The Fleshy Part of the Thigh
- Episode aired Apr 2, 2006
- TV-MA
- 1h
Tony goes home and returns to business, perhaps with a new frame of mind. Paulie receives a shock about his mother.Tony goes home and returns to business, perhaps with a new frame of mind. Paulie receives a shock about his mother.Tony goes home and returns to business, perhaps with a new frame of mind. Paulie receives a shock about his mother.
- Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri
- (as Steven R. Schirripa)
- Marvin
- (as Treach)
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- TriviaWhen Aaron visits Tony in his ICU room, accompanied by Pastor Bob, he is wearing a shirt bearing the name of Terri Schiavo, a Florida woman who, being in a persistent vegetative state, was a center of controversy in the late 1990s and early 2000s, in regards to sustaining her life through artificial means.
- GoofsThere are mistakes in the Spanish spoken in the truck. For example, "vacation" is translated as "dia de fiesta" ("public holiday").
- Quotes
Bob Brewster: Some people would have you believe dinosaurs existed millions of years ago. It's just not true! God created the Earth six thousand years ago. And I tell my kids: 'You have to remember: dinosaurs and human beings lived on the Earth at the same time!'
Tony Soprano: What? Like the Flintstones?
Bob Brewster: It's in the Bible!
Tony Soprano: What about all that Carbon dating stuff? A lot of scientists would disagree with you!
Bob Brewster: I think you'll find those people all have an agenda, Tony: Evolution, which is Satan's plan to deny God! Evolution and Salvation are mutually exclusive!
Tony Soprano: Guy next door is a scientist. Think he'd disagree with you big time!
Bob Brewster: Then that man's not saved!
- ConnectionsFeatures Today (1952)
- SoundtracksForeplay/Longtime
Performed by Boston
Of course, it did, in fact the New Jersey boss sends most of the episode at the hospital, chatting to fellow patients (most notably Hal Holbrook) about life and all things connected to it. As he prepares to come home, he learns a part of his business isn't going that well and there's nothing to do about it since Johnny Sack is indirectly involved. Also in for bad news is Paulie who, after receiving a literal kick in the balls in the previous show, gets a metaphorical one when he discovers his dying aunt Dottie, a devout noun, is actually his mother and the woman he thought was his mom is his real aunt. Disgusted and enraged by the revelation, he vows never to speak to "Ma" again, taking it out on Tony instead.
Although he has been dealt with on a deeper level in other episodes as well, this is the closest the writers have come to fully rendering the complexity of Paulie's personality: his inner conflict is the final step in setting him apart from the trite "smiling hit-man" cliché and Sirico is excellent, letting every last hint of humanity in his character emerge to great effect.
That said, his misadventure is the only huge event of the episode besides Tony's return home at the end. Maybe The Fleshy Part of the Thigh is a "calmer" show: the real trouble will start in the next couple of episodes.
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- Runtime1 hour
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- 1.78 : 1