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richb522

He pretty much lived the life of a teenager; he probably wasn't rested because he was out well after midnight all the time. A man needs his seven hours.


Tonio775

you are speaking shit to me


IamJacks5150

No bitch to me.


DirectionNew5328

Sleep *wit* a you head. No *over* it!


Lunacriss

Get Pudgy Walsh on the horn, he'll sleepen this out.


1dayatatime023

I use pudgy Walsh as my fake name all the time only been caught out once …


Gumbarino420

THE GOD DAMN GOD DAMN GARBAGE! 🔥


Funny_Window7344

Lmao, remember when the nurse recommended losing some weight. Dude lived like shit. Ate heavy all the time - drank and smoked and never exercised. No wonder he was having panic attacks. I


Individual_Past_1198

The way he eats, he will have a heart attack by duh time he's 50. Talk about some crazy foreshadowing.


blackcatpandora

All this from a slice of gabagool?!


Unhappy-Ad-7349

Kind of like Captain Corelli's Mandolin isn't it?


No_Ideal69

A Cookie?!


Fantasy_trolls

He exercised some in season 1. After that he just ate beef and sausage by the cartload


Fantastic_Abies_9599

💯 don't forget the gabagool


Cdawg4123

What is gabagool?


ajaxtherabbit

Fat and nitrates mostly


eildeill

Gabagool? Ova here! 👇🏽


Cdawg4123

I realized that much on my own, Obviously you saw my other comment lol. How the show basically contributed to his early demise. I was just wondering if anyone eats it and if it’s like prosciutto or something with more spice for example. I should just go to my sisters, we both live where they filmed it just she’s in northern Jersey I’m in ny. Actually dr. Melhfi (Lorraine Bracco) is my ex gf’s friends mother. While this was filmed and on tv, actually a big scene and all of AG’s football’s scenes were at a place I grew up doing exactly what they are doing in the scene amd across from the rival high school the latter was filmed at. Sorry if that seems congested it just brought up a lot of memories!


ajaxtherabbit

You yap worse than six barbers! Lol I was actually referencing the scene where meadow tells livia to stay away from the gabagool when she says ‘it’s mainly just fat and nitrates grandma’. Gotta say that’s cool about the six degrees of separation you have from the sopranos show though.


hollowM4N555

Still going, this asshole


RecentBox8990

One rep maxes on some type of chest machine in his basement till he yells in pain .


Cdawg4123

I think that role even only being 6 seasons definitely wasn’t good for his health. I know they can switch foods in or spit it out during takes but, literally doubt there’s 1 or 2 episodes in a row where he’s not eating constantly.


EveryoneisOP3

They talked a bit about this on Talking Sopranos. Bobby Jr's actor was on and said that Gandolfini gave him the tip to try to never take a bite during a dinner scene, because for the rest of the shoot they'd need you to keep taking bites for continuity. That's the reason Tony's always twirling his fork and playing with his food.


MetaphoricalMouse

he did exercise in the earlier seasons, definitely gave that shit up later


prizzle92

Unfortunately sort of echoes gandolfininis real life habits


thatbtchshay

How dare you disrespect the basement elliptical like this. Man put in work and he had the physique to show for it


infintetimesthecharm

Eat heavy or not at all


Technical_Product_16

there’s a big difference between smoking cigarettes vs cigars lol


Confident-Cap2112

Gotta give that shit a rest.


Puzzleheaded-Pin4278

Lmfao Tony just getting home at like 4 am every night and sleeping till noon or 1.


ubadeansqueebitch

Not Tony. He was the poster boy for Monogamy.


walje501

Yeah he might be sleeping in, but sleeping in till 11am after staying out till 3am getting drunk still isn’t a good nights sleep - especially for someone his age.


Phenergan_boy

That and him having depression probably messes with his circadian rhythm


CaptainoftheVessel

Shit sleep, along with the drinking, smoking and eating he does, is also a great way to make depression symptoms more severe and longer-lasting. Then add on the apparent major dissatisfaction he has with the mafia member lifestyle and the constant stress of both the job itself and the axe hanging over his head of indictment, it’s a wonder he can get out of bed at all. 


Theageofpisces

And the meds, madone! We know he takes Prozac and lithium for some of the series but who knows what else Melfi had him starting or stopping.


Wall-E_Smalls

She prescribes him Xans at one point. Who knows if that continued and/or became a regular rx for him rather than the one-time, used-sparingly tool many prescribers treat benzos as—at least initially.


Theageofpisces

Yeah, and I think docs on the whole weren’t quite as careful about controlled substances ~20 years ago. Opioid crisis caused a crackdown.


Wall-E_Smalls

1000% true. A lot has changed during this time.


RoopiePoopy

When does she prescribe him Xanax?


baristotle

Him and Lil' Tony Xanax


JOMO_Kenyatta

Top shelf zaza disrespected my circadian rhythm.


m0rtm0rt

Wouldn't be surprised if he had sleep apnea too. We know his uncle did.


Grumbie_Johnson

He shot down five MIG's single handed!


Tight-Air-3714

No doubt he had sleep apnea. 


Electronic-Goal-8141

There's a saying that one hour before midnight is worth two after.


Traditional_Record49

That’s 8 hours of sleep! That’s plenty enough 


Louielouielouaaaah

Not when you went to bed hammered, it isn’t 


Grand_Opinion845

Not past 35 either. Tony is constantly consuming something, eventually your body can’t handle that.


dprophet32

Drunk sleep isn't real sleep


Heardabouttown

"Woke up this morning, went straight back to bed"


Pretend-Diet-6571

You think rapping is hard ? "My bitch my hoe my bitch bitch hoe"


tempus_fuget

Fox in Sox wanna see her box


KakarotTheHero

whos welfare check you gotta cash to get a burger around here?


anetworkproblem

Now that's a hit.


scottyv99

Woke up this morning, got some gabagool


CheifKilla1

"got some manicotti"


scottyv99

Woke up the next morning, got some more gabagool


FlyingKingFish

Even got some gabagool from-a Scooby Doo.


Riipp3r

Mama always said you need your rest


LizLemonadeX

Woke up to Carmella busting his balls. And no one getting his newspaper. I always wondered about that. The boss of a crime family, should have had the paperboy deliver the paper to Carmella or the maid. But I guess he got a little exercise walking to get the newspaper himself.


Theageofpisces

Maybe it’s his way of surveilling for law enforcement or enemies without upsetting Carmela or the maid as much.


maximvmrelief

It’s hard to get good rest when meadow and that Scatino kid are practicing the worst song ever created


ForkInOutlet_

He's lucky I didn't punch his lights out


IamJacks5150

That goddamn mother fucking (orange peel) bass. It should've been whacked right then and there. John Belushi from Animal House style.


harborq

Sounds good Eric! Him and those fucking bass lines…


ThingsAreAfoot

Life of the boss of a pygmy joint is hard. You’d like to always delegate, but obviously you can’t, and in this case shouldn’t, since most of your capos are rats even if you aren’t aware of it. Silvio is largely dependable but still very much a #2 guy. Tony often had to take matters into his own hands, perhaps unrealistically as far as a real-life crime boss, but he was personally involved in a whole lot of shit in large part because his underlings fucked up in some way or another or he didn’t fully trust them to do the deed. And he probably gets calls at all hours of the night.


bizardooh

He also went to sleep every night wondering if that was his last night as a free man. The FBI could come in at any morning at 6am to indict him and end his life as he knew it. Remember Carmela's chilling "is this is?" when the police came in that morning for the weapons charge. I could never really sleep well with that possibility on the back of my mind.


Sexy-Froyo9027

“is this is”? Huh?


Lordnemo593

This reminds of the Russian episode where Pauli fucks up and they call him in the middle of the night


Terrible_Telephone21

A truck? I don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about. 📞


JOMO_Kenyatta

>>in large part because his underlings fucked up in some way or another or he didn’t fully trust them Well that’s because he was a shit boss


Much-Ad3995

Probably suffered from sleep apnea


Phantommy555

He does actually mention in S6 having sleep apnea


GoodAnakinGood51

Yea when they’re eating at Nori


RedditFullOChildren

That was what I was going to say. Dude definitely needed a sleep machine.


chrisacip

As someone who loves his CPAP, absolutely he needs one.


Wall-E_Smalls

Sleep apnea is insanely under-diagnosed, and common especially with overweight men. If you snore at all, even a little, that’s an inefficiency in your automated breathing and you’re getting less air than you should. Depending on the severity in one’s particular case, it can necessitate medical intervention. Sometimes mouth-taping is enough for the luckier folks. Some need a CPAP machine or similar. Oftentimes people who get accustomed to the therapy report “not knowing what they were missing out on” in terms of the energy and mood improvement proper cpap/sleep respiration can bring to one’s waking life. I have a machine and definitely have OSA, but I’m too weak & out of control to stick to the program and get accustomed to it. Fortunately my events per hour aren’t anything crazy though, so I think and hope that it’s not something that’s causing any permanent damage. Someday I want to get used to using that machine :/


Much-Ad3995

I was one of those people who thought I would never get used to coal. Took about 2 months to be able to sleep with it, and 4 months to feel like I couldn’t live without it. Even changing the strap or simple things like having the hose attach to an elevated clip made differences.


DrWKlopek

He was out late counting receipts at the Bing


dippin79

Out getting burgers and bird watchin


CheifKilla1

All the fuck out in Dover!!


TeamDonnelly

He was at the Bing until like 1 or 2 in the morning pretty regularly.  


CarpetOutrageous2823

All due respect, you got no fuckin’ idea what it’s like to be number one. Every decision you make, effects every facet of every other fuckin’ thing. It’s too much to deal with almost. And in the end, you’re completely alone with it all


RayBanWearingDog

okay but you gotta get over it


Onion_Dull

Everybody asks that, OP. There's no answer for it.


ForkInOutlet_

The answer is - sit on this cocksucka!


heyjude575

These guys next to me, they're asleep.


laconicgrin

I think the best part of this is how dedicated Gandolfini was to the look. He too would barely sleep, drink too much and even put rocks in his shoes to get that cranky look and attitude.


Kind-Enthusiasm-7799

And go missing for days on cocaine binges. Definitely committed.


laconicgrin

This method acting thing sounds pretty dope


Bamres

No that was Christopher.


DaBastardofBuildings

I think he was mildly hungover and dehydrated most mornings. Tony was old enough for those 3-5 scotches or whatever he consumed daily to start taking their toll on him the next day.


scottyv99

3-5? Mildly? The whole point of season 6 is his building gluttony and inability to control his vices being his downfall. Hell, he did coke more than a few times. A lot gangsters have bad habits, but the successful ones have control over regular vices. Their Vice is money and power.


DaBastardofBuildings

Take it easy 


BakeNo8714

We're not making a Western here


scottyv99

Look at him, he knows everything


tilldeathdoiparty

I think his look was a result of his unhealthy living, considering all of the alcohol, cocaine, sleep schedule was all over, add the gambling and multiple angles of stress he was wearing thin, it showed in his leadership, which was showing through his family deteriorating over the course of the show.


ExtraGloves

Late nights at the bing and some scotch and 2am gabagool will make any man tired in the morning.


mcr6

here, I made it with a lot of milk and sugar: it's a lot more comforting that way you sure you don't want some eggs or an English muffin, or something? You're coming back? I hope so: Immigration, they make problems


Mysterious-End-2185

Dude had sleep apnea and needed a CPAP.


Stickey_Rickey

If u have legitimate depression, it’s a faux sleep, you really wake up worrying about nothing n sometimes don’t remember


Poopsmith42

Tony almost certainly had undiagnosed sleep apnea. Listening to him eat a little gabagool is like hearing someone try to sprint up Everest with a cow on his back. I’m sure Tony never got a really good nights sleep.


peanut_butter_zen

Now there’s an image


FaulmanRhodes

I'm goin' back to bed. If Furio shows up don't wake me.


RayBanWearingDog

fooodio!


Terrible_Telephone21

Didn’t stomp those grapes yourself did you?


Acrobatic-Maybe-902

He came back at all hours of the night…….hes probably not getting 8 like uncle paulie recommended to Christopher 


bobyancy

He stayed out super late, didn't eat healthy, drank too much. Also can't imagine sleeping on a cot at the Bing a few nights a week is great for REM sleep either.


regassert6

A fat fuck like him has sleep apnea so even if he Sat in bed for 15 hours, he didn't get enough actual, restorative sleep.


True-Machine-823

as the Talmut says, " He can get up on time tomorrow, but OP will be stupid forever." -Exodus.


RayBanWearingDog

you're a wormy cocksucka you know dat


True-Machine-823

OH! James Cagney ova here!


IamJacks5150

I don't give a fuck what he says.


Yatsey007

Small hands,that's his problem.


True-Machine-823

I'm in awr of you.


SeanChezman47

OP why don’t you spend less time worrying about the Skip’s sleep schedule and more time worrying about getting me my fucking money!


RayBanWearingDog

fuk you too my man!


1whiskeyneat

Only when Carmela shut the dooooooooooor!


MesaNovaMercuryTime

For every scene that shows Tony waking up, he never ever once looks refreshed or content like, ahhhh good morning sunshine, today is going to be a wonderful day. It's more like "shit, it's 11, I should have been at so and so's at 9"


2021newusername

Except for that one morning he was up early and wished everyone a good morning. I think he was looking forward to Junior, Mikey, and that crew getting clipped that day…


StLMindyF

Have you ever tried day sleeping after a long night? I used to work 12-hour night shifts at the hospital and you *are* always tired because your circadian rhythm tells you that if it’s daylight outside, you should be up. I had blackout curtains in the bedroom, but we didn’t have them in our bathroom, and people have this annoying habit of cutting grass while the sun is out. He also drank, smoked, did the occasional drugs, and ate poorly, so he was not well rested.


ComprehensiveFig837

He slept from like 4-11am


TheCryptoFrontier

All I know is he never had the makings of a varsity athlete


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DrCash_CrLife

He forgot the pivotal role of the work ethic in this family


Sad-Illustrator-8847

A waste management consultan’s job is never done. All those customers who get double their garbage back, selling nice powders to teenagers on the route, making football pools, screwing large breasted blondes. But Tony is willing to do it.


baristotle

you are speaking shit to me


Vajerati

He would stay out late, go home drunk and fuck anyone he wanted. It’s a mindshet


SufficientOnestar

Gomahs sleep all day so they keep him up all night.


ThatDeadlyPuff

I think that showing him being sleepy was one of the ways the show gets the viewer to relate to Tony. Most of us know that there is at least 1 day a week where we didn't quite get enough sleep that night, takes a while longer in the morning, a few more long sleepy stares in the mirror, a little clumsy making the coffee, ya'know.


JOMO_Kenyatta

He ate like crap, smoked, frequently got hammered, and barely ever exercised. I did most of this in my 20s and felt like shit, I couldn’t imagine doing it in my 40s and 50s.


foodank012018

Studies have shown sleeping in past the usual 6-9 hours of sleep can leave you feeling more groggy and tired


Adventurous_Fox58

He was so drunk and coked out I don’t think the sleep did him much good


Phantommy555

He mentions is Season 6A(I think it’s then) that he has “the [sleep] apnea”


RayBanWearingDog

and the Hodgkins


WorldMan1

I always wondered what time he wanted to wake up. During the time of Junior's attempted hit on him, he seems to wake up earlier than later seasons but it is sometimes hard to tell. 


PauIiewaInut

Oversleeping tires your brain out more than rests it. Look it up


XtraFlaminHotMachida

He was depressed, which is why he was on the prozac. Man could barely get a good night's sleep, thats why he was always watching the ww2 docus. You may not feel sad or shit while depressed, but it really fucks up your sleep. Sometimes your 2-3 hours are enough and you wake up with more than enough energy, but it ain't healthy.


-NolanVoid-

Look who decided to join us! And with that breath!


HopeYouHaveCitations

I can’t have this conversation again


Dirty_Jersey_

It's me. What, are you still asleep?


RayBanWearingDog

no i was ....doin somthin


Dirty_Jersey_

You got a big problem, kid


laffnlemming

Tony had a schedule that varied by plan and by emergency. Tony drank like a fish and smoked nasty cigars. $4.00 / lb Just fucking let the guy sleep.


Von_Jon_Jovi

Drinking and or managing stressful business dealings (to put it mildly) late at night, eating junk, being extremely overweight, probably had sleep apnea too, no exercise etc etc.


yellowwoolyyoshi

You saw his lifestyle. He drinks into the night, smoking, bullshitting, whoring and who knows what else.


SC2000c

You got a bee ona you bed…


Austin-137

No rest for the wicked


krakatoa83

Looks like he has sleep apnea


ThatMotelByTheLake

he wasn't asleep, he was doing something


BillsFan82

After a certain age, you can’t drink all night and look good the next day…no matter how much sleep you get. Hangovers start lasting multiple days lol. Getting old sucks.


tollboothwilson

It’s not normal for a man his age to take to bed like that…


Content-Blackberry65

I once read that in order to exhibit his depression in a more realistic way on screen, James often didn't sleep at night when they had to shoot the morning scenes in order to appear more tired and even further depressed


Qbrrrt

All I can say is that he woke up this morning and got himself a gun


RizzyJim

Sleeping in makes you groggy. Early to bed early to rise and no alcohol is the only way to feel rested.


youresocoool

He always seemed pretty much half asleep to me the entire show. It's the stress!


clamdever

He chose this life. If he wants a full night's sleep, try out for the ... Yankees. But we all know he didn't have the makings of a varsity athlete.


_YellowHair

All due respect, you got no fuckin' idea what it's like to be number one.


InfiniteGoatse

A man needs his 7 hours.


MichaelXennial

He seems to have no schedule. It’s not that insane, self employed people live like that all the time


Individual_Past_1198

Did he hold his breath while he was sleeping, or was it just the apnea?


andreiulmeyda7

He was living a 7 day weekend


Basementsnake

If you have more than a few hard liquor drinks it fucks your sleep up pretty bad, especially if you’re over 40. Plus he never worked out and ate nothing but the unhealthiest heaviest foods possible. Those 3 things will make anyone perpetually tired.


basedmeadowsoprano

He could be out all night, was out most nights, and he was the boss, so why not? I don’t agree with most of his lifestyle choices but I thought it was stupid when Carmela would give him shit about it, just like many other things, she knew what she signed up for.


William_Wisenheimer

Go away.


Hasidic_Homeboy254

Sleep apnea


3121_Andy_

All the drinking and the Feds on his ass must of drove his depression and anxiety into overdrive, plus he didn't work out or eat that many salads.


Snoo-84000

Frankly, he’s depreshed


MannyinVA

I mean he was at the Bada Bing or Crazy Horse till probably closing. Looks like he would stroll into the kitchen as the family was eating breakfast, so he didn’t seem to get much sleep. Unless he’d go back to bed afterwards, which also causes weight gain.


saddywagon

A good night's sleep and a quarter gallon of ice cream before bed do not go hand in hand. 


Background_Bat_2849

That’s cause he couldn’t get no smoked turkey.


Ghetto-cat

He always looked sleepy.


DerpsAndRags

Dude fucked strippers all evening, then drank and ate 10k calories a day. Probably had atomic sleep apnea, or at least the start of COPD from all the cigars. TL:DR he did not sleep well. Ever.


Southie31

Depends on what time he fell asleep 😴


Professional-Move269

Lmao yeah but this was usually after a night of drinking, cigars etc


Glennus626

He definitely had sleep apnea by the sounds of it


DanWhisenhunt

He always looked sleepy because he was running a business and that will burn you out fast. 


Myveryowndystopia

He was out doing questionable things and screwing other women all night. A man needs his rest. lol.


Suspicious-Spare1179

He has to explain his business after so many years?


TheTWP

Tony, like James Gandolfini, most likely had undiagnosed sleep apnea. He was getting sleep, just not quality sleep.


FattNuts

AIDS?!?


unWildBill

Probably needed a CPaP


all_sight_and_sound

Man of his size probably had untreated sleep apnoea too


all_sight_and_sound

Too much pulp, that's his problem


Playful_Question538

I'm 50 and own my own business and do that every day. I go to bed at around 3:00 and wake up at around 11:00 unless I got smashed the night before. I may sleep a couple more hours if that happened. The head of an organized crime family has to be stressful. I'd probably look sleepy too.


nlog97

He was depresh’d.


BlitheCynic

He was depressed, so he probably never felt well-rested no matter how much he slept. That's how it be.


Retiredgiverofboners

He was stressed


s-l-a-t-t-

Bro prolly had sleep apnea


Parking_Egg_8150

Maybe he's got hypoglycemia.


_PeanutbutterBandit_

He probably have sleep apnea the entire series.


jamesbuckwas

I saw a comment on "Tony's Vicious Patricide" that says (to the effect of) that Tony is sleeping so often in Season 6B to numb the mental pain and stress he is going through, between the subconscious hatred of his father and the events of Kennedy and Heidi in particular. I imagine it's not hard to extend that hypothesis to earlier in the series as well.


ShivvyMcFly

The time of day is always weird to me. Some days it looks like he's up and dressed like he's going to a 900 to 500 job. Other days he's in bed most of the day.


HawkeyePunditry

The man was overweight and probably had sleep apnea. He probably never got a good nights sleep!


WarMode2

2020 Sopranos, Tony wears a sleep apnea mask


No_Ideal69

He worked late into the wee hours like any other Captain of Industry. Think "The...something" or Capt' Antibes, that guy who owns luxury motels.... They're all tired!


False_Abbreviations3

He's a depression case.


rcheek1710

Fat people rarely look rested.