Law and Order: Search and Destroy

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TNT has fuX0red things up a lot by adding extra commericals though, a number of scenes have lost a lot of their drama as a result - this makes the most difference during the second half (which in my house we call "the order part," as distinct from the first half which is "the law part," even though technically speaking the cops-and-robbers half is the "order" part and the lawyers-and-judges part is the "law" part), when scenes between McCoy and cagey defendants rely largely on Sam Waterston's great (if sometimes phoned-in) ability to ramp up his outrage.

I love this show so much and only I know the true lyrics to the theme song, because I wrote them but it is a big secret

J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 10 July 2003 14:50 (twenty years ago) link

Oh my sweet lord, the idea of the theme song having lyrics just caused me to burst out laughing here at my work desk. That would just be so awful and great.

NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:18 (twenty years ago) link

well the opening line which runs along with the up-the-scale "da-da-da-dum-dummmm" is "Law and Order show," you can probably figure out the rest from there

J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:19 (twenty years ago) link

John do tell the rest. ..

I watch this show every time it's on however I'm starting to not see any more reruns that I haven't already seen. :(

I love D'Onfrio. Rosemary knows this. I'd like to do some illegal things to him. . .

That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:21 (twenty years ago) link

I'd like to do illegal things to him too, but most of them are illegal because they would result in him being fucking dead.

Just kidding. I don't hate him that much, just find him mildly annoying.

NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:30 (twenty years ago) link

oh Nick yr just playa-hatin' cause he is HAWWTT.

That Girl (thatgirl), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:35 (twenty years ago) link

is that the guy in svu? god he unnerves me

i knew svu sucked a big dick when i noticed they were filming things from outside the perspective of the "law" or "order" peeps...formalism rules u r all gay

jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

Jess OTM. As the theme song says in the bridge:

First comes the law part,
then comes the order part

I mean you can't be changing the show to make it deviate from its theme-song's statement of purpose

J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:55 (twenty years ago) link

Yeah, that threw me off the first time I saw it. I was like "Huh? What?"

NA. (Nick A.), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link

i tricked nancy into thinking that the band who did the seinfeld theme song did the law and order theme song*

*this may in fact be true

jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:57 (twenty years ago) link

also, night court

jess (dubplatestyle), Thursday, 10 July 2003 15:59 (twenty years ago) link

and CI has villains ferkrissakes. lame!

g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 10 July 2003 16:17 (twenty years ago) link

john at OUR house we call them the order part and the law part but only after we have first called them the law part and the order part and then corrected ourselves once we say 'order part' and realize that we are talking about the lawyers and technically the cops are doing the order and the lawyers are doing the law.

see, it's a very complex show.

gff you would be rohm's bitch if she ever asked and you know it.

Josh (Josh), Thursday, 10 July 2003 19:54 (twenty years ago) link

NA, I think what That Girl and I would want to do to him would just involve fucking....

I like SVU 'cause my house made a guest appearance on it.

rosemary (rosemary), Thursday, 10 July 2003 23:18 (twenty years ago) link

shit dude I'd be a Shiffbitch if he wanted.

g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Thursday, 10 July 2003 23:36 (twenty years ago) link

lenny brisco VS jack mccoy FITE

Elmo Oxygen (elmo oxygen), Thursday, 10 July 2003 23:59 (twenty years ago) link

I DONT WANT TO GIVE UP TV

jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:11 (twenty years ago) link

Jess why are you giving up TV, again?

J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:18 (twenty years ago) link


i tricked nancy into thinking that the band who did the seinfeld theme song did the law and order theme song*

i saw the guy who did the seinfeld theme on entertainment tonight once and he was just one guy in a little home studio and he was creepy cuz he reminded me of that creepy mouthsounds guy with the white hair who was big in the 70's on That's Incredible and who now is on a kid's show on PBS. He's even creepier now cuz he's really old and he is still making icky noises with his mouth. That seinfeld guy musta been the mouthsounds guy's biggest fan.
the law & order theme rocks cuz it's got funky bass and clarinet action.

scott seward, Friday, 11 July 2003 02:20 (twenty years ago) link

i am giving up tv cuz for the past week or so i've been housesitting, and these people have the fat big screen with tivo and pitcher-in-pitcher action and like crazy satellite cable with 9000 channels

it's probably good for me to only have access to cable one week every 6 months

jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:26 (twenty years ago) link

jess you endearing young NPR rockist, I loves yer and will keep you posted on the increasingly rich texts that are L&O reruns

J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:28 (twenty years ago) link

for the first two days i was here i just sat in the chair and flipped back and forth between m2, cartoon network, and vh1 classic.

seriously, two days.

jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:30 (twenty years ago) link

give that shit another two weeks and you'd be all like "you won't believe what they're sellin' on Home Shopping Network Today!"

J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:34 (twenty years ago) link

i was flashing back on the darkest weekends of high school when i could kill a whole day and night with a bag of cheetos and a six pack of coke and the remote

jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 July 2003 02:40 (twenty years ago) link

jess i will send you my dvds if you want!!!

i have totally made my summer roommate hooked on law and order -- he is unearthing tivoable episodes that i haven't even seen on my to do list. tivo + law and order triumverate = HOURS AND HOURS SUCKED AWAY. although i do agree about the butcher jobs tnt has done. hey weren't they also supposed to do that advertising-after-the-fact paint-on stuff, like putting diet coke cans in briscoe's hands when they were really parthocups?

today they showed the episode where jerry orbach was the counsel for the defense btw!! & this is still pretty u &k

maura (maura), Friday, 11 July 2003 04:38 (twenty years ago) link

tnt isn't on my basic cable!!!

but i still watch plenty law and order and the one based on Mailer was so tops.

Sterling Clover (s_clover), Friday, 11 July 2003 04:43 (twenty years ago) link

Search the one based on the Puffy trial where Sam Waterston goes "we got dissed!"

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 July 2003 05:05 (twenty years ago) link

mike post wrote the music for the theme song. other music-contributions of his, aside from the spinoffs of course, have appeared on:
nypd blue (that's pretty obvous)
l.a. law
silk stalkings
doogie howser md
booker
hardcastle and mccormick
the a-team (!)
CHiPs (!!)
the rockford files (ok i think i'm sensing a theme here)

... no seinfeld though, no night court either. actually it looks like the guy who wrote the theme to night court wrote the theme to, awww yeah, barney miller, aka one of the top ten tv themes of ever (right behind 'good times' and 'taxi' -- one of my favorite nyc moments so far has been driving over the 59th st bridge in a taxi while the theme from taxi was playing on the radio and the sun was just beginning to come up. NEW YORK I LOVE YOU)


also he wrote music for cop rock!!!!!

maura (maura), Friday, 11 July 2003 05:21 (twenty years ago) link

he in that last sentence = mike post there, sorry. aim crashed and my world crashed with it

maura (maura), Friday, 11 July 2003 05:21 (twenty years ago) link

Mike Post rules. on rockford alone!

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 July 2003 05:23 (twenty years ago) link

the one where jerry orbach plays the lawyer is so fucked!

nancy has made a shirt that reads "i (heart) jerry orbach"

jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 July 2003 07:41 (twenty years ago) link

I want a shirt like that. I heart him greatly. He can sing, you know.

(is that episode from the early days before Orbach played the detective?)

(you know what he's great in? Crimes and Misdemeanours)

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:41 (twenty years ago) link

yeah, it was from the paul sorvino days...it's pretty funny to see michael m. going up against jerry o. in the courtroom...he doesnt really pull off the hardass lawyer role, but perhaps that's because i'm too used to him as the sardonic ex-alcoholic cop

jess (dubplatestyle), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:49 (twenty years ago) link

(I collect Jerry Orbach records)

rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link

Michael M. is a certified nutbar. He keeps trying to run for mayor in Canadian cities, or something like that.

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:51 (twenty years ago) link

(someone give me Chicago on vinyl, please)

rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:53 (twenty years ago) link

They release movies on vinyl now?

NA. (Nick A.), Friday, 11 July 2003 15:56 (twenty years ago) link

No, the original Broadway cast recording, silly.

rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 11 July 2003 16:01 (twenty years ago) link

Wait, they adapted Chicago into a Broadway play?

NA. (Nick A.), Friday, 11 July 2003 17:22 (twenty years ago) link

Haha!

Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 11 July 2003 17:26 (twenty years ago) link

L&O is probably one of the only programs on the air that I have never seen an episode of. I don't know why -- I guess I never got around to it.

Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 11 July 2003 17:30 (twenty years ago) link

L+O makes me so happy. Somewhere on the web there is an outdated(Moriarty-era) drinking game that can lead to very entertaining reruns.

adam (adam), Friday, 11 July 2003 17:59 (twenty years ago) link

i miss angie harmon. her voice rox0r

http://portfolio.iu.edu/rmatthew/a.jpg

black plastic (black plastic), Friday, 11 July 2003 18:16 (twenty years ago) link

She was a robot.

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 July 2003 18:39 (twenty years ago) link

a robot w/ a nice rack & a sexy voice, tho!

black plastic (black plastic), Friday, 11 July 2003 19:30 (twenty years ago) link

Elisabeth Rohm makes me miss Angie Harmon.

rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 11 July 2003 19:33 (twenty years ago) link

Jill Hennessy come back plz plz plz!

James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 July 2003 20:09 (twenty years ago) link

God, she was the best.

s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 11 July 2003 20:24 (twenty years ago) link

she's a Dream Teamer

James Blount (James Blount), Friday, 11 July 2003 20:27 (twenty years ago) link

I HATE THIS SHOW AND ALL OF ITS ILK WITH A BURNING PASSION. BURNING! PASSION! I HATE THE HANDHELD CAMERAWORK (OH THIS IS JUST A SNATCH OF REAL LIFE WHOOPS THERE GOES THE CAMERA OH GOT IT BACK AGAIN HAHA) COUPLED WITH THE MANNERED "REALISTIC" DIALOGUE AND THE WOULD-BE WORLD-WEARY APPROACH TO VIOLENCE LIKE OH HERE'S A DEAD BODY QUICK PAN DOWN TO IT OH MAN WE'VE SEEN THIS A MILLION TIMES LET'S GET SOME COFFEE AND QUIZ THE WAITRESS ON WHAT SHE SAW IN THIS LABORED INTENSE CLIPPED BULLSHIT HARDASS SPEAK. FUCK THIS SHOW.

amateurist (amateurist), Friday, 11 July 2003 20:28 (twenty years ago) link

watching season 13 and I've got to say I miss my stabler

frederik b. godt (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link

two weeks pass...

This is as good a time as any to tell you that my dog sings along to the Law & Order theme song every time he hears it pic.twitter.com/4HNVPWrzmE

— Peter Schultz (@pete_schultz) March 19, 2020

... (Eazy), Friday, 20 March 2020 04:43 (four years ago) link

lol

Dan S, Friday, 20 March 2020 04:46 (four years ago) link

Stoked

COVID and the Gang (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 1 April 2020 02:45 (four years ago) link

"in the process of determining a verdict, lives often hang in the balance"

mark s, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:07 (four years ago) link

comments about how people underestimate how unhinged Stabler was seem to forget the Dick Wolf Chicago shows, where it's revealed that some Good Cops are going to get in trouble because they like to torture people for information and confessions, but their methods got some results

can't speak to the fire and hospital shows attached to that spinoff other than the crossovers because it's obvious they concentrated all the casting and writing on the cop show

mh, Wednesday, 1 April 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link

Wooo Gary Busey

où sont les threads d'antan? (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 14 April 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link

four months pass...

via voodoo chili, this made me think of maura
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOxAlfvpQmI

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 12 September 2020 17:32 (three years ago) link

i can’t watch this show anymore :( oh well

maura, Sunday, 13 September 2020 01:15 (three years ago) link

I’m watching it right now

one of the few episodes where Van Buren leaves the office because a case involves someone she knows and she’s just relentless

mh, Sunday, 13 September 2020 02:40 (three years ago) link

yeah all the stuff this summer just curdled it for me

maura, Sunday, 13 September 2020 14:09 (three years ago) link

I'm going to sound like I've been living under a rock but what was it specifically that ruined this for you? I feel like we've been living in such a hellscape the past six months anyway

boxedjoy, Sunday, 13 September 2020 14:29 (three years ago) link

It first aired 30 years ago today.

Notes on Scampo (tokyo rosemary), Sunday, 13 September 2020 15:06 (three years ago) link

blam blam

mark s, Sunday, 13 September 2020 16:34 (three years ago) link

More the law than the order I would imagine

Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Sunday, 13 September 2020 19:22 (three years ago) link

one year passes...

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that L+O: Organized Crime's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!

i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 26 January 2022 20:56 (two years ago) link

seven months pass...

John Oliver vs Dick Wolf:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNy6F7ZwX8I

but also fuck you (unperson), Monday, 12 September 2022 19:16 (one year ago) link


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