We’re winding down here, so tune in this evening and post.
I liked this one. Is this the first time a character has mentioned breaking the wall? I know they’ve done it, but have they talked about it?
Loved seeing Alan get excited. And a young Candice Bergen – I wonder where that clip came from.
They’ve broken the fourth wall a couple of times. As I recall (each from different episodes):
Denny: “I can act - I’ve got an Emmy, you know”
Allen: “I’ve hardly seen you at all this episode”
And last week: “What? Have we been cancelled?”
But Larroquette’s breaking of the wall was so…well, you know…perfect.
Well done.
I hadn’t realized before the courtroom scene, but this program really is knee-deep in ‘older’ characters. Not that they didn’t introduce younger ones, but they mostly were so boring they got dumped swiftly.
Also, I’ve found all the ‘everyman is in lust with Shirley’ bits very tiring, because I just didn’t see the attraction. Then they ran Denny’s memories for us…she really was gorgeous, wasn’t she?
Actually, they break the wall on nearly every episode, though sometimes it’s pretty subtle. My favorite was the time Denny Crane opened his flip phone like a Star Trek communicator and it made the communicator chirp as he did it.
Where do you suppose they found the footage of the young Shirley (Candice Bergen)?
I had to turn it off at the beginning. I just can’t watch anything about Alzheimer’s, it hits too close to home.
I know they’ve broken the wall, but I think this is the first time someone actually said “We’re breaking the wall.” 
I wonder if Candice swimming was from T. R. Baskin. I’m probably one of ten people who saw that movie in the theater but I don’t remember anything about it except that she was really hot.
It might also be the first time they had an actor look right into the camera.
The ALZ content is hard for me, too.
I tuned in late, and for about a minute I thought Denny was petitioning the Massachusetts Supreme Court to let him marry his sex doll, “Shirley Schmidt-Ho”.
Compared to some earlier episodes this one wasn’t too heart-wrenching. Basically Denny has gone from mild to moderate cognitive impairment. He spends most of the episode fantasizing about Shirley and announces that he loves life and intends to live it to the fullest.
Do not watch 4x16 “The Mighty Rogues.” It is probably the saddest episode BL has ever done dealing with Alzheimers.
I’m a little confused about the whole Supreme Court thing. After losing in regular (state) trial court Denny & Alan appealed to the MA Supreme Judicial Court, but the SJC just sent it to the United States Supreme Court without even bothing to hear it?:dubious: I know that want theme before SCOTUS for dramatic reasons, but it just seems bizarre (even for BL). Since next episode is the series finale could they have Denny finally losing a case (he’s never lost one in his entire career)?
Are they just gonna start talking to the nice folks at home like Ozzie and Harriet?
Have they been to the Supreme Court before?
I love how an appeal gets kicked to the Supreme Court in one day and oral arguments start next week.
Don’t you, though? IRL, it would take months or years.
Yes, they were there once before.
Since Candice’s father was famous while she was growing up, it wouldn’t surprise me if that was part of a home movie when she was in her twenties. It had that quality to it.
I can remember reading at the time that she was one of the most naturally beautiful women in Hollywood.
Is the next episode really the last one? I have so loved this show!
is any one else worried that the final scene will be Alan and Denny on the balcony and we will see from behind Alan has his gun holding it out of sight from Denny?
maybe I am just a little to Dark.
You want dark? Check out posts 7 through 9. Gotta like the “Of Mice and Men Scenario”!