OK, Alan babbling was funny, but I hope it won’t be a recurring trait. And the polygamy case was weird. Did he somehow marry both women since the DA insisted he get a divorce (only 1 marriage can be valid, the other void). Also I was a little annoyed that the DA said the law defines marriage as between “one man and one woman” since the show is set in Massachusetts 
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So Alan didn’t hear what was coming out of his mouth? I’m confused.
I’m also confused about the polygamy case, but then I’m not a lawyer. How could the jury have ruled any other way? I thought juries were supposed to decide issues relating to facts, not interpret or overturn the law. There was no dispute about the facts – the guy was married to two women at the same time. So I’m confused about that too.
Oh, and I’m confused about Paul telling Blonde Guy to stay away from Rachel during her recovery. No “relationships” for a year? How about friends? Are friends okay? Puhleeze. I’ll bet that’s coming from Paul, and not from Rachel’s counselor or therapist.
I missed the first ten minutes. Is it true that Alan and Denny spent time in a milk bath with rose petals?!
“Stand by your man”—nice touch at the end.
Yes, Denny took Alan to a spa when he found out about the word-salad; the question is whether they were wearing swimsuits.
Regarding the polygamy case; I think she was trying to get the jury to ignore the law and find him not guilty (lawyers walk a very thin line when they do this). The whole case was bizarre.
I always have a problem with shows that have extremely good looking people complaining that they can’t find someone to date.
Apart from Denise falling over at the chance of dating geeky DA guy, I thought it was good. Shatner looked a bit more bloated than usual, but his speech after the massage was another Emmy winner. Will he make a hat trick?
I am only a recent convert to this show after having discovered that I can no longer tell the Law & Order reruns from the new shows. William F’ing Shatner gets on my nerves sometimes but I really liked this episode.
What’s the backstory on Alan and Denny’s characters? How did they get to be such good friends?
I was confused too. I can understand that he is “hearing” himself speak the right words when gibberish is coming out but when people are looking at him – especially after he knows he’s got this problem – and are clearly puzzled about what he’s saying, why did he just keep acting like he was talking normally? It was obvious that Jessica person was baffled at whatever he was trying to tell her, but he noticed nothing strange about her responses to him?
I thought at first he’d had a stroke. That’s the only time I’ve ever seen anything like what happened. In Aphasic patients, it’s like a disconnect in your language center. You know the words you want to say, but what comes out is completely different. It was very disconcerting for me, and extremely frightening for the patient.
It’s something that’s developed over time. You should really check out the first season which, IMO, is a lot better than this one. My WAG is that Dave Kelley is trying to broaden the appeal to keep the show on the air, which have diluted the concept a bit. Be glad that you missed the botched effort of appealing to a younger audience by having two 20 somethings fresh from law school play minor parts. I didn’t work. At all.
So seeing the friendship developing has been very rewarding, but I guess a brief explanation is that they both are over ripe teenagers, who share a delight in mischief, good life and women (and I think in that order).