# Boston Legal Finale 2 Hours? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 8, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-finale-2-hours/476314 "2008-12-08T22:56:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-finale-2-hours/476314/21 "2008-12-10T16:59:15Z")
> [@StarvingButStrong](#): > > Sorry, this cannot be completely true, otherwise publishers would not have legal departments to worry about libel laws, and there wouldn’t be clauses in author contracts about who is responsible if some person sues. I don’t know about exceptions, but for the most part the Supreme Court ruled this was free speech in [Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hustler_Magazine_v._Falwell) How do you think SNL gets by? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-finale-2-hours/476314/22 "2008-12-10T22:56:44Z")
> [@lynxie](#): > > What I’m wondering is - are those marriages legal? (In real life, of course, ignoring the fact that Denny is secretly Canadian.) Can you take your own judge to a foreign country and be legally married? Wouldn’t you need to use a Canadian judge in Canada? What are you talking about? 😕 The show is set in Boston, _Massachusetts_. Massachusetts, the first state state in the union to legalize same-sex marriage. The fishing lodge wasn’t in Canada. ---
**Author:** ![Captain\_Amazing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/6de8d8/32.png) [@Captain\_Amazing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_Amazing)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2008, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-finale-2-hours/476314/23 "2008-12-10T23:09:31Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > What are you talking about? 😕 The show is set in Boston, _Massachusetts_. Massachusetts, the first state state in the union to legalize same-sex marriage. The fishing lodge wasn’t in Canada. Yes it was. The four of them got married in Nimmo Bay, BC, which is the same place Denny and Alan had gone for their previous fishing trip (where Alan found himself arguing against farm raised salmon and salmon lice, or whatever they were) ---
**Author:** ![ltfire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ea924/32.png) [@ltfire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ltfire)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-finale-2-hours/476314/24 "2008-12-11T00:26:06Z")
There was a guy in the background, who came out the door with the Justice. Long billed ball cap. Was it supposed to be Dick Cheney? ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-finale-2-hours/476314/25 "2008-12-11T00:50:28Z")
I thought it was one of the other Justices, but it could have been Cheney. ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-finale-2-hours/476314/26 "2008-12-11T02:16:55Z")
I took it to be Cheney. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-finale-2-hours/476314/27 "2008-12-11T04:18:00Z")
Definitely Cheney. ---
**Author:** ![lynxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@lynxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynxie)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-finale-2-hours/476314/28 "2008-12-11T10:00:57Z")
> [@alphaboi867](#): > > What are you talking about? 😕 The show is set in Boston, _Massachusetts_. Massachusetts, the first state state in the union to legalize same-sex marriage. The fishing lodge wasn’t in Canada. Yes, the fishing lodge was in Canada. I know the show is set in Boston. kinda obvious, really. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![lynxie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e99b99/32.png) [@lynxie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lynxie)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2008, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-finale-2-hours/476314/29 "2008-12-11T10:11:11Z")
Oops, forgot. Remember when Katie congratulated Jerry on getting over his fear of a foreign country? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2008, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-finale-2-hours/476314/30 "2008-12-12T21:44:44Z")
David Bianculli had a nice [rant](http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=98183841) about the cancellation of Boston Legal and five hours a week of Jay Leno on Fresh Air today. Different networks, but he has a good point. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/boston-legal-finale-2-hours/476314.md?page=1)