History Recap / TheSopranosS3E7SecondOpinion

Carmela, disheartened by Tony's behavior in between his philandering and unwillingness to donate more money to the college, visits Dr. Krakower. During their session, the morally stalwart Krakower confronts her bluntly with the harsh reality of the violent criminal she is married to, telling her that her only option to obtain a clean conscience is to take the kids and go. Carmela is shaken by this appraisal of her life. Tony finds her lying on the couch at home, and she tells him seriously that he needs to do something nice for her that day. Tony agrees to pay the $50,000 to Columbia, then offers to take her out for dinner.

--->'''Meadow:''' Look, don't drag me into whatever bullshit accommodational pretense you've got worked out with Daddy.

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--> '''Meadow''': Look, don't drag me into whatever bullshit accommodational pretense you've got worked out with Daddy.
--> '''Carmela''': What was that, last night's reading assignment?

--> '''Carmela''': [Tony's] a good man, a good father.
--> '''Krakower''': You tell me he's a depressed criminal, prone to anger, serially unfaithful. Is that your definition of a good man?
--> '''and:'''
--> '''Carmela''': My priest said I should try and help him become a better man.
--> '''Krakower''': How that's going?

--> ''Paulie'': I guess you could call that a dick.

** Tony is absolutely correct that Dean Ross is only meeting with Carmela because he sees the Sopranos as a prime target for donation money. Carmela, on the other hand, is too much of a SocialClimber and easily flattered by the man to see that he's manipulating her.

* VehicularSabotage: Tony takes a baseball bat to Angie's car, and pretty much reduces it to scrap metal.

Carmela, disheartened by Tony's behavior in between his philandering and unwillingness to donate more money to the college, visits Dr. Krakower. During their session, the morally stalwart Jewish Krakower confronts her bluntly with the harsh reality of the violent criminal she is married to, telling her that her only option to obtain a clean conscience is to take the kids and go. Carmela is shaken by this appraisal of her life. Tony finds her laying on the couch at home, and she tells him seriously that he needs to do something nice for her that day. Tony agrees to pay the $50,000 to Columbia, then offers to take her out for dinner.

Tensions begin to escalate between Christopher and Paulie, who is now his boss. Christopher bristles when Paulie and Patsy Parisi order him to strip for the required wire search on newly made guys, and Paulie mocks his penis size. Later, Chris brings a large stash of stolen Adriana new shoes. She is happy with the new perks of being a made man's girlfriend, though somewhat disappointed that the shoes don't fit and Christopher will have to get replacements. Later that night, Paulie and Patsy show up to search Christopher's house, taking a cut of his swag, and Christopher sees Paulie sniffing Adriana's underwear.

Georgie the bouncer brings a Big Mouth Billy Bass - a toy fish that lip-syncs to various popular songs - to the Bada Bing and Tony finds it in his office. Though amused at first, he becomes unsettled when the Bass reminds him of his nightmare about the fish that spoke with Pussy Bonpensiero's voice and beats Georgie with the novelty item. Later, Carmela sees Angie Bonpensiero, Pussy's widow, working at the supermarket, handing out free samples, and strikes up a conversation. Angie complains about her financial troubles, suggesting that Tony's allowance to her is not enough to get by, especially now that her dog is sick. Carmela broaches this to Tony and he promptly visits Angie. When he finds a new car in her driveway he smashes the windows and intimidates her, noting her dog seems healthy and accusing her of trying to extort him through his wife.

* PervertedSniffing: Chris receives a surprise, late-night visit at his apartment from Paulie and Patsi. The two gangsters comb through Chris and Adriana's belongings to cherry-pick Christopher's stolen swag. Chris catches Paulie taking a mighty sniff of a pair of panties from Adriana's lingerie drawer.

** Chris went into CrazyJealousGuy mode over Paulie sniffing Adriana's panties and complained to Tony about it, who in turn called out Paulie over it. Suffice to say that Paulie savors the moment when he catches Chris having fun with a [[TheOldestProfession hooker]] and calls him out over it, as it amounts to being unfaithful to Adriana.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Throughout the episode, Tony shows genuine concern for his uncle's poor health and does everything in his power to better Junior's position.

Tensions begin to escalate between Christopher and Paulie, who is now his boss. Christopher bristles when Paulie and Patsy Parisi order him to strip for the required wire search on newly made guys, and Paulie mocks his penis size. Later, Chris brings Adriana new shoes. She is happy with the new perks of being a made man's girlfriend, though somewhat disappointed that the shoes don't fit and Christopher will have to get replacements. Later that night, Paulie and Patsy show up to search Christopher's house, taking a cut of his swag, and Christopher sees Paulie sniffing Adriana's underwear.

Georgie the bouncer brings a Big Mouth Billy Bass - a toy fish that lip-syncs to various popular songs - to the Bada Bing and Tony finds it in his office. Though amused at first, he becomes unsettled when the Bass reminds him of his nightmare about the fish that spoke with Pussy Bonpensiero's voice and beats Georgie with the novelty item. Later, Carmela sees Angie Bonpensiero, Pussy's widow, at the supermarket, and strikes up a conversation. Angie complains about her financial troubles, suggesting that Tony's allowance to her is not enough to get by, especially now that her dog is sick. Carmela broaches this to Tony and he promptly visits Angie. When he finds a new car in her driveway he smashes the windows and intimidates her, noting her dog seems healthy and accusing her of trying to extort him through his wife.

--> '''or:'''

Carmela attends therapy with Dr. Melfi alone, as Tony could not make it to their couples' therapy. She shows signs of severe melancholy, and cries in front of Melfi, but is dismissive when Melfi suggests regular therapy with another psychiatrist - Melfi herself cannot treat Carmela one-on-one due to conflict of interest. Despite Carmela's insistence that she does not need any help with her mental health, Melfi recommends her to a mentor of hers, Dr. Krakawer. Carmela later visits Columbia University to discuss a possible donation to the college that would benefit Meadow's academic career. She visits Meadow while on campus and finds her largely burnt out by the college grind. They have a brief argument about Tony's racism towards her boyfriend Noah. Carmela meets with the dean and is charmed, becoming enthusiastic about making his recommended donation of $50,000. When she broaches the subject to Tony, however, he is completely opposed and only willing to donate as much as $5,000.

* PoliticallyIncorrectVillain: Tony tries to downplay the value of the doctor's MeaningfulName by pointing out that lots of "micks" name their sons after a certain U.S. President.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Seems to be Tony's reaction to Paulie's defense when accused of sniffing Adriana's panties, which boils down to "They aren't married ''yet'', so she's fair game."