The Sopranos (TV Series)

Proshai, Livushka (2001)

Patrick Tully: Noah Tannenbaum

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• Tony Soprano : What's your background Noel?

  Noah Tannenbaum : [Correcting him]  It's Noah, I'm from Los Angeles, West LA

  Tony Soprano : No what I mean is...

  Noah Tannenbaum : My family's in the "business", I mean show business. I don't know why they call it "the business"

  Tony Soprano : Those old Tarzan movies?

  Noah Tannenbaum : No my dad's an entertainment lawyer

  Tony Soprano : No, what I mean is we're Italian

  Noah Tannenbaum : Oh, my dad is Jewish and my mother's family is African American

  Tony Soprano : Tanenbaum. Right. But on your application to Columbia, you didn't check Jewish did you?

  Noah Tannenbaum : No. They can't ask about religious affiliation.

  Tony Soprano : Oh, right, what'd you check?

  Noah Tannenbaum : African American.

  Tony Soprano : So we do understand each other? You're a ditsoon.

  Noah Tannenbaum : [Caught off guard by his insult]  Excuse me?

  Tony Soprano : [Continuing to insult him using slang racial terminology for African Americans]  Charcoal Briquette, a mulligan.

  Noah Tannenbaum : What's your problem?

  Tony Soprano : [Referring to Meadow]  I think you know what my problem is: you see, your little friend up there. She didn't do you any favors bringing you into this house. Now I don't know what the fuck she was thinking, we'll get to that later. See, I got business associates who are black and they don't want my son with their daughters and I don't want their sons with mine.

  Noah Tannenbaum : Fuck you!

  Tony Soprano : See, that's the kind of thing I'm hoping to avoid. So when my little girl comes down the stairs, you're going to say how nice it was to meet me, then you're going to go drop her off at school and then you're going to say goodbye.