Comments on: Heard today on somebody’s very large flat screen

By: shula

shula — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:45:38 +0000

Looks like time for me to get Boston Legal out from the vid shop.

Better late than never…

By: brownie

brownie — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 12:03:34 +0000

oh you sweet thing. however, I was merely intrigued that soaps might be funny and maybe I should look; so I guugled “Wendy the cow” and there it was. total no brainer. I may have even seen that episode, but the memory just merged into all the other insane plots of the show.
May I commend your recall of the overheard lines.
Denny Crane loves you too.

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Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:13:37 +0000

[...] to go back to work, so I don’t know how that panned out. Update 1 November: Brownie has it totally sussed – and I mean completely. Yougenius! [...]

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:10:11 +0000

Many, many ways. Please ahem, steer the conversation away from that. Otherwise I’m going to conclude you’re just full of bull.

Brownie, I’ll say it again: genius. Dwight Biddle?!

By: TimT

TimT — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 10:05:27 +0000

Including the cow in the court case would be taking their beef to a whole new level…

Ahem.

Anyway, according to Steve here, in Bali if a man is caught having sex with a cow, the cow must, according to law, be drowned. That’s wrong in so many ways!

By: brownie

brownie — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 05:59:31 +0000

it was, of course, the brilliant Boston Legal, Series 2, Episode 7 ‘Truly, Madly, Deeply’

It’s not a cult show for nothing.

Written by …. David E. Kelley

Dwight Biddle: Well it’s more what I’ve gotten into I suppose. I strayed.
Shirley Schmidt: You? Well, I, I, I can’t pretend I’m not shocked. Even so, infidelity isn’t grounds for annulment. There’s something you’re not telling me.
Dwight Biddle: I strayed with Wendy. You’ve met Wendy
Shirley Schmidt: Wendy. Your cow?
Dwight Biddle: We became very close. One night I’d had a bit to drink I suppose. Jeanie and I had been a little estranged and…
Shirley Schmidt: You strayed with livestock?

Dwight Biddle: Well, Jeanie looks a little like a cow. You see? I fell in love with Wendy because she reminded me of you.
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Jeanie Biddle: A lot of restrictions? It’s not like I set of ground rules. But limiting yourself to a single species is one of them. Our species, Dwight.
Dwight Biddle: I broke it off.

Wendy
For our music fans, as you know, DEK likes to toy with musical ironies. Toward the end of this episode, while Dwight Biddle poignantly released his love for Wendy, the cow, and recommitted to Jeanie, his cow wife, the pet sounds [haha] of the Beach Boys’ “Wendy” played, underlining the angst. For a limited time, you can listen to a streaming version of the song on our home page embedded player.
Wendy, Wendy what went wrong
Oh so wrong
We went together for so long…

By: Oz Ozzie

Oz Ozzie — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 04:51:11 +0000

I like annulment. It’s kind of like prosecuting someone on a law that didn’t exist at the time of the crime of which they are accused. I especially like the notion that children retrospectively become illegitimate. And back in the days when my mum was small, she got extra beatings since her foster father believed she was illegitimate.

Count me in the group that thinks this whole thing is both hypocrisy and a legal stupidity.

By: Helen

Helen — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:48:03 +0000

Well, you learn something new every day. But I'm sorry, bestiality isn't included in the list of grounds for annulment. That will be the next plot twist as wife finds out she has to divorce him instead - with the cow as cow-respondent.

By: Caroline

Caroline — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 01:30:22 +0000

It was Wendy who wanted the annulment. Too right too.

B & teh B eh? Hmm. Well anyway, there’s been a lot of it about apparently.

By: brownie

brownie — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 13:18:04 +0000

Tim’s correct and I’m ringing the RSPCA

the poor cow

(and the Kaths n Kyms buy big flat power-sucking screens to better see dross like that?)