"you'd think I was Hannibal Lecture or something"

 

On the last post here, I typed in the title, "Law & Order, the SUV" - of course the correct name of the TV show is "Law & Order, SVU" (special victims unit).  

        What I typed referred to a moment in The Sopranos where Christopher and, I think, one of his New Jersey associates are in Hollywood, trying to get Christopher's career as a screenwriter started.

        I believe it was the other character who says, "I'm a big fan of your show, Law and Order the SUV!"

Eehhhh - funny.

An hilarious element of The Sopranos is the periodical inclusion of a moment like this, where they kind of know what they are talking about, but they misspeak.  It adds texture to the atmosphere of the show:  like, this is who these people are.

        They know some stuff, but they don't know other stuff.

"He's the hair apparent."

The term is heir apparent, and heir is pronounced "air." - it's the person who is going to inherit.

Christopher says "hair", pronouncing the "h," like the hair on your head. ...

In a way, it's off-putting, and in another way, it draws you in, because you come to know these characters better and better, one little layer at a time.

        (Now, whether these are people you would want to know...that's another question...)

The misnomers and malapropisms of these crass, wily, murderous North Jersey Mafiosi just make me laugh, every time.

"the sacred and the propane"

"Law and Order the SUV"

"you know - Quasimodo predicted all this"

        L-l-l- to the o-l

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