The Bada Bing's logo

The Bada Bing! (aka the Bada Bing or The Bing) is a fictional go-go bar from the HBO drama television series The Sopranos. It was a key location for events in the series, helped popularize "bada bing" as a catchphrase and benefited the real-life go-go bar where scenes were filmed. Image File history File links Sopr_Bada_Bing1. ... Image File history File links Sopr_Bada_Bing1. ... FicTioNaL is a Gaming Legend. ... A go-go bar is an bar or similar establishment featuring Go-Go dancers. ... HBO (Home Box Office) is a premium cable television network with headquarters in New York City. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ... A television program is the content of television broadcasting. ... The Sopranos is an American television drama series created by David Chase and originally broadcast on the HBO network. ... A catch phrase is a phrase or expression that is popularized, usually through repeated use, by a real person or fictional character. ...

Use in and effect on the series

The Bing is owned and chiefly operated by Silvio Dante, Tony Soprano's consigliere. Tony's office is in the back room(s) of the Bing,^[1] and the Soprano Family often conducts business either in the Bing or these back room(s). Silvio Manfred Dante (often just Sil), played by Steven Van Zandt, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series The Sopranos. ... Information Aliases Ron Spears, Kevin Finnerty, Mr. ... The Mafia (also known as Cosa Nostra), is an Italian criminal secret society which first developed in the mid-19th century in Sicily. ... These family trees denote the genetic relationships of characters from the fictional television series The Sopranos: Main article: List of characters from The Sopranos // 1. ...

The club's title is a stereotypical Italian-American expression, also rendered as "bada bing bada boom." The use of Bada Bing as the name of the club and elsewhere in the series popularized the catchphrase such that it was added to the 2003 Oxford English Dictionary as an exclamation to emphasise that something will happen effortlessly and predictably.^[2] Bada bing is imitative of the sound of a drumroll or may also derive from the "bada-bing" sound effect that James Caan's character, Sonny Corleone, makes to describe an up-close shooting in The Godfather. ^{[citation needed]} The Oxford English Dictionary print set The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is a dictionary published by the Oxford University Press (OUP), and is the most successful dictionary of the English language, (not to be confused with the one-volume Oxford Dictionary of English, formerly New Oxford Dictionary of English, of... James Langston Edmund Caan (born March 26, 1940) is an American Academy Award, Emmy and Golden Globe-nominated American film, stage and television actor. ... Santino Sonny Corleone (August 7, 1948) is a fictional character in Mario Puzos 1969 novel The Godfather and its 1972 film adaptation. ... This article is about the 1972 film. ...

Booze and nudity

The "Bing" represents one of the series' chief deviations from reality insofar as real-world New Jersey law prohibits the sale of alcohol at topless dancing establishments.^{[citation needed]}

Reviewer Paul Levinson heralded the Bada Bing!, and its background of nudity, as a key setting for the series: Paul Levinson, 2002 Paul Levinson (b. ...

"The Sopranos's brilliant solution is to situate most of its nudity in the Bada Bing! strip joint run by Tony Soprano's aide-de-camp, Silvio Dante. The setting is an eminently logical place to frequently find Tony and his crew discussing business, and the naked women need no further motivation than that they are dancing in the club...Bada Bing! is an ideal locale -- doing for The Sopranos what the diner did for Seinfeld and the bar owned by Munch, Meldrake, and Bayliss did for Homicide -- but with a physically illicit explicitness that gives sexual energy to whatever other story is unfolding.”^[3]

Key scenes

• The Bing is where Tony Soprano and his crew find out Jackie Aprile, Sr. has died from his illness. One of the dancers vows never to forget where she was the day Jackie died.
• Tony Soprano cancels the hit on Don Hauser, his daughter's soccer coach and uncovered statutory rapist.
• Tony and Sil agree to have Richie Aprile killed, but are pre-empted by a deadly domestic dispute involving Richie and Janice.
• Tony Soprano and his underboss Paulie Walnuts agree to have Big Pussy whacked if they found out he was wearing a wire for sure.
• Ralph Cifaretto beats his pregnant girlfriend Tracee, a Bing dancer, to death in the parking lot just outside the building.
• Johnny Sack informs Tony that he is prepared to reconcile with Ralph following an insult to Sack's wife, in turn allowing Tony to cancel a planned hit on him.
• Christopher Moltisanti threatens Tony with a gun for allegedly having an affair with his fiancée, but he has already emptied his gun of bullets.
• Tony makes the case for not killing Vito Spatafore over his homosexuality to Silvio and Carlo Gervasi.
• Paulie has a vision of the Virgin Mary hovering over the dance floor and reconciles with his aunt and adoptive mother Marianucci.
• Silvio Dante is shot several times in the parking lot on an ordered hit from Phil Leotardo. Patsy Parisi accompanies Sil, but flees on foot. Silvio is hospitalized in critical condition.

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Effect on film location

All interior and exterior shots of the Bada Bing were filmed on location at Satin Dolls, an actual go-go bar on Route 17 in Lodi, New Jersey.^[4] (Occasionally the neon "Satin Dolls" logo can be seen on an interior wall of the club.) Map highlighting Lodis location within Bergen County. ...

The popularity of the series and the notoriety of the Bada Bing! resulted in economic benefits through tours and souvenirs for the real-life club.^[5]

After the series finale, the owners of the real bar decided to auction off the furnishings.^[6][4]

References

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External links

• Official website of the Satin Dolls club