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| | | | | The Sopranos series 3 episode 1 "Mr Ruggerios Neighborhood"
The Feds have stepped up their efforts to build a RICO case against Tony, even though they no longer have the services of Cooperating Witness 16, AKA Pussy Bonpensiero. Pussy is, as Agent Lipari delicately puts it, "probably compost," the Bureau is going to have to find some other way to get close to Tony. Patsy Parisi, twin brother of the deceased Philly Parisi, may have figured out that his brother became deceased on Tony's order. Patsy's been behaving erratically. Meanwhile, after a few setbacks, the FBI finally manages to get a bugged lamp installed in Tony's basement. So, now that they can eavesdrop on his inner sanctum, here's what the Feds have learned about New Jersey's most notorious crime boss: he needs to steady his dental hygiene and get more roughage in his diet.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 3 episode 2 "Proshai, Livushka"
Tony's concerns that his mother will rat him out to the feds expire when she, literally, does. Ignoring Livia's wish not to have a funeral, Janice arrives from Seattle to arrange for one with all the trimmings. Meanwhile, Meadow's college boyfriend Noah - a film buff of Jewish/African-American heritage - learns that James Cagney in The Public Enemy has got nothing on Tony Soprano.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 3 episode 3 "Fortunate Son"
Christopher finds that being a "made" man isn't all it's cracked up to be, as he's forced to take part in a small-time college heist with Jackie Aprile, Jr. to cover his debts to Paulie. Janice moves into her mother's house, where she soon gets a leg up on Livia's former housekeeper, Svetlana, to whom Livia has bequeathed a valuable record collection. Tony and Dr. Melfi probe into the meat of his anxiety attacks, Meadow continues to be peeved over her father's "talk" with Noah, and Anthony Jr. uncovers his hidden leadership qualities on the gridiron.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 3 episode 4 "Employee of the Month"
Melfi suggests it's time to bring Carmela into Tony's sessions to provide her perspective on his progress. Melfi meets with Dr. Kupferberg, and faces her own unhappiness - about her relationship with Tony. Janice has taken to scouring the place with a metal detector. Tony stops by one day just long enough to tell her she'd better quit looking for buried treasure and give Svetlana her leg back. Ralph Cifaretto is turning into a first-class headache. He's being unnecessarily violent and has started letting Jackie Junior accompany him on collections. There's only one way out of the depths, Janice tells Tony: from now on she's going to devote her life to God. Janice isn't the only woman in Tony's life to suffer violence this week. One evening, while getting into her car, Dr. Melfi is jumped by a solitary young man. He drags her into a stairwell and rapes her.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 3 episode 5 "Another Toothpick"
Bobby "Bacala" Baccilieri, Sr. comes out of retirement to deal with a young hothead named Mustang Sally - much to the chagrin of his son and Uncle Junior. At Christopher's insistance, Adriana leaves her job at Nuovo Vesuvio, leaving Artie Bucco to face up to his true feelings about her and wife Charmaine. Carmela takes a more active role in Tony's therapy. Tony turns to Newark Assemblyman Zellman to "fix" a speeding ticket he got from a cop who wouldn't be bought. And Meadow inadvertently "neutralizes" the FBI's Soprano wiretap.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 3 episode 6 "University"
Tony's clarification of their relationship, Tracee still follows him around, asking "to be friends." But Tony has enough trouble figuring out how to be a father to his own flesh and blood daughter; he can't play papa for an emotionally needy pole dancer, too. Meadow is still seeing Noah; in fact, their relationship has escalated to a level required to use condoms. Fortunately, Tony is unaware of this new development. Tracee is MIA from the Bada Bing. It turns out that she's pregnant and the father is none other than Ralph Cifaretto. For three days she's been holed up in Ralph's apartment. But when Silvio shows up to drag her - back to the Bada Bing, Ralph only stands by and laughs. Ralph emerges, Tony backs him against a fence and puts it on the line. At this point, Ralph's smartest move would have been to keep his mouth shut.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 3 episode 7 "Second Opinion"
Paulie loses money to Christopher playing pool, then refuses to pay up. Then he made Christopher strip naked to prove he's not wearing a wire. And to top it off, he showed up at Christopher and Adriana's apartment at two A.M. to search for money he thinks Christopher is holding out on him. Tony still has some Pussy issues to work out. When Carmela goes to the session alone, Dr. Melfi can't help but notice that Carmela is seriously depressed. Melfi refers Carmela to a colleague, Dr. Sig Krakower. Carmela sees Dr. Krakower, expecting him to advise her on how to cope with Tony. But Krakower's advice regarding Tony is as unexpected as it is blunt: leave him. Tony has Furio assist him in persuading the doctor to be more attentive to Junior. Now that he's been assured he's getting the right treatment, Junior ought to be able to sleep at night.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 3 episode 8 "He Is Risen"
Ralph can't get over the fact that Tony hit him. Silvio sternly advises Tony that he has two choices: "Make him disappear or make nice." Meadow's been doing just that with none other than Jackie Aprile, Junior. Carmela tries to talk to Tony about the budding romance, he only stares at a TV commercial for Mercedes Benz. "I'm thinkin' of getting one of those," he tells Carmela. Tony decides to find her, eventually showing up at her dealership. "Mind if I take it for a test drive?" he asks her. "You have to be accompanied by a sales rep," she replies. Ralph as it turns out, the universe solves that problem for Tony - unfortunately at Gigi Gestone's expense. When Gigi dies suddenly from a heart attack while on the toilet, his demise paves the way for a resolution. Tony awards the captaincy of Gigi's crew to Ralphie, thereby restoring peace to the Family.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 3 episode 9 "The Telltale Moozadell"
Meadow's love life gives Carmela agita, it's probably a good thing she doesn't know about Tony's. His affair with Gloria Trillo is revving up faster than the cars she peddles. But Tony and Carmela have a more immediate concern than Gloria's romantic traumas, namely, their son. A.J. and some friends broke into their school. Tony drops by the casino above Mancuso Insurance to find Jackie - the polite young man who dates his daughter, who assured him he's getting A's in pre-med courses, who promised him he'd do what his late father wanted - sitting at the blackjack table. Tony greets the Godfather wannabe warmly, then grabs him by the neck and tells him he never wants to see him there again. Before letting him go, Tony gives Jackie a warning as serious as it is succinct: "Smarten up."
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 3 episode 10 "To Save Us All From satan's Power"
A somnolent visit with the ghosts of Christmas past lands Tony back on Melfi's couch. Janice decides to host Christmas dinner - if she can find time off from her music making with sleepy boyfriend Aaron. Silvio has a bad dream about some missing Jarlsberg cheese and a dirty rat. With the annual pork-store holiday party approaching, Bacala reluctantly agrees to don the Santa suit that Pussy used to wear. Tony and Furio have a holiday surprise in store for Igor, the Russian who roughed up Janice. On Christmas day, Jackie Jr. arrives with a Xmas gift for Meadow, who in turn gives Tony a gift he can't refuse - but wishes he could.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 3 episode 11 "Pine Barrens"
Silvio can't make a collection from a Russian named Valery. So Tony tells Paulie to do it. Although he'd promised his mother he'd accompany her to the Social Security Office, Paulie grabs Christopher and heads for the Russian's. All they have to do is knock on the door, get the money and go. But when they get there, they find that in addition to the money, Valery's carrying a big load of attitude. Paulie throttling the Russian with a floor lamp. Paulie and Christopher have lost: they can't find their way back to the car. Tony then hangs up, leaving Paulie and Christopher to solve the problem on their own.
Tony has his own problem to handle. Gloria Trillo is turning out. Meadow's catches Jackie with a woman who is definitely not a mechanic. Paulie and Christopher still haven't found Valery - dead or alive - or the car.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 3 episode 12 "Amour Fou"
That's how Tony's describes his relationship with Gloria to Dr. Melfi. Tony tracks down Gloria and tells her he never wants to see her again. But later when she phones him, sobbing and hysterical, Tony ends up at her house. Not surprisingly, they start to argue. Tony decides he's had enough and turns to leave, and that's when Gloria makes a huge mistake: she threatens to go to Carmela. Carmela hasn't been feeling well, physically or spiritually. Carmela stops wearing the sapphire ring Tony gave her and starts reading about the real estate license exam. Tony's got another plan. Since Gene is part of Ralphie's crew, the robbed game was officially Ralph's. And Jackie and his cohorts claimed to be "with Ralph." So Tony declares that Jackie's fate is Ralph's to decide.
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| | | | | The Sopranos series 3 episode 13 "The Army of One"
Yet another academic misstep by AJ forces his parents to seriously contemplate a military-school alternative. Although Tony orders Ralph to deal personally with the Jackie, Jr. situation, he seems to take Ralph's side in a money dispute with Paulie. Once again, the family gathers in Artie Bucco's restaurant, where Meadow is forced to reflect on what it means to live, and die, in the Soprano family. Jackie Junior is in hiding and sees only one way out: Tony. "You gotta help," he says into the phone between sobs, "For my dad, if not for me." But Tony's been down this road before and doesn't care to make the trip again. "He's been dead two years, " he replies, "In fact, the expiration date was last week on all your bullshit with that."
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The Sopranos television series is created and produced by David Chase. It premiered on the premium cable network HBO in the United States on January 10, 1999 and ended its original run of six seasons and 86 episodes on June 10, 2007. The show has also been broadcast on A&E in the United States and internationally. Set in New Jersey, where it also was produced, the series revolves around mobster Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and the difficulties he faces as he tries to balance the often conflicting requirements of his home life and the criminal organization he heads. A major commercial and critical success, The Sopranos is the most financially successful cable series in the history of television and is acknowledged as one of the greatest television series of all time. The series is noted for its high level of quality in all aspects of production and has been particularly recognized for its writing and the performances of its lead actors. The show has been credited for bringing a greater level of artistry to the television medium and paving the way for many successful drama series that followed. It also won numerous awards, including twenty-one Emmys and five Golden Globes. Two soundtrack albums containing music from the series have been released. The first, titled The Sopranos: Music from the HBO Original Series, was released in 1999. It contains selections from the show's first two seasons and reached 54 on the U.S. Billboard 200. A second soundtrack compilation, titled BillboardThe Sopranos: Peppers & Eggs: Music from the HBO Original Series, was released in 2001. This double-disc album contains songs and selected dialogue from the show's first three seasons. It reached 38 on the U.S. Billboard 200.
Creator David Chase's drama series stars three-time Emmy winners James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano and Edie Falco as Tony's wife Carmela, plus Lorraine Bracco as therapist Dr. Jennifer Melfi, Emmy winner Michael Imperioli as Tony's nephew Christopher Moltisanti, and Dominic Chianese as Uncle Junior. Also Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr., Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano, Tony Sirico as Paulie Walnuts, and Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante. Aida Turturro, who plays Tony's sister Janice, returned to the show as a series regular, as well as Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby "Bacala" Baccalieri, John Ventimiglia as Artie Bucco, and Vincent Curatola as Johnny Sack. Other cast members of The Sopranos are Ray Abruzzo as Carmine, Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo, Peter Bogdanovich as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg, Vincent Pastore as "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, Joe Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore, Max Casella as Benny, Lenny Venito as Murmur, Carl Capotoro as Little Paulie, Dan Grimaldi as Patsy, Katherine Narducci as Charmaine Bucco, Sharon Angela as Rosalie Aprile, Maureen Van Zandt as Gabrielle Dante and Toni Kalem as Angie Bompensiero. Guest stars include Daniel Baldwin, Sydney Pollack, Nancy Sinatra, Jonathan LaPaglia, David Margulies, Geraldo Rivera, Ken Leung, Frank John Hughes, Jerry Adler, Tim Daly, Ben Kingsley.
Games: "Turnpike Trivia Game" is loaded with questions about The Sopranos, the characters, the stories, and the people who created them. "Road To Respect" your task is simple: protect the family; one wrong move and you may get whacked. But if you're crafty enough, you might just get "made."
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The Sopranos Mr Ruggerios Neighborhood
