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I noticed Bob Picardo on "Ally McBeal" the other day, and was amazed by how little the poor man was given to do. He had one long scene at the beginning where he was just rhyming off evidence, then sat silently pulling various expressions of "What's an EMH to do" during the rest of the proceedings, and finished with 3 or 4 sentences after the verdict was delivered.
I, for one, am dumbfounded as to how little this great comedic actor was given to do, in what has become a comedy-drama. He,of all people, would make a great foil for the goings-on of those misfits, yet he was given a pedestrian role that insults his abilities.
Anyone else see this travesty?
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I picked up the show for a while this season, but I'm off again. I forget about it being on, which is to bad, it's pretty funny, most of the time.
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What was really good was when Bob Gunton was on the last season finale - as a nice guy! He's a good actor, but he usually plays baddies (Captain Maxwell of the Phoenix, the Warden of Shawshank prison). Here I spent the whole time waiting for his character (who was helping his best friend win the right to give him one of his organs as a transplant, because Gunton had done so much for him and was a family man besides) to turn out bad - and he didn't! It was the perfect feelgood touch. . . 8)
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Eh, First One...I think Gil Bellows (Billy) was worried enough about having Gunton on the show. After all, he did order his killing in Shawshank...I don't think we could take another evil Warden Bob.
Also, the guy that played the Professor in DS9's 'Little Green Men' and some other guy in 'Dark Skies' turned up as some prosecution lawyer some otheer time. (Vague enough for ye?)
Lest we forget Donna Murphy's central role in that Ally/Practice two-part crossover, which yours truly took great pleasure in dissecting a few months ago.
How about opening a Ally Appreciation Board? *Jumps in a boghole and prepares to be smited*
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Didn't Armin Shimerman play a judge on Ally McBeal once, too? Or was it another show...?
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It was the one where the young girl was having trouble breast feeding her baby, the baby starved to death, they buried the body, the cops found the body, then the DAs tried her for murder.
And I'll let the little smokin' joke go by without comment. Donna Murphy's total hotness overrides the nessecity for a response :0)
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