I am Jerry Orbach's exquisite eyebrows, neither of which looks anything like the other
Let's be Law & Order (mothership only)
by Anonymous | reply 127 | January 3, 2020 6:54 AM |
I'm the Lenny Line that leads into the opening credits.
by Anonymous | reply 1 | October 19, 2019 1:20 AM |
I'm the gritty look at early '90s New York that became more slick as the city was Giuliani-fied.
by Anonymous | reply 2 | October 19, 2019 1:22 AM |
I am Dennis Farina's/ Detective Fontana's enviable light blue jacket of dubious origin.
by Anonymous | reply 3 | October 19, 2019 1:24 AM |
I am Julia Roberts.
by Anonymous | reply 4 | October 19, 2019 1:27 AM |
I’m S. Epatha Merkerson who played the mother of a victim in season one, and returned in season 4 as Lt. Anita Van Buren
by Anonymous | reply 5 | October 19, 2019 1:28 AM |
I am fired
by Anonymous | reply 6 | October 19, 2019 1:35 AM |
I'm the worst actor in the history of television who got the job because I'm blonde.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | October 19, 2019 2:32 AM |
I am the super cool Angie Harmon. The best ADA EVER.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | October 19, 2019 2:38 AM |
I'm hot daddy detective Lupo.
I was a kid in Grand Canyon, a spoiled kid in Clueless, and had tits in this wierd thriller movie set in a boat.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | October 19, 2019 2:54 AM |
I'm the ripped from the headlines story with a twist. In my universe The Menendez brothers really didn't do it/
by Anonymous | reply 10 | October 19, 2019 2:56 AM |
I am Diane Weist and I may be in a coma- wait that is just my acting
by Anonymous | reply 11 | October 19, 2019 3:56 AM |
I’m a Broadway dancer/singer/actor (in THAT order) and while my Law & Order credit in Playbill seems like a cliche, that job allowed me to eat that month. People forget that struggling actors will take any job to survive.
by Anonymous | reply 13 | October 19, 2019 4:52 AM |
I am Jack McCoy's cross examinations, closing arguments, sly smiles. He is just the best thing about that show.
by Anonymous | reply 14 | October 19, 2019 5:01 AM |
I am Fran Lebowitz, playing a no-nonsense judge.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | October 19, 2019 5:09 AM |
I"m George Dzundza. Why does no one ever mention me?
by Anonymous | reply 16 | October 19, 2019 5:40 AM |
I'm the extra who played the murder victim, the crime witness, the onlooker, EMT, the officer..and dreamed one day I would become the series lead.
by Anonymous | reply 20 | October 19, 2019 12:35 PM |
I am Det. Curtis's barely concealed rage and disdain
by Anonymous | reply 21 | October 19, 2019 3:11 PM |
I am Hudson University. We have a high number of dubiously deceased students.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | October 19, 2019 3:19 PM |
R17. I'm the paper plates she brought to the wrap party.
by Anonymous | reply 23 | October 19, 2019 3:20 PM |
I'm Annie Parisse. I think I only got the job because my brother is Sam Waterston's son-in-law.
by Anonymous | reply 24 | October 19, 2019 3:23 PM |
I'm Connie Rubirosa. I'm a straight Latina out in to contrast with the blonde lesbian.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | October 19, 2019 3:52 PM |
I’m “Ms Shambala Green” coming out of ben’s mouth as he wryly bobs his head.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | October 19, 2019 4:06 PM |
I'm the Broadway dancer/singer/actor (in THAT order) who has missed rent since they cancelled the motherfucker.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | October 19, 2019 5:36 PM |
I'm Patti Lupone. Don't use your goddam cell phone when I'm on screen!
by Anonymous | reply 28 | October 19, 2019 5:40 PM |
I’m Profaci. I’m working the LUDs.
by Anonymous | reply 29 | October 19, 2019 5:43 PM |
I'm the annoyed New Yorkers because Law & Order's shooting on the other block.
by Anonymous | reply 30 | October 19, 2019 5:44 PM |
I'm the hapless tourist from Iowa who got more than I bargained for in the big apple.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | October 19, 2019 7:16 PM |
I'm Elaine Stritch, playing ardent and honest feminist attorney Lanie Stieglitz. And never ONCE did I mention the Archbishop of Chicago.
A first for me.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | October 19, 2019 7:23 PM |
I am diet coke, Lenny's drink of choice. except for that one night...
by Anonymous | reply 33 | October 19, 2019 8:15 PM |
I'm George Dzunzda, quitting after one season in a huff.
by Anonymous | reply 34 | October 19, 2019 8:42 PM |
I'm one of the actors portraying the dead body at the beginning. Will anyone recognize me?
by Anonymous | reply 35 | October 19, 2019 8:46 PM |
I am my loins tingling on the rare times Det Green stops being the smooth, mild mannered, easy going cop and butches it up because he is ANGRY
by Anonymous | reply 36 | October 19, 2019 9:11 PM |
I'm manorexic Benjamin Bratt. I share a jawline with Bethenny Frankel.
by Anonymous | reply 37 | October 19, 2019 9:15 PM |
I'm Benjamin Stone, the original DA. Little did you know at the time that I was played by an alcoholic right-wing conspiracy theory loon.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | October 19, 2019 9:31 PM |
I'm Sam Waterston and I'm leaving my wife for my law partner Martin Sheen...oh wait, wrong show...never mind.
by Anonymous | reply 39 | October 19, 2019 9:43 PM |
I'm Paul Sorvino, quitting after the second season in a huff.
by Anonymous | reply 40 | October 19, 2019 10:01 PM |
I'm Laura's gentleman caller. Waterson was Tom. Miss Hepburn was Amanda. I came first on L&O. I complained and drank everyday. I'm a better actor than Waterson. I have a Tony and and Emmy. I came first. Janet Reno had me fired. I drink.
by Anonymous | reply 41 | October 19, 2019 10:17 PM |
I'm DA Borgia, choking on my own vomit in the trunk of a car.
by Anonymous | reply 42 | October 19, 2019 10:17 PM |
I'm various cool women actors variously playing the cool ME.
by Anonymous | reply 43 | October 19, 2019 10:35 PM |
excuse me r43, I am Assistant Chief Medical Examiner Elizabeth Rodgers, the only assistant ME that counts, and my attitude will make it clear that I am pretty much over your shit. now let me eat my lunch
by Anonymous | reply 44 | October 19, 2019 10:57 PM |
I'm Anthony Anderson, I will lose the weight-ish and go on to star in my own sitcom. I will be set with residuals for life.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | October 19, 2019 11:02 PM |
I'm Jessica Griffin, late of Oakdale, IL.
by Anonymous | reply 46 | October 20, 2019 12:28 AM |
I'm the not-so-subtle flirtation from female characters over the course of seasons towards Det. Curtis.
by Anonymous | reply 47 | October 20, 2019 1:31 AM |
I'm a tranny hooker.
by Anonymous | reply 48 | October 20, 2019 2:01 AM |
I'm Milena Govich. I'm probably the all-time worst regular actress on the show.
by Anonymous | reply 49 | October 20, 2019 2:11 AM |
I'm Larry Miller, starring in TWO episodes: in the first one, I get away with killing my first wife but, in the second, I'm convicted for murdering my second wife.
by Anonymous | reply 50 | October 20, 2019 2:12 AM |
I'm the medical marijuana that Anita VanBuren smokes to help her after the chemo.
by Anonymous | reply 51 | October 20, 2019 3:08 AM |
I'm megastar JULIA ROBERTS, slumming as a special guest star in a very special episode!
by Anonymous | reply 52 | October 20, 2019 3:13 AM |
I am R3.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | October 20, 2019 3:42 AM |
I am the nosy doorman who helped to solve the case, if not for my tips, they would never be able to piece together all the clues.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | October 20, 2019 5:07 AM |
I'm Jeremy Sisto, a defense attorney one episode and an NYPD detective the next.
by Anonymous | reply 55 | October 20, 2019 7:03 AM |
I'm the inimitable TOVAH FELDSHUH who had a small second career as lefty defense attorney Danielle Melnik.
by Anonymous | reply 56 | October 20, 2019 1:07 PM |
R49, I'm Elisabeth Rohm, and I'M the worst actor in the history of the franchise ( any of the LAO franchises).
by Anonymous | reply 57 | October 20, 2019 1:15 PM |
I'm the 90s headline they ripped for the show, our episode pulled great ratings, the same cannot be said to 2000s headlines, ripped too soon and everyone already knew what happened in details, thanks to internet and 24x7 cable news!
by Anonymous | reply 58 | October 20, 2019 1:28 PM |
I'm Sam Waterson, relieved to be able to play something other than Lincoln.
by Anonymous | reply 59 | October 20, 2019 1:37 PM |
I'm the payphone that was bugged by the police.
They don't make me anymore.
by Anonymous | reply 60 | October 20, 2019 3:27 PM |
I am, Lenny's 'I hate when they do thatv whenever a perp starts running.
by Anonymous | reply 61 | October 20, 2019 9:35 PM |
Lenny was already 60 years old when he first started on the show.
by Anonymous | reply 62 | October 20, 2019 9:49 PM |
I'm the gay-baiting city councilman Det. Logan punches, earning his banishment to Staten Island.
by Anonymous | reply 63 | October 20, 2019 11:06 PM |
speaking of det. Logan, I am his plaid tie; the only tie he owns.
by Anonymous | reply 64 | October 20, 2019 11:23 PM |
I am me, rewatching a later season and having the realization of how weird it was that after more than a dozen seasons of Jack McCoy banging all of his female ADAs (either telling the viewers directly or by implications) that they cast his real life daughter in law as ADA.
by Anonymous | reply 65 | October 20, 2019 11:58 PM |
I am the "contempt of court" thrown to Jack McCoy by the judges
by Anonymous | reply 66 | October 21, 2019 12:27 AM |
I'm Shambala, the public defender of the first two season who speaks like she just graduated from Oxford and is passionate government employee.
by Anonymous | reply 67 | October 21, 2019 3:36 AM |
I'm Denis O'Hare. Among my many outstanding guest spots was "Pro Se", for which I should have won an Emmy Award.
by Anonymous | reply 68 | October 22, 2019 11:21 PM |
I'm the entire courtroom who get up two seconds after the verdict is read, when in reality they would probably be there another two hours.
by Anonymous | reply 69 | October 22, 2019 11:28 PM |
Don't get the Elisabeth Rohm hate. I loved her, she had a strange cadence but I thought she was good here and in "American Hustle" & "Joy".
by Anonymous | reply 70 | October 22, 2019 11:37 PM |
She was wooden and as believable as Don Jr. is as a diplomat.
by Anonymous | reply 71 | October 23, 2019 12:37 AM |
R65 He only banged Jill Kinkade while on the show, though he made references to having relationships with previous ADAs before he was a character on the show. Jamie Ross referenced a serious boyfriend multiple times and announced her engagement to him towards the end of her character's run, and Serena Southerlyn was a lesbo.
by Anonymous | reply 72 | October 23, 2019 12:51 AM |
I'm George Dzunda, who I find weirdly attractive and has major BDF. I thought this was was going to be a star vehicle for me. I had just costarred in Basic Instinct bitches.
by Anonymous | reply 73 | October 23, 2019 12:54 AM |
[quote]She was wooden and as believable as Don Jr. is as a diplomat.
I'd agree to disagree but you're just wrong.
by Anonymous | reply 74 | October 23, 2019 1:36 AM |
I am half the cast of the walking dead who all were on at one point or another including one episode with both Merle and Maggie
by Anonymous | reply 75 | October 23, 2019 1:48 AM |
whoops, that is, not Maggie, that's the younger wife from sons of anarchy. I suck.
by Anonymous | reply 76 | October 23, 2019 1:50 AM |
I'm Sarah Paulson. I played a young teenage slut involved in a love triangle with her stepdad who stands trial for murdering her mom. I'm the Long Island Lolita story transplanted to the Upper East Side.
by Anonymous | reply 77 | October 23, 2019 2:59 AM |
I have hated her and her lispy speech impediment since that episode
by Anonymous | reply 78 | October 23, 2019 3:12 AM |
some notable assistant ADAs
Claire - passionate and idealistic Jamie - self-constraint and conflicted Abbie - short tempered and headstrong Serena Southerlyn - ?
R71 I won't use the word "wooden" or not believable, but her character is indeed very bland and weak. Maybe it's the writing, or her acting or likely both, her portray of Serena was very forgettable, I hardly remember any notable moments of Serena in the series but I can list tons of Jamie or Abbie highlights on how they argue or pursue a case, and I believe that makes a different on acting, leaving a long lasting impression.
by Anonymous | reply 79 | October 23, 2019 7:32 AM |
I'm criminal defense attorney Ruth Miller, a guest role that only requires one-dimensional and exaggerated acting, I was played by Patti LuPone and she did not blow it, not only that, she was actually quite good. For that, I am forever grateful!
by Anonymous | reply 80 | October 23, 2019 7:44 AM |
I am Dr Elizabeth Olivet. I have the hots for Det. Mike Logan.
I am also Det. Logan, and I have the hots for Dr. Olivet.
We both wish we were on a 2010's streaming series, where we could have a steamy sex scene or two.
by Anonymous | reply 81 | October 23, 2019 8:26 AM |
I am New York in the early '90s. I miss me.
by Anonymous | reply 82 | October 23, 2019 8:28 AM |
I'm Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers the medical examiner who appeared in 263 episodes on all four "Law & Order" series: Law & Order (1990), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), and Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005).
by Anonymous | reply 83 | October 23, 2019 9:47 AM |
[quote]I'm megastar JULIA ROBERTS, slumming as a special guest star in a very special episode!
Truth be told, "Law & Order" was a big deal, an Emmy winning Outstanding Drama Series and featured NY's finest actors. The old joke was if you hadn't done a Law & Order, you weren't an actor. Julia wasn't really slumming, she ended up with an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series and oh she was fucking Benjamin Bratt.
by Anonymous | reply 84 | October 23, 2019 9:55 AM |
I'm the yapping lap dog who discovers the corpse in the park.
by Anonymous | reply 85 | October 23, 2019 3:03 PM |
I'm my old apartment building where Sgt. Greevey and Det. Logan looked for clues in a rape case that turns out to have been done by Phillip Seymour Hoffman.
by Anonymous | reply 86 | October 23, 2019 3:03 PM |
Episode "The violence of summer" R86.
by Anonymous | reply 87 | October 23, 2019 4:05 PM |
Speaking of the mothership, I think that one of the OTA channels runs mothership episodes all day, one day a week.
Anyone know which channel that is?
by Anonymous | reply 88 | October 23, 2019 4:50 PM |
I'm the steady cam operator who spent every working day walking backward because no witness ever took the time to stand still and talk to the detectives.
by Anonymous | reply 89 | October 23, 2019 4:57 PM |
R88 that would be ION tv
by Anonymous | reply 90 | October 23, 2019 9:10 PM |
Thank you, R90!
I was looking for it.
by Anonymous | reply 91 | October 23, 2019 9:14 PM |
Not any longer, r90. Ion only runs the mothership episodes Wednesday and Thursday mornings. SVU is run all day Saturday. Bounce TV runs mothership episodes in the late morning weekdays. Ion has the later years, starting with Briscoe (Orbach) and Green (Martin). Bounce has the early episodes.
by Anonymous | reply 92 | October 23, 2019 9:24 PM |
Thanks, R92.
I like the early episodes.
It seems that the later episodes are shown more often.
by Anonymous | reply 93 | October 23, 2019 9:32 PM |
I'm the ridiculous wig that covers S. Epatha Merkerson's beautiful natural hair.
But I'm not as awful as the wigs that public defender Emmet (Viola Davis) wore on SVU
by Anonymous | reply 94 | October 23, 2019 9:37 PM |
R93, Seasons 1 and 2 of the mothership series are available streaming on Amazon Prime. It's not free - $2/episode, $20/season - but well worth it if you love the early seasons.
Remember that those early years were SDTV. It's a bit disappointing to see how grainy they seem compared to more recent series.
by Anonymous | reply 97 | October 24, 2019 12:00 AM |
[quote]It's a bit disappointing to see how grainy they seem compared to more recent series.
They aren't remastered. All day WE on Sundays airs episodes that are remastered and look gorgeous, even the first season.
by Anonymous | reply 98 | October 24, 2019 1:29 AM |
if you live on the edge, there exists out in the wild a torrent with the entire universe up to the point of the torrent being created (so missing the most recent svu years). it's like 3000+ episodes, one season has dutch subtitles. you could just pick and choose by checkmark what ones they download
by Anonymous | reply 99 | October 24, 2019 2:30 AM |
[quote]I'm Dr. Elizabeth Rodgers the medical examiner who appeared in 263 episodes on all four "Law & Order" series: Law & Order (1990), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit (1999), Law & Order: Criminal Intent (2001), and Law & Order: Trial by Jury (2005).
"All FOUR?"
by Anonymous | reply 100 | October 24, 2019 4:03 AM |
Poor Bebe Neuwirth, she gets the lead in the new "Law & Order: Trial By Jury". Thinks she hit the mother lode. The pilot even featured Angela Lansbury and Alfred Molina in a two part L&O crossover. Candy Bergen as a judge for three episodes, Orbach, other L&O regulars guesting and it goes a whopping 13 episodes.
by Anonymous | reply 101 | October 24, 2019 9:41 AM |
Speaking of Alfred Molina, R101, did you see him in that horrible L&O: Los Angeles as a DA. I really wanted to like it (I was living in LA at the time) but it was horrible. I did like watching that Johnny Depp clone Skeet Ulrich.
by Anonymous | reply 102 | October 24, 2019 6:47 PM |
I'm Judge Morris Torledsky who was in 27 episodes portrayed by David Lipman who did three pornos before he did legit work.
Warning: Explicit heterosexual pornography, have your smelling salts ready girls. Lipman scene begins 48.25
by Anonymous | reply 103 | October 24, 2019 10:51 PM |
Thanks, r98. I wasn't aware WeTV aire L&O.
And I was wrong when I posted that Ion's episodes started with Briscoe (Orbach) and Green (Martin). They start with Fontana (Dennis Farina) and Green.
by Anonymous | reply 105 | December 27, 2019 4:16 PM |
I am Mafia princess Katherine Masucci Beigel, giving Christine Baranski an appearance in a two-parter in which Stone tries to take down a Manhattan crime family.
by Anonymous | reply 106 | December 27, 2019 4:18 PM |
I am a beloved long-time day player from [italic]Sesame Street[/italic] being called to the stand to testify in a trial.
by Anonymous | reply 107 | December 27, 2019 4:45 PM |
I'm Richie Coster who should have won an Emmy for 'Bodies' -- the best episode ever.
by Anonymous | reply 108 | December 27, 2019 5:52 PM |
Karen Allen in Survivor...the plot was so twisty and the scam so brilliant I had to watch multiple times. Karen Allen should have won an Emmy.
by Anonymous | reply 109 | December 27, 2019 5:56 PM |
R86 That's The Violence of Summer....also starred Samuel L. Jackson.
by Anonymous | reply 110 | December 27, 2019 6:02 PM |
I am someone being interviewed by Lenny and his younger partner.
I am just [italic]too busy[/italic] to sit down to talk to them, even though this is part of a murder investigation. So I am up and working--hauling boxes, trimming a patio garden, cleaning the apartment--as they talk to me and I answer their questions.
by Anonymous | reply 111 | December 27, 2019 7:14 PM |
I'm S. Epatha Merkerson, rolling my eyes yet again as Briscoe informs me what those crazy privileged white people up in Gramercy Park are up to this time.
by Anonymous | reply 112 | December 27, 2019 7:17 PM |
I am bickering tourists from Sheboygan, MI trying to find their way to Carnegie Hall in the opening minutes of the show. What they don't realize is that their squabbling will in just moments be broken off as they discover... [italic]a body![/italic]
by Anonymous | reply 113 | December 27, 2019 7:19 PM |
I'm the squad room desk covered with takeout boxes surrounded by Lenny, Rey, and the Lieutenant while they eat MooGoo with chopsticks and further the plot-line. My brother is the desk in Jack McCoy's office; this is where Jack and his assistant eat whatever the deli delivery guy brings them. McCoy always pays the guy. His pussy assistants never pay.
by Anonymous | reply 114 | December 27, 2019 9:36 PM |
I am a well-known actor. You might even know my name. The moment I appear on screen, you know I am the murderer because why else would I be there?
by Anonymous | reply 115 | December 28, 2019 4:24 AM |
R115 You might be there to make repeat appearances as a defense attorney (Elaine Stritch, Patti Lupone, Ron Leibman come to mind). I like the episodes where the now-famous actors had little-itty-bitty roles (wienie vendor, witness).
by Anonymous | reply 116 | December 28, 2019 4:17 PM |
R116, true. I was thinking of actors less famous than that who show up in the opening scenes - the Hey It's That Guy actors who stand out from a crowd of lesser-known faces but aren't big stars. They're often the murderer, or the parent/spouse who's shielding the murderer.
by Anonymous | reply 117 | December 30, 2019 8:26 AM |
I'm Anne Twomey appearing in 3 episodes and always bringing humor and a touch of class to her roles.
by Anonymous | reply 118 | December 30, 2019 10:07 AM |
I'm Benjamin Bratt's thick, sumptuous hairy cock!
by Anonymous | reply 119 | December 30, 2019 11:36 AM |
Idris Elba shows up as a nightclub manager, r116. He's playing a minor character. Right now I'm watching Jerry Orbach as a criminal defense attorney representing Shirley Knight, who murdered her rotten husband who'd left her for some young girl and hid assets, throwing her out like a piece of used furniture.
by Anonymous | reply 120 | December 31, 2019 5:57 PM |
[quote]Right now I'm watching Jerry Orbach as a criminal defense attorney representing Shirley Knight, who murdered her rotten husband who'd left her for some young girl and hid assets, throwing her out like a piece of used furniture.
What are you watching???
by Anonymous | reply 121 | December 31, 2019 8:36 PM |
R121, he's watching L&O, Season 2, Episode 2, "The Wages of Love". Originally broadcast September 24, 1991. Orbach guested as a defense lawyer.
by Anonymous | reply 122 | January 1, 2020 3:53 AM |
[quote] And I was wrong when I posted that Ion's episodes started with Briscoe (Orbach) and Green (Martin). They start with Fontana (Dennis Farina) and Green.
Nope, you were right the first time. ION starts with season 13 starring Orbach and Martin, two seasons before Farina replaced Orbach because of his prostate cancer.. I'm so grateful BOUNCE has just started over with Season One with Noth and Dzundza because I haven't seen those episodes since they were first broadcast. They're great. Oddly, BOUNCE ran season one up until the second episode of season two with Paul Sorvino but this week BOUNCE went back to the opening episodes of Season One. Whatever. Glad to see those early episodes again.
by Anonymous | reply 123 | January 3, 2020 5:37 AM |
^ Oddly, it seems that seasons 1 -12 and seasons 13 -20 are syndicated separately as different packages.
by Anonymous | reply 124 | January 3, 2020 5:49 AM |
I'm the divine Linus Roache, as A.D.A. Michael Cutter.
by Anonymous | reply 125 | January 3, 2020 5:55 AM |
The show should never have been cancelled when it was. It had the best overall cast it had had in several years and the ratings were going up. No one was expecting the cancellation which is why there was no real finale. To make a very long story short, Dick Wolf got greedy and demanded too much money from NBC to bring it back. The NBC suits called him on it.
by Anonymous | reply 126 | January 3, 2020 6:03 AM |
I'm the takeout Chinese food containers out of which McCoy eats while he's talking -with his mouth full of beef lo mein - during a late-night strategy meeting. His speech is just as slurred and incomprehensible as it is when he's not actually eating food.
by Anonymous | reply 127 | January 3, 2020 6:54 AM |