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>Yeah, the Tony family angle gets very boring.

Agreed

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>My all-time favorite Christopher/Paulie exchange, from the Pine Barrens episode (season 3). Tony tells Paulie (during a phone conversation with a bad connection) that the Russian they shot was a former member of the interior defense. Paulie only understood half of what Tony said, and then turns to Christopher and says, "Tony just said the guy we shot was an interior decorator or something." Christopher responds, "Really? Jeez, his apartment looked like sh**"

Paulie really showed what a whingeing wimp he is in that episode - where they had to spend the night in the car in the snow. He was practically crying. Incidentally, the other day I just caught a clip of the movie "Johnny Blue Eyes" or whatever it was called, with Hugh Grant wanting to marry a mobster's (James Caan) daughter. The Paulie character was in that too - exactly the same hairdo and accent.

I like the little guy who does the Al pacino Godfather impression "... but they keep pulling me back in". I'd love to see an episode where his wig comes off.

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>Christopher is a bit brighter than Paulie, he just gets brought down to Paulie's level when they're together. Remember the episode when Chris could only tip the server twelve dollars on a thousand dollar dinner bill? That was one of the few episodes that truly BOTHERED me. Most of the time the show is much like the old Wolfen movie - most of the people who get whacked are junkie degenerates. But that one went over the line.

Very upsetting that, and you lose the begrudging affection you've built up for the character.