"It's over for the little guy"
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- Опубліковано 26 лют 2008
- From "Johnny Cakes" (episode 8, series 6 of The Sopranos): two mobsters collecting their protection money from the shops. Until they run into Starcostabucks, where "every f'ing coffee bean is in the computer".
This is my most favourite scene from the entire canon, because it shows how everything is changing - and if it stops organised crime, that's good, right? - Розваги
"every last fucking coffee bean is in the computer"
Welcome to the new world.
We lead the world in computerized data collection!
@@jonnybirchyboy1560 I just died LMAO
Every time I fail to get a corporation to resolve even the simplest issue, I'm heartened by the idea that not even the mafia can make headway with these guys.
Yeah basically. Corporations are just a meat grinder. They will not adjust and deviate from preplanning to make any accomodations.
Everytime I have to go to every single motherf*cking robot check in the motherf*cking internet...
I think to myself "do hackers suffer through this like me?"
A somewhat related scenario to this.
This scene is every mobsters nightmare.
Hell yeah beat the manger up they will have him replace.
Not in Sicily
@@redfather6463 Sicily is still a third world location.
Not only that. The store is going to take down the mom and pop coffee stores that are the mobs's bread and butter.
Tony was smart, that’s why he was pivoting you real estate. He realized the extortion racket wasn’t going to make it anymore
Love how the manager acts all sorry about them not being able to shake him down 😂
I love how he kept giving them logical answers and they go away totally defeated lmao!
He even seems like he feels sorry for them, like how they could be so clueless.
Their reaction was Coyote-tier level of frustration, comedy gold
He reasoned with the wise guys
One of my favorite scenes in the series. Patsy just understands and leaves.
Look the days of shaking down small businesses for protection is done. Ova with. It's ova for da little guy
There was nothing they could do. Manager Dale and corporate were connected and the sopranos weren't. It was all greaseball shit, they had to sit still and take it
Dale even spit Patsy in the face so they couldnt give him an open shinebox
It was among the 1%.
Ahhahaha
And that's that
They did everything they could...
lol at these knuckleheads trying to extort a national coffee chain.
What's up "Manson Lanterns"?
Why does Richie look so sublime
Don't give me those fucking Manson lamps!
u gonna build beansie a ramp
*Balloon* heads.
Patsy never had the makings of a varsity extortionist
lol
Patsy was always more of an internal decorator.
just wait until he tells you that it won't be cinematic.
"it's over for the little guy", such a hilarious line.
Yeah they extorted little businesses and made them less competitive. They accelerated their own downfall in a way
I love the manager. He knows it's a shakedown but doesn't mind telling them WHY he can't budge.
Quasimodo predicted this.
😂
you mean Nostradamus? Quasimodo is the hunch back of Notre-Dame
@@PC_CERTIFIED Yeah Notra damus...
Store manager handled like a boss
Jinyo Lay He is the boss...
I mean yeah but it’s not like he stood up to them cause balls, it just wasn’t a viable shakedown
Jinyo Lay I woulda just called the cops and walked into the back of the store. Fucking thieves any idiot who gets shaken down like that is scared for nothing.
@@bohdisatva4345 If you did that you'd be making the moronic gangsters, who are barely literate and struggle with the pronunciation of words that contain more than 4 syllables, look like geniuses. You'd have to be some special type of stupid to do that. Best thing to do is let the gov't and FBI take care of the parasites. Trying to play hero just lands you in the hospital (if you're lucky).
Was he ever been tested? :D
It would've been funny if (at 1:44) they each walked out with a latte and a bag of gourmet beans.
and then Patsy says "sooo...that was awkward"
This is the comedy I enjoyed in the Sopranos. There is no way you could be that stupid to think you could shake down a Corporate Franchise Coffee Shop for "protection payments". They would have the FBI involved immediately.
They can’t even shake down anyone anymore. Extortion for protection money is finished maybe since the 80’s
How a real man tells the mafia their tactics don't work anymore
Every Borko is accounted for in the computer.
They copyright him - another Borko's there to replace him tomorrow.
North ward merchants protective cooperative lol
I love how the brotha didn't even flinch. He knew the deal and broke it down so they would 'get it'. This show was awesome.
I doubt that he is a "brotha", he looks rather arab
PecsInDaCity he's black I know him
He did flinch.
I heard fieldcrest reported a truckload of towels missing outside this guy’s store
@@plffuihngiub43iio looking back at my comment I have no clue what I meant so I deserve whatever roast is coming to me but I do know the actor.
What is this corporate globalization world coming to when even the mafia can`t shakedown Starbucks
my 401K loves stable investments, unfettered by corruption, e.g. Costco, Walmart, and Home Depot
Joe Smoe Fuck the big corporate box stores, they're all owned and runned by the globalists.
if my retirement check keeps coming, I'll have you over on my boat for a cookout
think globally, insult locally
+Joe Some I'm stealing that :D
Now, with internet-connected cameras everywhere, I doubt this sort of racket works in the US at all. They could haul in Patsy in a pinch, and then take down the whole family under RICO statutes.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racketeer_Influenced_and_Corrupt_Organizations_Act
And people happy to appear in witness boxes or grass on others
Did you watch Fargo's 3rd season? Those are the real gangsters today, along with politicians
Extortion is still one of the mob's main activities, along with gambling and loansharking. They don't have to extort mom and pop shops. They extort big construction developers, unions, longshoremen, ports, etc.
Not really. Being on video in a place doesn't mean he was there to extort the place. Without audio, there's no real way to prove it was an extortion attempt. Patsy REALLY could have just been welcoming a new store to the neighbourhood - hence the handshake :)
I like the guy acting a manager here. There is something about his mannerisms and the way he pronounced the words toward the end. Needs a bigger role
giancarlo, The problem is that the manager has no personal stake in the business. It's owned by a corporation...so even if they did beat him up or wreck the place, it wouldn't work. The corporation would still send the cops to investigate.
These rackets only work on small business owners. In other words the whole Walmart Killing Mom And Pop Stores also is bad for protection rackets.
and good for the 401K of mom and pop
Antiochus IV Epiphanese 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The manager is the wrong guy for them to extort too. He is just a pawn of the machine. Most places like Starbucks are franchised and owned by a private owner. Or the location is leased by a private owner. Both of these have a discretionary income. The mob needs to find these specific individuals to shake them down.
@@daytonasixty-eight1354 The feds are so powerful nowadays, even if they try to shake down a franchise owner. One call to the FBI and a surveillance sting will be done. Extortion is a dying business practice for the mob these days
Much as I love this show it’s very satisfying to watch them lose.
Dudes really tried to shake down “Starbucks”
the timing of this show was something else, you see everything changing before your eyes with things like 9/11, starbucks, the internet, digital music, political correctness, cell phones for example, there was a huge shift around those years, you can say it causes the show to not age well but it still works and is to me it makes things even more interesting because it's almost like a time machine, I mean for a couple seasons they're dealing with that shitty cell phone service, it's hysterical
You even see it in the beginning, very 90's and by Season 5, it's the internet and everyone having a cell phone. Starbucks had like 10,000 stores in the entirety of North America in the early 2000's.
@@bartolomeestebanmurillo4459 they had the internet in the first season it was 1999 not 1982.
@@southsidesaiyan8641 Yes but not like today where its reach is everywhere, back then it was still a relatively new concept.
@@bartolomeestebanmurillo4459
No it wasn't. Internet was everywhere.
@@KingKuba1313 I didn't have any internet in 1999. Only half the country had any sort of internet access at all.
This scene was basically taking a jab at how their type of thing was going the way of the dinosaur. These places all got security and insurance in place, the mob couldn't do shit if they tried.
Terry I your an idiot.
Yeah...that worked with mom and pop shops....but like the kids said every dime is accounted for where is he supposed to get the money. If that old freaking dumbass old man wants money and he needs to go to their headquarters and see if he can get any out of them.. yeah right
"You're" more an idiot than he is
He's right. Times of tribute are over. Now the government is doing it.
Sheut6
More like computers for accounting & data mining for today's lose nit hi tech thugs!, but like the little guy shop mgr told those now ancient costra nostra style of movin in & taking over thugs of old is, that "every single coffee bean is counted & numbered for" & basickly he as a mgr'r is really expendable from a hiring perspective from his corp higher ups mindsets. And if that was patsys only shylock scam as alleged & initiated mobsters, then I feel really sorry for him & his crew, hell, they might just be better selling crack on mulberry st & independence with hoodies on during night time. ☝️😎
"For sake of argument, say someone throw a brick through the window."
"No problem, they'll just open 5 more stores on the street."
Exactly, and three Satellites in nearby hotel lobbies. 😂
That employee at the coffe place was so logical calm and relax , makes me want to see more of him 😆
They are still trying to pull 70's moves in millennial America. Not the easiest way to make money
Instead of "Millennial" how about Generation Brainwash? Considering you have been totally brainwashed by radical Marxist idealogous through from K-12?
I'm millennial, and I voted for Trump fuckhead. Care to amend your statement?
Nah, in _corporate_ America.
@@nerthus4685 cringe
@@SAOrules double cringe
They've got like 10,000 stores in north America I dont think they'd feel anything. Lol, that was some smart talking by the manager. Gotta give it up to him. He got the goons off of him. Give him a raise.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salary
Lol says the guys extorting the little guy to bankruptcy. Haha love the irony
the real irony is even though the mobster skims off the top of small businesses the corporate monsters put small businesses out of business completely
It's as if mobsters don't have any self-awareness whatsoever.
@Antiochus IV Epiphanese irony*
The government is the big guy extorting you every April 15th.
@@heatalldayy yeah, except in this case you actually get roads, social safety nets, military, police, fire, post office, etc etc
Once the store manager got an idea of what was going on.. (protection shakedown)... He was actually pretty cool about it he just let him know if you break my legs there's just gunna be someone new here next week.
And corporations are snitches. They don't give a fuck about your protection racket. You hurt their employees or damage their store, they will call the cops and have you arrested.
@@DeadFishFactory are they technically snitches if the cops basically work for them?
@@relazar How are you listening too? A billion dollar corporation with 10,000 stores in North America alone and responsable for a good part of the local economy and with a high as fuck budget for marketing on which they could use to potentially defame the New Jersey Police Department. Or a glorofied crew.
The manager was from the neighborhood and knew the Mafia rackets. He handled this perfectly and avoided getting his legs broken by a baseball bat.
This scene is a microcosm of the central idea of the whole show. By the last season, you can tell Chase was just laying it all out there in the open.
The scene where Butchie accidentally walks from Little Italy to Chinatown in a short phone call also comes to mind.
@@bendover2649hell, nowadays there isn’t even a walk “from little Italy to Chinatown”. It’s all Chinatown, little Italy is just one tourist trap street within Chinatown. Same thing was basically true by the time of that scene, but it’s even more so now.
Chase pretty much laid it out in the pilot already: "I came in at the end. The best is over." said Tony
When the realization hits that this isn't some Mom & Pop setup they can shake down. The manager even seems sorry for them, that he can't help them extort the place. It's like he's watching 2 ghosts finally realize their dead.
(sigh) "Look, every last shinebox is in the computer.... If the shineboxes don't add up, I'll be gone and somebody else will be here."
The Sopranos... Even then, predicting the future.
this was only 10 years ago. mob was completely wiped out by the early 90s
James Dooling The future was here long before this show, dude...
+Tommy Venegas The mob makes a lot of it's money from shaking down Mom & Pop shops. "It's over for the little guy" because corporate America took over. You can't really shake down a store manager who's not trying to be a hero, especially if their goals is to just make it another day and pay their bills on time. Corporate wouldn't be scared of a brick through a window either, because they hire other people to do in-store work, they don't have to be their. If the manager were to give them money, he'd just get fired, then corporate would hire and train a new a one, and It wouldn't be worth the mob's time time to reintroduce themselves every month and attract more attention to themselves.
Not to mention, if corporate has to choose between giving the mob money and hire private security guards, they would go with the latter.
@@MrZithgal
All corporations have to do is call FBI. Mafia can't do shit to them.
I like how Patsy is claiming to be little guy while he's extorting them.
These days the mob wouldn't make sense in any middle-class neighborhood, although they could still be of use in ghettos and third world countries.
Prostitution, gambling, drugs, tony’s MRI scam. Youd be surprised how many doctors run that one.
They pretty much would be doing what the Cartels currently do. Human/Sex/Drugs/Gun Trafficking.
Mob still extorts in middle class neighborhoods. Not everything is corporate. Small little Italian restaurants, and even some bars, and strip clubs can be extorted
mafia does not do human and drug trafficking@@Cray446
This was a very interesting and moving scene to me with such a good meaning.
It’s pretty satisfying watching these goons not having their way for once.
Corporations are more powerful, and make you pay in so many different ways.
@@DrJ-hx7wvYeah, honestly I'd prefer the mafia protection racket to the corporate monopolization racket any day of the week.
@@arbendit4348you’d want some fat smelly deigo threatening you, I’d rather answer to mr Bezos
It’s a show calm down
@@arbendit4348No. No you wouldn’t.
I wonder how much the guy selling vegtables was paying a week in protection, couldn't be more than 100 bucks
If only they knew, the real criminals own the companies
Dan Grimaldi is a treasure.
One of my favorite scenes
Over for the little guy huh? Trying to pull a racket that worked 50 years ago with the mom and pop stores. Dale was a pawn, just a cog in the machine nothing they did was going to affect anything.
Even the mob can't defeat Starbucks
Dale was a made manager he had a set of morals respect
set of morals? based on what exactly? he just told them their bullshit doesn't work because corprate isn't gonna give them shit and he's a replaceable asset same as a coffee bean or window.
@@tomf5823 it’s called a joke
That bird flying at the end of the clip is perfect
I think me and my crew are gonna go extort McDonalds, WalMart, Best Buy, Pizza Hut, and Macy's for some protection money. Especially Pizza Hut, those pizza joints are strictly a cash business.
StuUngar 😂😂😂😂😂😂
They come in handy
Yeah I heard beansie would fit right in too
The best part? This store was a franchise and Dale was the owner. Genius.
Make Dale a regional manager!
This was the begginning of the end when the corporate (legal mafia) started taking over. 😅👌😆
Look, every last bean has to be entered into the shine box.
Maybe you didn’t hear about it. You’ve been away a long time. They didn’t go up there and tell you. I don’t shine beans anymore.
This is the most important two minutes of television ever produced.
It's one of the things I really liked of the The Sopranos, they all feel like relics from another time, out of place in a world that did not have space for their bs anymore.
hahaha, fine scene. Thx for the upload
quite possibly the best line of the entire series.
"Lately I've been feeling I came in at the end."
I love this scene so much man. This little exchange depicts so much of the old tactics and antics that mobsters would take to hijack honest, local business owners. The beauty is the inherent commentary on the journey America has taken. Corporations are the norm, and they are such a behemoth presence that a threat like throwing bricks through a store window doesn't even phase them. You can tell Patsy is both confused and taken aback by realizing this. Absolutely brilliant for the writers to have kept this scene in the episode. God what a show
Organized crime vs extremely organized crime
"your weekly dues to us, will give you all the supplemental safety net youll ever need" lmao
That was a great way to put it...will just lead to a revolving door of managers you'll have to extort regularly...sounds like a lot of work.
LOL might as well try shaking down a McDonalds for 5k a week.
"It's over for the little guy" ....soo true
See the 🐦 fly away its like a metaphor for the little guys. Those days for small business owners been flown away.
It's funny, because the way Mobsters and Yakuza fizzled out kinda mirror each other. Times just changed so much that they couldn't exist as they were anymore. All the crime is on the internet now 🤷🏾♂️
the tall guy in this scene was my high school gym teacher and basketball coach, Mr. Pasquale. they filmed a lot of this show in my hometown of kearny, NJ. this episode actually came out while i was in HS and we always gave him shit for it. not the bad kind, we just always talked to him like he was a mob boss lol
That's pretty awesome man. Thanks for sharing the story.
Did you give him shit for letting Sylvia whack him so easily in his own home while his doggy just barked?
His only job on the show was to get garrotted and murdered by Silvio Dante.
the other guy, patsy is a math professor in real life.
I'm surprised they didn't laugh at Patsy like they laughed at Dr Evil when he tried to extort the 60's world for 100 billion dollars.
I love the season 6 vibes
Ironically, they should have accepted the offer of a donation. Seems like they just gave up when the old standard of intimidation didn't work.
donation'd have to go through corporate and need a 501C
Store manager was my favourite character from the entire series. Shame they didn't use him more!
i know thats a meme but i would really like to see more of him he was kinda cool
@biggs949597 s oh shit... Is that how you spell it?
@@KCgrungeshowed him at the background of the Bing.
Hahahah the song playing in the begining of this scene is from a Brazilian group called Carrapicho. This was they one hit. I couldn't belive when I heard. So random hahaha
The time's they are a' changing.
George and Kramer have sunk to a new low
What's even more stupid is that they could have accepted a donation from the store manager, too. In theory, they could have collected donations from the guy.
I'm surprised Patsy didn't bust a coffee pot over Dale's face, smash a chair over him and then punch him repeatedly while saying "you won't lay down ehhh!?!?"
@gnr4evr06 - good point. The garbage thing is a running theme in the Sopranos, especially in series 6. I think this is just showing that they aimed to shake down the front of house as well as the back.
He walked out with a box of eggs!! haha
“It’s good to be at something from the ground floor.”
Oh shit I've just realised now unless I'm wrong! The guy with Patsy is the guy Sylvio strangled to death in the Blue Comet episode, right?
AZK91 Yes, it’s Burt Gervasi, Carlos cousin.
Jake Beninato wait a second... Carlo was in Tony's crew until the end when it turns out he's gonna rat; how the hell did he remain with the Sopranos after Sil strangled his cousin?
To be honest, I have no idea. They never showed him reacting or anything, which was weird.
Jake Beninato really damn strange
@@simonriley4131 Maybe that is one of the reasons that convinced Carlo to rat. Also, Patsy remained with the Sopranos after he was suspicious that they killed his twin brother so Carlo wouldn't be the first.
@0:30 "We're from the North ward Merchants Protective Cooperative."
When shakedowns go wrong ... new series on NBC
Pretty sure they're all on Netflix, too.
The funny thing is nothing about this thumbnail or name suggests it's a Sopranos clip, but I can recognize the back of Pat Parisis head any day
Look every last fucking shinebox is in the computer and has to be accounted for. The boxes don't add up, I'll be gone and somebody else will be here.
North ward merchants protective cooperative has a great bowling team..🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
what was that song called in the beginning of the video?
This is fu..king gold.
Like think about taxi businesses and uber.
YOU NEED TO TALK TO HOWARD SCHULTZ...
Mega corps almost make me feel bad for the damn mafia lol
They were talking about big business just like mcgucc said.
Well that was cinematic
cant shake chains, only mom & pops.
blockbuster? its over for the little guy
Real small timers!
I don''t recall this scene.
Location location, even corporate would kick cash on location.
Lol this is like when cartoon characters are transported to the real world.