Funhouse
- Episode aired Apr 9, 2000
- TV-MA
- 1h
Tony gets sick from food poisoning and blames Artie's restaurant. Pussy, meanwhile, reaches the end of the line.Tony gets sick from food poisoning and blames Artie's restaurant. Pussy, meanwhile, reaches the end of the line.Tony gets sick from food poisoning and blames Artie's restaurant. Pussy, meanwhile, reaches the end of the line.
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaJames Gandolfini requested ice and cold water to stand in so he would really be shaking during his sick scenes.
- GoofsTony's hair changes from combed to mussed to combed several times on the boat. Additionally, Tony has a five o'clock stubble when he goes up to talk to Silvio when they're on the boat, but he's clean shaven when they're back down inside the boat again.
- Quotes
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [Tony is having a fever dream where Pussy is a fish on ice at a food market] How much you weigh?
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: Eight pounds.
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Lost a lot of weight!
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: Swimmin'! The best exercise. Works every muscle group.
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Get the fuck outta here! You never exercised once in your life!
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: Anyway, $4 a pound.
[pause]
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: You know I've been working with the government, right, Ton'?
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Don't say it.
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: C'mon, Ton'. Sooner or later, you gotta face facts.
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: I don't want to hear it.
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: Well you're *gonna* hear it.
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: [dejectedly] Fuck.
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: You passed me over for promotion, Ton'. You knew.
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: How much shit you give 'em?
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: A lot.
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Jesus, Puss.
[pause]
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Fuck of a way for it all to end, huh?
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: Yeah.
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Yeah.
Salvatore 'Big Pussy' Bompensiero: [referring to the fish lying next to him] These guys, on either side of me... they're asleep.
Anthony 'Tony' Soprano Sr.: Don't say that! Not fuckin' funny!
[angrily turns over the table and knocks all the fish to the ground]
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 52nd Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (2000)
- SoundtracksBaubles, Bangles, and Beads
(uncredited)
Written by Chet Forrest, Bob Wright and Aleksandr Borodin
Performed by Frank Sinatra
This is an excellent episode with a quirky narrative and some memorable character moments.
Tony is at the centre of it in some brilliantly conceived dream sequences that make it arguably the best psychological episode since 'Isabella'. James Gandolfini delivers one of his greatest performances.
There is little else I can mention about the plot without spoiling, but it has a sad, reflective tone with one of the biggest character arc moments of the entire show.
Vincent Pastore, Steven Van Sandt and Tony Serico are all on great form.
Visually it is one of the best productions in The Sopranos history. There is so much symbolic imagery it is hard to take it all in during the first watch. The visual storytelling is very powerful and includes a great final montage that makes a great statement about vice, waste and criminal enterprises in society.
- snoozejonc
- Mar 16, 2022
Details
- Runtime1 hour
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.78 : 1