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In The Sopranos, in the episode Eloise, season 4 episode 12, Paulie spots Carmine at a wedding and approaches him to pay his respects. But it’s clear just a few second sin that Carmine has no idea who Paulie is, the poor old guy looks very confused, and to pinpoint Paulie’s identity he asks if his father was run over by a trolley.
It’s a great moment in the show that serves to highlight how Johnny has been lying to Paulie about Carmine asking for him. Clearly, he doesn’t even know him, and after this Paulie gets embarrassed and literally takes a good long look at himself in the mirror, and goes back to kissing Tony’s ass, even murdering an old lady to steal her money, which he gives to Tony to rejuvenate the boss’s confidence in him. Before he meets Carmine, Paulie struts like he’s the Teflon Don, a cunning beast 10 steps ahead of everyone, but it goes back to Junior’s saying “Some people are so far behind in the race that they actually believe they're leading”
It’s a fantastic little subplot, but a question does arise – how could Carmine not know who Paulie was? As highlighted in the show, Paulie goes way back into the family, to Johnny Boy’s days, Tony’s father. He’s one of the most senior members of the family, and Carmine even knows guys like Ralph in the Sopranos crew, so how could he not know who Paulie was? Wouldn’t they have seen each other at weddings, funerals, meetings between the families? The two families have done business for years. Is this a plot hole? Is he just old and confused?
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