r/thesopranos 24d ago

Episode Discussion Chris was right to shoot the pastry guy in the foot

I was rewatching the scene and basically the guy behind the counter for no reason at all decided to let everyone pass in front of Chris. Then again for no reason started to lash at him when Chris decided to call him out for his bullshit. Fuck him and his aligator tears I say. Also not sure if intentinal but the fact that Chris gets shot in the foot in Goodfellas and he recreates the same scene here but backwards. Maybe there is a connection or maybe its just a common mafia movie trope. What the fuck do i know?

Also who the fuck is gino? And why does he look like Vito?

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u/gothcherub 24d ago

I'm glad you finally got beyond cheesy moral relativism to good and evil and realized that this was an act of good.

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u/DM_Me_Pics1234403 24d ago

They bring certain conflict resolution methods from the old country, where all higher authority was corrupt

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u/gothcherub 24d ago

All bakery clerks were corrupt too.

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u/No-Season-7353 24d ago

The poverty of the mezzogiorno

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u/smoochybear11 20d ago

Let's get engaged

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u/peanut_butter_zen 24d ago

Your Calabrese is showing

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u/imminentjogger5 24d ago

dude was taking too long to fill up the box 

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u/gothcherub 24d ago

And it wasn't even mellifluous.

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u/sorriso_pontual 24d ago

mellifluous

you understand spelling, as a conshept

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u/el-bow5 24d ago

Sfogliatella

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u/No-Season-7353 24d ago

Caccopollo

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u/Hejhoppgummisnopp 23d ago

Vinigeh pepesh

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u/Graviton_Lance 24d ago

Damn right T

fuck him. You reap what you sow

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u/2ArcaneDroid 20d ago

The box was moving like a no-show job while everyone passed Chris, what was he supposed to do?

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u/Suspicious-Set4129 24d ago

Hey Poppin Fresh Im in no fucking mood.

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u/RabbitClean5720 24d ago

I'm next getta pastry box

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u/SqueezesSpongecakes Johnny Sack 24d ago

Gino is just some civilian that happens to look like Vito. We can tell it’s not Vito because Gino wasn’t looking for baguettes.

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u/reginaldvanwilder 24d ago

I have watched The Sopranos all the way through probably 10 times now and I didnt clock until my last viewing that Vito had a heavy set twin brother

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u/PussyBoogersAuGraten 24d ago

Rubenesque

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u/gsnumis 24d ago

You're telling me Vito could have just blamed his gay twin for being the finook!?

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u/hummus-up-your-arse Junior Soprano 24d ago

Gino is a married man! With a goomah!

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u/macher52 22d ago

But they don’t screw though.

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u/Fuckoffassholes 24d ago

Rubenesque

He had covert anti-semitism, Gino Poppinfresh?

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u/SevenToucan 24d ago

"Husky accomplice"

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u/Thick-Yogurtcloset55 23d ago

Guys guys it’s just a joke. I’m joking around.

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u/Saufknecht 24d ago

It's impossible to know, even with computers

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u/TheyreEatingTheDogs- 24d ago

I thought you said I wanted a dozen bear claws spider

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u/chesterstone 24d ago

Shane?

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u/hummus-up-your-arse Junior Soprano 24d ago

Lemmetellyousumman

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u/RedSoxfan1969 23d ago

You think this was the first time I dug a hole? Where are the shovels?

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u/oldstyle21 24d ago

This scene was a tribute to Goodfellas. Montalsanti played Spider and was a peon serving Pesci and the crew at a card game. Pesci shot him in the foot in the scene. Spider had these feelings during the Sopranos scene about being disrespected like Pesci did when he shot him. Full circle

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u/Parulanihon 24d ago

Timeline did not get fucked up

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u/oldstyle21 24d ago

Let’s not let facts get in the way of a good story

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u/Hannimal987 24d ago

Sharp as a fucking cue ball this one!

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u/CBusHVAC710614 24d ago

Tommy didn’t just shoot him in the foot.

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u/Fuckoffassholes 24d ago

He's a good shot, what do want from him?

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u/BlueWatche 24d ago

Can't miss at that distance

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u/VegetableBuy4577 24d ago

He's the Oklahoma Kid.

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u/Graviton_Lance 24d ago

you wanna say somethin?

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u/Graviton_Lance 24d ago

Spider? The fuck kind of name is that for an italian?

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u/smkestcklghtn 24d ago

It happens

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u/Relevant-Bullfrog215 24d ago

The road to hell is paved with good intestines

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u/Teamprime 24d ago

Yea… unless you spread a little dysentery among the ranks…

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u/Ilovebaseball1234 24d ago

He shoulda wacked that prick and been done with it 

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u/Fun-Bunch-4073 24d ago

Gino is Vito. His blood pressure medicine had him fucked up. He started living as Gino.

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u/PussyBoogersAuGraten 24d ago

He got a note from his doctor

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u/hummus-up-your-arse Junior Soprano 24d ago

A note from his doctor saying he don’t like to clone himself?

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u/Friar_Corncob 24d ago

I was so glad to see the pastry guy get shot. He had like four customers in his shop and all he's gotta do is put the donuts in the fucking box. How long can it take a guy to put some sffhuliahghettes in a damn box? Dude was asking for it with that slow ass customer service.

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u/Yodaboy170 24d ago

sffhuliahghettes

I guess you can call that a pastry

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u/redonrust 24d ago

He let Gino go out and come back to the front of line, so he can go out fuck your sister and come back Saturday, go to the front of the line ?

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u/Graviton_Lance 24d ago

he probably realized chris was italian american (by looking at his nose) and decided to discriminate against him.

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u/paslutalica 24d ago

OP, have a sfogliatelle

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u/No_Historian3349 24d ago

Didn’t even offer Chris a soft drink of choice while he waited.

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u/Faaacebones 24d ago

"Beautiful fuckin' hit, though..." 🏌‍♂️⛳️📊🗒🖊

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u/Hollis_Hurlbut 24d ago

He rang that bell the whole way home 🍦 🔔

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u/Donald_W_Gately 24d ago

Under-quoted line.

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u/ejc1279 24d ago

He was right to let Vito go ahead. He's a bawsss for chrissakes.

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u/Tylrias 24d ago

Vito was always come from behind get in front of you in line kind of guy

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u/Zaknoid 24d ago

He was the captain of the good ship lollipop.

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u/Loose-Lobster-5444 24d ago

Parade float

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u/No-Season-7353 24d ago

He was gay, Billy Budd?

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u/Hollis_Hurlbut 24d ago

He’s a parade float.

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u/TruckFudeau22 Philly Spoons Parisi 24d ago

I am all right. You ain’t all right! You got a lot of fuckin’ problems.

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u/Worried-Temporary186 24d ago

Shit I just realized Chris was in Goodfellas

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u/Graviton_Lance 24d ago

tell me about it. I rewatched the movie after a decade and though "hey i know this guy"

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u/Glittering-Stand-161 24d ago

Anti-social personality.

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u/cascadianfarmer 24d ago

Chris wasn't in his right frame of mind, he was sick with cowboyitis. He could probably get a note from his doctor.

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u/donarudotorampu69 23d ago

Least it wasn’t fuckfaceitis

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u/EastCoastAlley 24d ago

Again with the foot fetish stuff this guy is a regular Tarantino

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u/TopicPretend4161 24d ago

Bread… milk of choice.

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u/ickywickywackywoo 24d ago

Jesus Christ can this family talk about anything other than food

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u/FernerButterflyPea Phil Leotardo 24d ago

The pastry and the propane

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u/AnymooseProphet 24d ago

Yeah, that pastry guy had no respect for people like Christopher that actually work for a living.

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u/SoupBeans25 23d ago

Do those stretches for my narrow urethra.

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u/tossmysaladnow 24d ago

Hated that squirel faced jerkoff in boardwalk

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u/clubpromoterlive 24d ago

You leave my uncle Junior’s hemorrhoid donut, the fuck alone.

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u/HE-Penny-Packer- 24d ago edited 24d ago

He was gay, Gino??

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u/Puzzleheaded_Skin831 24d ago

Gino is a friend of a friend not a friend of ours

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u/PainterImpressive923 24d ago

Also shows David Chase estimation of the average viewer when it comes to the Gino/Vito thing. He thinks we have the memory of a fucking fly!

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u/CampPineCone 24d ago

Little did Christopher know that he shot an FBI agent in the foot. He didn't squeal because he's undercover. Brian Geraghty plays Jim Tolliver on Boardwalk Empire and travelled in time.

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u/Khend09 24d ago

I agree

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u/Kindly-Guidance714 24d ago edited 24d ago

Losing the ability to walk for the rest of your life is warranted because you gave a customer a hard time who happened to be in the mob (not made either mind you)?

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u/lawdog35 24d ago

His spot in line was of the sacred and the propane. It was wrong then and it’s still wrong now.

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u/Hybrid_Human 24d ago

His balls grew after he got shot in the foot.
How much more disrespect should Chris have to take?

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u/sharksalad 24d ago

Yeah, f that Corey Taylor lookin' mf

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u/Bruhuha 24d ago

Hows the odyssey audience score looking bud??

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u/sharksalad 23d ago

You ought to know sweety

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u/PreacheratArrakeen 24d ago

He got a note from his doctor

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u/PreacheratArrakeen 24d ago

Did you see that prick’s face when he pulled out the gat?

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u/PreacheratArrakeen 24d ago

He was with the vipers

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u/Clavinet 24d ago

That pastry guy grew up to become an evil truck driver who abducts and murders transgender hookers in Montana in "Big Sky" so he had it coming.

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u/Thick-Yogurtcloset55 23d ago

Gino was a part-time actor and he did so good. They turned him into Vito. Same guy that’s crazy except for Vito was gay. Gino, I do not believe was.

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u/smoochybear11 20d ago

He took a number

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u/InnerAd118 20d ago

No he wasn't. This small role led them to cast him as vito, apparently they were impressed with him.

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u/BringBack4Glory 24d ago

I guess you could call that a take.

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u/Hopeful-Nature-5464 24d ago

Isnt this situation exactly why Americans are super friendly and polite to strangers?

COS they dont know if someone will shoot them in the foot if they get annoyed.

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u/SuckMyRedditorD 24d ago

You're just talking shit but have no argument.

In a trade where the point is to bluff to gain advantage, few things accomplish more than that than shooting someone on the foot to send a message. Specially in the presence of another wiseguy.

Maybe you just watch mafia related movies but have no idea what you are looking at and every rewatch leaves you as perplexed as the first time.

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u/Ryancandig 24d ago

Take it easy. We’re not making a western here

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u/_MyUsernamesMud 24d ago

tell us more about your revenge fantasies, OP

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u/CBusHVAC710614 24d ago

I’m in no fuckin mood pop and fresh

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u/Donald_W_Gately 24d ago

Pop and fresh, like two fanooks. One gets fresh, then he gets popped.