Sophia's story about leaving a horse head in a person's bed: "Our garbage commissioner, Fredo Lombardi, went on strike once. He woke up the next morning sharing a pillow with National Velvet! At 7am, he was out cleaning the street with his tongue."
Sophia mentions that in order to sway a person your way in Sicily, a horse's head would be cut off and left in that person's bed. This is an allusion to the infamous horse head scene in "The Godfather".