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• Actor Existence Failure: Nancy Marchand, who played Livia, passed away during Season Three.
• The Character Died with Her: Livia Soprano, played by Nancy Marchand.
• Enforced Method Acting: Ralphie's crew look genuinely surprised - Ralph's hair almost takes off - when Vito breaks a chair and falls like an elephant. In fact the whole moment looks like a borderline Throw It In, comically incorporated later into the script.
• Fake Nationality: Furio, who has lived his entire life in Italy, is played by Italian-born New Jersey raised Federico Castelluco.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: Some foreign-dubbed versions were dubbed more than once:
  • Japanese:
  • Tony Soprano is Ikki Yoneda in the first dubbed version
  • Meadow is Beatrice, Melpha and Layla Hamilton in the first dubbed version. In the second dubbed version, she is Marguerite Pistail
  • Tony Jr. is Kaworu Nagisa and Athrun Zala in the first dubbed version.
  • Silvio Dante is Ibiki Morino in the first dubbed version
  • Big Pussy is Iron Tager and Yammy in the first dubbed version
  • In the undubbed version, Carmela's cousin and financial advisor, Brian, went on to become the shuttle pilot for the Normandy.
• Memetic Mutation: It didn't last very long, but there were dozens of copies and parodies of the final scene all over YouTube immediately after the show ended. the Pittsburgh Pirates parody was the most famous.
  • Not to mention one of Hilary Clinton's earliest campaign ads in the 2008 Presidential Election, when she used it to introduce her new campaign song.
• What Could Have Been: Ray Liotta, or Goodfellas fame, was the first choice to play Tony Soprano.
• Written By Cast Member: Michael Imperioli wrote several episodes of The Sopranos.