r/thesopranos • u/master_chilln • 4d ago

Funniest Death - Jackie Jr.

You telling me Vito the 400 lb meat ball going down an incline snuck up right behind Jackie Jr and clipped him in broad daylight and got away with it.

That solidified Jackie Jr being the dumbest character.... not even AJs lame attempt at Death could beat this.

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u/Initial-Mousse-627 4d ago

With the fakest looking pistol in the history of television.

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u/AccessOnly4331 4d ago

God gives the tiniest pistols to his grandest soldiers.

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u/Diamond_Dogs_Venom 4d ago

Is there a legitimate explanation at to why the gun was so comically small? Was that intentional comedic effect by the showrunners or just a gaffe with the prop dept?

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u/AngriestManinWestTX 4d ago

Most likely just a gaffe.

It is funny that they gave this teeny-tiny micro “gun” to a fucking blimp like Vito.

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u/Visionist7 4d ago

Ohh he's a fuckin cap'tin now you don't talk ta him like dat

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u/Slippin_Jimmy090 4d ago

It was a nongun. Not a gaffe or comedic effect. They're used for safety. Nonguns are used several times throughout the show.

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u/DeadSwaggerStorage 4d ago

It’s pershpective ya cue ball mudda fucka. Fuckin hand cannon for a norhmal sized pershun. Ors maybe itsa like dat noisy cricket in da alien movie with that brickett who fuckin flashed everyone.

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u/Visionist7 4d ago

AIDS?

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u/DeadSwaggerStorage 4d ago

Noshabuddy has AIDS. Also your goomahs name is Noshabuddy.

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u/READMYSHIT 3d ago

Saw on another post that because the actor was an ex felon he was on probation and couldn't handle a real gun and they whipped up that piece of junk by painting a dollar store water pistol matt black.

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u/ShlipperyNipple 1d ago

There's a company that makes movie props that sells the exact gun used in the show, it's also credited as such

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u/DanFlashesSales 3d ago

It's gotta be small enough so Vito can conceal it beneath one of his folds

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u/Great_Produce4812 3d ago edited 3d ago

Relax. It was a joke. Don't tell nobody.

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u/KentuckyKid_24 4d ago

It looks like the small pistol from battlefield 1 lol

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u/uhqt 4d ago

Wait I never looked that close I thought it was just a Glock lmaoo

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u/lbotron 3d ago

That's what I remembered but I just watched the clip and it's a prop from Team America World Police

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u/glenzo1000 4d ago

Made out of black legos.

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u/ODaysForDays 4d ago

I just figured it was like .32 acp or .22 mag. There's some itty bitty guns in those calibers.

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u/Visionist7 4d ago

.22 would bounce off Jackie Jr's thick ass skull

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u/711SushiChef 4d ago

Kid was always a dumb fuck though, wasn't he?

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u/Chiggero 3d ago

It was a prostitute gun, from Vito’s time on the gay circuit

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u/JoshuaBermont 4d ago

Jackie walks down the street with a soda cup in his hand.

Suddenly: thoom. thoom.

He looks down.

Ripples in the soda cup.

THOOM. THOOM. THOOM...!

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u/Visionist7 4d ago

Wonder if the gearstick in Jurassic Park was chalked

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u/thatsmymoney 4d ago

Cute. I don’t quite get it. But cute.

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u/Cranstonoid 3d ago

OH SHIT

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u/billybassbigmouth 4d ago

He's a come from behind kinda guy

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u/SpicyTacos_ 4d ago

And the "gun" he shot him with... the prop department, whatevah happened there

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u/bigdogbo44 4d ago

Petered out

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u/m38-111 4d ago

Died on the vine

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u/JQuilty 4d ago

Omar comin, he got the real one.

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u/Sharp-Point-5254 4d ago

If only Rust used the same one

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u/LazerCatsAreSupreme 4d ago

Idk Richie's death was pretty funny imo "I'm in no mood for your- .." bang! Janice was a friggin badass for that, plus she did Tony a huge favor.

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u/bjregin 4d ago

2 of the luckiest death for Tony his mom dying right before she testified about the stolen airline tickets and Janice shooting Richie before he could cause more trouble

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u/E-V-Smith 4d ago

And Raymond dying of a stroke just before he could tell the Feds what Tony said about a murder.

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u/dancjr2 4d ago

How do ya say Janice in Nort Jorsey? Janish, Jaaannniiissshhh, you need Mr. Williams to teach you how ta tawk?

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u/PSU4Ever20 4d ago

Cozette is the funniest death by a landslide

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u/OG-CJ-GSF 4d ago

she musta crawled under there for warmth

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u/Timely_Ad115 4d ago

What was it barkin?

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u/NAPPER_ 4d ago

I ought to suffocate you, you little prick.

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u/Elegantly_Waisted 4d ago

HO! THERE HE GOES, MISTA TYPE A PERSONALITY!

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u/bjregin 4d ago

The death wasn’t funny the reaction from Paulie and Tony when they heard was funny

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u/QueenChocolate123 4d ago

Nothing funny about her death, unless you're some sort of sociopath.

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u/PSU4Ever20 4d ago

Ok but you gotta get ova that

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u/QueenChocolate123 3d ago

Just as soon as you stop whining about all the rats spilling their guts.

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u/Exchequer_Eduoth 4d ago

It was bawkin, end uhf story!

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u/QueenChocolate123 3d ago

Dogs bark. It's what they do. I'd hate to see you with a crying baby.

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u/Visionist7 4d ago

*shoshopaat

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u/TheHumiliationritual 4d ago

Its all that hiding in the closet makes em devious. Anyhoo the funniest death clearly is phil getting his head popped and the penguin guy saying oh shit 💩

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u/ladivarogue 3d ago

Not the penguin guy 💀

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u/SlimGishel 4d ago edited 4d ago

Realistically Vito could've been sitting in the car waiting, gotten out to do the hit, and then the car pulls up to pick him up again. Jackie is still completely unaware though. Anyway it's a TV progrum, a movie

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u/foodank012018 4d ago

Vito was able to up on Jackie Jr cause he was wearing see through socks... They make you see through.

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u/ShaquilleMobile 4d ago

Funniest death in my opinion was the waiter Paulie and Chris shot in the parking lot having a seizure after complaining that he didn't get a tip

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u/Tysons_Face 4d ago

Still going, this asshole

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u/Electrical-Spare1684 3d ago

Don’t they have medicine they’re supposed to take, these assholes?

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u/Elegantly_Waisted 4d ago

The kid was always a dumb fuck though, wasn't he? Didn't he almost drown in three inches of water?

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u/coolass45 3d ago

Not only that, he seemingly teleported across the road to pull off the hit too. All with the fakest gun in tv history. Vito truly transcends space and time

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u/Donald_W_Gately 3d ago

Gene was here before.

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u/Username_Chose_Me 4d ago

Vito used a water pistol because he heard jackie jr almost drowned in 3 inches of water.

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u/Electrical-Spare1684 4d ago

I can’t have this conversation again

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u/47Element 4d ago

Oh my god I googled “Vito’s gun” it’s hilarious

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u/Dark_Eyes 4d ago

It's the way he just flops into the snow for me lol

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u/Wiilly__D 4d ago

Don't get me started on how easy it is to get away with murder on The Sopranos

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u/lbotron 3d ago

For funniest death I'm gonna have to go with those kids sympathy vomiting for Phil Leotardo while the sound effects guy crushes a whole box of pasta under the mic

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u/ladivarogue 3d ago

Hands down the funniest - the guy yelling OH SHIT!! right before they cut to vomity kid, then immediately cuts from vomity kid to another scene. Pure comedy gold 😂

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u/RoutineImpress7394 3d ago

His death illustrated Jackie Jrs lack of awareness and how ill suited he would have been in the mafia life

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u/benevolent_defiance 4d ago

Well...ob-leek-kay

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u/Substantial-Toe96 4d ago

That pricks face when he (did dent?) saw the ghat!

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u/brickmason256 4d ago

Well Vito was light in the loafers

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u/LocalBest7256 1d ago

see through socks no less

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u/brickmason256 1d ago

Of course, he's the fat fuck

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u/PSteak 4d ago

It's like, even when you watch those underwater nature videos, the sea cucumber freaks out and nopes the hell outta the place when a shadow goes over it from a stingray or whatever. Meanwhile, big fatso Vito comes up right behind Jackie and makes a rat-tunnel through his head lickety split. The kid was dumber than a fuckin' sea cucumber.

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u/Square_Grand_3616 4d ago

I don’t know, Email taking a bullet to the back of the dome while doing a fat rail of blow was pretty comical.

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u/Fluid_Leader_1370 4d ago

Vito was a ninja. In Members Only, when he just appeared behind Gene to tell him what it would be like if he were boss? And Finn in the hospital? The way he "borrowed" Thad McCone's phone? Most legendary Aprile ever!

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u/Deep-Neighborhood778 4d ago

AJ's "lame attempt at death" was a suicide attempt and it was botched on purpose, like a lot of suicidal people do. He was reaching out, looking for help. He was desperate. Dont call it a "lame attempt at death"

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u/Surviverino 4d ago

Take it easy! I've got neighbours!

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u/herroherro12 4d ago

Is it a tiny gun in general or does it only look small in that fat hand of vitos

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u/Appropriate-Peak6561 4d ago

People think the Gibson SG is a much bigger guitar than it actually is because they‘ve always seen Angus Young playing It.

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u/Sea_Bad_3480 4d ago

The gun was so big it blocked the sound waves from reaching Jackie

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u/spikenzelda 4d ago

Oops

I

Did it again

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u/bjregin 4d ago

The idiot drowned in 3 inches of snow

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u/retired-tweeter 4d ago

I always felt the less important the character, the less cinematic the death

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u/Forcedperspective84 4d ago

I told you stunads - the murders are BANANAS! It's beyond suspension of disbelief.

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u/No-Season-7353 4d ago

Mr x wasn't vigilant too busy nearly drowning in 3 inches of water.

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u/Sad-Illustrator-8847 4d ago

doesn’t come close to Vito Spatafore

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u/Visionist7 4d ago

"you fat fuck!"

Ralphie's lasht wurdsh

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u/ionalberta14 3d ago

His mind was elsewhere

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u/jbeer1 3d ago

Paulie had ninja skills too- the waste guy pulls up on the dock and then Paulie sneaks up like the t-Rex and hits him with an iron bar and he brings two goons.

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u/ShineboxDelivery 2d ago

That snow was mad ripe.

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u/policyshift 2d ago

Well, he was wearin socks

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u/Interesting_Luck5129 13h ago

That 400 lb meat ball was used to cumming behind guys. That’s how he pulled it off

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u/tuckermia 4d ago

Adriana was funnier. On all fours like she was hawt down there.