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David Chase (creator)
Terence Winter (teleplay)
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6 May 2001 (Season 3, Episode 11)
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While Slivio has the flu, Chris and Paulie run his collections for him, which results in the pair getting lost in the woods and nearly freezing to death. full summary | add synopsis
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Best episode of Season 3 more (5 total)
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(Episode Credited cast) | James Gandolfini | ... | Tony Soprano |
 | Lorraine Bracco | ... | Dr. Jennifer Melfi |
 | Edie Falco | ... | Carmela Soprano |
 | Michael Imperioli | ... | Christopher Moltisanti |
 | Dominic Chianese | ... | Junior Soprano |
 | Steve Van Zandt | ... | Silvio Dante (as Steven Van Zandt) |
 | Tony Sirico | ... | Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri |
 | Robert Iler | ... | A.J. Soprano |
 | Jamie-Lynn Sigler | ... | Meadow Soprano |
 | Jason Cerbone | ... | Jackie Aprile Jr. |
 | Steve Schirripa | ... | Bobby 'Bacala' Baccalieri (as Steven R. Schirripa) |
| Aida Turturro | ... | Janice Soprano |
 | Federico Castelluccio | ... | Furio Giunta |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Tom Aldredge | ... | Hugh DeAngelis |
 | Vitali Baganov | ... | Valery |
| Frank Ciornei | ... | Slava Malevsky |
| Crystal R. Fox | ... | Nurse (as Crystal Fox) |
| Dayna Gizzo | ... | Rita |
 | Ari Graynor | ... | Caitlin Rucker (as Ari Gaynor) |
| Oksana Lada | ... | Irina Peltsin (as Oksana Babiy) |
 | Joe Pantoliano | ... | Ralph Cifaretto |
| Deepa Purohit | ... | Ambujam |
 | Annabella Sciorra | ... | Gloria Trillo |
| Suzanne Shepherd | ... | Mary DeAngelis |
| Anya Shetler | ... | Ilana |
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The scenes taking place in the Pine Barrens were planned to be filmed at the South Mountain Reservation in Essex County, New Jersey. But at the last minute, Essex County officials banned the show from filming on county property on the grounds that it perpetuated negative ethnic stereotypes. The scenes were filmed in Harriman State Park in nearby Orange County, New York. more
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Factual errors: Paulie is seen pumping his own gas before he and Chris ride down to the Pine Barrens. Self-service at gas stations are illegal in New Jersey. more
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[Paulie is getting a manicure]
Paulie 'Walnuts' Gualtieri:
[to manicurist] Let's go with the satin finish.
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As an actor, Steve Buscemi has a thing for playing acerbic, tastily verbose misfits or weirdos - Exhibit A: his collaborations with Tarantino and the Coen Brothers. And though I'm not familiar with his work as a feature film director, I'd guess he applies the same sensibility behind the camera, judging from the four episodes of The Sopranos he directed in Seasons 3-6: the typically black humor that characterizes the show reaches its culmen of darkness, pushing the absurdity button like never before. The best example of this is his first contribution to the show, the delightfully quirky Pine Barrens.
The title is taken from a wood just outside New Jersey, where Paulie and Christopher plan to bury a Russian hood who caused them trouble while they were collecting money on behalf of a flu-stricken Silvio. Things don't really go as imagined: the Russian isn't dead when they arrive, so he runs away in the middle of the woods. As Chris and Paulie pursue him, they get lost and must seek shelter in an abandoned truck, since staying out in the open during the night would most likely kill them (it's freezing cold). Back at home, on the other hand, Tony gets to experience Gloria's darker side after a jealous Irina calls him during a date, and Meadow's romance with Jackie Jr. comes to a painful end.
That last plot batch is handled with a lot of care, the result being a poignant closure to one of the season's predominant sub-stories. Elsewhere, however, Buscemi isn't as mannered; on the contrary, he exploits the surreal nature of ongoing events to deliver what can only be described as the darkest of comedies. The Tony-Gloria thing, for one, climaxes in a wonderfully crazy sequence that deserves to be cherished as one of the show's most memorable. But what really sets Pine Barrens apart from all other episodes is the central section: the prospect of watching two beloved characters freeze to death in the middle of nowhere should be downright terrifying, but the atmosphere created by the director and the profanely witty conversations between Sirico (at his best) and Imperioli have the opposite effect, inducing hysterical laughter instead of angst.
Quite simply a wonderful 50 minutes. The finest of the entire season.