r/thesopranos • u/AdUseful1525 • 1d ago
I just realized Junior lied about having cable
TWO TIMES in the series there’s proof he didn’t have it. Once when little Bobby junior is at his house and whispers “dad he doesn’t even have cable!” And then again when Furio goes to watch “the Bloomberg” we hear his disappointed voice yelling “NO CABLE!”
And yet like a total stunad I fell for it when he told Angelo “I have cable”. Can you imagine the disgrace? Angelo died in the back of Phil’s Cadillac never knowing the truth.
I feel battered.
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u/zanylanie 1d ago
He got cable not long after the episode when Furio wanted to watch the Bloomberg. He was trying to watch it and yelling at whoever was there helping him that Tony said the cable box had to be on.
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u/Acceptable-Map-9209 1d ago
Theeeere's the coyote.
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u/ShariceDavidsJester 1d ago
These prairie dogs, they'll sleep during the day
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u/Acceptable-Map-9209 8h ago
I always liked to think that Tony was the coyote. Because Tony came over to his uncles house, who he knew was having age related mental health problems, and instead of like trying to help his uncle, he sat down next to his clearly struggling uncle, reprimanded him for his dementia symptoms, and then laid a serious guilt trip on him and made him cry. That's the behavior of a ruthless soulless predator (a coyote), against a helpless "innocent" victim who sleeps during the day (his uncle, the prairie dog).
(Nevermind that Junior was a ruthless predator and killed people and is far from innocent earlier in his life, I mean just in the context of them sitting on the couch and Junior struggling with dementia.)
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u/Sensitive-Ear-3896 1d ago
If you’re gonna lie to me tell me there’s a broad in the car outside who wants to tongue my balls
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u/zanylanie 20h ago
That was just a phone call away. But he finally got cable in season 5, episode 3. He immediately sees Larry David on screen and thinks he’s seeing himself.
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u/Simple_Campaign1035 1d ago
What ??!! I don't remember any of this
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u/zanylanie 20h ago
It’s the same episode where Tony gets so pissed off at Junior because he keeps saying Tony never had the makings of a varsity athlete. Then Junior goes walkabout looking for his brother Johnny.
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u/Fragrant-Buffalo-898 4h ago
Furio was at Junior's house???
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u/zanylanie 4h ago
Yes. OP mentions this in the post. 🤨
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u/Fragrant-Buffalo-898 4h ago
Is there a link, or an episode when he does it? For the life of me, I never remember him being there.
Just Bobby, Janice, Tony, and Richie, and his old friend and the one nurse.
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u/zanylanie 3h ago
I’m pretty sure it’s the same episode when they have Christopher’s intervention and Tony fucks Svetlana. In the scene when Furio is there, he has the wine he brought back from Italy after his father’s funeral. Svetlana tastes it and says it needs ice. Then Furio says he’s going to go watch the Bloomberg.
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u/Violentopinion 1d ago
Wait, he had curb your enthusiasm.
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u/foxmag86 1d ago
It’s not cable, it’s HBO
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u/DeadMoney313 1d ago
Half a fuckin tray in there !
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u/BurritoDoom 1d ago
Is this what you deadbeats do all day? Sit on reddit and talk about cable?
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u/irishdave999 1d ago
Joe, give these humps another drink. It's all they're good for
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u/AdUseful1525 23h ago
I tell you right now, we’d better get cable or someone’s gonna get clipped.
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u/LawSchoolThreauxAway 1d ago
They had Jesus hangin off a helicopter, but you could tell it was a dummy
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u/Ijustthinkthatyeah 1d ago
You think you could watch documentaries about groundhogs without cable? Come on, use your head.
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u/MayGer_Tom 1d ago
He also said he bought AJ a surfboard.
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u/AdUseful1525 23h ago
Hey youre right. Where the fuck is the surfboard? I bet he lied about all the stuff he said he did with Tony too.
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u/robbwes61 1d ago edited 1d ago
I just realized OP is a stunad of the first magnitude. S5 E2, Where’s Johnny, about 6 minutes in Junior announces “Tony said the cable box needs to be on”. He then watches HBO, Curb your Enthusiasm and confuses Larry David and his manager as him and Bobby.
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u/Hughkalailee 1d ago
Eva consider what a coincidence it is that No one had cable before they got cable?
Eva pondah dat?!
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u/Simple_Campaign1035 1d ago
This is a very good observation OP I never noticed this. Very allegorical
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u/hookahreed 1d ago
Angelo died in the back of Phil’s Cadillac
Phil drove a Lincoln. You're just upset about the grain on the leather from the factory. Call me when the post is done correctly.
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u/mrpopsicleman 1d ago
I get it. He drives a Lincoln.
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u/BatmanBrah 20h ago
People born in the 20s/30s houses were extremely fucking boring places to be from a millennial standard. Who doesn't remember the trips to your grandparents where you were bored beyond belief? Junior's place fits in with that incredibly well. Old geezer barely turns the lights on.
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u/FlyingKingFish 1d ago
He has HBO, though. (It's not cable. It's HBO)