Sadly, the charming people who live inside our magical light-boxes aren’t real, and despite our attachment to iconic television characters like Peggy Olsen, Omar Little, and that monkey who pooped all over Ross Geller’s apartment, when a series ends, those characters all fall into a metaphorical black hole. (Or maybe a literal one, space is complicated.)
But sometimes, TV characters actually outlive their own shows, and resurface in amazingly odd places, such as how …
Tony Soprano Begged LeBron James to Come Play for the Knicks
The Sopranos went off the air in 2007 with what was either one of the boldest artistic decisions in the history of television, or the moment when your family members ruined the evening by screaming obscenities about Comcast. Either way, it turns out that the controversial finale wasn’t the last appearance of Tony Soprano. Sure, there’s the upcoming prequel The Many Saints of Newark, which we can only imagine is about a young Tony’s podracing career.
But even before that, the character was resurrected for a short film virtually no one has ever seen. In the recent podcast Shattered: Hope, Heartbreak and the New York Knicks, it was revealed that in 2010, James Gandolfini reprised the role of Tony Soprano for a private video created for the sole purpose of enticing LeBron James to come play for the Knicks. And it wasn’t just him, Edie Falco was roped into playing Carmela, despite the fact that she didn’t even know who LeBron James was. Having rejected similar offers, Falco was “shocked” that Gandolfini agreed to do his Sopranos schtick again, not realizing just how big of a basketball fan he was.
The video, shot in Gandolfini’s apartment, has sadly been lost to time. Apparently it featured Tony trying to find his pal LeBron a new place to live which “was ultimately Madison Square Garden.” Since Gandolfini had a giant beard at this point in time, the short conceded that Tony and Carmela were now part of the witness protection program, in what we can only conclude is the canonical epilogue to the otherwise ambiguous ending. Sadly, these efforts were all in vain; the Knicks’ pitch meeting was reportedly a “disaster” and LeBron went to Miami instead, then eventually a planet comprised of streaming video characters.
The Dungeons & Dragons Cartoon Was Revived for a Brazilian Car Commercial
For those ‘80s kids who were just too lazy to sit around a card table drinking Mountain Dew with their friends, there was a Dungeons & Dragons animated series. Weirdly, the premise of the cartoon involved a D&D amusement park ride (which wasn’t a thing) somehow sucking a group of friends into an actual fantasy-realm where they immediately meet an adorable unicorn and a magical Dungeon Master, who basically looks like if the role of Dumbledore had gone to Danny DeVito.
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Source: Pinoy Daily News
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