Just when I thought I was out, he pulls me back in

@ericsilver9401

6 ай бұрын

Our true enemy has yet to reveal himself

@BennyFazioRoxxSoxx8448

6 ай бұрын

My penis: Just when I thought I was In , he pulls me back OUT

@TrippyShasta

6 ай бұрын

pasta fazool i am a fool

@ciennaisntepic

6 ай бұрын

Best comment

@hollowheaded9319

6 ай бұрын

I absolutely love that iconic line from Vito's doctor.

Vito was promoted from bakery customer to captain, not bad

@Rick_Cleland

Ай бұрын

*_Aardvark's spade-like claws allow them to dig_* *_through termite mounds to feast on the insects within._* *_Aardvark's can eat up to around 50,000 termites in one night._*

@cyberpower2409

28 күн бұрын

Man I thought I was the only one who saw Chris telling to take a walk, and he wasn't even made yet

@erics362

13 күн бұрын

Captain of the good ship lollipop 🍭.

@or34ghat

10 күн бұрын

He even spent some time working as a parade float

@erics362

10 күн бұрын

@@or34ghat I'm a captain now. You don't talk to me like that.

You forgot Noah Tannenbaum. Whenever Tony needs someone's fucking lights punched out, he calls the hasidic homeboy to get the job done.

@shawnbrodrick8673

6 ай бұрын

Charcoal briquette

@kev3d

6 ай бұрын

@@ANIMATIONWEB3 And probably nailed the manic depressive roommate too. Dude's a player.

@jordanharris868

6 ай бұрын

Jamal Ginsberg

@robertlee4172

6 ай бұрын

Uncle Benz. That moulli.

@maxijgo23

Ай бұрын

Hasidim but I don't believe em

How many times I gotta tell you? They're a GLORIFIED CREW!

@juser-abuser

6 ай бұрын

Glory hole crew Sopranos

@robertlee4172

6 ай бұрын

On principal alone, because they shared Zellman, they're not about to relinquish their position.

@srb2591

6 ай бұрын

Let me tell you a couple of three things

@yangwangbrock

3 ай бұрын

Jersey, come on huh

@Cartwheel_69

3 ай бұрын

Just some pygmy thing out in Jersey

Chris should've taken those Pokemon cards and then ran away with Adriana. They'd be doin alright.

@BookshelfQBattler

6 ай бұрын

“Listen T I gotta run to Hollywood to run my memoirs I just pulled a rare million dollar charizard and sold it on eBay “

@lukazupie7220

5 ай бұрын

@@BookshelfQBattler😂😂

How could you forget our favorite punching bag, Georgie?

@nunya7736

6 ай бұрын

Seconded, he wasn't just getting abused at the Bing. He helped Christuhfuh dig up Emil Kolar's body.

@Dominicanpython69

6 ай бұрын

The ice waters down the drinks

@robertlee4172

6 ай бұрын

That's why you gotta live for today.

@shaggysnax01

5 ай бұрын

Georgie brings toys to work, and yet Tony pays him a fuckin' salary. How much betrayal can he take?

@threegenders201

5 ай бұрын

​@@shaggysnax01they were sellin 'em!

Bobby's position in the family was always kinda weird, though I'm assuming that has more to do with Tony and Junior's arrangement. Junior was still technically the boss, but couldn't directly oversee his operations, so they made Bobby a sorta Capo of his crew. However, since Tony was the real boss, and Junior's crew was only made up of a few old men, Bobby wasn't technically a captain of anything. There's also the fact that the writers very likely forgot, and they themselves didn't really keep track of the family politics.

@NRV0

6 ай бұрын

Regardless of Bobby position he ended up number 2 in the seat of power. From driver to underboss he made out well for himself. Such a shame he didn't make it to the end.

@SuperCosty2010

6 ай бұрын

@@NRV0 well Bobby was killed BECAUSE he has got Tony's number 2, first of all because he's his in-law. Otherwise New Yorkers wouldn't bother whacking him. So, it doesn't count as "well" by my estimate 🤣

@kev3d

6 ай бұрын

He was consiglieri over the Donut cartel.

@NRV0

6 ай бұрын

@@SuperCosty2010 Ok? He knew what the mob life was about and he knew he was either going to end up in prison or dead. He unfortunately ended up dead but he got to have a seat near the pinnacle of mob power before he left. The fact New York saw him as "Upper Management" should be an honor, I guess.

@Adski975

6 ай бұрын

There's actually a scene in season 2 or 3 where he gets promoted to capo of Junior's crew because Murf Lupo is getting senile.

The humor wouldn’t have worked if it was too realistic. Thats the beauty of the show, especially when rewatching, is realizing how lighthearted the show takes itself despite how dark it is.

@TheWritter-qo9ty

6 ай бұрын

The show doesn't tries to be realistic its just has the characters that in their shoes would be realistic

@alfagamaa

6 ай бұрын

Gomorra is dark the side of italian mafia

I think you forgot to mention Vito taking over as captain after Ralph

@anthonyc1629

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, the captain of The Goodship Lollipop.

@glamourassassins

6 ай бұрын

Yeah and then both Carlo and (in the final episode) Paulie also running that crew

@thesupervisor3270

5 ай бұрын

@@glamourassassinsCarlo didn’t take over that crew he took over Jimmy crew. Carlo took over the construction after Vito turned 🏳️‍🌈

Finally, a video I can actually use. Not one of these “Why the Tony’s favorite strippers nail polish color predicts what really happens on the cut to black.”

Matt and Sean... they were such brilliant young men of great potential

@robertlee4172

6 ай бұрын

Drinkwater, homie to that camel fock.

@CevicheGato

6 ай бұрын

Stupidity and trying to please Richie Aprile with attempting a hit on Christopher moltisanti created their demise

@johnclay2716

6 ай бұрын

Sean honestly had some potential, he was just a follower instead of a leader and his leader was Drinkwater which led to his doom

@robertlee4172

6 ай бұрын

@@CevicheGato Jackie jr. pulled that same shit, hoping to earn his button. In the end he got the same as Drinkwater.

@wonderfulfebruary

3 ай бұрын

yeah it's sad when they go young like that

You forgot to mention Gino, the associate that runs the bakery.

@93_Gato

6 ай бұрын

I like to call him Gino Spatafore

@mz-pt3qp

6 ай бұрын

@@93_Gato Spatafore? You mean the captain of the good ship lollipop?

@marcprimo1471

6 ай бұрын

Gino was a bakery customer, he didn’t run it. That privilege belongs to the guy Chris shot in the foot.

@mz-pt3qp

6 ай бұрын

@@marcprimo1471 They're all meat eaters!

@HOTD108_

6 ай бұрын

​@@marcprimo1471It happens.

Don’t forget Angie Dickinson as Junior’s would-be goomar

@J_S209

6 ай бұрын

Or Gloria’s G String, true star of the whole show.

@BookshelfQBattler

6 ай бұрын

Paulie wanted to eff Dale Evans. Chrissy wanted to go to Roy Rogers. So many missed opportunities.

I think I said on another video, but the DiMeo crime family is probably about 50 made guys at any given time and about 100-200 associates. That's about ~5 crews of 10 made men, each who has a few associates under them. We see lots of these peripheral characters but never learn who or what their position is. In the first season, for example, there's that tall bodyguard with Junior when he's telling Tony "how many hours did I spend playing catch with you?!", and then the two younger guys standing guard for him at the diner when Tony comes to visit him, not to mention the 3-4 older guys around him he's talking to. That's about 5 made men and 3 associates right there. The series is replete with characters like this, so I think about 50 made men and 100-200 associates is relatively accurate, with us only getting to spend any real time with Tony and his inner circle.

@amygomez6266

6 ай бұрын

😂❤ 😊o❤

@Ma-bz9ec

3 ай бұрын

Yeah but Tony/Paulies crew consists of maybe 15+ soldiers but it was always said that Larrys was the biggest, so that would mean around 20 and maybe even more which would indicate that there maybe are more that 50 made guys. In the soprano wiki fandom it says that there are around 90 made guys which might be a strech but i would put it in the middle and say 60-70 made men.

The wiki also mentions a "Nicholas Spagnelli". A character who is listed as a soldier of the Barese crew that appears in Season 6 Episode 3 "Mayhem".

Our true enemy has yet to reveal himself 😂😂

The show is really written like we're actually observing a very particular person (Tony) in certain situations during a certain period of their life with a few peeps in at a handful of the more important people that surround that person. We see and hear what we do and the left is left largely unknown as it would be if we were just hanging out with T or his friends and associates during these scenes. We don't have all the info. We don't even actually know for sure how many captains there were at the beginning of the show, the end, or any time in between. Characters appear to us outta the blue while clearly being known to the other characters and disappear all the same. We see next to nothing of any crew past some leadership and the ones Tony is social with or has direct business with. There's a lot unseen, we can only put together part of the picture. And it's better that way imo. We know the whole "glorified crew" bs was just talk cause NY was always careful not to come to blows with Jersey cause Jersey controlled a lotta cash flow and was capable of a lotta violence cause they had international connections and allies. It took Phil getting off the leash and becoming emotional and irrational to go past sanctions and it got him nothing positive at all. I think it's great that we only see the parts we actually need to and the rest is just whatever it is, it's not important to the story.

@oscarfabian8074

6 ай бұрын

I couldn't agree more, if you look at the real life counterpart of the Italian New Jersey organize crime groups they're very much real gangs with similar structures and personnel as their more infamous cousins in New York. The reality is that there is a lot more associates than there are made members. So it wouldn't be surprising that the guys that we mostly see in the show are only the high ranking members that are around Tony and that all the peripheral people wouldn't get screen time as characters because the layers of insulation that the boss should have.

@_zigger_

6 ай бұрын

Peeps?

@gorillachronicles

6 ай бұрын

That's how the real mafia worked really, not every soldier and affiliate ever had any contact with the bosses and so forth, lots of people involved never making actual contact

@licmir3663

6 ай бұрын

The first season is very clear on how many crews and captains were there. The only difference is that after the introduction of Richie Aprile in season 2, they retroactively added a Aprile crew (which didn’t exist in season 1).

You mean , "Animal Blundetto"

@petemcintire4339

2 ай бұрын

I can't bring myself to mention his shinebox. I mean his name.

I've gone this long in life living in Baltimore and never knew that The Goose was in the Sopranos!! Lmao. RIP Tony Siragusa

It was just a glorified crew.

I can tell you a couple of three things about them: One, more than just one was a fanook, catching, not pitching. This I seen with my own eyes. Two, a few more were going south of the border, more than occasionally. And three, it was well known that Tony Soprano was seeing a shrink, and tried to kill his own muddah. Ralph Cifaretto, whatever happened there, I don't know.

@danieljohnson2005

6 ай бұрын

Whatever happened there?!?!

@e195087

6 ай бұрын

@@danieljohnson2005You know, the whoowah?

@markrobinson9956

Ай бұрын

It's a shame when they go like that.

That's great and all, but you're missing the most important member of the family: THE GABAGOOL

Albert & Larry Barese are cousins, not brothers

@gregorylattimore7903

4 ай бұрын

Uncle

@wonderfulfebruary

3 ай бұрын

Cousins, not brothers

Sunshine, never should have messed with Jackie Jr's lethal crew of killers!

You forgot Rocco Dimeo and Thaaaa Jacket. He was toughest guy in Essex county.

@billymabum3514

5 ай бұрын

Which makes no sense since the family was called dimeo

@wonderfulfebruary

3 ай бұрын

Rocco Dimeo, whatever happened there

Missed Eugene getting made

Jackie Jr. starts as an associate/hanger on in Season 2 under Richie.

New Jersey, a family?, cmon huh?

Great Job Kino, your information on the Soprano Family was very well detailed👍

Great job, as usual, Kino. This answered a lot of questions that I have always had.👍🏾

Great video, thank you for doing all the research and finding clips

Well done!! Thanks for all the hard work!!🔥

The Sopranos wiki forgot only one guy: Corky DiGioia. He's important too (associate/soldier), albeit the wiki doesn't have a page about him.

@elmizzox

6 ай бұрын

I saw he had a page

@user-uv1qv5vz7k

6 ай бұрын

@@elmizzox where? Give me a link.

@elmizzox

6 ай бұрын

@@user-uv1qv5vz7k I was incorrect, I thought you were refering to Corky Caporale

Woke up this morning, with a Kino vid in your eye!

Sopranos Crime Family? How many times I gotta say it, THEY'RE A GLORIFIED CREW!!!

Thanks PK! you no doubt did a buttload of research on this, i like what youve done here!!

idk if it counts but you "missed" Zellman. Someone's out of the loop with Paulie...

@BookshelfQBattler

6 ай бұрын

He’s more like a piece of property that they own like the bing or satriales or a New Jersey state senator

Very good video. Get this man a soft drink of choice.

Thanksgiving week brought me a new Kino vid!!! Thanks kino! Now to watch He is Risen

I love your videos. I never can wait for the next one. Thanks for your work

Awesome video Kino!!!

You forgot Gino from the first season. Vito Spatafore's twin brother 🤣

Kino has the makings of a varsity athlete

Benny Fazio is the current Sopranos acting boss

@airmackeeee6792

6 ай бұрын

He is a criminal mastermind.

@NateBullock-ow6on

6 ай бұрын

Paulie is boss patsy is consiglre Benny is the underboss 🤟

@skeemininnem

6 ай бұрын

@@NateBullock-ow6on bro it’s been 20 years Paulie walnuts nut was cracked

Me: “Hey Chrissy…did Pure Kino stop making Sopranos videos?” Chrissy: “HE DID-DENT! 🥴”

I swear hearing these last names is like scrolling through my family tree...I'm a lucarelli..in my family there's also Russo, Iazetta, Bonavita, Tucci

Hell yes been waiting for this

I just started watching your videos 2 days ago and love them! keep up the great work!

Tony just never had the makings of Varsity athlete.

Enjoyed this very much.

Walden was played by an actor who went on to fame with Band of Brothers 😮

This one is ace, great work Sir. ☘️👍

It made sense that guys appear out of the blue several times. The point of the maffia is insulation. It is totally logical for a boss like Tony to have guys working for him he hasn´t speak directly to in years. When a guy gets promoted, or someone who got killed have to be reeplaced, they get closer to the don

Pretty good, nice work!

You forgot Georgie's position as Tony's punching bag.

Thank u for this

Comprehensive rundown brother. You covered them all. Maybe more of the actor's names would have added to the content. 🎉

Well done my friend well done

When I see the tittle and I think: "Didn't this guy analyze this f family in other 3456 videos already?" And then I automatically think: "Who tf cares, Im gonna watch it anyways"

@frniuu2061

6 ай бұрын

true 😂

You make such a great point about them introducing characters just out of the freaking blue. The episode where Hesh gets mad at the Cuban friend in the stables? Ralphie breaks it up saying you guys have been friends for ages! We're watching like yeah, really? Who is this guy??

@LordTalax

6 ай бұрын

Not time to show every friend of every character on camera.

@MatthewHollins-ys3lm

6 ай бұрын

That was nice of Ralphie to be a peacemaker, to think people think he's the Devil

@joshuahoover6841

6 ай бұрын

@@MatthewHollins-ys3lm I wholeheartedly agree with that! I remember at the time thing wow Ralph is actually being level-headed, calm and trying to settle a situation.

@SuperCosty2010

6 ай бұрын

The show doesn't really need to introduce all of Hesh's friends to you, it's not its point

@joshuahoover6841

6 ай бұрын

@@SuperCosty2010 no, but the show definitely made a point of randomly introducing people and acting like we should know they've been there the whole time. The Cuban guy is just one example.

Great video! Would you consider going further back to many saints of Newark to expand the crime family tree?

I don’t know if this is relevant or not but the coroner found traces of diet soda on the corpse of Matthew Bevilaqua.

@FedkaSlovanich

6 ай бұрын

that sugerless motherfucker was the last drink he had (allegedly from stomach contents)

@MrAmsterdawg

6 ай бұрын

Matthew Drinksoda

This is harder than the New York State bar exam.

WELL DONE!!

I think you're right that is pretty much impossible to chronicle every single character that's associated with them since they have so many if you include like the garbage guy and there are many doctors that they work with and also threaten. Do you want to count every single politician that they threaten are like the Russians that they work with or the hitmen they hire? It's hard just a stick to the made guys since there are so many background characters who could be or not

I’m pondering the connection of all the women in Tony’s life whose name ends with letter A. Carmella, Irina, Valentina, Julianna, and to some extent Adriana

@Sernival

6 ай бұрын

Maybe because of the first one. Livia.

@mikevm6830

6 ай бұрын

You forgot the best one. Gloria

@lpr5269

5 ай бұрын

I never thought of that. Wow. Carmela, Irina, Valentina, Julianna, Adriana(almost hooked up with her), Gloria, Svetlana, and Sonya(the girl from Vegas).

@Bakstrp

5 ай бұрын

@@Sernivalyes. Thats where my mind went too

You missed an associate of richie aprile's crew that went by "donnie" He is only in a few episodes because He got fired inmediately after he called the actor that plays joey peeps a f@g, because he awkwardly complimented him on his looks and compared him to a hollywood star. If you’re wondering who he is,he is in multiple scenes in the construction site during the "no-work" jobs. He is also in a scene where johnny sacks beats him up in a bar and pees on him. You find that scene by typing "jonnhy sack attacks"

@Sernival

6 ай бұрын

Donnie should've just said he was still in-character

@khangaridj3892

5 ай бұрын

​@Sernival is he not mentioned at 6:06 ?

@MySalsaSalsa

5 ай бұрын

I didn't know that. How'd you stumble on to the information (the name calling)

@heroedeleyenda05

5 ай бұрын

@@MySalsaSalsa on the "Talking Sopranos" Podcast , the actor that plays joey peeps told the story. He didnt mention any names but he gave enough clues 1) it was an actor that didnt have many episodes 2) they had a scene together 3) the actor was cut off shortly after their scene 4) it was close to joey peeps introduction as a character. 5) it was an actor in new jerseys family but one that no one remembers. Im sure you can find the episode of the podcast on KZread, i would only recommend listening to it to confirm the story, other than that, i dont recommend listening to it. The guy wasnt too good of a talker. Even whenhe told the story which should make for an interesting anecdote, the hosts werent too interested in it.

@thesupervisor3270

5 ай бұрын

Damn I didn’t even know this. Thanks

You forgot the parade float crew headed by Vito

12:32 lmaoo he was in 2 fast 2 Furious driving the Yanko Camaro😂

Yeah, i have a few. More about Jackie Aprille sr. Who was Mikeys and chuckies crew when Mike was junior's right-hand? They mentioned that dude throughout the entire series despite him dying at the ending of season one. And those creepy old hitmen the blind one and his crew when they we're thinking of hitting johnny sack. Also, not to mention that entire other family they did business with back in Italy.

@gregorylattimore7903

4 ай бұрын

Phily Parisi was the captain once junior became the "boss"

I never knew Vito was a Nephew of the Aprile’s

I thought I was gonna stop watching these videos 😂

kino your the best sopranostuber❤

Can you do a couple videos looking into what could have happened to the Bonpenseiros and the Scatinos? They were characters in s2 whose stories were never truly resolved and it always has bothered me

Good job.

Seeing Paul drinking Ramlösa sparkling water right at the end, watching this from close to Helsingborg. I didn't even know that was exported.

You did not mention Vito's rise to Captain. He took over the Aprile crew.

I think there is a way to clear up some of the ambiguous standings of certain characters. There are two different types of associates: family, and business. Family associates are (typically) young guys being recruited into the actual mafia. Before they’re made guys, they’re the entry level men doing jobs for capos. Brandon, Sean/Matt, Benny/Little Paulie, etc. Their “career path” is strictly within the family, thus family associates. Georgie and Murmur are interesting cases. They probably don’t have career aspirations of being made men (if they even can be), but they’re low level criminal associates that work for the higher up guys, thus, family associates. Then, there are business associates. Those who deal with the crew/crews and are valuable allies/sources of income, but would never be “IN” the mafia themselves. Whether they’re politicians (Zellman), the ministers that help with the HUD scams, Masserone and Barone with construction and garbage respectively, and many more, these are the people who are not in the mafia, but otherwise work in conjunction to profit themselves along with the mob. Dick Barone or Reverend James Jr. would never be made men, and would absolutely never consider themselves mobsters, but simply that they have mutually beneficial business dealings with the Soprano family. Finally, there is a third category which I would consider “victim”. This is reserved for the people who are *kind of* family associates, but their dealings are that they’re being taken advantage of. Davey Scatino got himself in deep shit with gambling, so he’s a victim of the bust out. JT Dolan is a victim of Christopher’s. Beansie, while he was a former full blown associate in the past, went legit but was victimized by Richie. Even Old Man Satriale “lost” his business because of his gambling debts to Johnny Boy. These aren’t associates, because the money they’re “giving” to the mafia is being taken. They’re victims, plain and simple. Thus, you have a broad picture of how the mafia operates. You have the boss, and his consigliere and underboss. Under them, capos who manage made men, and all the low level associates. Most mafioso that are made and above will have dealings with the latter two types of people: business associates that they partner and ally with to generate revenue in a mutually beneficial manner, and victims. That’s where the money comes from. Shit rolls downhill, money flows up, since time immemorial.

Dante was the best background character, he reminded me of The Kingpin lol

Dang, Kino. PF well done.

The best criteria to distinguish between people that the mobsters just know, and associates, is that associates help and participate in crime activities

You left out the Gabagool Crew

Benny is in Chris crew..this is confirmed on the episode luxury lounge

Maybe i didnt see , but where is little Pauli?)

Murmurs was is big addition

Great job very allegorical

The guy whos just a backround character in pax soprana made me laugh

Finally, a video about my favorite glorified crew.

Id like to note that there wasnt a single varsity athlete in that family

Richie didn't take over Jackie's crew he got his crew back

I'd love for you to do some content on mob related films such as the godfather 1 and 2 or goodfellas etc

Waiting on that video of the watches of the sopranos. Specially tonys rolex

Our friend "The KZreadr" has uploaded

12:03 that look Tony made, he just couldn't believe a man at Bobby's age wasn't a captain

Forget Artie Bucco's crew. His earring is the biggest earner for the family.

PK, how r u ? Can u do a review on Perry Mason? I watch him on a regular and would like an analysis on him and his practice

I can see Waldon taking out paulie after the cut to black

I always thought when Tony became boss he made Paulie his underboss.

@joemckim1183

6 ай бұрын

Paulie was Underboss for awhile but I think eventually got demoted down to Capo

@Jayman2121

6 ай бұрын

I agree. I just always thought early on when Tony told him your getting a bump and it’s Tony then Sil and Paulie in the pecking order that meant Paulie for that time was the underboss and Sil was consigliere. Obviously as the show progressed and Paulie and Tony’s relationship became turbulent he was demoted but it was never directly mentioned to my recollection.

I think Bobby was made Acting Captain while Junior was institutionalised, and Janice was complaining that he wasn't given the actual title since Junior was clearly never coming back.

When people start asking AJ for favors from his dad, that also makes him an associate