Juniour Soprano (Dominic Chianese) is just shooting the shit with a few guys, telling jokes at the Loungenette Sit Tite.

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• Title/Year: The Sopranos, Meadowlands (Season 1, Episode 4)/1999
• Written by: Jason Cahill
• Directed by: John Patterson

Maynard’s (Duane Whitaker) on the phone: “Zed (Peter Greene) ? It’s Maynard. The spider just caught a coupla flies.” 
One of the flies being Big Boy Marcellus (Ving Rhames), the other Butch (Bruce Willis), the I-don’t-go-down-for-nobody boxer. And he who’s not gonna get down, is not gonna spread his ass for a cop’s prick. And that’s bad news for Zed, ‘cause the only thing he’s gonna ride is Zed’s motorcycle — or was it a chopper?

Fabienne: (Maria de Medeiros): Butch, whose motorcycle is this?
Butch: It’s a chopper, baby.
Fabienne: Whose chopper is this?
Butch: Zed’s.
Fabienne: Who’s Zed?
Butch: Zed’s dead, baby. Zed’s dead.

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• Title/Year: Pulp Fiction/1994
• Written by: Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino; stories by Quenting Tarantino and Roger Avary
• Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
• Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Ving Rhames, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis

Michael (Al Pacino) talking to his girlfriend Kay (Diana Keaton) about family business. What’s he got to do with it? Nothing. That’s what he says. And it’s true. He broke with family tradition. He went to war, came back with the Navy Cross, and he’s got a girlfriend who’s not …  Italian? But somehow, you know, things change. Remember the last famous scene of the movie? Kay says: Is it true? Is it? (That you killed your sister’s husband?) And Michael lies. He says: No. And the transformation is complete: From he had nothing to do with it, to he gave it a test-drive, to he became head of family. (And a killer, a betrayer, and a liar along the way.) Poor Michael!

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• Title/Year: The Godfather
• Written by: Screenplay by Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola
• Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola
• Starring: Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

Captain Koons (Christopher Walken) talking to young Butch (Chandler Lindauer).

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• Title/Year: Pulp Fiction/1994
• Written by: Screenplay by Quentin Tarantino, Stories by Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary
• Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
• Starring: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Ving Rhames, Christopher Walken, Bruce Willis

Tony Montana (Al Pacino) telling Manny (Steven Bauer) that he should have come years ago to Miami, he’d be a millionaire by now. And Manny? He’s got plans too: “You know what I want? I thought of this the other day. A line of blue jeans. With my name written on the back of chicks’ asses.” What a … remarkable idea.

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• Title/Year: Scarface/1980
• Written by: Screenplay by Oliver Stone
• Directed by: Brian De Palma
• Starring: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer

“I’ll fuck him in his ass. I fucked kids like him in the can in the ass I fucked’em. Fuckin’ break up my party.”

Billy Batts (Frank Vincent) in Martin Scorsese’s mob classic Goodfellas. A famous scene that ends with Batts himself getting, well, fucked? He should’ve listened to Tommy (Joe Pesci) telling him: “No more shines, Billy.”

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• Title/Year: Goodfellas/1990
• Written by: Screenplay by Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese (based on the nonfiction book Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi
• Directed by: Martin Scorsese
• Starring: Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci