# Rizzoli & Isles 08/16/10: Ooh, such fanservice! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 17, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495 "2010-08-17T03:01:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/1 "2010-08-17T03:01:21Z")
How did it take the writers this long to send them underground as lesbians?! ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/2 "2010-08-17T05:30:50Z")
A brilliant concept. And it wasn’t the first episode where R & I were seen in bed together. I smell a trend! ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/3 "2010-08-17T15:10:58Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > A brilliant concept. And it wasn’t the first episode where R & I were seen in bed together. I smell a trend! Really? I smell fish . . . ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 3:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/4 "2010-08-17T15:14:40Z")
I couldn’t decide whether it was pandering or just a logical extension of the way the characters interact. I was especially tickled by Maura & Jane’s arguing as they were lying in bed together (fully clothed), and their mutual, utter obliviousness to the fact that it was a lovers’ quarrel. Also, Sasha Alexander dressed as a nightclub waitress is a good thing. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/5 "2010-08-17T15:38:19Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Also, Sasha Alexander dressed as a nightclub waitress is a good thing. Yes, but she mispronounced “Euler”, didn’t she? ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/6 "2010-08-17T15:39:59Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > > > Also, Sasha Alexander dressed as a nightclub waitress is a good thing. > > Yes, but she mispronounced “Euler”, didn’t she? And “immunoglobulin”. But who cares? ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/7 "2010-08-17T15:42:11Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > > > Also, Sasha Alexander dressed as a nightclub waitress is a good thing. > > Yes, but she mispronounced “Euler”, didn’t she? I wasn’t watching closely, so I’ll take your word for it. ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/8 "2010-08-17T16:14:25Z")
I’ve always found Angie Harmon to be hot, but as she’s matured, her voice has become more like Susan Saint James’s. So, now, she’s a taller, hotter Susan Saint James. 😃 I found the episode amusing, as they continue to dance around the “are R&I lesbians or not” idea. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 4:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/9 "2010-08-17T16:20:50Z")
> [@Ogre](#): > > And “immunoglobulin”. But who cares? We geeks can be a picky lot, can’t we? ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/10 "2010-08-17T16:59:59Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > > [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > > > Also, Sasha Alexander dressed as a nightclub waitress is a good thing. > > Yes, but she mispronounced “Euler”, didn’t she? Yes, she did. I shot bolt upright, scaring both my GF and my puppy who were on the same couch. Some things I take even more seriously than two hot lesbians. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 5:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/11 "2010-08-17T17:32:19Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > I’ve always found Angie Harmon to be hot, but as she’s matured, her voice has become more like Susan Saint James’s. So, now, she’s a taller, hotter Susan Saint James. 😃 > > I found the episode amusing, as they continue to dance around the “are R&I lesbians or not” idea. How about they’re emotionally in love but physically not in lust? I can see Maura saying to herself, “Damn, I wish Jane looked more like Mark Harmon, or even Michael Weatherly.” ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/12 "2010-08-17T18:47:45Z")
I note that every episode so far involves one, the other, or both trying to hook up with a guy – or, reluctantly **be** hooked up (say, by Rizzoli’s Mom) – and, for one reason or another, it never seems to work out. But that recurrent plot element seems natural, even indispensable, in a series about two single women. I also note that if the leads were both male, and nothing else about them were different, the search for love would be played very differently **if at all.** Whether that says more about cultural norms or real life is open to debate. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/13 "2010-08-17T19:37:03Z")
> [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](#): > > Also, Sasha Alexander dressed as a nightclub waitress is a good thing. I don’t know why _cough_implants_cough_, but she looks a lot hotter now than she did when she was on _NCIS._ ---
**Author:** ![kjckjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@kjckjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjckjc)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/14 "2010-08-17T19:52:43Z")
I am just happy when they get some of the Boston area stuff right. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/15 "2010-08-17T19:58:41Z")
> [@kjckjc](#): > > I am just happy when they get some of the Boston area stuff right. If only I could say something similar about _Memphis Beat_. Admittedly I’m not actually watching it, as the mention of a mythical first avenue in only episode I looked at put me off. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 8:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/16 "2010-08-17T20:32:33Z")
> [@kjckjc](#): > > I am just happy when they get some of the Boston area stuff right. I’d be happy if a show purportedly set in my town were actually **filmed** there. Unless it’s NY or LA . . . probably not. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2010, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/17 "2010-08-17T20:33:03Z")
> [@BrainGlutton](#): > > …but she looks a lot hotter now than she did when she was on _NCIS._ I quite disagree. On R&I she looks rather generic; was much more distinctive on _NCIS_. > [@kjckjc](#): > > I am just happy when they get some of the Boston area stuff right. I was wondering if I might run across a film crew, but I looked it up and they don’t shoot it here. I noticed a lot of quick shots of Boston locations to set a scene, but I haven’t noticed any real Boston flavor to the show. The previews for next week show them at the “Massachusetts Marathon”. (I tink _Leverage_ is the same; takes place in Boston but isn’t filmed here. In Portland, Oregon, I think I read somewhere.) ---
**Author:** ![kjckjc](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e36b37/32.png) [@kjckjc](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kjckjc)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/18 "2010-08-18T15:18:02Z")
Well, she was eating a Fluffanutter in one episode. And the guy playing Lt. Grant in two of the episodes seemed to have the accent spot on. 😉 Although Bruce McGill was laying on the Costner JFK accent in the first few episodes, he seems to have toned it down a bit. And there is obviously no “Boston Cambridge University”. I wonder if it is a legal thing, not being able to use names like Harvard, Boston Marathon, etc. ---
**Author:** ![furryman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/furryman/32/99_2.png) [@furryman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/furryman)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/19 "2010-08-18T16:24:00Z")
[Yawn] Wake me up when they kiss each other. [/yawn] :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 18, 2010, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495/20 "2010-08-18T16:32:13Z")
A question for the sciencey types among us: If somebody kisses somebody else on the neck, and then a forensic examiner takes a swab of the area for a DNA test, do you actually get kiss DNA or just a whole lot of neck DNA? [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rizzoli-isles-08-16-10-ooh-such-fanservice/550495.md?page=2)