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Big Girls Don't CryHappy Wanderer
If things were calm between Tony and Richie at the start of the episode - relatively speaking - then by the end, it's clear one of them will have to die. This is brought about by two dumbasses of the highest order and an extremely convenient coincidence (in writing, that would be called a contrivance.)
Tony tells Richie Aprile that he needs to give Beansie - the man who he ran over with a car - a ramp and make is house handicap-accessible. He takes offense to this and by the time he does come around to doing it, he has his guys leave in the middle of building the ramp. But that's pretty much the mindgames Richie and Tony have been playing all season so this wasn't a big deal.
Richie gives Tony a jacket - a jacket that evidently means a lot to Richie since he took it off a guy who was much bigger than him in a fight. It's not really clear what his true intention is with the jacket at first, but soon it becomes clear it's a genuine gift. When he sees that Tony gave it to his maid's husband, he gets extremely insulted. Now, I realize that he needed to find out that Tony gave it away for the purposes of plot, but man the way he found out was ridiculously contrived. He just so happens to be sitting down in the house and the maid's husband just so happens to walk in at the same time? I mean how many times does the husband even go into that house? I can't think of too many times.
Meanwhile, Meadow's applying to college, which the show uses to make Carmela look like a horrible person. Usually she's just willfully ignorant, but she had to know how it looked when she went into the office of Joan Cusamano. To make things worse, she even suggest she forget about the poor Dominican kid with a 5.2 GPA. WOW. I mean that kid will turn out alright probably anyway, but still. Also, she is just bad enough to throw a letter from Berkley away claiming the form was incomplete, but not bad enough to go through with. Meadow's no dummy though and noticed. (In AJ news, he wants to go to Harvard. HA!)
Resident dumbasses Sean and Matt steal some safes with Christopher and have to chalk up a percentage to Tony. Furio comes to collect and takes an extra grand because fuck it he can do what he wants. Sean and Matt create an excuse to meet Richie Aprile. Aprile talks shit about Chris and says "if you ever want to do a favor for me." (paraphrased)
Naturally, Sean and Matt somehow take this as a sign that Richie wants to kill Christopher. I mean he might WANT to, but that's probably just talk. A clueless Christopher gets shot a few times by them, but not before he kills Sean. Matt goes back to Richie trying to get protection, but Richie is having none of that. David Proval plays a pretty hilarious pissed off man.
Lastly, Tony realizes that on some level he had to have given Meadow her friend's car knowing she would know how he came to acquire it. Dr. Mefli takes this as a sign that Tony did a good thing subconsciously. I have no idea where she got that. Either way, Tony should have realized that it was a bad idea and he ignored it.
That's all I have to say about the episode, it was pretty short at 42 minutes.
Grade - B+
Deaths
Sean
Quotes
"How can I express how little I give a fuck?" - Chris - A question I find myself wanting to ask constantly
"And maybe when I'm over there, I can fuck his wife" - Ever the wordsmith, Richie says sarcastically upon the suggestion he build Beansie a ramp
"I'd like to break my dick off in that ass of hers." - Matt's attempt at casual conversation with Tony
"These two suck each other's cocks." - Furio in Italian about Sean and Matt
"You're going to be going off to a wonderful college. What right do I have to interfere?" - Seeing how she's acted this whole episode, this line of dialogue takes on a new meaning
"All these years, I've been shielding her and protecting her from certain truths. And now, what do I want to rub her nose in it?" - Tony about Meadow
Playlist
1. "Paris" - Little Dragon
2. "Soliloquy" - Isaiah Rashad
3. "Graffiti" - Maximo Park
4. "I'm Back" - Eminem
5. "You Get What You Give" - New Radicals
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