Betty Buckley thought up one of the most preposterous SVU episodes of all time

[quote]"I actually pitched the idea for the story to [SVU writer] David Graziano and our head writer, executive producer Julie Martin," Buckley reveals. "We had a Zoom meeting, and they really liked the storyline, and then David took it and ran with it and made it what it is in the episode. I was really gratified that they picked up the idea and wrote the episode for me."

[quote]"I really love this team of people..." Buckley tells NBC Insider about the SVU team. "It’s a very positive set of a really lovely group of human beings. And of course led by Mariska’s phenomenal energy. When she [Hargitay] hits the set, she’s a force of nature... She’s just always fully present and so happy to be there."

[quote]"She’s such a profoundly compassionate and empathetic human being," Buckley says of Hargitay. "And any scene with her, you can just feel the palpable nature of the love, that is who she is... I just feel really embraced by her, by her warmth and her empathy. She’s a lovely, lovely person."

I loved the episode of "Mission Impossible" she thought up, where Cinnamon has a more-beautiful sister named Bettie who also is a spy but better and she PUTS OUT to Mr. Phelps because she's pretending to be his girlfriend in the country of West Lumbago in order to drive the evil tyrant crazy with jealousy. And she has Barbara Bain pretend to be her mother. Bettie fucked Martin Landau's and Peter Lupus' characters, too, and gave Greg Morris' character a blow job "because she respects the African culture so much.

In the real episode no one fucked anyone, the episode took place in "El Labradore," and Betty Buckley didn't appear.

I've never been fond of love when it's "palpable," which sounds like using a boob as a punching bag.

At least she didn't suggest her character belt out "Knowing When to Leave" while her husband was strangling on the floor.

(Or maybe she did)

I'd definitely watch that, r4.

Sounds like Bette watching her husband stagger around in The Little Foxes.

I saw that episode. The 911 call was so unrealistic. I can see why Betty doesn't want credit for that. She just calmly calls 911 and says my husband is choking send someone over and then hangs up. No time for the 911 operator to suggest the Heimlich maneuver etc.

Betty Buckley: Actress!

Betty Buckley? Didn't she tie in a cunt-off with Lupone?

I suggested the classic "Eight is Enough" episode where Susan stops a typically unhinged Abby from slapping little Nicholas!

Didn't Betty infamously give blowjobs to young men involved with Sunset Boulevard before her big entrance, because she said it opened up the throat?

She should have had Lorraine Maxwell rush to the bedside table and try to dislodge her husband's dinner with a dildo.

What? Betty Buckley’s getting her own threads now?

I think Laurie Walters talked Betty into pitching the Joannie/Abby lez story. Unfortunately it got whitewashed to Joannie feeling Abby resented her because she was named after the original Joan Bradford. There was supposed to be a sudden kiss in Joan's old photography studio, with Abby pulling away and slapping Joannie. Both agreed to never tell Tom, but when they realize Nicholas has witnessed them, they know they have to murder him, so Abby fixes the brake on Nicholas's bike, and he careens out into traffic, hit by a milk truck. Nicholas lingers on for several eps, and Abby steals Mary's keys for the hospital, and suffocates Nicholas with a pillow.

When does Nicholas' long-lost evil twin show up?

she looks like the puppet - Madame in the face now.

That is very funny r13.

Buckley up. It's going to be a very bumpy SUV!

I wonder if Hargitay and Buckley ever did some HARD CORE scissoring.

She's a lesbian. right?

R19- Yes

Only to fool you into believing she’s human, R19.

It is evilllllllll, EVILLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLl!

In France, they throw rocks at her. Then everyone settles in for snacks and riddles.

r13 That just reminded me…where are my keys for the hospital? It’s been a minute. #mildlyconcerned

Is that Miss Collins in OP's pic? Wow. With the exception of we DLers—and Madonna—time really is marching on.

She has aged terribly. That's her Irish heritage - stark white hair and wrinkled pale skin.

R15 nailed it.

She really does look like Madame now.

r15 = Patti

Looks like Madame

She looks like she could escalate her way through any department phone tree.

Once she reaches project manager, she reveals the CIA has implanted tracking devices into her vagina.

Could someone translate r28 for us?

Betty is nothing if not a prolific retweeter.

I’m happy for her…as this is all she has these days!