Boca

Episode aired Mar 7, 1999
TV-MA
52m

IMDb RATING

8.5/10

9.7K

YOUR RATING

James Gandolfini and Edie Falco in The Sopranos (1999)

Crime Drama

The capos discuss what to do about the local soccer coach, who is to be leaving New Jersey for a new job, while Junior's mouth causes him some embarrassment.The capos discuss what to do about the local soccer coach, who is to be leaving New Jersey for a new job, while Junior's mouth causes him some embarrassment.The capos discuss what to do about the local soccer coach, who is to be leaving New Jersey for a new job, while Junior's mouth causes him some embarrassment.

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IMDb RATING

8.5/10

9.7K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Junior hitting Bobbi in her face with a pie when they break up was used as an homage to The Public Enemy, where the main character does the same to his girlfriend with a cut-in-half grapefruit when he says he is leaving her. David Chase has cited The Public Enemy as an enormous influence.

Goofs
When Charmaine is talking to Artie about Coach Hauser in the garden, you hear Charmaine say "The father lives in Europe somewhere, they haven't been able to reach him," but it is obvious by looking at her lips that this is not what she said.

Quotes
Tony Soprano: Uncle Jun, how was Boca?
Corrado 'Junior' Soprano: Wonderful. I don't go down enough.
Carmela Soprano: That's not what I heard.

Connections
Featured in De slimste mens ter wereld: Episode #10.21 (2017)

Soundtracks
Can't You Feel the Fire
Composed by Steven Van Zandt
Performed by Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul

User reviews17

Featured review

5/10

one of the weakest episodes

Sorry i simply do not buy the plot regarding the mob guys being so invested in keeping the coach around, using extortion and threats as if the coach was himself implicated in any mob related criminal activity (such as illegal gambling and prostitution). He was an unaffiliated civilian who could have reached out to law enforcement if the crew ever did cause him harm. I just can't imagine they'd go through that kind of trouble (until they found out about the other thing)

Then the plot with junior eating box. That could be funny for a few scenes but it's not compelling or convincing enough to carry half the episode.

The broader underlying themes are not lost on me, such as ones duty or imperative to impose ethics upon themselves and discovering the limits of their agency over their world. Or the perils of being so beholden to ones ego and reputation. But the story they went with simply isn't very interesting, the motives are tenuous for the most part, the resolution was incidental and the larger arc is left unaffected.