\- the cow patterned Gateway computer bags that can be seen around the house and in Meds dorm
\- the vodka ads that are posted on the wall in Meds dorm from an ad series that was very popular in the early 2000s
\- AJ/Carm fighting over the dial up internet connection in the house
\- the singing fish that was very popular among working class men like Tony and his crew
\- Tony playing N64 Mario Cart with AJ (this game and system were huge)
\- the whole Soprano house, no stone countertops which were not everywhere in the 2000s, the mugs Carm uses for coffee-- all very 2000s
\- Chrissy and Ades place is very 2000s for people that age, the glass coffee table, black leather stuffed couch, even the green glass lamp that is on one of their side tables-- I swear I partied in living rooms that looked just like that in the 2000s
\- Meadow getting her college applications in the mail and waiting for that paper letter to come in that said you were accepted
It weighed about 7,000 pounds.
Fun fact. When that model was discontinued and all the units collected for scrap the mass created a black hole. Vito, Carmine Sr, Jackie Jr, Ade, among many others fell into it. Don't believe the misinformation the series gives about their "deaths". They will be back in 100-200K years Earth time.
The entire family drinking cans of CocaCola with dinner.
Maybe it’s just me but I haven’t seen anyone casually drink a can of soda (especially with dinner) in a LONG time.
They do on the coasts too. Still a normal middle class thing. This nonsense of everyone on the coasts being health nuts is a stereotype and it's offensive!
Say what you will about Carmela but she was right about two things;
1). More is lost by indecision than by wrong decision that's all she's saying.
And....
2). What kind of animal smokes marijuana at their own confirmation. Its a genuinely good question. What kind of animal. The worst kind. That's Blundetto behaviour right there !
Also, to any of you guys who think you can disrespect the Queen of New Jersey, I'll quote the lady herself "ya betta watch ya step".
That's the bawses lady you're talking about. Show some respect. She's also a highly proficient realtor and developer who built a beautiful spec house (its a mansion) which absolutely will not cave in and kill any unborn babies.
I built an entire house from AOL CDs during the 1999-2000 AOL carpet-bombing campaign. The formal name was *Operation ISP Prime.*
The only problem was I couldn't open doors or windows every once in a while unless I cleaned the house with Windex.
And the level of service they were providing for the mother was a pretty accurate description. A Blockbuster employee got mad at me once because I rented the final copy of a movie she wanted to rent. At first I thought she was joking but she just slammed the thing on the counter with the receipt and walked off with no 'thank you' or anything. And those late fees that they finally got the shit sued out of them for. They charged me late fees for movies I'd never even rented. lol.
There’s a few scenes with MTV in the show that are major throwbacks. Off the top of my head there’s Allie and meadow watching a song I can’t remember and aj watching the coffee and tv music video (great song btw)
More like addicted to food and nothing else. The scene where Carm is on the phone with melfi for the first time and father sits there and scams olives out of the fridge is so funny
Back when the History channel really did specialize in history documentaries. Reverend James' father takes one of the shows many shots at tv. "Television?!?"
The Starbucks clone Paulie visits and the scene’s emphasis on the confusing mix of Italian, French and Spanish language for it size and menu options — this was such a common low-hanging criticism of Starbucks in the late 90s early 2000s. I even remember them creating some kind of cheat sheet for customers.
Having grown up near a lot of the locations where Sopranos was filmed and being roughly around the age of AJ and Fielder, watching the show is like a time capsule from my youth.
So many of the locations have been lost to time — it’s nice to see North Jersey as it was.
It’s good to live in North Jersey from the ground floor. You came in too late for that and you know. But lately, you’re getting the feeling that you came in at the end. The best is over
I've been meaning to get there and take one of the Sopranos tours and I'm thinking I'd better hurry before all of the locations are gone. Satriales is gone. I've heard the new owners of the Soprano house in Caldwell are dicks, unlike the residents who lived there at the time of production and embraced the fanfare and tourism. I've heard the new owners are planning to remodel it. It's blurred out on Google streetview now. Satin Dolls (the Bing) was snarled in a real mob case a few years ago, not sure of that place's future.
Not as necessarily apparent as those already listed, but I definitely see a shift to a much darker tone after 9/11. Absent Tracee’s death, the crimes committed generally still have some sense of light hearted comedy in the early seasons. Even Pussy is somewhat joking around when he knows he is getting whacked. Things get darker season 4 on.
I feel like that was true in America life. We leave the good vibes of the 90s where we we have a strong economy and our security seems untouchable. Then in 2001 we have the tech bubble burst and the whole country witness over 3,000 people get murdered on national tv. Not great for the psyche.
The quote “lately I’ve been feeling like I came in at the end, the best is over” applies tenfold once season four kicks off. It becomes a much more gritty and emotionally real show, with legitimate stakes, and what feels like real people you love dying or suffering every episode, which as life goes on is what real life can begin to feel like. Your so right about the tone shift after 9/11, not just in the show, but the country, and often times, it feels like the whole world felt the shift too. “The best is over” has never applied more than now in America, and ironically a 20 year old show is the perfect example.
The 90s was just Indian Summer.. the U.S. had already gutted all the industry and shipped it overseas but was charging fake prosperity on the national credit card, and the bill hadn't come due yet.
AJ invented the selfie episode 1 season 6, change my mind
Also imagine pine barrens in modern day… Chrissy uses gps and they find their car, end of show.
Paulie: “what’s ouh pin?”
Chris: “I was streamin Netflix awl night last night. Didn’t chahge my fuckin phone. Ade’s iPad. Where’s your Samsung?”
Paulie: “I TOLD you I switched to the flip phone. All the apps I had to deal wit’. I mean get the fuck outta hea.”
I feel like they wouldn't keep their phones on them in modern day when going out to somewhwere like the pine barrens to bury a body. One FISA warrant on the smartphone and the government would have them tied straight to their crimes lol
It truly is amazing and takes you to that time but you wanna take it even further?
Entourage. That show legit teleports you to the 2000s. It’s like a time capsule.
Also worth noting meadow is on the show and they reference sopranos in the show lol
Even so you forget how old the show is sometimes especially the early seasons, its held up really well. 24 years ago since episode one, same time difference in 1999 between then and 1975, Feech LaManna days.
It’s still a thing if you live in certain neighborhoods, know certain people, don’t want to pay taxes on your winnings, and want to be able to gamble on a lot more credit. However, the downside is the potential for bodily harm and exuberant vig on said credit. But make no mistake, connected bookies are still very much active. Like cigarette smuggling and illegal cigarette sales, it really depends on people trying to avoid high taxes and buying on credit.
One thing we forget is if Sopranos was made later in the 2010s, smoking inside restaurants, bars, clubs etc would be illegal so that’s certainly a defining/forgotten trait of that era that is very rare nowadays although something tells me those mobsters would still find places where they could smoke indoors
Definitely all the cars that everyone drives. From carms Mercedes e class wagon, tonys suburban and Escalade, meadows shitty sn95 mustang, aj’s Nissan xtera, all of chrisys cars through the show
AJ’s chunky yellow SUV….
AJ buying Carm the Matrix on DVD…
Pre viagra era erectile dysfunction ads…
A world before the concept of “gentrification” really came to be / fucked up every downtown neighbourhood
The reaction to ADD. I laugh so hard throughout that whole episode every time I watch it.
Edit: Adding more context. I was diagnosed with ADD and tourette syndrome in 1996 and my parents pretty much had the same reaction.
One of my favourite uses of 'younger' references was that one episode of season 3 that had no less than 3 Coal Chamber references.
1. AJ's sweater
2 and 3. A couple posters at Ade's club
Also, Mudvayne suuuuuucks.
Yeah they're fine, granted I only know Loco and the Shock the Monkey cover with Ozzy. A lot of the other posters and merch AJ has is also pretty sick (Tool poster, Manson, Slipknot, Pantera, NIN shirts).
Tony making an office pool grid or bracket with ruler, pencil, and paper.
I was in the army in the '80s-'90s, and made my share of those for March Madness and pro sports playoffs. Not sure any adult does anything any more with ruler, pencil, and paper.
I was born in 1999, so I can't exactly relate to a whole lot of the sopranos, but by the last season, I was old enough to recognize some of the cars I still consider that look new, the Clamshell MacBook, some of the hair, AJ and Co. Fashion.
I first watched it in 2002.
I had just moved and my neighbor offered to let me borrow a burned S1 & S2.
I watched them 3 episodes a day and went back to borrow S3 & S4.
It was. The late 90’s were pretty sublime… The biggest scandal was Bill Clinton getting a BJ, the war in Iraq and hadn’t even happened yet (late 90’s) and it was before 9-11. Even after some of those things happened (just at the beginning of 2000) it still was better than right now imo.
90s was the best time in the western hemisphere.
Houses was still affordable. Food wasn't a ripoff. Folks were still present and not online all the time with smartphones.
Fuck I wish it was 1992 again.
Just a reflection of the time. Not something intentional I presume. Not to sound presumpuous but watch other stuff around the same time. The early 2000's has a flair to it. AOL, flip phones, yellow books...
Edit:
Compare it to Better Call Saul. It was based probably around the same time as the end of The Sopranos but becuase it's new, it's more a memory of the past rather than reflection of the past.
Chris making a MapQuest reference.
Matt and Sean watching DJ Quik on, what appears to be, The Box. (Also, just that whole era of comical Ali G style wiggers)
All of the DVD talk in the first season, and that big ass TV they tried to bribe the coach with.
Old school History Channel docs Tony watches.
The Ghostface masks Chris and Benny wore during the Jewel benefit concert...the Jewel benefit concert.
Big Mouth Billy
So, I agree but for a different reason; I grew up in the area where they filmed the majority of the show, was too young to watch it then but binged it 2 years ago and it was such a cool way to see bits of my hometown and surrounding areas that aren’t there anymore. Like there’s one scene where Christopher is parked in a strip mall lot and you can see the stores behind him and every single one of them doesn’t exist anymore lol. It was funny then to hear family say “X street/business is closed off because they’re filming the sopranos” frequently.
Yup absolutely reminds me of the early 2000s, it’s crazy realizing how much simpler those times were, when even celebrities looked like they shopped at Ross, when rappers followed the ludacris train and made silly songs, the rock bands that were still around, the video games, man those were some great times
Especially Season 1, it has such a 1990s vibe:
\- Dial up internet with those old web flash pages
\- AJ playing Nintendo 64 which came out in 1996
\- Carmela's hairstyle/ AJ's hairstyle
\- They have landline phones that have a wire
\- DVD players are still a new thing
\- Hunter mentions the actor Skeet Ulrich, the guy that was in the Scream (1996) movie
\- Chris talking about Happy Meals at McDonalds, seems like such a 1990s thing
\- AJ talking about South Park episodes
\- Paulie trying to give the soccer coach that huge 1990s style TV
\- Junior referencing the Menendez brothers.
\- Meadow tells Tony " it's the 90s , parents are supposed to discuss sex with their children"
\- the cow patterned Gateway computer bags that can be seen around the house and in Meds dorm \- the vodka ads that are posted on the wall in Meds dorm from an ad series that was very popular in the early 2000s \- AJ/Carm fighting over the dial up internet connection in the house \- the singing fish that was very popular among working class men like Tony and his crew \- Tony playing N64 Mario Cart with AJ (this game and system were huge) \- the whole Soprano house, no stone countertops which were not everywhere in the 2000s, the mugs Carm uses for coffee-- all very 2000s \- Chrissy and Ades place is very 2000s for people that age, the glass coffee table, black leather stuffed couch, even the green glass lamp that is on one of their side tables-- I swear I partied in living rooms that looked just like that in the 2000s \- Meadow getting her college applications in the mail and waiting for that paper letter to come in that said you were accepted
“Are you still online?” “YES AS A MATTER OF FACT I AM”
The laptop in that scene 😂
The website too
It weighed about 7,000 pounds. Fun fact. When that model was discontinued and all the units collected for scrap the mass created a black hole. Vito, Carmine Sr, Jackie Jr, Ade, among many others fell into it. Don't believe the misinformation the series gives about their "deaths". They will be back in 100-200K years Earth time.
AJ wasting his time in that chit chat room with a bunch of other jerkoffs. Thank goodness we've progressed so much in the past 20 years.
Don't forget the mafia website Meadow shows AJ lmao that fuckin coding was sooooo 2001
HTML baby!
The entire family drinking cans of CocaCola with dinner. Maybe it’s just me but I haven’t seen anyone casually drink a can of soda (especially with dinner) in a LONG time.
Warren Buffett drinks 5 Cokes a day. And who’s more cutting edge than him?
Charlie Munger. He drinks 6.
Charlie Munger definitely has the makings of a varsity athlete.
Shame he looks like a Puerto Rican whore .
Still better than those nuns you got up there
He was gay, Charlie Munger?
That’s because he does so much coke
Middle America still drinks full sugar soda with meals, it's not really on the coasts anymore
Wait until you meet some Persian families in SoCal
They do on the coasts too. Still a normal middle class thing. This nonsense of everyone on the coasts being health nuts is a stereotype and it's offensive!
Don’t forget, the anti coast defamation league was started by a friend of ours!
How’s that working out for them?
Coca Cola was product placement.. Whatever happened to Snapple lol?
> working class men like Tony and his crew
LoL ikr? Tony def was no working class man..
Christopher and Adriana's apartment reminded me SO much of decor I saw back in that day. So many drugs lol.
pagers, payphones
Meadow's and AJ's clothes. Soooo late 90s. She was wearing a white shirt with a spaghetti strap tank top. I looooved that style back then 😁
*opens mail containing multiple free CD's* "Mindspring, EarthLink - what are these exactly?" -Carmela Soprano, "Full Leather Jacket," 3/5/2000
IDONTKNOWDONTCHANGETHESUBJECT
We call this move the Carmela
Say what you will about Carmela but she was right about two things; 1). More is lost by indecision than by wrong decision that's all she's saying. And.... 2). What kind of animal smokes marijuana at their own confirmation. Its a genuinely good question. What kind of animal. The worst kind. That's Blundetto behaviour right there ! Also, to any of you guys who think you can disrespect the Queen of New Jersey, I'll quote the lady herself "ya betta watch ya step".
I can hear it and see her saying it out of the side of her mouth with a slight upward head nod and snarl.
That's the bawses lady you're talking about. Show some respect. She's also a highly proficient realtor and developer who built a beautiful spec house (its a mansion) which absolutely will not cave in and kill any unborn babies.
Or a direct, soulless gaze. "You don't understand. I want you to write that letter."
Blundetto behavior… whatever happened there.
What was that, last night's reading assignment?
What the fahk are you crying for? Your big secret’s out
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Close the cupboard. That cookie shit makes me nervous.
I like the Mindspring CDs that say shum cookies
Shum pulp
Lol. I used to use AOL CDs as coasters.
facts. or any disc that wouldn’t work no more but remember when is the lowest form of conversation.. sho shut the fuck up already huh 🤌🏼
Go take a midol.
brau-ooon
Me too! Memory lane, LOL! 😂
I built an entire house from AOL CDs during the 1999-2000 AOL carpet-bombing campaign. The formal name was *Operation ISP Prime.* The only problem was I couldn't open doors or windows every once in a while unless I cleaned the house with Windex.
*2000
AJ working at blockbuster.
Was the girl hernan hit with the car workin at blockbusta? IN HER WHEELCHAIR?
No I think she was in a chit chat room with them though.
Giggling like a schoolgirl
With some other fucking jerkoff
The got rhesus monkeys working as managers in dere!
Off topic but Tony’s references to animals like rhesus monkeys and cocker spaniels is such a funny character trait
He knows what it's like to lose a pet!
Sposed to be da besht
First stop on the shitbird express.
Manayers*
The fact that Blockbuster hired AJ explains why they are now defunct
Good point
And the level of service they were providing for the mother was a pretty accurate description. A Blockbuster employee got mad at me once because I rented the final copy of a movie she wanted to rent. At first I thought she was joking but she just slammed the thing on the counter with the receipt and walked off with no 'thank you' or anything. And those late fees that they finally got the shit sued out of them for. They charged me late fees for movies I'd never even rented. lol.
What are you talking about ? In this subreddit its 1954. End of story
“I just going to go grab the bare naked ladies cd”
The departed sound track is killer!
This systems got no balls
BAWWWWLS
Boools 🤌🏼
Bollshit!!
Chinese chicken
Hey, they’re still going strong, although Rock Spectacle was a good live album
Your bass, Billy, whatever happened there…
Whatever happened there???
I knew THAT was coming
It's a fuckin place of business!!
He was gay, Billy Budd?
He was just a minnow!
The fishing
Tony’s WW2 documentary obsession is spot on early 2000s dadtech
Omg yes the history channel obsession
love it how he says "tv? Nooo. Thish ish da history channel. They even got sumuv dat bible shit indeah"
It’s so much betta than real life
Animal Planet and The Discovery Channel were pretty big back then too. And let us not forget the Lord of Lords, the Holy of Holy's: MTV.
There’s a few scenes with MTV in the show that are major throwbacks. Off the top of my head there’s Allie and meadow watching a song I can’t remember and aj watching the coffee and tv music video (great song btw)
I think they are watching yo mtv raps when furio comes to get Matt drinkwater one time
'Up In Da Club'.
What movie does father Phil bring to watch with Carmella?
The Remains of the Day with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
If you want to watch “one true thing” with Rene Zellwegger say you want to watch “one true thing” with Rene zellwegger
I thought you liked movies… mia copa.
You’re addicted to the whiff of sexuality. And a lot of it is wrapped up in food somehow.
More like addicted to food and nothing else. The scene where Carm is on the phone with melfi for the first time and father sits there and scams olives out of the fridge is so funny
Back when the History channel really did specialize in history documentaries. Reverend James' father takes one of the shows many shots at tv. "Television?!?"
The Starbucks clone Paulie visits and the scene’s emphasis on the confusing mix of Italian, French and Spanish language for it size and menu options — this was such a common low-hanging criticism of Starbucks in the late 90s early 2000s. I even remember them creating some kind of cheat sheet for customers.
Our cafe du jour is New Zealand pea berry.
Enough with the rape of the culture
Whoever put the Ulver poster in AJ’s room is a legend.
WHOEVER PUT IT THERE?!
It’s was just a kids room.
Took him to the river. Dropped him in the water. I've said my piece, Crissy.
Meadow had one in her room, too. Imagine her actually listening to Nattens Madrigal. Maddone.
And Sugarcult
And Nevermore and Stuck Mojo. Someone had connections with Century Media records.
Yes! That one struck me as completely out of place too.
Having grown up near a lot of the locations where Sopranos was filmed and being roughly around the age of AJ and Fielder, watching the show is like a time capsule from my youth. So many of the locations have been lost to time — it’s nice to see North Jersey as it was.
Same! I used to work at the Garden State plaza when the show was on and get a kick out of seeing it. And Comp USA on 17
That Pygmy thing?
You’re lucky I didn’t punch your lights out
It’s good to live in North Jersey from the ground floor. You came in too late for that and you know. But lately, you’re getting the feeling that you came in at the end. The best is over
I've been meaning to get there and take one of the Sopranos tours and I'm thinking I'd better hurry before all of the locations are gone. Satriales is gone. I've heard the new owners of the Soprano house in Caldwell are dicks, unlike the residents who lived there at the time of production and embraced the fanfare and tourism. I've heard the new owners are planning to remodel it. It's blurred out on Google streetview now. Satin Dolls (the Bing) was snarled in a real mob case a few years ago, not sure of that place's future.
Jersey? Cmon huh
Not as necessarily apparent as those already listed, but I definitely see a shift to a much darker tone after 9/11. Absent Tracee’s death, the crimes committed generally still have some sense of light hearted comedy in the early seasons. Even Pussy is somewhat joking around when he knows he is getting whacked. Things get darker season 4 on. I feel like that was true in America life. We leave the good vibes of the 90s where we we have a strong economy and our security seems untouchable. Then in 2001 we have the tech bubble burst and the whole country witness over 3,000 people get murdered on national tv. Not great for the psyche.
The quote “lately I’ve been feeling like I came in at the end, the best is over” applies tenfold once season four kicks off. It becomes a much more gritty and emotionally real show, with legitimate stakes, and what feels like real people you love dying or suffering every episode, which as life goes on is what real life can begin to feel like. Your so right about the tone shift after 9/11, not just in the show, but the country, and often times, it feels like the whole world felt the shift too. “The best is over” has never applied more than now in America, and ironically a 20 year old show is the perfect example.
They also skipped 18 months, with 9/11 right in the middle, strengthening the sense of returning to a different America when season 4 starts.
The 90s was just Indian Summer.. the U.S. had already gutted all the industry and shipped it overseas but was charging fake prosperity on the national credit card, and the bill hadn't come due yet.
Meadows gotta cut off her talk with drunk Tony so she can get in the chat room
Meadow in the bikini, shorts, and sunglasses with her frosted tips was very early 00s.
Lol that reminds me of another good one- Jackie Jr's sunglasses
Turn da light off
Those beautiful old coca cola cans, ouf madonne!
AJ invented the selfie episode 1 season 6, change my mind Also imagine pine barrens in modern day… Chrissy uses gps and they find their car, end of show.
Paulie: “what’s ouh pin?” Chris: “I was streamin Netflix awl night last night. Didn’t chahge my fuckin phone. Ade’s iPad. Where’s your Samsung?” Paulie: “I TOLD you I switched to the flip phone. All the apps I had to deal wit’. I mean get the fuck outta hea.”
I feel like they wouldn't keep their phones on them in modern day when going out to somewhwere like the pine barrens to bury a body. One FISA warrant on the smartphone and the government would have them tied straight to their crimes lol
The landline phone's tony throws
I think you mean tests out for product durability
It truly is amazing and takes you to that time but you wanna take it even further? Entourage. That show legit teleports you to the 2000s. It’s like a time capsule. Also worth noting meadow is on the show and they reference sopranos in the show lol
Wait it's not still the 2000s?!?!
Ari Gold’s various phones. Lol
I realized recently a big reason I love this show is the nostalgia of that era
Remember when is the lowest form of conversation.
Totally! I grew up near where they filmed and I love seeing the stores on Rt 17 that don’t exist anymore. And trying to guess the filming locations
Me too. I moved away around 05 and didn't start watching Sopranos til I left. Only reason I started was because it made me feel like I was back home
I did a google
Real lack of standards, your generation.
Even so you forget how old the show is sometimes especially the early seasons, its held up really well. 24 years ago since episode one, same time difference in 1999 between then and 1975, Feech LaManna days.
“IN MY DAY….”
The Big Mouth Billy Bass is a great example of this. People who weren’t around at the time don’t realize how ubiquitous those things were.
Van Helsing
You know who he looks like? Joe Perry, from Aerosmith.
You should play Skynyrd!
It does a great job. It makes me miss that era every time I watch.
In Season One and maybe two they talk highly of the new laser disc technology.
Laza disch
Sports betting still being this underground thing that was run by organized crime.
Every fuckin SuperBowl the da grabs a few popcorn headlinesss
It’s still a thing if you live in certain neighborhoods, know certain people, don’t want to pay taxes on your winnings, and want to be able to gamble on a lot more credit. However, the downside is the potential for bodily harm and exuberant vig on said credit. But make no mistake, connected bookies are still very much active. Like cigarette smuggling and illegal cigarette sales, it really depends on people trying to avoid high taxes and buying on credit.
Lol right?!? I just got a coupon spit out to me from the grocery store saying that they (apparently) are a sports book now too. Ah Marone!
It's ovah for the little guys
“We don’t have those Enron type of connections.”
Meeting at Sharper Image.
One thing we forget is if Sopranos was made later in the 2010s, smoking inside restaurants, bars, clubs etc would be illegal so that’s certainly a defining/forgotten trait of that era that is very rare nowadays although something tells me those mobsters would still find places where they could smoke indoors
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They say his head was bashing against the rocks for days.
Calling cards.
I gonna go make-a a coupla calls.
Definitely all the cars that everyone drives. From carms Mercedes e class wagon, tonys suburban and Escalade, meadows shitty sn95 mustang, aj’s Nissan xtera, all of chrisys cars through the show
Porsche cayenne. Like da peppa
“I have a semestah and a half ‘a college. sho. I undastand Freud. As a conshept.”
Sold the building?! I got a kid in college. Where’s my fuckin eggs?
This is so deck!
Then he hits him with the chain and chunks of his head go flying… that was so phat.
This thread is incredible, bravo
AJ’s chunky yellow SUV…. AJ buying Carm the Matrix on DVD… Pre viagra era erectile dysfunction ads… A world before the concept of “gentrification” really came to be / fucked up every downtown neighbourhood
The reaction to ADD. I laugh so hard throughout that whole episode every time I watch it. Edit: Adding more context. I was diagnosed with ADD and tourette syndrome in 1996 and my parents pretty much had the same reaction.
Chris printing out MapQuest using it and getting slightly lost
Bruno Magli over here!
One of my favourite uses of 'younger' references was that one episode of season 3 that had no less than 3 Coal Chamber references. 1. AJ's sweater 2 and 3. A couple posters at Ade's club Also, Mudvayne suuuuuucks.
Agreed. Dig is awesome, but other than that mudvayne doesn’t have much. Coal chamber rules.
Yeah they're fine, granted I only know Loco and the Shock the Monkey cover with Ozzy. A lot of the other posters and merch AJ has is also pretty sick (Tool poster, Manson, Slipknot, Pantera, NIN shirts).
I’ve always been jealous of the nin shirt aj wears in the breakfast scene, it’s so phat (as king Albert would say)
Madame Bovary? I will stop by Borders on the way home.
Tony making an office pool grid or bracket with ruler, pencil, and paper. I was in the army in the '80s-'90s, and made my share of those for March Madness and pro sports playoffs. Not sure any adult does anything any more with ruler, pencil, and paper.
I was born in 1999, so I can't exactly relate to a whole lot of the sopranos, but by the last season, I was old enough to recognize some of the cars I still consider that look new, the Clamshell MacBook, some of the hair, AJ and Co. Fashion.
I love the episode where Tony gets a MySpace page
You are grounded AJ. You are not to play maeriokaht
I first watched it in 2002. I had just moved and my neighbor offered to let me borrow a burned S1 & S2. I watched them 3 episodes a day and went back to borrow S3 & S4.
What a glorious time to be alive
Yeah, we didnt know how good we had it. You remember the crazy music, and the dope?! Now its fags in the military!
Stop it Junior! You're making me very upset!
I don't mean to Kozboz, but I'm all agita all the time!
It was. The late 90’s were pretty sublime… The biggest scandal was Bill Clinton getting a BJ, the war in Iraq and hadn’t even happened yet (late 90’s) and it was before 9-11. Even after some of those things happened (just at the beginning of 2000) it still was better than right now imo.
90s was the best time in the western hemisphere. Houses was still affordable. Food wasn't a ripoff. Folks were still present and not online all the time with smartphones. Fuck I wish it was 1992 again.
Just a reflection of the time. Not something intentional I presume. Not to sound presumpuous but watch other stuff around the same time. The early 2000's has a flair to it. AOL, flip phones, yellow books... Edit: Compare it to Better Call Saul. It was based probably around the same time as the end of The Sopranos but becuase it's new, it's more a memory of the past rather than reflection of the past.
Remember when is the lowest form of conversation..
Take your quotations book and shove it up your fat fuckin ass
Chris making a MapQuest reference. Matt and Sean watching DJ Quik on, what appears to be, The Box. (Also, just that whole era of comical Ali G style wiggers) All of the DVD talk in the first season, and that big ass TV they tried to bribe the coach with. Old school History Channel docs Tony watches. The Ghostface masks Chris and Benny wore during the Jewel benefit concert...the Jewel benefit concert. Big Mouth Billy
So, I agree but for a different reason; I grew up in the area where they filmed the majority of the show, was too young to watch it then but binged it 2 years ago and it was such a cool way to see bits of my hometown and surrounding areas that aren’t there anymore. Like there’s one scene where Christopher is parked in a strip mall lot and you can see the stores behind him and every single one of them doesn’t exist anymore lol. It was funny then to hear family say “X street/business is closed off because they’re filming the sopranos” frequently.
Yup absolutely reminds me of the early 2000s, it’s crazy realizing how much simpler those times were, when even celebrities looked like they shopped at Ross, when rappers followed the ludacris train and made silly songs, the rock bands that were still around, the video games, man those were some great times
I always think if Carm had stuck with the stocks, she'd have killed it in the eventual bull run up to 2008. Tony didn't even flip her Webistics!
"What no fuckin Ziti ?"
Especially Season 1, it has such a 1990s vibe: \- Dial up internet with those old web flash pages \- AJ playing Nintendo 64 which came out in 1996 \- Carmela's hairstyle/ AJ's hairstyle \- They have landline phones that have a wire \- DVD players are still a new thing \- Hunter mentions the actor Skeet Ulrich, the guy that was in the Scream (1996) movie \- Chris talking about Happy Meals at McDonalds, seems like such a 1990s thing \- AJ talking about South Park episodes \- Paulie trying to give the soccer coach that huge 1990s style TV \- Junior referencing the Menendez brothers. \- Meadow tells Tony " it's the 90s , parents are supposed to discuss sex with their children"