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1st episode of the fifth season of The Sopranos

"Two Tonys"
The Sopranos episode
Tony begs Dr. Melfi to go out with him.
Episode no.	Season v Episode 1
Directed past	Tim Van Patten
Written by	David Chase Terence Winter
Cinematography by	Phil Abraham
Production code	501
Original air appointment	March seven, 2004 (2004-03-07)
Running time	54 minutes
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"Two Tonys" is the 53rd episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the start of the testify's 5th flavour. Written by David Chase and Terence Winter, it was directed by Tim Van Patten and originally aired on March 7, 2004.

Starring [edit]

• James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
• Lorraine Bracco as Dr. Jennifer Melfi
• Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
• Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
• Dominic Chianese equally Corrado Soprano, Jr.
• Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
• Tony Sirico equally Paulie Gualtieri
• Robert Iler every bit Anthony Soprano, Jr.
• Jamie-Lynn DiScala as Meadow Soprano
• Drea de Matteo as Adriana La Cerva
• Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
• Steven R. Schirripa as Bobby Baccalieri
• Vincent Curatola every bit Johnny Sack
• Steve Buscemi as Tony Blundetto**

** = photo just

Invitee starring [edit]

• Robert Loggia every bit Feech La Manna
• Peter Bogdanovich as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg
• Ray Abruzzo as Ruby Lupertazzi, Jr.
• Joe Santos as Angelo Garepe
• Leslie Bega as Valentina La Paz
• Carl Capotorto equally Little Paulie Germani
• Robert John Burke as Officer Zmuda
• Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo**
• Joseph R. Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore
• Dan Grimaldi as Patsy Parisi
• Max Casella as Benny Fazio
• George Loros every bit Raymond Curto
• Arthur Nascarella as Carlo Gervasi
• Tony Lip as Carmine Lupertazzi
• Omar Chagall as Raoul
• John Elsen as Officer Yorn
• Sukanya Krishnan equally Reporter
• Matthew Weiner every bit Manny Safier
• Miryam Coppersmith as Sophia Baccalieri
• Denise Borino as Ginny Sacrimoni
• Allison Dunbar as Nicole Lupertazzi
• Jeffrey R. Marchetti as Petey
• Maria Baan as Fran
• Lisa Regina as Kim
• Barbara Christabella equally Patti
• Anna Maniscalco as Bernice
• Pecker Quigley as Waiter
• Laurie Rosenwald as Woman
• Ginger Kearns as Pierced Daughter
• Jason Ongoco as Delivery Guy

** = photograph only

Synopsis [edit]

Four mobsters, imprisoned in the 1980s, are released on parole. 3 of them are a generation older than Tony: Soprano family capo Michele "Feech" La Manna, Lupertazzi family consigliere Angelo Garepe, and Lupertazzi capo Phil Leotardo. The fourth is Tony'southward cousin, Tony "Tony B" Blundetto. Feech wishes to return to work as a shy and sports bettor, which Tony and Uncle Junior will permit if he doesn't "stride on anyone's toes." Tony is excited almost his cousin's release and plans a lavish welcome party.

Christopher and Paulie face up each other when their humorous re-telling of their Pino Barrens ordeal devolves into mutual recriminations. Christopher begins to resent the custom that, being of lower rank, he should pay when the group dine in a restaurant. One evening, he forces Paulie to pay. The side by side morn, Paulie demands that Christopher repay him and threatens that interest will exist added if he does not. When he complains to Tony, he orders Christopher to keep paying the tabs, as he himself once did. In Atlantic City, Paulie contrives to inflate a dinner bill to nearly $one,200. As they argue in the parking lot, a waiter confronts Christopher about his small tip. He insults them, and Christopher angrily throws a rock at his head. The waiter collapses and has a seizure, causing a panicked Paulie to shoot him dead. Paulie takes the $1,200 and he and Chris speed off in their cars. The next day, they make apology and split the original tab.

Carmine Lupertazzi has a stroke. At the hospital, Johnny Sack indicates to Tony that he is nevertheless angry that he backed out of their understanding to impale Ruby the previous year.

Janice and Bobby Baccalieri are now married. A twelvemonth later his separation, Tony is living in his mother's quondam home.

1 evening, while A.J. is in the lawn, a large black bear appears. Terrified, he calls for his female parent, who drives off the carry and calls the authorities. Tony visits the next day and talks to Carmela, but the discussion turns acrimonious when she criticizes him for ownership A.J. too many gifts. Every bit they argue about money, she accuses him of calling Italy on his cellphone; he tells her that Furio'south life is "finished" if certain people find him. Tony tasks Benny and Little Paulie to baby-sit his backyard, and Carmela reluctantly supplies them with an AK-47.

Afterward watching The Prince of Tides with his mistress, Valentina, Tony feels driven to encounter Dr. Melfi again, and he sends flowers and a greeting card to her office. When he calls her to gear up up a appointment, she declines, feeling that it would be unprofessional to engagement a old patient. She afterwards has a sexual dream about him. Tony then makes an appointment, a pretext so that he can tell her he loves her, and he forcibly kisses her. In a therapy session with her own psychiatrist, she admits her initial allure to Tony. Tony makes a third attempt to court her by offering prowl tickets, but she declines again. At his request, she tells him the aspects of his grapheme she could not take. But in that location are things he cannot bear to hear and, calling her a "cunt," he storms out. He returns home, in a sense, and takes over acquit duty from Benny.

Starting time appearances [edit]

• Michele "Feech" La Manna: erstwhile capo of the now defunct La Manna crew who was incarcerated during the 1980s
• Angelo Garepe: longtime Lupertazzi family Consigliere
• Phil Leotardo: (image just) Capo of the Lupertazzi family who was sent to prison in the early 1980s
• Tony Blundetto: (prototype only) Tony's cousin and DiMeo/Soprano crime family member who was sent to jail in 1986 for hijacking a truck

Deceased [edit]

• Raoul: an Atlantic City waiter who complained to Paulie and Christopher about a poor tip. Christopher hit him in the head with a brick, causing him to have a seizure. Paulie then shot Raoul dead.

Title reference [edit]

• Tony attempts to demonstrate to Dr. Melfi that at that place are two Tony Sopranos, ane of whom she has never seen before and he wants to testify her.
• The championship is also a reference to DiMeo/Soprano criminal offence family unit member and Tony Soprano'due south namesake Tony Blundetto newly released from prison house

Production [edit]

• The new addition to the series writing staff beginning with Season 5, Matthew Weiner, plays the Mafia skilful on the news broadcast who introduces the new gangster characters. Previously, series writers Terence Winter and David Chase too made cameo appearances on the testify, as Dr. Melfi's patient and a man in Italy, respectively.^{[i] [ii]}
• Steve Buscemi joins the main cast equally Tony Blundetto and is now billed in the opening credits, although he does non appear in this episode other than in the form of photographs during the "Class of '04" news study. Buscemi previously directed two Sopranos episodes, "Pine Barrens" (Season 3) and "Everybody Hurts" (Flavor 4), and he continued to directly for the show, too as human action.
• Jamie-Lynn Sigler is billed by her married proper name equally "Jamie-Lynn DiScala" during this season.^[3]
• Vince Curatola is at present exclusively billed in an individual credit from this point onwards. During Flavour 4 he had oft been billed in a pairing with some other actor. He is all the same only billed for the episodes in which he appears, even so.
• The graphic symbol Sophia Baccalieri is now played by Miryam Coppersmith, who replaced Lexie Sperduto from Flavor iv.
• Toni Kalem, who plays Angie Bonpensiero on the series, becomes a story editor for the evidence starting with this episode.
• This episode is the beginning season opener wherein Tony is not featured picking up The Star-Ledger at the pes of his driveway. Instead, Meadow runs over the paper with her motorcar.
• The preface to an April 10, 2002 Star-Ledger commodity titled, "Bailiwick of jersey mob soon to go infusion of one-time blood: Lawmen are wary as jail terms end" reads: "(Editor's Annotation: Sopranos creator David Chase revealed that the story arc of Flavor five was inspired by a Star-Ledger article on the RICO trials of the '80s. We've combed our archives and believe this may be the article he was referring to.")^[four]

Other cultural references [edit]

• The real reference to the 2 Tonys was a famous hit carried out by Jimmy the weasel Fratianno on Tony Brancato and his criminal associate Tony Trombino, two young mobsters performing robberies in Los Angeles and Las Vegas without the sanction of the Los Angeles family. Jack Dragna told Jimmy Fratianno they needed to exist "clipped", and asked Jimmy to set "something upwardly". Within a few days, Fratianno gear up the Two Tonys and killed them in their car. (August vi, 1951)
• Tony gets angry upon learning Carmela did non inform him of a behave sighting, saying this is not Little House on the Prairie.
• Tony greets Feech La Manna with: "Y'all go straight from the joint to Earl Scheib?" when telling him he has a tan.
• Tony observes that Junior's house is like the Bowery Boys, with surreptitious codes.
• Feech La Manna calls himself Fred Astaire when told not to "footstep on anyone'southward toes".
• Carmela tells Benny, whom Tony has sent to "protect" her and A. J., that he shouldn't sit down outside like A Fistful of Dollars.
• Christopher is shown reading My Search for Bill Due west. by Mel B., the biography of the founder of Alcoholics Anonymous.
• When trying to persuade Dr. Melfi that information technology is ethically permissible for her to date him, Tony references information that he learned from the Dr. Phil show.
• Tony tells Christopher that he paid for so many eatery dinners over the years that he put a new wing on Peter Luger's.

Connections to prior episodes [edit]

• At the Bada Bing, Christopher reiterates to Vito Spatafore, Benny Fazio, and Patsy Parisi the story of his and Paulie's mishaps in the "Pino Barrens" with the Russian mobster.
• When trying to convince Carmella to take AJ to a hotel afterward multiple deport sightings in their backyard Tony jokingly mentions that AJ likes room service, which is a reference to AJ's comment well-nigh room service when Tony was trying to tell him most the family unit's proud history of dedication to work in "Watching Besides Much Boob tube".

Music [edit]

• The song played in the opening scenes, and so heard on Carmela'due south radio, and and so over the end credits is "Sky Only Knows" by Emmylou Harris.
• The song blaring from Meadow'southward car when she comes to pick up A.J. is "Bichu Rap" by Titi Robin.
• The vocal playing at the restaurant where the guys consume dinner with their goomahs is "Mia Serenata" by Jimmy Fontana.
• At the start of the scene where Tony's crew were having dinner at the Atlantic City restaurant, "Band of Aureate" past Freda Payne is heard, as is "Allow's Get It On" past Marvin Gaye.

References [edit]

1. ^ "Guy Walks into a Psychiatrist's Office...", The Sopranos, originally aired Jan 16, 2000 on HBO
2. ^ "Commendatori", The Sopranos, originally aired February six, 2000 on HBO
3. ^ "Jamie-Lynn DiScala, Husband Split". People. September 25, 2005. Retrieved Jan 29, 2013.
4. ^ Rudolph Robert; Sterling, Guy (Apr x, 2002). "Jersey mob soon to become infusion of one-time blood". The Star-Ledger . Retrieved May 8, 2012.

External links [edit]

• "Two Tonys" at HBO
• "2 Tonys" at IMDb

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Tonys

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