Every Swear Word on Every Episode of the Sopranos, Ever, in Chronological Order. (video)

A fun, weird little experiment by director Victor Solomon. "I've been chopping away at it for a year, here and there between other jobs," he explains.

I was laughing for the first 30 seconds, then kinda hypnotized, then just creeped out, and still couldn't stop watching. Simple and brilliant.

"For those of you watching The Sopranos on A&E, here’s what you’re missing," he says. "This is every single curse, from every single episode of the sopranos, ever."

Here it is on Vimeo, here it is on his project page. 27:18.

Boing Boing editor/partner and tech culture journalist Xeni Jardin hosts and produces Boing Boing's in-flight TV channel on Virgin America airlines (#10 on the dial), and writes about living with breast cancer. Diagnosed in 2011. @xeni on Twitter. email: xeni@boingboing.net.

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Anonymous

I’d like to see a captioned/subtitled version of this.
jeffallen

This makes any playlist better. Seriously. Cue up any 10 songs, then hit play on both. Amazing.
Anonymous

8:08 GOLD!
Antinous / Moderator

May I offer my definitive version of Straight Outta Compton.
Johnny Cat

Me too. And the first episode’s AJ classic, “What, no fuckin’ ziti?” and the bystander at Leotardo’s death, “Oh Shit!” were freakishly left out. Good bookends, they.
mack

Okay. Now someone must step up to the equally important work of doing this for “Deadwood,” which should deliver an equally musical, if somewhat more polysyllabic fugue state with the use of the word “cocksucker.”

Just a suggestion.
j5ive

Nice! Thanks for this Xeni.

For another take on the same idea check out the ever-entertaining-web-genius Evan Roth’s awesome “Explicit Content Only”. Where he gives NWA’s “Straight Outta Compton” the same treatment.

http://evan-roth.com/nwa.php
jahknow

See also Christian Bale

http://www.aolcdn.com/tmz_audio/020209_christianbale.mp3
Johnny Cat

First episode had me at hello with AJ saying, “What, no fucking ziti?” when told about Grandma’s health preventing her from showing up with her ziti. I remember that clearly, but it’s not here. The fest is amazing, though.
MarkM

OK, Ill say it:
I think someone has too much time on their hands.
Anonymous

he should do DEADWOOD next
Anonymous

What the frack? :)
samuraizenu

Since when is douchebag a swearword?
bellebouche

A work of genius! Some very clever pacing in the editing of this and something of a labour of love I’d imagine.

I’d love to think that there’s a “it’s a retirement community” plea in there but I only made it to 04:16 in before being too unsettled to continue.
Evil Jim

I didn’t need another reason not to watch this series but there it is. 27 minutes worth of it. Did they use any other words in the series?
Sorcerer Mickey

All it needs is a “You’re watching HBO!” sting at the end.
gornzilla

If I wasn’t so lazy, I’d like to put together a video of people riding explosions mixed with yelling, “NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!”. Oh, and the occasional “I can see my house from here”. That’s been on my back burner for nearly 20 years. Any day now….
duncan

I was wondering who says the most curses? I am thinking it is the lead character…
Bevin

Has anyone seen (or posted) this yet?

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1753293

Also: I’m happy to have the opportunity to swear in the comments. Fuckin-A.
Contrasoma

#20: I’ve made it 15 minutes in and haven’t heard it, but yes, that would’ve been a great interjection.

I’m just impressed by the fact that “Pine Barrens” seems to occupy just about a full minute of the whole reel.
SamF

Someone did something like this with The Big Lebowski a while back. It’s called “The Fucking Short Version”. I think it’s probably on Youtube somewhere.
holtt

How can one forget the short version of Scarface?!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KANukZsWD9Q

And I’m with #10 / Elisa. Statistical analysis!
Anonymous

This is an old meme. People have made ‘curse only’ edits of movies with lots of swearing (Goodfellas, Scarface, etc) years before this Sopranos version.

Even by ‘remix culture’ standards, there’s really terribly creative about it; it’s an old idea and there’s really nothing this director did that puts his/her stamp on it, anyone else could replicate his process, and videos like these prove the overall concept is unoriginal:

“Scarface” Version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyYZiUko3OI
oscar

There’s a bunch of hilarious f-bomb-only edits of movies on YouTube. It’s also reminiscent of the brilliant “profanity only” version of Straight Outta Compton.

One of the funnier skits on MadTV was The Sopranos edited for broadcast on PAX TV (a religious network, for anyone outside the US):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m43o5IhAcec
Anonymous

Fuck. I just got through the entire thing. Fucking finally!
erzatsen

on topic, i respectfully submit Pulp Fucktion:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxcei2eOCMo
sirkowski

The Sopranos was aired on network TV, not cable, in Canada, unedited.
Marsha Keeffer

Whoa…mesmerizing indeed!
Anonymous

I liked the part where they said “fuck”
littleblacksambo

Did no one else find this extremely annoying?
Strangepork

rhythmic. I can’t imagine banging away at this for year. Congratulations!
Anonymous

Foxtrot? not a swear! but still funny, im not saying where it is but its under 10min in! listen and you will hear it!
Anonymous

fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking fucking great
DewiMorgan

Awesome. Hilarious in its unremitting repetitiveness, and well-punctuated by those occasional deviations. Great pacing.

But the best one of these I’ve seen is still the Dr Who one :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtG5dK_HaGg
Patrick Dodds

Only made it to 2 mins dead owing to a shortage of fuck-wads.
Anonymous

yot missed the one when AJ says “so what no fucking ziti now” in the first episode.
senorglory

This clip is one part Art, and one part Endurance Feat. I made it about eight minutes in. Now I have a headache, and could use a hug.

Good work, Mr. Solomon!
Cory Doctorow

Pure genius
Anonymous

yesterday I saw the last episode from soprano…. an fucking, fucking, fucking exceptional movie
Nick CT

I think you’d all like Die Hardererer, an edit of the Die Hard movies I did:

http://vimeo.com/3147676
frankieboy

Fuck.
Anonymous

OK, I literally LOL’d at the clip at 1:24.
ridl

This is a great outlet for my Valentine’s Day rage. I think I’ll just keep it on a loop until the 14th is over.
bifter

Oh no, my Vimeo player seems to have tourettes disorder. Fuckin, fuck, fuckin, shit, mother fuckin awesome…
gonzilla

Waiting for the BSG version for the use of FRAK.
jonoellis

I think that there might be one missing around about 14:23!
Variable Rush

This also works as a synopsis of the entire series.
Bart

Seems like it’s all “fuck” and “shit”. No “asshole”?
MrWeeble

I am somewhat surprised at the low occurrence of the word “cunt” and its derivatives. In the first 5 minutes of the vid (haven’t watched it all) I counted it only twice (one at about 2:30 and one at about 4:00). Is this because even HBO has a strong taboo against the word or is it just not that a big a part of the vocabulary of Italian American gangsters?
Anonymous

Expect in the next couple of days the A&E version with “forget you”.
Anonymous

And, after watching all this fucking shit i keep swearing fuck…O.o
Anonymous

the impoverishment of english cursing has never been more apparent
SteamKev

Friggin-A! -Those are some really unhappy people.
Talk about Drama Queens! Fuck!
Andrew Katz

The BBC provides a similar (text-based) service to potential licensees of its programming worldwide.

See for example: http://www.bbcprograms.com/pbs/catalog/fatherted/docs/flagreport_Father%20Ted.doc

Presumably this is intended to allow licensees in more childlike jurisdictions to bleep out the relevant naughtinesses.
Anonymous

Here is an aggregator for many condensed versions of movies:

http://www.fuckingshortversion.com/
FoetusNail

About 15 seconds. Fuck that shit, who the fuck was the dumb shit who thought this was a good idea, stupid fucking fuck. Someone take that fucking dumb fuck outta my face. Fuck you! You hear me? Fuck you. That stupid fuck is so far past fucked he’s going to have to take a bus back to fucked.
darkbeanie

I’m glad to have seen this. I feel like I understand the whole series now, without having to spend the time watching it.

On the downside, I think I now have both epilepsy and Tourette syndrome.
Anonymous

It’s not about whether it’s something “new” or not. Can’t you just enjoy the melodic symphony? I’m going to use it every time I feel angry. I love the fact that some people just can’t appreciate something for what it is and feel that they have to turn their noses up at it because it’s been done before. Give me a break.
Anonymous

Ha! “I love you” around 1:30.
J France

I’m surprised (possibly naive) that any station – cable! – would pick up a show with so many expletives and attempt to air it censored.

Bloody cunting shit double standards about violence. And stuff.

MrWeeble: I think America in general is a bit touchy about the C word… it’s relatively common (for some, me) in Australia.
Anonymous

The DVD for Robin Wiliams’ “Live on Broadway” special had this as an Easter Egg alongside the family-friendly “every sound effect Robin made during the act” feature.
Anonymous

I think they missed one.
Anonymous

Wow, did anyone actually sit there and watch the whole 27minutes of this ?!
patterson

I got to 2:35 . darn
Elisa

I really demand that this kind of data be visually represented through pie charts, bar graphs or both.
downdb

Now we just need the same thing for Deadwood.
Anonymous

Reminds me of the MAD TV skit with the Soprano’s re-runs on PAX TV. (airs from 9:00 to 9:05)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xp4QVYNAFcQ
Palilay

Anyone else make it past 03:35? What’s the record?
HotNachos

Daaaaamn. Tony can even turn “I love you” into a swear word (1:23).
matthb

Small doses.

I would have liked more “contexty” clips, and more comic relief a la: “I had her tested for aids” and “toodle-fucking-oo”, but then it probably would have been a 2-hour vid.
Merrybad

F-ing brilliant.
Glad he left in the silent final scene.

The final scene had all of us howling “F-!” as we thought our cable had gone out at the worst possible moment. “Don’t Stop–”
rakeshagrawal

YAVWLOSW
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMR0CpLebWE

(YAVWLOSW = yet another video with lots of swear words)
bardfinn

mrweeble @#6: For a Sicilian-cultured entitled/privileged male, there are two attitudes towards women: Sainted, as in “My Sainted Mother”, and potential sex partner – thus, the word you’re looking for is the Sicilian equivalent of “Prostitute”, Putana. Which is still not /as/ denigrating as the English word you asked about.
Bottlekid

#8, BBC America made the same mistake when it tried to present Trailer Park Boys censored. It was impossible to follow the dialogue with all of the bleeps. You can’t watch an episode titled “If I Can’t Smoke and Swear, I’m Fucked” with bleeps.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GGL0qGk5lA
HotNachos

@#11 DOWNDB: I second that. It would probably have too many syllables per swear to get the nice staccato rhythm of the Sopranos one, though.
Nelson.C

After about ten minutes it starts to sound like a malfunctioning steampunk engine firing on five out of eight cylinders, or like a perverse Ivor the Engine.