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4/19/2006 10:52:55 AM

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4/19/2006 10:54:11 AM

^ So damn hott

4/20/2006 1:39:53 PM

"he's a come from behind kind of guy"

4/20/2006 1:44:16 PM

here are the episode descriptions for the next TWO episodes...i am posting the 2nd one just because I dont think it really gives anything away...however just cause, I will give the obligatory

** POTENTIAL SPOILER WARNING!! **

"Luxury Lounge" (Original air date - Sunday April 23, 2006)

A rival restaurant and a staff scandal jeopardize Artie's business; Christopher and Little Carmine pursue a new venture.

"Johnny Cakes" (Original air date - Sunday April 30, 2006)

A real estate offer tempts Tony; an act of heroism impresses Vito; A.J. looks to diversify

well it sounds like Vito doesnt get whacked this Sunday if some act of heroism impresses him the next week...that fat fag needs to die already...or come out of the closet and stay in New Hampshire or some shit

4/20/2006 1:58:30 PM

Tree, that gave away that Vito doesnt get whacked on sunday. YOU FUCKER

4/20/2006 2:36:41 PM

lol my friend from Boston got pissed b/c he said they made it look like everyone up there was a fag

4/20/2006 2:40:33 PM

^ that they did, but it was from Vito's perspective so you know, he sees the fags.

"we make our own sausages" OMF GAY

4/20/2006 3:24:54 PM

^^^yeah well thats why i had that big ass spoiler warning

4/20/2006 4:13:09 PM

"SON OF A BITCH"

4/22/2006 6:58:12 PM

well. artie's going crazy

DONT DIE DUDE. YOU'RE ONE OF MY FAVORITES

4/23/2006 11:26:16 PM

even though vito didnt die

at least he wasnt in the episode!

4/23/2006 11:27:23 PM

next week looks crazy, and how long has chris been doing coke

4/23/2006 11:34:21 PM

This is the first time hes been seen doin any types of drugs since he got outta rehab if im not mistaken

4/24/2006 12:41:02 AM

yeah thats what i thought, i wonder if theyre gonna keep going with that

4/24/2006 1:10:01 AM

christopher and drugs makes me sad. he is less funny on coke, im sure thats a concious decision by the writers though.

who thought artie had it in him? am i the only one that wanted to change the channel every time he started that whole "you two look so.....blah blah fucking blah"

4/24/2006 1:19:27 AM

If anyone has the photo of vito in his biker outfit at the gay bar could they link me the website where i could find the picture...it sounds like a good use of photoshop to me

4/24/2006 2:10:24 AM

Am I the only one that thought Lauren Bacall getting punched in the face and cursing was fucking hillarious?

4/24/2006 2:20:51 AM

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"This is the first time hes been seen doin any types of drugs since he got outta rehab if im not mistaken"

Yeah I noticed he was snorting coke and guzzling booze and they didn't really get into that.

4/24/2006 2:34:27 AM

i'm almost 100% that christopher was doing a little bit here and there after rehab just before adriana got whacked

4/24/2006 8:42:34 AM

he shot some H after adrianna died and he got drunk after he found out that adrianna had been in that car accident with tony

4/24/2006 8:57:10 AM

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"Am I the only one that thought Lauren Bacall getting punched in the face and cursing was fucking hillarious?"

no, you're not

yeah Chrissie fell off the wagon when he saw how everybody in LA was livin it up...thats why he had to call his AA sponsor and tell him to get on a plane immediately

man Sepinwall is taking his sweet fucking time with the episode review

4/24/2006 11:26:40 AM

Charmain (sp?) is a milf

4/24/2006 12:20:08 PM

i watched an episode last night that i'd fuck like 10 of the actresses

4/24/2006 12:32:22 PM

I honestly thought Benny could take Artie...i was disappointed

And I laughed hysterically when that old lady got robbed and punched..classic

[Edited on April 24, 2006 at 3:22 PM. Reason : ]

4/24/2006 3:21:55 PM

he could take artie. artie just snapped and got lucky. I'd put bennie up against artie nine times outta ten. anyone can win a fight when you're seriously pissed

4/24/2006 3:25:36 PM

^true

4/24/2006 3:29:30 PM

yeah Artie got punked by that french dude who scammed him on the Almongac

course I think Furio took care of that dude

4/24/2006 3:30:34 PM

my idol, Wilmer, made a random appearance last night...

was i the only one who found Chris's obsession with the "gratuities" a really random part of this episode?

4/24/2006 3:55:00 PM

yes, you were

4/24/2006 4:01:41 PM

i think chris saw all that expensive stuff and wanted a piece of that...he is an earner after all

haha when old girl got punched in the face did anybody else notice one of the people to help her out was mathew mcconaughy? haha..."Hey you gonna give me that $30,000 awards basket? be a lot cooler if you did"

4/24/2006 4:04:30 PM

^yeah, I noticed that, haha. good stuff

4/24/2006 5:14:15 PM

the thing i like about artie is that he's the straight man amidst all of these mafia guys, and yet still, he's the most unstable and dangerous one of all of them. the dude is fuckin crazy.


great episode. can't wait til next week.

4/24/2006 5:47:09 PM

Bennie = Vinny Del Pino (Doogie Howser's buddy)

4/24/2006 5:52:36 PM

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"was i the only one who found Chris's obsession with the "gratuities" a really random part of this episode?"

remember chris wanted to pursue film before and now he realizes what he missed by not being a part of the industry, the pampering, the gifts, the prestige.

4/24/2006 6:35:56 PM

last night had some great quotes

"yeah its like a martini, only its from Albania and it goes down real easy"

"We laugh at you while we fuck on the piles of money we steal from your stupid customers"

I dont know about y'all buti'd go crazy if #2 was said to me

4/24/2006 6:57:55 PM

when #1 was said i was shocked the guy waited till artie got back to the kitchen.

4/24/2006 8:51:57 PM

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"my idol, Wilmer, made a random appearance last night..."

oh my god you suck

4/24/2006 10:54:47 PM

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"Artie finds himself, but Christopher's losing his way Monday, April 24, 2006 WARNING: This column contains major plot spoilers for last night's "Sopranos" episode. My thought process while watching "Luxury Lounge" went something like this: "An entire episode about Artie? Did they learn nothing from season four?" "Hey, maybe they did. This isn't bad." "Holy (bleep), did Christopher just punch Lauren Bacall in the face?" Yes, "Luxury Lounge" spent most of its attention on the one character who historically gets less respect (from fans and wiseguys) than Bobby Bacala. Yes, it was fairly slow and quiet. No, it didn't move any of the season's major storylines forward much, if at all. To put it in Artie's language, the first six episodes of this season were like that buffet at Da Giovanni: one amazing dish after the next, always something to savor and chew on, and to analyze exactly what the ingredients are. An all-Artie episode could have been a pit stop at Arby's for a roast beef, but it was better than that. Not the bountiful feast of the season so far, but a tasty side salad to let the stomach rest before the next course. "Luxury Lounge" had the same starting point as "Everybody Hurts," one of the low points of the already low season four: Artie gets a crush on the sexy new Vesuvio hostess, she winds up costing him a lot of money and he tries to play tough guy to get revenge. But where "Everybody Hurts" wallowed in what an ineffectual joke Artie was, "Luxury Lounge" worked because it took Tony's oldest friend seriously. For the first time since the season one finale (which got referenced both with Artie's hunting rifle and Tony's story about Vesuvio being his port in that storm), Artie wasn't just the clown good for nothing but making antipasto. He was the honest man in the dirty town, the guy who struggles trying to do things the right way while his pal Tony is rolling in crooked cash. Artie's no saint, as evidenced by his yearning for Martina and then the way he dogged her when he realized she was with Benny. But in that scene in bed with Charmaine and the one at the Bing with Tony, you saw a man who had gone past midlife crisis (remember the earring?) and into existential despair. When he tried to beat up the French con man in "Everybody Hurts," he embarrassed himself, but I believed he was able to smack around Benny because this time Artie wasn't scared -- he was enraged. (It helped that, in their previous TV lives, John Ventimiglia played a lot of tough guys and Max Casella played Doogie Howser's sidekick.) The episode also worked on its own modest level because it fit in with one of the big themes of this season: characters bumping up against the restrictions of the lifestyles they've chosen. Last week, it was Vito fleeing to Gay Heaven (a k a Dartford/Boonton, where he remained unseen last night) to find the happiness he couldn't get as a capo. Last night, it was Artie finally making peace with his fate as the law-abiding grunt in a wiseguy world, letting go of all the complaining and attempted shortcuts, and just trying to rediscover his love of cooking. Which leads us to that final scene in the kitchen. As movies from "The Godfather" to "Big Night" -- not to mention this very show -- have taught us, there are few activities that are always as cinematic as cooking. The flames, the colors of the ingredients, the steam rising off the pans ... it's always simple and beautiful. Artie's usual feeling of inadequacy compared to the mobsters paralleled neatly with Christopher's latest Hollywood humiliation. Christopher has always viewed himself as a top-of-the-food-chain kinda guy, but when he got a look at the kind of bling available to movie stars, he realized he was a guppy, not a shark. Basically, Ben Kingsley is to Christopher as Tony is to Artie. Kingsley was a great sport, playing the symbol of Hollywood decadence (his delivery of the f-word on the plane sounded like it had 17 syllables), but he wasn't a patch on Bacall. Here you had one of the last of the great movie stars, the lady who taught Bogie how to whistle, a woman from the days when Hollywood had dames, and she agrees to do a scene where Christopher hits her in the face to steal her $30,000 gift basket? That, ladies and gentlemen, is a trouper. And could there have been a more perfect target for Christopher's wrath? On the one hand, she symbolizes the kind of classic screen glamour that Chris wants to be a part of; on the other, she's given in to the same ridiculous perks that made him so jealous of Sir Ben. So of our two characters at a crossroads this week, only Artie seems to have picked a direction. What's Christopher doing? He quit the show biz dream after the Jon Favreau episode in season two, but, like the booze and drugs, it's an itch he keeps needing to scratch. No good can come of this, or of his constant invocation of his "sacrifice" of Adriana, which even Tony had to call him on. If Christopher was willing to storm into the Bing with a gun when he just thought Tony had slept with his fiancée, how is he going to respond after years of stewing over how she got killed because of the boss? Some other random thoughts: # RIP, Rusty Millio. After playing Dick Cheney to Little Carmine's Dubya, you didn't have much purpose once Carmine went back to show biz. But did Johnny really accomplish anything here? Rusty may have been a thorn in his side when he went to jail, but Phil's the real threat now. # I know HBO says it doesn't take product placement money, but how many of you were gripped with an urge to go shopping at the end of the Luxury Lounge scene? # On the flip side, does HBO have to pay a residual to the Ojibwe every time James Gandolfini says the "Go about in pity" quote? # Before he started going all Tony Montana with the coke, Chris' punchline streak continued when he told Carlo he and Tony had just been talking about "La Cage Aux Fat." # Did you spot David Chase in the last scene? He's across the aisle on the plane from the two hitmen. The last time he was on the show, in season two's "Commendatori," he played a Naples native who wasn't impressed with Paulie's attempt to throw around the lingo. Like the shooters, he's apparently flying home from a trip to America. "Sopranos" and "Ghostbusters" fans may not overlap that much, but I doubt I was the only one who watched Artie yank off that tablecloth and immediately said, "The flowers are still standing!" "

http://www.nj.com/sopranos/ledger/index.ssf?/sopranos/stories/seasonsix_8.html

4/25/2006 12:49:14 AM

aside from the two very good zingers mentioned already
"Fha-auck"
"Plus we saw Lindasy Lohan, TOTAL piece of ass"
"I'll give it back to the bank before I turn it into a fucken IHOP."
and, of course: "I could bury my cock in those fucking titties"



I wish Artie would have finished Benny like that rabbit, I hate that prick. People say he is losing his mind. All things considered I'm suprised he hasn't gone on an all out killing spree, starting with that Albanian princess.

Hope I'm not the only one who thinks it would be great if the mediocre mid-life crisis cook took down half the mob with his rabbit rifle

[Edited on April 25, 2006 at 1:35 AM. Reason : ]

4/25/2006 1:16:07 AM

much better episode than last weeks

chrissy is a fucking trip, as usual

that whole scene with artie getting burnt was hilarious

4/25/2006 1:50:51 AM

Benny = The Man

4/25/2006 1:56:26 AM

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"Basically, Ben Kingsley is to Christopher as Tony is to Artie"

4/25/2006 12:00:20 PM

I smiled the entire time Artie was remembering how to cook from his old notebook. Welcome back creativity and love for the food.

4/25/2006 10:17:30 PM

so i was using my resources that i have to check the episode description for 2 weeks in advance...and there wasnt an episode listed...so i am thinking that after this sunday's episode, there will probably be a week off or something?

4/27/2006 10:25:44 AM

no one is going to mentioned the arab buying whatever illegal shit from the Jew boy? hahaha i thought that was great!


While he was reading his little religious booky thing!

4/27/2006 11:12:20 AM

Anyone think those arabs are gonna turn into teh terrorists, or are they just kinda gangsta like tony and company

4/27/2006 11:28:50 AM

they're definitely suspicious...we'll have to wait and see!

4/27/2006 11:33:24 AM

i think the feds are going to approach someone about a bug so that they can monitor the arab guys--but its gonna be a trap! the bug is really intended to catch the mobsters doing some mobster shit.

4/27/2006 11:55:03 AM

shit i think the arabs are wearing a bug

4/27/2006 12:22:37 PM