46 Long

"**46 Long**"
"46 Long"
The Sopranos episode
Episode no.	Season 1; Episode 2
Directed by	Dan Attias
Written by	David Chase
Cinematography by	Alik Sakharov
Production code	102
Original air date	January 17, 1999
Running time	50 minutes
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"46 Long" is the second episode of the first season of the HBO original series The Sopranos. It was written by David Chase, directed by Dan Attias and was originally broadcast on January 17, 1999, in the United States.

Synopsis

After

Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, who runs an auto repair shop, to look out for the vehicle. The thieves are found, but the car has been "chopped

" so they are told to steal another one. The teacher is surprised when his car is returned with the same plates, but different keys and a different color.

restitution be made, which Tony accepts, but Christopher, who thinks he is due his button

, attempts to reject. Tony insists on receiving the full amount, saying he will talk Junior down, but Christopher is aware that Tony will take some for himself, and little will be left for him and Brendan.

Although they have been told not to attack the trucking company again, Christopher and Brendan, both high on cocaine, plan to hijack a shipment of Italian suits. However, when Brendan arrives to pick him up, Christopher, stoned and reflective, decides to sit the job out. Brendan proceeds with the hijacking along with two inexperienced associates. One of them drops his gun, which fires when it hits the ground, killing the driver. When Tony learns of this, he orders Christopher and Brendan to return the whole consignment to Junior and come to terms with him, though first his crew help themselves to a few of the suits.

A small fire occurs when Livia is cooking. Tony insists that she accept a live-in nurse, who Livia soon enrages and causes to quit. While driving, Livia forgets to shift her car into reverse and badly injures a friend of hers to whom she has just given a ride; she is forced to move into the Green Grove retirement community. In her house, while collecting photos of himself as a child with his parents, Tony nearly has another panic attack.

Although Tony himself tells his mother, "You've got to stop with this black poison cloud, because I can't take it anymore," he cannot bear hard words about her from

Georgie Santorelli

, the bartender, clumsily uses the telephone in a manner similar to Livia, Tony grabs the handset and beats him with it.

Cast

James Gandolfini as Tony Soprano
Dr. Jennifer Melfi
Edie Falco as Carmela Soprano
Michael Imperioli as Christopher Moltisanti
Dominic Chianese as Corrado Soprano, Jr.
Pussy Bonpensiero
Steven Van Zandt as Silvio Dante
Tony Sirico as Paulie Gualtieri
Anthony Soprano, Jr.
Jamie-Lynn Sigler as Meadow Soprano
Nancy Marchand as Livia Soprano

Guest starring

Jackie Aprile, Sr.

Also guest starring

Mikey Palmice
Brendan Filone
Drea de Matteo as Adriana La Cerva
Georgie
Johann Carlo as Bonnie DiCaprio
Debrah Ellen Waller as Perrilyn
Mike Epps as Jerome
Yancey Arias as Arnaz
Tibor Feldman as U.S. Attorney Braun
Harvey Levin as Talk Show Host
Steven Randazzo as Vincent Rizzo
Kate Anthony as Counter Person
Anthony Caso as Martin Scorsese (misspelled Martin Scorcese)
Victor Colicchio as Joe
Marcia Haufrecht as Fanny
Desiree Kehoe as Nude Dancer
Michael Park as Bouncer
Antjuan
Charles Santy as Truck Driver
David Schulman as Mr. Miller
2nd Truck Driver
Special K

Title reference

46 Long is a large man's suit size.^[1]

Production

pilot episode, appears in a new role as Christopher's girlfriend, Adriana La Cerva

. De Matteo was initially cast as the hostess in the pilot episode only, but creator David Chase liked her performance so much that he developed the role of Adriana for her starting with this episode.

Reception

Alan Sepinwall wrote of the episode that "some of it – particularly anything involving Tony and Livia […] feels fully-formed and very much of a piece with what we would come to know as one of the greatest shows ever made. And some of it is David Chase still fiddling with the knobs and levers"; Sepinwall considered the family-oriented scenes strong while viewing the subplot about the car theft as "still on the broader, lighter end of the comedy spectrum, […] It's not bad, but it's not quite right, either."^[2] In The A.V. Club, however, Emily St. James praised "46 Long" as "a confident expansion of the show's universe", considering it an example of "the show's keen sense of generational conflict, of the ways that different kinds of people come into conflict with each other."^[3]

References

^ Petersen, Stephanie (January 31, 2012). "Men's Suits Buying Guide". Overstock.com. Archived from the original on July 27, 2015. Retrieved January 31, 2012.
^ Sepinwall, Alan (June 10, 2015). "'The Sopranos' Rewind: Season 1, Episode 2: '46 Long'". Uproxx. Archived from the original on July 28, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2017.
^ St. James, Emily (June 9, 2010). "The Sopranos: "46 Long"/"Denial, Anger, Acceptance"". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on August 22, 2017. Retrieved April 15, 2017.

External links

"46 Long" Archived August 18, 2016, at the Wayback Machine at HBO
"46 Long" at
IMDb

[1] Petersen, Stephanie (January 31, 2012). "Men's Suits Buying Guide". Overstock.com. Archived from the original on July 27, 2015. Retrieved January 31, 2012.

[2] Sepinwall, Alan (June 10, 2015). "'The Sopranos' Rewind: Season 1, Episode 2: '46 Long'". Uproxx. Archived from the original on July 28, 2018. Retrieved April 15, 2017.

[3] St. James, Emily (June 9, 2010). "The Sopranos: "46 Long"/"Denial, Anger, Acceptance"". The A.V. Club. Archived from the original on August 22, 2017. Retrieved April 15, 2017.

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