Judge Ling

Season: 5
Episode: 2
Production Code: AM-502
First Air Date: November 5, 2001
Writer: David E. Kelley
Director: Oz Scott
# of Times Richard said Bygones: 0

Guest Stars:
Dame Edna Everage as Claire Otoms
John Michael Higgins as Milter
Albert Hall as Judge Seymore Walsh
Bruce French as Simon McAllister
Harper Roisman as ?
Eric Payne as ?
Earl Billings as ?
Linda Kerns as Mrs. Pamela Whoop
Mike Randleman as Warren Stephenson
Mary Ostrow as Woman
Stefan Limstead as Bailiff
Rick Boggs as Man on street

Synopsis:

Opening with everyone gathered at the bar for a musical number, it was all very Survivor III with the old ones grumbling about the young ones. More distracting was how very Keith Partridge Glenn can seem.

Now with that disturbingness out of the way, on with the regular kookiness. Ling and Nelle cooed over some wrinkly baldy and no, this wasn’t another of Kelley’s fave beauty and the beast deals. This happened to be the baby of the Governor of Massachusetts and Ling being at the top of her Eddie Haskell game won herself a judgeship. Tub of popcorn in hand, Richard and Nelle witnessed the birth of the Asian Judge Judy, literally, she scored a TV gig. See your mother was right about insincerity paying off, oh right, she probably didn’t say that.

Will you miss Ling or has her role been so small that when she finally is gone it will barely be noticeable?

Actually with 800 million characters on the canvas who has time for anything, there’s romantic chaos which we’ll address later, but first the legalities. Jenny’s big case moved forward with her flighty name plaintive Claire, and don’t call her Edna, there’s humongous difference. Now I’m not one generally prone to allowing Kool-Aid haired people make me laugh but if you kept a straight face through the Frankfurter missive, well, we should all bow to your betterness.

Jenny got all upset cause she saw Claire’s incoherence turn her case into a train wreck, and who was there to comfort her but Glenn, the -ex, they nearly locked lips before Ally interrupted. Oh yeah, and the case was switched to nuisance instead of harassment, like it matters as long as Raymond has a reason to hang around.

Is it jarring to see Ally surrounded by new faces or is it necessary freshness?

Coretta is a firm believe in newness, she’s a retired makeoverist (stripping isn’t the only vocation for college tuition these days, open minds people). Ally labeled John her big brother leaving him in dire need of some esteem, you know, like Coretta’s body suit of gel muscles. So he’s off to a fake spa so he can come back as a brand new fake man.

I’m not sure but didn’t Coretta used to be blonde and go by the name Elaine?

Elaine? Whoever that is, Ally sure wouldn’t remember, she’s now thisclose to Jenny’s gang. They quadrangle danced and then using some sort of Marcel Marceau tug of war, rapid talker Ray and that Glenn guy hailed a cab. Only Glenn stayed to walk Ally home, alone. At first G-man gave her the royal brush and then after about a thousand hours (if you judge by law gal’s fidgety body language) he mentioned that the thing with Jen is so over. Huh!

Okay, so is Ally too old for Glenn or is it just my Raymond infested eyesight that dislikes the pairing?

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