The new NBC series Law & Order Trial By Jury premiered last night.
In the scene where Asst. District Attorney Tracey Kibre (Bebe Neuwirth) and Assistant District Attorney Kelly Gaffney (Amy Carlson) are outside eating hot dogs, an assistant shows up and hands over a document stating the defendant in the case has secured a particular attorney. Just as that name begins to sink in, you can plainly see ADA Tracey mouth the word fuck. We replayed the tape twice just to be sure.
Anyone else see it?
MY GOD!! 
I thought I heard that too but I told myself - It can’t be!! :smack:
I went back and checked my tape and I missed it when I watched it the first time, but yep, she sure does mouth the word “fuck.”
I wonder how that made it past the censors. Do they still use censors?
If you didn’t actually hear it, it’s okay…?
It was “fudge”! She said “fudge”!
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Get the soap!
Maybe it was “firetruck” and the digital copy zapped out the middle of it.
(Could have been “Friar Tuck” with the same explanation.)
She was saying “For Crying Out Loud” but only said the first bit?
The FCC should fine NBC $500,000.00 for that, but since the character actually audibilize the word, the FCC should let NBC know it would be OK if they don’t actually sign the check.
I saw this in *Family Guy * a few days ago and still laugh when I remember it.
Stewie: “Here, you have extra-sensitive hearing, hear this”: (mouths) “FUCK YOU.”
Brian: “I’m telling.”
Stewie: “No! I-I said vacuum!”
It was one of those “did that just happen?” moments. I’m going to buy the box set for those three seconds of footage alone.
Now that I think about it, NBC did it on Third Watch a few years ago. A character yelled it at another character, but the ‘fuck’ part was bleeped out by an ambulance siren.
It was pretty funny, actually. You knew she was going to say something bad, because of the nature of the fight the two characters were having. She was walking away, stepped in the way of an ambulance pulling out of the hospital, yelled “Fuck you!” but all we heard was " <siren whoop> you!"
You could see her mouth form the word, though.
It was better when the same thing was done on Seinfeld, only with a taxi horn
So, all fucks aside, was the show any good?
Yes, indeedy. I like the story lines of both episodes that have aired, and I think the premise is good. Plus, it was a nice bonus to see Jerry Orbach’s final work.
The first episode actually aired last Thursday, in ER’s timeslot. The second was on Friday (the regular timeslot)
/Ms Cyros
I didn’t like the first one. They so clearly got the guy convicted because he killed his dogs and not because of the actual evidence.
Poor Jerry. He looked rather haggard, and his voice was weaker. 
On Saturday Night Live several years back Joe Pesci, dressed as a mobster, is in a jewelry store. He wants to try on a pinky ring and he tries it out in front of a mirror mouthing fuck you, motherfucker and such for about a minute. I guess since he didn’t actually say anything it passed. It’s very funny.
Someone said they liked the show. I hope it’s okay if I chime in here.
The show was bad!
There was this big cliffhanger moment where they needed something anything to win the case, and the second-chair lawyer finally does come in to hand a note to Neuworth’s (sp?) character, and you’re expecting something so devestating and clever!
And what you get is…
Well, the situation was someone used the name “Hernandez” as the name of a cop in a phone conversation, and the name of the victim was “Hernandez” and for various reasons this might have seemed significant. Except, the note explains, there are a hundred and fifty "Hernandez"s in the NYPD, so they could have been talking about anyone!
That was the big revelation, the big “something, anything” that won them the case. The name “Hernandez” might have been referring to any of a number of different people.
It’s the kind of “revelation” that’s no “revelation” at all because it should have been the first thing anyone thought of when they were trying to come up with a response to the point, in the first place!
Sorry if I’m not making myself clear. It just seemed really dumb to me. (The show, not my point!)
-FrL-
I remember an episode of 48 Hours (the CBS mini-documentary news program) about two trucks. It was about halfway into the episode before I realized the seemingly-random car horns were covering profanities.
Malcolm in the Middle had a similar bit. Mal gets frustrated at his father and yells: “[insert fifteen seconds of random stock footage, including dancers, a nuclear explosion, elephants etc] YOU!” The he turned to the camera and added: “You heard me!”
Err, about tow trucks, which happened to number more than two.