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Law & Order Does Ripped From Consumer Headlines Show

2008-01-17T08:08:27Z

OMG, is anyone else watching Law & Order right now? They're doing an episode based around that judge who sued a dry-cleaner for $54 million over a pair of lost suit pants. UPDATE: And there's a Wal-Mart improper relations between co-workers angle, too! The shirts are yellow and the place is called "Savings-Mart." UPDATE: And a poison toothpaste from China angle! Same as was in the headlines, glucose replaced by antifreeze, then the tubes were dumped on discount stores, prisons, mental institutions, and old folk's homes. UPDATE: I missed it but apparently when the detectives walk in the Savings-Mart execs apartment, he tells them to not trip over the Thomas the Tank Engine. That wouldn't be the Thomas The Lead-Painted Tank Engine, now would it?

Comment from HappyCustomer on 2008-01-21

2008-01-21T19:15:50Z

I don't watch Law & Order, but I watch Boston Legal and they do the same thing. This season they had a case of a shock jock fired for making inappropriate comments, taking on a bank for an employee of the firm when the bank attempts to foreclose on his home, etc. Why not?

Comment from Rectilinear Propagation on 2008-01-17

2008-01-18T00:40:07Z

it amazes me that people still watch live tv.

@world-inferno:
If you aren't busy when something comes on, why bother using the DVR? Just watch it.

Comment from Rectilinear Propagation on 2008-01-17

2008-01-18T00:38:58Z

Awww! I wanna see it! :(

Comment from tracilyns on 2008-01-17

2008-01-18T00:02:01Z

why is nbc one of the last networks to put full episodes of their tv shows online? and L&O isn't on fancast.com either. i wanted to watch this on my lunchbreak since i only caught snippets last night. (but i did catch enough of it to freak out like ben did about it being about judge fancypants.)

Comment from busrider on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T23:54:49Z

Darn, I missed it. Guess I'll have to catch the re-run. Now if only I could find out when Law & Order re-runs air...

Comment from Tonguetied on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T23:42:56Z

Lord L & O has so jumped the shark...

Comment from Sherryness on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T23:10:28Z

Are you live-blogging Law & Order? That is too funny. Maybe you should make it a regular feature of the site.

Comment from valthun on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T22:01:35Z

On occasion they will state the show is based on an actual case. A few years ago they did a string of shows based on cases that occurred in San Diego. But I was too busy playing Mass Effect last night, I guess I will be waiting for the re-run now.

Comment from bluesunburn on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T21:38:05Z

@Papa Midnight:
A friend of mine had a walk-on role in that SVU episode as one of the Hassidim in the synagogue scene.
(He's an orthodox Jew, but not Hassidic, so they had to give him fake sideburns and the garb and everything)

Comment from cindel on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T21:11:58Z

Yep and this my friend is why L&O is the best ish on the TV.

Comment from Zeroist on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T19:03:27Z

@superjanna: I'm glad I'm not the only one who felt the Thomas the Tank Engine cameo fit in to the consumerist vibe nicely also.

Comment from Maulleigh on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T17:14:38Z

That's way too many angles for 40 minutes!!

I can't wait to watch it. I hope it's on soon....or I'll try to find it online.

Comment from SpaceCowgirl01 on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T12:21:47Z

watching on the west coast - a (probably lead-filled) Thomas the Tank Engine made a cameo, too!

Comment from MercuryPDX on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T11:19:31Z

@Meg Marco: What? Totally! :)

Comment from Meg Marco on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T11:13:09Z

@Mercurypdx: Young Diane Lane, I hope.

Comment from MercuryPDX on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T10:37:34Z

L&O: CI did an episode with poison mouthwash last year. IIRC it even involved some cover up at a city consumer group.

Comment from Papa Midnight on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T10:32:29Z

Yesterdays SVU was better and even that used a stereotyped image.

Comment from MercuryPDX on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T10:19:02Z

Chris - going by profile pic alone....

Comment from Ben Popken on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T10:17:36Z

Law and Order: CPD (Consumer Protect Division)

Matthew Mcconaughey will play moi, obvs.

Comment from MercuryPDX on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T10:13:05Z

Ben - Justin Chambers

Comment from MercuryPDX on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T10:10:57Z

@Meg Marco: I see you more as a "Diane Lane".

Comment from world-inferno on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T10:03:56Z

"is anyone else watching Law & Order right now?"

right now? it amazes me that people still watch live tv.

but i guess anyone who'd bother to DVR Law & Order might also give it a low priority so watching it live might be the only way to catch it. :-P

Comment from Meg Marco on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T09:59:53Z

@faust1200: I demand to be played by Diane "Fucking" Keaton.

Comment from Meg Marco on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T09:59:01Z

Ben watches Law & Order?

Comment from faust1200 on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T09:57:46Z

@faust1200: Ben- (a young)Gene Hackman, Meg- Julianne Moore, Carey- Antonio Banderas, Chris- Phillip Seymour Hoffman

Comment from Chris Walters on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T09:43:53Z

Chris = Daniel Day Lewis
Ben, Meg, & Carey = Zelda Rubenstein, playing all three roles via the magic of digital technology.
This is just a suggestion.

Comment from thewriteguy on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T09:42:45Z

If the writer's strike ever ends, I could see L&O doing an episode where a Geek Squad-like tech support team hijacks porn from computers they are fixing.

Comment from faust1200 on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T09:39:00Z

This begs the question which actors would be ideal to play Ben, Meg, Cary and Chris???

Comment from velho on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T09:36:15Z

Ok. NBC owes you some ad revenue. Being on the west coast, I will watch it in 2 1/2 hours for the first time in 3(?) years.

Comment from Consumerist Moderator - ACAMBRAS on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T09:23:51Z

Yes, it was very cool. Ben, are you moonlighting for the Law & Order writing team?

Comment from faust1200 on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T09:22:22Z

Are there kittehs also?

Comment from chicagocooper on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T09:11:17Z

Three top stories from 2007, poison imports, walmart's Julie Roehm executive affair scandal, and the lost pants. I thought the writers were on strike? This is some good stuff.

Comment from themediatrix on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T08:50:32Z

Whoa! You get really excited over, like, consumer issues and such.

Comment from descend on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T08:48:12Z

I love it. They just need to throw in a sub-prime angle now.

Comment from ptkdude on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T08:34:37Z

All characters and events are fictional. Any similarity to any people, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

Comment from DallasDMD on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T08:27:40Z

No, I'm not.

Comment from MercuryPDX on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T08:21:42Z

(Patiently waiting three hours..... sigh)

Comment from MikeB on 2008-01-17

2008-01-17T08:15:46Z

Yeah, too funny.