1 / 4 century in the past, Completely satisfied Days followers in all probability bugged out when their beloved Henry Winkler performed a dentist with a cockroach fetish in a September 1999 episode of ABC’s The Observe.
However good luck discovering that episode now. David E. Kelley’s hit authorized drama, the finale of which turned 20 this yr, isn’t streaming wherever — after Hulu dropped it final September — which means viewers can’t revisit that case or any of the opposite weird plot traces under.
Listed here are our picks for The Observe’s wildest circumstances — and we’ve given every a title that may sound acquainted!
Monkey Enterprise
In Season 2’s “Intercourse, Lies and Monkeys,” Jimmy (Michael Badalucco) defends a person who was fired as a result of his physique hair reminded his boss of a primate’s. Instance dialogue: “It was arduous for me to get different work ’reason behind what he mentioned. Arduous for me to even go on interviews, ’trigger each time I look within the mirror now, I see it. … A monkey. An enormous monkey.”
The Honeymooners
After a honeymoon gone awry, Ellenor’s (Camryn Manheim) cousin and the cousin’s new husband search to sue their journey agent in Season 2’s “The Means”: Instance dialogue: “What about my emotional stress and bodily hardship? On the primary day, Myra tripped on an inflatable seahorse. That’s how she pulled the hamstring. … We by no means even acquired to consummate our marriage.”
The Exorcist
In Season 2’s “Race With the Satan,” Bobby (Dylan McDermott) should defend his priest, Father Patrick Martin (Robert Prosky), after a girl dies mid-exorcism. Instance dialogue: “I used to be praying aggressively and demanding within the identify of God that Devil rid himself of her physique, and he or she began to jerk a bit … and he or she began screaming obscenities.”
Flushed Away
In Season 2’s “In Deep,” Lindsay (Kelli Williams) takes the case of 1 Kyle Peabody (Jack Kehler), who has 11 a number of citations as a result of his bathroom breaks the 1.6-gallon-per flush laws. Instance dialogue: “Nonetheless, if an individual had been required to flush thrice with a purpose to empty the bowl of all… stays, the statutory intent of the laws would clearly be undermined.”
So I Married an Axe Assassin
In Season 2’s “Axe Assassin” — a part of a crossover with Ally McBeal — Bobby groups up with Ally McBeal (Calista Flockhart) and Billy Thomas (Gil Bellows) to defend Maria Hanson (Donna Murphy), a girl accused of axing her husband to demise… and whose hypnotherapist affords an evidence from one among Maria’s previous lives. Instance dialogue: “She was speaking about stuff from the 1800s with meticulous element … Lastly, I requested her her identify. … I do know it sounds loopy, however she informed me she was Lizzie Borden.”
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Dream Lover
In Season 3’s “Decide and Jury,” Decide Roberta Kittleson (Holland Taylor) pulls Bobby into her chambers to tell him she’s considering of recusing herself from his case since she simply had a intercourse dream about him. Instance dialogue: “About six weeks in the past, I had what I might contemplate to be a particularly erotic dream… and also you had been in it. I gained’t go into the main points besides to say that you just had been fairly effectively represented.”
A Bug’s Life
Season 4 kicks off with the premiere “Free Dental,” through which Dr. Henry Olson (Winkler) is accused of murdering one among his dental sufferers — and has to disclose that he has a sexual fetish involving the squashing of cockroaches. Instance dialogue: “She proposed that she would do that for me in change without cost enamel cleanings.”
Superman Returns
After Invoice Munce (Kevin Dunn), one among Jimmy’s previous pals, drops from the window of a psychological well being institute and kills somebody under on impression, his spouse tells Jimmy that Invoice believes he’s a sure Kryptonian superhero in Season 6’s “Man and Superman.” Instance dialogue: “I don’t suppose he fell out that window. I believe he was making an attempt to fly.”
Hannibal Rising
Cannibalistic serial killer Lawrence O’Malley (Christopher Shyer) believes he’s Hannibal Lecter in Season 6’s “Eat and Run” — and, worse, he begins calling Lindsay “Clarice.” Instance dialogue: “What occurred to his different lawyer? There was a battle. Your shopper bit off his nostril.”
The Flash
In Season 7’s “Of Thee I Sing,” the agency takes on the case of Terry Pender (Jon Cryer) a flasher who claims he’s delivering messages of political protest with messages printed on… himself. Instance dialogue: “It’s no secret intercourse sells. I imply, advertisers use it on a regular basis. I simply figured the easiest way to place my message throughout was to place it on my penis.”
