Do you have a favorite episode of Law and Order: SVU?

I like the one where Jennifer Love Hewitt plays the rape victim that's been stalked/raped for 20 years. She was surprisingly good in it and the story line was extremely creepy.

The one where the chick got revenge on the guys who raped her by shoving game board pieces up their asses.

My 3 favorites are the one with Richard Thomas with syphilis, The one where Chad Lowe ends up stabbing Margot Kidder to death with hat pins, and the one where Jason Ritter and Ian Somerholder are brothers who have sex with each other and go on a killing spree.

Piqued. Chad Lowe plays a guy whose attachment to his mom (Margo Kidder) drives him crazy, and eventually, to murder.

The episode where Martin Short plays a psychic who is a rapist/murderer.

"Best sex I ever had"

My favorite one is where a little girl has been kidnapped and she somehow manages to call the cops and is connected with Olivia. The girl doesn't know where she's being held. There are a numer of phone calls back and forth which are interrupted by the kidnapper. It turns out that he did something to scramble the signal so the call can't be traced. The poor kid keeps calling back, asking for "Oleebia! Oleebia!"

It was just kind of over-the-top. I don't remember what the motivation for the kidnapping was, but it was one of those episodes that brought up lots of angst for Oleebia.

"The one where Chad Lowe ends up stabbing Margot Kidder to death with hat pins, and the one where Jason Ritter and Ian Somerholder are brothers who have sex with each other and go on a killing spree."

Gotta love this show's low-key, non-melodramatic plotlines!

The one that was ripped straight from the headlines.

R6,

That episode is "911." It was the one which won Mariska Hargitay her Emmy for the 2005-06 season. It aired in October 2005.

I was just about to chime in with a vote for "911," but I see it's already represented here. A very different sort of episode for the series--virtually all "Law" and no "Order."

I have two favorites: the one where the child gets molested and the one where the woman gets raped. Talk about entertainment!

I like most of the episodes right up until Kathy had Eliot's fifth baby. Then the quality of the writing became wildly uneven.

Didn't they switch writers or producers at some point?

I hate hate HATED the shows that featured Olivia's brother.

The episodes that featured Marcia Gay Harden as Star Morrison, the undercover white supremacist were among the best.

The one with the closeted football player who later on is said to be suffering from brain trauma

That episode with Carol Burnett

The one that contains a red herring and an over-the-top, campy guest star.

I like the one where the smarty-pants lawyer asks the decrepit old woman eyewitness if she can see the mural that is across the courtroom. (The scene was set-up like a similar scene in "My Cousin Vinny".) The old lady says it is a painting of Central Park (or wherever). The lawyer then asks her if she had earlier seen the mural up close or some such thing, and she replied "No, I read the title on the legend in the far corner." Ka-boom, take THAT, smarty pants!

I think this was when Michael Moriarity was still the assistant DA. He was my favorite.

The rich kid who infects girls w/aids on purpose whose grandpa disowns him and a victim shoots acid at him in the courtroom.

The one where the chick from greys anatomy lures her little sister to NYC rapes and kills her to please her boyfriend and tries to play victim but then her true colors come out

[quote] I don't remember what the motivation for the kidnapping was,

Basic pedophilia.

No. Actually, I don't.

I dimly recall an episode where a frat guy finds out that his girlfriend's his sister AFTER they fucked and he puked when he finds out.

Anyone else remember? What episode was that?

I loved [italic]Law & Order: Special Victims Unit[/italic]'s fifth season, 2003-04, which consisted of "Loss" (the send-off for Stephanie March) and "Abomination" (with George Segal and Jonathan Tucker as a father and son who have their secrets even from each other).

In the fourth season, 2002-03, there was an episode about murders/attempted murders in a nursing home. It featured the wonderful Mary Kay Place.

The tenth season, 2008-09, had an episode with Swoosie Kurtz as a corrupt judge. It was good to see her play nasty.

While many are talking up Patricia Arquette for the Oscars, she was excellent as an aging prostitute in "Dream Deferred." It aired during the 14th season, 2012-13, and it's a reminder why Arquette, sometimes underrated, is great.

The guy who dumped his family for this alluring younger golddigger who continued fucking her druggie brother on the side. The guy finally sealed his fate by murdering the brother while telling the girl now we can finally be together. Three guesses on the girls reaction.

The female psychologist who was fucking her 14-yr-old boy patient and kept leading Olivia on geese chases. When she is finally dragged out of court in handcuffs she screams at her boy, whose meds she had been administering to control him, "I'LL WAIT FOR YOU! I LOVE YOU!"

The astronaut who helps them chase geese because, duh, he did it (was that Babs' husband?)

Assorted ones with rock stars, tween models, stage actresses, and egomaniacal newscasters all being or posing as victims

All camp.

Your girlfriend is a tranny and she's trying to avoid your touching her down there until she gets the operation. In order to do so, she engages in a web of deceit that gets her in a lot of hot water. The show's big moral dilemma surfaced at the end regarding jail gender assignment. As expected, it didn't end well.

I think this guy also puked when he found out - or am I thinking of Brian Griffith?

Tom Skerritt as the corrupt judge who gets his ass handed to him by the ADA at the end.

Speaking of camp, I proudly and unashamedly keep a list of the franchise's famously cheesy, made-up location/event/brand names.

Some of my latest additions - Tequila Chito's in Brooklyn, Fashionella Magazine, and Bodega La Poquita.

My favorite: The Nut Hut (peep show joint)

I love the one in which Helen Lawson (in a wheel-chair) proves to be the mastermind behind a seemingly drug-dealer hit on a much younger woman.

She should have been nominated for an Emmy.

She's still very much mobile, BTW.

Teddy.

I'm with [R13]. The Marcia Gay Hardin episodes (there are three) have been in syndication often on TBS recently. She is wonderful, and the first and third are fantastic, not only because of her but because (for TV) they are intricately worked out, and full of surprises with stunning reveals at the end.

Yes, there's plenty of camp, and even more melodrama in general, but out of every six or seven there is an episode that's interesting, surprising and even moving (there's one where an unloved son has gone along with his vicious pervert father to gain his approval. They are both arrested at the end, but even as he's led away, the father ferociously puts down his son, who keeps saying, "I love you, Dad, I love you..." It's very well built to and movingly acted.)

And I agree with [R14], the Carol Burnett episode, with a terrific and twitchy Matthew Lillard, is irresistible even if not really surprising (though Carol's vicious dismissal of Matthew at the end is wonderful).

There's also a pretty twisty episode with a great Michael Learned and the fabulous looking and persuasive acting Eric von Detten (a good candidate for a WHET thread) with one of their best (and maybe funniest) red herring opens.

There's also one with Kyle MacLachlan as a shrink whose son is killed by a ten year old monster -- the boy they cast is fabulous and Kyle with Meloni at his best are wonderful.

I'm a big Dann Florek fan and thought I'd miss him, but the latest episodes with changing staff in the squad and city bureaucracy/NYPD/civil service (I'm a NY civil service kid) stuff disrupting their operation is really true to form. Very well done, adds a new layer to the program.

[quote] The one with the closeted football player who later on is said to be suffering from brain trauma

Yeah, that one was good. The football player was hot, and I love when they talk about his semen being all over the murdered guy's apartment!

His boyfriend was cute, too.

I also like the other gay-themed episode with Tim Daly, who played a preacher with 10 kids.

A gay escort looking for PNP was found murdered, and the logical killer was thought to be the "closeted preacher," but it instead turned out to be the gay son.

I always watch these two eps whenver they're on.

The one with Lucie Arnaz playing Martha Stewart.

[quote]I think this guy also puked when he found out - or am I thinking of Brian Griffith?

No, the one I'm thinking about has a plotline where some fratboy was dating a girl for a while and somehow it came to light they had the same sperm donor dad or something, as an aside to the crime Benson and Stabler were investigating.

Brian Griffith had sex with Quagmire's dad post-surgery but didn't know until Stewie told him. There there were rivers of vomit.

The one that takes place at Hudson University.

A few I love:

Diane Neal plays a female rapist before she was A.D.A. Novak

Cynthia Nixon guest stars and has multiple personalities (and wins an Emmy)

Mark-Paul Gosselaer plays a gay porn bottom

OP, that is a great episode and Thomas was amazing. It is a heartbreaking episode as well. It is also one of my favorites and I try to catch it every time it's on.

Is there one staring Raul Esparza big Cuban bisexual cock? If so, that's my favorite !

The one where the murder victim was a student from Hudson University.

I actually like the episode where Jeremy Irons is a former sex addict who thinks he raped his daughter during an alcoholic blackout. Someone is raping women and the clinic where he treats sex addicts comes under scrutiny. It turns out, not one of the patients, but his right hand man is the rapist "curing" these women of their sexual dysfunction.

R20 Jane Seymour was puke kid's mom!

“Appearances” was my all-time favorite. Who doesn’t adore a cautionary tale of the misfortunes that tend to befall sassy little ingrates who can’t cramp roll to save their lives?

r23 r33 GRIFFIN, not Griffith.

r25 I can't remember -- what was their version of Grindr?

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The one where Ellen Burstyn plays Stabler's bipolar mother. Burstyn was heart-breaking (and won an Emmy, IIRC) and it brought out some genuinely moving acting from Chris Meloni. The scene on the sand was achingly sad.

I love the when Chris Meloni takes Billy Campbell to get his DNA tested and Billy gets naked behind the curtain. I always wanted Stabler to join him behind the curtain and just go to ever loving town on him.

Oops. I’m sorry. Anonymous Quickie was too early to be Grindr.

i tend to like the more ridiculous episodes...

One of my favorites is Cybil Shepherd is Paula Dean meets Trayvon Martin. Classic!

Christine Lahti as the drunken ADA getting humiliated in court was fun too.

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I was going to vote for "Oleeeebia!" because it is always on my mind, but there are so many.

I must include the episode I am in though, I have a small yet crucial role in a fairly recent episode adding to the unexpected ending. The entire episode is classic SVU fodder, and I was psyched when I read it. I can hold my head up high now as a NYC actor!

God, reading these descriptions, I remembered all those episodes and realized how hokey and God awful that show has been since 2007 or so. Remember Christine Lahti as a boozey ADA, or Mickey Milkovich from "Shameless" as a murderous lab technician?

OK.... Which is...? Dumbass R52.

R52, by any chance did you play a bartender/florist/barista/dry cleaner with the ability to shuffle a pile of papers for 1.2 seconds and exclaim “Ah! Here it is!” as you hand over a paper receipt?

If so, I think I’ve seen you...

The one Timmy was in, Pledge (2009).

The one where Olivia goes undercover as a prisoner to catch a rapist guard. So good!

[quote][R52]by any chance did you play a bartender/florist/barista/dry cleaner with the ability to shuffle a pile of papers for 1.2 seconds and exclaim “Ah! Here it is!” as you hand over a paper receipt?

No, I had a first and last name, and a few more lines than that, but thanks for the HI-LARITY! Don't stress though, I'm still a huge nobody!

On one hand, congratulations on getting more lines and a name (a last name at that!). On the other, the paper receipt being pulled right out from a foot-high stack is my favorite part of every episode.

The security-camera footage that always starts playing at exact moment the cocktail is roofied pales in comparison.

Well, r55, now that you mention those roles I will become obsessed with them and covet one!

I honestly think I will return as the same character I played before, I wasn't the guy who discovers the corpse after a night of carousing with the guys (I love those roles as well)!

I agree with some above. James Van Der Beek, when he slow danced and told a mother he’d killed the daughter.

Teddy, the young teen that did porn for gifts.

Henry Winkler, a psycho. Carol Burnett, so very excellent.

And Pablo Schreiber in a multi episode character that tortures Olivia. He also played PornStache in Orange Is The New Black.

Pablo Schreiber was fun the first time but they definitely milked that for way too long.

The GamerGate episode was hilarious.

We once had a "Let's Be" thread about SVU and it was hilarious, one of the best.

Debt: Ming-Na Wen plays an illegal Chinese immigrant who's trying to rescue her sister from the snakeheads who have pimped her out. Loren Dean appears as an immigration attorney who at first seems to be a good guy. But wait, here comes another plot twist. I like these two guest stars. They raise the quality of this episode.

For saddest episode, maybe the episode that starts with a little girl out on an apartment balcony who needs rescuing. The detectives think they're dealing with just another bad parent, but the mother who left her daughter alone shows signs of impairment. The detectives investigate the mother's background and learn not only is she a survivor of child sexual abuse, she's the unwitting star of infamous child porn. This eventually leads to court-ordered restitution that leads to mother and daughter perhaps starting a new life. I don't know the title of that episode. I just remember feeling so sorry for the character who was so damaged and didn't even know it at first. She was just trying to carry on with life, albeit very badly.

My favorite episode is, "Bedtime' from 2010. Jaclyn Smith as a former police detective, (perfect casting), along with Ann-Margret, who clearly wants Elliot to fuck her. The episode also includes, Morgan Fairchild, Susan Anton, along with Robert Newman of "Guiding Light'.

My first thought was definitely the Carol Burnett episode. Her performance and the script for both great. And that Christine lahti run of episodes also terrific. To be honest, though, I will watch any episode of that show no matter how many times I've seen it or how cheesy it is. There are only a handful of truly unwatchable episodes and almost all of them have been in the last 3 seasons. At this point it just feels like they run out of ideas. And good writers. But the episodes Mariska directs are, I'm sorry to say, the worst.

The "Oleebia" episode is a Datalounge classic. There was even a thread about it..

How could I forgot the best SVU website of all time at R51? It was AnotherYouniverse, home of Tawny Coppercuffs, Wit Billions, Smarty Culottes, and avatar sex clubs like Vixy Platinum's Underage Wonderstage.

Richie Kostner in "Bones" or was it "Bodies" --- too lazy to look up the title. "Survivor" with Karen Allen...so convoluted but it all made sense!

The one starring Elliot's butt on the boat dock.

I haven't watched SVU since the first season that had Danny Pino and the blonde chick whose name I can't remember. It just wasn't the same without Meloni. How many years ago was that, now?

R71 Yeah that was one of my favorites as well.

There's one with Milo Ventimiglia when he's in his early 20s. Damn hot.

The one where a woman who's a hardcore alcoholic wants to have an abortion because she can't stop drinking. She ends up being represented by Beverly D'Angelo and they go up against pro-life activist attorney Shirley Jones and the father.

Any episode with the delightful Judith Light.

I always liked the one where the girl pretends to be the long ago kidnapped daughter to this family. She's discovered to be a fraud and then it turns out that the real girl was murdered by her sister and stuck in a chimney all these years.

Also the one where the male stripper was raped by three women and Elliott basically says if you get hard it's not rape.

A prostitution bust involving underage girls turns up Lili Taylor, who claims she's just trying to find her daughter. She's an obsessed Canadian mother of a kidnapped girl who's been tracking her through various prostitution operations. It's a loony story, but Lili Taylor is so good, she makes it compelling. Also, Donal Logue turns up at a Superbowl party with teenaged hos, and I love him too.

The future is now.

The one where the perp was a student from Hudson University.

Lust: Michael Gross appears to be a grieving senior citizen widower whose late wife tracked HIV infection from person to person. After innumerable plot twists we learn he's actually a drug-crazed sex fiend who's just trying to fund a late-life sex romp.

Michael Gross has appeared in the L&O world a few times, always enjoying his No-More-Mr.-Nice-Guy characters, but this one was totally fucking nuts. You could tell he was having a blast.

I'd gladly re-watch a number of episodes from around the same time as the one R81 just mentioned but that show started seriously sliding down the shitter some 5-6 seasons into its run. My partner and I would still watch it but almost in the same way you'd watch "Murder, She Wrote" or some other corny campfest. Like, every episode would contain a requisite "circle jerk" scene when they are standing in a room at the station, everyone chirping in with a little piece of information, building a single sentence as they cycled through their lines and then Tamara Tunie would walk in and finish their thoughts with some critical piece of medical info that would turn the whole narrative up to that point on its head.

Yes R77. Love the male rape episode with Diane Neal as the rapist. I was like 13 when that one came on. Not proud of it, but I masturbated furiously to it. Maybe this is where my CFNM fetish came from.

R76 Judith Light was great on this show. Particularly memorable for me was when she informed Casey that she was being called before the bar due to her Brady violation. Savage since Casey was always her protegée.

I didn't see it r64 or I would have bumped it.

The one where Zack from saved by the Bell gets shot in an alley behind a gay bar. They discover multiple loads in his butt. He's a G4P pornstar that's paying for his child cystic fibrosis therapy.

The kicker is his wife is pornstar (who brings her daughter to work!), and she's played by Elizabeth Banks channeling Jenna Jameson!

You think this shows over-the-top? Did you ever see the episode of Law & order Criminal Intent?

It's like the Robert Goren Variety show in every interrogation.

I like how they brought back Alex eames on SVU for that episode about sex trafficking and terrorism (what else?) Alex got right into the female suspects face and made her admit she was a terrorist. She tells Olivia she got that technique from her old partner.

OMG r86 how did I ever miss that one? That's the kind of SVU I LOVE!

R22 that episode had Rose McGowan as the gold digger. Her and her brother would pull off scams in swingers clubs. It was funny seeing Olivia And Elliott going undercover as swingers.

[quote] You think this shows over-the-top? Did you ever see the episode of Law & order Criminal Intent?

Yes. It was basically, "Murder, She Wrote" if Jessica Fletcher suffered from Asperger's and had nervous facial tics. Everything would be resolved by Goren bringing them to the interrogation room, doing his little irritating autism performance and they would all magically start turning on each other and spontaneously confessing.

R51 You forgot .FaceUnion = Facebook

and ChanRed or something like that

I always try to catch the Swoosie episode. She did cunty very well.

I never cared for Judith Light on Who's the Boss but she was sensational as Liz Donnelly.

Judith Light was the best thing about it. Her character was the only one that had any true depth to the way it was written.

Criminal Intent had Liza Minnelli in an episode, which trumps any SVU episode.

The one where Olivia whispers when she's being all emotional. Oh wait, that's every episode.

I fucking hate that they gave her a kid and then gave Rowlings kids. Hollywood does not know how to write for women. They run out of ideas and decide to give these fiercely independent, professional women kids. It reeks of desperation.

Dick Wolf shows jump the shark when they start to focus too much on relationships. Chicago PD has entered that murky water this season where everyone all the intelligence team is sleeping with somebody else on the intelligence team ... or wants to. It is lazy writing.

[quote]Criminal Intent had Liza Minnelli in an episode, which trumps any SVU episode.

I saw that episode on ION tv a couple of days ago. Not only is Liza great but the whole thing is a sensationalized version of the JonBenet story and Liza plays the Patsy Ramsey character, who obviously has the hots for Goren!

BTW, S. Epatha Merkerson (Lt. Van Buren) had already told the producers of the mothership L&O that she wasn't coming back after the 20th season and Kathryn Erbe's Eames character from Criminal Intent was going to come in to replace her. Then Dick Wolfe unexpectedly cancelled the whole show because NBC wouldn't give him the budget he wanted. It was really a shame because those last two or three seasons the overall cast and the scripts had been the best they had been in years and the ratings were going up.

To be fair R95 Rollins was pregnant in real life both times

Was the Anna Nicole Smith episode on SVU or original flavor?

It was actually on CI.

One of the earlier episodes where two delivery men find an elderly we Oman raped and posed in her bed Denis o'hare plays the sweet dimwitted delivery guy - it turns out he is extremely low IQ and can't t read - he thought the old woman that was tied up looked like the cover of his VHS porn tape and raped her - the awful last scene the psychiatrist JK Simmons takes him to the mental facility he has to live in and the crazies are wailing.

R97 Dang, never seen that one, but now I'm dying to.

[quote]Criminal Intent had Liza Minnelli in an episode, which trumps any SVU episode.Criminal Intent had Liza Minnelli in an episode, which trumps any SVU episode.

Objectively, Liza is fantastic as the ersatz Long Island Patsy Ramsey, and ends up being heartbreaking and pathetic in the end. No matter what else she is Liza Minnelli is always a compelling actress.

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Even though I still liked Mariska then, all of the episodes when she was on maternity leave were excellent. They paired Stabler up with that Nordic chick who was Queen Hippolyta in Wonder Woman. They had great chemistry.

[quote]Dick Wolf shows jump the shark when they start to focus too much on relationships. Chicago PD has entered that murky water this season where everyone all the intelligence team is sleeping with somebody else on the intelligence team... or wants to.

Not just this season. Jay (Jesse Soffer) and Adam (Patrick Flueger) have been sleeping with, or wanting to sleep with, one of the female members of the intelligence team since the show started. Now Adam has knocked up Burgess, and she wants to keep the baby but exclude Adam from her life. So fake. Who would turn that fine specimen of penile perfection down?

And they used an insane heterosexual relationship to destroy the character known as Connor (Colin Donnell) on Chicago Med. Who in his right mind did not want Connor and Will to be together, and they stuck Connor with that looney bitch who killed his father, and Will with the horrendous Natalie.

Dick Wolf shows fail when he writes relationships at least in part because he doesn't know who should be in relationships.

The Carol Burnett one was great. Robin Williams had a great turn as a psycho as well.

I can offer some insight into the Vincent D'Onofrio weird delivery thing: he doesn't learn his lines. I guested in a tiny part on that show but appeared in several scenes so I had to be there for 2 full days. If you watch him playing Goren, like when he's looking at something on the ground, he's never looking AT the thing because there's cue cards hidden on the ground. Examining a body, there's a bunch of note cards for him to read his lines from lined up beside it outside of camera.

Weird guy.

Connie Nielsen was the Danish actress whose character replaced Hagarity's for four or five episodes when Hagarity was on maternity leave. She was superb. Her second episode featured Leslie Caron as an elderly survivor of rape and Caron's scenes with Nielsen were essential and heartbreaking. Caron won an Emmy for her performance. It's one of SVU's best episodes.

[quote]Who in his right mind did not want Connor and Will to be together

LOL. Is Will the curly-haired guy? One of the only episodes I saw of that show had a scene where those two guys got in an argument and started pressing their bodies against each other in an elevator. It was so weird and hot.

R109 Will Halstead (played by Nick Gehlfuss)

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R110, yeah, that’s him. Damn, they would have made a hot couple. Would have gotten the show a lot of buzz, too.

They started out with this "rich kid / privilege" (Connor) v. "poor kid / chip on his shoulder" (Will) thing going on between them, r112, with medicine as The Great Leveler. Would have made a great romantic story, but they dropped it and hooked Connor up with that psychobitchcunt from hell. What a waste.

Why is it that SVU episodes are available on many streaming platforms (Hulu, Amazon Prime), but none of the other L&O shows are available? I missed out on those shows, and only started watching SVU a couple of years ago. Now I'd like to watch some of the other L&O shows, but I don't have cable TV.

The one that really creeped me out was the pair of teenage fraternal twins (male and female) the female bit the dick of this gangbanger and he fell off a roof. The evidence shows that it was male DNA so they suspect the girl is covering up for her gay teenage brother.

The twist: The twins were both born male. There was an accident during circumcision so they "made" the boy into a girl. It's even creepier because it was loosely based on a true story. The kid actor was pretty good in both roles.

Is this because I'm a lesbian?

In the season 10 episode "Persona", Donnelly, Judith Light, takes a leave of absence from her role as a judge to act as prosecutor on a cold case she was involved with in the 1970s, when a battered woman (Brenda Blethyn) kills her husband.

Blethyn was magnificent. One of the few episodes where Judith Light is a horrid cunt. Judith Light does horrid cunt with aplomb.

One of the few episodes that makes me cry.

Remember the one where they found a monkey in a basketball? It was like they wrote that shit just to test how low NBC’s standards were.

R117, that episode’s one of the few I won’t watch, mostly because of Mike Farrell. His performance was merely a rehash of BJ Hunnicutt.

The episodes with Olivia’s brother are unwatchable.

Great one, R115. I also liked the one with little Hayden Panettiere. She played the daughter of a famous singer who kept getting suspicious injuries. I believe Hayden came back five years later to play another role. She was a great actress at such a young age.

The episode where an anti-gay political pundit kills his closeted son's boyfriend was quite sad.

I was going to say that one, too r115. The kid who played Lindsay/Logan was fantastic.

Wasn’t there one where there were two fucked up siblings who spoke in their own made-up language to each other?

That was that episode. The twins Lindsay and Logan. Turned out Lindsay was born a boy but had a botched circumsicion

Though, there may have been another episode with a made up sibling language.

Favorite: Sarah Paulson is a socialite Lizzie Borden, tries getting Benson and Ramsay killed. Three girl bullies end up killing someone and Mr. Sensitive Defense attorney offers her testimony to lock up 'Barbie and Skipper. Really liked the episodes with Ludacris as the bad seed cousin whose really Ken's (Ice -Ts son) his uncle, an excon and legal eagle.

Least Favorite: The missing sister returns but is impossible bc her older sister killed her when she was younger and fat. The one with Norman Reedus is an anti-medication nutbucket. The one where Stablers daughter goes manic and he has to talk to his mother! The horror.

Whatever episode this was from. I think it was from ‘Wildlife’- when Elliot and Olivia had to go undercover as swingers and rescue gibbons from inside basketballs...

What in the world was happening on Oz in that gif, R127??

They killed off Olivias’ brother, R120.

Ok that episode I’ll watch, R129.

[quote]The episodes with Olivia’s brother are unwatchable.

Yep. Right up there with the later episodes with Rollins' sister. Everyone running around putting up with outrageous behavior nobody would ever tolerate for one day in real life. The writing was so bad I don't understand why the actors didn't refuse to perform it. Both Rollins' sister and Oleebiah's brother.

[quote]Least Favorite: The missing sister returns but is impossible bc her older sister killed her when she was younger and fat.

I remember watching that when it first aired. It reminded me of a Lifetime movie about a couple whose adopted daughter disappeared as a child and a woman comes forward claiming to be the daughter. It was revealed that father was evil and killed the daughter. The mother ends up taking in the scam artist woman into her life and they become mother and daughter. It was weird as fuck.

[quote]Least Favorite: The missing sister returns but is impossible bc her older sister killed her when she was younger and fat.

I remember watching that when it first aired. It reminded me of a Lifetime movie about a couple whose adopted daughter disappeared as a child and a woman comes forward claiming to be the daughter. It was revealed that father was evil and killed the daughter. The mother ends up taking in the scam artist woman into her life and they become mother and daughter. It was weird as fuck.

That episode was basically remade - the season 19 episode called Complicated. The only difference is the girl was killed by her brother (Mike Faist from Dear Evan HansenJ rather than her sister.

R114, you can watch L&O mothership episodes on Bounce TV late morning weekdays (10 a.m. Central). Ion TV airs L&O Criminal Intent episodes early morning weekdays.

Bedtime: starring Jaclyn Smith as a former cop, and Morgan Fairchild, Susan Anton and Ann-Margret as women who all slept with the same mattress salesman in the 70's. He's played by Josh from Guilding Light. We're also introducted to a pet funeral home and the art on the walls includes a poster of a puffer fish sporting angel wings and a halo. The last-minute twist at the end of the episode is camp worthy of a soap opera. The entire episode is just complete insanity.

Oh, God, R136, that shitshow is still fresh in my mind... Latinoamerican telenovelas have better scripts than that.

[quote]Right up there with the later episodes with Rollins' sister.

Never much cared for the episodes with Fin's son either.

R136 I always watch that episode for the sublime Ann-Margret..

One of my favorites:

A 16 year old boy is found bled to death with a mask in an abandoned building. SVU thinks it's some pervert but it's a "backyard wrestling" videoshoot gone wrong. Anyway a girl that was screwing the dead boy and his buddy gets hit by a car.

Here's the twist: The 16-year old girl is actually a 30-year old woman. She did this because she aged out of foster care. The DA charges her of theft of Public Welfare and the parents of the boys she had sex with press statutory rape charges. It was kind of a sad ending for her.

R140 That one was ripped from the headlines.

The one we're Dr. Melinda Warner says: "vaginal tears";"bruises on the upper thighs"; "ligature marks"; "no sign of fluids"

I love how she says "faa-luu-ids"

Can you believe this show paid for Tamara Tunie's beautiful Brownstone in Harlem?

Remember the brief period with Det. Chester Lake? He was kind of a drip.

[quote] Remember the brief period with Det. Chester Lake? He was kind of a drip.

Adam Beach is a horrible actor.

Adam Beach was a hot injun but his acting was left to be desired. You could tell Ice-T was underplaying his acting around Beach to make him tolerable

Adam Beach was a hot injun but his acting was left to be desired. You could tell Ice-T was underplaying his acting around Beach to make him tolerable

[quote]You could tell Ice-T was underplaying his acting around Beach to make him tolerable

How? By putting LESS peanut butter in his mouth?

R95 Don’t piss off Olivia or you’ll get the Olivia Benson anger whisper! Like when she whisper-huffs “Noah is MY SON,” to his biological grandma who came back into his life (was it Brooke Shields or am I remembering that incorrectly?). The episode where grandma kidnaps Noah was terrible.

I like Olivia’s whisper rages as much as I love Ice T’s snazzy one-liners!

Who ees Noah, r148? Ees he why Oleebia she stop calling me? I aim getting verrrry sleepy, r148, please tail me answer for thee question. Please? I aim so sleepy, r148. I need thee answer right now.

Ees Noah why Oleebia not love meee?? She talk to me in mean angryful voice before and geev me beeg scare. Please don’t let her make scare again with bad voice!

Any episode involving vaginal mutilation, the rage, the pure unfiltered rage of the perp

Any episode where "It's not your fault" is uttered...

And now the menthol-cool stylings of Melinda Warner.....

[quote]Can you believe this show paid for Tamara Tunie's beautiful brownstone in Harlem?

We'd like to think her time in Oakdale helped.

Tamara Tunie deserves everything she has.

Same with Dann.

The perfect working actor's careers.

[quote]Any episode where "It's not your fault" is uttered...

That'd be a good item for a drinking game.

Tunie got ripped off a few years back.

Accountant needs to be shived.

Lmao, R149.

R118 Yes! I came here specifically to discuss that monkey in a basketball episode. The moment that aired I was like, ok I’ve had enough. Never watched another episode.

R118 r159 I remember that monkey in the basketball episode too!

It had an interesting cold opening. A dead model was found OD'd on the street, or was it in her apartment?

Anyway, inside her purse was a dead bird and for some reason the bird was extremely rare and on an endangered species list.

I don't have to tell you,It all went to hell after that

Lol, you guys... WTF?

Omg so cute. I want one of those

I legit could not believe my eyes when he unzipped a goddamn basketball and a whole ass monkey came out. Throw the whole thing away.

A half ass monkey would have been creepier.

No mention yet of, “Turn on the sun”?

Only losers watch that shit.

I’ve not seen a full episode in years, but I liked the ‘Oleebia ‘ one when it first aired. The Mark Paul Gosselar as a porn star episode was memorable also.

I can’t tell if detective Carisi is hot or not. He’s got a bit of a squishy face, but then he also has really pretty blue eyes, clear skin, pillowy lips, and looks good in suits. As of right now, I’ll say yes, he is.

I liked that campy episode where the school teacher played by Betty Gilpin was fucking students and then she got killed at the end by a student by Dylan Minette.

Carisi is no longer a detective. He had been going to law school and this season he replaced Barba as the DA after Raúl quit the show.

I love Carisi. ISHC (uncut, I imagine).

That's one of the most unbelievable things on this show, R168, next to Benson keeping a baby she found in a drug den.

R168- That's a bit ridiculous that the BRIDGE and TUNNEL detective not only went to Law school without us knowing it, but right out of law school he gets this fabulous , prestigous job as DISTRICT ATTORNEY. Carisi was replaced by that TALL TWINK-who only lasted ONE season.

SORRY. The TALL TWINK replaced Barba and Carisi replaced the TALL TWINK.

That lawyer they had on last year was hot, hotter than the one with the huge nose and terrible under-eye bags and Carisi.

Carisi went to night school to become a lawyer, R171, ridiculous, I know, but it was a running gag for a couple of seasons.

Carisi going to law school had been was mentioned frequently and during Barba's last season Carisi was following him around in kind of an intern position. Totally unrealistic but he's been very good in the part.

R172 and r173, re you talking about Philip Winchester, who had starred in Chicago Justice and when it flopped moved over SVU as Barba's first replacement as the same character and then quit after one season?

I agree R173. The tall TWINK was good looking. It's kind of a shame they got rid of him. Barba should have been played GAY. He seemed like a QUEEN anyway. I liked him better than that slightly bitchy queen Barba.

Yes. Philip Winchester. I doubt he quit. They probably fired him. Why would he quit a long running HIT show like SVU?

I don't remember a TWINK of any HEIGHT. Did the actor have a name?

TWINK?

What, are you 90?

Yes, Winchester did quit. As did Meloni and Danny Pino. Some guys just aren't willing to such Hagarty's cock.

^ suck

That's him, R174! I actually liked Chicago Justice, I thought it had some really good episodes that weren't as comical/cheesy or as heavy handed as SVU.

There was a social media shitstorm over Winchester because the fans didn't want another straight, white guy as a lead or something, R176. It's too bad because he was a lot less tacky and didn't overact the way Barba did. I hated that annoying character. They made him seem gay, but of course he had to fawn all over Benson. So did Winchester's character in the end. So stupid.

One of my favorite things said about Barba was during the episode where the blonde detective’s former boss came up from Atlanta or somewhere and got into some trouble (he may have been played by Peter Gallagher, not 100% sure) and the guy, his lawyer, and Barba were at dinner and the other lawyer called Barba a ‘Spanish Dandy’ and Barba made such a stink face. That legit made me lol.

So whenever I think of Barba, the phrase Spanish dandy comes to mind.

Harry Hamlin, IIRC, r182.

Lol, Spanish dandy is the perfect way to describe Barba.

To me, Carisi is more annoying now that he’s a DA than when he was just a detective. He’s doing a lot of angry overacting now, in my opinion. And contrary to popular opinion, I liked Barba and was sad when he left.

When will we get the episode where Olivia is such a negligent parent that Noah gets kidnapped by someone other than grandma? Olivia is never with Noah so this is plausible. I’d also like to see Olivia swimming in the lady pond (remember the woman DA?), as she is rumored to have done in real life....

[quote]swimming in the lady pond

Can't we PLEASE let this phrase die the natural death it has deserved, and has been creeping towards, since its inception?

R185-Did you like the big twinkie who was the DA after BARBA

Yeah, r187. What a twinkie!

The actor who plays Carisi is sexier when his hair isn't slicked back and isn't speaking with that horrible NY accent.

Has there ever been an explanation why Hargitay got so beefy? Menopause?

Her face changed literally from season to season.

R190- She turned into a BIG GORILLA. She looks like a linebacker for the JETS.

The beloved "Oleebia" episode actually won Mariska an emmy.

I haven't seen it in like 10 years but this thread really makes me want to. Unfortunately, USA is on the post-Meloni seasons right now.

There are rumors the new female officer on the show is going to be a lesbian.

How long until she falls in love with Olivia as well?

I really like Casey and Alex, they should bring them back somehow.

I guess that was the time when Dick Wolf had all leggy hotties as DA's. Even Connie Rubirosa on the mother show was flashing leg all the time.

Extended for three more years!

R107 I heard he was a nightmare to work with and put the cast and crew through hell on L&O:CI. It got to be so bad that they brought in Chris Noth to sub in episodes so they wouldn’t have to shoot with D’Onofrio every week. It’s a shame, though... I turn off any rerun that doesn’t have Goren and Eames. They WERE the show. The erratic head bobs and stilted line readings really worked for the character, whether they were motivated by production woes or otherwise.

R195 I’m shocked. I thought the ratings were mediocre now, or did I totally imagine that? And isn’t Mariska’s salary really outrageous? I figured NBC would want to give it one more year at most.

There was a truly horrendous episode about two seasons ago that focused on some prissy teenage blonde bitch. The episode opened as a cheesy high school video diary and then switched to her with a half-ass “Edgy” makeover being angsty about something to the camera. I can’t even remember if she had been kidnapped, or if she had been bullied at school and was suicidal, or what the hell her problem was.

The SVU team’s shocked reactions when they saw her makeover was ridiculous. “Oh my god, look at her!” You would have thought she had tattooed a swastika on her forehead. I remember posting in another SVU thread about it the night that it aired. Compared to the other horrifying cases SVU has had, it made this particular episode feel like a board meeting that could have just been a quick email.

I'm not surprised it's been renewed. The TV ratings on NBC are mediocre, but it performs very well in syndication and streaming so they're still making nice profits from the show. And it's not like they have an abundance of hit shows anyway.

Mariska makes around half a million an episode and I'm sure Ice T gets a hefty paycheck too, but I'm sure the others are paid a fraction of that.

Last night's episode was pretty hilarious. Rollins' white trash hillbilly family was heavily featured, there was some undercover work as sex workers, and there was LOTS of scenery chewing.

Plus a truly riveting subplot at the beginning...Noah would never vape, would he???

How old is Noah now? Last I saw he was about three.

Did they age him up to a teenager?

It's still the same child actor, who looks about 7 or 8. It was a truly stupid and inane little plot point.

Also, and I feel mean saying this, Mariska is looking like a hulking linebacker as of late. Not fat, just...very swole.

There's definitely something wrong with her face, R202. It seems so huge and wide, she's an attractive woman for her age, but what's going on with her face? Too many procedures or is she just aging oddly?

I noticed the wide face particularly last night, R203! I am so curious to know what is making it look like that.

It's been looking that way for a few years now, R204, but much more noticeable this season, not that I watch regularly. I don't think she had a particularly wide face before, anyone know what's happening? Could it be health issues?

I was thinking health issues too. Kathleen Turner got rheumatoid arthritis and was treated with steroids and it beefed up her face. Maybe Oleebia has la artritis.

I know what you're saying, yet I shot an episode earlier this season, and saw Mariska in the hair + make up room and she looked great.

For R207.

She's postmenopausal. The lack of estrogen causes some women to take on more masculine features.

Right now they're showing the William Lewis episodes. Those are unwatchable.

I am currently watching the second episode of the show's first season. We get a scene where Christopher Meloni undresses into bikini briefs in a scene that is much too short.

R211 That wife was so lucky to have that come home from work everynight. Always disappointed they never had another scene like that for him

the one where tom hanks has sex with a tranny....classic.

This site is a good resource if you want to read more about a particular episode.

The episode where Elliot and his wife reunited for a one night stand and he was almost naked when he climbed into bed with her....ecstasy 😍😋😍😋😍😋😍😋🥰😍😋🥰😛

Also “Rooftop” was one of the best episodes...about the rape-murders of young black girls. Very well done. And “Sacrifice” about modern day slavery in New York. Love it when they arrest the socialite at her club meeting.

Also “Rooftop” was one of the best episodes...about the rape-murders of young black girls. Very well done. And “Sacrifice” about modern day slavery in New York. Love it when they arrest the socialite at her club meeting.

I hate the trope where people who should know better confess to everything under interrogation. It’s so lazy.

The only time I thought it worked was when Cynthia Nixon confessed because she couldn’t be prosecuted under double jeopardy, and ended up screwing over her sister.

r218 But Olivia dyking around the interrogation room in a threatening whisper is so intimidating! The criminals just turn to putty in their hands!

And remember when they did the Chris Meloni/Lee Tergesen reunion and they got up in each other's faces looking like they were about to make out like they were back on the set of Oz?

I'm watching one of the reruns now with Philip Winchester. He is very sexy and good in the role. He had a scene with Cassidy that was actually kind of homoerotic.

I'm not surprised he quit as latter SVU seems to be all about stroking Oleebia's massive ego. She has become so self-righteous and annoying.

The "Wildlife" episode is on Ion TV right now! Stabler goes undercover to break up an animal-smuggling ring.

I love the episode called Bully. Luscious Grapes.

I love the episode called Totem with Jeremy Irons and Elizabeth Mitchell. A woman rapes and kills a girl.

The Cynthia Nixon episode

Will someone please explain the entertainment value of sex crimes?

I’ll check for fluids...and make coffee and sandwiches...

The one with the incels. I would fuck any of them right now.

"Merchandise" where the squad is trying to bust up a teen-prostitution ring and Stabler manhandles a little twink whore as he arrests him. Meloni probably had a boner.

I'm sure the actor playing the little twink whore was the one with the boner.

Which episode had Conor Paolo in it where he was the pinup boy on a pedo website. Good episode, but shit, Conor is a lousy actor.

The one where Philip Winchester takes his shirt off.

The episode on Ion right now has Viola Davis, Judd Hirsch and Elizabeth Mitchell as guest stars. It also has Judith Light and Tamara Tunie in recurring roles. Chris Chalk, who played Lucius on [italic]Gotham[/italic], has a teeny, tiny part at the beginning. Dick Wolf was smart to plant the L&O universe in NYC. Even when the scripts are crazy, the acting talent usually carries it off.

Ha, I was just watching that too, R232. It also had soap veteran Larry Bryggman.

Sometimes the writing is bad, but when Chris Meloni was there, he and Mariska Hargitay had such great chemistry that they made the material better than it was.

Agreed, R234. And something about the darker lighting/crisper look from back then seems to help overcome bad writing better than the brighter lighting in the new ones.

I can't explain it. I notice plot holes/things that make no sense in the older episodes, and yet those older episodes still hold my attention way better and seem tighter than the new ones.

You’re right about the lighting r235; it contributed to the overall mood of the show; sexual crimes are part of the darker side of human nature. Mood and the noirish atmosphere helped a lot.

Now, at least to me, the show seems adrift.

USA was running its usual all day SVU marathon the other day, but with maybe 90 seconds of commercials per episode. It was odd.

Anyway, it struck me while watching that SVU is particularly malicious about how it writes out its characters. With few exceptions, characters don’t just disappear one episode, they are given the boot (with prejudice). The DAs are either disbarred, murdered, put into witness protection or put on trial for killing a baby! The writers room are surely some vindictive old queens

The Savant - The detectives investigate the vicious beating of a young woman, and the only witness is her mentally challenged daughter, who has learning difficulties.

The daughter finishes every sentence with, "The End."

The one with Diana Scarwid as a drunk, slutty single mother of a teen boy who's sleeping with his principal. The principal is horned up for the 14-year old kid because of a brain tumor. It's completely ridiculous with never-ending plot twists but Scarwid plays up the camp factor and it's highly entertaining. (I'm overselling Scarwid's role; she's not the focus of the episode but she's definitely the best thing about it.)

Lowdown-the mysterious murder of a DA Olivia dated exposes him as gay and poz. Michael Beach was a creep in this.

Rooftops-someone is raping and killing young black women.