Top Five Subjects The Sopranos Paulie Walnuts Would Discuss in Therapy

[@bradlott3284]

Sopranos Blueprint grew up, spent a few years in the Army, a few more in the can, and here she is- Half an Uploader

[@SopranosBlueprint]

Richard Kimble, The Devil’s Whatevah, those are all make believe!

[@victorsforza6213]

@@SopranosBlueprint you know who had an arc?? BORKO.. HEHEHEHEHE

[@owie4070]

Her father was run over by a trolley, right?

[@therodentryresistance95]

7:22 Paulie listening to a self-help recording which is saying the first key to win is to know when to fight and 5 seconds later he's defending himself from that guy with the chainsaw. Great writing!!

[@SopranosBlueprint]

Right?!? I love all the detail they put into it. It’s the little things that really stick out!

[@coreyhall1150]

It was actually sun tsu "The Art Of War" lmao. Makes it even funnier imo.

[@The-Wolf-with-no-name]

I will never forget the look on Paulie's face when he realizes he got played by Johnny Sacks. Never has a penny dropped so damn hard.

[@jamesmorant1406]

You're right after that he had to get in Tony's good graces

[@SopranosBlueprint]

And as far as I’m concerned, he deserved it for running his mouth so much to Johnny!

[@The-Wolf-with-no-name]

@@jamesmorant1406 it's interesting that Johnny never told Tony who told him about Ralph's joke. I wonder why?

[@The-Wolf-with-no-name]

@@SopranosBlueprint yeah that was a stupid and very dangerous thing to do. I also agree with you that it should how much Paulie was valued by others...zero percent.

[@jamesmorant1406]

​@Loner-Wolf Well, if he gave Paulie up, he would lose the trust of the other guys in his crew and Carmine

[@rich7737]

Blueprint was chin up champion of the ears, nose and throat department three weeks in a row. Beautiful definition

[@SopranosBlueprint]

@@rich7737 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼 I was flattered just the same!

[@rich7737]

@@SopranosBlueprint I love you like a brother in law. You do Great videos, 9 of which are under my sub species

[@FalkZad]

Your videos are incredible, always insightful and thoughtprovoking!! You're easily one of my favorite Sopranos related channels, I just love your in-depth character analysis and your unique takes. Keep up the good work!

[@SopranosBlueprint]

Thank you so much! That’s very kind of you to say, and I’m thrilled you love the videos. 😊😊😊 Plenty more on the way!

[@davidmajer3652]

That was really interesting seeing what makes Paulie tick. It also made me think about his aunt/mom. She was probably the best person on the show. Maybe you should do a segment on the nicest people in the show.

[@SopranosBlueprint]

That’s a great idea! I loved Nucci ❤ she was such a sweetheart (even if she did tattle on the other ladies from time to time). 😅

[@XanderShiller]

That's a great idea actually. It'd really stand out.

[@AidanHutchinson-wncp3po]

Learned some copin skills

[@Rumpknullet]

yh copin skills will only get you soo far

[@paulgardner5079]

I'll one up you.....Group Therapy with Paulie, Ralphie, Phil and little Carmine as the therapist

[@coreyhall1150]

The therapist will wind up getting killed lmao

[@NarutoJK-jh7tr]

You’re mother and aunt thing whatever happened their

[@paulgardner5079]

@@coreyhall1150 Just for good measure lets invite Todd and Tuco from breaking bad

[@coreyhall1150]

@@paulgardner5079 ok then he would be kidnapped, forced into slavery, kept as some sort of weird human pet for a while, tortured while todd stood by and said "Aww come on guys (Sick smile)"then given to tuco who would then take him down to Mexico, forced into making meth 24/7, bitch slapped anytime he asked for something, beaten when tuco was angry, THENn finally killed again

[@nancyvillines4552]

Paulie's problem with therapy was he never used those coping skills 😂

[@TooLooze]

That's some sick shit, Blue. My favorite Paulie moment is "Who's Ramon?". Paulie can have laser focus on the task at hand, but has no idea about consequences or long-term thought.

[@SopranosBlueprint]

And I’m with Makazian in that I thought he was a “psycho.” As much of a malignant c*nt as Minn may have been, his ability to smother a senior citizen civilian woman who could’ve easily been his ma was on another level.

[@behzadshariati1297]

Thanks again. It’s funny that Johnny Sac said that Carmine didn’t know who Ralph is when Carmine clearly knew Ralph but then JC said that Carmine asks about Paulie when Carmine didn’t know Paulie at all.

[@yokatta-f]

Paulie in therapy would just complain about everything that happened to him as if he was the victim and center of the universe, and would do this thing for years, without a significant change in his life. The Therapy-Industrial Complex thrives from people like him.

[@WhyDoYouExistX]

The therapy business thrives off that? But unless the therapist is drawn to working with him due to being a half-a-wise guy, would they tolerate that for so many years? And are they even supposed to continue trying to treat someone knowing full well they aren't and never will improve?

[@paulgardner5079]

After being stabbed in the heart by VIto, he really should have gone back to therapy

[@SopranosBlueprint]

"How much more betrayal can I take?!"

[@James_Price79]

@@paulgardner5079 You gonna take care of his kids, huh, after he's gone? 🤓🥩🥂

[@paulgardner5079]

@@James_Price79 Sorry if I r yelled James, it's just HOW MUCH MORE BETRAYEL CAN I TAKE????

[@James_Price79]

@@paulgardner5079 Well, we can't have him here in our social club no more. I mean, that much I do know.... 🤓🥩🥂

[@XanderShiller]

Identity 😳 "Ayyy I got my own fuckin pronouns! Enough said."

[@SopranosBlueprint]

“Go play cops and robbers!”

[@tcwilson815]

His spiritual and other world encounters used to have me on the floor 😂😂😂😂

[@SopranosBlueprint]

@@tcwilson815 Same here!! His discussion of purgatory with Christopher always cracks me up…I love how he does another explanation of something else later on while in the hospital with Tony and Jason Barone on EBITDA 😆😅

[@EmpirealDemocracy]

The best part was when he stopped donating to his church because he was upset they didn't "cover him" against supernatural encounters.

[@tcwilson815]

@@SopranosBlueprint 😅

[@victorsforza6213]

@@SopranosBlueprint very allegorical.. the sacred and the propane.. hehehehehe

[@James_Price79]

@@SopranosBlueprint The sanitation prince! 😂😂😂

[@ingenieroresidente285]

Old timer tried to find his identity in Italy, failed there too.

[@SopranosBlueprint]

Excellent point!!

[@FranktheDachshund]

Ever go to tie your shoes and you find the end of your shoelaces are wet.

[@SopranosBlueprint]

Why would they be wet? Frankly, it’s important!

[@cramos.]

I love the proposal. It would certainly be interesting to send more characters to therapy.

[@SopranosBlueprint]

Thanks!! I think so, too!! I may do another video on a coupla three different characters :)

[@WhyDoYouExistX]

I would love to see Paulie in therapy. Imagine if he went back to it during S5 and we see some of it until the end.

[@SopranosBlueprint]

That would be VERY interesting, indeed!!

[@WhyDoYouExistX]

@@SopranosBlueprint makes me kinda wish they did that for the last two seasons or simply the final one. You should have mentioned some events in the show which would be perfect times to show his therapy sessions, like his jealously towards Ralph and his dissatisfaction with Tony, Tony protecting his animal cousin and endangering everyone, the plot twist regarding who his ma really is, his cancer diagnosis, his close brush with being killed by Tony.

[@josepartida1711]

A dive into the mind of Paulie Walnuts… Quasimodo predicted this

[@SopranosBlueprint]

*”Who did what?!”* 😂

[@aheroictaxidriver3180]

You know who loved character studies? Was F. Scott Fitzgerald, may he rest in peace.

[@James_Price79]

EXCELLENT IDEA FOR A VIDEO BASED ON 1 THROW AWAY COMMENT! You are a genius Stephanie, I loved this 🤓🥩🥂

[@SopranosBlueprint]

@@James_Price79 ☺️☺️☺️ Thanks so much! So glad you loved the idea! It came to me the other day in one of those “lightbulb moments”💡so I seized on the idea while it was fresh in my head 🥂

[@James_Price79]

@@SopranosBlueprintthat’s why you gotta live for today! 😂😂😂 thank you Stephanie 🤓🥩🥂

[@victorsforza6213]

​@@James_Price79 any problem it's WHACK THIS ONE, WHACK THAT ONE..... NEVER ENOUGH BODY COUNT FOR LORRAINE.....

[@James_Price79]

@@victorsforza6213 lol! 😂😂😂 love how spiteful Johnny was over that 🤓🥩🥂

[@victorsforza6213]

@@James_Price79 keepin' it together with pilates and gin.. hehehe

[@RobbaKeef]

He tried satanic black magic.... that's never been disputed by anybody ....therapy couldn't hurt

[@SopranosBlueprint]

He could’ve done 6,009 years of therapy…and 6,000 years is nothing in eternity terms -he could do that standing on his head. 😅

[@RobbaKeef]

@@SopranosBlueprint hahaha

[@RobbaKeef]

@@SopranosBlueprint hehe

[@gabbyhyman1246]

Amazing that Paulie's emotional shortcomings mirror Tony's. But I dont see him trying to bed Melfi.😂 Did you know Jack Nicholson was raised by his grandparents, whom he considered his real parents. Years later he learned the truth that his "sister" was really his mother. Ouch😮 You always provide food for breakfast. ❤❤❤ Did you see this? kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJu7eqqOidh1jKcsi=-ufs74lmSyIJhBJi

[@jamesmorant1406]

Paulie in therapy would have been so good he would have talked everything from his place in the mob, his spiritual beliefs his mother

[@SopranosBlueprint]

@@jamesmorant1406 Right?! He has so much to talk about! So many different angles and issues…

[@jamesmorant1406]

@@SopranosBlueprint Except he had a good relationship with his mother before he found out she was his aunt

[@SopranosBlueprint]

Yeah, it would be more for after he found out that she was his aunt. Though as far as I’m concerned, she’s his “ma” biology notwithstanding.

[@terry4137]

I wonder how old Paulie was at the time? Hmmm, 65-70? Don’t know! Hmmm

[@WhyDoYouExistX]

I simply go by his actor's age, which would make him 65 in 2007, the year of S6B.

[@Dan_Ben_Michael]

Paulie had to go to therapy after he was groomed by that photographer when he was in the army. The guy said he was from Stars and Stripes, but it turned out he was from Playgirl. On the plus side, he got a free prostate exam.

[@SopranosBlueprint]

And he “was flattered, just the same!” 😄😁

[@StarlightEater]

I think betwix his age, occupation, n religious beliefs, Paulie ain goin be doing no changing. That said, Paulie DID have a soft side, and its not unreasonable to think that with a lil coaxing, he coulda spent the last of his days (post oc retirement) with a more personally n spiritually satisfying ending to his life.

[@beverlyluther-n3y]

Paulie and Tony do not look a like at all !

[@jpmnky]

Never considered a Paulie/Patsy conspiracy on Tony until a Sopranos channel laid it all out. Pretty convincing and I wouldn’t have blamed those two at all.

[@bandit7519]

well remember Paulie was kind of like older brother younger uncle type to tony when tony was younger tonys dad took Paulie under his wing he was jonnies driver/ body guard for years now and Paulie was like a younger brother / son to johnnie boy

[@SopranosBlueprint]

Yep, definitely. They were truly a big family of their own.

[@bandit7519]

@@SopranosBlueprint at least uncle Paul thought so that's why he would go on about who knew tony longer and better and Paulie always thought him and tony was so close and when Chrisie passes Paulie says well if you were like his dad that would made me his Irish uncle or something along those lines and remember carman always said they was no more than a big, glorified crew

[@elvisprez6005]

Perhaps the connection/similarity between Tone and Paulie is the fact that they're both "old school" stone cold gangsters. They greatly respect each other on this point. And it's this factor, the respect bond rather than the familial bond, that counts for them in the end. Whether they like it or not. Maybe this is why Paulie ends up being almost second in command-? in the last episode

[@zitchili6932]

Mix it wit tha relish

[@SopranosBlueprint]

I lost my shoe!

[@jpmnky]

The way he treated his poor mother was so hard to watch that in 17 years of rewatching I always skip those scenes. Was always so heartbroken for that poor woman. The only woman that ever loved him, genuinely.

[@bandit7519]

when this show was on i was in my teenage years like 18 i use to joke and say when i get old i hope i get the white wings like uncle Paulie well all these years later guess what the white wings have started and you can see them good one side more than other but i was i never joke around and said that

[@SopranosBlueprint]

Haha, that’s awesome!!

[@bandit7519]

@@SopranosBlueprint lol no its not i thought it would be when i was younger but now im old and got them don t like them so much but i always have a Halloween costume ready i can just go as uncle paulie i mostly buzz my hair down and one time grew out my hair and when i saw the wings starting i start busting out lol when i showed my brothers they started lol now sometimes they call me walnuts but it is funny just because i use to joke saying i want them like uncle Paulie big mouth kids oh yeah btw RIP uncle Paulie

[@jpmnky]

Sun-Tazu. Tony turned me on to it.

[@jpmnky]

I have to find out how Paulie come up with that ridiculous purgatory math.

[@erickennedy8534]

Paulie is a compacted person. But, if he saw a therapist it would not be wood for the therapist. If let Pauline down might get wack. The man killed a old woman.

[@SopranosBlueprint]

Well, we know he wouldn’t make the lists that Dr. Melfi suggested because “I don’t write nothin’ down” 😆

[@wyldhowl2821]

Paulie Walnuts is a weird sort of guy, he could use some psychological mechanic, but I am not sure any therapist would help him much. He's needy, he's greedy he's petty, like so many of these guys are. But the strangest thing about Paulie is how superstitious he is, I mean it really drives his behaviour to some strange places.

[@jpmnky]

If I could be a fly on the wall for his appointments. Pretty sure nobody would envy his therapist. And there’s no way he’d open up to a woman shrink. His goofy thick head would never realize a woman is exactly who he should open up to, professionally.