B.A.

"Can't We All Get a Lung?"


Cast: James Spader, Julie Bowen, Mark Valley, Rene Auberjonois, Candice Bergen, William Shatner, Parker Posey, Marisa Coughlan.

Director(s): Mike Listo.
Producer(s): David E. Kelley, Bill D'Elia.
Writer(s): David E. Kelley, Corinne Brinkerhoff .

Original Airdate: September 19, 2006.

Crane, Poole & Schmidt

Red Dog

My favorite network show returns.

As for the preview,

vegasbaby

good to see mike fox still working. i hear he's in pretty bad shape, though.

crateriko

Tough seeing MJF tonight... good show tonight, though. The Shirley Schmidt doll was golden.

B.A.

They need to give Allan a story-line or two that doesn't involve Hands.

Shirley Schmidt 2 was really creepy.

Red Dog

What did Denny call the doll - Shirley Schmidt-hole?

I'm a big MJF fan, but I just don't care for that character or storyline.

Sucks that Marlene left. She should be a regular.

Cusm

You mean Shirley Schmidt-Ho.

Great episode - but how did the cops know about hands and the surrogate? It was not like they advertised where they were and she was retired so they should not have been staking her house/office out.

mdc3000

Schmidthoe was hilarious! Not enough Denny, but glad to have this show back on! Great stuff... and I agree that MJF was looking pretty rough and that storyline is kind of played out but I do like him anyhow... liked having judge Brown back and the "Nansy Pansy" reference. A good premiere.

MATT

Red Dog

Nice.

I always remembered the Judge's catchphrase as "Namby Pamby." Did they change it or is my memory bad.

B.A.

It's "namby pamby".

Ranger

we saw denny move up to yet another level of sleaze with that doll.

wish something would happen with alan shore and his assistant, melissa, I think. i guess they're saving that for later.

not a lot of laughs with this one and alan's speech about his mother was creepy.

TabascoKid

But where, oh where, was "Denny Crane!"

I always enjoy it when he does that.

TK

Patman

It's good to have this show back for the zany it brings week-in, week-out. The Schmidt-SchmidtHol staredown was a classic scene.

The ending coda was a little sad, perhaps opening the door for both to explore true intimacy with other ladies this season.

mdc3000

When he first appeared it was Namby Pamby, but then in order to upstage him in a case, they used the WORSE insult NANSY PANSY, which was the reference last night.

MATT

Decker

I enjoyed it pretty much, but I agree that the MJF storyline is pretty played out. How many times will he be coming and then leaving anyway? God, how I love Parker Posey. She could have made Yes Dear worth watching. BTW : there were two of Christopher Guest's regular players in that episode (Posey and the insanely busy Jane Lynch as the surrogate).

Loved the preview for the next episode :

Chew

I wanted a Armin/Rene scene where they found a way to slip in "Quark!".

MrX

Just had a chance to watch this.

Denny banging the doll had me

Decker

From behind, no less.

kvrdave

I hope they don't do this type of thing too often, personally. Once in great while is funny, but otherwise it breaks my suspended disbelief, and I enjoy that.

TheBigDave

Maybe I missed something, but it seemed that they really toned down the Bush-bashing. There was Alan's rant about the DA trying to be the morality police. But where he normally would have thrown in references to Conservatives, the Religious Right or the "Current Administration", his comments instead seemed to be directed just at the DA. Was there something else I missed?

Patman

It's just the first episode, they have all season to ridicule the current administration.

TheBigDave

I'm hoping they keep the Bush-bashing to a minimum this season. If I wanted to hear a bunch of ranting and raving about how Republicans are responsible for everything that's wrong in this world, I'd change the channel to MSNBC.

mikehunt

they have armin shimmerman on and don't have him in a scene with rene?