the Chief commented on the election episode of Boston Legal and tonight is the finale.
I look forward to reading the behind the scenes stories of this "get to 100 episodes" half season (the finale is #101-102.) and what David E. Kelley and Co. were consuming in the writer's room. Despite a streamlined cast, the story lines have been flying off into whimsy and selfawareness. The show isn't just jumping the shark, but hitting the accellerator and trying to flip the bike while in mid-air. Wikipedians (including myself) have been revising the "Meta-References" section of the show's page each week tallying the ever increasing damage to the rhetorical "fourth wall" (current version below). And three scenes last week included a Candace Bergen as Shirley Schmidt Manequin. With a wedding and a supreme court case in the plot line, they better have a St. Elsewhere-Newhart quality final twist to put the cherry on this sundae... From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Legal#Meta-references: This tendency has become more prevalent in the final season [29] with several references to the end of the series, including Jerry discussing a potential spinoff. In episode 5.06, Alan tells an actor with one line "You're not even supposed to talk, you're an extra." and later invites the audience to send in angry letters. In episode 5.08, Jerry begins dancing after assaulting a customer in a bakery and begins to sing the show's theme song and in episode 5.09, Denny tells Carl Sack "We need to bond. Hell man, this is our last season." In episode 5.10 Edwin Poole refers to the potential bankruptcy of the firm as "being cancelled," and at the end of the episode Alan remarks to Denny, "Hell, you'll probably outlive us all. We'll be dead and buried and you'll still be kicking, doing Priceline commericals." William Shatner, who plays Denny, plays himself in Priceline commercials. Likewise, in episode 5.11, Carl Sack is arguing before Judge Brown regarding the lack of programming on TV suitable for adults over 50 when he remarks, "The only show on TV with starring roles over 50 is Bo--." At that, Sack points at the cameras and says, "Well, I can't say the rest...it'll break that wall." At the end of the same episode Denny and Alan are on the balcony referring to their date with the Supreme Court the following week as a "Grand Finale" with a special 9 o'clock start time, talking about how their Supreme Court trial should be a TV show then complaining that the network wouldn't promote them anyways. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Like TV only smarter. You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
