A Contract is Out on Satriale's Pork Store

The final nine episodes of the Emmy and Peabody Award-winning HBO series, The Sopranos, will begin airing on Sunday, April 8, 2007; and Satriale’s will be sleeping with the fishes after the season ends. As an avid viewer, I am looking forward to watching the final episodes, but sad to see it all end.

Neighbors in Kearney, NJ, where much of the filming takes place are also sadly preparing for “life without the cast and crew they have encountered over the past eight years.” It’s not the snow on the rooftop they like; it’s the pig on the roof at Satriale’s pork store, which indicates that another episode is being filmed.

Kearney, NJ, is a small community, just west of Manhattan and across the Passaic River from Newark, NJ. It is the hometown of writer, David Chase.

I always hoped they would have held writer’s auditions (Ginny Sack has all the luck, they held “acting” auditions instead), I would have relished taking a crack at the episode a few years ago, when Paulie Walnuts and Christopher got lost in the New Jersey Pine Barrens. It was deer season and Paulie’s hair could have been mistaken for a couple of whitetail bucks. Plus, I would have bet my cousin, Luigi, a box of ziti that Johnny Sack would have found the back room at Satriale’s by now.

Whoever owns the pig and Satriale’s is missing out on some big action on eBay if it is demolished as planned.

Photo credits: HBO