History Recap / TheSopranosS6E7LuxuryLounge

* ProfessionalKillers: Italo and Salvatore, reputed to be the [[DeadlyEuphemism "best tailors"]] of Tony's Napoli allies.

** When Christopher pitches his idea for ''Cleaver'' to Sir Creator/BenKingsley, the actor comes off as a total materialistic snob, completely disinterested in anything Christopher's saying. So instead, they ultimately have to settle for Daniel Baldwin.

* TheStarscream: Johnny Sack ordered the hit on Rusty on the assumption that Rusty was going to try and find another [[AuthorityInNameOnly puppet]] so that he could run the family as the ManBehindTheMan.

* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Tony more or less manages to find a resolution to the conflict between Artie and Benny before it goes much further, more or less ...

** Special mention for him asking Benny if he'd like a [[IncrediblyLamePun "Martina"]], and saying that the "Martina" [[DoubleEntendre "goes down easy"]], and in front of Benny's wife no less.

** [[{{Jerkass}} Artie]] makes another jab at Benny by asking if he'd like a [[IncrediblyLamePun "Martina"]], mentioning that the "Martina" [[DoubleEntendre "goes down easy"]], and in front of Benny's wife no less. So Benny follows Artie into the kitchen and holds Artie's hand in boiling sauce for more than a few moments.

* TookALevelInKindness: Both Tony and Charmaine have lost their past abrasiveness. They still make their opinions and wishes count, but they are noticebly nicer about it. Charmaine even shares a boat trip with Artie aboard the Sopranos yatch.
* TitleDrop: By Creator/BenKingsley, and then later by Chris when he [[StealingFromTheHotel wants to help himself]].

* TookALevelInBadass: Artie manages to totally beat the shit out of Benny.
* TookALevelInKindness: Both Tony and Charmaine have lost their past abrasivenes. They still make their opinions and wishes count, but they are noticebly nicer about it. Charmaine even shares a boat trip with Artie aboard the Sopranos yatch.

* TheLoinsSleepTonight: Tony hasn't recovered enough from his surgeries to partake of one of his favorite pastimes, for now ...

** The stress of his own failing restaurant business, combined with his own unrequited crush on Martika, turns Artie into a grade-A asshole who loses respect before anyone who knows him or works for him.

* IGaveMyWord: Subverted. Tony doesn't buy that he agreed to Chris' movie project, as he had still been in the throes of a ConvenientComa at the time.

* InformedFlaw: Tony still views Little Carmine as "retarded".

** Christopher reminds Tony about the "huge sacrifice" made for him, turning on Adriana in "[[Recap/TheSopranosS5E12LongTermParking Long Term Parking]]".

** When Christopher pitches his idea for ''Cleaver'' to Sir Creator/BenKingsley, the actor comes off as a total materialistic snob, completely disinterested in anything Christopher's saying. So instead, they have to settle for Daniel Baldwin.

Artie then confronts Benny at his house. It escalates into a physical confrontation, where Artie manages to beat Benny to a pulp. Tony tears a strip off of Artie for taking matters into his own hands instead of coming to Tony first. Tony then resolves the dispute by letting Benny off the hook for having run a scam on Artie's restaurant that Tony did not authorize, and obliging Benny to have his parents' anniversary party at Artie's restaurant to help relieve Artie's financial stress.

A third problem is that Benny (aided and abetted by Vesuvio hostess Martina is lifting credit card numbers from customers and selling them to Ahmed and Muhammad. A complicating factor is that Artie is attracted to Martina, but becomes spiteful in his treatment of her when it's obvious she has no interest in him and is seeing Benny. Agents from American Express then arrive and close down Artie's privilege of charging to their cards. Artie ends up buckling under the stress of everything and launches into a tirade at his whole staff. His frustrations show when he also shoots a rabbit that had been eating his gardened Arugula.

A third problem is that Benny and Martina are lifting credit card numbers from customers and selling them to Ahmed and Muhammad. A complicating factor is that Artie is attracted to Martina, but becomes spiteful in his treatment of her when it's obvious she has no interest in him and is seeing Benny. Agents from American Express then arrive and close down Artie's privilege of charging to their cards. Artie ends up buckling under the stress of everything and launches into a tirade at his whole staff. His frustrations show when he also shoots a rabbit that had been eating his gardened Arugula.

Both mobs have joined together to celebrate Gerry Torciano and Burt Gervasi becoming made men. Silvio notes that Artie's game as a chef as "being off lately" as the men at the dinner wait impatiently for just the appetizers. Phil expresses outrage over his assumption that Tony is going to tolerate Vito's homosexuality.

* CallBack: Artie still has some simmering resentments over when Tony [[Recap/TheSopranosS4E6EverybodyHurts wiped away his own tab owing to Artie]].

* TookALevelInKidness: Both Tony and Charmaine have lost their past abrassivenes. They still make their opinions and wishes count, but they are noticebly nicer about it. Charmaine even shares a boat trip with Artie aboard the Sopranos yatch.

* AsHimself: Creator/BenKingsley and Creator/LaurenBacall.

* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Had anybody else made a {{Jerkass}} comment to Tony about his "shot-up pancreas", Tony would have either killed him on the spot or given him a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. And the only reason Tony doesn't do it to Artie is because they go back as ChildhoodFriends. But even then, you can tell Tony was thinking about it.

* DidntThinkThisThrough: It never occurs to Artie that assaulting and later insulting a mobster is going to have serious repurcussions.

* FunctionalAddict: Corky Caporale, although barely. His fluency in Italian is just enough to make him useful as an occasional BunnyEarsLawyer. He does manage to act as an effective go between to enable Italo and Salvatore to carry out the hit on Rusty.

* HesBack: Artie takes Tony's [[BrutalHonesty brutally honest]] advice to heart, and rededicates himself to making the best use of his cooking skills. He uses the [[ChekhovsGift rabbit]] he shot previously, pulls out an old school collection of recipes, and throws himself into preparing a rabbit dish for the last customers of the night.

* INeedToGoIronMyDog: Creator/BenKingsley can't wait to leave Chris and Little Carmine in his rear-view mirror, so he declares that he has an appointment in the "Luxury Lounge". Even when the duo offer to walk with him, he speed walks away from them while they're trying to gather their things. And even as they follow him around in the said lounge, he carries on with his own thing and just flat out ignores everything they say to the extent that he can.

* MaliciousMisnaming: A downplayed example, and in the absence of the target. Silvio refers to Chris as "Cecil B. [=DeMoltisanti=]" as a play on of Creator/CecilBDeMille, which shows how much Silvio thinks of Chris' movie-making aspirations.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: While Martina and Benny would have ran the credit card scam anyway, Martina flat out tells Artie that him being a {{Jerkass}} BadBoss and always being under his MaleGaze made it that much easier for her.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: While Artie did have legitimate reason to be upset at Benny, one can't help but wonder if their confrontation had more to do with [[GreenEyedEpiphany Martina]] than with the credit card scam.

'''Season 6, Episode 7'''
!Luxury Lounge
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Both mobs have joined together to celebrate Gerry Torciano and Burt Gervasi becoming new made men. Silvio notes that Artie's game as a chef as "being off lately" as the men at the dinner wait impatiently for just the appetizers. Phil expresses outrage over his assumption that Tony is going to tolerate Vito's homosexuality.

A third problem is that Benny and Martina are lifting credit card numbers from customers and selling them to Ahmed and Muhammad. A complicating factor is that Artie is attracted to Martina, but becomes spiteful in his treatment of her when it's obvious she has no interest in him and is seeing Benny. Agents from American Express then arrive, and close down Artie's privilege of charging to their cards. Artie ends up buckling under the stress of everything, and launches into a tirade at his whole staff. His frustrations show when he also shoots a rabbit that had been eating his gardened Arugula.

Artie, at the party itself, makes a cruel remark to Benny about enjoying a "Martina" that "goes down easy", and in front of Benny's wife. Benny retaliates by following Artie into the kitchen, and dunking Artie's hand into boiling sauce. Tony, some time later, gives Artie some BrutalHonesty about the need to better manage the restaurant.

Artie has internalized the advice given to him by Tony, however painful. When he realizes he needs to prepare meals for the last customers of the night, and despite a supply shortage, he pulls out an old school style recipe collection. He throws himself completely into preparing the rabbit he had shot earlier as a gourmet meal.

* MaliciousMisnaming: A downplayed example, and in the absence of the target. Silvio refers to Chris as "Cecil B. DeMoltisanti" as a play on of Creator/CecilBDeMille, which shows how much Silvio thinks of Chris' movie-making aspirations.

* EtTuBrute: Artie feels betrayed by Tony dining out at Giovanni's restaurant.

* DoubleMeaning: Artie's legendary zinger, "they go down real easy, right Ben?" could be a nod to both Martina being an easy lay and how easily Benny himself went down in his fight against Artie.

* GeniusBruiser: Italo pretends he's lost and in need of directions, which keeps Rusty and Edward his bodyguard fixated on the map. Italo sneaks up from behind and takes out Edward with a BoomHeadshot. RIP Rusty.

** Special mention for him asking Benny if he'd like a [[IncrediblyLamePun "Martina"]], and saying that the "Martina" [[DoubleEntendre "goes down easy"]], and [[YourCheatingHeart in front of Benny's wife no less]].

* YourCheatingHeart: Benny is married, but has Martina as his [[TheMistress Goomah]].