History Recap / TheSopranosS3E1MrRuggeriosNeighborhood

* StealingFromTheTill: The maid admits to her husband frequently stealing items she guesses won't be missed from the Sopranos' household.

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: The FBI agents watching the Sopranos' backyard feel one as they notice Patsy Parisi approaching the house with a gun. Do they enforce the law and protect Tony from Patsy, but completely blow their wiretap operation? Or do they let Patsy go ahead and take out a notorious Mafia boss, but with the dereliction of their own oaths as law enforcement officers? It quickly passes once Patsy starts taking a piss in Tony's pool.

** Tony realizes that Patsy is sullen over his birthday, which he shared with his murdered twin, Phil. So Tony motions to Gigi, [[ProfessionalKiller the same Hitman who murdered Phil]], to be the first to say happy birthday to Patsy. Also serves as a ContinuityNod.

* KeepingTheEnemyClose: Tony justifies keeping Patsy around, despite being the AngstySurvivingTwin and despite having been on Uncle Junior's losing side during the [[EnemyCivilWar civil war]] that ended season 1, on this basis.

* AwfulWeddedLife: The maid's husband, who was an engineer in their native Poland, is angry about having to drive cab in America and take English classes to earn his citizenship. It leads to several really awful arguments between them. In fact, it almost created an additional OutsideContextProblem for the FBI agents trying to plant a bug in the Sopranos' house.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Patsy Parisi is still in mourning over the death of his brother, Philly and hates Tony for ordering his death.

** The agents notice through remote camera that Tony's water heater is inevitably going to blow and cause a basement flooding. It ends up causing an OutsideContextProblem for them.

* HandsOnApproach: The lesbian tennis coach showing blatant favoritism towards Adriana when she and Carmella took up tennis. The reason why is all but spelled out, but Adriana herself doesn't get it.

* TheNicknamer: Probably some nameless FBI official came up with the various code names for the Soprano family; but it's not hard to imagine that Agent Harris coined ''Der Bingle'' on his own.

** Also, the F.B.I. agents' efforts to place a bug in Tony's basement unfolds while the ''Series/PeterGunn'' theme is playing.
* StealingFromTheTill: The maid admits to her husband to frequently stealing items she guesses won't be missed from the Sopranos' household.

* ToBeLawfulOrGood: The FBI agents watching the Sopranos' backyard feel one as they notice Patsy Parisi approaching the house with a gun. Do they enforce the law and protect Tony from Patsy, but completely blow their wiretap operation? Or do they let Patsy go ahead, take out a notorious Mafia boss, but with the dereliction of their own oaths as law enforcement officers? It quickly passes once Patsy starts taking a piss in Tony's pool.

'''Season 3, Episode 01'''
!Mr. Ruggerio's Neighborhood

As Tony returns home and begins running on his eliptical machine, he has a low-key conversation with Carmela, unaware that they are being recorded by the lamp nearby.

!Tropes:

* VillainEpisode: Inverted. [[HeroAntagonist The show's notable FBI agents]] enjoy decent focus in this episode, and the implementation of [[their gambit SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands]] drives its plot.

* LowerDecksEpisode: The episode starts by having a particularly unremarkable day for the titular family shown through the eyes of the rarely-seen FBI. Overlaps with VillainEpisode.

* MoralDilemma: The FBI agents watching the Sopranos' backyard feel one as they notice Patsy Parisi approaching the house with a gun. Do they enforce the law and protect Tony from Patsy, but completely blow their wiretap operation? Or do they let Patsy go ahead, take out a notorious Mafia boss, but with the dereliction of their own oaths as law enforcement officers? It quickly passes once Patsy starts taking a piss in Tony's pool.

* ADayInTheLimelight: For the FBI, as well as Patsy Parisi and Gigi Cestone to an extent.

** The agents notice through remote camera that Tony's water heater is inevitably going to blow and cause a basement flooding. It ends up causing an [[{{OutsideContextProblem}} Outside-Context Problem]] for them.

** Tony realizes that Patsy is [[AngstySurvivingTwin sullen]] over his birthday, which he shared with his murdered twin, Phil. So Tony motions to Gigi, [[ProfessionalKiller the same Hitman who murdered Phil]], to be the first to [[EvilGloating say happy birthday]] to Patsy. Also serves as a ContinuityNod.

* KeepingTheEnemyClose: Tony justifies keeping Patsy around, despite being the [[{{AngstySurvivingTwin}} Angsty Surviving Twin]] and despite having been on Uncle Junior's losing side during the [[EnemyCivilWar civil war]] that ended season 1, on this basis.

* MoralDilemma: The FBI agents watching the Sopranos' backyard feel one as they notice Patsy Parisi approaching the house with a gun. Do they enforce the law and protect Tony from Patsy, but completely blow their wiretap operation? Or do they let Patsy go ahead, take out a notorious Mafia boss, but with the dereliction of their own oaths as law enforcement officers? It quickly passes once Patsy starts [[PuttingThePeeInPool taking a piss in Tony's pool]].

** The Polish maid almost creates a third one for the agents by wanting to go back to the Sopranos' house after an [[AwfulWeddedLife argument with her husband]]. It gets averted by a [[WeNeedADistraction distraction]].

* WeNeedADistraction: The Polish maid almost creates another OutsideContextProblem of her own by trying to go back to the Sopranos' house after an [[AwfulWeddedLife argument with her husband]]. The agent watching her delays her by asking her and her husband questions about the second language school in order to buy the agents at the house enough time to plant the [[HiddenWire Hidden Wire in the lamp]].

* AngstySurvivingTwin: Patsy spends his birthday grieving his dead twin Philly. He continues to grieve by frequently [[{{DrowningMySorrows}} Drowning His Sorrows]].
* [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic Awesome Music]]: The mashup of the ''Series/PeterGunn'' Theme and [[{{Music/Synchronicity}} "Every Breath You Take"]] was commissioned especially for this episode.

* AwfulWeddedLife: The maid's husband, who was an engineer in their native Poland, is angry about having to drive cab in America and take English classes to earn his citizenship. It leads to several really awful arguments between them. In fact, it almost created an additional [[{{OutsideContextProblem}} Outside-Context Problem]] for the FBI agents trying to plant a bug in the Sopranos' house.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Patsy Parisi is still in mourning over the death of his brother,Philly and hates Tony for ordering his death.

** Meadow's roommate, Caitlin, is high as a kite while drinking and smoking, but a real downer when sober. Caitlin's [[{{DescentIntoAddiction}} hard Descent Into Addiction]] is going to come up again in the future.
* {{Forgiveness}}: Tony demands this from Patsy in relation to his twin brother's death, combined with a simultaneous demand for [[{{UndyingLoyalty}} Undying Loyalty]]. Patsy at least on the surface agrees. Whether he truly lived up to the demands remained a [[{{RiddleForTheAges}} Riddle for the Ages]] for the fandom well after the series ended.

** Tony realizes that Patsy is [[{{AngstySurvivingTwin}} sullen]] over his birthday, which he shared with his murdered twin, Phil. So Tony motions to Gigi, [[{{ProfessionalKiller}} the same Hitman who murdered Phil]], to be the first to [[{{EvilGloating}} say happy birthday]] to Patsy. Also serves as a [[{{ContinuityNod}} Continuity Nod]].
** The lunch continues with Patsy still in full [[{{AngstySurvivingTwin}} Angsty Surviving Twin]] mode. So Tony cracks an insensitive [[{{SuicideAsComedy}} go ahead and commit suicide joke]] at Patsy's expense.
* KeepingTheEnemyClose: Tony justifies keeping Patsy around, despite being the [[{{AngstySurvivingTwin}} Angsty Surviving Twin]] and despite having been on Uncle Junior's losing side during the [[{{EnemyCivilWar}} civil war]] that ended season 1, on this basis.

* MoralDilemma: The FBI agents watching the Sopranos' backyard feel one as they notice Patsy Parisi approaching the house with a gun. Do they enforce the law and protect Tony from Patsy, but completely blow their wiretap operation? Or do they let Patsy go ahead, take out a notorious Mafia boss, but with the dereliction of their own oaths as law enforcement officers? It quickly passes once Patsy starts [[{{PuttingThePeeInPool}} taking a piss in Tony's pool]].

** The Polish maid almost creates a third one for the agents by wanting to go back to the Sopranos' house after an [[{{AwfulWeddedLife}} argument with her husband]]. It gets averted by a [[{{WeNeedADistraction}} distraction]].

* SurveillanceAsThePlotDemands: A major focus for the episode, as the F.B.I. weighs all their options and possibilities for planting a bug that maximizes the chances of Tony, who thus far has been [[{{GenreSavvy}} too smart to their usual tricks]], giving them something solid. The episode also gives a lot of attention to the agents' struggles to actually get their bug into what they estimate will be Tony's [[{{FailedASpotCheck}} blind spot]], a lamp in his basement.
* TerrifiedOfGerms: Paulie invokes this as a justification for constantly washing his hands during the lunch at Satriale's, even after tying his shoelaces. He actually starts to make a convincing enough case to prompt a [[{{TooMuchInformation}} Too Much Information]] reaction from Silvio.

* WeNeedADistraction: The Polish maid almost creates another [[{{OutsideContextProblem}} Outside-Context Problem]] of her own by trying to go back to the Sopranos' house after an [[{{AwfulWeddedLife}} argument with her husband]]. The agent watching her delays her by asking her and her husband questions about the second language school in order to buy the agents at the house enough time to plant the [[{{HiddenWire}} Hidden Wire in the lamp]].

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Patsy Parisi is still in mourning over tue death of his brother,Philly and hates Tony for ordering his death.

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Brilliantly subverted; with the death of actress Nancy Marchand, the audience had every reason to expect the rash of phone calls and subsequent urgent race back to the house midway through the episode to be the family finding out Livia had died, but it was the [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] death of the water heater instead. [[spoiler: Livia's death is postponed until next episode.]]

* SuddenSequelDeathSyndrome: Brilliantly subverted; with the death of actress Nancy Marchand, the audience had every reason to expect the rash of phone calls and subsequent urgent race back to the house midway through the episode to be the family finding out Livia had died, but it was the [[{{Foreshadowing}} foreshadowed]] death of the water heater instead. Livia's death is postponed until next episode.

** Tony realizes that Patsy is [[{{AngstySurvivingTwin}} sullen]] over his birthday, which he shared with his murdered twin, Phil. So Tony motions to Cici, [[{{ProfessionalKiller}} the same Hitman who murdered Phil]], to be the first to [[{{EvilGloating}} say happy birthday]] to Patsy. Also serves as a [[{{ContinuityNod}} Continuity Nod]].

* MoralDilemma: The FBI agents watching the Sopranos' backyard feel one as they notice Patsy Parisi approaching the house with a gun. Do they enforce the law and protect Tony from Patsy, but blow completely their wiretap operation? Or do they let Patsy go ahead, take out a notorious Mafia boss, but with the dereliction of their own oaths as law enforcement officers? It quickly passes once Patsy starts [[{{PuttingThePeeInPool}} taking a piss in Tony's pool]].