A Hit Is a Hit
- Episode aired Mar 14, 1999
- TV-MA
- 53m
Tony tries to branch out into legitimate investments, while Chris and Adriana decide to try their hands at music production.Tony tries to branch out into legitimate investments, while Chris and Adriana decide to try their hands at music production.Tony tries to branch out into legitimate investments, while Chris and Adriana decide to try their hands at music production.
- Irina
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Did you know
- TriviaFirst appearance of Sopranos' neighbors Dr. Bruce and Jean Cusamano, Jean is played by Saundra Santiago, who holds the distinction of being one of only three The Sopranos (1999) cast members who ended up playing dual roles in the series--in her case her twin sister Joan Cusamano.
- GoofsChristopher remembers his father talking about the 1950's Philadelphia music scene. However, we later learn that Dickie Moltisanti was killed when Christopher was an infant.
- Quotes
Tony Soprano: My wife thinks I need to meet new people.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: So?
Tony Soprano: C'mon, you're Italian, you understand. Guys like me we're brought up to think that Merigan are fuckin' bores. The truth is the average white man is no more boring than the millionth conversation over who should have won, Marciano or Ali.
Dr. Jennifer Melfi: So am I to understand that you don't consider yourself white?
Tony Soprano: I don't mean white like Caucasian. I mean a white man like our friend Cusamano. Now he's Italian, but he's Merigan. It's what my old man would have called a Wonder Bread wop. He eats his Sunday gravy out of a jar.
Christopher is mouthing off to some black guys in a fast food restaurant. It turns out that one of them is rapper Massive Genius. He seems menacing at first, but it turns out he is more MBA than anything. He wants Chris and Adriana to arrange a sit down between himself and Hesh Rabkin over some record royalties that he believes should have gone to an acquaintance. Meanwhile Tony has decided to cultivate the friendship of his family doctor, who lives next door, and his country club friends.
Adriana makes a demo of a music group she knows and Massive says it is wonderful, but Chris has his doubts and takes the demo to Hesh who says the demo and the group have nothing special. Chris rightfully deduces that Massive is just saying what Adriana wants to hear so he can sleep with her. She is hurt by the revelation. Tony quickly learns that his doctor's country club friends just see him as some kind of human oddity because of his mob connections. He could never be considered one of them. He is hurt by that revelation.
Nothing is said about it here, because for some reason the point is never made, but I really wonder why Christopher is not dead by the end of season one. He goes off and does things that step on the toes of other mob bosses after Tony warns him, he is always whining about his lack of advancement, he is writing a movie script about his life in the mob and even TELLS Tony that, and if he hadn't mouthed off to some random black guy in a fast food joint for no reason Hesh would not be facing a legal battle over past royalties. Tony would have plugged half a dozen other guys over much less than this. So this tells you how much Tony loves this young man who seems to be his own worst enemy.
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- Runtime53 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1