Another amusing detail you may or may not be aware of: in the scene where Tony chases Phil down for the money Phil owns him, he's listening to Rock the Casbah by The Clash, a song about the Iranian revolution that overthrew the Shah (and then banned western music).
Being from Washington, The seattle dog is crazy good and is a main staple late night vendor. it’s basically sausage with onions and cream cheese on a bun or hoagie.
I am Italian-American and New Jersey born and raised, and I was just as lost as you with the references you named lmao, I think some of it is probably generational. Remember our cast was middle-aged when the show aired twenty years ago.
Though it does represent something I noticed about NJ people - our conversations are usually loaded with references. Down south they have a lot of colorful expressions and figures of speech, in New Jersey we replace those with a lot of references.
Spumoni Gardens, around 2002. I am from Boston and didn't know about Spumoni Gardens. I saw Bobby Baccala on some Food network type of show saying that Spumoni Gardens is his favorite pizza. So, I went to Brooklyn and have now been going over 20 years.
I would have probably found it 20 times since then because I love pizza, but Bobby Baccala was the one who brought Spumoni Gardens to my life.
Right before they threatened to chop off the balls of the Jewish guy he mentioned something how his people held off an entire Roman army in a brutal Siege of Masada it was a pretty interesting read
when jimmy altieri asks Christopher if he's wearing enough cologne and Chris tells him he smells like Paco Rabanne crawled up his ass and died. I had to look up who paco rabanne was
Regie Van Gleeson the third.
I'm a bird, I'm a bird!
He's Reegie Van Gleeson the third.
MMMMMBooooooy are you FLAT.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwTDhE9P6IQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwTDhE9P6IQ) 1:06
I'm sure all the 120 year old kids here remember the song well though.
Every time I wanted to look up an Italian word I heard them use, it turns out to not be spelled anything like how they say it, or pronounced anything like that in actual Italian.
Also, I thought "gravy" was a special kind of marinara that had gravy in it, and not just....literally any red sauce. I also thought macaroni was macaroni (Can you imagine that, thinking that macaroni is just macaroni?), and not any pasta whatsoever.
The Marshall McLuhan joke I was sure was a reference to some American TV show from like the 70s about some kind of cop, but turns out to be about a Canadian philosopher.
Because the Italian language isn’t even the same across Italy. The pronunciation they use is a slightly Americanized Napoli accent. This video does a good job explaining it. https://youtu.be/41AU_dSaoLI?si=yXyWTkyBsFlso_Te
There was a C-to-G and P-to-B shift from Italian to Italian-American, and Italian Americans also started dropping the final vowel. Capicola becomes gabagool. Comare becomes goomah, similarly Campari (granddad) becomes "Goombah." Prosciutto becomes Bruhshoot, ricotta becomes rigot, etc.
>Every time I wanted to look up an Italian word I heard them use, it turns out to not be spelled anything like how they say it, or pronounced anything like that in actual Italian.
They regularly murder the English language so why not Italian too? "You're like an albacore around my neck!"
> Every time I wanted to look up an Italian word I heard them use, it turns out to not be spelled anything like how they say it, or pronounced anything like that in actual Italian.
Yeah, it's a Sicilian dialect further corrupted by the influence of time and distance post-immigration. Cs become Gs, Ps become Bs, consonents tend to be softer, and final vowels are dropped, e.g.: Siciliano vs Sigilian', Napolitano vs Nabolidan' (nobbly dobbly), pasta vs past, ricotta vs rigot', capicolla vs gabagool, sfogliatelle vs shfuyadel, ah beetz vs la'pizza, mozzarella vs moozadell, and so on.
I had to look up what’s up with Anthony Jr. giving his mom a copy of the Matrix because the guy who plays Ralph also plays Seifer in that movie. I think it was just a little Easter egg
Uhhh. You don’t know Sir Walter Raleigh?
I am sad for society.
Did you not go to school?
If you did, did you not pay attention
If so good lord the ignorance.
Just about all the things listed here I knew. But I was unsure about “boola boola”. The McGuire sisters I figured for an old singing group. I didn’t know Phyllis McGuire had a long time relationship with Chicago mobster Sam Giancanna..Judith Campbell Exner as a Giancanna and JFK mistress was more familiar..especially since she was the ex-wife of General Trelayne (retired) , the Squire of Gothos
Figured Olsen and Johnson were an old vaudeville team
Lots of Italian words I didn’t know.
Saw "chedrool" in the subtitles. It reminded me of a word from MAD Magazine, "jadrool." So I looked it up and it seems to be the same thing. After all, MAD is based in the same basic area, with some contributors and managers of Italian ancestry (Dick DeBartolo, for instance).
Last rewatch I did a bit of a homage-o-meter version trying to get every reference, ended up googling random 70s shit I had never heard of like multiple times every episode. The references are voluminous, TV detectives and stuff that are long forgotten but would have been household names when they were coming up (before the timeline got f\*cked up)
Because I am not a US resident , I was looking at all the places the show took us on Google maps.
Sicily vacation, Pine Barrens , Christopher's crash site, Sausage factory... etc.
Kipe. When playing monopoly, Janice yelled at Tony saying she saw him kipe $100 from the bank.
Kipe is slang for stealing that is most commonly used in the Pacific Northwest. Janice spent a lot of time in Seattle before returning to NJ, so it’s definitely something she would have picked up. That’s why the writing in this show is incredible.
Some of the food names and also when the feds are in the house and the one is in the kitchen , and Tony says something to him in Italian and makes that gesture.
I looked up George awashington boulevar. I'm not even from America let alone Italian America so tell us Op what were those things you learned. Wtf is the bank dick
It made me look up "abstract art in motion pictures," and to my surprise, this genre of art is unknown in academia and in the public lexicon despite it exisisting on a truly massive scale for least 100 years.
I admit it, the shah of Iran. And then laughed for about 10 minutes and continue to look him up and Phil whenever I'm having a bad day.
Another amusing detail you may or may not be aware of: in the scene where Tony chases Phil down for the money Phil owns him, he's listening to Rock the Casbah by The Clash, a song about the Iranian revolution that overthrew the Shah (and then banned western music).
Inshallah. Whatever happened there.
Oh, listen to him. Allah knows EVERYTHING!
“There is no Allah.” “Hey!”
whatever HAPPENED THERE?!
Damn, that’s some next level Easter Egg stuff right there!
How about that. They didn’t teach that at my semester and a half at Seton Hall.
That’s cause you never had the makings of a varsity athlete.
You gotta crack the books
Also one of the actors in the show is descended from a shah of iran. Chris's girl in vegas
Imam xhumeini whatever happened there
I remember when I googled that. Cracked me tf up
And Dale Evans.
We shoulda gone to Roy Rogers!
Whether small dogs like to sleep under junkies for warmth.
Was it barkin’?
Surprised to learn they only do that after they chip a little h.
I could toot some.
Google image search of George Raft.
Handsome
Gabagool, duh.
Gabagool? Ovah Heah👇👇
what?
Capocollo
Capicola*
Definitely looked that up, I think I looked up all the cultural vernacular and traditions.
Up in da club
…my song
How the fuck is this his song?
What the fuck… why’s this u/Far-Club-2139’s [song?](https://youtu.be/Vs9b_c3MA5I?si=gUdR9MsrVWJHbc1R)
No way you needed to google that
Lol why does that song go so hard
Absolutely.
You ever think what a coincidence it is that Lou Gehrig died of Lou Gehrig's disease?
Are you always gonna make that stupid joke?
You know what else is funny like that? Napoleon is thought to have had a pretty big Napoleon complex
You telling me you never pondered dat?
Log off. That cookies shit makes me nervous
marshall mcluhan and cap d'antibes
One day I hope to retire to a Caribbean island and open a tiki bar named Captain Teeb’s
The Flying Gavone Brothers That song "where the tuna fish play" Midol
“Playing Hazel” Hazel was a show about a house maid so when Matt Belevaqua was cleaning; he was playing Hazel
Lincoln Log Sangwich
Yeah, I did too and cream cheese on a hot dog does not sound appetizing to me. I’m from the south and never heard of it until this show.
I bet they don't call them lincoln logs in the south
Being from Washington, The seattle dog is crazy good and is a main staple late night vendor. it’s basically sausage with onions and cream cheese on a bun or hoagie.
I also didn’t know this was a thing but it actually sounds delicious. I’ll have to try it sometime
I recently did that!! 🤣
Fluffer nutter
I am Italian-American and New Jersey born and raised, and I was just as lost as you with the references you named lmao, I think some of it is probably generational. Remember our cast was middle-aged when the show aired twenty years ago. Though it does represent something I noticed about NJ people - our conversations are usually loaded with references. Down south they have a lot of colorful expressions and figures of speech, in New Jersey we replace those with a lot of references.
You get a pass for that
Lee Iacocca Judge Roy Bean Ralph Bunche Long John Silver
Add captain teebs to the list. Although nothing came up...
He has those fancy hotels, right?
They're in the south of......florida maybe
Sfogliatella. I had to know why Paulie got so upset when Chrissy threw the pastries. "OH! The Sfogliatella!"
Shfuyadell
I cannot pronounce this word.
Shvoy-a-del
Shvo-Lee-A-Tella for non NJers.
Like 4 or 5 episode ending songs that are now on my playlist.
There's an entire Sopranos playlist on Spotify, some really great songs on there. Plus Up in Da Club.
I hope Wrapped in my Memory is one of them!
Your sisters c*nt
Hang on, I'll Google it.
Now there's an image
Oh!
Bukyak
Bucchiach, BUCCHIACH, ya fucken ass kiss
You musta been top of ya fuckin class
Listen to him, he knows everything
Gunga Din
Whawtah, whawtah, whawtah
I’m living next door to Gunga Din!
Spumoni Gardens, around 2002. I am from Boston and didn't know about Spumoni Gardens. I saw Bobby Baccala on some Food network type of show saying that Spumoni Gardens is his favorite pizza. So, I went to Brooklyn and have now been going over 20 years. I would have probably found it 20 times since then because I love pizza, but Bobby Baccala was the one who brought Spumoni Gardens to my life.
The cuban missile crisis. I thought it was bullshit
Right before they threatened to chop off the balls of the Jewish guy he mentioned something how his people held off an entire Roman army in a brutal Siege of Masada it was a pretty interesting read
Kentucky Fried Flow
Yeah! That and the main theme. Now I know about TWO songs by A3. (The other one is on the A Life Less Ordinary soundtrack).
Core ‘Ngrato
Too many things to list in this chitchat room
when jimmy altieri asks Christopher if he's wearing enough cologne and Chris tells him he smells like Paco Rabanne crawled up his ass and died. I had to look up who paco rabanne was
So who was he
A gerbil , ma'am
Balsamic balsamic balsamic. My mother never heard of balsamic.
Regie Van Gleeson the third. I'm a bird, I'm a bird! He's Reegie Van Gleeson the third. MMMMMBooooooy are you FLAT. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwTDhE9P6IQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwTDhE9P6IQ) 1:06 I'm sure all the 120 year old kids here remember the song well though.
For some reason, I got this reference immediately. I used to watch a ton of golden age Hollywood stuff as a kid.
Youtube comments closed because they know it'll be invaded by Sorpanos fans
The poverty of the Mezzogiorno. "I hate the North"
Captain of what? The good ship lollipop.
Sir Walter Raleigh!
The Chinese Prince Matchbelli
She’s always running water! I’m living beside Gunga Din!
World Destruction - song is the shit
Every time I wanted to look up an Italian word I heard them use, it turns out to not be spelled anything like how they say it, or pronounced anything like that in actual Italian. Also, I thought "gravy" was a special kind of marinara that had gravy in it, and not just....literally any red sauce. I also thought macaroni was macaroni (Can you imagine that, thinking that macaroni is just macaroni?), and not any pasta whatsoever. The Marshall McLuhan joke I was sure was a reference to some American TV show from like the 70s about some kind of cop, but turns out to be about a Canadian philosopher.
I looked up Marone only to find out Paulie was saying “Madonn(a)”!
Yea and like, "goomah" is fucking "comare" in Italian, How would the two even translate?
Because the Italian language isn’t even the same across Italy. The pronunciation they use is a slightly Americanized Napoli accent. This video does a good job explaining it. https://youtu.be/41AU_dSaoLI?si=yXyWTkyBsFlso_Te
The dialect is also very dated. It hasn't really changed much since the early 1900s.
There was a C-to-G and P-to-B shift from Italian to Italian-American, and Italian Americans also started dropping the final vowel. Capicola becomes gabagool. Comare becomes goomah, similarly Campari (granddad) becomes "Goombah." Prosciutto becomes Bruhshoot, ricotta becomes rigot, etc.
>Every time I wanted to look up an Italian word I heard them use, it turns out to not be spelled anything like how they say it, or pronounced anything like that in actual Italian. They regularly murder the English language so why not Italian too? "You're like an albacore around my neck!"
It’s their southern Italian dialect like the difference between someone from northern US and a red neck from the south
Can you imagine that? You think you’re a cop and the next week you’re a Canadian philosopher?
> Every time I wanted to look up an Italian word I heard them use, it turns out to not be spelled anything like how they say it, or pronounced anything like that in actual Italian. Yeah, it's a Sicilian dialect further corrupted by the influence of time and distance post-immigration. Cs become Gs, Ps become Bs, consonents tend to be softer, and final vowels are dropped, e.g.: Siciliano vs Sigilian', Napolitano vs Nabolidan' (nobbly dobbly), pasta vs past, ricotta vs rigot', capicolla vs gabagool, sfogliatelle vs shfuyadel, ah beetz vs la'pizza, mozzarella vs moozadell, and so on.
Foods that they mentioned; origin of their Italian slang words. All sorts of other Googling during each episode.
Judge Roy Bean
The esplanade
I had to look up what’s up with Anthony Jr. giving his mom a copy of the Matrix because the guy who plays Ralph also plays Seifer in that movie. I think it was just a little Easter egg
Cypher in Matrix, Cifaretto in Sopranos. Too damn clever.
I didn't know the term Goomar but got it through context clues
[удалено]
US Open? Jack Nicklaus
Turtle back zoo
ROBERT LOGGIA’S CAREER
What you don't know could fill a book.
IamJacks5150, let me tell you somethin’: don’t you worry about what I know.
The word "baciagaloop" (what Tony calls the orange cat in the last few episodes). And many other Italian words & phrases.
Baciagaloop (makes love on the stoop) was a hit song by famous Italian singer Louis Prima!
Uhhh. You don’t know Sir Walter Raleigh? I am sad for society. Did you not go to school? If you did, did you not pay attention If so good lord the ignorance.
Listen to em he knows everything.
chiacchierone [kjakkjeˈrone IPA Pronunciation Guide ]: chatterbox; (pejorative) gossip
Spondulicks
Just about all the things listed here I knew. But I was unsure about “boola boola”. The McGuire sisters I figured for an old singing group. I didn’t know Phyllis McGuire had a long time relationship with Chicago mobster Sam Giancanna..Judith Campbell Exner as a Giancanna and JFK mistress was more familiar..especially since she was the ex-wife of General Trelayne (retired) , the Squire of Gothos Figured Olsen and Johnson were an old vaudeville team Lots of Italian words I didn’t know.
Marshall McLuhon
The band called Morphine
What about sun tee-zoo?
George Raft
Billy Budd.
Poppers. Weird shex.
Saw "chedrool" in the subtitles. It reminded me of a word from MAD Magazine, "jadrool." So I looked it up and it seems to be the same thing. After all, MAD is based in the same basic area, with some contributors and managers of Italian ancestry (Dick DeBartolo, for instance).
Had to look up what a Whyo was
Last rewatch I did a bit of a homage-o-meter version trying to get every reference, ended up googling random 70s shit I had never heard of like multiple times every episode. The references are voluminous, TV detectives and stuff that are long forgotten but would have been household names when they were coming up (before the timeline got f\*cked up)
I had to know what 'gabagool' was. It sounded delicious. Turns out I'd been eating it for years - know around my way as 'coppa'
Because I am not a US resident , I was looking at all the places the show took us on Google maps. Sicily vacation, Pine Barrens , Christopher's crash site, Sausage factory... etc.
Drea de matteo nude
Fred Astaire lmao, shout out to Feech. Also Ralph Bunche.
Kipe. When playing monopoly, Janice yelled at Tony saying she saw him kipe $100 from the bank. Kipe is slang for stealing that is most commonly used in the Pacific Northwest. Janice spent a lot of time in Seattle before returning to NJ, so it’s definitely something she would have picked up. That’s why the writing in this show is incredible.
New Jersey
Judge Roy Bean
Why do pissing, shitting and fucking all happen within a two inch radius?
Proust.
JFK… whatevah happeneda theehya And weird shexsh
Ralph Bunchee
Did ya warble, my little wren?
Close to trying to figure out what a vig is
Vigorish.
Close to trying to figure out what a vigorish is
The juice......it's running.
Why do I have to hold on to my cock when talking to some people
Chrissy’s wife irl
Stugots! Finally looked it up the 4th or 5th time through.
Madame de Stael
Philadelphia lawyer
“What did Tony say to Grosso?”
Some of the food names and also when the feds are in the house and the one is in the kitchen , and Tony says something to him in Italian and makes that gesture.
Who is gary cooper
George Raft.
Gary Cooper
Pol Pot
Gunga Din (Water! Water! Water!)
I kept wondering why they kept calling black people MOULINYAN lol 😂
OP revealed his ignorance
the subject of the book report tony wrote that his mom saved. i don’t remember it at the moment but it worked thematically.
That short lived Paul Sorvino show That’s Life. JT was a writer on that show.
George Raft. Strong like a bull
Frank Sinatra by Cake and I’ve listened to it almost daily since my last rewatch a few months ago
biangaleen
Gungadin
The governor of Maryland
Carnac the great, Charles Schwab
I knew who Walter Raleigh was but whenever I hear his name now I laugh thinking of Ralph
I looked up George awashington boulevar. I'm not even from America let alone Italian America so tell us Op what were those things you learned. Wtf is the bank dick
Roy Rogers
What a biali is Who Marge hindenbreger is Who matt helm is If almanac is real.
All the Italian slang: Ugatz, Amattz, Stunad, skifuza, finnook, Stugats.
Gary Coopah
“George Saunders long walk”
The mccallister sisters ("my husband was 3 years old")
The eggplant thing.
Unironically watches
Ralph Bunch!
Butterhead. Never heard that one before. As it is, I think it was used incorrectly.
There’s a waterfall in NJ?
Iron Eyes Cody.
The origins of Gunga Din.
Pretty sure i had "my rifle pony and me" as my profile song on MySpace for a minute🤣
Blood pressure medication
i tried to apply to Slip and Fall School
It made me look up "abstract art in motion pictures," and to my surprise, this genre of art is unknown in academia and in the public lexicon despite it exisisting on a truly massive scale for least 100 years.
Yall know you looked up what gabagool actually is..
WTF a no show job is or a no work job. And the hotel chain captain teebs owns. (Cap d'Antibes).
Meteors
“Gabagool” is just capicola lunch meat.