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*Ben and Leslie are married for decades*

"Hey Leslie, remember that time Ben tried to outright fire you back in the parks department shutdown?"
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"Hey, remember that time Leslie was really annoying?"

"Yes, all seven seasons of it"

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I was watching the first season of Boston Legal a year or two ago, and Jim O'Heir (Jerry/Garry/Larry) was in an episode as a mall Santa who got fired for being a crossdresser. It's one of the most humanizing episodes of the first season, and it might be one of my favorite episodes period - I'm watching season 3 on a streaming app, and I'm starting to get pretty grossed out with how the show treats women.

It's a pretty sympathetic portrayal of a gay person for 2004, and it even goes out of its way to mention that a majority of crossdressers are actually straight. It's an excellent performance by Jim O'Heir.

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refmon posted...

"Hey, remember that time Leslie was really annoying?"

"Yes, all seven seasons of it"

Lol she's only annoying if you find her attitude and characteristics annoying
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saspa posted...

refmon posted...

"Hey, remember that time Leslie was really annoying?"

"Yes, all seven seasons of it"

Lol she's only annoying if you find her attitude and characteristics annoying

Women with an opinion is exactly the type of thing most of CE finds annoying.
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MrMallard posted...

I was watching the first season of Boston Legal a year or two ago, and Jim O'Heir (Jerry/Garry/Larry) was in an episode as a mall Santa who got fired for being a crossdresser. It's one of the most humanizing episodes of the first season, and it might be one of my favorite episodes period - I'm watching season 3 on a streaming app, and I'm starting to get pretty grossed out with how the show treats women.

It's a pretty sympathetic portrayal of a gay person for 2004, and it even goes out of its way to mention that a majority of crossdressers are actually straight. It's an excellent performance by Jim O'Heir.

That's quite a coincidence, I also rewatched Boston Legal for the first time 2 years ago, even got all 5 seasons, even watched the last season of the practice since that's when denny and alan shore first showed up. Good show.

I think the actual gross thing is how the show in later seasons started to have a weird... fetish with incest and old gross stuff, I can't remember what it was, I do remember making a topic complaining about it here.
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harley2280 posted...

Women with an opinion is exactly the type of thing most of CE finds annoying.

Reminds me of this old joke about how tv show writers (obviously all male) would write female characters as either sexy femmes or disapproving mother-esque archetypes because you know, that's the only kind of women those guys have ever known.
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