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Thanks to somebody's bad bet, Christopher becomes the owner of a bar and he makes Adriana the owner of record and the manager. She renames the place Crazy Horse. When a drug dealer, Matush, is thrown out of the club for selling drugs in the men's room, he approaches Jackie Jr. for help. Jackie, the would be gangster, tells him he'll take care of it. Christopher flatly refuses permission to sell drugs on the premises but that isn't quite the message Jackie gives Matush. Jackie Jr. and Meadow are seeing a lot of each other and Carmela in particular isn't at all comfortable with the arrangement. Tony speaks to Jackie who assures him that school is going well and that he has nothing to worry about. AJ gets into deep trouble when he and some of his friends vandalize the pool area at his school. Tony begins spending more time with Gloria Trillo.

Fifteen-year-old Lady Gaga - when she was still Stefani Germanotta - played a cigarette-smoking tough girl who watches A. J. and his friends trash their high school swimming pool. Lady Gaga mentioned in her high school yearbook under the "Bet You Didn't Know" section that "She was on The Sopranos". The Lady Gaga swim scene begins right around the 10:58 mark.

Christopher buys Adriana a nightclub, which they re-name "Crazy Horse". That was the name of a nightclub in New Rochelle, NY, once owned and operated by Vincent Pastore, who plays "Big Pussy".

In this episode, A.J. gives Carmela a DVD of The Matrix for her birthday.

The Matrix starred Joe Pantoliano, who plays Ralphie in this series.

When Christopher tells Adriana the nightclub he bought is hers to manage, he says "You're gonna turn this place into the biggest club in Jersey since the Stone Pony." The Stone Pony was a club in Asbury Park where Bruce Springsteen used to play before he broke big. Steven Van Zandt, who plays Silvio, played guitar in Bruce's E Street Band.

The film Tony is watching while laying in bed eating cake is, "Its a Gift" (1934), starring W.C. Fields.

If you look at the crowd closely during the Crazy Horse opening you can see Artie Bucco in the crowd dancing to the band.

The song played during the ending credits is "i", by Ben E King.

The band, "Miami Relatives", playing in Adrianas club are actually a real New York band called "Scout".

The band Fear Factory is referenced both on a poster in Crazy Horse and on a hat worn by AJ. He also wears Machine Head and Pantera hoodies.

As Gloria unbuttons Tony's pants, he says "Her name is G...", referring to the song "Gloria", by Them.

When Meadow is at home asking her parents for a car, the NPR show Car Talk can be heard in the background.

The episode's title is a pun on the title of the Edgar Allan Poe short story "The Tell-Tale Heart", about a murderer who is hounded to justice by the beating of his victim's heart underneath his own floorboards. "Moozadell" is Italian-American slang for mozzarella cheese. When A.J. and his friends break into their school's pool, A.J. orders a custom-made pizza with extra mozzarella. The police find remnants of the pizza at the scene of the crime and immediately trace it to A.J. "Moozadell" can also be used as an Italian ethnic slur. In this sense, the title refers to Jackie Aprile, Jr.'s posing as a gangster to impress his friends and getting Meadow to write a college essay for him--an essay about Edgar Allen Poe.

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    • Author: Questanthr
    Remember Annabella Sciorra in Jungle Fever? She played a normal Italian-American girl who shamelessly embarked on a relationship with the black Wesley Snipes, causing her closest relatives (including Sopranos cast members Michael Imperioli and Frank Vincent) to embrace a quite bleak solution to the problem. This time around, she has no one to upset with her behavior, but the guy she has chosen to bed spells "mayhem" like few others do: James Gandolfini.

    Picking up from a brief scene in the previous episode, we now follow Tony's affair with Gloria Trillo (Sciorra), a patient of Dr. Melfi. At first, everything seems to be fine: they meet, chat and have casual sex without thinking too much. Soon enough, though, it becomes clear Gloria might be as big a pain in the ass as Tony's past mistress Irina, and that one tried to kill herself! Another relationship that is causing controversy is Meadow's involvement with Jackie Jr. : Carmela is particularly annoyed, even though Tony seems to think it could work out fine, especially after having an open conversation with the boy. Of course, no one told him Jackie is friends with a drug dealer who has been bothering Christopher recently, and that things are likely to get out of hand.

    With the exception of the Chrissy part of the narrative (he gives Adriana a club as a present and makes sure nothing illegal happens there), the episode is entirely devoid of mob violence, focusing wholeheartedly on the two conflicting romances, one almost idyllic (Meadow-Jackie), the other destined to get screwed up (Tony-Gloria). The latter is given extra energy by Sciorra, who injects her role with appropriately Italian fiery passion that contrasts nicely with the emotional coldness of other women in the show (Melfi in particular). She is not exactly scene-stealing, but hers is one of the better guest appearances in the series.

    Oh, and the title? It derives from the American pronunciation of "mozzarella", the kind of cheese they use to make pizza. It is one such meal that reveals A.J. and his buddies vandalized the school's swimming pool. Hilarious.
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    • Author: Obong
    Chris gives Adriana a club and is fighting drug dealers even after Jackie Jr. asks him to let one of the guys be. Jackie Jr. is also dating Meadow and Tony tries to keep him at his best behavior. Tony is dating Gloria which Dr. Melfi suspects. And AJ gets suspended for vandalizing the school pool.

    I think this is the quiet episode that brings us the previous about all the problems we get to see in the final part of the season. There sure is supposed to be a clash between Jackie Jr. and Chris with guns involved. The mob's anti drug tendency is kind of annoying so I am almost on Jackie Jr's side here. There is also another problem just about to happen which is the new mistress of Tony who has tried to commit suicide after her last break up.
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    • Author: Lcena
    Chris buys Ada a club, which he earnestly works to keep drug-free. Meadow continues to see Jackie Jr., who is starting to get too big for his britches and clearly is not heeding Tony's advice to stay out of the family business. Tony starts "dating" Gloria, whom he first met in Dr. Melfi's waiting room. When he next shows up for an appointment with Melfi, he is almost rapturous in his happiness and contentment, which of course will prove to be short-lived. So what else is new? Annabella Sciorra as Gloria appears, at least in this episode, to be sexy and perfectly normal, but Tony never finds out why she is seeing Melfi, who won't talk to Tony about other patients, and in subsequent episodes Tony will find out all about Gloria the hard way. We see a bit of Carmela, but the episode is basically focused on Tony's latest romance. Sciorra, one of those actresses many people may recognize but cannot put a name to, here gives us only the slightest hint of things to come with the tempestuous Gloira Trillo. Can you say manic depressive? How about psychotic? Just think of Irina. Times 10.
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    • Author: Lo◘Ve
    The Sopranos

    A classic take on the most beloved genre which clearly suggests the crazy love it received from the audience but also left a long lasting impression on critics and awards shows where it took away five justified Golden Globes to its home. The Sopranos is a character driven series about a family that basically runs the whole town, just illegally.

    The writing is adaptive, gripping and ground-breaking on terms of its structure that is so eerily easy as it slips away from the audience like some jelly; it is sweet, nutritious and immensely pleasing. It is rich on technical aspects like its metaphorical cinematography, sharp sound effects and up beating songs along with palpable background score. The series is shot beautifully, each and every color sparks up neatly; especially the visuals that are taken in sunny days are amazing.

    The performance by the cast is plausible since the effort is clearly visible but Gandolfini, Bracco, Falco and Imperioli stands alone due to their easiness in their acts. Gandolfini; at the heart of it, oozes power and the aegis nature which is what helps makers keep the audience rooting for the character.

    The relationship between Gandolfini and Bracco is the highlight of the series due its fragile tone which is soothing to experience as it lights up the series in a whole new way. Pragmatic conversations, three dimensional character, gut-wrenching politics, brawny dialogues and brilliant execution are the high points of the feature that makes it one of the best series.

    Season 03

    The third act is more lethal and gut wrenching with bloodbath and cheats and betrayals at each step and addition to that what helps ground it to more humane version is the emotionally fueled characters that revolved around this explosive bubble; it surely is a sight to look at.

    The Telltale Moozadell

    The gossiping nature script is often amusing and tricky that keeps the smirk on your face the entire time and addition to that, in here it ends on a more intense note that makes you think twice on the offered layered concept.
  • Episode cast overview, first billed only:
    James Gandolfini James Gandolfini - Tony Soprano
    Lorraine Bracco Lorraine Bracco - Dr. Jennifer Melfi
    Edie Falco Edie Falco - Carmela Soprano
    Michael Imperioli Michael Imperioli - Christopher Moltisanti
    Dominic Chianese Dominic Chianese - Junior Soprano (credit only)
    Steven Van Zandt Steven Van Zandt - Silvio Dante
    Tony Sirico Tony Sirico - Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri
    Jamie-Lynn Sigler Jamie-Lynn Sigler - Meadow Soprano
    Robert Iler Robert Iler - A.J. Soprano
    Drea de Matteo Drea de Matteo - Adriana La Cerva
    Aida Turturro Aida Turturro - Janice Soprano
    Federico Castelluccio Federico Castelluccio - Furio Giunta
    John Ventimiglia John Ventimiglia - Artie Bucco
    Joe Pantoliano Joe Pantoliano - Ralph Cifaretto
    Jerry Adler Jerry Adler - Hesh
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