History Recap / TheSopranosS1E1Pilot

* BaitAndSwitch: It looks like Tony is about to confess to [[YourCheatingHeart adultery]] to Carmela when they're having dinner in a restaurant. She makes as though to [[FoodSlap throw her wine in his face]] in anticipation of it, but then is overjoyed when Tony tells her he's taking Prozac medication.

* CelebrityParadox: Tony mentions Henry Hill, the basis for ''Film/{{Goodfellas}}'' to Chris. Michael Imperioli was in the film, as was Creator/LorraineBracco.

** Charmaine is shown to have [[HolierThanThou very little tolerance]] for the restaurant or her family having any connections at all to the Jersey mob.

* GilliganCut:
** Tony gives Dr. Melfi his {{Understatement}} of having had coffee with Mahaffey. The very next shot is of Mahaffey dropping his coffee on the pavement, and running away after [[OhCrap recognizing Tony in the car]].
** Tony is in a good mood and says, "It’s a beautiful day. What could be bad?" Cut immediately to Livia complaining to Corrado about her son.

** Carmela tells Tony that he's doomed to go hell when he dies, but she's not, just before he gets slid into the MRI scan chamber. Those words [[{{Foreshadowing}} will come back to haunt her more than once]] over the course of the series.

* NostalgiaFilter: Livia remembers her late husband as a 'saint', at least post-mortem. While he was still alive? Not so much, [[{{Foreshadowing}} as we will see over the course of the series]].
* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Hesh and Big Pussy lead Mahaffey out onto a bridge overlooking deep waterfalls. They demand Mahaffey give Tony part of his company to pay off his [[TrappedByGamblingDebts gambling debts]]. Mahaffey initially refuses. But then Hesh invites Mahaffey to join him for a dive into the river below, and Big Pussy punctuates the point by throwing his ice cream into the river. That pretty much suffices to end any further resistance from Mahaffey.

* GilliganCut: Tony gives Dr. Melfi his {{Understatement}} of having had coffee with Mahaffey. The very next shot is of Mahaffey dropping his coffee on the pavement, and running away after [[OhCrap recognizing Tony in the car]].

* AnOfferYouCantRefuse: Hesh and Big Pussy lead Mahaffey out onto a bridge overlooking deep waterfalls. They demand Mahaffey give Tony part of his company to pay off his [[TrappedByGamblingDebts gambling debts]]. Mahaffey initially refuses. But then Hesh invites Mahaffey to join him for a dive into the river below, and Big Pussy punctuates the point by throwing his ice cream into the river. That pretty much suffices to end any further resistance from Mahaffey.

* TheOtherDarrin:
** Father Phil was played by Michael Santoro in the Pilot, but played by Paul Schulze afterwards.
** Irina was played by Siberia Federico in the pilot, but played by Oksana Lada afterwards.

* PetTheDog: Tony was ChildhoodFriends with Artie, so he does whatever he can to avoid the reputation of Artie's business being ruined by Uncle Junior's intention to have Pussy Malanga

** Carmela is established as a {{Hypocrite}} who convinces herself that she [[DistractedByTheLuxury enjoy the luxuries provided by the Mafia]] without facing any of the moral repercussions involved, and that it isn't [[YourCheatingHeart cheating]] as long as it doesn't get as far as physical sex.

* ItsASmallWorldAfterAll: Tony returns into Dr. Melfi at a local restaurant.

* ScrewTheRulesIHaveConnections: All it takes is a word from Tony for the restaurant to ready a table for Dr. Melfi and her boyfriend ahead of the lineup.

* BloodMoney: How Charmaine sees Tony's give of vacation tickets to Artie, and why she refuses them.

* PetTheDog: Tony was ChildhoodFriends with Artie, so he does whatever he can to avoid the reputation of Artie's business ruined by Uncle Junior's intention to have Pussy Malanga

* DudeWheresMyRespect: Chris tells Tony at the end of the episode that he feels slighted for not even getting a 'thank you' for solving the Triboro Garbage situation.

* ManlyTears: Tony cries over the ducks giving birth to babies, symbolizing his own life and feelings of inadequacy.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Chris wants to leave Emil's body in a bin that's on the Kolar routes, with the intention of [[StuffedInTheFridge leaving a message for the Kolar family]]. And his inspiration for it is the [[ShoutOut 'Luca Brazzi sleeps with the fishes' message]] from ''Film/TheGodfather'' movie. Big Pussy has to tell him forcefully that real-life Mafia work is different from the movie. It's imperative to [[DisposingOfABody dispose of the body]] so that it is never found, both to avoid law enforcement heat and to avoid retaliation from the Kolars.

** Carmela is established as a {{Hyprocrite}} who convinces herself that she [[DistractedByTheLuxury enjoy the luxuries provided by the Mafia]] without facing any of the moral repercussions involved, and that it isn't [[YourCheatingHeart cheating]] as long as it doesn't get as far as physical sex.
** Meadow is shown to be a BrainyBrunette and a BrattyTeenagedDaughter. She'll exhibit both traits, even the second one, well into her twenties.
** A.J. will be the eternal DumbassAssTeenageSon, even well into his twenties.

** Meadow is shown to be a BrainyBrunette and a BrattyTeenageDaughter. She'll exhibit both traits, even the second one, well into her twenties.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Chris mentions that he has an interest in film screenwriting, and says that his friend is a "[[Recap/TheSopranosS2E7DGirl d-girl]]" in Hollywood.

** A.J. will be the eternal DumbassAssTeenage son, even well into his twenties.

* HolierThanThou: Carmela tells Tony that he's doomed to go hell when he dies, but she's not, just before he gets slid into the MRI scan chamber. Those words [[{{Foreshadowing}} will come back to haunt her more than once]] over the course of the series.

** It becomes obvious that DudeWheresMyRespect will be one of Uncle Junior's defining characteristics for most of the series.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Carmela tells Tony that he'll go to Hell for being a Mafiaso, while conveniently forgetting that she [[DistractedByLuxury lives in luxury]] of the blood money he pulls in.