Best Line:
"I didn't know you ate duck"
~ Tony to Carmela upon seeing (a doggy bag of) duck at the house.
Random thoughts about the episode:
The theme for this week's show was most definitely "you can take the man/woman out of the mob, but you can't take the mob out of the man/woman."
Note that at the beginning of the episode, Chris mentioned to Tony B. that "they" had a "guy" in the parole office who was a supervisor and he didn't really need to keep going to his laundry job to stay good on his parole.
There were definitely sirens before and after the bag of money and crack was tossed. My thought is that the "guy" in the parole office is probably the same guy who we saw bust Feech.
About the the only way Tony B.'s going back to jail for violating parole is if he crosses Tony S. like Feech did.
Very appropriate that Tony B's story was capped by a shot of a fish out of water!
About "I didn't know you ate duck":
Tony's anxiety over the ducks, according to Dr. Melfi came from associating his desire to hold his biological family together with them--the ducks meant unity and harmony to him. Tony's coming unglued over the ducks leaving the pool drove home (in his mind) the worries he carried about the kids making their own way in the world.
So Tony observing that Carmela eats duck might be a veiled jibe for her part in the dissolution of the family.
I'm intrigued by the whole Abelard and Heloise thing. We know that the guy is quick to use literature as a seduction tool, and pushed Madame Bovary on Carmela to try to advance their relationship. So, can we make any inferences based on his keeping a book chronicling the relationship between a teacher and his underage student in his en suite bathroom? One with significant passages highlighted? The en suite is the most private room in the house. When Carmela asked about it, at first he tried to dismiss it, saying "I just like to read in there." Does he have a secret relationship with a student?
"You better watch your step," indeed.
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