Stole the thread title from the Arrested Development fans. Didn't open that thread, because I've never seen the show, but I instantly felt like the All Time leader in subtle moments among tv shows, deserved such a thread.

Also, I love it when crap like this is pointed out to me, so I'm hoping you guys will bring up a few things I might have missed.

One ground rule for the thread: no discussion of the final scene. It's been done. Over and over and over...

Off the top of my head, to get it started:

--Carmela lovingly helps a recuperating Tony get dressed in a nice shirt for a "business meeting", taking extra attention while doing the buttons for him. Only Tony isn't going to a business meeting, he's going to bang that real estate milf. As she's tearing his clothes off, he suddenly bails.

If you didn't notice the way she was fumbling with his shirt buttons, you may not have caught what triggered his memory of the woman who devoted herself to nursing him back to health, and the guilt he felt for betraying her yet again....so he bailed.

--Tony stays faithful for a while, but Faithful Tony is a tough thing to manage, and it all ends when he gives a stripper from the Bing a ride home, and she blows him while he drives. Where's the subtlety? When it becomes clear that Tony's grunting and scowling isn't another panic attack, but rather an orgasm thanks to a girl we didn't know was in his lap, we realize that music cranking in the car is AC/DC screaming, "Well I'm back! Yes I'm back! Hell I'm back!" Faithful, "Every day is a gift" Tony is gone, and the old Tony is back. Yes he's back. Hell he's back.

--The last line in the Pine Barrens episode (you know, the episode where Paulie botches a simple money pick-up, turns it into possibly a huge issue of contention with the Russian mob, and alienates his top lieutenant, Christopher, utterly embarrassing himself in the process), Tony tells Paulie, "You've got mayonnaise on your chin. Mayonnaise! Mayonnaise!" If you missed the symbolism of that line, he's telling Paulie, "You've got egg on your face."

--The last shot of this scene, where Paulie asks Johnny Sac to assure him that whatever they discuss won't leave the table. Johnny gives a classic non-answer...then we see the ferry boat taking all that info across the river to Manhattan, while Paulie digs at an empty bowl and gets nothing.

God, I loved that show.

The time Christopher sits on Adriana's dog and kills it. He was so high that he didn't even realize the dog was there.

That time in Pine Barrens when Christopher & Paulie ate ketchup & mustard packets. It's cause they were out there for so long they were pretty hungry. And if you didn't catch it the first time you watched it, Christopher hadn't had breakfast and was already hungry at the beginning of the episode.

I won't be able to play because I've only seen all the eps twice, but this will be a fun thread to read.

^^^I'm starting to think not.

Subtle moments in The Sopranos that YOU only know.



This gets a check mark.




Yep you are likely the only person evar that noticed this!!11!!

Every time Adriana was making out with Christopher, Drea de Matteo was actually thinking of me.

I guess it's not that subtle, but I especially like how in the episode where Tony kills Chris, how he devotes the rest of the episode to projecting his own feelings on the matter unto other people.

"Did I detect a little bit of relief in your voice?"

ytf: i think people are criticizing your choices for subtle moments.

Take, for instance, 'The Weight', where Tony goes in to New York to see Meadow - he's upset that she's volunteering at the law center, and they have this almost flirtatious banter. Later in the episode, it's Meadow who plays the music from Furio's party to disrupt Carmela and Tony's having sex, and finally she announces she's leaving the house, which is Tony's cue to continue, but she's already [censored] with her mother's head and she spends the whole time thinking of Furio. There's something definitely going on here.

anyway, just thought i'd contribute some non-trolling

The homeless man that Meadow and Noah encounter in s3 was played by Dids.

I did not know that.

YTF, I kind of like the examples you provide. It brings back memories of one of the best TV shows of all time. Sucks it's over.

I'll concede that the Back in Black moment wasn't the least bit subtle.

But I haven't met anyone yet who caught the ferry boat or the mayonnaise symbolism. Of course, if anybody WOULD catch it, it would be another 2+2'er.

I was hoping that other moments mentioned in this thread would trigger memories for me of some more, but that hasn't happened yet.

Give me credit, at least, for not bringing up all the shout-outs to Goodfellas and The Godfather (Tony stopping for an orange juice when Uncle Junior's goons try to whack him; Chrissy shooting the disrespectful bakery guy in the foot; etc).

It now occurs to me that I should have put this thread in The Lounge.

I like your thread YTF.

i shouldnt have opened this thread while in the middle of the show
stupid me

That would be a waste.

first post was meh

rest of thread was 5 stars

esp chris shooting all the dope and squashing the dog

When they decided to have some poker in the show they hired the same fellow who was the 'poker technical director' for Rounders who I was very friendly with when I played in NYC.

In the first poker episode there he was. The opening scene of that show had him standing by the bar and later we see him pouring a drink for one of the players.

LT?

No. Scroll down here.

He's credited as 'poker technical consultant' so I had it a bit wrong.

imo

I LOL'd

I LOL'd

I hope you're leveling, but I don't think you are because of your second comment.

Again, imo