Slog - Comments on Try This at Home http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home Okay, so I knew the last episode of The Sopranos was broadcast last week. And I knew it was a big deal. And I know who Tony Soprano is. And I even knew the last episode had something to do with Tony Soprano going to a diner. But, honestly, I don't watch the Sopranos (and I don't know the theme song) and I was pretty oblivious to the whole deal. And so, whoooops, I watched the whole Hillary Clinton Sopranos spoof thinking, "This is one bizarre ad"—making up all sorts of interpretations of my own about what in the world... Copyright 2008 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:34:33 -0800 Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:09:26 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by elswinger What is this, Freaky Thursday? The layout is all screwed up.

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748545 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748545 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:43:17 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe So, is she supposed to be James Gandolfini's character, or his wife?

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748547 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748547 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:45:38 -0800 Comment by Carollani The Slog is totally fucked in Firefox. Way to go Feit. Heh.

]]> Carollani http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748549 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748549 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:48:21 -0800 Comment by adrian! she is totally an uncharismatic toad, wooden as a boat bottom, and he's a saggy old can't-act. i don't trust that woman one bit, and how did HE age so damn much so damn fast? is she slipping powdered lead into his rice crispies? do they live on a uclear waste dump?

]]> adrian! http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748551 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748551 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:49:33 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Josh broke the Slog!

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748557 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748557 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:54:26 -0800 Comment by Josh Feit @5 etc...

Fixed. I think.

]]> Josh Feit http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748560 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748560 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:57:29 -0800 Comment by Haiku Guy Sopranos to Josh
Singers in a higher pitch
in Tommy debut

]]> Haiku Guy http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748562 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748562 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:58:24 -0800 Comment by yo #2: She's supposed to be Tony Soprano. She's the one flipping through the songs on the jukebox, just like Tony.

I thought the piece was really smart and entertaining. Sure she's no actor, thank god. We've already had one actor-for-president; don't need another.

]]> yo http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748563 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748563 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 09:59:02 -0800 Comment by Carollani Whew! I was forced to open IE for ten minutes of slog-reading, thank god it's fixed.

....y name is Carollani, and I'm an addict.

]]> Carollani http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748564 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748564 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:01:56 -0800 Comment by Shawn Johnny Sack Lives!!! I love it! Hillary, not so much...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Sack

]]> Shawn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748565 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748565 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:05:58 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV I thought the big, glaring guy should have been played by Obama.

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748571 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748571 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:13:08 -0800 Comment by Mr. Poe I guess I'm the only one who finds the role swaps amusing.

]]> Mr. Poe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748575 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748575 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:15:28 -0800 Comment by steve Wow. Thanks, Josh. I was just as confused. "What's with the big Clinton-Hater stare-down? That's random" I thought to myself. Glad to know I'm not the only one who was at a loss as to why this was so popular.

]]> steve http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748578 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748578 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:20:34 -0800 Comment by The Peanut Gallery Tune in next week for another exciting episode of "When Pop Culture Bites Back"

]]> The Peanut Gallery http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748579 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748579 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:22:56 -0800 Comment by SeMe You cant pretend you didnt see that episode. The only people that didnt see that episode are aging hipsters, and my dead grandmother.

Thats Johny Sacks ferchrisakes!! HRC is going to sweep in Jersey. If only she had the nasal accent like Carmela. Like I said in an earlier thread, this was genious by our lame future president. Hillary/Richardson you heard it here first.

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748580 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748580 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:23:34 -0800 Comment by elswinger #15 and those of us without HBO

]]> elswinger http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748588 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748588 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:31:21 -0800 Comment by Fnarf This is class war. I don't have HBO either. I've never seen a whole episode of The Sopranos.

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748594 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748594 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:33:44 -0800 Comment by SeMe ha. a quick survey reveals that its the middle class who lacks HBO. again the underclass spending on crap. damn.

anyway, you gents can watch the reruns on A and E. or you can watch it on YOUTUBE. or you can rent the whole series at the video store. the show is only topped by THE WIRE. best tv since ALl in the family.

]]> SeMe http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748598 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748598 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:39:29 -0800 Comment by NapoleonXIV Ali in the Family? To bad Carroll O'Connor has passed on, because I'd really like to see that. :(

]]> NapoleonXIV http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748599 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748599 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:43:17 -0800 Comment by Ariel Yeah, um. I totally don't know anything about the Sopranos. But sort of pretend I do. So, I already did that exercise, but for real. My thoughts went like this:

-There must be a lot of jump cuts to other people (who are happy and unaware)in the Sopranos. Y'know, to emphasize all that tension.
-There must be a woman who takes care of her man nutritionally, and the curmudgeony-but-loveable man resents her for it. Those Sopranos!
-Are there a lot of teenage-daughter-can't-park jokes in "The Sopranos?" Is that an Italian joke?
-Scowling, egg-shaped possibly mob-type man! He looks like he could be a Soprano. I wonder if he's supposed to be a certain one.

]]> Ariel http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748601 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748601 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:45:37 -0800 Comment by spencer You don't need to have HBO to have known what was beeing spoofed, since they played the end of the Sopranos episode on lots of other channels the next day as a news story. But even having known what was going on, I thought the stare down was a reference to Hillary-haters. All-in-all, it's not a bad idea for an ad, but the execution is awkward, and I really wanted Chelsea to run in at the last second.

]]> spencer http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748623 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748623 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 11:12:27 -0800 Comment by ECB People! Have you never heard of NetFlix? I don't even have a TV, fer chrissakes, and I've seen all of the Sopranos up to this season.

]]> ECB http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748668 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748668 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:00:08 -0800 Comment by Josh Feit Some of us snobs don't give a shit about the sopranos.

]]> Josh Feit http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748676 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748676 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:11:22 -0800 Comment by Katelyn I love that Hillary was Tony. Way to Man Up.

]]> Katelyn http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748679 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748679 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:12:24 -0800 Comment by Fnarf Precisely. And "All in the Family" was total crap (except for the episode with Sammy Davis, Jr.). My netflix queue is stacked up a hundred deep with stuff I need to see more than the Sopranos, and then there are the trips to Scarecrow for the stuff Netflix doesn't know about (namely, most of the movies I want to see), and dodgy DVD-R web sites for the stuff Scarecrow doesn't have (most of most of the movies I want to see).

]]> Fnarf http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748681 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748681 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:14:56 -0800 Comment by Callie Not ALL intelligent people watch EXACTLY the same television series, people. I've never been a Sopranos watcher, and currently don't have HBO. That's not to say I don't watch other shows (Six Feet Under!) that everyone else loves. I have not seen the last episode, and all coverage I have read about it came from SLOG. Aside from it being set in a diner and ending with Journey, I don't know anything about it. I also probably wouldn't have known this ad was a Soprano's spoof if you hadn't told me (although it's hard to tell until I watch it with sound).

]]> Callie http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748706 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748706 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:31:30 -0800 Comment by Patrick OMG Did Hillary get shot in the end there? Did Johnny Sack assassinate her?

The ending of the Sopranos will be parodied repeatedly for years now, so you guys better get used to seeing dinner scenes that end suddenly.

My favorite part of this ad is Bill looking at the carrot sticks and getting sad for the lack of onion rings.

]]> Patrick http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748724 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748724 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 12:46:51 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Sorry, I don't do HBO.

But I did spend my teen years in a town where the majority of people were from Italy (Trail, BC).

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748778 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c748778 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:40:05 -0800 Comment by um That carrot bit was pure Clinton for those who haven't seen the actual Sopranos show.

In the Sopranos version, everyone is chowing down on onion rings. I was fully expecting onion rings, too, but laughed when I saw the carrots, considering Bill's heart issues. So that was a nice twist.

I'm not into the Sopranos, but watched the last episode.

("Sorry, I don't do HBO." That's nice, snob.)

]]> um http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c749027 http://slog.thestranger.com/2007/06/try_this_at_home#c749027 Media Thu, 21 Jun 2007 18:09:26 -0800