

And then he's been eating Tic-Tacs. "I just found 'em." And that there's none left.

One of a kind episode.
Mick

Yeah, right on! There are many moments in The Sopranos that have reminded me of Coen brothers' movies, especially Fargo and Miller's crossing. David Chase was definitely influenced by these films. After all, the Coens' speciality is to parody American movie genres using morons as the main characters. And there are a lot of morons in the Sopranos.

I've just burst into laughter, Michele, at your signature.

Mick

Point of information:

There is no such language as "Jewish".

There's Hebrew, spoken today primarily in Israel, and Yiddish, which is very similar to German, and was quite popular among European Jews prior to World War II and is pretty much a dying language today, although it is still alive in the large New York City Hasadic community which is comprised largely of European immigrants.

Anyway, "bubkis" is Yiddish, and means "nothing".

Possibly the single funniest thing on "The Sopranos" is when Ralphie made the prank phone call to Nucci Gualtieri, Paulie's mother. It makes me laugh every time I see that episode (Season Four, Episode 9, "Whoever Did This").