My favorite Paulie moment was him returning to Jersey from Italy and beaming with pride at the garbage-strewn freeway underpasses
A major theme of the show is how everyone is 10th generation Italian American suburbanite pretending to be deeply entrenched in Italian culture.
I remember the Christopher Columbus episode when everyone was praising Columbus and Furio, who is actually from Italy, chimes in and says his people hate Columbus because Columbus and his region were classist. The other mobsters were just silent because they’re completely uneducated on their homeland history outside of vague pleasantries they tell themselves to make them seem like hard working blue collars