In the back room if the Bing, Vito is going on and on about his workout routine to Silvio. Vito thinks Tony should work out too, because "God forbid he ever has a heart attack." Gene plays pool and listens in. A waitress opens the door and tells Vito that he's in the handicapped spot and needs to move his car. Vito leaves, giving Silvio the opportunity to tell Gene that the "Florida thing" is "a no-go" because Gene is "part of the team." Gene points out that he just "did that thing," but Silvio says that's not his department. Gene asks if he can appeal to Tony, and Silvio says that Tony can't be bothered, because he's out on his new boat. Gene points out that he won't talk about anything, given how culpable he is himself. Silvio shrugs and walks out. Vito returns and says, "It's not so silly when you think about it. I'm a top earner now. It's not out of the realm of possibility that I could be the boss of this family one day. I mean, God forbid, Tony ever gets cancer, coronary, something like that." At first, I thought Vito was responding to Gene getting denied, but I don't think he heard it, or even knew about it. I think he was following up on the conversation they were having when he left the room, about Tony possibly having a heart attack. But who knew Vito had ambitions? Maybe he's been talking to Phil a little too much.
Tony's out on his new boat, the Stugots II, when he gets a phone call. It's his sister, Barbara, who's sitting with Uncle Junior. She's had a family emergency, and her husband's in the hospital. Tony tells her to leave as Junior retches in the background. Barbara says that Junior is "exceptionally agitated" and won't let her leave. Tony tells her to call Bobby and Janice, but Barbara reports that they said they can't do it and wouldn't elaborate. Barbara apologizes, but Tony tells her that it's all right. He hangs up, and gets a tone warning him that his phone battery is low. He dials Janice anyway, but his phone cuts out before the call can connect, so Tony chucks it.
Janice goes out to the garage where Bobby is wearing the engineer's cap again, working on his expansive train village. Janice says that she's going to toss all the crap in the garbage, and Bobby is upset that she's belittling his hobby. Hey, I'd take up a hobby that kept me away from Janice, too. Then again, I wouldn't marry her in the first place, much less procreate. How the hell old is Janice supposed to be anyway? I'm surprised she can still get knocked up, but maybe she is, too. Anyway, Bobby says that he has to go make his collections. Tony walks up the driveway and yells that they don't seem too busy to him. Janice says that they have a preschool meeting for Nica, their daughter. Tony points out that she's only fifteen months old, and that baby does not look that old to me, but what do I know. Janice probably smoked when she was pregnant. Janice points out that Carmela was super-competitive about preschool with AJ, so Tony doesn't have a leg to stand on. Tony yells about Uncle Junior, and Janice complains, "This child! Constantly wanting the breast." You have to wonder if she's talking about the baby or Tony or Uncle Junior. Janice says that both of them need to go to the meeting, and Tony tells her to call the nurse. Janice thinks the nurse is unreliable. Bobby offers to go, and Tony flips out and says he'll take care of it. As he walks off, Janice calls out faux-sweetly, "You were the one who was opposed to assisted living!" Tony turns and walks back with that look on his face like he wants to knock her into next week. Bobby gulps and removes his engineer's cap like he just realized he was still wearing it. Tony points at Janice menacingly and says, "You are I are going to fucking talk."













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