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Law & Order gripe
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Posted by: kiljoy

The deleted thread about Criminal Intent made reference to whether or not last week's episodes were the first to feature a recurring plot. I mentioned that it did not, that Larry Miller was featured in two Law & Order episodes, about a year or two apart, about a nightclub owner who killed his first wife, got off, then proceded to kill his next wife. The thread got me thinking about a gripe that's been festering in me for a while.

Since I started watching SVU and CI this season, I've noticed that the same people in one show, will frequently be on one of the other shows within a week or two as a different character, even as another perpeprator. I don't mind seeing someone from a L&O seven years ago show up in a new episode as someone different. Hell, even Jerry Orbach had one episode as a defense attorney before joining the cast in 1993. But the same dude, like a week later? I'm always thinking, "Didn't this dude just get 25 years for killing some chick last week?"

Any other Law & Order fanatics bothered by this?

Tony

Posted by: David Platt

Funny you should mention the Larry Miller appearances and bring up this topic (very minor spoiler for tonight's L&O below):

Spoiler Alert! (highlight to read)

Larry Miller will appear on one of tonight's L&O eps-- as HIMSELF!

Posted by: dfbills

Yeah, this definitely bugs me. There are more than enough actors in NYC to play perps.

Posted by: Edmund

The actor who played the hippy cop on Nash Bridges, he suddenly showed up on a 7 or 8 dramas this year, as a bad guy.

Posted by: dfbills

There is always some degree of crossover- cross show extras is not a big deal, but repeat extras in one series is just lame.

Posted by: kiljoy

Thanks for the spoiler tags, DPlatt, I had to into work early last night, and couldn't watch the season finale. I will read your post tonight, after my g/f and I watch last night's ep.

Tony

Posted by: kyote

Ok, this isn't a gripe, just something I noticed.

Watching the 300th episode last night, when the detectives where at the college and "whats-his-name" wanted to see the laptop with the wireless internet, the web page that was currently up was "Yah" but of course it looked exactly like "yahoo."

Later, the same detective said he "googled" for that kids name. Pretty interesting that they couldn't say or show "yahoo" but of course they can say "googled." Of course, now days, "googled" is more of a generic term for searching for something so that's probably what happened.

Posted by: LeVich34

Not Law and Order, but a similar gripe about characters coming back on as different characters on the same show. My TiVo picked up an episode of Fresh Prince of Bel-Air today (please, please... keep the editorial comments to yourself... but it was a suggestion) that was from when Will Smith's character was going to his high school prom. He stood up his date (Oscar nominated Queen Latifah) to go with the hot, airheady girl who was played by..... Nia Long. Nia Long, in a different role and years later, became Will Smith's wife..... Different character, different name, same show, same actress. Kinda like the above, I guess

Posted by: JTAnderson

It seems like you just need to look for the most recognizable actor name in the L&O guest star credits to know who the most significant perp of the week will be. (Unless that actor turns out to be the defense lawyer of the week.)

Posted by: Maui

The captain on Law and Order also appeared in a first season episode as a distraught mother or something like that.

Posted by: kiljoy

quote:
Originally posted by Maui
The captain on Law and Order also appeared in a first season episode as a distraught mother or something like that.

You mean the leiutenant. The captain's a dude! But you're right, she did.

Also, tying in with the original, now deleted thread, last night's L&O's tied together quite tenuously.

And how 'bout that Larry Miller thing?

Saw the Yahoo/Google thing, but assumed Ed Googled from the precinct.

The guest star is always the perp. The defense attorneys are pretty regular. Getting back to the original topic, Courtney Vance played a perp in a second season ep, now he's the DA on CI. Small world, NYC :rolleyes:

Tony

Posted by: kyote

Your right, I figured he probably did google from the precinct. I thought it was more interesting that they blotted out part of the yahoo name but it was ok to say google.

I wonder, with the number of people saying they "googled" whatever, if it will become a generic term for searching. Something along the way it used to be normal for a person to say they "xeroxed" something referring to photocopying?

quote:
Originally posted by kiljoy
You mean the leiutenant. The captain's a dude! But you're right, she did.

Also, tying in with the original, now deleted thread, last night's L&O's tied together quite tenuously.

And how 'bout that Larry Miller thing?

Saw the Yahoo/Google thing, but assumed Ed Googled from the precinct.

The guest star is always the perp. The defense attorneys are pretty regular. Getting back to the original topic, Courtney Vance played a perp in a second season ep, now he's the DA on CI. Small world, NYC :rolleyes:

Tony

Posted by: skearney00

quote:
Originally posted by kyote
Your right, I figured he probably did google from the precinct. I thought it was more interesting that they blotted out part of the yahoo name but it was ok to say google.

I wonder, with the number of people saying they "googled" whatever, if it will become a generic term for searching. Something along the way it used to be normal for a person to say they "xeroxed" something referring to photocopying?

God, I hope not. Saying you googled something should mean that you did a search using the Google engine. Using another engine will end up with different results. Unlike xeroxing something where, no matter what copier you use, for all intents and purposes you get the same result.

...And to stay on topic. No it doesn't bother me..as long as they are different shows. It would be annoying to see the same actor repeated playing different characters on the same show though.

Posted by: MauriAnne

Speaking of the season finale... in the first hour they spoke about 4 murders and 1 kidnapping. I couldn't count 4 murders ---- there was the jogging man, the woman found close to the jogging man who was shot in the head, and the man who was run over by his wife. Who was the fourth murder?

Posted by: Corey140

I thought the season finale was at 10pm not the 9pm show.

Posted by: MauriAnne

Well.. they sort of blended one show into the other and advertised the season finale as 2 hours even though there were unique openings and credits for each hour. So... I guess technically the 2nd hour was the finale. My question was about the 1st hour.

thanks..... A

Posted by: Tori

quote:
Originally posted by kyote
I wonder, with the number of people saying they "googled" whatever, if it will become a generic term for searching. Something along the way it used to be normal for a person to say they "xeroxed" something referring to photocopying?

There have actually been mutiple articles and discussions about the use of google as a verb.

I haven't noticed an actor being reused so close toa past appearance that it bothered me in the L&O series. We do always say "I recognize him/her" about actors as our way of predicting the whodunit.

-Tori