David Strathairn credited as playing...
Robert Wegler
- Tony Soprano: [while in Wegler's office, jokingly, referring to AJ] let me guess, he called the English teacher "daddy-o?"
- Robert Wegler: [to the three of them] the "thing" is, we are rapidly approaching crisis mode here with these grades and "time is of the essence"
- Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr.: can I ask a question? I handed in my final list of colleges, did you get that?
- Robert Wegler: yes, we've talked about this. So, Ramapo and Trenton State and our "reach" schools are University of Arizona and Arizona State
- Tony Soprano: [to Wegler] yeah, I'm gonna take him out there after I drive him around to the ones in New Jersey
- Robert Wegler: if either of the Arizona's his got his heart set on, his not going to get in with these grades and I know about football Anthony, I'm sorry, it's not enough
- Tony Soprano: he says his trying his best
- Robert Wegler: SAT-wise, 505 and 430, I think we can "edge up" the math into the fives in the next round: providing Anthony feels he can "bear down" his focus
- Tony Soprano: his had trouble with that before. Remember Carm, when they thought he had ADD?
- Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr.: [to Tony] you didn't tell me that
- Robert Wegler: Anthony, what'd you say you head on back to class, let us talk?
- Anthony 'A.J.' Soprano, Jr.: but if I'm "learning disabled", I get unlimited time on my SAT's
- Carmela Soprano: [to Wegler] is that true?
- Robert Wegler: [to Tony and Carmela, then nods to AJ to imply to him to leave] let's talk about that later
- Robert Wegler: [to Tony and Carmela, after AJ leaves] so, you had time to talk to Dr. Rapkey about last week's testing results?
- Carmela Soprano: [while taking out the report and reading from it] yes, she says Anthony has good "interpersonal skills", she said it's effect was "constricted", she called it but that was "normal" for a teenager and all and all, he seems to be handling the split "well", and this is not to say I get a ration of shit in every conversation, pardon my French
- Robert Wegler: well, still, there's this "thing" with his grades. Do you think it would be a benefit for him to see a psychologist on a regular basis?
- Robert Wegler: [after noticing Tony sighs and chuckles to himself] you don't approve of therapy?
- Tony Soprano: I think we use it as a crutch and I always wonder what happened to Gary Cooper? The strong silent type?
- Robert Wegler: [amused] well, Gary Cooper wasn't a sixteen-year-old boy
- Tony Soprano: he was at one time
- Carmela Soprano: I'm gonna have to agree with my husband here: we sent our daughter to an adolescent development mentalist and it was a disaster. I know my son, his just lazy, we gonna get him a different SAT tutor and I'm gonna stay on him and his gonna work harder and that's that
- Robert Wegler: [while having lunch, jokingly] I thought I had a plan for Anthony. I'm not so sure now, I don't know if Rutgers' summer program accepts boys without eyebrows
- Carmela Soprano: [referring to the students that were involved in a fatal crash car accident] you heard about that? I was a wreck, I mean look at those girls just driving to school
- Robert Wegler: we brought in grief counselors. How's Anthony coping with that?
- Carmela Soprano: I have to say, he never mentioned it
- Robert Wegler: they all handle tragedy differently
- Carmela Soprano: actually, he just moved in with his father. I don't know if he said
- Robert Wegler: [surprised] really?
- Carmela Soprano: I don't know what you might've heard about my husband
- Robert Wegler: some
- Carmela Soprano: I mean, he's a good father: don't get me wrong, our daughter's at Columbia. My friends tell me I'm a snob with this college business but with Anthony, it's something else
- Carmela Soprano: [when he doesn't respond] I just know that if he doesn't get into a school that interests him, he'll drop out and went to work as a waiter or something, he wouldn't last a week, my husband doesn't want that for him either
- Carmela Soprano: [when he doesn't respond again] you've met him, my husband, very "magnetic" and bigger than life. And I was so young: it was so exciting. Anyway, his over there, I don't know, maybe it'll be good, you know learning the things that men need to know?
- Carmela Soprano: [after he shrugs] anyway, what about you? How long have you been at the school?
- Robert Wegler: since 86, I suppose that's what caught me up too? Some notion of "escaping the quotidian"
- Carmela Soprano: [surprised] so, you were married?
- Robert Wegler: [sarcastically] for about... five minutes
- Robert Wegler: [after the waitress brings their meals] have you read Madame Bovary?
- Carmela Soprano: no
- Robert Wegler: it's almost a "perfect" novel. Flaubert writes about loneliness, emptiness. Emma Rouault destroys herself for some fantasy in her head. It's great, it's truly great, somehow funny, horrifically tragic. I think you might enjoy it?