Law and Order

I got hooked on Law and Order when I was stuck on desk duty for over a year and life got boring quick...and back around 2000 it was an interesting show. But it did weaken during the 2000s...Brisco was the best character and he passed in 05 as I recall...and the writing in the last few years sucked. I mean everything was just a copy of a recent real world scandal...hey guys, can you come up with things better than this.

They did stretch it out to 20 years to say they went further than Gunsmoke, but sorry guys, Gunsmoke was a better show than this.

Still, it did have some great quotes that someone was assembled...what are yours?

Funny: Great Heeb Moments in Law & Order

Here are my Top Ten favorite L&O cliches:

1. The original DA, Adam Schiff (?), never wanted to prosecute a single frigging case, because, as he would say, "Go into court with only a signed confession and the murder weapon??!! The press'll have a field day with this! TAKE THE DEAL!!!"

This guy was no Donald Trump. He always wanted the first deal offered to him.

And he was no poker player...I preferreed Arthur Branch (Fred Thompson)....he would take a risk and win.

5. Oh My God, it was George Bush all along.

Enough people have written about this so I won't belabor it.

Especially in the last few years...Gitmo, the Special Prosecutor on Cllinton...they did show their liberal stripes a bit hard.

6. This guy is going to break down in the witness stand and either reveal he was guilty or offer some powerful reason for his crime that nearly justifies it or shock us with some Greater Truth about the Crime We're Not Even Allowed to Mention

Sorry guys, Perry Mason did it better

8. Jack McCoy spazzes out and starts spitting and shaking with righteous, Parkinsons-flavored indignation in his final six-minute question to the witness (which is never answered, and isn't meant to be answered, as it's rhetoric), delivering a tendentious, palsiated theory of the case (which is not a question at all, and thus not permitted in the not-even-pretending guise of a question, but the judges on L&O know better than to grant an objection to McCoy's spastic testimony once they hear that D-Minor (see above)), and then we're going to cut to the jury foreman delivering a verdict (or, to show you that this is a Crime Which Can't Even Be Mentioned (see above), he won't deliver a verdict, but will say "your honor, we are hopelessly deadlocked).

I never liked McCoy's stroke-acting during these completely-objectionable bouts of testifying outside of the witness box. I alway prefered Michael Moriarity's coolly polite and understated delivery. You could tell Moriarity was very serious minded without him having to spray the jury box with the Spittle of Justice.

That got old very quick...but he's a liberal and Hollywood lets him ramble on as long as he is trashing this country...


It was a good show at one point....died in the 2000s and should have been put to sleep back then...thankfully it's gone. RIP