Bada Bing

"The Sopranos's brilliant solution is to situate most of its nudity in the Bada Bing! strip joint run by Tony Soprano's aide-de-camp, Silvio Dante. The setting is an eminently logical place to frequently find Tony and his crew discussing business, and the naked women need no further motivation than that they are dancing in the club...Bada Bing! is an ideal locale -- doing for The Sopranos what the diner did for Seinfeld and the bar owned by Munch, Meldrake, and Bayliss did for Homicide -- but with a physically illicit explicitness that gives sexual energy to whatever other story is unfolding.” Naked Bodies, Three Showings a Week, No Commercials: The Sopranos as a Nuts-and-Bolts Triumph of Non-Network TV , By Paul Levinson. Published in ''This Thing of Ours: Investigating the Sopranos'', David Lavery, ed. Columbia University Press & Wallflower Press, 2002, ISBN 1903364442

• The Bing is where Tony Soprano and his crew find out Jackie Aprile, Sr. has died from his illness. One of the dancers vows never to forget where she was the day Jackie died.


• Tony Soprano cancels the hit on Don Hauser, his daughter's soccer coach and uncovered Statutory Rapist .


• Tony and Sil agree to have Richie Aprile killed, but are pre-empted by a deadly domestic dispute involving Richie and Janice .


• Tony Soprano and his underboss Paulie Walnuts agree to have Big Pussy whacked if they found out he was wearing a wire for sure.


• Ralph Cifaretto beats his pregnant girlfriend Tracee, a Bing dancer, to death in the parking lot just outside the building.


• Johnny Sack informs Tony that he is prepared to reconcile with Ralph following an insult to Sack's wife, in turn allowing Tony to cancel a planned hit on him.


• Christopher Moltisanti threatens Tony with a gun for allegedly having an affair with his fiancée, but he has already emptied his gun of bullets.


• Tony makes the case for not killing Vito Spatafore over his homosexuality to Silvio and Carlo Gervasi .


• Paulie has a vision of the Virgin Mary hovering over the dance floor and reconciles with his aunt and adoptive mother Marianucci.


• Silvio Dante is shot several times in the parking lot on an ordered hit from Phil Leotardo. Patsy Parisi accompanies Sil, but flees on foot. Silvio is hospitalized in critical condition.

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