RIP Paulie 😢

It was those 2 black guys that always seem to be behind happenings in Jersey.🤔

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He killed himself in the show he couldn’t have

@@thomasburr9244 no that was Gene, we see another guy at the diner with the same Members Only jacket go to the bathroom, with a direct line of sight at Tony

It’s not bro, after the episode u can see the character name “ Jacket members only “ so that’s mean he’s important for the last scene

Why was he in a restaurant if he had his own pizzeria?

It was little johnny piss face

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Yup 👍

Yes New York would have to kill Tony to save face for how publicly Phil Leotardo was killed.

Honestly I don’t think Paulie did it yeah he did order a hit on some random ass guy while patsy was involved too and Christopher’s friend but I don’t know why I don’t think Paulie has no involvement in this patsy is definitely a top suspect

@@Stoicdexterthe points he was aware of it but didn’t let Tony know

I like that pov but still we would like to know

That is definitely the point Chase was trying to drive home. He also understood that open ended endings are great for keeping the viewer always wondering and guessing so it helped cement the show as one of the greats.

@@AlphaWasSpotted Chase also loves David Lynch and has many homages to Twin Peaks. Twin Peaks wrecked itself by revealing who killed Laura Palmer, something Lynch fought against but the network demanded. I think chase learned from that… a mystery is always more compelling than an answer

@@SweatyOracle precisely

Tony wasn't sociopathic. He wasn't really that evil.. Everything he did was justified by the chaos that is being the mob boss, and weirdly justified in his head. You guys act like the mafia are saints. Tony didn't go around killing and starting wars. Phil was an actual psycho, fighting Tony for 25% from dumping trash... And having killed his highest earning captain. The biggest tragedy is all of them pushing Christopher to drink again. Asses, but Tony was somewhat justified in what he did to him in the mafia world, if he wasn't his cousin, Christopher would have gotten taken out ages ago by anyone else due to just being a liability.

Good point

😥 He will be missed greatly...

Paulie(referring to his prostate): I dunno…What if it’s mastastesized.

Weird 3 legendary characters in basically one month..liotta, caan, and sirico

@@stancurry6265 you know the saying...

@@trip2belize they didn’t have the makings of varsity athletes

“And that Animal Blundetto”

Woke up this morning, got some gabagool…

@@dillonwalshpvd and then I woke up the next day and got some…gabagool

In the end, fuck Santa Claus

Yeah heart attack by Gabagool got him

I concur

A good theory for sure. The weird cuts of Tony definitely support that idea.

That is so fucking valid.

😂😂😂

Jamal Ginsburg, the Hasidic homeboy?

Fade to "Black" ☻️

Punched his lights out 😅

That fuckin' butterhead.

Lol

😂😂

Louis clapped him in hinds...... Lol i know thats not what he said but thats what it sounded like to me.

Was butch that guy with the makings of a varsity athlete? Or the guy wearing the mellifluous crown? Like at burger king?

@@mikimiyazaki No it was Ralphie who had the makings of a varsity athlete. Remember when he took Vito to slip n fall school while playing basketball?

Paulie must also be wondering if it's his fault. in his mind, not only is the Cifaretto crew "cursed", but he may have been the one who indirectly caused Ralphie's death, and the tensions between them and New York he could also be blaming himself for, and at this point it's technically gotten Bobby and maybe Silvio killed. his closest friends are all gone. Tony, and Christopher's ghost who seems to "stand by him" instead of following Tony at the end of their last scene, is all he has left. and now he's put in a position where he may be betraying Tony and getting him killed as well. and it's essentially his fault. he could have tried harder with Chris too. basically with Tony telling him that he can't let "superstition" control his life, we're looking at the two figures who wreaked the most havoc in this show, one wracked with grief and worries about karma, and one with no guilt at all, who walks unknowingly off to hell.

Because of this and the fact his loyal crew/his strength were wiped out plus the fbi investigation i think the fade to black means it is over on way or another.

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Yeah I agree, I think the simplest and most reasonable answer is that this was the product of an outstanding hit Phil placed. I wouldn’t be surprised if a part of the orders had tony going last so he could see his men die. I think Phil is petty/cruel enough to do that.

@@samuelault4723 you guys are braindead, Phil literally says multiple times tony needs to be done first, and he even got pissed off afterwards at the fact that tony wasn’t done first. And the members only jacket dude is someone we’ve seen before, he was walking across the street during that scene with all the Jewish people, tony made eye contact with him and was looking at him weird

This is what I've come to believe as well.

The hitman probably did know Phil was dead, but it didn't matter - he'd been paid in advance, and his professional reputation depends on him filling his contracts, even if - _especially_ if - the person who placed the contract is dead.

George Lucas should also have gone with the Darth Jar Jar option.

He was sitting at the table like Barzini

That mastermind aspect was best encapsulated by him leaving the life, not manipulating things behind the scenes. Giving up the life was the smartest thing any of them did. That scene with LC and Tony on the golf course, the dream, the "I don't want to be the wealthiest widow in Long Island" from his wife... LC was smarter than he was given credit for, but as fun as this theory is, I don't buy it for a second.

I think Patsy is the culprit. Paulie doesn't gain much by taking out Tony. Little carmine is rich as hell, whats he care.

@@nobshistoryengineering4421 Exactly.. if there's one thing we know about Paulie is that he's got weird paranoia and superstitions.. For me Paulie is not a convincing liar and I beleive that's he generally paranoid about the cat, and just a grumpy older guy. Would he take out Tony? Yes absolutely! But he had no reason to do so. My money is always been on Butchie but I like both the Patsy and LC theories. Thou it did cross my mind in the final.. Tony lived in what could called a mansion byt in S6 we see Phil in a rather simple home comparatively. Yes he hadn't been Boss long but he was a head of the 5 familys. LC was probably way richer than Tony so maybe all money went to him and Phil was front man. A bit ot a stretch but if it were true then LC would be baddest gangster of all time :D

It's like every single episode could be a short film, incredible storytelling!!!

Im on my 9 time rn.. feels like i know these fellas better then my own fawtha Haha

Sopranos and the wire the best 2 shows ever and from the same network and were on tv around the same time and both are about crime .

I like to think the two shows are connected and when the characters go to jail they end up in Oz

Breaking bad is a masterpiece but sopranos I think is slightly better

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Maybe that guy is one of Gene’s in laws. His wife looked 100% Italian to me. And had every reason to want Tony dead too. It wouldn’t be a stretch to think she had family connections to New York.

I don't buy Patsy Parisi, his son was getting married to Meadow. Paulie neither. Tony's all he got left. No family, his other friends all dead. Nah Butch taking out both bosses to take over, that I see.

i buy the Butch, Patsy and Paulie theory. I also think the guy in the members only jacket is just a distraction trick made by David Chase. Maybe...

It doesn’t mean it has something to do w Eugene. The members jacket just means that it was a mob hit. Lots of guys wore them

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Lol why would new york do this so hard? Sopranos are finished by the end of season 6, just tony and genius paulie are left. No deal, they easily absorb new jersey cause sopranos are already finished, Morta!

@@AntiMullahsyeah everybody died

@@AntiMullahs They can't absorb NJ until Tony is out the picture though...

It was absolutely Paulie and Patsy. I just accept it as fact nowadays. Sure, they could have been others tangentially involved. But the main power-players, so to speak, are Paulie, Patsy, and the NY mob.

i had to come here and see if someone else heard it 😭

What about it Coksucka?

@@PhilLeotardoHouse 😂😂😂

It's likely that he would have had Paulie killed at the same time. If Butchie's not going to trust Tony to keep his betrayal of his own boss secret, why would he trust Paulie? He may also be aware of how Paulie informed on Tony to Johnny Sac. Even if he's not aware of that, he doesn't respect Paulie. I think Butchie would likely trust the other guys there who saw him betray Phil, being just his trusted right-hand man (who is also complicit) and the others being solidly retired and probably fearful of crossing Butchie. By taking out Tony and Paulie, Butchie kills everyone who could use the betrayal to end his career. The New York family can't learn that Butchie killed his own boss to advance, or his career and life are over. He broke the most important rule. It's what the bosses fear most, as Johnny said to Tony when he tried to do the same thing anonymously. We know because of that how very taboo and unacceptable Butchie's betrayal was, and why he'd want to cover it up.

I took that as Patsy feeling he had hit the jackpot by having his son unite with the boss' daughter. That would make someone act like that.

@kurtanglerookieyear , your right, but Tony also had his twin brother killed and he still carried resentment for that. Tony kills his brother and now Meadow is dating his son. This puts him in a position to get really close to Tony's personal business and get leverage. That's why they took out Bobby and tried to get Silvio.. that would wipe out the whole power structure except, Paulie and Patsie, the two people who had the most to gain from Tony's death.

It was a sub par ending on a sub par song. Show Tony getting whacked as he pushes Carmella and AJ under the table for safety. Show Tony stumble out of the restaurant and sit on the steps shot to pieces with Meadow seeing him through the rear view mirror as she tries to park. The last thing we see is Tony's face with a look of amazement, dread and that smile. So many great songs and it ends on that one. Don't even try and defend it.

"nearly 20 years"

It just shows how boring there lives are……

@@anonymousmc7727 lol… what’s that say about you who is commenting on someone commenting about it…

@@dmitritestacough8551 that could’ve been cool too, but I do like that they tried something different. I will agree, could’ve picked a different song.

True

Idk they definitely got the ok to dust Phill.

@@michaelseeker9680 butch even said “do what you gotta do”

@@MarioMario-nj6kz yeah but he probably didn’t mean “make a scene that embarrasses him & traumatizes his family + random strangers”

@@CaptainTrips560 he don’t give a fuck about him he wants to absorb jersey

Love all the unique theories in comments but this one is best!

Ohhhhhh! Always w the scenarios

I know Vito's bottom was impacted if that's what you were referring too.

What’s “all there”? The explanation to your theory? I think it’s just likely that Pauly knew that Tony had to go and didn’t warn him and made a deal with New York. Also that sounds much too esoteric for the sopranos. And doesn’t sound like purgatory at all

@@princegobi5992 It’s all there as in right across the series if I have to spell it out you haven’t watched the series properly

@@princegobi5992 fuckin slander if you ask me

@@xgymratx nah, he’s a survivor. He mentions surviving the second Colombo war in the seventies. He’s seen power struggles and has survived this entire time through his shrewdness and ability. It’s pretty admirable. When you know your boss is gone either way, at this point it’s about securing your own future. How else would you explain the look paulie has on his face when he’s leaving the club?

Lmao fr he’s just another toothpick

Tony killed his brother and Patsy knew he was next if he didn't kill Tony first

YEP THIS IS THE RIGHT ONE

@@brobsty1856 bullshit thenbrother dies in the second season

@@aleNoyz91 so you think he forgot?

@@aleNoyz91 Bro do you seriously think people would just forget about their siblings death that easily, especially in the mafia?

There was an amazing breakdown video i haven't been able to find again. It made so much sense and went into crazy detail with chase's style of using foreshadowing and religious themes and metaphors etc. He talked about how the song "journey" referenced journey into the afterlife and how aj, carmela, and tony each ate 1 onion ring in one bite which was like eating the bread symbolizing christ before making the journey into death. There was way more to it but essentially it concluded that the entire family minus meadow were all killed.

Lol, please dude. Most graphic death in TV history? How? It didn’t happen! I get that it’s heavily implied, but that never actually happened on the show. The show ends with Tony looking up at Meadow walking in. That’s all. No murder, no graphic death scene. Tony never died on TV. We are left to imagine it. Which is pretty damn lazy imo.

@@Trundle_TheGreat because your simple minded and can’t follow the clues right under your nose. You watch the show, and watch the last episode, you’ll see fairly clearly he got shot. “You probably don’t even hear it happen, right?”

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@@Trundle_TheGreat You weren't very good at analysing books and stuff at school when you were younger were you?

That in your paragraph is the best explanation of that theory.

I like to think it was Angie who hired Patsy and Bennie out of revenge.

😂😂😂😂😂😂 good one!!!

I could see Phil and Tony being whacked by their respective crews for breaking codes and making tsunami size waves. Albert Barisi mentioned that Tony’s plug should be pulled if Tony killed Ralph over Pie-O-My, and members in Tony’s family easily put together that Ralph’s beat down was over Tracee. I know the rules were habitually broken in the show, but those two instances are hanging offenses according to mob KZfaqrs. Couple those with Tony sleeping with made men’s gumars and you have enough juice to push the mutiny Junior warned him about…

@@mattmolloy636 exactly they was one of my theories .. thst they let tony get Phil just so they could get tony.. his men sold him out just like Phil’s men did to him

I think that's exactly how it went down. The theory that Paulie was involved is beyond reason. Forget the Easter eggs and foreshadowing, the only reason for Paulie to do it is self-preservation, and by this point in the story about don't think that would have been enough. If this had been a year or two earlier, that would have been plenty reason for Paulie to go along with hitting Tony. Now? No way. It's like the dude in Miami said to Tony about him; "Paulie wouldn't do anything like that, he loves you. He doesn't have a wife or kids, you're all he has, you and the rest of the guys." By this point it's literally JUST Tony. Chris, Bobby, Silvio (probably), Carlo are gone. Hell even Vito, as backwards as Paulie was, at least he was someone he knew. The cherry on top was his mother/aunt "Ma," who's wake was the same day as Chris'. Honestly I don't see any motivation for him to support killing Tony. The only one left was Patsy, who he didn't even like. It was NY.

@@timwhite5562 Paulie had already gone behind Tony’s back when he was talking to Johnny Sack. The only thing Paulie really loved was Paulie

@@trapcorleone4321 also maybe they let Tony think that so he could let his guard down. NY probably didn’t think Tony would be able to actually track Phil down.

Don't know about Butchie but Patsy and Paulie certainly hlook to be the prime suspects via foreshadowing.

It would seem a bit crazy for a hitman to wear something so identifiable though.

@@IainFrame especially if they then sat at the counter for a half hour so that as many people could see and remember him as possible, when he could have just capped him when he first came in. I don't think that guy had anything to do with the hit. Nothing he did would make sense for a hitman.

@@timwhite5562 Agreed. He definitely looked like a chunkier version of Eugene but yeah how would he (or Eugene's wife) have known anything about the fairly trivial previous Members Only jacket conversation? I can't imagine a ruthless made man going home and crying to his wife that the guys had made fun of him. Could be a red herring.

@@IainFrame the only reason everyone focuses on him is because we're meant to. If they would have focused on the guy with the boy scouts instead, we'd all by finding every possible link to back up why HE was the killer. People talk about how he went to the bathroom like Michael in The Godfather, but Michael did that because he HAD to. They were searched for weapons so he couldn't bring one with him, he had to have one stashed before hand. That's the only reason he went to the bathroom, this guy didn't have that issue. If this was the hitman, he would have shot him and left. Even if it was some thing where he had to do it in front of the wife (maybe because Phil was killed in front of his wife) he had plenty of time before the time came here. If it was some strange thing that he had to wait for the family: 1) like you said, how would he know? 2) why didn't he wait outside for them to show, instead of sitting in the most visible section for a half hour first? 3) sometimes a hitman will sit inside and wait. However it's always so they can follow the target out when they leave, and they do it in the parking lot. Not here... *(Side note: In an interview, David Chase and director had said that they were going to revisit the Russian guy In a later episode. The story was going to be that he was discovered by a Boy Scout troop that were hiking or camping in Pine Barrens. They were going to find his boss's telephone number in his pocket and contact him. The story was he was going to survive, but have had permanent brain damage. The boy scouts troop was an odd thing to show up in the last episode. Maybe a link? Possibly) PS: I f'cking LOVE those DGT Goldtops. The one Achilles heels I always found with PRS was the control layouts. A Strat or Tele with master volume and master tone controls, I'm fine with; I play a Strat 80% of the time anyway. But 2Xhumbuckers I need individual Volumes. I have a McCarty 594 so I don't have that issue, but with CE22 and CU22 I had in the past, I had to replace the master volume with a stacked pot so I could adjust the volume on both. A master volume on the hollowbodies makes no sense. Every semihollow player I know keep the pickup in the middle position and dial the sound in with the volume controls. You don't even have the optt on the HB unless you go to the 594. IMO, if in the future I wanted another 22 with a tremolo, the DGT is always the way to go. Plus I like the heftier body and neck profile., 👍

There are some great videos out there that break down the final scene frame by frame. It seems clear that they wanted to establish for the viewer that Tony had a clear sightline to the door. Then each time the doorbell rings, Tony looks up and we cut to his perspective, a view of the door. Finally, in the last moment, the doorbell rings, Tony looks up toward the door, and we cut to his perspective, which is now black because he is dead. A beautiful, poetic, and ultimately cinematic way to depict his ultimate fate.

@@mleone77 the last scene wasnt from his perspective tho. The camera was FACING Tony when it turned to black.

When someone pointed this out (Tony seeing himself sitting at the table), it blew my mind. I like to think that Tony was killed and is in purgatory/hell. His punishment is to continually witness himself getting whacked in front of his family. When he walks through the door and the camera switches to seeing Tony sitting at the table by himself it then switches back and you see a look on Tony's face, like a defeated depressed here we go again look. Like he's seen this before and knows what's coming.

@@cesarguerra8102 immediate cut to his perspective

@@cesarguerra8102 No, It cut to his pov shot, which was black.

Their behavior was way too bizarre In that last episode.

They were both authorized by Butchie, so its pretty much what you are saying.

They could always pick up after the finale and tell what happens to Tony's family after his death.

@@jacksonteller3973 You cant close the door to Gandolfini when alive and u cant do it after his real death as its in bad taste.

@@TheJUDGEMENTHOL bad taste my ass, if that was the case they wouldn't have done that Many Saints of Newark.

@@jacksonteller3973 Newark had an all new cast, get real

@@TheJUDGEMENTHOL you get real.

This is the most realistic theory, 8t was ABSOLUTELY Butch DeConcini who had him killed, Patsy was definitely in on it (not 100% sure about Paulie, it would make sense given his flippancy, but... it's Paulie haha. RIP Tony Sirico 😭). I have absolutely no idea how ANYONE thinks Tony Soprano is alive, he clearly got brained at Holstons. Right from episode one, "there are 2 endings for a guy like me", and Carlo had flipped... even if Tony somehow lived he'd have been sent to prison for life.

I still say it was cineranter, borko and sopranofan57. Glorified crew

THIS

that sounds crazy!! where did you hear it?

@@mateojimenezgaleano6876 yea seriously though! I'm in a few Soprano fan groups on Facebook where we're always bouncing theories off of each other ( like I've heard some REALLY dumb theories in that group) and that one is new to me

Yeah but it never happened so Tony is dead.

I've always thought a version of this. David Chase left it open ended and was always ambiguous never commiting to a specific interpretation, because there was always the chance for a movie deal or a show reboot- that is until James Gandolfini died. With the actors tragic death there was no real point in having Tony alive, so his death has (pretty much) become canon.

They did the movie, but it was a prequel.

Does it feel like a knife to your haaht?!

Tony ate his meal and went home .

@@angelvalle9963 yeah right 😆

Yes but Gandolfini was notorious for going missing, threatening to quit so Chase wrote him out for last season. Character got worse ie killing Chris. Chase left it open for a movie

@@TheJUDGEMENTHOL ???? source??

This 100 percent. Tony, especially by the end of S6, has made so many enemies it's inevitable that he will be killed. For the show to end any other way would not have made any sense.

@@jormathon trust me Bro 🤣

I honestly don't think it matters who killed him and why. So many people had a reason, it literally could have been any of them

I wonder if he was just trolling

Even the most optimistic reading doesn't leave Tony with much time left.

@anon2427 - I talked with him all the time and he was the most humorless, depressed-sounding person I worked with, so I really doubt it, but honestly, who knows? I mean, it's his show, his character, he gets to decide what happens - I just found it odd that he gave one explanation to my boss, and (years later) a different story...

@@macfilms9904 I think Chase's understanding of the ending may have evolved across time. That happens sometimes with artists, like how Harold Ramis changed his mind about how long the time loop in Groundhog Day lasted. Or how George Lucas changed his mind over who shot first. How Chase felt about the ending in 2007 may differ from his thoughts on the subject today. I think even James Gandolfini's passing and the constant hounding by the press and the entertainment industry may have locked him into this more depressing, more certain interpretation of the ending. Additionally, from snippets I've read about him in interviews and from the sense of humor present in the show, I get the feeling Chase has a really dry and dark sense of humor. Like when he told the story about what happened to the Russian and said he was found by boy scouts. Maybe he actually meant that, but I felt like he was telling a shaggy dog story in jest to get simple-minded people to quit asking him about it. "Here you go, here's a crappy but very direct answer if you need one so badly." I could definitely be wrong though. I've never met the guy and can't really say I've got a good read on him. That's super cool you got to know him, though, even if he does have a very depressive demeanor. He's a fascinating guy to me.

I think it was written that he couldn't be a rat, i.e. snitch to the feds, not necessarily that he couldn't betray the family

No doubt. The question is who and all of the foreshadowing points to Patsy/Paulie.

Definitely not

Don’t stop

The movie changes everything. It shows the restaurant for a reason. It was his beginning as a gangster and the end. GG's