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LOL!

I mean I'll admit it. I went over there a couple times. I saw what was going on. They don't do the finger prick. They don't do nothing right over on that sub.

43K per week over there and 400K a week over here. This is where it's at. They're a glorified BBS over there, I tell ya.

They couldn't approach this sub's numbers if they tried. Even with computers.

The first time we see this baby whale he's just a civilian trying to get some cannolis and Chrissyfur kicks his ass out to beat up the cashier. Then he's a scrub outsider. He looks like a grubby Teletubby when he shows up to construct Beanzie's ramp. Hasn't shaved, filthy, and dim-witted. Basically an extra taken off the street from Central Casting.

Then the weight loss and his foray into stardom as one of them gays eating Johnny Cakes and who knows what else.

I tell ya, this little elephant sure got the most out of the least.

Anyways, $4 per 300 pounds.

In Season One she literally runs right over the cones as Tony is helping teach her to drive.

Then in Season Two she runs a stop sign with Janice at like 40mph as she yaps away.

And of course the finale and the parallel parking debacle.

I'll tell ya something pals, there's no way in hell I'm evah getting in a car with Meadow.

Gandolfini started this thing of ours as a mid-tier actor. His cadence was all off. Seemed to be ill at ease on camera. He became the acting monster we know year over year.

Everybody is so skinny. Sil. Tony. Carm. Except AJ. He's a fat little fuck and a far cry from the 20 year old skinny man that finished the series.

Melfi sure grew into her role. She was as timid as Gandolfini in her first scenes.

Comparing the series finale Junior with the Pilot Junior is night and day. Just an incredible transformation.

Too much about ducks. Just too much.

The set lighting is terrible. Carm pulling the gun on Meadow trying to get back to her room looks like a High School play setting.

Meadow's

Friends, Sopranos is 20 years old. On my 20th annual rewatch there are certain lines that are really dated. This one just made me laugh out loud.

Any other favorites?

Does anybody have any recommendations? Thanks.

The entire Junior in the group home bullshit. Some Asian dude is in there and I swear he also played the Director of Cleaver.

So they set up a poker game. Junior turns into Feech, telling lame jokes and walking around the table. Asian dude goes insane about his dad.

It's just an entire segment based on lazy writing, a stupid premise, and killing time.

Go ahead you die-hards. Tell me why any of this shit is important.

None of that safety-glass bullshit. That thing is a fucking deathtrap.

Next thing that I know I have coming up for my enjoyment is how dangerous it is in leaves. Hopefully Johnny Cakes is riding around on his motorbike and can put out that fire too.

This was a very bad scene. Comically bad. During an emergency, Vito has time to explain to some fire volunteer that he was Mr. Electrician 1982. Five seconds later and there he is - on a ladder. Way up on a ladder.

The guy that literally couldn't walk in any of his scenes is 10 feet up on a ladder. Then he takes pruning shears and cuts this massive wire. I'm thinking, ok, he knew what wire to cut. Noice. Then he cuts the other massive wire. Good Lord, he didn't even have to make a decision. Why not just tell some able-bodied person: "Hey, cut both of those wires".

The Johnny/Vito scenario is widely panned by even the most ardent Sopranos fans, myself included.

But this wire sce

Finishing up my 20th rewatch of the entire series. Man, there is some world-class bad acting in this series. Sure, Gandolfini and Falco put on a Master Class of great acting and deserve every bit of recognition they received.

But holy goomah, the list of folks that can't act their way out of a calzone are numerous.

Meadow - terrible. Whiny. Literally reading lines. Watched the scene where she is arguing in the NYC barrio apartment in the heat with Finn and it's just awful. It turns into a marriage proposal but I was ready to off myself out of sheer embarrassment.

Silvio - terrible. His real/fake wife - worse than him.

AJ - miserable. Another line reader. At least it runs in the fam

On my 20th annual rewatch of the entire series. Each time I pick up on something that is just bonkers. This time it's Arte.

So he gets the shit kicked out of him by Mr. Answering Machine Broken. Yet here I am watching him kick the shit out of Doogie Howser's diminutive friend. Sure, he's a small-fry but he is constantly beating the shit out of everybody the entire series.

Still, are we supposed to believe that Mr. Cue Ball somehow learned how to throw down and all of a sudden is Mike Tyson?

Oh well.