The Sopranos | Season 1 | Episodes 7 & 8 | Full-Length Commentary
Added 2022-01-20 20:02:00 +0000 UTCFull-Length Commentary for The Sopranos, Season 1 - Episodes 7 & 8
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Comments
I know you're long past this point, but constructive criticism: being annoyed at the bad comedian is the point. He was a bad comedian, and as Patrick above said, it shows what life at Green Grove is like. You're not meant to take it so seriously though.
Armchair Wizard
2022-03-15 03:35:45 +0000 UTCwell said, I wish i couldve explained it like that lol
Superbowl champions
2022-01-21 03:29:08 +0000 UTC"Francis Albert" is Frank Sinatra. His last name wouldn't need to be specified in an Italian-American household in NJ. The Melfi family psychiatrist was talking about a famous Jewish gangster, Louis "Louie Lepke" Buchalter. He was trying to divert Melfi's ex-husband from feeling sorry for himself about Italian gangster stereotypes by highlighting his own connection to a non-Italian gangster. During what I guess could be called the "Golden Age of Organized Crime," the Italian Mafia was part of a larger alliance of gangs called the National Crime Syndicate. Italian gangsters worked closely with a number of Jewish gangsters operating in NYC, NJ, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Detroit, etc. Louie Lepke was a major Jewish crime boss, a labor racketeer and a founder of the National Crime Syndicate's liquidation outfit - Murder, Incorporated. Lepke was the only major crime boss to get the death penalty; he went to the electric chair in 1944. The comedian is just meant to be a terrible comedian. I think he's there to show just how boring life at Green Grove is.
Patrick Flanagan
2022-01-21 03:20:40 +0000 UTC
