Boca (The Sopranos episode)
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| Episode no. | Season 1 Episode 9 |
| Guest stars | see below |
| Written by | Jason Cahill, Robin Green, Mitchell Burgess |
| Directed by | Andy Wolk |
| Production no. | 109 |
| Original airdate | March 7, 1999 |
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"Boca" is the 9th episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos. It was the ninth episode for the show's first season. The episode was written by Jason Cahill and Robin Green & Mitchell Burgess and was directed by Andy Wolk. It originally aired on Sunday March 7, 1999.
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[edit] Guest starring roles
- Candace Bailey as Deena Hauser
- Joe Badalucco, Jr. as Jimmy Altieri
- Tony Darrow as Larry Boy Barese
- Michelle DeCesare as Hunter Scangarello
- John Heard as Detective Vin Makazian
- Cara Jedell as Ally Vandermeed
- Kevin O'Rourke as Coach Don Hauser
- Robyn Peterson as Roberta "Bobbi" Sanfillipo
- Richard Portnow as Attorney Harold Melvoin
- Al Sapienza as Mikey Palmice
- Jackie Tohn as Heather Dante
[edit] Episode recap
Meadow's soccer coach, Don Hauser, has become well-liked by the fathers of kids in his team (Tony, Artie, and Silvio) because of the success he brings them on the playing field. The three of them have drinks with him at the Bada Bing club after a win. Soon, however, The Star-Ledger reports that he is leaving for another job and they began trying to intimidate him into staying. Paulie Walnuts delivers a 50-inch television to the coach's house and insists he take it. Christopher returns his "missing dog" — after apparently stealing it himself.
There is also unrest amongst the girls on the team. The coach has started a sexual relationship with Ally Vandermeed, one of his players and a friend of Meadow's. Ally tries to kill herself while the team is drinking in a park after she heard the news that the coach was moving on. Meadow told her parents about the inappropriate relationship between coach and player.
Junior Soprano visits Boca Raton for a weekend with a woman named Bobbi, whom he has been seeing for 16 years. We learn that Bobbi values Junior's skill at performing cunnilingus and that Junior does not like her to talk about this because he feels it would damage his reputation in the DiMeo crime family. He requests that she not divulge this part of their relationship to anyone. Bobbi, who in the past made the mistake of discussing her sex life at a nail parlour, tells an acquaintance that they should be quiet on the topic from now on. Her friend, however, gossips about Junior's particular talent to others. These remarks are heard by a contact of Carmela Soprano and the gossip gets back to Tony. When Junior pokes fun at Tony at a golf game, Tony immediately makes veiled jokes about it, aimed at Junior. For his part, Junior responds with a reference to Tony's therapy. An angry Junior later storms into Bobbi's office and ends the relationship. He is so furious that Bobbi pleads with him not to hit her. Instead, he mushes a lemon meringue pie in her face.
After Tony learns of the soccer coach's affair with his student, he contemplates murdering him. After a visit with Dr. Melfi, who asks him why he would assume the burden of righting wrongs in society, and after hearing Artie's plea for police justice, it is revealed that the coach is arrested by the authorities. After this, Tony arrives home completely drunk and high on Xanax, and brags to Carmela (as well as an eavesdropping Meadow) that "[He] didn't hurt no one."
[edit] First appearances
- Coach Don Hauser: Meadow's Soccer Coach
- Bobbi: Junior's Girlfriend.
- Ally Vandermeed: Meadow's Soccer teammate.
[edit] Title reference
- Boca Raton is the holiday destination of choice for Junior Soprano and he visits it during the episode.
- Bocca is the Italian word for mouth — gossip and secrets are a major theme in the episode, as well as Junior's talent in cunnilingus.
[edit] Miscellanea
- This episode wrongly reports the location of the University of Rhode Island, claiming that it is in Providence when, in fact, it is on the other side of the state.
- Actor Steven Van Zandt wore his own golfing hat for a scene where Silvio plays a round of golf.
- Junior also reportedly hides out in Boca in a flashback sequence in the later episode "...To Save Us All from Satan's Power".
