Boca (The Sopranos episode)
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"Boca" is the 9th episode of the HBO original series, The Sopranos. It was the ninth episode for the show's first season. The episode was written by Jason Cahill and Robin Green & Mitchell Burgess and was directed by Andy Wolk. It originally aired on Sunday March 7, 1999.
Guest Starring roles
- Candace Bailey as Deena Hauser
- Joe Badalucco, Jr. as Jimmy Altieri
- Tony Darrow as Larry Boy Barese
- Michelle DeCesare as Hunter Scangarello
- John Heard as Detective Vin Makazian
- Cara Jedell as Ally Vandermeed
- Kevin O'Rourke as Coach Don Hauser
- Robyn Peterson as Roberta "Bobbi" Sanfillipo
- Richard Portnow as Attorney Harold Melvoin
- Al Sapienza as Mikey Palmice
- Jackie Tohn as Heather Dante
Episode recap
Meadow's soccer coach Don Hauser has become well liked by the fathers of kids in his team (Tony, Artie, and Silvio) because of the success he brings them on the playing field. Tony, Silvio and Artie have drinks with him at the Bada Bing club after a win. However, The Star Ledger reported that he was leaving for another job and they began trying to intimidate him into staying. Paulie Walnuts delivered a television to the coach's house and insisted he take it. Christopher returned his "missing dog" - potentially after taking it himself.
There is also unrest amongst the girls on the team. The coach has started a sexual relationship with Ally Vandermeed, one of his players and a friend of Meadow's. Ally tries to kill herself while the team is drinking in a park after she heard the news that the coach was moving on. Meadow told her parents about the inappropriate relationship between coach and player.
Junior Soprano visits Boca Raton for a weekend with a woman named Bobbi, whom he has been goint seeing for years. We learn that Bobbi values Junior's skill at performing cunnilingus and that Junior does not like her to talk about this because he feels it would damage his standing in the DiMeo crime family. He requests that she not divulge this part of their relationship to anyone. Bobbi, who in the past made the mistake of discussing her sex life at a nail parlour, tells an acquaintance that they should be quiet on the topic of sex from now on. The acquaintance, however, mentions Junior's particular talent. This remark is heard by an acquaintance of Carmela Soprano. The gossip got back to Tony through this connection. When Junior was poking fun at Tony at a golf game, Tony immediately started to make jokes about it at Junior. For his part Junior responded with a reference to Tony's therapy. An angry Junior later stormed into Bobbi's office and ended the relationship. He was so furious that Bobbi asked him not to hit her. He, instead, mushed a lemon meringue pie in her face.
After Tony learns of the soccer Coach's affair with his student, he contemplates murdering the coach. After a visit with Dr. Melfi, who asks him why he would assume the burden of righting wrongs in society, and after hearing Artie's plea for governmental justice, it is revealed that the Coach is arrested by the authorities. After this, Tony is shown completely drunk, and brags to Carmela and Meadow that "he didn't hurt no-one."
Title reference
- Boca Raton is the holiday destination of choice for Junior Soprano and he visits it during the episode.
- Boca is the Italian word for mouth, which is fitting, as gossip and secrets are a major theme in the episode, as well as Junior's talent in cunnilingus.
Miscellanea
- This episode wrongly reports the location of the University of Rhode Island, claiming that it is in Providence when, in fact, it is on the other side of the state.
- Actor Steven Van Zandt wore his own golfing hat for a scene where Silvio plays a round of golf
- Junior also reportedly hides out in Boca in a flashback sequence in the later episode "To Save Us All From Satan's Power"
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