"Marco Polo" is the 60th episode of the HBO original series The Sopranos and the eighth of the show's fifth season.
To control costs, he has the work done in the late Big Pussy Bonpensiero's body shop, now run by his widow Angie.
Mary does not want him present because she thinks his vulgar behavior will embarrass her in front of an old friend, Russ Fegoli, who will be attending with his wife.
When Hugh insists that the "man of the house" attend, Carmela reluctantly invites Tony at short notice.
Television Without Pity graded "Marco Polo" with a B, criticizing the washing machine installation scene as covert product placement.
line in the Marco Polo pool scene as having humorous delivery that expressed "[f]rustration, pathos, sarcasm, love and affection" all at once.
[3] Italian studies professor Franco Ricci noted the symbolism in the scene where Uncle Junior watches La dolce vita on television, as La dolce vita has a "plot about unrequited love and impossible happiness" that echoes the "constant bickering between Tony and Carmela".