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6x21 Made in America

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4.62/5 (13 votes)
First Aired: Jun. 10, 2007 on HBO
Summary: In the sixth and last series finale, Dr. Melfi has cut her ties, Silvio's in a coma, and Bobby has been derailed - now, there is no more hiding.

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Guest Stars

Junior Soprano played by Dominic Chianese
Silvio Dante played by Steven Van Zandt
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri played by Tony Sirico
A.J. Soprano played by Robert Iler
Janice Soprano Baccalieri played by Aida Turturro
Little Carmine Lupertazzi played by Ray Abruzzo
Patsy Parisi played by Dan Grimaldi
Agent Dwight Harris played by Matt Servitto

Episode Quotes

Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: I'm no spring chicken no more. I don't wanna have me dyin' on you and leavin' ya worse off than before.
Tony Soprano: Oh, you with the dead thing! Ya got the arms and upper body of a 20-year-old.
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: I gotta work at that. And I had the prostate.
Tony Soprano: Alright, sure. Go ahead. I'm a little miffled but yeah, sit with it.
Tony Soprano: You don't know who I am, do ya?... You remember Johnny? Johnny Boy, your kid brother?... This thing of ours?
Corrado 'Junior' Soprano: I was involved in that?
Tony Soprano: Yeah. You and my Dad. You two ran North Jersey.
Corrado 'Junior' Soprano: We did?
Tony Soprano: Yeah.
Corrado 'Junior' Soprano: Hm. Well, that's nice.
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: "In the midst of death, we are in life", huh? Or is it the other way around?
Meadow Soprano: I think it's the other way around.
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri: Either version, you're halfway up the ass.

Trivia

  • SPOILER: David Chase has never explicitly stated what happened to Tony Soprano during the final scene, leading to three widely embraced theories: nothing unusual happened (the heightened tension of the scene reflecting Tony's understandable paranoia), Tony was arrested by FBI agents, or Tony was murdered and the sudden cut to black indicated his passing. However, Chase later stated that when someone dies, everything goes black and they don't realize what happened at first - and also that he originally wanted HBO to maintain the silent and black ending for over three minutes, without any end credits (in the final airing, these credits appear only a few seconds after the final shot and fade out), therefore boosting the fans' belief that Tony Soprano actually was murdered in the last seconds of the series.
  • After this episode was screened in Ireland, "Don't Stop Believing" by Journey made Number 1 in the charts on downloads alone.
  • SPOILER: David Chase had originally intended this episode to air simply with the blank screen in place of end credits, but was unable to obtain a waiver from the Director's Guild of America. The surprising final cut to black also led many viewers to believe that their cable service had accidentally cut out.
  • Paulie's ringtone is the Simon & Garfunkel song "Cecelia".
  • During his final conversation with Uncle Junior, Tony refers to their line of work as "this thing of ours", which is an almost literal translation of Cosa Nostra, the official name of the Sicilian mafia.