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“Marco Polo”

Unlike most people who watched it, apparently, I really enjoyed last night’s “Sopranos”; honestly, an episode has to be pretty bad for me not to like it (I’d ascribe the epiphet “that sucked” to maybe five or six hours in the show’s history, and last night was the 60th; I know, however, that many watchers of the show expect a classic every time out and are thus always disappointed)

One very important bit from last night: about halfway through the party scene we see Tony Soprano talking to Steve Buscemi, and Tony points at his house and says, either, “you know, you built this house,” OR “you know, HUGH built this house.” Which one is it? The former would seem to indicate that he’s saying the rackets he and Tony B ran paid for his house after TB went away (thus driving Tony B’s jealousy), yet the latter would also make sense, since Hugh (Carmela’s father) is a roofer, and after all, the party is for him. Then again, maybe it’s merely a second homage to “Curb Your Enthusiasm” and its “Fuck Hugh” episode.

Also appearing on the show as the Indian doctor in an early scene was Brandeis grad Samrat Chakrabarti who is nothing less than a legend in the much-neglected subculture of collegiate a cappella.

As always, check out the Slate forum; this week the main debate is over whether or not those sausage links around his neck would’ve stained Tony’s shirt.