The Sopranos (TV Series)

No Show (2002)

Edie Falco: Carmela Soprano

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• Carmela Soprano : If you stop now, it'll be that much harder to get back on track

  Tony Soprano : Your mother's right

  Carmela Soprano : just out of curiosity, what're you planning on using for money?

  Meadow Soprano : Cheap tickets' is running a sale, I can cash in the bonds nana gave me: most likely I'll be working

  Tony Soprano : [sarcastically]  Oh yeah, on some student film

  Meadow Soprano : It's not a student film, it's a feature on DV-CAM: he got honorable mention at the Winnipeg Film Festival last year for his short

  Tony Soprano : Forget money, what about security? You think traipsing around Europe is the smart move these days?

  Meadow Soprano : Like Europe is any less safe than here? Look, you don't seem to get it. I keep having images of Jackie April lying in a pool of his own blood in some street somewhere

  Carmela Soprano : So, French discos drive away sad thoughts?

  Meadow Soprano : You've never heard of the restorative nature of travel? Read Henry James. Why does every college have junior year abroad if there isn't a need for it?

  Carmela Soprano : Then why don't you wait for junior year? It's eight months

  Meadow Soprano : Because I need it now

  Tony Soprano : [irritated]  You want to go to Europe? Go! Clear your head, do whatever the hell they do over there

  Meadow Soprano : Thank you, I will

  Carmela Soprano : [to Tony]  Don't you think she should talk to someone first? A counselor maybe?

  Tony Soprano : Maybe the college of hard knocks is what she needs? Let's see how she likes it when some gypsy lifts her wallet, let her find out you can't work over there without a permit like the French hang onto like their balls

• Carmela Soprano : did you go see Dr. Klober?

  Meadow Soprano : [while lying in bed]  yeah

  Carmela Soprano : well, what did you talk about?

  Meadow Soprano : she says I don't have to tell you or dad: it's "confidential"

  Carmela Soprano : this is what we pay two hundred dollars for

  Meadow Soprano : it was your idea, I only saw her out of a gesture of "good will"

  Meadow Soprano : [after Carmela calls Tony into Meadow's room]  look, I don't know what you're so upset about: it's my right to go to Europe, that's what she said

  Carmela Soprano : I don't care what she said: it's totally irresponsible

  Tony Soprano : [after entering Meadow's room]  what?

  Carmela Soprano : the therapist told her it is her "right" to go to Europe

  Tony Soprano : whoa, whoa, she actually thinks this a good idea?

  Meadow Soprano : she says it's no big deal, I can pick up my education wherever, whenever

  Carmela Soprano : oh, really?

  Meadow Soprano : Wendy said she can get me into a school in Barcelona if I decided to stay

  Tony Soprano : who's "Wendy"?

  Meadow Soprano : Dr. Wendy Klober?

  Carmela Soprano : Barcelona?

  Tony Soprano : I could take Melfi's head and crush it like a fuckin walnut

  Carmela Soprano : I feel "battered"

  Meadow Soprano : [getting out of bed]  I've got to get to the salon

  Carmela Soprano : did you tell "Wendy" you didn't work all summer?

  Meadow Soprano : [sarcastically]  wait, your right, I forgot to mention the "pivotal role" of the work ethic in this family

  Carmela Soprano : you can lose that "smart mouth" right now

  Meadow Soprano : or what? What is this Afghanistan? I'm over eighteen now, I'm a grown woman I can go wherever I want and do what I want

  Carmela Soprano : [raises her voice]  alright, Jesus, God, we know that, is that your only point here? Because "just" getting what you want is for babies, not adults

  Meadow Soprano : it may interest you to know she thinks I probably should be on Prozac

  Carmela Soprano : [surprised]  she does?

  Tony Soprano : she said that?

  Meadow Soprano : Jackie was murdered, I know you think it's noting that screwing my head off at the Columbia army game wouldn't cure

  Carmela Soprano : that is so unfair

  Tony Soprano : alright, look, I've been thinking about this: now you're a smart girl, the "right move" is for you to wait, just until next year maybe?

  Meadow Soprano : you know what I don't understand, dad? You were all in favor of me going

  Tony Soprano : your mother doesn't want it

  Meadow Soprano : [sarcastically]  wow, listen to "Mr. mob boss"

  Tony Soprano : what'd you call me?

  Meadow Soprano : all this fucking "pussy footing" around for years now? Why don't we just get it out there?

• Carmela Soprano : want some lunch? I was just about to sit down to a tuna san

  Meadow Soprano : onions? In the morning?

  Carmela Soprano : actually, it's two o'clock

  Meadow Soprano : I'm going out by the pool

  Meadow Soprano : [after seeing her irritated]  what mom?

  Carmela Soprano : you said you were gonna get up at eight thirty to be at TCBY Yogurt when the manager got there

  Meadow Soprano : it's like five days before school starts: what's the use of getting a job now?

  Carmela Soprano : oh, I don't know, a few textbooks you could buy? A pair of socks? Anything that we don't have to supply?

  Meadow Soprano : look, this whole "thing" about me working between now and the start of classes is all about you being pissed because I didn't intern at the Papermill Playhouse this summer

  Carmela Soprano : we bought you a car so you could drive back and forth to your internship, you don't feel bad you didn't live up to your end of the deal?

  Meadow Soprano : Jesus, we've been through this how many times? There was no stage craft credit whatsoever on what they had me doing at the Playhouse. Xeroxing does not count towards a drama minor internship

  Carmela Soprano : did you call the drama department? Check that out?

  Meadow Soprano : no, I didn't so can we shitcan the courtroom theatrics?

  Carmela Soprano : watch your mouth

  Meadow Soprano : like I haven't been through enough this year? Twelve credits: two semesters in a row and I'm not entitled to a summer?

  Carmela Soprano : you hardly broke a C your entire second semester

  Meadow Soprano : [sarcastically]  maybe you forgot my ex-boyfriend died?

  Carmela Soprano : your grades started going down the tubes while you were still going out with Jackie Jr.

  Meadow Soprano : great, Jesus, did you ever lose a friend at my age? Did you ever have to grieve when you were nineteen?

  Carmela Soprano : honey, you should've been working this summer, if only to feel good about yourself: get your mind off Jackie instead of laying out by that pool

  Meadow Soprano : I "read" out by that pool, probably half "The Canon?"

  Carmela Soprano : [referring to name of the book by Natalie Angier]  "The Canon"? Ok, what is that now?

  Meadow Soprano : the great books? Western literature? Dead White Males? Who even in their reductionism have quite interesting things to say about death and loss. Maybe more interesting things than what you have to say?

  Carmela Soprano : is Mary Higgins Clark apart of that group? Because that's what I saw you reading every time I passed by the pool. Can you at least go online and register for classes?

  Meadow Soprano : I will

• Carmela Soprano : [after Tony arrives home]  Oh, thank God, where is the number of the therapist Melfi gave you?

  Tony Soprano : Why? What happened?

  Carmela Soprano : Your daughter, she's going to Europe: dropping out of school and going all over the place on a Euro pass

  Tony Soprano : What, is she fucking kidding?

  Carmela Soprano : Apparently not, her passport from the Christmas in the Bahamas is still valid

  Tony Soprano : Where is she?

  Carmela Soprano : I don't know, down the shore

  Tony Soprano : Oh, I suppose all these parties she goes to are all memorials for Jackie Jr., right?

  Carmela Soprano : Please with the yelling

  Tony Soprano : So, what the fuck is in Europe?

  Carmela Soprano : Experience, "real life", art

  Tony Soprano : You know I knew when this constant "harping" on art was gonna cause trouble

  Carmela Soprano : She's going to work in publicity with some friend of Misty's and going to make a movie in Denmark. I think we should call that therapist

  Tony Soprano : She's going back to school: they got counselors there, better ones, Ivy league ones. No fucking way she's going to Europe

  Carmela Soprano : Fine

• Carmela Soprano : I thought you had final registration today?

  Meadow Soprano : [sighs]  "technically" drop and add goes on for the next three weeks

  Carmela Soprano : still, shouldn't you register for the classes you know you want so you don't lose them?

  Meadow Soprano : look, I've decided to take a year off

  Carmela Soprano : what? And do what? Hang around the house?

  Meadow Soprano : actually, I'm going to Europe with Misty

  Carmela Soprano : what are you talking about?

  Meadow Soprano : look, I'm just not ready. If I go back now, I'll have to start meeting with advisors, who will want me to temporarily declare a major. I'll have that to deal with and obviously, you don't want me around here

  Carmela Soprano : that is not what I said at all. You think I don't want you here?