The Sopranos (TV Series)

Another Toothpick (2001)

Steve Schirripa: Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri

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Quotes 

• Junior Soprano : Where's your father?

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : He called, stopped by the bakery to pick up a short cake

  Junior Soprano : He never comes empty handed

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : Did you talk to Tony?

  Junior Soprano : [Referring to his request to Junior to have someone else kill Mustang Sally because of his father's health and old age]  no, I decided against it. I didn't even call him. You choose this life it comes with responsibility, no one knows that better than your old man

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : I was asking for me

  Junior Soprano : Teddy Roosevelt once gave an entire speech with a bullet lodged in his chest. Some things are a matter of duty

  Junior Soprano : [while Bobby Sr. enters the kitchen coughing]  are you alright?

  Bobby 'Bacala' Sr. : I'm fine, fuckin steps

  Junior Soprano : Here, sit down

  Junior Soprano : [after seeing blood Bobby Sr. coughed into his handkerchief]  fuck, is that blood? Jesus Christ, call a fuckin doctor

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : It's the nodules in his lungs, it happens when his out of breath

  Junior Soprano : Is this what it comes down to?

  Junior Soprano : [to Bobby Jr]  Get him some water for Christ's Sake. These doctors what're doing for him?

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : I don't know, whatever they do

  Junior Soprano : [to Bobby Sr]  I want you to call John Kennedy, his the head of Oncology at St. Barnabas

  Bobby 'Bacala' Sr. : I'm happy with my guy

  Junior Soprano : What the fuck is he doing? Are you taking the chemo? Is he giving you oxygen therapy?

  Bobby 'Bacala' Sr. : The cure is worse than the fuckin illness

  Junior Soprano : [Referring to Tony giving the order to kill Mustang Sally]  Cocksucker! This is an outrage! He can't have you clip someone in this condition

  Bobby 'Bacala' Sr. : I want to do it. Eight years sitting on my ass, it'll feel good being useful for a change

  Junior Soprano : This Sally's a tough kid, what if things don't go your way?

  Bobby 'Bacala' Sr. : They don't? They don't, what the fuck? I'm dead anyway

• Junior Soprano : What's with you? All day "gloomy Gus"

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : I'm sorry, it's my father

  Junior Soprano : [Referring to his lung cancer]  his a tough man he'll beat the fuckin thing

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : It's not the cancer, it's Tony

  Junior Soprano : Tony? What about him? Stop speaking in nanograms

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : He Okayed my dad to do the hit on Mustang Sally

  Junior Soprano : The prick put the Spatafore kid in a coma

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : Fuck Sally. I'm worried about it's my father he can't do this, his been retired for seven years

  Junior Soprano : What's this? We're in the navy?

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : It's not that, this was a proud man. His over the other night I had to help him off the toilet because his so weak

  Junior Soprano : [while Bobby cries]  will you shut the fuck up with toilets? All this morbidity. I'm sorry, your right, at this point in a man's life to have him do something like this?

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : You know I've never asked you for anything, you can tell him I'll do it myself if he wants

  Junior Soprano : Fuck what he wants. I'm still the boss of this family

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : Your right. I'm sorry

  Junior Soprano : Stop your crying I'll tell him. Your making me fuckin depressed now

• Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : [surprised when seeing him wrapped in a blanket while sitting on a recliner]  what're you doing? You're not ready?

  Junior Soprano : I'm not going

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : [referring to the judge presiding over his case]  they gave you permission

  Junior Soprano : I can't, I'm not up to it

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : it's my father's funeral

  Junior Soprano : you hear me? I'm not up to "snuff"

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : you look ok to me

  Junior Soprano : [irritated, referring to the flowers he ordered]  what's the matter? Didn't you get the arrangement I sent?

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : my whole family's in the car. I gotta tell you, I take this as a personal insult

  Junior Soprano : what'd you think? I don't give a shit?

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : what am I supposed to think?

  Junior Soprano : selfish fuck, I can't go because I'm sick... I have cancer

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : cancer? Oh my God

  Junior Soprano : a real wisenheimer, now how do you feel? Two weeks I go into surgery: they'll probably start chemo after that

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : I'm sorry... I don't know what to say

  Junior Soprano : yeah, alright. I'll say a prayer for your old man

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : [before leaving]  my father, now you. What the fuck is happening?

• Junior Soprano : [referring to Junior telling Tony not to have Bobby 'Bacala' Sr. kill Mustang Sally]  All the fuckin luck, I told him he shouldn't do it

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : I had to go all the way to Staten Island to identify him

  Junior Soprano : He's a cold-hearted prick: that nephew of mine

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : [beginning to cry]  Cocksuckers didn't even clean him up... he still had bits of glass from the windshield in his hair

  Junior Soprano : What was he? Seventy-one?

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : I don't know, sixty-eight

  Junior Soprano : So, what did they say? What was the cause of death?

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : Who? What do you mean?

  Junior Soprano : The morgue: The cause of death, was it the cancer or the accident? How advanced was the metathesis?

  Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri : All due respect, what'd you care about the details? All this technical shit

  Junior Soprano : Your right, the man's passed on. We should let him rest in peace. He was a good man your father, a good friend