Man, I just heard him say it and now I can’t remember exactly how it goes. He’s about to try two kids for the same crime at the same time and he says something like:
This has probably been done, but I thought it ought to be brought up again
I saw that episode earlier tonight on TNT. Great line. The word “scrotum” is woefully under-used on television.
There was a recent episode that Jack McCoy say the line, “Never get Freudian with a man with a pickle.” Cracked me up.
But as much as like McCoy, I always thought Adam Schiff had the best lines. He was far and away my favorite character on the show, and I was sad to see him go. One of my personal favorite lines was, “Someone should tell that girl that revenge is one of your four basic food groups!”
Logan: “You’re the DA, you can indict a ham sandwich.”
McCoy: “At least a ham sandwich has meat on it.”
Has anyone noticed that at least 50% the time, Adam Schiff is always on his way out somewhere? He’s always gathering his coat and hat: it seems all he ever does is make cutting remarks while he’s on the way out the door.
And did that man every sincerely smile on the show? He was the most depressing old curmudgeon ever. That’s why I loved `im.
“God really screwed the pooch this time!”
When a defendant claimed that TV violence led him to kill, saying that most violent criminals reported watching violent programs, Jack replied: “So if 85% of juvenile delinquents chew gum, should we then believe that gum-chewing causes delinquency?”
Great line, and faultless logic. I always use this when pointing out a fundmental attributional error.
Don’t know his exact words, but I love when he orders the court to arrest a former abortion-provider turned pro-lifer for murder (because that is what she “confesses” to). He keeps demanding she be arrested until the judge has to quiet him by saying something like “May I remind you that abortion is legal?” Zzzzing!
Schiff will forever be the master, but McCoy has had some great lines:
“Now that Claire’s dead, no one can dispute my claim that we had an affair.” Oh, you mean stuff he said out loud.