The Sopranos: 2x07 D-Girl - Tony and Dr. Melfi talk about Existentialism (HD 1080p)

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  • čas přidán 12. 07. 2011
  • After AJ crashes his mom's car and tells Tony and Carmela that there's no God, Tony vents to his shrink Dr. Melfi during therapy.
    "The Sopranos" is the property of HBO and its creator David Chase. I don't own any part of the series so I'm not making any money here.
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  • @AZK91
    @AZK91 Před 2 lety +549

    "Sounds to me like Anthony Jr stumbled on to existentialism"
    "Fucking internet"
    😂😂

    • @davidgangemi3314
      @davidgangemi3314 Před rokem +21

      Tony isn't far off.
      Where else is there a place guaranteed to have no absolute truths?😉

    • @Fleyk1707
      @Fleyk1707 Před rokem +5

      @@davidgangemi3314 books

    • @Townesvanwaits
      @Townesvanwaits Před 3 měsíci +1

      Lol he's imagining it like AJ just literally stumbled across the subject on one of his chit chat rooms.

  • @sean2914
    @sean2914 Před 2 lety +187

    Melfi: how is your mother?
    Tony: she’s dead to me
    Melfi: 👁👄👁

  • @PHOTOGRAPHYBYDEREK1
    @PHOTOGRAPHYBYDEREK1 Před 10 lety +881

    "anthony jr may have stumbled onto existentialism"
    "fuckin' internet"
    lol.

  • @gt2rs260
    @gt2rs260 Před 2 lety +178

    How is no one talking about that last line?! "Think the kid's onto something..." that line was COLD

    • @mahmoudkhater3449
      @mahmoudkhater3449 Před rokem +4

      exactly my reaction too good 😂

    • @MrFish626
      @MrFish626 Před rokem +17

      love that line, Tony knows the existential dread all too well, yet he refuses to aknowledge it

    • @kevinmarshall9547
      @kevinmarshall9547 Před měsícem

      My first thought as well. Killer writing

  • @nokaut
    @nokaut Před 3 lety +202

    Meadow: What do you think education is? You just suddenly make more money?? This IS education.
    [Tony and Carmella stare at each other in utter confusion]

    • @osvaldogarrido3726
      @osvaldogarrido3726 Před rokem +20

      That's why meadow is not a bad character at all

    • @M-E_123
      @M-E_123 Před 11 měsíci +7

      Go to your room

    • @Townesvanwaits
      @Townesvanwaits Před 3 měsíci

      I like how meadow always stuck up for AJ. AJ had horrible, God awful parents, but at least he had a good older sister. Didn't hurt that she was sexy as hell too. Madone, little creep probably sniffed her underwear

  • @mikefitz3779
    @mikefitz3779 Před 5 lety +184

    You forget how clever and thought provoking and funny the Sopranos was.Some of the best wrighting and acting in the history of Television ,a genius show.

    • @andresaguero5880
      @andresaguero5880 Před 4 lety +3

      And people say that The Sopranos is nothing complex compared to The Wire...

    • @sinane.y
      @sinane.y Před 4 lety +10

      @@andresaguero5880 Who's saying that lol Aside fanboys of either show most people realize both are the best ever

    • @andresaguero5880
      @andresaguero5880 Před 4 lety +9

      @@sinane.y I always read people in internet saying that The Sopranos is the most fun, entertaining show while The Wire is the most complex and deep. I can't disagree more. The Sopranos is the most profound dissection of what is being an human being.

    • @sinane.y
      @sinane.y Před 4 lety +1

      @@andresaguero5880 yeah I mean there ARE people who say that, but I've also come across a lot of people who do realize the Sopranos is quite profound

    • @phoenixmodellingphotography
      @phoenixmodellingphotography Před 3 měsíci

      ​@@andresaguero5880 I don't think it's overdramatic to describe The Soprano's as the bible of TV shows. Just an unbelievably accurate and timeless dissection of human psychology and the way it reflects back onto you in every aspect of society told through gritty realistic modern fables that feature every personality archetype you'll ever come across going through every kind of interpersonal drama you'll ever experience and how the way they deal with it morally shapes them

  • @NOLFGirl
    @NOLFGirl Před 13 lety +65

    fucking Internet!

  • @hippiecheezburger5457
    @hippiecheezburger5457 Před 5 lety +148

    The writing is so fucking unbelievable, like Tony says he teaches AJ to respect and appreciate and love his mother but children watch and he watches Tony and his relationship with his own mother, his grandmother, that’s where true influence comes from, it’s amazing how complex it all really is, it’s fucked up how Tony is seen through AJ’s eyes and how AJ doesn’t understand how to live up to this truth.

  • @sitcomchristian6886
    @sitcomchristian6886 Před 2 lety +111

    "She's dead to me" wow, my husband has said that about his mom, to me, in the exact same way. Heavy stuff.

    • @bastmode882
      @bastmode882 Před 2 lety +13

      The show gets so real.

    • @brianwalsh1401
      @brianwalsh1401 Před 2 lety +15

      I hope he's gotten some therapy to help him work through that. My mom was batshit crazy and it profoundly impacted my life in a very negative manner. She grew up in a pretty dysfunctional family as well. this is passed on from generation to generation until you pass it back.

  • @Jasonificatiation
    @Jasonificatiation Před 8 lety +319

    I love how the writers have him filter her words through his brain and he always wiggles out of it somehow, and it's done it a 100% believable way that gives you hope that he MIGHt one day get it. (at least earlier on)

    • @hippiecheezburger5457
      @hippiecheezburger5457 Před 5 lety +43

      Tony is always in denial, and always gets frustrated when confronting that he is responsible for how his wife and children perceive him, I never used to see how much a narcissist he actually was even after multiple viewings of the series

    • @OpenMawProductions
      @OpenMawProductions Před 4 lety +3

      @B T
      Careful. We all have our blind sides.

    • @coffeecrimegal5968
      @coffeecrimegal5968 Před 3 lety +7

      @@hippiecheezburger5457 Tony isn’t a narcissist. He’s a sociopath. Sociopaths are usually hot-headed and have explosive tempers, they’ll react without regard for how it will affect the people around them.

    • @yannick245
      @yannick245 Před 3 lety +6

      @@coffeecrimegal5968 No that's antisocial-personality-disorder. Solely sociopaths are mostly cool headed. It's the combination...

    • @thesupreme950
      @thesupreme950 Před 3 lety +6

      @@yannick245 sociopaths have antisocial personality disorder.

  • @Jordan-rb28
    @Jordan-rb28 Před 2 lety +40

    Their private talks are some of my absolute favorite scenes from the show

  • @IndustrialMilitia
    @IndustrialMilitia Před 4 lety +57

    Existentialism came into being much earlier than the end of WW2. Many of the most influential existentialists were active even before WW1.

    • @mayaram2411
      @mayaram2411 Před 3 lety +20

      True, but you can't deny it gained a lot of prominence in an age where we saw the church ignore the evil that was brewing in the 1930s and exploded in the early 1940s. And now, it seems like most Europeans are indifferent to the church.

    • @IndustrialMilitia
      @IndustrialMilitia Před 3 lety +4

      @@mayaram2411 That's fair. I think Sartre might have given it it's name "Existentialism" although I could certainly be wrong. But Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Dostoevsky were all pre-WW2, and pre-WW1 for that matter. I think Heidegger published Being and Time in 1927? maybe, or it might have been 1922. Before WW2. I guess it's actual popularity might have increased substantially after WW2.

    • @mickymac6571
      @mickymac6571 Před 3 lety +15

      @@IndustrialMilitia ooh!, Fucking Sigmund Freud there, madone!!.

    • @JammastaJ23
      @JammastaJ23 Před 3 lety +3

      Yeah Kirkegaard was early to mid 19th century

    • @OlPalJoe
      @OlPalJoe Před 2 lety +3

      i think she might mean it got really popular at the time. mainstreamed

  • @MrSinthan
    @MrSinthan Před 3 lety +37

    *"You think my mother and father was gonna stand for that shit?"*
    ...so thats a yes, Tony. You've shoved all your emotions down all your life, and here you are.

  • @NadaCero
    @NadaCero Před 2 lety +26

    this is one of the best episodes of the entire series

    • @BM-dq3bv
      @BM-dq3bv Před 2 lety +5

      Really? D-girl is one of my least favorites. Though I love this scene

  • @mariegnr
    @mariegnr Před 13 lety +136

    Impecable scene and dialogue...Chase is my heroe.

    • @work-in-progress.
      @work-in-progress. Před 6 lety +2

      Agreed. I know my comment's late but I needed a little Anthony Soprano via David Chase right now since I'm having my own existential crisis. I really miss this show. At least we got to experience some television that comes close in quality since then, like True Detective (season one), Fargo series & Game of thrones. Two more classic scenes czcams.com/video/Fgc9Gq4xzVs/video.html ----- czcams.com/video/ilgBbGvZYQg/video.html

    • @marttitanner7470
      @marttitanner7470 Před 3 lety +8

      Heroe.

    • @DemocracyManifest
      @DemocracyManifest Před 3 lety +7

      Hearo

    • @stevenbeoethy4049
      @stevenbeoethy4049 Před 3 lety

      Girl, you're MY Hero(ine)!
      ... So friggin adorable, Maria!

    • @limyize
      @limyize Před 3 lety +4

      Heroe.

  • @russscott552
    @russscott552 Před rokem +19

    As a retired psychiatrist, I loved how the writers wrote for mefi. Her character like all of us in school had so much Freud to read and talk about. It's almost like sitting there and wanting to yell at her don't go towards Freud with this man and his mother!!!! I think in one chapter it happened and he exploded to her about what he thought she was referring to between Tony and his mother. That great writing, something for all of us somewhere. I was hoping ,just once, she gave in to his lust for her. Believe me it happens to many of us. I was lucky to be reprimanded once for a note language for one of my patient's, made me more guarded, and careful.

  • @Yiannis1982
    @Yiannis1982 Před 11 lety +57

    R.I.P. James.

  • @stormedcapone
    @stormedcapone Před rokem +12

    Love how tony says he teaches aj to love and respect Carmela when Toby himself doesn’t really love or respect Carmela.

  • @ASimoneau
    @ASimoneau Před 6 lety +10

    Might be a slight homage to "Analyze This."
    "Sounds to me that Anthony Jr. might have stumbled onto existentialism."
    "Fuckin' internet."
    "Oedipus was a Greek king who killed his father, and married his mother."
    "Fuckin' Greeks."

  • @rickECU
    @rickECU Před 11 měsíci +5

    Always enjoyed the scenes between Tony and dr. Melfi.

  • @havour9O7
    @havour9O7 Před 10 lety +91

    I learned about existentialism from Encarta '98.

  • @havour9O7
    @havour9O7 Před 10 lety +76

    "Fuckin' internet" LOL

    • @nyterpfan
      @nyterpfan Před 9 lety +8

      Yep--I rolled on the floor HOWLING when I heard that!! That's EXACTLY what somebody like Tony Soprano would say in that situation.

    • @yannick245
      @yannick245 Před 8 lety

      +nyterpfan I almost cried!

  • @westcoastkidd17
    @westcoastkidd17 Před 2 lety +9

    AJ should have talked to Norm Macdonald about a youthful porpoise.

  • @dkamphaus43
    @dkamphaus43 Před 3 lety +12

    "Has Anthony Jr. heard you say she's dead to me?"
    It's hard to imagine that he hasn't considering he's said it several times each episode since the start of season 2.

  • @sergiomendoza4040
    @sergiomendoza4040 Před 3 lety +25

    Melfi just explained basically my entire outlook on life lol. It’s a good conversation and scene though for sure very thought provoking, which is surprising considering Tony’s job and how he acts outside the therapy room.

  • @UndeadEagle12
    @UndeadEagle12 Před 3 lety +17

    the eps where tony's storyline takes a backseat are where the sessions are most... existential

  • @stoplisteningtothestatic7078

    Maybe my favorite scene in the series! favorite therapy session for sure

  • @bernieudo4399
    @bernieudo4399 Před 2 lety +9

    Imagine you're Tony's therapist. He suspends the reality that he could kill her for the insights she articulates in exchange for both a sounding board & empathic advisor. Now you're walking a high wire. Now you're effectively his counselor shielded by a privilege. Takes guts to be alone in a room for...ten rounds.

  • @TheDisinterestedSpectator
    @TheDisinterestedSpectator Před 8 lety +28

    Vintage scene.

  • @surbon514
    @surbon514 Před 11 lety +67

    Great scene. I would have to say however, that people can all too easily focus on the many negative and defeatist aspects of existentialism. There is also a deist form of this belief as espoused by Heidegger, not just the atheist life-is-meaningless beliefs of Sartre,to which Dr Melfi makes reference.
    The positive side of existentialism is that man is inherently born free, and is responsible for his own actions, but also his own destiny.

  • @AndyGillis6273
    @AndyGillis6273 Před 4 lety +9

    This is a drop the microphone scene for Dr. Melfi...kaboom!!!

  • @bovineintervention276
    @bovineintervention276 Před 5 lety +8

    The way she says "no no no" xd

  • @charliecroker7005
    @charliecroker7005 Před 3 lety +11

    These two are the best double act on the internet.

    • @Match_OffTv
      @Match_OffTv Před 2 lety +2

      Carmella and Tony are the best double actually

  • @iloveamerica007
    @iloveamerica007 Před 4 lety +18

    I always enjoyed these psychiatric moments

  • @waltwhitman7545
    @waltwhitman7545 Před 2 lety +4

    that ending was cool

  • @Brianfilms
    @Brianfilms Před 4 lety +9

    Fuckn internet lool

  • @JakeandElwoodBlues
    @JakeandElwoodBlues Před 10 lety +4

    LOLed when he said that!

  • @RajaMCool
    @RajaMCool Před 9 lety +35

    Existentialism is some dark and dense material. Makes you think about the meaning of life for which there is no concrete answer.

    • @Hellwyck
      @Hellwyck Před 5 lety

      42

    • @gigicestone4902
      @gigicestone4902 Před 5 lety +7

      For fuck's sake, no, it's the simplest shit ever, it's all a crapshoot, nothing matters, move on already.

    • @OXY187
      @OXY187 Před 4 lety +1

      Fuckin internet

    • @tkm9374
      @tkm9374 Před 3 lety

      Gayyyyyy

    • @pinoyyya6948
      @pinoyyya6948 Před 2 lety

      the meaning of life is not relevant to paying your bills

  • @ultrahighgain412
    @ultrahighgain412 Před 2 lety +14

    My heart always broke for big T in these moments. I just couldn’t hate the guy.

    • @justinwyatt8
      @justinwyatt8 Před 2 lety +2

      Sympathy for the devil. Mission accomplished

    • @radicevicdent1354
      @radicevicdent1354 Před 2 lety +2

      @@justinwyatt8 tony is not devil. just manage hell ( people on the planet earth)

  • @swheel007
    @swheel007 Před 2 lety +2

    As she described him to his face.

  • @GillianSeed
    @GillianSeed Před 4 lety +2

    Fuckin' internet!

  • @tenkenroo
    @tenkenroo Před rokem +2

    “Think my mother would have stood for that?”
    “She’s dead to me” guy has zero self awareness

  • @PierreBayle1697
    @PierreBayle1697 Před 11 lety +14

    Good points. There is another scene in this episode where existentialist philosophers are discussed. The character disparages Sartre as a fraud, mentions Heidegger and expresses his approval for the Christian existentialist philosopher Soren Kierkegaard.

    • @SuperGreatSphinx
      @SuperGreatSphinx Před 4 lety +1

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard

    • @Feiticeira522
      @Feiticeira522 Před 7 měsíci

      This show is what inspired me to take a philosophy class in college

  • @mariegnr
    @mariegnr Před 12 lety +4

    I am my own boss. So yes.

  • @mharouny1
    @mharouny1 Před 2 lety +1

    "Fucking Internet"

  • @biggbals4375
    @biggbals4375 Před 5 lety +24

    "Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion." - Democritus

  • @abigsplash
    @abigsplash Před 4 lety +4

    DrM: Sounds to like Anthony Junior may have stumbled onto existentialism. TS: Fucking internet.

  • @surbon514
    @surbon514 Před 11 lety +6

    (continued) In this way, because existentialists don't believe in predestination, you could say that an existentialist can follow his or her own path more easily. I have brought all this up because it's important to see past the gloom and doom of some aspects of Sartres' beliefs to realize that there's a lot of positive things about existentialism too! Have a good day.

  • @markgiardina5600
    @markgiardina5600 Před rokem

    “The howwwrres”

  • @yesucansell2
    @yesucansell2 Před rokem +1

    Moms are incredibly complex.

  • @mediocreape
    @mediocreape Před rokem

    "nitch said that"

  • @rrt4511
    @rrt4511 Před 4 lety +2

    -Fucking internet
    -no no no, it's a european philosophy
    -yes, as I said, fucking internet

  • @drpepper8806
    @drpepper8806 Před 3 lety

    Y r all these people taking my name so good hearted that they give out money they shouldn't have access to

  • @metaphysicsclimatechange
    @metaphysicsclimatechange Před 2 lety +1

    Has yer son heard that Phil leotardo did twenty years in the can???

  • @jonathandunne43
    @jonathandunne43 Před 3 lety +1

    Broccooooo🤩🇮🇪♥️💋

  • @andyb1336
    @andyb1336 Před 11 lety +1

    Well that is what the evidence tells me. Replicate the experiments if you like to find the same results.

  • @thefloridamanofytcomments5264

    Fuckin internet

  • @ricochetVendetta
    @ricochetVendetta Před 11 lety +12

    That was genuine insight, who was their psy consultant

    • @chadmichael03
      @chadmichael03 Před 4 lety +7

      David Chase spent years in therapy, and had a borderline mother like Tony did. And David Chase is a brilliant writer, and what all brilliant writers do best is observe, analyze, and synthesize. I bet this scene is all David Chase and none of the other writers or consultants.

    • @leighannadavis6570
      @leighannadavis6570 Před 4 lety +3

      @@chadmichael03 thank you for that insight. This was a brilliant show. The dialogues are impeccably written. The way they filter each other in this scene gives me chills.

  • @samsabini1638
    @samsabini1638 Před 2 lety +1

    what is existentialism? she didnt explain it properly

  • @jerry85g7
    @jerry85g7 Před 5 lety

    Fucking internet

  • @cygnustsp
    @cygnustsp Před měsícem

    You watch this knowing how tv is put together and you realize they're not speaking to each other, it's a bunch of solo shots and man it kind of ruins it

  • @Gabagool_king
    @Gabagool_king Před 3 lety

    F*cking inta-net

  • @Nonaggress
    @Nonaggress Před 11 lety +1

    Evidence? How can you get evidence, how can you experiment if your hypothesis are flawed? You've failed your own scientific method son! Fix your hypotheses!

    • @Hellwyck
      @Hellwyck Před 5 lety +1

      Thank you Tracy Jordan

  • @drpepper8806
    @drpepper8806 Před 3 lety

    Y can every breathing soul look better to take my I'd and b me and leave me poor on the street

  • @sweetpotatofries99
    @sweetpotatofries99 Před rokem +1

    Goddamn it, why'd she have to go and wear pants?

  • @dragunov815
    @dragunov815 Před 8 měsíci

    Ok.

  • @drpepper8806
    @drpepper8806 Před 3 lety

    U look like the marriage commissioner
    That's not good

  • @thomasackerly2410
    @thomasackerly2410 Před 4 lety +2

    She dead to me

  • @danielueblacker9118
    @danielueblacker9118 Před 3 lety +1

    In the end Dr. Melfi was a #unt and gave Tony up. Kept all the money.

  • @Nonaggress
    @Nonaggress Před 11 lety +4

    You haven't established what consciousness means, you don't know how intrinsic or the dimensions of man's relationship with his/her death. You haven't the slightest idea of how much of yourself is bound to your fleshy, temporal circumstances. How can you be so hamfisted as to believe it's just as easy as tweaking some genes or putting your neural pattern into a simulation?
    You underestimate the difficulty of immortality by overlooking my complexity. This is why you fail.

  • @reichsfolger
    @reichsfolger Před 2 lety +3

    Existentialism is the logical result of the horrors of WW2 & WWW1

    • @thememaster7
      @thememaster7 Před 10 měsíci

      Can't be logical to be absolutely claim that there are not absolutes. Have to go back to formula there.

    • @speedking7224
      @speedking7224 Před 9 měsíci

      I thought it was around from way before. Not that I'm an existentialist.

  • @lesleybrown1583
    @lesleybrown1583 Před 2 lety +2

    Jesus is the way the truth and the life---------the ONLY reason you are here

  • @_mynewcareer
    @_mynewcareer Před 3 lety

    Fuckin internet