I’m watching the show “Ally McBeal” for the first time

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Naah. Only fat, ugly losers wanted her.

[quote]Did everyone know that the title character was anorexic?

No. We had grown up watching Mary Tyler Moore, so extremely thin women weren't thought about as anorexic.

Quirkiness was a highly used trope in 90s-00s tv women.

The best part about the show was that it launched the careers of Jane, Portia and Lucy. And gave the world its only glimpse of Vonda Shepherd.

Plus unisex bathrooms! Dancing babies as a metaphor for your old broken thirtysomething uterus! Quirky!

I heard Vonda Shepherd is a bitch in real life. I'm glad she disapperared.

Sorry, Shepard, not Shepherd.

I spelled it wrong too. I don't think it matters. 😃

THIS

R8? Naked ass on Fox? Was that allowed?

Actresses who worked with David E Kelley tended to wind up batshit and disordered . Just look at Lara Flynn.

The Dancing Baby and the dwarf lawyer were the two best things about that show. Also, Peter MacNicol as quirky, stuttering lawyer John Cage. And yes, Calista Flockhart was clearly anorexic as hell. She appeared to get even more emaciated as the series went along.

I had a huge crush on Robert Downey Jr when he guest starred on this show. He really made the show for me.

They did the whole faux lesbian thing for ratings.

OP stop this nonsense right now!! Life is too short to waste your beautiful mind on old trashy TV.

I still remember during one Ally McBeal-The Practice crossover episode, the lollipop Lara Flynn Boyle character sizes up Ally and sniffs, "Maybe you should eat a burger." Ally shoots back, "Maybe we can share one." It was funny but also crass since both ladies were clearly anorexic.

Ally's, or Claista Flockhart's, weight, or lack thereof, was a hot topic in the press for the entire run of the show.

Flockhart denied that she was anorexic but later admitted that she was, in fact anorexic, after 'Ally McBeal' went off the air.

And, no, most heterosexual men do not find anorexically scrawny women like her attractive at all.

Flockhart always came across as one snotty, stuck-up, nasty bitch. I assume she is eating on a regular basis nowadays so I hope not being hungry all the time has improved her disposition.

Courtney Thorn Smith said being in that being around all those scrawny women gave her an eating disorder as well.

I watched the show off and on, I was not a real fan of the program.

Flockhart, always thin just stopped eating during the run of the show. If you watch from the beginning you'll note she didn't look ill at first. As the show went on her weight loss became noticeable and distracting. One episode had a scene of her character creating a display of fruit in the shape of turkey using a watermelon. Flockhart was hunched over the cutting board, looking miserable and lifeless. The 'neck' of the turkey looked wider than Flockhart's neck . I had to stop watching after that episode .

You FAT QUEENS just jealous you ain't. Fucking my Harrison .

Wasn't there a question of a few of the women on the show becoming anorexic? Portia De Rossi and later Courtney Thorne Smith. Competitive dieting it was labelled. Along with Lara Flynn Boyle and the scarecrow that is Michelle Pfeiffer to this day.....David E. Kelley was accused of having some part in telling these women to lose weight. I'm not saying that is true, but it was not only Callista. She was just the most noticeable. Her wardrobe accentuated her extreme thinness. But De Rossi is the one that wasted away in from of people's eyes. And yes we all love Michelle Pfeiffer, but the bitch is anorexic.

* in front of people's eyes

de Rossi consumed 150 calories a day. How was she even able to have energy enough to get out of bed?

Harrison Ford can do so much better even at his advanced age.

Thorne Smith left the show because of the pressure to be thin??

OMFG I loved this show as a preteen. Elaine was my favorite character. Jane Krakowski did an amazing job playing the nosy attention-starved gossiping secretary.

She soooo skinny! Her man needs something to grab on to!

"I eat normally. I eat whatever I want, whenever I want."

James Marsden and Lucy Liu, what's not to like? It was a pretty great show, briefly.

I hated David E. Kelley's television shows and thought he was a hack. Kelley's programs were not gripping enough to be dramas and not funny enough to be effective comedy. In the early 2000s he was crapping out a different one every week. And though I'm likely the only one who thinks this, I always thought Michelle Pfeiffer was kind of ugly, like a rat.

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Yes, they 'eat whatever they want', but the food doesn't stay down.

At the end of the show's run, Flockheart was grey in color, including her teeth and appeared to have very little energy.

Is Michelle Pfeiffer the trigger here?

[quote]I still remember during one Ally McBeal-The Practice crossover episode, the lollipop Lara Flynn Boyle character sizes up Ally and sniffs, "Maybe you should eat a burger." Ally shoots back, "Maybe we can share one." It was funny but also crass since both ladies were clearly anorexic.

Actually, the line was "Maybe you should eat a cookie."

I think the narcissistic, anorexic and self-obsessed "Ally" was based on Kelley's wife, Michelle Pfeiffer.

Didn't Michelle Pfeiffer wear jeans and a little t-shirt to her child's college graduation? I was pretty shocked at the pic.

"Cindy this is a skeleton, skin and bones! Would you run from Calista Flockhart???"

There was an SNL sketch where Rachel Dratch played Calista Flockheart with a paper cutout for her body.

I think it became a skinny contest amongst the female cast. Incredibly unhealthy.

R36 Flockhart had to sh*t herself when she heard that line! lol!

I mean, assuming that Flockhart's body produces sh*t on a any kind of regular basis.

R37, HAHAHAHHAH! Reminds me of how SNL in the late 90s was actually funny. If they did that skit now, people would be protesting about "skinny shaming".

David E Kelley seems like a misogynist. He's one of those "I support women" as long as they weigh less than 100 lbs, pretty, usually blond. He makes them Harvard educated attorneys who act like junior high mean girls. Faux Feminist At It's Finest.

Are you saying Michelle brought a black daughter hope to annoy him?

Michelle started the adoption process BEFORE she married him. He had no choice.