The Sopranos (TV Series)

A Hit Is a Hit (1999)

Lorraine Bracco: Dr. Jennifer Melfi

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• Tony Soprano : My wife thinks I need to meet new people.

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : So?

  Tony Soprano : C'mon, you're Italian, you understand. Guys like me we're brought up to think that Merigan are fuckin' bores. The truth is the average white man is no more boring than the millionth conversation over who should have won, Marciano or Ali.

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : So am I to understand that you don't consider yourself white?

  Tony Soprano : I don't mean white like Caucasian. I mean a white man like our friend Cusamano. Now he's Italian, but he's Merigan. It's what my old man would have called a Wonder Bread wop. He eats his Sunday gravy out of a jar.

• Tony Soprano : When I was a kid there was this guy in my neighborhood. We used to call him "Jimmy Smash"

  Tony Soprano : [Eventually points to his lips]  he wasn't retarded but we thought he was he had one of these Whatchamacallit?

  Tony Soprano : [Imitates jimmy Smash's speech impediment]  "Hey Jimmy how the fuck you doing", what'd you call that?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Cleft pallet

  Tony Soprano : Yeah, we were kids right? What the hell did we know? Every time he'd open his mouth, we'd piss ourselves laughing but Jimmy didn't mind because he got to hang out with us you know? It wasn't until years I found out the poor prick was crying himself to sleep. Now when I found out I felt bad but I never fully understood what he felt to be used for somebody's amusement like a fuckin dancing bear

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : But you thought Cusamano was your friend?

  Tony Soprano : You live, you learn

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Do you mind if I ask you a question? What ever happened to Jimmy?

  Tony Soprano : [Eventually imitates jimmy Smash's speech impediment]  his doing twenty years for robbery, it wasn't hard for the cops to tell it was Jimmy. He goes up to the bank teller and says "Give me all your money"

• Randy Wagner : What does that do to property values having a gangster living next door?

  Dr. Bruce Cusamano : Are you kidding? Safest block in the neighb. And being a gangster what does it mean anyway?

  Randy Wagner : That's true. Some of the shit I see in the boardroom. I don't know if I'd make a distinction.

  Barb Wagner : Oh, will you please. It's not the same thing.

  Dr. Bruce Cusamano : Bugging, bribes. I don't know. Sometimes I think the only thing separating the American business from the mobs is fuckin' whackin' somebody.

  Jean Cusamano : Listen to you.

  Dr. Bruce Cusamano : What?

  Jean Cusamano : Whackin'. He hangs around with Tony Soprano for 15 minutes, and it's fuckin' this and fuckin' that.

  Barb Wagner : We were over there for that fund-raiser. I didn't see any guns anywhere.

  Jean Cusamano : Oh, but that bar with the goombah Murano glass.

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I like Murano glass.