Also love that Paulie's reaction to supernatural fear is to turn his back on a life of Catholicism because he sees it as a protection racket which is no longer protecting him
Lol this is my favourite Paulie episode he was legit freaked out that he actually threatened the priest of his church with no more donations unless he gets a place in heaven 🤣
Also Mikey managed to scare the fuck out of Paulie he was so freaked out he went straight to a priest and said his donations to the church should guarantee him a bed in heaven and he kept waking up at 3am screaming in his sleep I’d say Mikey Palmice got the best of Paulie 🤣🤣
@@theportugueselegend Actually that ghost he's talking too is someone else. If you notice he turns his head when he starts addressing the Sonny ghost. The first spirit he speaks too is never addressed after and is likely just some person that Paulie has victimized. (like the waiter he and Chrissy kill)
It's a great scene, because the show conditions you to see the psychic as a fraud with all the vague stuff about the guy's dead dad. Then suddenly he's looking right into Paulie's soul and talking about 30 year old murder details. It's one of those magical realism moments that leaves you feeling a bit shook and uncertain.
It’s pretty clear that in the world of the sopranos, the supernatural and afterlife exist to an extent. Even if we ignore the psychic scene, think about all of Tony’s dreams. The White house. It gets bigger each time we see it. Every time tony directly or indirectly kills someone. Tony’s coma “dream” too. That was meant to be hell. Not a dream. What I don’t get is why some people are in denial about these things existing in the show lol all of those things add so much to the show. It’s amazing
@@rowmagnvs there were much more compelling bits that Tony's dreams which could be down to interpretation. The moving wine glasses, pussies reflection in the mirror, virgin Mary at the bing etc
The problem is Paulie knows what he did and they are coming for him if I was murdered in cold blood nothing would satisfy me than to watch my killer die.
@@versalifekon6610 but the weird thing is that didn't seem to change him after that in the show... one would have thought he felt more spooked after that
"This guy seemed to be legit in his ability to speak to the dead (in the universe of the show)." I don't think so. The show takes place in (basically) the real world, but with fictional people, which means this power doesn't really exist. I think the scene was meant to show how it feels if you can't figure out how a psychic works (i.e. you're the intended audience) and they trick you. That's what it would feel like, like the guy just brought out some really specific information from nowhere. In other words, Paulie's a superstitious guy, so it works on him as if it really is a working magical power, and this is how it looks and feels TO HIM.
In the fictional universe of "the sopranos" there is an after life and the psychic does have real powers. There is no way he could know about the poison ivy. That is not cold reading or lucky guess. That is a legit supernatural power (in a TV show, of course)
***** I highly doubt that Paulie would have talked about his kills with his mistress. There is no way she could have known about Sonny Pagano (Paulie's first hit).
"Charles" - Miss! "Oh, you're with your son" "(Paulie) I aint got no kids" - Miss! "Oh, Sonny" "(Paulie) Pogano?" Hit! "Charles Pogano" "(Paulie) How the fuck d'you know that?" Cold reading. The "Psychic" offers vague, ambiguous phrases and it's the job of the audience to make them fit.
Cold reading techniques didn't give him Sonny Pagano's real first name (Charles) or tell him about the poison ivy that Paulie got on him when killing Mikey Palmice. Within this show's universe, this guy is a legit ghost-talker.
This scene does such a good job of subverting audience expectations. You go in thinking it’s gonna be the usual trope of “obviously bullshit psychic uses cold reading to fool gullible idiots”, and it actually does sort of lean into that at first. But then it suddenly pulls backs and says ‘no seriously, this guy is the real deal and is legitimately talking to the ghosts of Paulie’s victims.’ What a mindfuck.
It's a unique twist that makes the scene interesting, adds more development for a character, results in a funny joke and even adds in world-building to the show hinting that the super-natural exists in this universe. And all this within a single 3 minute scene.
That's what I love about the show. It doesn't need a plot to drive it. Writers pull stuff almost out of thin air and it's still engaging and somehow helps develop the characters, the world around them and basically contributes something to the show.
Not to mention the bold decisions to do all these things that people wouldn't expect in a drama show like this. So many things about the show are almost like experiments and all of those actually work. What baffles me is that no show afterwards has tried most of those unconventional things. At least not one I have seen. The only thing that got common was the anti-hero\villain protagonist.
Undoubtedly one of the best and most original scenes in The Sopranos. I laugh my ass off every single time. Thank you for the memories Mr. Sirico. Rest well✝️
Woah that was trippy I saw your comment said 8d ago and the comment above you was 8y ago and I automatically assumed you’re was 8y ago as well until I read it. Just got done watching this scene during a rewatch and I laughed too but how did the guy know!?
Indeed! He was a freakin’ legend. Besides him in The Sopranos, I’ve seen him one time in Goodfellas, his voice acting in the Fairly Odd Parents as Big Daddy, and Vinny in Family Guy. We’ll truly miss him to this day. May his soul Rest In Peace. 🙏
It's the fact that the psychic seems like he's talking BEHIND Paulie that gets me. Like it's implying the spirits of the dead are constantly following behind Paulie's back. Gives me chills.
In the later seasons I wish we could’ve seen Tony happen upon this guy and be all confident thinking it’s bs, but then he starts making comments that hit too close to home…
+Kermit F Yeah, I've watched the Sopranos more times than I care to admit, but I can't figure out how the psychic new all this stuff. The poison ivy itching him...?
I don't think it was ever explained, though I never felt that they needed to. I think that in the world the characters live in, the supernatural is real and exists. (Remember how he also saw the Virgin Mary in season 6?) For these mobsters, the idea that the dead can still hang around and follow you around can probably really mess you up inside... just look how much it affected Paulie throughout the rest of the show. (3am, the cat, etc.) hahaha. I love how it gave much more depth to his character.
The funniest part about this scene is that the ghosts of the Mafia Goombah Wise Guys that Paulie killed totally interrupted the other ghost delivering an important message to a loved one to start breaking Pauline’s balls. LMFAO amazing writing - still degenerates even in death.
Because you don’t expect him to do anything, just like Paulie. Obviously a show about gangsters is going to mimic the real world right? But when the psychic does it throws you off balance. A mob show that contains a CONFIRMED supernatural element to it is just-unsettling. And the fact that they don’t give any conclusion other than to show you it exists means it lurks in the background. It ends up being very creepy in its own right. A brilliant and risky decision by the writers
This scene is terrifying in hindsight. There's so many dream sequences, but this clearly isn't meant to be one. There is no way that psychic is aware of Paulie's body count, unless this show always had an underlying, supernatural element. Makes you wonder about that Virgin Mary appearance in the Bing.
@Pepi Roni Roni The bench dream scene where he got a chronic case of the shits after going for a curry, could be included, albeit a dream and not strictly supernatural..
@@grundian yeah they’re always talking about God. They’re Catholics who donate to the church but break the law and the whole concept of the teachings of Jesus and the church, all the time.
I always thought of the sopranos as a supernatural/spiritual show. If you really pay attention to it, there’s a lot of themes based on God/the spiritual world.
The episode where Tony dies briefly and is gravely ill, is almost entirely set within his experience of "crossing over" in the after life. Also his name is no longer Tony, but Kevin Finity which I assume could be Infinity. In this scene it takes him a long time to realise where he is, and that he's dying. As soon as he does realise it, he begins to fight it, and not too much after, he returns to his hospital bed.
Paulie was terrified. If there can be ghosts, then there can be judgment for his sins after he dies. If I were him, I would have started repentance and a new life pronto after that experience.
First time I realize he is throwing the chair at the ghost and calling them queers. I always thoguht he referred to the resto of the people attending the meeting. Awesome show, so many leveles, you always pick up something new.
It’s amazing to me that this scene can make me switch so quickly from being deeply unsettled at the “poison ivy” part, to laughing hysterically when Paulie throws a chair at the “ghosts” and calls them queers.
"He wants to know if it still itches" HAHAHA even in the fucking afterlife Mikey taking potshots at Paulie, laughing from beyond the grave. One of the best scenes in the earlier seasons ever
Paulie was a hilarious character in The Sopranos. He always had that typical old school Italian fun style but very aggressive and extremely violent when wrong button was pushed. My favourite was Tony Soprano but if i had to choose a second favourite character it would have been Paulie. I was devastated when I heard that James Gandolfini (Tony) passed away months ago. He was one of my top actors and I had a lot of respect for him. A big loss for all of us. God bless his soul and I am grateful he made me and all of us enjoy The Sopranos to the maximum. Great times.
i was surprised we didn't see him dead (paulie) ive seen the series 2-3 times and he did some MAJOR dirt with little or no remorse and he lives happy ever after with his "mother" eating cookies
Loved james in that movie with Christian Slater (true romance?) where he was the hitman and chick (Alabama?) stabbed him in the foot with the corkscrew. He was great!
I agree. Tony was also my favourite out of all of them. He was a very complex character. He was a tough guy, intelligent, good businessman, funny, down to Earth, generous, family man and man of principles. He could have remorse for a dead prostitute, kill his childhood friend in cold blood, order hits and sleep well. He then had psychological vulnerabilities and insecurities requiring the help of a shrink. An interesting character!
He wouldn't have been fed the info, a little later in the episode Tony asked his about it, which Paulie replied "I used a fake name and called from an outside line"
David Chase has had many interviews about religion and he's always seemed to intimate about there being more of an "underworld" more than a heaven and a God.
There are just enough clues in this show to hint at the supernatural being real: this scene, Pussy's reflection, Phil turning into a house, the Virgin Mary sighting. It can't all be explained away.
For me, this scene felt like one of the realest in the entire series. Superb acting by the leader of the seance. You can tell this is the moment Paulie truly starts to believe in the paranormal. He even thought Chrissy was visiting him as a cat!
I loved this scene so much and Paulie's paranoia after Christopher warns him and Tony about what awaits them. It was such a great element to add to this show. The fear of what these men did and the judgment they'll someday have to face for these actions. And their warped views of how (in Tony's words) hell is for pedophiles and serial killers.
korlu01 Was it hot? The heat would've been the first thing you noticed, Hell is hot, that's never been disputed by anyone. You didn't go to hell, you went to Purgatory my friend!
@@yamaotostrike if you chedck that scene where paulie is with his gumah, you can hear shit clinging right at 3 o clock sharp. that was their sign that they were taunting paulie. not so bad though, they gave tony a heads up for his death. paulie just get's taunted. no biggie.
I'm picturing poor Gregory trying to have a heart to heart with his son, and a roomful of dead Italians yelling something to the tune of "Charles Schwab over here!"
The Sopranos wasn’t a show with supernatural premises and concepts. But you’ll usually get creepy, fleeting hints of something supernatural. An apparently genuine spirit medium, a black bird who shows up at Chris’s made man ceremony, and of course the unexpected and unnerving Marian apparition. It’s all done very well, but not done that often.
haunted maybe but i think he’s protected especially with seeing the virgin mary at the bing. he’s always had good luck over and over again compared to everyone else and got out alive at the end
@@annanicole5494 funnily in this same seen @1:47 when they show another corner a ghost is in there is a virgin mary statue clothed/standing in same way as actual virgin mary at the bing
The psychic had to know that a good majority of The murdered souls by the hands of Paulie were also murderers in the previous life. Just one big, negative, foul mouthed cloud of angry murderous energy that came with this one guy that he never met. No wonder he was asking him to leave abruptly🤣 Such a great scene, btw. Went from seeming like such a sham to just plain creepy. How @00:48, the psychic is being interrupted while talking to the other spirit by Paulie’s spirit. (most likely Charles “Sonny” Pagano) How the psychics eyes fixate around the room, as if more and more spirits are huddling around Paulie, realizing that he has a person in his house that murdered a lot of people. Loved how these isolated but memorable moments of creepiness were snuck into the sopranos to fuck with the viewers mind.
Even from the dead they were still wise guys bullying the other ghost just so their voice could be heard!!!! You could tell they were interrupting the medium to make sure they got their message across….Incredible writing!!!!!!
You could tell that the psychic was distracted by something in Paulie's general direction when he was trying to communicate with the first guys dad. It was the hell bound souls of the people Paulie killed over the years. Just incase anyone doesn't know, the afterlife is canonical and real within the Sopranos universe and it's heavily connected to REM sleep, near death experiences and psychic personalities.
Its kind of hilarious how the first dudes reading was like all these real psychics. Pure fishing, stuff that can be found with a simple trip to the medical records with a cheeky £50 note. Then Paulies reading is filled with shit he couldn't possibly know.
A "real psychic" will often insist that you give no information whatsoever to them. This medium was meant to be real on the show. I don't know why people are saying he wasn't. All of Paulie's victims coming through and Mikey with the poison ivy. I sometimes question the intelligence of the average Soprano viewer.
makes me wish they you could actually see how many ghosts are in the room with Paulie... could've been 10 or could've been 100 lmao but thinking about Mikey's grim reaper smile after being able to communicate with Paulie still has me laughing to this day
After years of loving this scene and this show, I only just now realized he’s throwing the chair at the ghosts and calling them queers. I originally thought it was just him lashing out at all the people there, but now it’s a million times better.
Oh wow. I always thought Paulie threw the chair at the end to scare the psychic and the people there. But I'm pretty sure he's trying to throw it at the ghosts lmao
Paulie in an act of seemingly divine intervention, is faced and confronted with the fact he has killed so many people, I like that when soprano’s characters actually take the time to question their moral character they get supernatural forces telling them the content of their sins, and then they go back to refusing to face it, this is why I love the show.
Its cool to imagine every time Paulie fucks up on the show the ghost of Mikey is stood behind him laughing about it. I suspect he was pissing ectoplasm when Paulie lost his shoe in the snow.
I love how paulie’s ghosts are literally talking over the other people’s so to speak. The way the psychic keeps looking over at Paulie cracks me up he’s clearly being distracted lol.
I found this scene even funnier after Imperioli who wrote this episode said on talking sopranos that Paulie is throwing the chair at the ghosts, I'd alway just seen it as he's throwing a chair in rage to mess the place up.
“That one’s laughing. Poison Ivy? He wants to know if it still itches.” That would’ve been pure ice straight through my soul. 100% haunted, literally.
100%
The fact he gave paulie a face and told him to leave lol
I would’ve shit myself
Also had fuckfaceitis. Diagnosed by Tony.
Only Paulie could be haunted by a ghost with fuckfaceitis
Also love that Paulie's reaction to supernatural fear is to turn his back on a life of Catholicism because he sees it as a protection racket which is no longer protecting him
😂😂😂
yeah lmao, when he says; "i should have been immune to this shit"
priceless 🤣🤣🤣
@@pickle8649 then has a stare down with the Jesus statue
racket is actually an accurate word for the catcholic church
@@pickle8649 LMAO that scene killed me man. Like offering donations gives actual physical protection 🤣🤣🤣
He threw the chair at the ghosts lol
Didn't do any good lol
Lol and called em fucking queers!!!...
He threw it at where he thought they were. That's the best part.
Yeah... that’s paulie. Dude lost his shoe in the woods and almost froze to death. Killed a guy over a restaurant bill. Loves his mother.
Paulie.
Best part.
My favorite Paulie moment of the entire series...
This scene and the Christopher intervention are my favorite moments.
Lol this is my favourite Paulie episode he was legit freaked out that he actually threatened the priest of his church with no more donations unless he gets a place in heaven 🤣
It's so hysterically funny.... the crew and Cameramen must have had a hard time not bursting out laughing out loud
Why?? What the fuck are they saying??
Guess we all know what happened to that interior decorator in the woods now haha
Mikey got the last laugh even from beyond the grave. That’s a true PhD in breaking balls
Also Mikey managed to scare the fuck out of Paulie he was so freaked out he went straight to a priest and said his donations to the church should guarantee him a bed in heaven and he kept waking up at 3am screaming in his sleep I’d say Mikey Palmice got the best of Paulie 🤣🤣
@@wickedwitchoftheeast88 breakin bawlz
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I keep imagining his ghost laughing at Paulie and it cracks me up!
What's a guy gotta do to buy you a drink?
I love how the psychics say he can not hurt you. the ghost is still terrified with paulie
and since it's also his first, it kinda implies its a kid or at least a teenager paulie killed in his youth
@@jamaicandondada9024 It's not. It's Charles "Sonny" Pagano, an old mobster Paulie killed in the 60's
@@theportugueselegend Actually that ghost he's talking too is someone else. If you notice he turns his head when he starts addressing the Sonny ghost. The first spirit he speaks too is never addressed after and is likely just some person that Paulie has victimized. (like the waiter he and Chrissy kill)
I could watch him yelling "fucking queers!" and throwing that chair on a continuous loop for days, and still love it.
Richard G that's exactly what I'm doing
That sound bite is played frequently on Nick DiPaolo's podcast.
Paulie never had the makings of a varsity athlete
Don’t forget he threw it up in the air where he thought the spirits were 🤣🤣
Same
It's a great scene, because the show conditions you to see the psychic as a fraud with all the vague stuff about the guy's dead dad. Then suddenly he's looking right into Paulie's soul and talking about 30 year old murder details. It's one of those magical realism moments that leaves you feeling a bit shook and uncertain.
It’s pretty clear that in the world of the sopranos, the supernatural and afterlife exist to an extent. Even if we ignore the psychic scene, think about all of Tony’s dreams. The White house. It gets bigger each time we see it. Every time tony directly or indirectly kills someone.
Tony’s coma “dream” too. That was meant to be hell. Not a dream.
What I don’t get is why some people are in denial about these things existing in the show lol all of those things add so much to the show. It’s amazing
@@rowmagnvs that was the purgatory but yeah
@@rowmagnvs there were much more compelling bits that Tony's dreams which could be down to interpretation.
The moving wine glasses, pussies reflection in the mirror, virgin Mary at the bing etc
@@rowmagnvs The cat scene too and Chris' picture
@@Bruh-vp6qf wine glasses? Wtf? What is it
Why do I get the feeling Paulie was asked to leave not over grabbing the psychic but because he brought over many murdered spirits?
Yeah the psychic barely looks at him even when he's being grabbed. "He was your first... but I feel many more"
Heh heh heh!
The problem is Paulie knows what he did and they are coming for him if I was murdered in cold blood nothing would satisfy me than to watch my killer die.
Goombah
@@versalifekon6610 but the weird thing is that didn't seem to change him after that in the show... one would have thought he felt more spooked after that
"He wants to know if it still Itches" Thats Mikey Palmice Lmao!
Jimmy Olsen over here
still best thing ever lol
U obviously graduated top of your fuckin class!?!
poor kid died of fuckface-itis
Never expected such a cold brutal line to a victim would come back to haunt him
This guy seemed to be legit in his ability to speak to the dead (in the universe of the show). The poison ivy comment pretty much proved that.
"This guy seemed to be legit in his ability to speak to the dead (in the universe of the show)."
I don't think so. The show takes place in (basically) the real world, but with fictional people, which means this power doesn't really exist. I think the scene was meant to show how it feels if you can't figure out how a psychic works (i.e. you're the intended audience) and they trick you. That's what it would feel like, like the guy just brought out some really specific information from nowhere. In other words, Paulie's a superstitious guy, so it works on him as if it really is a working magical power, and this is how it looks and feels TO HIM.
In the fictional universe of "the sopranos" there is an after life and the psychic does have real powers. There is no way he could know about the poison ivy. That is not cold reading or lucky guess. That is a legit supernatural power (in a TV show, of course)
*****
I highly doubt that Paulie would have talked about his kills with his mistress. There is no way she could have known about Sonny Pagano (Paulie's first hit).
"Charles" - Miss!
"Oh, you're with your son" "(Paulie) I aint got no kids" - Miss!
"Oh, Sonny" "(Paulie) Pogano?" Hit!
"Charles Pogano" "(Paulie) How the fuck d'you know that?"
Cold reading. The "Psychic" offers vague, ambiguous phrases and it's the job of the audience to make them fit.
Cold reading techniques didn't give him Sonny Pagano's real first name (Charles) or tell him about the poison ivy that Paulie got on him when killing Mikey Palmice. Within this show's universe, this guy is a legit ghost-talker.
This scene does such a good job of subverting audience expectations. You go in thinking it’s gonna be the usual trope of “obviously bullshit psychic uses cold reading to fool gullible idiots”, and it actually does sort of lean into that at first.
But then it suddenly pulls backs and says ‘no seriously, this guy is the real deal and is legitimately talking to the ghosts of Paulie’s victims.’
What a mindfuck.
It's a unique twist that makes the scene interesting, adds more development for a character, results in a funny joke and even adds in world-building to the show hinting that the super-natural exists in this universe.
And all this within a single 3 minute scene.
That's what I love about the show. It doesn't need a plot to drive it. Writers pull stuff almost out of thin air and it's still engaging and somehow helps develop the characters, the world around them and basically contributes something to the show.
Not to mention the bold decisions to do all these things that people wouldn't expect in a drama show like this. So many things about the show are almost like experiments and all of those actually work. What baffles me is that no show afterwards has tried most of those unconventional things. At least not one I have seen. The only thing that got common was the anti-hero\villain protagonist.
@@olzhas1one755 >that the super-natural exists in this universe.
So does in our universe too.
@@schannel7138proof?
"You really want me to say it?" that line gives me chills everytime
💀 is it still itches tho
what did he mean by that i still dont get it@@baL88537
“Rooms crowded enough pal, besides all your victims are bumming me out.”
If you think about it, it doesn't really make sense. Mikey killed people too, so are his victims haunting Mikey while Mikey haunts Paulie ?
@@CrabbinFever mikey is likely a demon so yes, that is kinda how it works
This is the first time I realized he was asking him to leave not for grabbing him but for bringing in all the people he murdered.
and or hes becoming aware from the spirits about who Paulie is and his lifestyle.
He desecrated the vibes
@@lucaswilliams2292 That's one way of putting it, LOL! I'm gonna steal that line.
How are you fucking dumb?
From the cautious way he was talking, I think the spirits were growing angrier and angrier
I thought this guy was paulie for a sec lol 0:01
Undoubtedly one of the best and most original scenes in The Sopranos. I laugh my ass off every single time. Thank you for the memories Mr. Sirico. Rest well✝️
Mine, too. Laughed so hard I cried. Rest in Peace Tony Sirico.
Woah that was trippy I saw your comment said 8d ago and the comment above you was 8y ago and I automatically assumed you’re was 8y ago as well until I read it. Just got done watching this scene during a rewatch and I laughed too but how did the guy know!?
Indeed! He was a freakin’ legend. Besides him in The Sopranos, I’ve seen him one time in Goodfellas, his voice acting in the Fairly Odd Parents as Big Daddy, and Vinny in Family Guy. We’ll truly miss him to this day. May his soul Rest In Peace. 🙏
@@ethanmorel2746 he was in Goodfellas?
@@CaptainTrips560 I don't remember him in Goodfellas to be honest
It's the fact that the psychic seems like he's talking BEHIND Paulie that gets me. Like it's implying the spirits of the dead are constantly following behind Paulie's back. Gives me chills.
Well he is carrying a bunch of ghouls with him and Mike's the ringleader 😂😂😂
In the later seasons I wish we could’ve seen Tony happen upon this guy and be all confident thinking it’s bs, but then he starts making comments that hit too close to home…
When I came in one morning there you were hair in the toilet, spirts behind you…. Disgusting
so nobody else was freaking out about how the psychic was dead accurate?
+Kermit F Yeah, I've watched the Sopranos more times than I care to admit, but I can't figure out how the psychic new all this stuff. The poison ivy itching him...?
+{V.O.D.}_Friedrich Paulies gomez at the time must have given him a bit of background information seeing though she was the one that made the call
lol...it's called television.
I don't think it was ever explained, though I never felt that they needed to. I think that in the world the characters live in, the supernatural is real and exists. (Remember how he also saw the Virgin Mary in season 6?) For these mobsters, the idea that the dead can still hang around and follow you around can probably really mess you up inside... just look how much it affected Paulie throughout the rest of the show. (3am, the cat, etc.) hahaha. I love how it gave much more depth to his character.
tomatokid - That is very possible.
Imagine Paulie in the Paranormal Activity house
🤣🤣🤣
Lmfaoooooo😆😆😆😆😆
Fuckin QUUEEEERS!!!
Hahaha I would pay top dollar to see it.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
"Satanic Black Magic, Sick Shit" " Fucken Quuuueeees!!" aaaahahahahahahaha😂😂😂😂😂😂
8D Rose4 Dark Knight it was more like fuckin quizzzz! 😄
The funniest part about this scene is that the ghosts of the Mafia Goombah Wise Guys that Paulie killed totally interrupted the other ghost delivering an important message to a loved one to start breaking Pauline’s balls. LMFAO amazing writing - still degenerates even in death.
Probably wiped his mouth with the guy's tee-shirt too.
lmao Carmine Jr couldn’t have said it better
The hair on my neck stood up when I first saw this, IDK why but it really freaked me out, the actor playing the psychic was so convincing.
The way he was still looking around at the ghosts when Paulie grabbed him was a nice touch.
@@Mikeygeee124 It was like they were all talking over each other in anger and Paulie grabbing him was an afterthought.
Because you don’t expect him to do anything, just like Paulie. Obviously a show about gangsters is going to mimic the real world right? But when the psychic does it throws you off balance. A mob show that contains a CONFIRMED supernatural element to it is just-unsettling. And the fact that they don’t give any conclusion other than to show you it exists means it lurks in the background. It ends up being very creepy in its own right. A brilliant and risky decision by the writers
@@LumpyAdams this reminds me of Tales From The Hood, the very last tale called Hardcore Convict. Pull it up on TH-cam if yall get a chance.
@@JESUSSavedMefromDeath great movie 🍿
This scene is terrifying in hindsight. There's so many dream sequences, but this clearly isn't meant to be one. There is no way that psychic is aware of Paulie's body count, unless this show always had an underlying, supernatural element. Makes you wonder about that Virgin Mary appearance in the Bing.
@Pepi Roni Roni The bench dream scene where he got a chronic case of the shits after going for a curry, could be included, albeit a dream and not strictly supernatural..
@@grundian yeah they’re always talking about God. They’re Catholics who donate to the church but break the law and the whole concept of the teachings of Jesus and the church, all the time.
Especially the 2 Six Packs OF lOWENBRAU For $5.00
I always thought of the sopranos as a supernatural/spiritual show. If you really pay attention to it, there’s a lot of themes based on God/the spiritual world.
The episode where Tony dies briefly and is gravely ill, is almost entirely set within his experience of "crossing over" in the after life. Also his name is no longer Tony, but Kevin Finity which I assume could be Infinity. In this scene it takes him a long time to realise where he is, and that he's dying. As soon as he does realise it, he begins to fight it, and not too much after, he returns to his hospital bed.
"You really want me to say it?!"
Even though he discovered who Paulie truly was, you can tell that wasn't the psychics first hit-man encounter.
And trying not to make every single person in that room (alive) into a loose end in front of a killer.
"THAT ONE'S LAUGHING"🤣🤣🤣🤣
Paulie was terrified. If there can be ghosts, then there can be judgment for his sins after he dies. If I were him, I would have started repentance and a new life pronto after that experience.
He did. Ever seen Lilyhammer? 😂😹🤣
Sorry to burst your bubble but you can repent all you’d like, after murdering several people, there’s only one place for you in the afterlife. 😂
@@Aakinothats Silvio
I like how this scene happens sometime after Paulie reassures Chrissy that his trip to hell was actually a trip to purgatory.
@@stiffchris9720 Perhaps Paulie was trying to convince himself.
It would have been funnier if after throwing the chair, Paulie wrapped up several pieces of coffee cake in a napkin before leaving.
That's some shit I could see him doing too lol
nah he was too shook up
Leave the satanic black magic. Take the coffee cake.
Those are ma's pieces of coffee cake.
That just shows how freaked out he was, didn’t even notice it.
I like how Paulie starts off joking, then gets all attentive once the psychic starts mentioning details about the first guy’s father.
First time I realize he is throwing the chair at the ghost and calling them queers. I always thoguht he referred to the resto of the people attending the meeting. Awesome show, so many leveles, you always pick up something new.
G. Carandini me too
Me too
It’s amazing to me that this scene can make me switch so quickly from being deeply unsettled at the “poison ivy” part, to laughing hysterically when Paulie throws a chair at the “ghosts” and calls them queers.
Only the sopranos
the sprit put him on hold lmfao paulie character was the best
"He wants to know if it still itches" HAHAHA even in the fucking afterlife Mikey taking potshots at Paulie, laughing from beyond the grave. One of the best scenes in the earlier seasons ever
Mikey Palmice was trolling Paulie from the afterlife!
He was asking him to leave because he was slowly realizing that Paulie is a murderer.
Edit: Okay guys, I get it. I’m captain obvious.
Sherlock Holms ova heree
yea, you musta been top of your class..
@@iggyeo6458 didn't he almost drown in 3 inches of water?
sharp as a cue ball this guy
@@LumpyAdams :nods: penguin exhibit...
imagine this psychic walking into the bing with whole crew present.. he'd have a nervous breakdown with all the spirits hanging around.. lol
Overpopulation, lol.
Paulie was a hilarious character in The Sopranos. He always had that typical old school Italian fun style but very aggressive and extremely violent when wrong button was pushed. My favourite was Tony Soprano but if i had to choose a second favourite character it would have been Paulie. I was devastated when I heard that James Gandolfini (Tony) passed away months ago. He was one of my top actors and I had a lot of respect for him. A big loss for all of us. God bless his soul and I am grateful he made me and all of us enjoy The Sopranos to the maximum. Great times.
i was surprised we didn't see him dead (paulie) ive seen the series 2-3 times and he did some MAJOR dirt with little or no remorse and he lives happy ever after with his "mother" eating cookies
@JapFish
Not Italian? I don't get it.
Loved james in that movie with Christian Slater (true romance?) where he was the hitman and chick (Alabama?) stabbed him in the foot with the corkscrew. He was great!
It’s like my uncle 😂, funny not even trying to be but can get mad and has their own view of things but everyone else is wrong, I love it !
I agree. Tony was also my favourite out of all of them. He was a very complex character. He was a tough guy, intelligent, good businessman, funny, down to Earth, generous, family man and man of principles. He could have remorse for a dead prostitute, kill his childhood friend in cold blood, order hits and sleep well. He then had psychological vulnerabilities and insecurities requiring the help of a shrink. An interesting character!
I love that Paulie thought the ghosts would be fazed by a chair of all things. This character really is something else.
Mikey laughing his balls off in the afterlife, poison ivy ftw
Very funny, but creepy scene. What puzzled me more was how the hell that psychic knew all that stuff to the point that Paulie was creeped out?
I am going to guess either the psychic was the real mccoy or someone fed him information before Paulie got there.
He wouldn't have been fed the info, a little later in the episode Tony asked his about it, which Paulie replied "I used a fake name and called from an outside line"
David Chase has had many interviews about religion and he's always seemed to intimate about there being more of an "underworld" more than a heaven and a God.
Not joking at all. There are ppl out there that do this sort of thing and i've always wondered how he knew this about Paulie?
Now your telling your age I don't think most of the people commenting here even know what you're talking about
He wants to know if it still shines....
Tommy went to psychics - Goodfellas HD
Lmfao
*Dont fuck with me. Who you been talkin' ta?*
Imagine Paulie in The Shining
There are just enough clues in this show to hint at the supernatural being real: this scene, Pussy's reflection, Phil turning into a house, the Virgin Mary sighting. It can't all be explained away.
Lol Phil turning into a house
@@seenasoltani1808it was very allegorical, you know, the sacred and the propane
@@seenasoltani1808Houses have radiators. It only makes sense.
@@StitchPenFor twenty fucking years he was that house.
For me, this scene felt like one of the realest in the entire series. Superb acting by the leader of the seance. You can tell this is the moment Paulie truly starts to believe in the paranormal. He even thought Chrissy was visiting him as a cat!
That cat staring at Chris' picture was kind of eerie lol
Chrissy's spirit animal was that crow we saw by the window in his initiation scene
@@hisholiness4537 the crow was a bad omen for sure- spirit animal that’s a stretch
@@John-gg6op idk man chrissy's nose is very much a beak
@@hisholiness4537 why you busting his balls
I loved this scene so much and Paulie's paranoia after Christopher warns him and Tony about what awaits them. It was such a great element to add to this show. The fear of what these men did and the judgment they'll someday have to face for these actions. And their warped views of how (in Tony's words) hell is for pedophiles and serial killers.
There was more than one occasion when paulie woke up at 3am. That hour haunted him for ages.
korlu01 Was it hot? The heat would've been the first thing you noticed, Hell is hot, that's never been disputed by anyone. You didn't go to hell, you went to Purgatory my friend!
@@yamaotostrike if you chedck that scene where paulie is with his gumah, you can hear shit clinging right at 3 o clock sharp. that was their sign that they were taunting paulie. not so bad though, they gave tony a heads up for his death. paulie just get's taunted. no biggie.
@@deathrager2404 a heads up? Where??
@@MasterPoseidon remember when Christopher's dad told Chris to tell Tony about 3:00? That's the direction he'd be shot at from.
I love this scene. There's no ambiguity or question or hinting around. The guys paulie murdered follow him around like a bunch of ghouls!
And Mikey is their fucking ring leader.
all the people Paulie killed were so loud he had to ask that first guy’s ghost to repeat himself lol
"the spirit put him on hold" LOL
“You really want me to say it?” 😂
Psychic is at least a G for being like bro you whacked all these dudes you really want me to say it out loud?
@@UncleHaul prob hears crazy things mans wanted nothing to do with Paulie prob filled the whole room with ghosts
I'm picturing poor Gregory trying to have a heart to heart with his son, and a roomful of dead Italians yelling something to the tune of "Charles Schwab over here!"
The Sopranos wasn’t a show with supernatural premises and concepts. But you’ll usually get creepy, fleeting hints of something supernatural. An apparently genuine spirit medium, a black bird who shows up at Chris’s made man ceremony, and of course the unexpected and unnerving Marian apparition. It’s all done very well, but not done that often.
Also Pussy in the mirror at Livia's wake
2:22 "that one's got fuckface-itis"
This episode and the final episode of the series both basically prove that there is a paranormal afterlife and Paulie is indeed haunted.
Nah
Yup
maybe
haunted maybe but i think he’s protected especially with seeing the virgin mary at the bing. he’s always had good luck over and over again compared to everyone else and got out alive at the end
@@annanicole5494 funnily in this same seen @1:47 when they show another corner a ghost is in there is a virgin mary statue clothed/standing in same way as actual virgin mary at the bing
"Now he's saying to go take a Midol !"
He said on the other side there’s a cure for Fuckfacitis.
@@Alan_Page he said the boy was doing well
Hey Paulie does it still itch???
Mikey Palmice they still haven’t found a cure for that fuckfaceitis
Moolinyan what boys that Tone
Magnus Djembe the one you sleep with
That’s terrifying
Fuckfaceitus is unfortunately incurable Mikey
I know what Paulie is going to say, I know he is going to throw the chair, and yet I still laugh my balls off every time. Best show ever
" How tha fuck do you know that ???!!!
Don´t Fuck with me, Who you been talking too ??!! "
LMAO
there's that ghost just hovering near him....he can't see that?
OK! "Oh Sonny" part sounded like cold reading, but other then that...
In this universe, this was legit.
I love how Paulie’s eyes light up when he mentions Charles Pagano
Love that Mikey is even a jerk in the afterlife, butting in line while the guy is trying to communicate with his dead dad.
The psychic had to know that a good majority of The murdered souls by the hands of Paulie were also murderers in the previous life. Just one big, negative, foul mouthed cloud of angry murderous energy that came with this one guy that he never met. No wonder he was asking him to leave abruptly🤣
Such a great scene, btw. Went from seeming like such a sham to just plain creepy. How @00:48, the psychic is being interrupted while talking to the other spirit by Paulie’s spirit. (most likely Charles “Sonny” Pagano)
How the psychics eyes fixate around the room, as if more and more spirits are huddling around Paulie, realizing that he has a person in his house that murdered a lot of people.
Loved how these isolated but memorable moments of creepiness were snuck into the sopranos to fuck with the viewers mind.
RIP Tony Sirico, Paulie Walnuts one of the greatest characters in the history of television.
Cinema in general
Even from the dead they were still wise guys bullying the other ghost just so their voice could be heard!!!! You could tell they were interrupting the medium to make sure they got their message across….Incredible writing!!!!!!
You could tell that the psychic was distracted by something in Paulie's general direction when he was trying to communicate with the first guys dad. It was the hell bound souls of the people Paulie killed over the years.
Just incase anyone doesn't know, the afterlife is canonical and real within the Sopranos universe and it's heavily connected to REM sleep, near death experiences and psychic personalities.
I love that detail, Like Paulies victims are interrupting with the ongoing session
He really did see the Virgin Mary, it wasn't a hallucination. Tony didn't see her because he was looking for validation for his misdeeds.
Despite all the violence that we saw in this show, this scene, to me, was one of the most chilling
Who have you murdered?
Paulie was always so great with his exits never ceases to amaze me
My absolute favorite Paulie scene. Cracks me up every single time. Rest In Peace Tony Cirico! ❤️
Palmice a badass "does it still itch?" LOL!
When he throws the chair "ya fuckin kweeaz" favorite part of the whole series
Its kind of hilarious how the first dudes reading was like all these real psychics. Pure fishing, stuff that can be found with a simple trip to the medical records with a cheeky £50 note. Then Paulies reading is filled with shit he couldn't possibly know.
Mikey having a good giggle.
A "real psychic" will often insist that you give no information whatsoever to them. This medium was meant to be real on the show. I don't know why people are saying he wasn't. All of Paulie's victims coming through and Mikey with the poison ivy. I sometimes question the intelligence of the average Soprano viewer.
" Who the fawwk are you talkin tah? "
Connorrrrrrrrr mcdavid
Legendary
Now the psychic is talking to Paulie. RIP Tony.
Some are scared of Paulie, but Micky knows what it is (he got caught slipping) and busting his balls with _”Ask him if it still itches!?”_ 😂
makes me wish they you could actually see how many ghosts are in the room with Paulie... could've been 10 or could've been 100 lmao but thinking about Mikey's grim reaper smile after being able to communicate with Paulie still has me laughing to this day
That demented little camera push at 2:30 really makes the whole scene.
Scary imagining the ghost of Mikey constantly following Paulie and laughing at him.
"That one's laughing! Poison ivy? He wants to know if it still itches." Still one of the great Paulie reaction scenes. ;-)
After years of loving this scene and this show, I only just now realized he’s throwing the chair at the ghosts and calling them queers. I originally thought it was just him lashing out at all the people there, but now it’s a million times better.
This was absolutely one of the best scenes out of the entire series.
I like how he says "do you really want me to say" gesturing to the rest of the living people on the room. I also like the line. "That one is laughing"
Oh wow. I always thought Paulie threw the chair at the end to scare the psychic and the people there. But I'm pretty sure he's trying to throw it at the ghosts lmao
Paulie in an act of seemingly divine intervention, is faced and confronted with the fact he has killed so many people, I like that when soprano’s characters actually take the time to question their moral character they get supernatural forces telling them the content of their sins, and then they go back to refusing to face it, this is why I love the show.
Its cool to imagine every time Paulie fucks up on the show the ghost of Mikey is stood behind him laughing about it. I suspect he was pissing ectoplasm when Paulie lost his shoe in the snow.
It's just so funny how paulie is all arrogant at first making fun of it until the psychic comes over to him
Gotta love how Paulie is a cold blooded killer but can't handle "Satanaic Black Magic".
Rip Tony
I love how paulie’s ghosts are literally talking over the other people’s so to speak. The way the psychic keeps looking over at Paulie cracks me up he’s clearly being distracted lol.
"The spirit put him on hold"....lmaooooooo
Paulie was a funny bastard.
I found this scene even funnier after Imperioli who wrote this episode said on talking sopranos that Paulie is throwing the chair at the ghosts, I'd alway just seen it as he's throwing a chair in rage to mess the place up.
Mikey Palmici breaking balls from the great beyond! That's next level trolling lol!
I think this guy is def legit. There’s definitely some supernatural shit going on in the show.
Just realised the mobsters kept interrupting the psychic for having to wait 🤣😆 You can actually imagine what they are saying 😆
"Ey, why you breakin' my balls ova here!" 😂😅
Kinda strange that in the Sopranos universe, ghosts are real.
Catholics. Am I right! 😉 😂
being from a country where believing in the afterlife is a common thing, this scene makes a lot of sense for someone like Paulie, great scene
Lol even ghosts are still afraid of how crazy paulie is.
This might be the funniest moment in the entire series.
When he had to ask the ghost to repeat himself cus he was probably getting heckled by paulies murdered spirits.
Paulie could’ve been the fifth Ghostbuster
RIP Mr. Sirico. Now you can put the rest of us 'on hold.'
It’s the fact that Paulies ghosts kept interrupting the psychic and the other ghost he was talking too 😂😂 like they couldn’t wait they turn
Watched this scene a million times but just realized he tries throwing the chair at the ghosts lol
The poison ivy bit literally gave me chills.
It's the mysticism of the show that brings me back to it. The dreams, sequences like this, "3 o'clock."