28 ‘Family’ Friendly Bits of Trivia About ‘The Sopranos’

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28 ‘Family’ Friendly Bits of Trivia About ‘The Sopranos’

What can you say about a show that brought HBO to new heights, inspired a slew of amazing antihero-centered shows like Breaking Bad and Boardwalk Empire and definitively changed TV forever? You could start with a joke about gabagool, and then finish strong with some fear-based respect! 

So think about which New Jersey marshland you could end up in if you don’t kiss the ring of every one of these behind-the-scenes facts about The Sopranos.

The Sopranos Logo

CRACKED.COM The Sopranos logo has a gun so people wouldn't think it was about opera. The producers were worried the title would mislead audiences, so they made sure the logo clearly conveyed the show's genre. The Sopranos

Tony’s 2003 Cadillac Escalade

TONY SOPRANO'S 2003 CADILLAC ESCALADE. CRACKED.COM The car Soprano drove in the final three seasons of The Sopranos was sold for nearly $120,000 in 2015. The car also came with Soprano's driver's license.

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Michael Imperioli

Actors who wrote episodes for their shows HOL The Sopranos Christopher Columbus Michael Imperioli Christopher Columbus led to the worst ever episode of The Sopranos, written by Imperioli, and filled with clunky dialogue and wrongheaded politics. CRACKED

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A Disgrace to New Jersey

The NJ commissioner that called The Sopranos a disgrace was removed. GRACKED.COM The Sopranos was denied a permit to film by commissioner James Treffinger, who said the show depicts an ethnic group in stereotypical fashion. Treffinger was later arrested and charged with extortion, fraud, obstructing a federal investigation and conspiracy.

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Lin-Manuel Miranda

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA SHOWED UP ON THE SOPRANOS BACK IN 2007. Не was a hotel bellman who refused to give Tony and Pauly the answer they wanted - it was basically the definition of a minor role.

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Pranking Tony Soprano

14 THINGS YOU CAN CRACKED.COM DO WITH A FART PRANK TONY SOPRANO LORRAINE BRACCO ONCE PRANKED JAMES GANDOLFINI WITH A FART MACHINE WHILE FILMING THE SOPRANOS. Bracco, who played Dr. Melfi, taped a fart machine under her chair and told Gandolfini that she wasn't Butt of the Joke feeling well.

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The Office

THE OFFICE was heavily influenced by THE SOPRANOS. The Sopranos was actually the biggest influence on The Office, actor and producer B. J. Novak has said. The way Michael Scott will say something very serious but mispronounce a word I feel is a direct descendant of the Tony Soprano sense of humor.

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Don’t Stop Believin’

BEHIND-THE-SCENES GFACTS CRACKED DAVID CHASE ENDED THE SHOW WITH DON'T STOP BELIEVIN' BECAUSE EVERYONE HATED IT. olestun's Soprans David Chase says the original choice was between Journey's Don't Stop Believin' and Al Green's Love and Happiness. He decided he had to use Don't Stop Believin after everybody from the production

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Livia Soprano

BEHIND-THE-SCENESFACTS CRACKEDC LIVIA SOPRANO WAS SUPPOSED TO DIE IN THE FIRST SEASON. soppanos David Chase originally wanted to end season one with Tony killing his mother. He changed his mind after Nancy Marchand asked him to keep her working while she was battling cancer

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The Feature-Length Film

The Sopranos was meant a movie. Creator David Chase conceived the story of Tony Soprano as a feature- film. He was eventually convinced that his pitch would make a great TV series.

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James Gandolfini’s Disappearing Act

JAMES GANDOLFINI HAD EVERYONE THINKING HE DIED WHEN HE 0I DISAPPEARED FROM THE SET OF THE SOPRANOS FOR SEVERAL DAYS. The Tony Soprano actor had been s

The DiMeo Crime Family

Sopranos TKe Tony Soprano is Boss of the DIMEO crime family. There is no Soprano crime family. CRACKEDCO COM

The DeCavalcante Crime Family

The DiMeo crime family, from The Sopranos... ...is based on New Jersey's real-life DeCavalcante crime family.

The Therapy Angle

NETWORKS REFUSED TO DO THE SOPRANOS BECAUSE OF THE THERAPY ANGLE They didn't like the idea of a mafia boss going to see a psychiatrist. DAVID CHASE di

James Gandolfini

You probably remember James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano. But he was also a Wild Thing. Gandolfini provided the voice of Carol, Max's monster friend in

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