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(preview) Dreadtube: Sopranos Season 4, Episode 7

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Comedy

4.1702 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Anders talks about his favorite Sopranos episode (the one with the HUD scam) "Watching Too Much Television", the 1967 Newark uprising, which it touches on, and what it says about race and capitalism in America. For the full episode check out our bonus feed at Patreon.com/poddamnamerica

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0:00.0

that episode is not great, particularly on rewatch.

0:03.0

But this one is also critiqued in its handling of race, but I think is much better.

0:11.8

It's not a perfect episode.

0:13.9

It is my favorite episode, just for the, you know, reasons of nostalgia, I guess, like, you know,

0:22.4

how I mentioned the way I came across it.

0:25.1

But it's not a perfect episode.

0:27.4

It is really interesting, though.

0:29.2

And it begins with Polly Walnuts, who is played by Tony Serico, who is a real life, wise guy for a time.

0:39.8

I don't know how actually deep in it he was.

0:42.6

But he was a Italian-American very much fit the part.

0:50.0

He did his own hair.

0:51.3

He really looked and talked like that.

0:54.4

And he comes back to the Bing, the Bada Bing, after.

0:59.9

And in real life, by the way, his brother was a priest who had been a hippie in like the 60s

1:08.7

and then became like a free market cat legs,

1:11.5

a libertarian priest.

1:14.6

That's Polly's brother.

1:16.8

He gave a speech for him once.

1:18.0

I looked up on YouTube.

1:18.8

It was pretty entertaining.

1:21.5

But Polly comes home.

1:23.7

And to me,

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