The Sopranos (TV Series)

Toodle-Fucking-Oo (2000)

Peter Bogdanovich: Dr. Elliot Kupferberg

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• Dr. Jennifer Melfi : "Toodle-Fucking-Oo?" What the fuck was that? God, I couldn't sleep all night, I was so embarrassed

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : What was wrong with Toodle-Oo? It's an accepted form of "good bye"

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : That's not the way I talk with patients: it wasn't "me", it was "someone else"

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : It was "Jennifer", for whatever reason, at that moment, you felt "safer" showing him "Jennifer", not "doctor." I mean, what did you see at that table that made you want to hide "doctor?" And who were you hiding from?

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [Sternly]  I saw a patient I never wanted to see again: that's who I was "hiding" from, a patient

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : When you say "see", do you mean that as "see professionally?" or just plain "see?"

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : [Irritated]  what's the difference?

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : It's a big difference... if it's just a matter of plain old "see", then you would've been the cordial doctor and said "good night" but because he is someone you didn't want to see "professionally", you abandon the doctor facade and adopted the "Jennifer" posture, hence "Toodle oo"

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : Ok, you're almost there but not quite: young girls are not accounted for their behavior, I think "Toodle-oo" was the action of a ditsy young girl and I regressed into the "girl thing" to escape responsibility for abandoning a patient... he asked me for help. Look, I need you as a colleague to tell me that I did the "right thing"

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : You can ask yourself why you became a psychiatrist in the first place. If it was only for to help people to stop smoking or biting their nails, then so be it: nothing wrong with that

  Dr. Jennifer Melfi : I had another patient who committed suicide because I was treating this man because I had to go "on the lamb"

  Dr. Elliot Kupferberg : Treating patients from a motel room may not have been optimum but you were still there for her, you were still in phone contact: it would've been the same if you were on vacation. Did you say "lamb"?