If I were David Chase and/or the executives at HBO

Remember when I said there would be a blog on the Sopranos? Well this is a blog about the Sopranos but it isn't that blog.

The Sopranos has just finished part one of its sixth season on HBO. HBO will be showing a further 8 episodes in January 2007. Anyhow, and I haven't seen the last three episodes of this season so this plot idea I have could have happened but I doubt it.

My idea is that HBO should have a contest where the viewer can choose which member of the Soprano family they would have whacked. Of course, they probably have already made the last few episodes but I can make a suggestion can't I?

My choice for a permanent form of whacking would be Paulie Walnuts. Paulie is a made man in Tony's operation.

Paulie is a mysogonist.

He has women he has sex with but he has never had a real relationship with a woman. The closest relationships he has on the show are with his mother and with Tony. He even had problems with his own mother this season when he found out she was not his biological mother ... he was so mad he threw her television set out the window. Like get it together Paulie.

He is incredibly jealous of Christopher. FYI: Christopher would be in my top three to whack after Paulie and Janice Soprano. In the second season when he and Christopher are sent to "take care" of a Russian in the New Jersey woods the two of them totally screw up, lose the Russian and end up spending the night in the woods fighting over a chocolate bar. One time Paulie even was caught sniffing the crotch of Andrianna's thongs (Christopher's girlfriend) - need I say more.

Okay I will. In another season Christopher and Paulie kill a waiter who has the nerve to ask for a bigger tip. Avoid customers like these if you are in the service industry. Most of all, I think Paulie should be whacked because of his hair because it makes him look like a skunk man. Who wants a superhero that looks like a skunk? Ohhhh I am so impressed by skunkman - he could stop his enemies with a squirt from his tail. Anyway, I have rambled long enough about Paulie's shortcomings. Tell me what you think? Who would you whack? and why?