# Boston Legal 10/24 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 24, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733 "2006-10-24T17:45:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2006, 5:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/1 "2006-10-24T17:45:30Z")
Getting an early jump on this. The first five minutes are supposed to leave you breathless, so say the promos. We shall see. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/2 "2006-10-25T02:26:50Z")
bumpin’…for Denny Crane ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/3 "2006-10-25T03:00:51Z")
Okay, EWWWWWWWWWWW! Also, the Alan-whatshername scenes were a bit awkward. Good episode, though. But, um, ewwwww! ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/4 "2006-10-25T03:46:21Z")
Ew **and** ick. Who was Brad in bed with? It didn’t look like Denise or Lane Bell’s character. Somebody new? I wonder if we’ve seen the last of Scott and his mom. ---
**Author:** ![running\_piglet\_cheese](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/22d042/32.png) [@running\_piglet\_cheese](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_piglet_cheese)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/5 "2006-10-25T03:56:52Z")
[QUOTE=AuntiePam] Ew **and** ick. Who was Brad in bed with? It didn’t look like Denise or Lane Bell’s character. Somebody new? I wonder if we’ve seen the last of Scott and his mom. [/QUOTE] He was in bed with the girl who kept leaving right after sex. Remember how he said that she used to always fall asleep afterwards and now she just jumps up and leaves. “I think I have mad penis.” Vintage Denny ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/6 "2006-10-25T04:20:16Z")
What a slut! 🙂 Why’d she fall asleep with Brad but not with Alan? And why would any woman think Alan was “skanky”? ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/7 "2006-10-25T04:22:49Z")
I liked how angry the new lawyer looked when his case wasn’t going well. And yes this episode was disgusting. Was this the first incest episode on network television? Did Boston Legal make TV history? ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/8 "2006-10-25T05:43:52Z")
Gotta love those balcony scenes though. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 2:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/9 "2006-10-25T14:15:26Z")
I caught the like the last two minutes of this show. My wife was just flipping channels, and I’m not a regular watcher, so please forgive my ignorance, but…what in the effing eff was up with the talkie doll in Shatner’s pants, and then the random dwarf right in front of his fly? Is there something I’m seriously missing here? Is this show about lawyers and other law-types, or did I misunderstand? ---
**Author:** ![Sam\_Lowry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e95f7d/32.png) [@Sam\_Lowry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sam_Lowry)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/10 "2006-10-25T14:38:00Z")
[QUOTE=Loopydude] I caught the like the last two minutes of this show. My wife was just flipping channels, and I’m not a regular watcher, so please forgive my ignorance, but…what in the effing eff was up with the talkie doll in Shatner’s pants, and then the random dwarf right in front of his fly? Is there something I’m seriously missing here? Is this show about lawyers and other law-types, or did I misunderstand? [/QUOTE] The talking doll is a doll of the reporter who had been covering the big case going on there. The reporter that Shatner had sex with. The dwarf is another lawyer that Shatner has been dating, so it’s been a running joke that he’d be talking about some other woman, and not notice that she had walked up. It is a show about lawyers, but it’s not near as serious as most lawyer shows. They are all very good and I believe win almost all of their cases, but several of the characters are very eccentric, and Boston Legal can be very funny. It’s not a show I tape, but I do watch it when I’m home on Tuesday nights. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/11 "2006-10-25T14:56:40Z")
OK. My wife flipped to the channel, Shatner came on, I looked up, and the next thing I know he’s pulling a string out of his fly, which starts talking. Serious WTF moment if you have no idea what’s going on. Then came the dwarf. The look on my wife’s face was priceless. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/12 "2006-10-25T15:04:28Z")
[QUOTE=Lakai] Was this the first incest episode on network television? Did Boston Legal make TV history? [/QUOTE] Mum’s the word. ---
**Author:** ![DirkGntly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/d9b06d/32.png) [@DirkGntly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DirkGntly)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/13 "2006-10-25T15:46:25Z")
I need someone to please spoil this ep from start-to-finish for me, if they would be so kind…I had a mandatory company function last night, and couldn’t see it…and of course, forgot to tape it… ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/14 "2006-10-25T16:34:49Z")
[QUOTE=Chefguy] Mum’s the word. [/QUOTE] I’m sure this isn’t the first time; it has at least been implied on other shows from time to time, if not outright shown. This bit was quite horrific, though. Loved the dwarf scene, the Gracie Jane inside Denny’s pants, and “the mad penis.” ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/15 "2006-10-25T16:38:09Z")
Wow. Full-on incest too? ---
**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/16 "2006-10-25T20:39:42Z")
so I caught the “shocking” ending, but I missed the “shocking” first five minutes. was there something shocking at the beginning as the tv annoucer claimed, or was there not, as Denny had argued to the tv announcer in the promo? ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-10-24/377733/17 "2006-10-25T20:56:36Z")
No. I watched for the shock but didn’t see anything, unless they intended Denny’s “mad penis” as shocking. And I just got the point, about Lane Bell leaving Alan immediately after sex but snoring with Brad. I’m not sure what it was supposed to prove. Maybe it was supposed to be funny, in a wry sort of way.