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"Johnny Cakes" is the 73rd episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the eighth of the show's sixth season. Written by Diane Frolov and Andrew Schneider , and directed by Tim Van Patten , it originally aired on April 30, 2006.
Johnny was married to Livia Pollio and they had three children: Janice, Tony, and Barbara. Johnny worked closely with his older brother Corrado ("Junior") during Tony's childhood. Johnny was sent away to prison, for a short while when Tony was young, and the family members said Johnny Boy was in Montana working as a cowboy.
John A. Costelloe (November 8, 1961 – December 16, 2008) was an American actor best known for his role as Jim "Johnny Cakes" Witowski, the lover of Vito Spatafore, in the HBO television series The Sopranos. Costelloe, a former FDNY firefighter, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on December 16, 2008, at the age of 47.
The title refers to the first words on the wedding invitation for Johnny and Ginny's daughter, Allegra. It is also possibly a reference to Johnny's request to his judge to be granted a leave from jail to attend his daughter's wedding. The title could also be a reference to Johnny's request that Tony's family kill Lupertazzi capo, Rusty Millio.
"Johnny Cakes" is also the title of the eighth episode of the season. Vito also tries to order some Jimmy Dean sausages. The room that the innkeeper assigns to Vito Spatafore is called the "Franklin Pierce" room, a reference to the 14th President of the United States, a native of New Hampshire. In the diner, the two guys mention watching Cold Case.
The pork store was called Centanni's Meat Market in the pilot episode, an actual butchery in Elizabeth, New JerseyAfter the series was picked up by HBO, the producers leased a building with a store front in Kearny, New Jersey [5] which served as the shooting location for exterior and interior scenes for the remainder of production, renamed Satriale's Pork Store. [5]
Rusty Millio: assassinated on orders from Johnny "Sack" via Tony Soprano's enlisted hit men from Italy for potentially trying to take power away from Johnny again. Eddie Pietro: collateral damage from the Millio hit. An eastern cottontail: Shot by Artie Bucco while eating the vegetables in his garden.
Johnny learns from his lawyer he will have to enter an allocution. In an agonizing decision, he accepts the plea deal . He receives a fifteen-year sentence, forfeits $4.1 million in assets, and admits in court that he was a member of a New York faction of the Mafia .