Top Ten List
A participant presents ten life lessons drawn from Goodfellas; the machine transcript skips the fourth ordinal and then adds a bonus lesson.
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- The segment is introduced as the ten best lessons from Goodfellas, with the list deferred until after an ad break.
- Lesson number one is not to kill a made man.
- After a large heist, the advice is to avoid buying anything conspicuous and to lie low.
- Another lesson says to rob an airport when money is needed.
- The machine transcript jumps from lesson number one to an explicit lesson number five; no fourth ordinal is inferred.
- Lesson number five is not to make a mob boss a silent restaurant partner because the partner will steal from the business and ultimately destroy it.
- A later lesson says not to use cocaine while also selling cocaine.
- If someone is going to be murdered, the list grimly advises preventing an open-casket funeral.
- The list repeats the rule never to inform on friends and always to keep quiet.
- Seeing a new boyfriend assault someone is offered as a reason not to remain with him.
- A crew member is warned that nobody announces a plan to kill them.
- A bonus lesson advises against divorce and says to make the relationship work.