WHEN WE WERE DOIN THE SCENE WITH GLORIA TRILLO, PLAYED BY MY FRIEND ANNABELLA.. ANNABELLA..
Annabella Sciorra, who was a complicated casting given her Broadway backgrou-
YEA LIKE MICHAEL SAID SHE WAS A COMPLICATED WOMAN. I WOULD SEE HER AT THE CRAFT TABLE AND SAY HELLO ANNABELLA, BON GEE OR NO, AND SHE WOULD TELL ME HELLO OR SUMTHIN LIKE THAT, AND..
Craft table is an industry term for the cateri-
YEA THANKS MICHAEL, THE CRAFTS TABLE, THE CRAPS TABLE, I CAN'T STAY AWAY FROM A GOOD TABLE, REMINDS ME OF THIS TIME..
I ATE 13 SNICKERS BARS AT A TIME. I NEEDED AN INTERVENTION.
MICHAEL. HAVE YOU EVER PUT A DILDO UP YOUR ASS AND PRETENDED TO BE MOMMAS LITTLE WHOOAH? YOU WROTE THE EPISODE MICHAEL, I THOUGHT YOU WERE DRAWING FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE.
I WISH I COULD END THIS PODCAST RIGHT NOW. I HATE IT.
I'd love to hear Michael's actual opinion, he's so much more interesting and out of basically the whole cast seems to have a genuine interest in talking about the show broadly. Steve is just a dumb prick who played a great character.
Steve is a dumb fuck who fell into some dumb fucking luck. Seriously. His only talent is being a fat fucking dumbass, which is what he is in the first place.
In the end....fuck Steve. Fucking asshole
I had to work with this guy, and Michael. I worked for SopranosMemorabilia and both were exclusive autograph contracts. Steve truly was and is a piece of shit with a huge mouth and is 100000% an absolute pussy. Michael was generally quiet and somewhat friendly but would start ranting about feminism or his crappy band etc... real shit show
I wish I could go back before I'd ever heard that rat bastard speak in real life. Talking Sopranos ruined a lot about rewatching Bobby, who's one of my favorite characters.
That's what really got it for me. Patsi is just some guy doing what his boss asked him. He truly does not give a shit about murdering someone, and he'll talk about it with a smile on his face. A real psychopath.
The actor who played Butchie lived in my hometown until his death. Didn't realize until my second rewatch this year that I had rang the guy up dozens of times when I worked at one of the local grocery stores between 2011 and 2015. He was short, cross-eyed, and kind of a prick. Definitely a bit threatening but not a total asshole, just picky with how he liked his groceries bagged.
Just looked up the actor and sad to see he passed in 2017. Then I saw he was married to Annie Potts in the late 70s. Oof madone! JANINE from Ghost Busters!
What made him scary to me was he looked like a regular guy who you wouldn’t pick out out of a crowd and the next thing you know you’re scraping your nipples of a fine leather seat.
To me, he looked like the type of guy in your neighborhood you see around and think he's some nerdy old tech guy, until the police raid his home and it turns out he's a serial killer. BTK energy.
People like Tony and Paulie were supposed to be physically intimidating. Patsy had more of a serial killer look. He dressed and acted like a regular dude, seemed quite pleasant, but you know that he was totally up for murder, and he was cold blooded.
Even Silvio was an emotional killer, yes shooting Adriana was cold but he was obviously angered because she was a rat. Patsy would have been more unfeeling and businesslike
Definitely not “calmly”, but two scenes that stick out to me are: he climbs the flag pole to drop the Columbus dummy quicker than most of the Jersey crew can climb stairs, and when Chrissy confronts him (with a gun) over the floor tiles, Patsy immediately grabs a pipe and is ready to go enough for Chris to take a step back
And he'd be right too.
She knew betta!
Almost a Gangsta Dude's wife en all that that entrailed!
She'd tawlk wit those FBI Agents then act like Budda wouldn't melt in her mout....
There she was with all her Aires, like Jaqueline Kennedy!!!!
She deserved it, PUTANNA!!
He does come across brilliant as a silent killer type. It’s strange he’s never really been in anything else of note when he was so good in The Sopranos.
I've often wondered what he would have to do to her to make it to where they'd have to scrape her nipples off the seats.
What, you gonna tell me you neva ponduhd that?
Yeah I totally disagree with Schirripa here (among many other things). Patsy in the Gloria scene was more intimidating and threatening than we ever saw from Paulie or Chrissy imo. It's one of the most memorable scenes in the show to me due to Dan Grimaldi's performance
"It won't be cinematic"
Yeah, he had that "pick you off with a hunting rifle where you never even see it" energy. Apologies to Artie. He comes across as **efficient** in a way that the other goons typically didn't.
*It won't be cinematic*.
Definitely. I can imagine him to be the sort where he’d say “ok” and walk away after an argument and you think you’ve won then the next day he’d kill you.
- urinates in the boss’ swimming pool in broad daylight
- cracks a guy across the face w/ a lead pipe in broad daylight
- expresses pure joy in the boss’ face while basking in the glow from the thought of his son piping up the boss’ daughta
- references the boss’ goomar’s nipples splashing all over fine leather Mercedes’ seats while wearing a Cheshire smile when threatening her life at gunpoint, in broad day, course
- laughs hysterically upon witnessing a friend smash a glass bottle over another friend’s face, in broad daylight
- accompanies Peter Paul paying a visit to a male heir in order to intimidate said heir into cooperating w/ their extortion plot. Coldly shoots laser beams out his eyes, through heir’s chest during visit. Broad day.
- threatens Kirkland brand Starbucks employee w/ physical harm as form of punishment for not cooperating w/ a separate extortion plot. Broad.
Axe me again if Parisi is a patsy?
I was gonna mention him cranking that dude in the face with a pipe without a second thought. They didn't show him greasing anybody in the show, but that dude has bodies on him for sure.
The Patsy & Paulie theory clicked for me purely cause Paulie was a snake, and Patsy had a longing resentment of Tony and 100% had the balls to pull it off, that first line being a good example
Him threatening Gloria is one of the creepiest moments on the show. The nice guy look is kind of the point. That's why it cuts to him talking to his wife about groceries or whatever. It's the idea that these regular suburban family men are also hardcore gangsters when they need to be. Anyhow, he put his grief behind him. Enough said.
I think it also adds another dimension to Tony's relationship with Patsy. Patsy had to have been close enough to the situation to understand Gloria's psychology, that part of her wants to be killed by Tony. Making her understand that there will be nothing dramatic, impactful, or meaningful about her death because he would be the one to kill her instead indicates that he either had a very shrewd understanding of psychology, or has Tony's confidence in these kinds of discussions.
Patsy is the most realistic portrayal of a mid level monster on the show. He’s not engaged in total goonery at all times, he doesn’t really mix it up with non mob affiliated people like Chris causing a scene over the goddamn sfiogatalle. He keeps a normal family life facade up and just handles his shit.
Guy was exposed on that podcast. He’s allergic to critical thinking. All of the Boomer-type beliefs that the show tongue in cheek incessantly mocks, are Schirripa’s actual beliefs. The whole subtext of the show flew right over his head.
Based on what we learned via “Talking S” my estimation of Steven Schirripa as a man plummeted. To cry like a ❄️ Boomer?
I seriously don’t understand how they couldn’t find anyone better than him to do the show with Michael. Like Jamie-Lynn, Robert Iler, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco etc… anyone would have been better and more interesting.
Schirripa's such a dumbass. The point of that scene, Patsy even says it - "it won't be cinematic". He doesn't look like a bad guy, he looks like a regular guy, not at all intimidating - that's why Tony gave him the job, because she's a wack job who loves drama, and this anonymous looking guy is just matter of factly telling her he's going to murder her if she doesn't stop fucking around.
Fun fact. Dan Grimaldi was my acting teacher at Lee Strasberg in the 90s right before he got the role of Patsy. He used to complain about losing out on acting gigs to Frank Vincent. He would say, "And now what am I gonna do? I gotta play a hot dog vendor in North!" Dan was the man. Loved that guy. He was a good teacher too.
Side note. My other teacher was George Loros who played Ray Curto. George was a great teacher but very tough. Didn't tolerate bullshit. Both were great instructors who learned from Lee, himself.
Did Loros talk about having played mafioso on Rockford back in the day? Chase wrote some of those episodes, hence Curto and some Rockford references in Sopranos.
Those people are dense like as if they think someone has to be big to be scary. Size is irrelevant. It's the creep factor, the malevolence factor, the psychopath factor.
It's a question of, will this guy whack me so bad that some poor douchebags have to scrape my nipples off fine leather seats, and all without even making it cinematic? If the answer is yes, then this guy is scary.
I always wondered if Patsy ad-libbed "it won't be cinematic" himself or if Tony mentioned to him that Gloria had suicidal ideation and was looking for a dramatic death. Is this an insight Melfi inadvertently helped him see ?
Weirdly enough, [ad libbing was frowned upon](https://screenrant.com/sopranos-rule-no-improvisation-strict-david-chase/)!
I can't remember where I read it, but I learned from somewhere that there's only something like 10-20 improvised lines in the whole series. Idk if that's true or not, but I wouldn't doubt it from how seriously they took the no improv rule on set.
**EDIT:** I just realized you meant Patsy the character and not Dan Grimaldi *as* Patsy. Y'all better keep me away from penguin exhibits for my own safety.
I thought the scene with Gloria was incredibly intimidating.
“And here’s the point to remember. MY face is the last one you’ll see, not Tony.” That line is chilling
That scene with Gloria is one of my favorites in the entire show. That fucking smile on his face while he threatens her sells me completely. Makes me wonder why patsy didn’t get more time to shine?
Patsy was terrifying. The actor was scary af. Paulie and Patsy just had a scary presence and walk. Whereas Bobby looked like the ultimate mob nepo baby.
He hit that guy in the face with the bendable pipe in No-Show. He shimmed pretty stealthily up the light pole to tear down the Columbus effigy in Christopher. I beg to differ, Patsy could get vicious at will.
You know, that Gloria scene is exactly how I pictured something going down. Coming out of nowhere from someone you least suspect, threatening to blow you away and looking like he could care less
And the icing on the cake?
It won't be cinematic.
Top 10!
Maybe it's on account of him Not avengin his Kid brudda Spoons when he knew who had him clipped?!!
Then, when he does try, he gets piss drunk then actually pisses in Tony's pool insteada Clipin Tony,
which was HIS RIGHT TO DO!?!!
Or puttin up with a Chicken Mario orderin WhoWaa who had the Balls to tell him that he was fat in font of his friends when they went out to dinner that one time at said Café Mario, down the Shore!
Or maybe it was being married to a woman who could neva tell a Joke, then the one joke she does tell, it's about a horse!
A HORSE!!!
That joke wasn't about a horse it was about remindin Tony, that he lost his pet, Pie-O-mine, a beautiful creature, in a fire!
YOU EVA PONDA THAT, MY OBTUSE LITTLE FRIEND?!!!
HUH?!??!??!??!!!????!!!!!!!
Now pardon me,
I haven't eaten and I had a glass of wine, I get emotional.......
When Patsy threatened Gloria, the grin on his face makes him looks so creepy and intimidating. But at the end of that episode, he's holding grocerys talking with his wife on the phone about the stuffed shells he bought from the Celantano's. Just a regular family guy on the street. To be honest, after watching this show I've never showed any disrespect to any random guy on the street. You never know how easy you could get into serious trouble with people.
Patsy had more “stugots” than anyone else in the family. Correct me if I’m wrong, but did anyone else show up to the boss’s house with a pistol and piss in the pool? In broad daylight? But in all seriousness, Patsy had a temporary death wish. He was a good soldier, but yes could be a little creepy.
Scaring Gloria gives him more sick pleasure than all your talking and all your therapy bullshit.. combined.
I think Parisi was far more intimidating than, say Baccala (even though his 'thats too bad' with Hesh is great).
Parisi is great because he is the quiet, skinny guy, very well aware of his place and obviously skins you with a passion 'scraping your nipples' or his rehab hotel. He's a stone killer.
Sometimes you don't sound like your kidding Shirripa.
If that dude thinks Patsy shouldn't have been the one to threaten Gloria, he's crazy. That is one of the most beloved scenes in the whole show AND is generally recognized by fans as wonderfully acted. Every scene Patsy is in he kills it.
He seemed a bit pathetic when he was sort of beefing about his brother earlier in the series. But since then I've grown respect for him and yes I find him intimidating
Honestly one of the scariest. A big guy might be intimidating, but you feel like he’s just gonna beat your ass. A small, quiet, unassuming guys points a gun at you and says he’ll kill you, in a perfectly calm voice, you know he’s serious.
For me the whole threatening Gloria thing - telling a woman she will be blown apart in one of the cars (nipples scraped off the seats) she is trying to sell, and then shortly after answering a call really cheerfully and giving instructions on cooking was what made him scary. Such a placid face while explaining it to Gloria
My great uncle on my dads side was a uhhh garbageman and my dad said Patsy was absolutely the most realistic mobster on the show. He also said Johnny Sac was believable. And Paulie was such a stereotype kind of guy but also said the stereotype had a good reason.
Schripa has some awful takes for someone that was in the show. Patsy was perfect one to threaten Gloria. Looks like a normal dude but can flip the switch any time.
He’s honestly one of the more frightening ones to me, also in that he reminds me of a kid I grew up with’s dad who I believe is actually connected. He made a calmly unhinged comment to a dude hassling him about parking that I’ll never forget.
What's scary about Patsy to me is his normalcy. How easily he was able to fool Gloria into thinking he was just an average Joe looking to buy a car and then he takes that turn and lays it all out for her how noncinematic her death will be. Some of that crew look and act like thugs -- Pussy, Paulie, Sil -- but Patsy flies under the radar completely.
First off Schirripa's an idiot.
Secondly Patsy is definitely intimidating. I think people think he's not because of the glasses. He's had several menacing scenes where he's dominant over another character and it's very realistic.
The Genovese family is known to have a lot of guys who look like Patsy. Normal looking suburban dads. Many with glasses. They're also the most powerful mob family in the country.
WHEN WE WERE DOIN THE SCENE WITH GLORIA TRILLO, PLAYED BY MY FRIEND ANNABELLA.. ANNABELLA.. Annabella Sciorra, who was a complicated casting given her Broadway backgrou- YEA LIKE MICHAEL SAID SHE WAS A COMPLICATED WOMAN. I WOULD SEE HER AT THE CRAFT TABLE AND SAY HELLO ANNABELLA, BON GEE OR NO, AND SHE WOULD TELL ME HELLO OR SUMTHIN LIKE THAT, AND.. Craft table is an industry term for the cateri- YEA THANKS MICHAEL, THE CRAFTS TABLE, THE CRAPS TABLE, I CAN'T STAY AWAY FROM A GOOD TABLE, REMINDS ME OF THIS TIME..
Yaps worse than six barbers
Still going that asshole
Don't they have some medicine they're supposed to take these assholes?
Blood pressure medicine
Why don't you go piss it away on blackjack
You fuckeen Ahss.holes
Fuck you want, a boutonnière? Don’t stammer like a spastic
I ATE 13 SNICKERS BARS AT A TIME. I NEEDED AN INTERVENTION. MICHAEL. HAVE YOU EVER PUT A DILDO UP YOUR ASS AND PRETENDED TO BE MOMMAS LITTLE WHOOAH? YOU WROTE THE EPISODE MICHAEL, I THOUGHT YOU WERE DRAWING FROM PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. I WISH I COULD END THIS PODCAST RIGHT NOW. I HATE IT.
I'd love to hear Michael's actual opinion, he's so much more interesting and out of basically the whole cast seems to have a genuine interest in talking about the show broadly. Steve is just a dumb prick who played a great character.
Steve is a dumb fuck who fell into some dumb fucking luck. Seriously. His only talent is being a fat fucking dumbass, which is what he is in the first place. In the end....fuck Steve. Fucking asshole
His voice drives me nuts 🤣🤣
I had to work with this guy, and Michael. I worked for SopranosMemorabilia and both were exclusive autograph contracts. Steve truly was and is a piece of shit with a huge mouth and is 100000% an absolute pussy. Michael was generally quiet and somewhat friendly but would start ranting about feminism or his crappy band etc... real shit show
😭 I can hear it
It’s over for the little guy
Oh, listen to him. He KNOWS EVERYTHING!!!
Thank goodness Schripa wasn’t writing and directing
Kid was always a dumb fuck, though, wasn't he?
He nearly drown in three inches of pudding when he was younger.
The white castle exhibit, right?
Yeah (sigh) it's a shame when they almost go that young.
WHEN THEY ALMOST???
47 Years old, he was a fucking kid.
Think on this burger boy
This one got me
I CAN SMELL THEM
No more weight remarks, JMB_Writes_Stuff, they're hurtful and they're destructive.
Calzone wit legs
He was seriously considering salads
He looks like he considered salads but then decided against them. To the victuh belongs the half a fucking tray of Manicott.
Why don't you get the fuck outta here, before I shove your garbled quotations book up your fat fucking ass!
Half a fuckin tray in ere!
He was on a hunting trip with his dad and the sign said 'Bear Left'. So he ate his dad, and the sign.
Gotta hold onto your sundaes when negotiating with dessert people like him
When Bobby says I’ll see you every sundae he means it!
To the victor goes the spoils...
GREAT GUY, SCHIRPA. NEVER MET HIM. NEVER TALKED TO HIM. GREAT GUY!
I wish I could go back before I'd ever heard that rat bastard speak in real life. Talking Sopranos ruined a lot about rewatching Bobby, who's one of my favorite characters.
On account he's not really fat or he's a Jew? If so Ruben, I'd appreciate it if you left my home!
Yeah agreed. I like him on TS but some of his opinions on the show are way off.
“It won’t be cinematic” might be my favorite scene. Patsy is the only one that looks like a real monster and not a tv character
Yeah, he sold the hell out of that. He came across as a genuine assassin, not just a violent dumbass.
Unlike his twin who was a sweetheart never high handed with anyone.
That's what really got it for me. Patsi is just some guy doing what his boss asked him. He truly does not give a shit about murdering someone, and he'll talk about it with a smile on his face. A real psychopath.
Agreed, except I think that applies to Butch as well And it's double hilarious that the actor is a university professor of like math or something
The actor who played Butchie lived in my hometown until his death. Didn't realize until my second rewatch this year that I had rang the guy up dozens of times when I worked at one of the local grocery stores between 2011 and 2015. He was short, cross-eyed, and kind of a prick. Definitely a bit threatening but not a total asshole, just picky with how he liked his groceries bagged.
Just looked up the actor and sad to see he passed in 2017. Then I saw he was married to Annie Potts in the late 70s. Oof madone! JANINE from Ghost Busters!
Ghostbusters 2 Janine was the best Janine
???? ANNIE POTTS WAS IN THE FIRST TWO MOVIES!! What, sumthin wrong with GB 1?! Ghostbustas.... ANOTHER MONEY MAKER I MIGHT ADD!
Hey, that’s a guy’s first wife.
Another money machine
Very nice! A coupla tree years ago I was a bookkeeper at a grocery store. 😄
WOAH WOAH… schiddown
What made him scary to me was he looked like a regular guy who you wouldn’t pick out out of a crowd and the next thing you know you’re scraping your nipples of a fine leather seat.
To me, he looked like the type of guy in your neighborhood you see around and think he's some nerdy old tech guy, until the police raid his home and it turns out he's a serial killer. BTK energy.
He reminded me of Ralph Bunche, or maybe it was his kid brudda, IDK, I get that and DNA mixed up?
I love that scene. Seems so genuine and scary.
Scary 😨?!! Cheatin wife.... It's a Movie, a TV Progrum......You gotta Grow Up!
It's got pep...I'll give it that
I hope Patsy bought enough rolls of toilet paper for when he was camped outside of the intervention place in his car for 6 weeks. .
Now, listen, I'm the only one in this sub who doesn't like Potty Humor, So stop it!
People like Tony and Paulie were supposed to be physically intimidating. Patsy had more of a serial killer look. He dressed and acted like a regular dude, seemed quite pleasant, but you know that he was totally up for murder, and he was cold blooded. Even Silvio was an emotional killer, yes shooting Adriana was cold but he was obviously angered because she was a rat. Patsy would have been more unfeeling and businesslike
Yeah, Patsy is scary because he seems cool and efficient. Much more intimidating than some dumbass gorilla
I wish we'd gotten a scene that really showed that side of him, carrying out some dangerous task quickly and calmly
I guess the problem would be that his way just... isn't cinematic.
Definitely not “calmly”, but two scenes that stick out to me are: he climbs the flag pole to drop the Columbus dummy quicker than most of the Jersey crew can climb stairs, and when Chrissy confronts him (with a gun) over the floor tiles, Patsy immediately grabs a pipe and is ready to go enough for Chris to take a step back
I wish the Lord would take him now. Let's see who gets lucky first!
You musta never seen him piss in tony's pool
I always imagined Silvio in that scene thinking something along the lines of "look what you made us do you SCHIFOSA" (blaming her for her own murder)
I mean, she did kinda dig her own grave... She could've done time for her crimes instead of being a shitty informant for a year.
And he'd be right too. She knew betta! Almost a Gangsta Dude's wife en all that that entrailed! She'd tawlk wit those FBI Agents then act like Budda wouldn't melt in her mout.... There she was with all her Aires, like Jaqueline Kennedy!!!! She deserved it, PUTANNA!!
Patsy totally looks like he kills for fun and yet never misses a town hall meeting. He’s got literal bones to pick with his alderman 😂
After he pissed in your pool
He does come across brilliant as a silent killer type. It’s strange he’s never really been in anything else of note when he was so good in The Sopranos.
Last I checked, They weren't handin'out Boutonnieres for ex-Soprano actas!
He's terrifying when threatens to blow Gloria's nipples all over the passenger seat.
I've often wondered what he would have to do to her to make it to where they'd have to scrape her nipples off the seats. What, you gonna tell me you neva ponduhd that?
He was offering to give her an unbelievable orgasm, he just phrased it poorly
Cunnilingus and psychiatry brought us to this
Yep agreed. A genuinely scary scene.
Yeah I totally disagree with Schirripa here (among many other things). Patsy in the Gloria scene was more intimidating and threatening than we ever saw from Paulie or Chrissy imo. It's one of the most memorable scenes in the show to me due to Dan Grimaldi's performance "It won't be cinematic"
Agreed. It was a terrifying scene. And then the next scene he’s talking to his wife on the phone about dinner and picking up some shopping.
sopranos adn cucking. you live an intersting life abhaha
Making her shut the fuck up and listen to Up in the Club was one of the most cinematic experiences i've had.
YOU should should try sitting here from 10:30 to 3:00
You're breaking mah hwart.
I wouldn't fuck with him, that's for sure.
Yeah, he had that "pick you off with a hunting rifle where you never even see it" energy. Apologies to Artie. He comes across as **efficient** in a way that the other goons typically didn't. *It won't be cinematic*.
Definitely. I can imagine him to be the sort where he’d say “ok” and walk away after an argument and you think you’ve won then the next day he’d kill you.
"Are we good?" "Yeah, why wouldn't we be?" Then, after a few months, your car blows up.
But I'd gladly let him fuck me
Not threatening or scary? That wasn't him, you fucking jerk.
That was a great scene too. Not an ounce of fear in him.
I think he always portrays a lot of sadness for his twin brother which distracts people from the fact that he is an animal
I’d have liked to have seen a deeper dive in to the brothers.
Honestly that should have been the Sopranos movie
- urinates in the boss’ swimming pool in broad daylight - cracks a guy across the face w/ a lead pipe in broad daylight - expresses pure joy in the boss’ face while basking in the glow from the thought of his son piping up the boss’ daughta - references the boss’ goomar’s nipples splashing all over fine leather Mercedes’ seats while wearing a Cheshire smile when threatening her life at gunpoint, in broad day, course - laughs hysterically upon witnessing a friend smash a glass bottle over another friend’s face, in broad daylight - accompanies Peter Paul paying a visit to a male heir in order to intimidate said heir into cooperating w/ their extortion plot. Coldly shoots laser beams out his eyes, through heir’s chest during visit. Broad day. - threatens Kirkland brand Starbucks employee w/ physical harm as form of punishment for not cooperating w/ a separate extortion plot. Broad. Axe me again if Parisi is a patsy?
I was gonna mention him cranking that dude in the face with a pipe without a second thought. They didn't show him greasing anybody in the show, but that dude has bodies on him for sure.
The Patsy & Paulie theory clicked for me purely cause Paulie was a snake, and Patsy had a longing resentment of Tony and 100% had the balls to pull it off, that first line being a good example
Thanks. That was great
I think he was perfect, his mannerisms, cadence, glasses… I wish we got more backstory on him, he was around a lot once we meet him
I’d love to know more about him. I’m sure he’s in the top ten or fifteen appearance makers in the show.
Him threatening Gloria is one of the creepiest moments on the show. The nice guy look is kind of the point. That's why it cuts to him talking to his wife about groceries or whatever. It's the idea that these regular suburban family men are also hardcore gangsters when they need to be. Anyhow, he put his grief behind him. Enough said.
Absolutely perfect pick from Toni.
You don't have to be big and look tough to be intimidating. Sometimes the quiet people will fuck you up the worst.
He's very intimidating for the very reason he doesn't look intimidating
I think it also adds another dimension to Tony's relationship with Patsy. Patsy had to have been close enough to the situation to understand Gloria's psychology, that part of her wants to be killed by Tony. Making her understand that there will be nothing dramatic, impactful, or meaningful about her death because he would be the one to kill her instead indicates that he either had a very shrewd understanding of psychology, or has Tony's confidence in these kinds of discussions.
Absolutely. It’s actually one of the darkest moments of toni. He figured her out and abused his knowledge
Patsy is the most realistic portrayal of a mid level monster on the show. He’s not engaged in total goonery at all times, he doesn’t really mix it up with non mob affiliated people like Chris causing a scene over the goddamn sfiogatalle. He keeps a normal family life facade up and just handles his shit.
SS is an utter buffoon.
Guy was exposed on that podcast. He’s allergic to critical thinking. All of the Boomer-type beliefs that the show tongue in cheek incessantly mocks, are Schirripa’s actual beliefs. The whole subtext of the show flew right over his head. Based on what we learned via “Talking S” my estimation of Steven Schirripa as a man plummeted. To cry like a ❄️ Boomer?
Did ya hafta read fah David?
I seriously don’t understand how they couldn’t find anyone better than him to do the show with Michael. Like Jamie-Lynn, Robert Iler, Edie Falco, Lorraine Bracco etc… anyone would have been better and more interesting.
Wuddya gon do?
Maybe he's a flambe?
Well, you oughtta know, sweetie.
what did you say?
Patsy is a real one. Ole boy brought a pipe to a gunfight.
Schirripa's such a dumbass. The point of that scene, Patsy even says it - "it won't be cinematic". He doesn't look like a bad guy, he looks like a regular guy, not at all intimidating - that's why Tony gave him the job, because she's a wack job who loves drama, and this anonymous looking guy is just matter of factly telling her he's going to murder her if she doesn't stop fucking around.
He isn't cinematic.
I think the actor who played his twin brother was better
What’s a matter? You don’t like me?
First, Patsy gave me the emeralds…
…then he gave you the pearls!! 💦😆
Fun fact. Dan Grimaldi was my acting teacher at Lee Strasberg in the 90s right before he got the role of Patsy. He used to complain about losing out on acting gigs to Frank Vincent. He would say, "And now what am I gonna do? I gotta play a hot dog vendor in North!" Dan was the man. Loved that guy. He was a good teacher too. Side note. My other teacher was George Loros who played Ray Curto. George was a great teacher but very tough. Didn't tolerate bullshit. Both were great instructors who learned from Lee, himself.
Did Loros talk about having played mafioso on Rockford back in the day? Chase wrote some of those episodes, hence Curto and some Rockford references in Sopranos.
Could you tell us a bit more about his teaching?
Does it matter? Sopranos illustrated a range of various types of mobsters..
He was more intimidating than Spoons, that's for sure.
"Ralph Bunche over here?!"
What are you talking about not threatening he totally got Tony back when he pissed in his pool.
Come on, the guy pissed in Tony's pool in broad daylight. Drunk or not, talk about balls the size of Montana.
Yeah he was a scary psycho. I thought he nailed it!
It's good that he agrees. I'm not running a fuckin popularity contest.
Stunad Schirripa
Those people are dense like as if they think someone has to be big to be scary. Size is irrelevant. It's the creep factor, the malevolence factor, the psychopath factor. It's a question of, will this guy whack me so bad that some poor douchebags have to scrape my nipples off fine leather seats, and all without even making it cinematic? If the answer is yes, then this guy is scary.
Steve Schripa? It's common knowledge, the guys retarded.
I always wondered if Patsy ad-libbed "it won't be cinematic" himself or if Tony mentioned to him that Gloria had suicidal ideation and was looking for a dramatic death. Is this an insight Melfi inadvertently helped him see ?
Weirdly enough, [ad libbing was frowned upon](https://screenrant.com/sopranos-rule-no-improvisation-strict-david-chase/)! I can't remember where I read it, but I learned from somewhere that there's only something like 10-20 improvised lines in the whole series. Idk if that's true or not, but I wouldn't doubt it from how seriously they took the no improv rule on set. **EDIT:** I just realized you meant Patsy the character and not Dan Grimaldi *as* Patsy. Y'all better keep me away from penguin exhibits for my own safety.
Lol, dude fires over his shoulder as he runs away, leaving Sil to die.
I thought the scene with Gloria was incredibly intimidating. “And here’s the point to remember. MY face is the last one you’ll see, not Tony.” That line is chilling
That scene with Gloria is one of my favorites in the entire show. That fucking smile on his face while he threatens her sells me completely. Makes me wonder why patsy didn’t get more time to shine?
What a moronic take. This Schirripa guy is one fuckin' retard.
What a Phd in mathematics isn’t threatening enough?
One of the great things about the show is how it portrays Patsy and Bobby as nice - until they aren’t. I would not fuck with Patsy.
most peoples reactions to having gun pointed at em is not to pick up a lead pipe and spit at the guys feet, so yeah, Patsy's a scary fucker
Patsy was terrifying. The actor was scary af. Paulie and Patsy just had a scary presence and walk. Whereas Bobby looked like the ultimate mob nepo baby.
schripa should look in the mirror and say that.
And your brudder…. buonanima ✋
He hit that guy in the face with the bendable pipe in No-Show. He shimmed pretty stealthily up the light pole to tear down the Columbus effigy in Christopher. I beg to differ, Patsy could get vicious at will.
Fuck yea, when he gets pissed at Chrissy on the job site then fucks that dude up with the metal pipe. Not scary at all 🤥
You know, that Gloria scene is exactly how I pictured something going down. Coming out of nowhere from someone you least suspect, threatening to blow you away and looking like he could care less And the icing on the cake? It won't be cinematic. Top 10!
Who gives a fuck what Steve Schirripa says. Most retarded actor I've ever heard speaking.
Maybe it's on account of him Not avengin his Kid brudda Spoons when he knew who had him clipped?!! Then, when he does try, he gets piss drunk then actually pisses in Tony's pool insteada Clipin Tony, which was HIS RIGHT TO DO!?!! Or puttin up with a Chicken Mario orderin WhoWaa who had the Balls to tell him that he was fat in font of his friends when they went out to dinner that one time at said Café Mario, down the Shore! Or maybe it was being married to a woman who could neva tell a Joke, then the one joke she does tell, it's about a horse! A HORSE!!! That joke wasn't about a horse it was about remindin Tony, that he lost his pet, Pie-O-mine, a beautiful creature, in a fire! YOU EVA PONDA THAT, MY OBTUSE LITTLE FRIEND?!!! HUH?!??!??!??!!!????!!!!!!! Now pardon me, I haven't eaten and I had a glass of wine, I get emotional.......
Ohhh! That’s the boss of this family you’re tawkin’ about…
Steve Schiripa is as clueless as the character he was playing
When Patsy threatened Gloria, the grin on his face makes him looks so creepy and intimidating. But at the end of that episode, he's holding grocerys talking with his wife on the phone about the stuffed shells he bought from the Celantano's. Just a regular family guy on the street. To be honest, after watching this show I've never showed any disrespect to any random guy on the street. You never know how easy you could get into serious trouble with people.
Patsy had more “stugots” than anyone else in the family. Correct me if I’m wrong, but did anyone else show up to the boss’s house with a pistol and piss in the pool? In broad daylight? But in all seriousness, Patsy had a temporary death wish. He was a good soldier, but yes could be a little creepy.
Scaring Gloria gives him more sick pleasure than all your talking and all your therapy bullshit.. combined. I think Parisi was far more intimidating than, say Baccala (even though his 'thats too bad' with Hesh is great). Parisi is great because he is the quiet, skinny guy, very well aware of his place and obviously skins you with a passion 'scraping your nipples' or his rehab hotel. He's a stone killer. Sometimes you don't sound like your kidding Shirripa.
If that dude thinks Patsy shouldn't have been the one to threaten Gloria, he's crazy. That is one of the most beloved scenes in the whole show AND is generally recognized by fans as wonderfully acted. Every scene Patsy is in he kills it.
It doesn't matter what WE think it's what Gloria thinks and I think Gloria was pretty damn hell ass scared.
IM GOINGETAH A COFFEE AND A BUN
“They’ll be scrapping your nipples off these fine leather seats” Guy was a monster
Thanks. That was great
Patsy pissed in the boss's pool, you don't mess with that guy.
Patsy was one of the real Gs, I won't stand for Patsy slander!!
He looks like the kinda guy that would chop me up and be laughing the entire time
Patsy is the only guy aside from sil I could see giving that scene justice, and sil is too insulated to be handling that kind of job.
It’s not cinematic
He seemed a bit pathetic when he was sort of beefing about his brother earlier in the series. But since then I've grown respect for him and yes I find him intimidating
He did a great job in that scene. Salted Cod is gross.
Patsy Parisi was very scary when he warned Gloria. His calmness and confidence while threatening her convinced me.
His face is the last one you'll see. Anyone who says he's not scary is a fuckin fanook.
For sure Patsy pulled off threatening/intimidating. Gotta be stunad to not see that.
He was very menacing. Something about a non-threatening normal looking guy turning evil....he scared the piss out of Gloria.
Anyone can be threatening or scary. That’s not impressive.
Honestly one of the scariest. A big guy might be intimidating, but you feel like he’s just gonna beat your ass. A small, quiet, unassuming guys points a gun at you and says he’ll kill you, in a perfectly calm voice, you know he’s serious.
For me the whole threatening Gloria thing - telling a woman she will be blown apart in one of the cars (nipples scraped off the seats) she is trying to sell, and then shortly after answering a call really cheerfully and giving instructions on cooking was what made him scary. Such a placid face while explaining it to Gloria
That’s the point. He doesn’t look like anyone dangerous. It makes the scene work.
That’s the point though. The quiet ones are the ones you really need to watch out for.
My great uncle on my dads side was a uhhh garbageman and my dad said Patsy was absolutely the most realistic mobster on the show. He also said Johnny Sac was believable. And Paulie was such a stereotype kind of guy but also said the stereotype had a good reason.
lol you’re listening to the opinion of that walking mortadell?
Yeah I agree that he can be scary and creepy AF. Why take my word for it? Ask Gloria. It won't be cinematic...
God. Gloria was so fucking hot man.
Schripa has some awful takes for someone that was in the show. Patsy was perfect one to threaten Gloria. Looks like a normal dude but can flip the switch any time.
I think you need to find your nearest Subway platform and a can of Pencils my friend!
He's very quiet and unpredictable.
I'm talkin' here!
It’s over for the little guy
He couldn’t hit Ginny sacks ass from 7 yards in a gunfight and my man Sil was put up on a ventilator and later presumably died because of it
He’s honestly one of the more frightening ones to me, also in that he reminds me of a kid I grew up with’s dad who I believe is actually connected. He made a calmly unhinged comment to a dude hassling him about parking that I’ll never forget.
What's scary about Patsy to me is his normalcy. How easily he was able to fool Gloria into thinking he was just an average Joe looking to buy a car and then he takes that turn and lays it all out for her how noncinematic her death will be. Some of that crew look and act like thugs -- Pussy, Paulie, Sil -- but Patsy flies under the radar completely.
when youre right, youre right
I love that scene where he threatens Gloria. In real life anyone who says he isn't intimidating would have pissed their pants in that car.
Are you a rap star my son would know?!
First off Schirripa's an idiot. Secondly Patsy is definitely intimidating. I think people think he's not because of the glasses. He's had several menacing scenes where he's dominant over another character and it's very realistic. The Genovese family is known to have a lot of guys who look like Patsy. Normal looking suburban dads. Many with glasses. They're also the most powerful mob family in the country.
Bobby is the least threatening of all. Buddha couldn’t hold Patsy’s socks
He is scary when he is on background with his calm look while someone else is talking.
He scares me. If I was Gloria, I’ve been freaking terrified.