10 Genius Ways TV Shows Fixed Their Own Mistakes

4. Tony Burned His Hand...And It Stayed In - The Sopranos

The Sopranos Tony Ralph James Gandolfini Joe Pantoliano
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Ralph Cifaretto (Joe Pantoliano) was one of The Sopranos' greatest characters, and so it was fitting that he received a suitably unforgettable, brutally violent death, strangled and beaten at the hands of Tony Soprano (James Gandolfini) and later dismembered for good measure.

But in the immediate aftermath of Ralph's murder, an exhausted Tony gets to his feet and blearily stumbles around the kitchen where the fight took place, accidentally placing his hand on a lit stove and quickly screaming out in pain, complete with a loud expletive, before turning the stove off.

Tony burning his hand actually wasn't scripted for the scene, but due to Gandolfini's perfect reaction and how brilliantly it accentuated the roughness of Ralph's murder, the painful botch was kept in.

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