Last week, I watched The Sopranos Season 1 Episode 10 A Hit Is A Hit twice! This episode introduces the greatest character in the world of all time ever Adriana La Cerva's love for music! Seeing how much his girl loves music so much, Christopher supports Adriana's wish to be a music producer. When Christopher and Adriana go to the burger joint Le Cirque to order burgers to take home, they meet Massive Genius. During this scene, Christopher embarrasses his girlfriend Adriana by making a scene in the restaurant. As Christopher and Adriana walk out of Le Cirque, the friends of Massive Genius approach them and invite them to a party at the house of Massive Genius.
As we see in this episode, things are not going so well for Massive Genius. Massive Genius is feeling angry at Hesh Rabkin and makes his voice heard during a phone call between them arranged by Tony Soprano. Massive Genius threatens Hesh, saying that he is acting on the behalf of the mother of a deceased black singer whose royalties Hesh stole and is now claiming $400,000. Despite the threats of Massive Genius, Hesh does not back down. Hesh responds saying that there is an unauthorized sampling by Massive's record label of a song that Hesh's label still controls. Massive Genius threatens Hesh one last time by saying that he will sue him. Hesh threatens him right back by saying that he will counter-sue Massive Genius and then Massive Genius ends the phone call by saying "See you in court!" When the phone conversation is over, Tony Soprano and his crew jeer at Massive Genius.
Christopher decides to finance a demo for the band Visiting Day whose singer Richie Santini is Adriana's ex boyfriend. Visiting Day's demo is not going well whatsoever. They are burnt out and just want to go home. Not wanting the money he paid for the demo to go to waste, Christopher offers Richie drugs to keep up his energy so that the demo could continue. When Richie refuses to take the drug because of being sober now suffering from drug addiction/alcoholism, Christopher gets angry. Richie mocks Christopher to his face by saying that he will now be going to Alcoholics Anonymous and calls Christopher a jerkoff. Livid, Christopher takes the acoustic guitar and physically smashes Richie with the instrument, causing the acoustic guitar to break. Despite how badly the demo went that Christopher financed with his money, Christopher and Adriana decide to get together with Massive Genius to decide to add Adriana's vocals to Visiting Day's song. During the parts of the song where there was dead air, Adriana adds her vocals to the song by repeatedly singing "Meow." In this episode, Adriana's vocals are absolutely awful which is what makes this moment one of her best comical moments along with the moment at Le Cirque mocking Carmela Soprano!
When Christopher brings the recording to Hesh, Hesh lays out the truth to Christopher. With his music expertise, Hesh tells Christopher that Adriana has no musical talent and that he refuses to produce the song. Hesh reminds Christopher that because he is much older than Christopher, he has much more music expertise than he does. Hesh reminds Christopher that he saw Jimi Hendrix invent heavy metal which is real talent, unlike what Adriana has. Christopher continues to defend Adriana, just for Hesh to tell him to stop wasting his time and will not relent whatsoever. When Christopher comes home to Adriana, he tells her that the band Visiting Day may be no good which Adriana has to prepare for and that Massive Genius is only interested in Adriana because of her physical appearance which is factually the only reason that Massive Genius was helping Adriana out. Adriana responds angrily by calling Hesh old, claims that Christopher is jealous because she is branching out and making new friends unlike him which he can't stand and then gets ready to leave.
As Adriana proceeds to leave, Christopher walks up to her and says "I love you." Adriana responds angrily by saying "That is a lie!" and then storms out. While Adriana is completely wrong in this argument, now that I have completed the series The Sopranos I find this particular scene to be very vital. While Christopher wasn't domestically abusive to Adriana in Season 1, starting in Season 2 he would start beating Adriana up all the time causing Adriana to temporarily leave him to live with her mother just for Christopher to go to Adriana's mother's house and propose to Adriana with a diamond ring which she enthusiastically accepts. Unfortunately, Adriana is the victim and survivor of domestic abuse from Seasons 2-Season 5 with the domestic abuse starting to escalate in Season 4 and especially in Season 5.
Meanwhile, we see the first appearance of the doctor that recommended Dr. Jennifer Melfi to be Tony Soprano's psychiatrist named Dr. Brian Cusamono. Interested in Tony's life as a North Jersey mobster, he invites Tony to his country club for a game of golf with Brian's buddies. Unfortunately, Brian's buddies only want to hang around with Tony this one time because of their interest in Tony's life as a North Jersey mobster. Tony regrets accepting the invitation to go golfing with them and feels embarrassed because of the questions he is getting asked and depressed because they are only interested in Tony's life as a mobster and are not interested in a personal friendship.
To cope with what happened to him over the weekend, Tony vents about this to Dr. Jennifer Melfi. During this therapy session, we learn about the way Tony and his friends treated this kid who has a cleft palate named Jimmy Smash. Tony feels extreme guilt about the way he treated Jimmy because now he can only imagine how badly excluded Jimmy must have felt only being used for entertainment all these years, just as Tony was used for entertainment at the country club. It only gets worse. While Jimmy is so far still alive, unfortunately he is now in jail.
Shortly after this therapy session, Tony sees his neighbor Brian Cusamono from across his house: They are both in their house yards. Tony walks over to greet Brian, who informs him that Tony can't join the country club because their membership is full and new members can only join after a member of the club dies. Hatching up a savage plan, Tony decides to give a "gift" to make him suffer immense stress. As can be seen because of what happened to him at the country club over the weekend, Tony is in a vindictive mood and wants to make Brian suffer as much immense stress as possible; as payback for what he did to Tony along with his friends at his country club over the weekend. While putting the "gift" on the kitchen table, Brian is with his wife Jean Cusamono who is curious about the "gift" and is interested in opening it. Out of precaution, Brian tells Jean to not open it because they need to be on the safe side since Tony's "gift" could be anything. Across their house, Jean and Brian overhear Tony screaming loudly as he lifts 100+pounds heavy weights
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