Big Pussy Bonpensiero Big Pussy Bonpensiero Salvatore "Big Pussy" Bonpensiero, played by Vincent Pastore, is a fictional character on the HBO TV series "The Sopranos". Not to be confused with fellow fictional New Jersey mobster known as "Little Pussy" Malanga, Big Pussy was a close friend and mob enforcer for Tony Soprano. The son of Lino Bonpensiero, Salvatore Bonpensiero started out as a cat burglar, and was affectionately known as Pussy, in reference to a pussycat. He was called "Big Pussy" to distinguish from Gennaro "Little Pussy" Malanga. Sal looked after his wife Angie and their three children, and was a long-time friend
Bookie of the Year incident at the Feast of San Gennaro, where he wrecks a Whac-A-Mole-type game called "Whack a Big Pussy", wherein one is supposed to hit a figure of Big Pussy Bonpensiero from "The Sopranos"; he destroys it out of anger that he had been misled by the name, and that he did not hit any figures, so they try to help him get over it. Peter starts by having Chris throw rotten apples at cars, as Peter demonstrates it on Mayor Adam West's car. Chris then hits a car driven by the high school baseball leader Coach Doyle, who is impressed