![]() He sells jockstraps for a living, but right now his own sense of manhood is dangling in the air. Regardless of his motive, playing with the big boys will reduce his sense of emasculation. Either way, Davey wants into the Executive Game, either to increase the excitement in his life or to increase his income. The line could mean that Davey is bored out of his mind (bored with the fucking regularness of life), or it could mean that his business is slumping. I think Davey’s line can be interpreted in two ways, but both interpretations lead to the same place. He tries to get into the Executive Card Game but Tony is unwilling to let him in.ĭavey: You know how many jockstraps I sold last week? It is perhaps this sense of emasculation that drives Davey to gamble. Tony breaks their balls, contrasting their macho glory days in high school to their currently emasculated lives. Right from the get-go, Tony lumps Davey together with that other good guy Artie Bucco. Professionally, he’s the proprietor of a type of store that we associate with fitness, self-discipline and athleticism-characteristics that the mobsters often lack. Physically, Davey is lean and has light-colored hair and eyes. Although Davey’s last name ends in a vowel as do the last names of most of the mobsters, he seems quite different from Tony and his ilk. The store will figure heavily in “Bust Out” later this season. Eric Scatino tries to get his applications in order, and leave nothing to chance as the advisor recommends, but he is undermined by his father’s addiction to games of chance.ĭue to some typically efficient dialogue, we can surmise within the first 20 seconds of meeting Davey Scatino that he owns a sports merchandise store. The line also introduces the idea of chance. M eadow is doing everything she can to get into a good university (which also becomes a major plot point for her-and her mother-over the course of the season). This first line, uttered by the university representative, immediately sets up a couple of plot points for the episode. Not Davey Scatino nor his son nor Meadow norĮpisode 19 – Originally Aired Feb 20, 2000ĭucks had a very strong presence throughout Season One, and they make an appearance -of sorts-in the very first line of this episode: a university rep at Meadow’s school advises the students, “Get all your academic ducks in a row-leave nothing to chance.” We may remember that ducks had previously been associated with applying to college in that striking scene in “College”-Tony sees ducks after killing Febby Petrulio and before picking up Meadow from a potential school: ![]()
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