# Boston Legal 10/11 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 13, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-11/326061 "2005-10-13T14:28:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MikeTheTiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@MikeTheTiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeTheTiger)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-11/326061/1 "2005-10-13T14:28:05Z")
I am at a lost to explain the lack of interest of Boston Legal on this Board. To me its laugh-out-loud funny. Maybe this bit from Tuesday night’s show will get some of the Trek Geek contingent on board. Denny Crain (William Shatner) and Allan Shore (James Spader) are salmon fishing in BC, Canada, when they are asked to go to court to fight against fish farms which promote the breeding of a certain salmon parasitic lice which is killing the wild salmon. Someone refers to the lice as “cling-ons” and the camera cuts to Shatner, he looks straight into the camera, and he deadpans, “Did someone say Klingons?” Shatner and Spader make me laugh…alot! ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-11/326061/2 "2005-10-13T16:31:53Z")
I watched it last season, when it was on Sunday night, I think. I plan to catch the reruns though. The only reason I don’t watch it now is because there are a couple of other Tuesday shows I watch (Earl and Supernatural), and two hours of TV a day is enough for me. Is Shatner still doing the “I’m Denny Crain” schtick? ---
**Author:** ![dragongirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b38774/32.png) [@dragongirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dragongirl)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-11/326061/3 "2005-10-13T16:50:59Z")
I love Boston Legal. The Star Trek joke made me laugh too. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-11/326061/4 "2005-10-13T16:59:26Z")
Love the show and burst out laughing at the Cling-On reference. Plus the cast is fantastic and the writing is Kelly at his best - he seems to have finally learned that fine line between Ally McBeal and The Practice. Let’s see how long he can keep it going, but so far, this season has been kickass good! ---
**Author:** ![MikeTheTiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@MikeTheTiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeTheTiger)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-11/326061/5 "2005-10-13T18:26:53Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > I watched it last season, when it was on Sunday night, I think. > > I plan to catch the reruns though. The only reason I don’t watch it now is because there are a couple of other Tuesday shows I watch (Earl and Supernatural), and two hours of TV a day is enough for me. > > Is Shatner still doing the “I’m Denny Crain” schtick? Yeah, in fact, the other scene that made me laugh so loud i woke the kids, was at the end of the **Canadian** courtroom scene, after Allan had made an impassioned plea to save the wild salmon, he said, “…and we leave you with these two words…” and Shatner says, “Denny Crain, eh” The wife called to me up the stairs, “What are you watching!??!?” ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-11/326061/6 "2005-10-13T18:53:04Z")
I only saw a handful of episodes last season, but loved every scene Shore and Crane (Spader and Shatner) were in. I usually don’t go for legal shows, but those two characters, played by those two actors, were just perfect – especially when they got to interact with each other. ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-11/326061/7 "2005-10-13T19:03:29Z")
I watch the show for mainly for the eye candy and James Spader. It’s occasionally funny, and Shatner has been excellent on it - more of a guilty pleasure for me. But, c’mon…when you make a **Lake Bell** for **Candace Bergen** trade last season, and this year you ship out **Rhona Mitra** , you’re going to lose some of your market share. Betty White is great on the show, but Bergen makes me retch - she’s a one-note actress who’s been playing the same note since before **Father Murphy** 😃 or whatever that sit-com she was on last century was called. ---
**Author:** ![MikeTheTiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3be4f8/32.png) [@MikeTheTiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeTheTiger)\ **Post date:** [October 13, 2005, 7:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-11/326061/8 "2005-10-13T19:55:51Z")
> [@unwashed brain](#): > > I watch the show for mainly for the eye candy and James Spader. It’s occasionally funny, and Shatner has been excellent on it - more of a guilty pleasure for me. > > But, c’mon…when you make a **Lake Bell** for **Candace Bergen** trade last season, and this year you ship out **Rhona Mitra** , you’re going to lose some of your market share. > > Betty White is great on the show, but Bergen makes me retch - she’s a one-note actress who’s been playing the same note since before **Father Murphy** 😃 or whatever that sit-com she was on last century was called. But you got Julie Bowen (rowr!) and Ryan Michelle Bathe in return. Not quite knock-for-knock compared to Bell & Mitra & Potter, but as long as you Have Spader/Shatner, its all good. ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Sam\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Stone)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-11/326061/9 "2005-10-14T02:52:54Z")
I really enjoyed Boston Legal last year, but man, that first episode this year (the first of the two-parter with Heather Locklear) launched them straight over the shark tank. It was just way too over the top and unbelievable. The last two episodes have been better, however. They almost lost me, but I’ll hang in some more. They need to reel in the Denny Crain character just a little (his lechery is way too over the top to be believable, for example). ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-11/326061/10 "2005-10-14T03:07:15Z")
Just a note, the corpse in a freezer happened near here. Short version: kids bug wierd nieghbor (WN) WN threatens kids (hits them and takes thier bikes) Kids dad confronts WN WN shoots dad (wounding him) Holdout betwwen police and WN eventually ends peacefully Searching the home they find a corpse in the freezer Turns out it is WN’s Mom Mom dies of natuarl causes, son hid body because afraid of murder charges and to keep collecting her social security “What’s in your freezer” bumper stickers show up on area cars. [http://www.lacrossetribune.com/schuth\_case/](http://www.lacrossetribune.com/schuth_case/) Brian ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-11/326061/11 "2005-10-14T03:21:35Z")
Spader and Shatner are a killer combo. I love the show. If someone wants to start a thread on it each week, I’ll jump in. I laughed several times: Klingons, Denny’s time-out for shooting the fish, the bed scene, and more. ---
**Author:** ![HelloKitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecccb3/32.png) [@HelloKitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelloKitty)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-11/326061/12 "2005-10-14T04:26:28Z")
> [@vivalostwages](#): > > Spader and Shatner are a killer combo. I love the show. If someone wants to start a thread on it each week, I’ll jump in. > > I laughed several times: Klingons, Denny’s time-out for shooting the fish, the bed scene, and more. I’ve been wondering where all the Boston Legal-ites were on this board. This is my favorite show, bar none. I must admit I am a huge Shatner fan so I can’t resist. Last week’s was the best yet. I have it recorded and will probly watch it again. I have to agree a bit about Candace Bergen, I’m not a fan of them bringing her on the show. But the other new characters they’ve brought on board have definitely improved it. If there’s no BL thread started next Tuesday night I’ll get 'er going. Since Battlestar Galactica is over until January BL is the only show I make time to watch now. ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [October 14, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-11/326061/13 "2005-10-14T20:30:14Z")
I have trouble remembering when it’s on now (must remember: post-_Earl/Office_). I don’t miss Potter for a second, and Mitra was hot but I crushed on Bowen all through _Ed_’s run, so it’s even for me. And Lake Bell? Blech! Shatner’s fun, but was probably the least deserving of the Supporting Actor Emmy nominees this last year.