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词条 All Happy Families...
释义

  1. Starring

     Guest starring  Also guest starring 

  2. Synopsis

  3. First appearances

  4. Deceased

  5. Title reference

  6. Production

  7. References to other people, characters, and popular culture

  8. Music

  9. References

  10. External links

{{Infobox television episode
| title = All Happy Families...
| series = The Sopranos
| season = 5
| episode = 4
| guests = see below
| writer = Toni Kalem
| director = Rodrigo García
| photographer = Alik Sakharov
| airdate = March 28, 2004
| length = 52 minutes
| production = 504
| episode_list = List of The Sopranos episodes
| season_article = The Sopranos (season 5)
| image = Sopranos ep504.jpg
| image_size =
| prev = Where's Johnny?
| next = Irregular Around the Margins
}}

"All Happy Families..." is the 56th episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the fourth of the show's fifth season. Written by Toni Kalem and directed by Rodrigo García, it originally aired on March 28, 2004.

Starring

  • James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
  • Lorraine Bracco as Jennifer Melfi
  • Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
  • Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
  • Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr.
  • Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
  • Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
  • Robert Iler as Anthony Soprano, Jr.
  • Jamie-Lynn DiScala as Meadow Soprano
  • Drea de Matteo as Adriana La Cerva
  • Aida Turturro as Janice Soprano Baccalieri
  • John Ventimiglia as Artie Bucco
  • and Steve Buscemi as Tony Blundetto
* = credit only

Guest starring

  • Jerry Adler as Hesh Rabkin

Also guest starring

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  • Ray Abruzzo as Little Carmine Lupertazzi
  • Chris Caldovino as Billy Leotardo
  • Patti D'Arbanville as Lorraine Calluzzo
  • Frank Fortunato as Jason Evanina
  • Robert Loggia as Feech La Manna
  • Joe Maruzzo as Joey "Peeps"
  • John Pleshette as Dr. Ira Fried
  • Joe Santos as Angelo Garepe
  • David Strathairn as Robert Wegler
  • Frankie Valli as Rusty Millio
  • Frank Vincent as Phil Leotardo
  • Joseph R. Gannascoli as Vito Spatafore
  • Carl Capotorto as Little Paulie Germani
  • Max Casella as Benny Fazio
  • Peter Bogdanovich as Dr. Elliot Kupferberg
  • Will Janowitz as Finn DeTrolio
  • Dennis Aloia as Justin Blundetto
  • Kevin Aloia as Jason Blundetto
  • Cameron Boyd as Matt Testa
  • Michael Pemberton as Supervisor Jimmy Curran
  • John Marinacci as Dealer
  • Adam Rose as Todd
  • Stewart J. Zully as Alan Ginsberg
  • Terence Winter as Tom Amberson
  • Leon Wieseltier as Stewart Silverman
  • David Lee Roth as Himself
  • Lawrence Taylor as Himself
  • Gina Lynn as Stripper
  • Bernie Brillstein as Himself

}}

Synopsis

{{Long plot|episode|date=June 2018}}

In New York, Lorraine and Jason are murdered by Joey and Billy Leotardo after they refuse to give their collections to Johnny. Little Carmine is advised by fellow capo Rusty Millio to take aggressive action. Tony advises his capos and soldiers not to get involved in the New York feud. Feech comes in to see Tony and regales the younger mobsters with stories from his mob career, including one when Tony and Jackie Aprile, Sr established themselves by robbing his card game. Tony laughs at this, but Feech asks if he can run the game once again. Tony considers the offer, since it is now run by his uncle Junior's crew, and allows Feech to supervise it and get 20% of its profits.

At the card game, Feech's jokes and anecdotes annoy Tony but generate uproarious laughter from his crew. In an argument, Carmela has told Tony he has no friends, just "flunkies" who laugh at his jokes because he is the boss. As a test, Tony makes a feeble joke to see if the card players laugh - and they do.

When Feech's hired goons carjack the attendees of a wedding for the daughter of Tony's close friend, Dr. Ira Fried, and sell the vehicles to Johnny's men, Tony recalls the joke he told at the card game and realizes the only person not laughing was Feech. Concerned about a repeat of his situation with Richie Aprile, he reluctantly decides that Feech—although well liked and respected—has to be dealt with. However, instead of killing him, Tony sends Christopher and Benny to his house and trick him to hiding a truckload of flatscreen TVs. Feech agrees for the cost of $2,000 and one of the TVs. The following day, a substitute parole officer visits Feech and asks about the flatscreen in his living room, then asks to see his garage; Feech has no choice but to comply. For violating his parole by keeping stolen merchandise, Feech is returned to prison, and gazes forlornly at the outside world for the last time.

Dr. Melfi finds that Tony has left a basket of expensive toiletries and a bathrobe in her waiting room. Later, stressing the mis-spellings, she reads the gift card to her own therapist, Dr. Elliot Kupferberg. Tony apologises for calling her a "cunt". Kupferberg tells her the gift represents ablution.

A.J. is having a difficult time in school and disrespects Carmela. Tony and Carmela visit A.J.'s guidance counselor, Robert Wegler. Upon learning he was once almost diagnosed with ADD, A.J. suggests that he could use the learning disability angle to get unlimited time on his SATs and enter college. Wegler goes over A.J.'s academic record, which Carmela partly blames on her separation from Tony. Tony then buys A.J. a new Nissan Xterra as a "motivational tool" to get better grades, saying that Carmela will keep the keys until his grades improve.

A.J. asks his mother if he can attend a Mudvayne concert in New York with friends. Carmela refuses because A.J. and his friends are planning on staying overnight at a hotel. Angered, A.J. gives her the silent treatment. Carmela gives in on the condition that he go to Meadow's apartment after the concert and return home the following morning. A.J. agrees.

On the night of the concert, A.J. calls Meadow to tell her that he will not be coming to her apartment afterward, and she reluctantly agrees to cover for him. At the hotel, A.J. and his friends get drunk and high. The next morning, A.J. and his friend Matt wake up when a worried Carmela rings his cell phone. A.J. doesn't answer; his face is Krazy Glued to the carpet, and his eyebrows have been shaved off and redrawn with permanent marker. Carmela frantically calls Tony to search for A.J. just as the boy arrives back home, rebuffing her, and swearing at her. Tony arrives, and Carmela shows him what has happened to A.J.'s eyebrows. In the ensuing argument, A.J. sells a false story, which Tony appears to buy. When Tony sends A.J. outside, Carmela blames herself for A.J.'s actions and says Tony should take A.J. to live with him. At Tony's, A.J. bonds with Tony, Tony B and Artie as they watch TV. However, Tony eventually sends him off to do his homework.

Wegler invites Carmela to lunch. She discusses A.J.'s troubles as well as her own. He recommends that she read Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary, noting parallels between Carmela and the book's protagonist. Returning home, Carmela has a flashback of the time when A.J. careened down the driveway and out into the street on his Big Wheel. She frantically screams "Anthony!", then snaps back to the present. She opens the front door and goes in; she is alone in the family house.

First appearances

  • Rusty Millio: A capo in the Lupertazzi family and ally of Little Carmine.
  • Robert Wegler: A.J.'s school guidance counselor who also goes out with Carmela for lunch.
  • Justin and Jason Blundetto: The twin sons of Tony Blundetto.
  • Dante Greco: an associate/Soldier in the Aprile crew.

Deceased

  • Lorraine Calluzzo: shot by Billy Leotardo on orders from Johnny Sack
  • Jason Evanina: shot on orders from Johnny Sack, presumably by Billy Leotardo.
  • Dominica (Nica) Payalini: killed in a car crash offscreen.

Title reference

  • The episode's title is taken from the famous opening sentence of Leo Tolstoy's Anna Karenina: "All happy families are alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."[1] It refers to the breakup of the Soprano household.
  • It may also refer to the inner struggles within the Lupertazzi crime family following Carmine's death, as well as to internal strife within Tony's family with Feech La Manna.

Production

  • The episode's script was written by Toni Kalem, who also plays Angie Bonpensiero, and serves as story editor on several episodes of season five.
  • The character of Ira Fried was recast in this episode with actor John Pleshette. The role was previously played by Lewis J. Stadlen.
  • This is the first time that singer Frankie Valli portrays Lupertazzi capo Rusty Millio. Valli himself was mentioned before - in the season four episode "Christopher" - and had his songs played in some episodes.
  • Bernie Brillstein, who plays himself at the card game, is the business partner of Sopranos executive producer Brad Grey. Also appearing in the card game is New York Giants linebacker Lawrence Taylor and, in a separate card game, Van Halen vocalist David Lee Roth.
  • Leon Wieseltier, longtime literary editor of The New Republic, takes a rare acting turn playing car-theft victim Stewart Silverman.

References to other people, characters, and popular culture

  • As Christopher and Benny pay a visit to Feech, he called them "Olsen and Johnson". This was in reference to the popular vaudeville duo in the first half of the 20th Century.
  • Tony's greeting to white-bearded, portly, Brillstein, upon entering the card game, likens Brillstein to Santa Claus.
  • Meadow and Finn are watching the film Frida on TV.
  • When the parole inspector asks Feech to open his garage, Feech quips, "that's where I make my weapons of mass destruction", in hopes the inspector will be dissuaded by the humorous reference to the United States' inability to find Saddam Hussein's WMDs in Iraq. This is unsuccessful.
  • Tony, Artie, Tony B. and A.J. watch "The $99,000 Answer" episode of The Honeymooners on TV.
  • While trying to connect with A.J., Carmela references the "drum solo" from The Beatles' song "Birthday", which she mistakenly calls "Happy Birthday".

Music

  • Edison Lighthouse's "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" is played in the background, probably on a radio, while Lorraine is murdered.
  • The Starlight Orchestra performs "Siman Tov! Mazel Tov!" during the Horah at the wedding receptiion.
  • As Tony and Carmela see Mr. Wegler about A.J., Tony asks what A.J. did: "Did he call the teacher 'Daddy-O'?" This was based on a line from The Coasters song, "Charlie Brown".
  • One scene in the Bada Bing features The Cars' "Moving in Stereo" — an appropriate song for a topless bar, as it featured in a famous fantasy sequence featuring a topless Phoebe Cates in the film Fast Times at Ridgemont High. There is also a brief discussion about the cars Feech's crew stole that takes place during this scene.
  • In the scene where Tony is arguing with Feech, Jimi Hendrix's "Who Knows" can be heard in the background through the entire scene.
  • As A.J. and his friends smoke marijuana in the hotel room, "Trouble" by West Coast rapper Roscoe can be heard playing in the background.
  • The music played over the end credits is "La Petite Mer" by Thierry Robin.
  • "Beat Connection" by LCD Soundsystem can be heard in a scene set in the Crazy Horse.

References

1. ^{{cite book |title=The Sopranos: The Complete Book |last1=Martin |first1=Brett |date=2007-10-30 |publisher=Time |location=New York |isbn=978-1-933821-18-4 |chapter="Once You're in this Family, There's No Getting Out:" Meet the Sopranos |page=54}}

External links

  • "All Happy Families..." at HBO
  • {{IMDb episode|0705226}}
  • {{tv.com episode|the-sopranos/all-happy-families--304441}}
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