History Recap / TheSopranosS4E6EverybodyHurts

* BigBrotherInstinct: Tony approves of Janice seeing NiceGuy Bobby, and lets her know it to cement a less harmful relationship for her [[AllGirlsWantBadBoys in comparison to some of her previous choices]].

* TheCon: Jean-Phillipe tries to pull one off on Artie as the mark. It ends up backfiring on him, given that Artie's [[TheMafia Mafia]] connections turns it into a case of MuggingTheMonster, and a personal appointment with [[RuthlessForeignGangsters Furio]].

* DumbassTeenageSon: A.J. takes his friends to closed after hours Satriale's by mistake when the Bada Bing was their intended destination.
* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Tony coerces Artie into telling everyone else that he got mugged, both to avoid embarassment for himself for having [[BungledSuicide tried to commit suicide]], and to avoid linking events to Tony as a LoanShark.

* IronicEcho: Now even A.J. tells others that his father is in "waste management", just like Meadow in seasons earlier. Except his audience knows Tony is in the mob, but have the mistaken notion that "waste management" is a recent move into going legit, instead of a long-established front.

* NormalFishInATinyPond: A.J. realizes that as financially successful a mobster as Tony is, their family is really upper-middle class and nowhere near as wealthy as the families whose kids attend his new school.

* {{Unperson}}: Tony's motives for forcing Artie into the mugging cover story has shades of this. He asks who else knows, like Father Intintola or Charmaine or anyone else in their circles. Tony has no delusions about being regarded as a saint by those who know him. But he is concerned that those in their respective circles would find it a new low on his part to be playing LoanShark over somebody he had been ChildhoodFriends with. It's possible he's also concerned that if his captains find out he spared Artie he would be seen as weak.

'''Season 4, Episode 06'''
!Everybody Hurts
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Artie and Charmaine Bucco still struggle financially with Vesuvio's, drawing minimal patrons while Tony and his guys eat there regularly on a rapidly growing unpaid tab. Artie is drawn to Elodie, the new French hostess, who ropes him into making a business deal with her brother Jean-Philippe, investing in a brand of French vodka called Armagnac. Charmaine is skeptical, noticing immediately how Elodie plays on Artie's attraction to her in order to get her way. Disregarding Charmaine, Artie looks to borrow money from one of his connected acquaintances in order to make the investment, but avoids Tony at first. He goes to Ralph Cifaretto, who turns him down because Tony would protect Artie if he didn't pay back.

AJ dates a girl named Devin Pilsbury, and spends time with a group of friends who are intrigued by his mob-connected family. When the topic of front businesses like the olive oil company from ''Film/TheGodfather'' comes up, AJ remembers that his dad owns a strip club and tries to direct his friends to it. They end up at Satriale's instead, and leave shortly. Later, AJ and Devin are making out at his house, but Carmela comes home, interrupting them. AJ calls Meadow, hoping to use her dorm room to have sex with Devin, but she misunderstands his wording and invites him to the South Bronx Poverty Law Center where she works, instead. AJ and Devin are exposed to a much rougher and lower class lifestyle, prompting AJ to muse about the wealth and privilege of his family.

Tony visits Artie, offended that he avoided asking him for the Armagnac loan. In light of his guilt over Gloria's death, he wonders if this makes him some kind of toxic person. Tony loans the money to Artie as a friend. Artie is hesitant though, as he doesn't want to directly involve money in Tony and his relationship. Tony, however, insists that he accepts the loan, saying that as his friend, he will offer it to him at a favorable interest rate of only one-and-a-half percent. Convinced, Artie accepts and gives him a bottle of Armagnac as a thanks as he leaves. Tony proceeds to immediately chug the drink right outside Artie's house.

Artie's investment in Armagnac runs into some problems, however, with Jean-Philippe neglecting to call him back while Elodie uses her usual flirty behavior as a distraction. When a concerned Artie brings this up to Tony, he suggests to Artie to handle his business like him usually does it; go to Jean-Philippe personally and collect on his investment. Following Tony's advice, Artie goes to Jean-Philippe's apartment, where he is greeted by a distraught Jean-Philippe, who explains to him that the investment failed and the business parter ended up backing out, the problem being that no one could figure out an effective way to actually promote Armagnac. A frustrated Artie demands his money back, but Jean-Philippe tells him that is impossible as he has spent them, and that is a normal risk in business ventures. Artie moves on to attempt to outright strong-arm Jean-Philippe to give him the money back, but this ends up as a total disaster, as he awkwardly attempts to intimidate him, then starts a fight which he quickly loses as Jean-Philippe rips out his earring and throws him out of the apartment. Fearing Tony's retribution if he doesn't get the money, and full of self-loathing at his humiliating failure, Artie attempts suicide with a bottle of pills, then calling Tony to drunkenly cry and apologize. Tony calls 911, who save Artie by pumping his stomach. Visiting Artie in the hospital, Tony coaches him to blame the incident on a mugging. When Artie brings up the loan he lost, Tony agrees to forgive it and settle the matter by clearing his substantial tab at Vesuvio's. Artie realizes that Tony planned for this contingency, and accuses him of manipulating the situation from the start. Tony, offended, calls Artie a disgrace for his suicide attempt, and storms out. In his next session with Dr. Melfi, he seems to have put the guilt over Gloria's suicide behind him in light of recent events, but references that he made a donation to the suicide hotline in her name. Later, he sends Furio to collect from Jean-Philippe.

* {{Unperson}}: Tony's motives for forcing Artie into the mugging cover story has shades of this. He asks who else knows, like Father Intintola or Charmaine or anyone else in their circles. Tony has no delusions about being regarded as a saint by those who know him. But he is concerned that those in their respective circles would find it a new low on his part to be playing LoanShark over somebody he had been ChildhoodFriends with.

* TheCon: Jean-Phillipe tries to pull one off on Artie as TheMark. It ends up backfiring on him, given that Artie's [[TheMafia Mafia]] connections turns it into a case of MuggingTheMonster, and a personal appointment with [[RuthlessForeignGangsters Furio]].

** Part of the reason why Artie becomes an [[TheMark easy mark]] for the French vodka scam is that the restaurant hasn't been doing good lately. There's more than one reason why that will play out soon.

* PragmaticVillainy: Ralph refuses to lend Artie money because he knows the preferential treatment Artie gets from Tony will keep him safe from any repercussions if he fails to honor his debt.

Tony visits Artie, offended that he avoided asking him for the Armagnac loan. In light of his guilt over Gloria's death, he wonders if this makes him some kind of toxic person. Tony loans the money to Artie as a friend, and when Artie gives him a bottle of Armagnac he leaves and chugs the drink right outside Artie's house. Tony has a nightmare in which he arrives at Gloria's home for dinner to find her wearing a scarf around her neck. The chandelier at her home also weighs heavily on the ceiling, causing flakes of plaster to fall into a bottle of Armagnac on the table, and Gloria goes to her oven to stir some unknown substance when it dings. Finally, Gloria offers to remove the scarf and show Tony her neck, but he wakes up just as she does this.

Artie's investment in Armagnac falls through, with Jean-Philippe neglecting to call him back while Elodie uses her usual flirty behavior as a distraction. When Artie brings this up to Tony, he suggests Artie visit Jean-Philippe personally to collect on his investment. Artie's attempt to strong-arm Jean-Philippe is a total disaster, as he awkwardly attempts to intimidate him, then starts a fight which he quickly loses as Jean-Philippe rips out his earring and throws him out of the apartment. Fearing Tony's retribution if he doesn't get the money, and full of self-loathing at his humiliating failure, Artie attempts suicide with a bottle of pills, then calling Tony to drunkenly cry and apologize. Tony calls 911, who save Artie by pumping his stomach. Visiting Artie in the hospital, Tony coaches him to blame the incident on a mugging. When Artie brings up the loan he lost, Tony agrees to forgive it and settle the matter by clearing his substantial tab at Vesuvio's. Artie realizes that Tony planned for this contingency, and accuses him of manipulating the situation from the start. Tony, offended, calls Artie a disgrace for his suicide attempt, and storms out. In his next session with Dr. Melfi, he seems to have put the guilt over Gloria's suicide behind him in light of recent events, but references that he made a donation to the suicide hotline in her name. Later, he sends Furio to collect from Jean-Philippe.

AJ dates a girl named Devon Pilsbury, and spends time with a group of friends who are intrigued by his mob-connected family. When the topic of front businesses like the olive oil company from ''Film/TheGodfather'' comes up, AJ remembers that his dad owns a strip club and tries to direct his friends to it. They end up at Satriale's instead, and leave shortly. Later, AJ and Devon are making out at his house, but Carmela comes home, interrupting them. AJ calls Meadow, hoping to use her dorm room to have sex with Devon, but she misunderstands his wording and invites him to the South Bronx Poverty Law Center where she works, instead. AJ and Devon are exposed to a much rougher and lower class lifestyle, prompting AJ to muse about the wealth and privilege of his family.

AJ and a friend visit Devon's home and are surprised to find that she is enormously wealthy and lives in a gated mansion complete with security. AJ is embarrassed, asking why Devon didn't mention this when he was going on a tirade about the excessiveness of his own wealth. Later, AJ's friends question why his family isn't especially wealthy despite their mob connections, and AJ can't answer.

* AlwaysSomeoneBetter: A.J. thought ''his'' house was big. The look on his face when he pulls up to Devon's front door says it all.

* FishOutOfWater: A.J. and Devon immediately feel this way upon seeing what part of town Meadow's Law Center is in.

* InterruptedIntimacy: A.J. and Devon cut short their making out when they can hear Carmela walking in.

* MakingLoveInAllTheWrongPlaces: Meadow is appalled at the thought that A.J. wants to borrow her dorm room for the sole purpose of getting laid with Devon.

* BatmanGambit: Tony didn't hesitate to give Artie the loan, with the ultimate benefit to Tony being the cancellation of the hefty tab he and the other mobsters have accumulated at the Vesuvio restaurant. It depended on educated guesses that Jean-Phillipe was pulling a [[DelayedWire scam]] and that Artie was [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter gullible]] enough to fall for it. Tony and the gang would have still owed the tab to Artie had Artie TookALevelInCynic, or Tony would have [[ForgottenFallenFriend lost his friend since childhood]] had Artie succeeded in his [[BungledSuicide suicide attempt]]. That Artie could feel DrivenToSuicide was the point that was outside of Tony's calculations when he initiated the gambit.

* DelayedWire: Jean-Phillipe tries to pull one off on Artie as TheMark. It ends up backfiring on him, given that Artie's [[TheMafia Mafia]] connections turns it into a case of MuggingTheMonster, and a personal appointment with [[RuthlessForeignGangsters Furio]].

* YourCheatingHeart: Tony enjoys himself with the same Icelandic stewardess seen in the [[Recap/TheSopranosS4E1ForAllDebtsPublicAndPrivate season premiere]].

AJ dates a girl named Devon Pilsbury, and spends time with a group of friends who are intrigued by his mob-connected family. When the topic of front businesses like the olive oil company from ''[[Film/TheGodfather The Godfather]]'' comes up, AJ remembers that his dad owns a strip club and tries to direct his friends to it. They end up at Satriale's instead, and leave shortly. Later, AJ and Devon are making out at his house, but Carmela comes home, interrupting them. AJ calls Meadow, hoping to use her dorm room to have sex with Devon, but she misunderstands his wording and invites him to the South Bronx Poverty Law Center where she works, instead. AJ and Devon are exposed to a much rougher and lower class lifestyle, prompting AJ to muse about the wealth and privilege of his family.

** Part of the reason why Artie becomes an [[TheMark easy mark]] for the [[DelayedWire French vodka scam]] is that the restaurant hasn't been doing good lately. There's more than one reason why that will play out soon.

* GutFeeling: Charmaine can smell Jean-Phillipe's [[DelayedWire scam]] and Elodie's HoneyTrap from a mile away.

* OhCrap: The look on Jean-Phillipe's face registers this when he opens the door, and finds [[RuthlessForeignGangsters Furio]] ready to [[LoanShark shake him down]].

* ShoutOut: A.J.'s friends love to bombard him with references to ''Film/TheGodfather'' and ''Film/Scarface1983'' movies.

* YourCheatingHeart: Tony enjoys himself with the same Icelandic stewardess seen in the [[Recap/TheSopranosS4E1ForAllDebtsPublicAndPrivate season premiere]].

* MistakenForJunkie: Completely subverted. Both Tony and Furio pick up that something's off about Chris when he shows up high for a meeting. It's telling when even Carmela, who's completely uneducated about drub abuse, notices that Chris' skin is looking unhealthy [[TruthInTelevision (a known telltale sign of drug abuse)]].

AJ dates a girl named Devon Pilsbury, and spends time with a group of friends who are intrigued by his mob-connected family. When the topic of front businesses like the olive oil company from The Godfather comes up, AJ remembers that his dad owns a strip club and tries to direct his friends to it. They end up at Satriale's instead, and leave shortly. Later, AJ and Devon are interrupted while making out at his house, but Carmela comes home, interrupting them. AJ calls Meadow, hoping to use her dorm room to have sex with Devon, but she misunderstands his wording and invites him to the South Bronx Poverty Law Center where she works, instead. AJ and Devon are exposed to a much rougher and lower class lifestyle, prompting AJ to muse about the wealth and privilege of his family.

Carmela considers setting Furio up with a recently single friend of hers. While discussing the matter in bed with Tony, she briefly mentions that she visited Globe Motors recently and found out that Gloria Trillo committed suicide. Tony is blindsided by this. He visits Globe Motors, looking for more answers to why Gloria killed herself, but only discerns from the manager that she "didn't have much luck with men", as well as the detail that she hanged herself from a chandelier. In therapy with Melfi, Tony is angry that she never told him, and first blames Melfi for Gloria's death, lashing out at her, then reveals that he assumes it was his fault. Melfi argues against both interpretations, feeling hurt at Tony's accusations, but also pointing out that he has no real basis to assume the blame for Gloria's death. Regardless, Tony's mental state worsens and he begins to drink excessively.

A guilt-riddled Tony begins doing good deeds for all those around him. He finally sits down with Carmela and her cousin Brian the financial advisor to sign the living trust he had been avoiding, and even puts Brian in touch with Patsy Parisi to supply him with nice suits as a favor. He then arranges to take Carmela to a Billy Joel concert, bringing Brian and his wife as well as Furio and Carmela's friend Liz, who she hoped to set up with him, though her matchmaking efforts are eventually unsuccessful. Tony also treats Janice to dinner in a rare show of kindness to her, and congratulates her on the budding relationship with Bobby Baccala, genuinely praising him as a good man despite Janice's expectation that he will again interfere with her love life.

Artie's investment in Armagnac falls through, with Jean-Philippe neglecting to call him back while Elodie uses her usual flirty behavior as a distraction. When Artie brings this up to Tony, he suggests Artie visit Jean-Philippe personally to collect on his investment. Artie's attempt to strong-arm Jean-Philippe is a total disaster, as he awkwardly attempts to intimidate him, then starts a fight which he quickly loses as Jean-Philippe rips out his earring and throws him out of the apartment. Fearing Tony's retribution if he doesn't get the money, and full of self-loathing at his humiliating failure, Artie attempts suicide with a bottle of pills, calling Tony to drunkenly cry and apologize. Tony calls 911, who save Artie but have to pump his stomach. Visiting Artie in the hospital, Tony coaches him to blame the incident on a mugging. When Artie brings up the loan he lost, Tony agrees to forgive it and settle the matter by clearing his substantial tab at Vesuvio's. Artie realizes that Tony planned for this contingency, and accuses him of manipulating the situation from the start. Tony, offended, calls Artie a disgrace for his suicide attempt, and storms out. In his next session with Dr. Melfi, he seems to have put the guilt over Gloria's suicide behind him in light of recent events, but references that he made a donation to the suicide hotline in her name. Later, he sends Furio to collect from Jean-Philippe.

AJ and a friend visit Devon's home and are surprised to find that she is enormously wealthy and lives in a gated-off mansion complete with security. AJ is embarrassed, asking why Devon didn't mention this when he was going on a tirade about the excessiveness of his own wealth. Later, AJ's friends question why his family isn't especially wealthy despite their mafia connections, and AJ can't answer.

** Tony has a couple of expensive wines added to the tab owing to Artie. The BatmanGambit isn't fully explained or realized until the end of the episode, but Tony ordering the wines on tab shows (in hindsight) that he is fully aware of already having set the Gambit into motion.

* IronicEcho: Now even A.J. gets into telling others that his father is in "waste management", just like Meadow in seasons earlier. Except his audience knows Tony is in the mob, but have the mistaken notion that "waste management" is a recent move into going legit, instead of a long-established front.

* IJustWantToBeBadass: Artie spends some time in the mirror practicing how he's going to shaken down Jean-Phillipe. It's every bit as funny as you'd expect.

* CloseToHome: Dr. Melfi indicates that Tony reacted sensitively to Artie's accusations of being a ManipulativeBastard and TheChessmaster being Artie's [[BungledSuicide suicide attempt]] occurred soon after Tony learned about Gloria being DrivenToSuicide.

* LoanShark: Tony effectively makes himself on with respect to [[ChildhoodFriends Artie of all people]], although he spares Artie the more troubling repercussions of paying back what is owing. Jean-Phillipe on the other hand ...

* GuiltComplex: Tony struggles with one on account of Gloria being DrivenToSuicide. His manifestations of the complex include several PetTheDog moments to convince himself he isn't truly a bad person, as well as plying Janice for information about her friend's suicide and how she reacted to it.

* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Tony coerces Artie into telling everyone else that he got mugged, both to avoid embarassment for himself for having [[BungledSuicide tried to commit suicide]], and avoid linking events to Tony as a LoanShark.

* TheChessmaster: Artie realizes that Tony had the BatmanGambit figured out from start to finish, and lays it out for him. Tony [[CloseToHome doesn't take it well]].

* BatmanGambit: Tony didn't hesitate to give Artie the loan, with the ultimate benefit to Tony being the cancellation of the hefty tab he and the other mobsters have accumulated at the Vesuvio restaurant. It depended on educated guesses that Jean-Phillipe was pulling a [[DelayedWire scam]] and that Artie was [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter gullible]] enough to fall for it. Tony and the gang would have still owed the tab to Artie had Artie TookALevelInCynic, or Tony would have [[ForgottenFallenFriend lost his friend since childhood]] had Artie succeeded in his [[BungledSuicide suicide attempt]].

* BatmanGambit: Tony didn't hesitate to give Artie the loan, with the ultimate benefit to Tony being the cancellation of the hefty tab he and the other mobsters have accumulated at the Vesuvio restaurant. It depended on educated guesses that Jean-Phillipe was pulling a [[DelayedWire scam]] and that Artie was [[HorribleJudgeOfCharacter gullible]] enough to fall for it. Tony and the gang would have still owed the tab to Artie had Artie TookALevelInCynic.

* BungledSuicide: Artie tries to go quietly on a sleeping pill overdose. He ends up in a hospital bed with his stomach pumped instead.

* YourCheatingHeart: Tony enjoys himself with the same Icelandic stewardess seen in the [[''Recap/TheSopranosS4E1ForAllDebtsPublicAndPrivate'' season premiere]].

* WithFriendsLikeThese: After his best friend tries to kill himself, Tony berates him and feels sorry for himself.