I watched the Sopranos last summer, after a years-long campaign waged by my husband to convince me to get into it. I liked it a lot, but I wouldn’t say I thought about it terribly often, the way I think about some other shows. Fast forward to last month, when I started rewatching it out of lack of anything better to do, and now I am full-on obsessed. I have come up with no fewer than three thesis ideas for someone majoring in media studies based on the show (DM Siobhan for details), incorporated a long rant I tend to go on about whether or not Tony is a true sociopath into a lengthy essay which will likely never see the light of day, and, my shining moment, read the entire oral history of the Sopranos in less than 24 hours. It’s fine, not life-changing, but interesting enough. Below, a really hilarious interaction––that has nothing to do with the show––between Michael Imperioli (who played Christopher) and Steve Schirripa (who played Bobby).
Steve: I would feel so terrible if I went, killed the deer, and I saw it laying there. I would feel terrible, especially for sport. If people do it, and they eat the food, that’s different.
Michael: If you’re starving, maybe.
Steve: It’s survival. Me, personally, it’s not my thing to kill a rabbit. I won’t kill it, it’s not my thing. Fishing is one thing.
Michael: Why is fishing one thing? Fishing is okay?
Steve: Fishing is okay.
Michael: Why?
Steve: People eat the fish.
Michael: Fish don’t have feelings?
Steve: I don’t know if they do.
Michael: Sure they do. Of course they do, what do you mean? They’re alive.
Steve: Fish cry? When they’re swimming, two of them, and a hook comes out, and gets one of them, the other one is crying?
Michael: When you see a fish on the hook, that fish don’t look so happy to be on that fucking hook. They’re struggling with their last breath to get off it and get back in the water. You don’t think they suffer when they’re hanging on the hook?
Steve: I don’t know if they suffer.
Michael: Look at dolphins, what about dolphins? Dolphins are smarter than humans, you know that, right?
Steve: They’re not smarter than me.
Michael: They communicate telepathically and they’re smarter than human beings.
Steve: I don’t think a dolphin is smart. I’ll take an IQ test.
Michael: You know what else is smarter than humans, they say? Squid. Their DNA is unlike anything else on the planet. They think squids might have come from like a meteor from outer space, their frozen genetic material was on a meteor and landed here.
Steve: What are you doing? Are you doing this to fucking drive me crazy? Do you hear yourself? Octopus from outer space, do you hear what you’re saying?
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