Best scene from The Sopranos

Hard to believe after almost a couple decades, still the highest ranked TV series of all time?

(or did it fall 2nd to Breaking Bad)

Still though, great cast, great acting.

Bizarre it revolves around gangster culture (which any civilized person will deplore). Compared to the likes of "Kin" shot here in Ireland, it might as well have been a different genre.

But I think it's the allure of the individual characters that lent itself to the series success. They had class (unlike "Kin").

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11OrXoOpdHk

Directing was so damn good throughout the series also.

It blended the satire with seriousness so well.

I can't exactly put my finger on what appeals to me about this scene, but for some reason it never gets old.

Mantis Toboggan

Yeah Pauli and Chris were great together and for that reason this is my favourite scene

https://youtu.be/aUbm1tfOyTs?si=NKKfoIHlb8PZN1CG

extra-ordinary_

Started watching it for the first time lately and find the storyline really obvious and predictable and some of the scenes ridiculous. People had told me how great it was and maybe it was - at the time it originally aired, but there's been so much since then that I don't find it impressive in the slightest.

Photobox

Evidently Chickentown scene

drury..

Anything with richie and beanzy lol

A lot of ott characters in the show

Id probably pick a scene with Phil Leonardo in it

"Whatever happened there " 😁

Newbie12345The

Finn describing what Vito was up to with the security guard…Award winning performance from Pauly there

thegame983

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GCQnTPF4_o

My personal fav.

Luna84

The intervention and calling Christopher weak is so funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQkuG1NBX3s

Tell me how

In the process of watching it at the moment and one thing I'm struck by is how much comedy there is in it.

Not slap stick comedy but really funny writing and direction.

There's a scene with Tony and Gloria Trillo on his boat, Irina calls Tony and pretends to be from AJ's school and Gloria clocks it but doesn't let on initially and Tony tries to hide it. But then Gloria flips out and they get in to it a bit, the scene ends with Gloria taking a gift she had brought for Tony, throwing it out the window in to the water and leaving. The camera pans to Tony and he's just there with a look that says 'What just happened? These women will be the death of me, they're just. never. finished'. Excellent direction.

But in terms of best scene? This is it for me. From 2:18 in particular.

https://youtu.be/ZeYaRKPpa0o?si=yQGcZjAxvmj_cdtN&t=135

I don't know if this scene hits differently for someone who doesn't know truly what long term clinical depression is, but as someone who unfortunately can speak to that, this scene is perfect. Every little thing about it, the anger, the frustration, the despair, the hope that there's an answer that explains everything… and the fact that there isn't. This, for me, is one of the best scenes in television.

NewbridgeIR

Junior slipping in the shower

https://youtu.be/a7hFfwC4FB0?si=uKO_EqVebAEKOUVb

dirkmeister

There’s no scraps in my scrapbook.

Iguarantee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058359555/best-scene-from-the-sopranos

I’ve watched the whole thing four times and it’s still the best to show I’ve ever seen.

The best scene and my favourite scene may not be the same scenes.

The flip-flopping between “it’s a retirement community” Vs. “It’s a nursing home!!!” Always made me laugh.

I reckon the best scene is probably one with Tony & Melfi Tony & Carmella.

Melfi: something where Tony goes on a diatribe about something and almost (incorrectly) speaks for Melfi while doing it.

Carmella: The whole thing where he mocks her for wanting “a simple gold chain and a Hyundai” is superb.

One of the amazing things about the show is that each time I watch it through a different character shines.

1st time: Tony

2nd time: Carmella

3rd time: Christopher

4th time: Silvio

drury..

It's the funny scene scenes in the sopranos that u remember

Carmine talking to pauli about paulis father " didn't he get run over by a trolley"

pavb2

I like the scene where Vito’s cutting the wood and keeps looking at his watch the Jimmy Brown song when he died was also memorable

Strumms

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122380667#Comment_122380667

Finn : “Vito was blowing the security guard.”

Paulie : “Son…..uv…..a…..bitch ! “ Brilliantly done 😸

Carlo : “ catchin ? Not pitchin ?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwemJS961DU

runningbuddy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122380764#Comment_122380764

This really resonated with me. I felt every word to be honest. Nobody like Gandolfini.

Still one of my fav TV shows and I could watch it over and over again. The comedy element is absolutely fantastic. One of my all time fav lines was after Jackie Jnr was killed. Uncle Junior to Tony - "wasn't the kid always a dumb ****? didn't he almost drown in 3 inches of water? Tony, yeah, at the Penguin exhibition"

The writing is pure quality

drury..

Tony talking to Johnny Sack about power sharing and his reaction

Feech la mana " my nephew has this neighbourhood" lol

It's those moments that I remember

Quite a few of the characters are a hard rewatch for me anyhow

BillyHasMates

Any scenes with Richie or Ralph in them.

artanevilla

+1 for Chris's intervention.

"This is non-judgemental"

Ends with them all just beating the **** out of Chris.

Triboro

When Junior got his hand stuck in the sink!

rob316

Not a chance its fallen to Breaking Bad, the writing in Sopranos is unrivalled.

There wasn't an unmemorable character in the show, Gandolfini was obviously amazing. Absolutely reprehensible people but you couldn't help rooting for them, so many comedy moments, so many emotional moments, endlessly quotable. I have watched it 20 times over at this stage.

These characters were larger than life, so many different sides to them, no character was the same. Chris, Paulie, Silvio, Junior, Jonny Sack, Feech, Richie, Bobby, Ralphie.

Best TV drama of all time.

Comedy elements were on point, and yeah, they were of a very kind of specific nature.

Exemplified in one of the final scenes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AC1FoIQVV0

Responses of the college students etc., it's a little bit predictable dark humour (bringing out a humour in a dudes faces getting crush by wheel), but I guess that was the comedy trend at the time.

Pauliedragon

When Ralf prank calls Paulies mother was funny.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5ZbxWXVnRM

This was very tastefully done.

Justified, as Fat Dom had just bludgeoned another character to death himself.

Collie D

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122384210#Comment_122384210

Adriana: You killed my dog while you were high.

Paulie: Why? Was it barking?

Newbie12345The

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122382014#Comment_122382014

How much more can i take!!!

drury..

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122384440#Comment_122384440

I remember it as unfunny and predictable but each to their own

Dublinandy3

I love this show, watch it at least once a year all the way through.

So many good scenes, both serious and funny. Many have been mentioned already.

One throw away scene that gets me every time.

'I wish I'd have borrowed money from Vito'

https://youtu.be/BnhS5NS99wY?si=Z-mbP5KFKFcOi3Az

Sigma101

I love the way the physical brutality of the men was sometimes contrasted with the subtle (but equally brutal) verbal exchanges between some of the women. For example this interaction between Carmela (my favourite character) and Charmaine Bucco (Artie's wife). Carmela asserts her social superiority in a demeaning and disrespectful way. But Charmaine picks her moment and delivers a cruel and vengeful punch in the guts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyelKXARqUA

DJIMI TRARORE

Where can one watch this from the beginning

miamee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122387320#Comment_122387320

It was on NowTV up to a few months ago anyway, I was rewatching it. Lost track, let the subscription lapse, I have never watched it through to the end 😨 I really must get back to it some time soon.

runningbuddy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122387320#Comment_122387320

NOWTV have it

runningbuddy

IMO Carmella was one of the nastiest villians in the entire show. Edie Falco was outstanding but a horrible character

shansey

• "no f***in Ziti now??"
• where tony saves AJ from drowning
• Paulie stealing the guys wallet after knocking him from the tree
• The phone call from Pine Barrens
• Anything with Richie

runningbuddy

Not forgetting Livia !!

Citizen Six

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122384572#Comment_122384572

Chris: “it must have crawled in there for warmth”. 😂

CiaranW

Never had the makings of a varsity athlete.

dirkmeister

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122388082#Comment_122388082

I think you’ll find Paulie was only defending himself. The guy jumped out of the tree and came at him with a chainsaw!!!

drury..

Richie was outstanding

Super nasty and super good

bbbbb

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122388033#Comment_122388033

yes. I find justwatch.com useful

https://www.justwatch.com/ie/tv-series/the-sopranos

billyhead

As mentioned the best scene was in Pine Barrens episode and the phone call about the special forces guy.

drury..

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122388955#Comment_122388955

All a matter of taste

I would find those type episodes predictable or unmemorable

Each to their own anyhow

drury..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wED0F7Vmy28

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xXSXiH1lV_s

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AndrewJRenko

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122388996#Comment_122388996

Love the scene with Paulie, you can see the penny dropping for him.

Love any scene with Paulie, remember when he strip searched Christopher at the Bing?

Strumms

has there ever been a more pin point perfect piece of casting, in any TV show ever…as…David Proval as Richie Aprile ? …hats of to the man, he was brilliant, literally everything about Richie, you hated. Every look, the way he talked to Janice, his dislike and resentment of Tony, his treatment of anyone he saw beneath him…

Pretty much every scene was memorable…. This is another classic…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jnyi0stbOqw

the acting is so good.

this too…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o47HTd4Yxv0&t=21s

drury..

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yIcnnAeGb60

Richie and beanzy

username2013

"Here's some standard operating procedure…"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GCQnTPF4_o

Great acting by both.

ShagNastii

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122388038#Comment_122388038

Errr am I forgetting something? Of all the characters I wouldn't even have Carmella classed as a baddy, let alone the nastiest villian.

miamee

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122392052#Comment_122392052

Tony to Richie: "Don't gimme your fcukin Manson lamps"

What a great line 🤣

Georgie was the shows wild card:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MkxmstBuB24

I think he was put in there to show what an insecure tool "Tony" is beneath the bravado of being "boss".

runningbuddy

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/122392673#Comment_122392673

The rest of the villians were obviously villians, sociopaths etc. Carmella was ruthless in getting what she wanted. She knew well what happened to Adrianna yet could look Adrianna's grieving mother in the eye. Also her manipulation of her next door neighbour when she wanted something to help her her daughter into college…..

She was a brilliant character though