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The Sopranos
2016-11-29, 1 mention2017-01-17, 1 mention2017-06-20, 1 mention2017-11-13, 1 mention2017-12-11, 1 mention2018-01-30, 1 mention2018-08-30, 1 mention2018-09-20, 1 mention2018-11-16, 1 mention2018-11-23, 1 mention2019-02-02, 1 mention2019-03-09, 1 mention2019-08-18, 1 mention2019-11-03, 1 mention2020-05-03, 1 mention2021-06-27, 2 mentions2021-09-05, 1 mention2021-10-03, 2 mentions2023-04-23, 1 mention2024-11-02, 1 mention2024-11-16, 1 mention2024-12-07, 1 mention2025-02-08, 1 mention2025-12-13, 1 mention2026-06-20, 2 mentions2026-08-08, 1 mention
Tim’s take
He treats The Sopranos as the standard other shows get measured against and mostly fail to meet, calling it possibly the best TV show ever made and ranking a stretch of Curb Your Enthusiasm against three seasons of it 38:55 50:49. That standing is personal as well as critical — he grew up near Vinny Ocean, the real mobster David Chase used as inspiration, and brings that up whenever the show comes up 26:27 1:12:04 4:29. When Ozark gets mentioned in the same breath as it, he says he'll kill whoever does that 1:06:01.
Outside of ranking shows, he uses it as a reference point for other arguments — Tony without Carmela as an analogy for cancel culture, Carmela's obliviousness as a stand-in for a terrorist's wife with a Birkin bag 42:17 12:10. He was thrown by the gay storyline in The Many Saints of Newark but still calls the original show epic 0:10.
Every Reference (29)
"looked exactly like Tony Sopranos. That was the inspiration for the Sopranos, like a suburban mobster. They talked to David Chase."
"up. I go golfing I get my methadone shot, and then I watch the Sopranos. I didn't think that was 20 years That's what there was like"
The Car Ride Fight Between the One-Armed Minister and the Crackhead — Kind Of A Minister+238s into the segment"HBO is very strong brand people know what they're gonna get the wire the Sopranos Game of Thrones whatever they have all the archives"
The Death of Cable TV and the Rise of YouTube Personalities — You Can't Have Everything+96s into the segment"is is is is Beyond my what I understand in life like I love the Sopranos, but if you told me if you said hey Hey, you know what you"
Cruise Jail, People Falling Overboard, and the Shitting Incident — Floating Buffet (with Ralph Sutton)+91s into the segment"phenomenal. She was phenomenal But it's like are you gonna say that the Sopranos is good without Tony? No, just put Carmella in charge of them"
Should We Sanitize Art? Pedophile Artists and Sopranos Comparisons — Stewed Reunion (with Mike Recine)+162s into the segment"made I was having dinner tonight I said I almost feel like the Sopranos was the best TV show I feel like the wire is more than a TV"
The Mortgage Crisis, Bubbles, and Immigration Overcorrection — Searching For Bobby Fischer+196s into the segment"the car like you are a fat disgusting Remember that scene in the Sopranos where he goes, you look like a Puerto Rican. Whoa. Yeah, that"
Communist Ambush, Pegging Matt, and Fat Kid Summers — Stewed Reunion (with Mike Recine)+147s into the segment"Cavill candy family Jersey They made a show about him called the Sopranos So like a lot of my friends when I was growing up their dads"
"kind of like them. That's what happened to Uncle Junior on the Sopranos. Is that true? He just kept going to funerals. That was because"
Funeral Etiquette and the Conservative Aunt — Growing Up Gottschee with Dan St. Germain+139s into the segment"and I mean real Irish, not like white bread, like you know on the Sopranos it was like you're a white bread wop. Not like you're really,"
"a lot of my friends' buddies, in my town, like the dude who the Sopranos is is based on this guy, Vinny Palermo, Vinny Ocean Palermo."
"end of the beginning. I can tell you that beginning and end of a Sopranos episode, I can't tell you the middle. Right. You know what"
"ocean right yeah he was this guy that lived in my town that The Sopranos is based on he ran a family in New Jersey you know so Tim's"
"place like Leonard's of Great Neck where they shot a scene from The Sopranos you go to a garish disgusting Long Island catering hall that"
The Long Island Wedding Saga of Tommy and Nicole — #172 - Long Island Wedding | The Tim Dillon Show+134s into the segment"this country should be but occasionally by accident they make the Sopranos or the wire or breaking bed but it's it's primarily santa clarita"
Fat People Don't Learn Their Lesson and Cheesecake Culture — #198 - I'm A Hero | The Tim Dillon Show+173s into the segment"three seasons of The Sopranos going into curb that 90 minutes for drama and comedy yeah I think is the best 90 minutes in the history of Television"
Curb Your Enthusiasm's Origins and Legacy — #258 - Fat Recluse | The Tim Dillon Show+148s into the segment"then you know for example you know what was great about uh The Sopranos was they hired real directors it wasn't like the writers are"
Directors, The Sopranos, and Jeff's Other Projects — #258 - Fat Recluse | The Tim Dillon Show+10s into the segment"the sopranos again i will i will kill the person who does that mentions"
Ozark vs. The Sopranos and Stranger Things Distrust — #267 - The D'Amelio Variant | The Tim Dillon Show+2s into the segment"the people that are that are in the movie, right? I mean the The Sopranos is an epic show. I don't It's weird the direction they took"
The Many Saints of Newark's Shocking Gay Tony Soprano Storyline — #271 - The Many Taints of Newark | The Tim Dillon Show+21s into the segment"York with people and they went, "This is where they filmed The Sopranos." Like that's the entire way they interface with the world"
Nepotism in Hollywood: Gandolfini's Son, Cooper Hoffman, and Chalamet Fatigue — #271 - The Many Taints of Newark | The Tim Dillon Show+22s into the segment"Henry Hill like an island park and they all Sopranos was about a guy who lived in Iowa they all lived in it all those mob guys moved"
Small Talk: Colin's New Show About Surveillance Culture and Snitching — Small Talk with Colin Quinn | The Tim Dillon Show #343+69s into the segment"shoreh house okay I watched that episode White Caps God I love The Sopranos so this woman I don't know her name but what's her name do"
Yaya Sinwar's Wife and the Birkin Bag Controversy — Pizza Hut & Birkin Bags | The Tim Dillon Show #415+271s into the segment"than The Sopranos which was the greatest show that's ever made The Sopranos and my estimation is the greatest show that's ever made this"
Armie Hammer's Podcast With His Evangelical Mother — Trump's Cabinet | The Tim Dillon Show #417+207s into the segment"I'm rewatching The Sopranos what a great line bakala Tony I bet you don't even see it coming I bet you don't even see it coming The Sopranos that great episode when they're on the lake"
Sopranos, Christmas Music, and the Execution Video — CEO Assassinations & Christmas In New York | The Tim Dillon Show #420+6s into the segment"you do a fair job I like to watch that show it's a fine show The Sopranos but it's a damn good show it's a good show it doesn't matter"
Bit About Offering to Pay Netflix's Bill and Praising Hacks — Emilia Pérez & The New Gaza | The Tim Dillon Show #430+72s into the segment"Sopranos, the pilot. I made my producer watch the pilot of the Sopranos. Wow. Wow. How far we have fallen. I mean, there's great shows"
Who Will Own the Brain Rot Slop Factory: Warner Bros., AI, and the Death of Art — Erika Kirk, Bonnie Blue & The Brain Rot Slop Factory | The Tim Dillon Show #474+19s into the segment"things you've done. I think this is Yeah, okay, here we go. The Sopranos right here. Take it away. Let's watch this. If we can, it takes"
America as Carmela Soprano Setup — Iran’s Baddie Era & The Data Center Destiny | The Tim Dillon Show #500+272s into the segment"limit to what we can go out there and do. And we are Carmela at the end. That's where we are. We've been We've lived in the big house"
America's Lost Moral High Ground and the End of Dominance — Iran’s Baddie Era & The Data Center Destiny | The Tim Dillon Show #500+97s into the segment"This is what we heard in Iraq. It's the famous line from The Sopranos where Michael Imperioli's character Christopher Moltisanti goes, "Don't you listen to president? We're kicking the [ __ ] out of those guys over there.""
The Case for Lying About Losing the Iran War — Perez Hilton, Trump’s Lies, & Data Center Detonation | The Tim Dillon Show #507+200s into the segment