Getting AJ’s worst moment as a tattoo is certainly a choice. Anyway, $4 a pound.
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  • 778 points DrowningInFeces

    Are we supposed to know who this is?

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    410 points Username38485x

    Sopranos

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    141 points MrMilesDavis

    Reddit getting younger every year!

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    268 points -DoctorSpaceman-

    I was the appropriate demographic when it came out and I never watched it. I knew few people who have!

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    70 points umamifiend

    Yup. I’m 41 and never liked it. Didn’t like or watch breaking bad or battle star galactic either. Not everything in pop culture is for everyone.

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    25 points MrMilesDavis

    It's cool when you get to be a part of it with everyone else though. Wish I could get into Game of Thrones for that same reason. I was thrilled to enjoy breaking bad as much as I did since there's so many people I can talk about the show with 

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    13 points umamifiend

    Yeah- I was more into GOT for the costumes and production. I’m an artist and jeweler and they went hard on that show for good design. I actually remade George RR’s wedding ring a number of years ago.

    It’s okay to be into some things and not the others!

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    7 points NKHdad

    43 here. I resisted most of these shows too but I finally watched Breaking Bad during Covid and it's pretty great.

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    3 points umamifiend

    I mean- I’ve watched a lot of it- hoping I would get into it. Didn’t like BB at all. Watched almost all of battle star and hated it the whole way through lol. I feel the same way about the sopranos.

    Watched a lot of them- and not in a binge watching way- and just really didn’t like any of the characters so it was hard to get invested.

    Not everything is for every audience ya know? You’re certainly not alone in liking it!

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    2 points NKHdad

    For sure. I thought you said you hadn't watched BB at all, so I misunderstood you there.

    I've never done GOT because of how annoying everyone was about it and then how they all hated how it ended. I think I would like it but I'm not willing to invest that much time for a show that everyone just dropped once it ended bad

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    1 points TheRealAE86guy

    Breaking Bad is much more enjoyable if you at least like drugs a little bit.

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    4 points -DoctorSpaceman-

    Better get onto Pluribus for Vince Gilligans new thing lol

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    4 points MrMilesDavis

    ...I'll probably wait until everyone starts harassing me to do so. You're the first person on the list so far!

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    2 points tripsd

    I’m a professor and tell students that I’m from Albuquerque and referencing BB. I stopped a few years ago when not one student knew what I was talking about

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    -25 points CombatDeffective

    I think its a better feeling to see people's crestfallen faces when you tell them you haven't seen whatever their trying to talk at you about. Too cool for schlock shows.

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    17 points External-Cash-3880

    Nah, as soon as you give a reason like that, you aren't too cool for anything, you're just needlessly contrarian. Like an edgy 13 year old.

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    -10 points CombatDeffective

    It's never needless. Fight the power. ✊️

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    5 points umamifiend

    What power?

    Being a snarky little shit doesn’t fight any power. It doesn’t stick it to any ‘man’. You didn’t win anything. You only alienate yourself from others by being that way. And really that’s a joke you’re playing on yourself.

    You run into an asshole in the morning, you ran into an asshole. If you run into assholes all day- you’re the asshole.

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    7 points letthetreeburn

    Get off Reddit you have algebra homework to do.

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    4 points umamifiend

    But, but, but- he learned the word crestfallen in English this week, and wanted to use it in a sentence 😂

    Watch out everyone, we’ve got an edgelord over here hahaha

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    6 points technobrendo

    I binge watched like the entire first season....then I just stopped. No idea why, guess it didn't really have a hold on me.

    I love the mafia / gangster movies, to a point.

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    1 points Zrik_

    Okay but I can’t recommend Breaking Bad enough. I don’t even really watch TV at all but DAMN that show was fantastic.

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    7 points jbach220

    I just watched it for the first time this year. Overall, it’s a lot.

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    40 points wat_happened_here

    Like why would you even assume everyone old enough to even watch it did!?!

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    11 points Supper_Champion

    I've seen it and I still didn't catch the reference. Then again, when you binge 9 seasons over a couple months, you're bound to forget stuff.

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    5 points icecream_specialist

    I watched the show 3 different times and it still didn't click for me until someone said it.

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    10 points revolmak

    I couldn't finish it :/. It was really good, just went on forever, got burned out

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    3 points Lethbridgemark

    I am old enough to have watched it when it was new so that probably helped me. It is one of the best shows in history IMO but I could see getting burnt out.

    I am currently watching Boardwalk Empire and I've been trying to pace myself so I don't get burnt out as it's nearly as long (within 10 hours I'd guess). I tried watching it many years ago and didn't even make 2 seasons but I remembered really enjoying it so I started again as I had no idea where I was or what exactly happened.

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    0 points JoeyKino

    Yeah, I made it about 2 seasons into Boardwalk Empire and then, for some reason I can't remember, kind of lost interest (same thing that happened to me for Sopranos). I'm all for a slow burn in a movie, but TV series that are a slow burn kind of a thing just start to drag when you're talking about being 24+ hours in.

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    1 points TheRealAE86guy

    Love Steve Buscemi and Michael Pitt, Michael Kenneth Williams (rip), as well as the many other notable cast members, but I've attempted to get into this show at LEAST two or three times in earnest, to no avail.

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    5 points wat_happened_here

    Same. I really liked the show but had to stop. I know a ton of people who have never seen a single episode.

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    3 points InkyLizard

    Kind of same, but I still finished it. I know "mafia bad" was the main point, but I disliked how much of an evil bastard Tony became, especially since the first season made it seem like he was going to be somewhat decent

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    4 points RobertGA23

    I felt the same about Jax in Sons of Anarchy.

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    2 points Ryuiop

    Yes, jax in SoA pissed me off.. if I don't like him, then I really have nothing to watch for

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    2 points RelativeMotion1

    They’re working on remaking it in 1 minute vertically-oriented clips.

    Might miss a few key details and some character/plot development, but you should be able to get through in a few days.

    E: I see I’ve angered the zoomers. They’re now furiously watching something positively filled with CGI, in rapid 2-second shots clipped together into something sufficiently stimulating, as a palate cleanser.

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    3 points elkab0ng

    … don’t forget the subtitles one flashing word at a time and sped up 35%.

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    6 points HabitNegative3137

    What does this have to with age? I might be older than you and have never seen this show

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    5 points icecream_specialist

    I'm the right age and love the show but it still didn't click until someone said it. But let's just be envious of the youngsters that can still watch sopranos and the wire for the first time

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    4 points Hubsimaus

    Or someone who never watched Sopranos like me.

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    5 points longcreepyhug

    I'm 40 and didn't know.

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    3 points National_Rooster9193

    I'm 38 and had no idea what this was referencing though Sopranos would've been my guess.

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    4 points DanielMcLaury

    I looked this up, and it turns out that in order to recognize it you would not only have to watch The Sopranos, you would have had to make it to one of the last episodes of the last season! (And it's not like watching the show up to this point would help, since the character isn't recognizable with a bag over his head.)

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    1 points ToxicCooper

    Or maybe not everyone is from the US...

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    0 points KyZei15

    In everyone's defense, it's one of my favorite shows and it took me a while to figure it out. 

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    0 points Rolling_Beardo

    In my 40s and had absolutely no interest in watching it when it was airing and even less interest now.

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    0 points Big-Al97

    Bro I’m 28 and had no idea what the fuck OP was referencing

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    0 points Lehelito

    I'm nearly 40 and haven't watched it.

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    0 points AmyInCO

    I'm almost 60, from Long Island and never watched it. But my kids have. 

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    0 points WeAreClouds

    I’m 55 and I didn’t know either. That shoe was just not my thing.

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    0 points drfeelsgoood

    Over 30 and I don’t get it

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    21 points Artsonaut

    Sopranos ended almost 20 years ago.

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    3 points Username38485x

    I guess it qualifies as a classic then!

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    12 points SirVelocifaptor

    Woke up this morning, got some gabagool

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    3 points riftshioku

    As someone who's watched the sopranos, I couldn't recognize what this was from

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    1 points Xtrepiphany

    I just finished watching that show a few months ago and still didn't get the reference. Completely forgettable character.

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    55 points Tumble85

    AJ from the Sopranos, he tried to kill himself.

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    6 points _mkd_

    That's supposed to be a human?

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    2 points yungmoody

    What part of that is confusing for you?

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    2 points _mkd_

    The part where the face looks like a shitty Darmok cosplay.

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    1 points KoopaSteve

    It's a bag.

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    2 points flatwoundsounds

    He has a bag over his head.

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    47 points Charming-Report1669

    That's a really deep cut reference to the Sopranos. Tony's son, AJ, tried to kill himself by tying a rope that was wrapped around his neck to a cinder block and throwing it in the pool. The thing was, the rope itself was too long - it didn't hold AJ underwater all the way.

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    10 points PinkynotClyde

    I guess that’s a good kind of embarrassing.

    My first watch of the Sopranos I thought he was so whiney. Second watch I kinda felt empathy for him. Not tough enough for the family business. No good friends. Everyone in his life is a selfish, phony, hypocrite. If that’s all you see it’s kinda depressing.

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    1 points SquareExtra918

    I had no idea! I stopped watch after the psychologist was sexually assaulted. Poor AJ 😞

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    10 points pennywhistlesmoonpie

    It’s a scene from The Sopranos where one of the main characters tries to end his life. I wasn’t sure how much I could put in the title without it getting taken down, and a concerned redditor even reached out about me because of the subject matter! Which is extremely touching, whoever did that is a very kind person. I should have provided more context: I have absolutely no desire to harm myself; I just thought the tattoo fit this sub perfectly. It’s a wildly tasteless tattoo but done very well.

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    0 points pug52

    Are we supposed to know who you are?

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    -4 points thorsbosshammer

    They copied the post title straight from the sopranos subreddit, where they would have all known who AJ was

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  • 146 points Panndademic

    Execution is not exactly wowing me

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    25 points pennywhistlesmoonpie

    All right, but you gotta get over it.

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    11 points spainman

    Probably because it's suicide.

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    4 points DGanj

    It's a pretty solid trad style tattoo. Lines, color, shading, all good and a clear readable image. Great? I guess that's up to personal taste but everything is done well.

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  • 72 points Original_Telephone_2

    What's this even from?

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    65 points Argonautaaa

    The son on the Sopranos

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    34 points BlastingFonda

    I bet having to explain this to everyone (which the tattooed person will have to do all the time) gets really tiring after a while. I’d want to tie myself to a cinder block if it were me.

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    1 points disposablevillain

    Big sopranos fan, remember this scene vividly. I had no idea until I read the post title.

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  • 60 points Pauliehatestheadmins

    We can’t have him in our social club anymore

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    31 points among_apes

    Social club???? He’s got to goooooo

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  • 50 points Dabadoi

    King of the Hill got weird after I stopped watching.

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    2 points OhneBremse_OhneLicht

    “Whatcha doing up there, Bill? Satellite dish trouble?”

    “No, I’m just up here to kill myself.”

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    2 points TiddyWaffles312

    LOL i saw Bobby too

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  • 39 points ferengiface

    He’s not like me. He’s sensitive.

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    15 points nun_gut

    Never had the makings of a varsity athlete.

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  • 40 points sluttydinosaur101

    What a gabafool

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    9 points pennywhistlesmoonpie

    All this from a piece of gabbagool?!

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    3 points BakedBobbyHill

    Let's get back to the gabagool.

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    2 points fakeprofile21

    In the gabapool?

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  • 30 points ChungusMcGoodboy

    Its a pretty mediocre execution.

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    6 points Username38485x

    Agree. If not for the cylinder block I wouldn't have got it.

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  • 27 points Original_Chapter3028

    What kind of likeness is that?

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  • 16 points player_piano

    I’m supposed to get a tattoo when this is my male heir??!

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  • 13 points ThisMeansWine

    Need to post this in r/circlejerksopranos!

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    3 points pennywhistlesmoonpie

    I make a party for my tattoo picture

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  • 12 points Beggatron14

    I’m supposed to get a vasectomy when this is my male heir? Look at him!

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  • 9 points ELB2001

    Tiny hands and why is he holding it like that

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    21 points cat_hast

    He never had the makings of a varsity athlete

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  • 9 points FunBat6170

    What is wrong with you

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    22 points pennywhistlesmoonpie

    Frankly, I’m depressed and ashamed.

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  • 6 points markuus99

    ....what?

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  • 5 points likwitsnake

    This is going to look like a klan member from afar

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  • 5 points Skatedivona

    Yea but you gotta get over it

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  • 3 points Nickelsass

    r/nottodaypal

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  • 3 points ThePrevailer

    wat

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  • 2 points bigpapapaycheck

    The Genesis

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  • 2 points BattlinBud

    Jesus fucking Christ

    ...you gotta post this in r/TheSopranos

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  • 2 points CherryHugletX

    Bold choice getting someone else’s meltdown immortalized on your skin… but hey, at least the $4/lb deal is solid.

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  • 1 points Danibear285

    Ahaha what garbage is that from

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  • 1 points SparkyPantsMcGee

    This is like the inverse of this sub. Great taste awful execution.

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  • 1 points SassyPetalUp

    That’s… definitely a commitment. Bold choice, questionable execution, but hey $4 a pound is the real crime here.

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  • 0 points GigglePetal975

    Big commitment energy… and also, $4 a pound really makes me wonder what the conversion rate is for life choices.

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  • -1 points j_aca_j

    Looks nothing like AJ Brown 🧐

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