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12 May 07 - 11:50 AM (#2049994) Subject: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: wysiwyg I'm not one of Mudcat's story-writers, but I thought I'd just toss this late-night jest between me and Hardi up for grabs. If The Sopranos was a show about cats..... CAST: Tomcat Soprano (gray strips) and marmalade wife Caramella Psychiatrist Dr. Meowwwfi ~S~ |
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12 May 07 - 12:26 PM (#2050020) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: Becca72 Paulie Walnuts as a slinky tuxedo cat... |
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24 May 07 - 10:12 PM (#2060368) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: wysiwyg Theme song: ... got yourself a claw (got yourself a claw) ... catbath in your eye (shame about it) Thanks be to Hardi, ~Susan |
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25 May 07 - 03:00 AM (#2060439) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: Liz the Squeak Well this is completely lost on those thousands of us who don't watch 'The Sopranos'... LTS |
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25 May 07 - 08:28 AM (#2060574) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: Becca72 Well at least 2 of us had fun with it. :-) Final 2 episodes ever coming up. I'm sad to see it go. It's a great show |
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25 May 07 - 10:12 AM (#2060658) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: wysiwyg Yeah, some of us don't get a lot out of the UK TV show threads, either Liz. (No Sopranos in the UK?!?!?) We only have the season 1-6 DVDs, so it will be years before we get to see the final episodes. ~Susan |
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25 May 07 - 10:22 AM (#2060669) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: Liz the Squeak We do have the Sopranos in the UK, we're not that much behind the US, I even watched an episode once... found it as entertaining as cleaning the toilet with language that belonged IN the toilet. I guess that's just me though. I'm sure people find it enjoyable but I'm not one. However I like playing this sort of game and was disappointed that I couldn't contribute. How about 'Hill Street Blues' with a cast of cats... Renko would be the fat marmalade one. LTS |
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25 May 07 - 10:28 AM (#2060675) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: Dave'sWife Liz - the Sopranos was one of those shows that was really best gotten into at the very beginning. At the time it debuted, it was so uunigue and the writing so spot on a US subculture that it watching it was like belong to a secret brotherhood. the first 2 seasons were truly the best and its been downhill ever since but if you got hooked in the start of it, you feel compelled to watch. It helps if you grew up in NYC or NJ where the Italian subculture is most prominant. it's not just the mob stuff that intrigues, it's the references to a dying immigrant culture, the food, the music, in the first two seasons the funny interplay between the married women and the Church (the way they all sort of romanced a handsome priest with home-cooked food). I can see why it wouldn't play well outisde the culture. It was a good show but it shall be a relief when it ends. It's been tedious and fairly pointless the past couple of years |
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25 May 07 - 10:31 AM (#2060678) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: Wesley S Hmmm - I guess I'd cast Tony's daughter Meadow as a Siamese. |
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25 May 07 - 12:26 PM (#2060774) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: Becca72 They killed off the character a couple years ago (one of my favorite episodes) but Big Pussy (hehe) could be a huge Persian. My ex is from South Jersey, near the Pine Barrons where they tried to "off" the Russian dude...we used to travel there all the time to see his family...and it really is very much like you see on the show. |
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25 May 07 - 01:55 PM (#2060846) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: Dave'sWife Becca, where in Jersey? my husband is from Ewing near Princeton junction. Also, I have friends from South Jersey and visit them often. Once, trying to get back on the Garden State parkway from Leed's Point (The devil's birthplace) to go back to Cape May where I was staying, we wound up lost in the Pine barrens for 4 hours, following a sandy road that paraelled the parkway all the way past Atlantic City. Turns out we were told wrong - there was no southbound entrance to the parkway! I thought we were doomed. We eventually come to a werid toll bridge over a creepy cranberry bog. The toll was ten cents - in 1990!!! This Lovecraftian looking semi-human toll-kepper manned the strange booth. The toll bridge was wooden and only one lane wide. I have never been able to figure out where it is on a map. The same fella who gave us the wrong directions ( A horror writer and doctor from Brick NJ) once took me to another weird place - a restaurant in Hamilton Township. it turned out to be a Mob hangout for real and our waiter had a huge knife scar down his left cheek. When we tried to order 4 different types of pasta, he menacingly told us "Only TWO pasta per table, got that?" The restaurant was in a private home too. After that I swore never to let that guy pick the restaurant again! |
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25 May 07 - 03:07 PM (#2060896) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: PoppaGator I love the Sopranos. Maybe it's partly 'cause I grew up in Central NJ and enjoy seeing many familiar locations (especially Down The Shore). My greatest objection, the thing that seems most unrealistic and out-of-whack (pardon the pun) is the incredibly stupid name some writer chose, early on, for Tony's daughter. No Italian-American family, not matter how "assimilated," is ever going to name a baby girl "Meadow." If for no other reason, you have to use a saint's name to be baptized in the Roman Catholic Church, and the Sopranos are (quite realistically and characteristically) practicing Catholics, despite all the murder and mayhem. Over the years, we've all gotten used to this character's name and it doesn't seem so grating as it did at first. But it was wrong from the git-go, and it's still wrong. |
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25 May 07 - 03:18 PM (#2060904) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: Dave'sWife PoppaGator, you have to be BAPTISED with a saints name but thast doesn't mean a mother with a flair for twee sounding names can't choose something like Meadow. I grew up next to a girl who had a baby in college with her boyfriend and she named the kid Amber. (Yuk, eh?) Her parents, good Italian Catholics from Boston had the kid baptised Maria. I was also baptised with a saints name (Elizabeth) because the Irish name I was given wasn't a saints name. I guess it depends on your parish, the presiding priest and the godparents. |
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25 May 07 - 03:49 PM (#2060923) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: wysiwyg Well, I guess the topic of the thread is done. It was about CATS, and now it's a referendum and reminiscence about the show, and New Jersey! ~Susan |
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25 May 07 - 04:16 PM (#2060935) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: Wesley S God - Grant me the serenity to accept the threads I can not change - the courage to change the threads I can and the wisdom to know the difference. |
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25 May 07 - 04:49 PM (#2060954) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: PoppaGator Dave's Wife, Yeah, I know your baptismal name can be different from the name you use in daily life. My own sister Marie was baptised Philomena, which appears on her birth certificate as well as the baptismal certificate. She recently had her name legally changed (after 50+ years!) because of trouble getting her paycheck correctly processed! It had never been an issue before, at least not an issue that couldn't be easily resolved, but after moving to a new state-university-employer* in a new state, there was no other way to get paid! "Amber" may not be to your taste as a name, and it is certainly not Italian, but at least it's a plausible name. I'm sure most of us know someone named Amber. (Probably someone under the age of 35 or so.) But Meadow?!?!?!? Susan, I'm sorry that you feel the need to "own" this can of worms that you opened. This is hardly the first time that "thread drift" has occurred here at the Mudcat Cafe, and sometimes the new directions are as interesting, if not moreso, than the original idea. Not necessarily this time; mind you, I am making so such claim. If there were another ongoing discussion of The Sopranos before you broached the cast-of-kittycats subject, things would probably have been different. However ~ unless I'm mistaken and I missed something ~ this thread appeared as the first and so-far-only place to exchange BS about a very popular cultural phenomenon at a fairly critical point in time (2 episodes before disappearing forever). FWIW, we've got two cats and like them well enough, but I can't for the life of me come up with a clever riposte along the lines that you suggested... *Illinois at Champagne-Urbana |
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25 May 07 - 04:50 PM (#2060956) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: Dave'sWife oh c'mon..threaddrift is fun! Here, I'll make a stab at bringing it back to the original... Johnny Sack would be one of those grizzled and surly Tomcats you see prowling about with one ear half ripped off - usually a grey cat with white mittens and cutesy name like Bootsie - but just as likely to slice your nice off as look at you. I think Dr. melfi or Meowfi would be one of those sxy new designer cats that looks like a tiger.. say maybe the Toyger or a Mau (the ones with big ears and spots) |
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25 May 07 - 04:59 PM (#2060967) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: Becca72 Dave'sWife, My ex is from Egg Harbor, NJ. His mother lived very close to the Pine Barrons...sounds to me like you had a run-in with the Jersey Devil! |
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25 May 07 - 06:01 PM (#2061009) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: wysiwyg Guess what-- I get frustrated, too and I get to pop off like everybody else (a few of you posting in this thread have popped off a time or two, for instance). Lecture me all you like-- it's just more MudShit as far as I'm concerned! ~Susan |
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25 May 07 - 06:09 PM (#2061014) Subject: RE: BS: Tomcat Soprano From: PoppaGator No problem, all in good fun.... |