Sopranod University (1999–2007) Online

Sopranod University (1999–2007) Online

Ralph Cifaretto, who is still having a relationship with Rosalie Aprile, is having girlfriend problems with one of the dancers at the Bada Bing, Tracee. She asks Tony for help when she gets pregnant by Ralph since she isn't sure Ralph will take care of her if she has the baby. Ralph has been acting over the top lately and when he kills Tracee in the Bing's parking lot, Tony teaches him a lesson. At Columbia, Meadow and Noah's relationship is moving forward but Meadow's roommate Caitlin Rucker is behaving very oddly. She's not fitting in with university life and reaches out to Meadow who is sympathetic but doesn't appreciate just how serious the problem is. Noah is also sympathetic, at least at first, but eventually gets his entertainment lawyer father to get a restraining order against Caitlin. Meadow gets to meet Noah's Dad but Noah shows his true colors.

According to Ariel Kiley who played the victimized Bada Bing stripper, Tracee, many viewers were so offended by this episode's violence that they canceled their HBO subscriptions, a fact she didn't mind saying she was proud of, since demonstrating offensive violence was precisely the intent of her and her fellow actors on the show.

The story about a homeless woman wearing newspaper as underwear is based on a real thing experienced by Terence Winter on the subway, where a passenger was a similar homeless woman.

The song played throughout the episode and over the ending credits is "Living on a Thin Line", by The Kinks.

There are three references to horses in this episode. When Tracee is walking by Tony, he tells another stripper that he wants to show her where a horse bit him. Silvio compares Tracee to a thoroughbred. Lastly, Caitlin tells Meadow that she is going to a horse farm to regain some balance in her troubled life. These comments and the events of this episode, strongly connects it to the season 4 episode, "Whoever Did This".

This is the only episode in the series co-written by Salvatore Stabile.

According to James Gandolfini, David Chase wrote the brutal death of Tracee as response to all those who criticized The Sopranos by saying that it showed an aesthetic violence. Chase felt personally hurt by those comments, so he wanted to show how serous it was his intent to portray mobsters realistically.

In this episode. Noah's dad is an entertainment lawyer. At dinner with Meadow, and son Noah, he mentions he had been dealing all that day with Tim Daly, formerly of Wings (1990). Later in Sopranod (1999) series, Daly came on board to play J.T. Dolan, a TV/film writer who is also Christopher's rehab sponsor.