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The Sopranos' tour of NJ
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The show's 25th anniversary takes a tour of its famous locales
It’s the 25th anniversary of HBO’s “The Sopranos,” a show that made the state of New Jersey both famous and infamous. For the anniversary, NJ Spotlight News joined a tour of the show's landmark locations for the media and super fans, some coming all the way from England and Ireland.
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The Sopranos' tour of NJ
Clip: 1/12/2024 | 4m 10sVideo has Closed Captions
It’s the 25th anniversary of HBO’s “The Sopranos,” a show that made the state of New Jersey both famous and infamous. For the anniversary, NJ Spotlight News joined a tour of the show's landmark locations for the media and super fans, some coming all the way from England and Ireland.
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You're only as good as your last envelope.
And in New Jersey, Die hard fans are only as good as the trivia and quotes they can spout from the series.
So in honor of the television shows 25th anniversary, a local media company offered a tour across North Jersey featuring stops at some of the most notable landmarks from the show.
And our senior correspondent Joanna Gagis got to hop on board.
I'd like to propose a toast to my family.
It's been 25 years since the first episode of The Sopranos graced our screens.
And yet, for fans, old and new, the magic of the show has carried on all these years later, after all.
That's right.
Satriale's.
It's very good.
Yeah.
This is where the Satriale's building used to be.
Just ask this group who got the tour.
Several of the filming locations around New Jersey yesterday.
Probably access them over 25 times with lots of from start to finish.
Some on this tour came all the way from the U.K., a testament to the global reach of a show that focused on Italian-American mob life in North Jersey and New York in the early 2000 with a mob boss who was secretly going to therapy for panic attacks, a pretty groundbreaking idea for the time when therapists were still referred to as shrinks.
And the complexities of emotion had little place in organized crime.
I like to call this the FBI park because for some reason they like to have meetings with FBI agents whenever a character turns FBI informant.
This little alleyway we see in season two because he's meeting his FBI handler, Skip.
It was such a time capsule of an era of, like, this fading mob scene that was gone.
And they're trying to keep it alive.
And he's just on life support.
Jon Caplan is a new fan of the show, which is proof that the intense storyline and cinematography stood the test of time to reach a whole new generation of viewers.
On its first season.
It's very good so far.
The reason it survived, I think because it's also been very controversial, not just the ending, but also throughout the show, it's been willing to push the envelope and really test test the limits of TV, because David Chase, when he created the show, he wanted to be a filmmaker.
And you can sort of see the way that The Sopranos was filmed.
It's more like they're more like one one hour movies as opposed to a TV show.
John DiFelippo led the tour through parts of Kearny where many episodes were filmed.
It used to.
Be called the Irish-American Association of Kearny New Jersey.
It's used as a club.
They actually make it up to be the Italian American Association of Kearny, New Jersey.
To the infamous Bada Bing, the gentlemen's club where Tony held court actually called Satin dolls on Route 17 in Lodi to Bloomfield's famous Holsteins ice cream shop for some onion rings, a nod to the final scene that was filmed here.
The show forever changed, Holstein says.
General Manager Karl Schneider.
Pre-Sopranos.
We were famous.
Post-Sopranos, We were infamous.
That's what it came down to, basically.
Yeah.
Popularity really just exploded.
Fans got to share in a little slice of that infamy.
We could say, Yeah, I've been there.
I've signed up to watch the show.
Probably five times in total, and it's got to be my favorite show of all time.
Is this a bucket list item right here, sitting in that booth?
Yeah, it is indeed.
Yes.
25 years later, The Sopranos series ending is still one of the most controversial, one of the most speculated talked about TV series endings ever.
Spoiler alert here, if you still haven't seen it, people still argue about what happened here in this booth.
I think probably Tony.
Ended up getting shot by the guy who went in the bathroom.
I think no, but if I watch it again, I'm of a different opinion.
Right.
That I think that it was his last supper.
No, there's no way a professional gangster out of a mob farm is going to let someone walk into a restaurant, not notice him, and then go to a bathroom and be shot.
Tony would have stopped.
You would have seen him.
Is still alive.
He's out there somewhere.
Sadly, actor James Gandolfini, who played Tony, died in 2013.
But like his character, he lives on in the hearts and minds of all those who still love The Sopranos.
In Bloomfield, I'm Joanna Gagis, NJ Spotlight News.
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