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Culture

Brent Bozell Wept

Radley Balko | 2.9.2009 8:18 PM

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Via Boing Boing, every swear word ever uttered on The Sopranos, in chronological order.


the sopranos, uncensored. from victor solomon on Vimeo.

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  1. Jim Walsh   17 years ago

    It's a thing of beauty, I tell ya...

  2. Hazel Meade   17 years ago

    Can we get a comparison to The Wire?

  3. John C. Randolph   17 years ago

    Man, somebody did a lot of work editing that. Bravo.

    -jcr

  4. the innominate one   17 years ago

    in a similar vein

  5. BobDobalina   17 years ago

    You could edit Obama's Press Conference, and achieve the same effect without swear words.

    15 straight minutes of "Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh...Uh..."

  6. Elemenope   17 years ago

    I just saw this a couple of hours ago. Hilarious; the S.O. and I just sort of sat there transfixed.

    ---

    Yeah, Obama needs to get his uh's under control when pausing.

  7. anarch   17 years ago

    I'm so glad we had this little chat.

  8. Matthew   17 years ago

    To just edit every swear word in the Sopranos into one montage is just kind of stupid.

  9. Sopranobot   17 years ago

    Matthew is begging to be cussed out, I just know it.

  10. Cultural critic   17 years ago

    Who knew the cast of that show was reading Balko continuously?

  11. Episiarch   17 years ago

    MADTV did the exact inversion of this video.

  12. Matthew   17 years ago

    Soprano

    Nah, I've just got a stick up my ass today.

  13. Warren   17 years ago

    So What? No fucking Ziti now?

  14. Boston   17 years ago

    I like the Lebowski Version

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqtgfjkB6Pg

  15. The Wine Commonsewer (you can   17 years ago

    First time I haven't suffered terminal depression after reading a Balko post.

    HooooRaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy!

  16. Paul   17 years ago

    Why?

  17. James Ard   17 years ago

    The needless cursing is one reason I never watched the Sopranos. Obama's pauses are obviously necessary so that Greg Craig can feed him the answers. 4 years of watching this guy is going to leave me hairless.

  18. hamilton   17 years ago

    Golly.

  19. ed   17 years ago

    Obama uses a teleprompter when talking to his wife.

  20. David (not that one)   17 years ago

    Someone should do a version for Deadwood. Now there's some good cussing.

  21. Curious George   17 years ago

    So this is where Michelle learned to give a speech. Four years of her is going to make me a confirmed drinker.

  22. R C Dean   17 years ago

    The needless cursing is one reason I never watched the Sopranos.

    Then watch it on A&E - the cursing is dubbed over.

    I found the profanity appropriate in the Sopranos, though. I figure its how those guys probably really talk.

    In Deadwood, for some reason, I found it anachronistic and jarring.

  23. Russ 2000   17 years ago

    In Deadwood, for some reason, I found it anachronistic and jarring.

    The intent was to be jarring, like the west itself. But if the swearing had been of its time, it wouldn't have been jarring to modern audiences. Ya cocksucker.

  24. Neu Mejican   17 years ago

    Impressively restricted and unimaginative cursing vocabulary.

  25. Isaac Bartram   17 years ago

    I'm not entirely sure how anachronistic the swearing in Deadwood is.

    Clearly, the language evolves over time, but surely these words were not invented yesterday. I can't remember where but i seem to recall reading something from the late 1700s that had swearwords that would have been perfectly familiar today.

    And I'm fairly sure that the acts they describe were the staples of any good 1870s whorehouse.

  26. Isaac Bartram   17 years ago

    Not that I was ever in an 1870s whorehouse, mind you.

  27. Bob A   17 years ago

    This is such bullshit!

  28. heshaojie   16 years ago

    http://www.uggkick.com uggbooks

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