Season: 5 Episode: 19 Production Code: AM-519 First Air Date: May 6, 2002 Writer: David E. Kelley Director: Billy Dickson Songs Elaine Sang: Elaine sang songs from "A Chorus Line" # of Times Richard said Bygones: 2 # of Times Charlie said Bygones: 4
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Synopsis: Once again, the McBeal minus the Ally. Ally was a stay at home domestic gal on account of Maddie got the sniffles and Victor got the heave-ho last week but she did stick around long enough to give Elaine permission to pursue her dreams. The dream is auditioning for a part in the touring company of A Chorus Line despite Nelle’s scoffing. So nice, for once Elaine’s life wasn’t played for laughs (not counting Claire’s number) and the cherry was that a director type, Josephson was truly taken with her, not an everyday occurrence for Elaine. So the romance ended abruptly and she didn’t get a callback since Christmas Parties don’t exactly fill out a résumé, but never fear as of all the blonde vixens in the world, Nelle, decided to save the day and begged for another audition. Elaine finally got her Ricky Martin at the Grammy's moment, singing and shimmying her heart out to rounds of stuffy theatre crowd applause. However so far she has neither the man nor the gig. On to other minus Ally stories. We finally meet Richard’s family, surprise, surprise the patriarch is not Ward Cleaver, it’s a warped Jim from Murphy Brown. Warped in the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree way, what with his bygones, a wattle fetish, and his wandering eye. Dear old dad started to fall for his secretary so he fired her before things could get messy forcing Richard and Liza to take the case and his wife to file for divorce. Mama Fish is kind of a less leggy Jerry Hall in that she had been fine with the womanizing kinda cause she thought she had the love market cornered. Oh, and as mother’s are want to point out these little things she told her son he’s incapable of love. Anyway enough at least momentarily about Richard’s serial monogamy. Liza grew a heart three sizes that day as she focused her closing on the virtues of love, thereby winning over mama Fish if not the jury who saddled them with a slight fine. The Fishes have decided to renew their vows (if that’s the big wedding...). Later, feeling inspired one supposes, Richard confessed to Liza that he’s falling in love (?) with her and they steamed up the windows of a taxi on the way to her place. So that’s another episode down and still no Larry. |