Totally random thought

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I think they should do an episode of “Boston Legal” where Burt Reynolds guest stars as Denny Crane’s older, no good brother, Danny Crane.

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35 comments on “Totally random thought”

  1. I can see it no Danny Crane is a Doctor who has never lost a patient and suddenly he loses and is sued and he wants Denny to prove it wasnt his fault so he can maintain his track record. Will they both lose a case? Will Danny sleep with Poole? Will Denny every forgive JJ Abrams? TUNE IN.

  4. Hmmm. The guest appearance that I would love to see is Leonard Nimoy as a former ROTC buddy of Denny Crane.

    Sigh! If we could only have had the firm representing Deforest Kelly for a medical malpractice case.

  6. No. Adam West. And towards the end of the episode, there is a big 1960’s-style fight scene, with obvious stunt doubles.

  10. Since this is the final season of the show, how about a spinoff for Shatner in which he goes off to create his own magazine called Cranes?

    No?

    Um………starts a new martial arts system called the Crane Technique?

    Goes back to his first love, which was medicine, and call it The Crane Operator?

    No? Okay, never mind.

  11. Actually the Shat and Adam West have worked together before, as anyone who was at Mystery Trekkie Theater 3000 a couple years ago will remember. “Alexander the Great.” If you can find a copy online, as I was able to, it’s a can’t-miss of mid-1960s awfulness.

    PAD

  12. That was my very first encounter with Mystery Trekkie Theater 3000. And I deeply regret that.

    As enjoyable as the following ones have been, Alexander The Great set such a high bar that I don’t know if you can EVER top it.

    Unless someone tracks down that movie Shatner did in Esperanto…

    Nah. Not even that.

    Are DVDs available of MTT3Ks?

    J.

  13. I can see it no Danny Crane is a Doctor who has never lost a patient and suddenly he loses and is sued and he wants Denny to prove it wasnt his fault so he can maintain his track record. Will they both lose a case?

    Not Denny representing the plaintiff? One wins. One loses.

  14. My friend Don came up with this idea and I’d love to see it: introduce Patrick Stewart as the head of the London offices of Crane, Poole and Schmidt.

  15. Unless someone tracks down that movie Shatner did in Esperanto…

    It’s available. The only remaining print was discovered a while back and it’s in surprisingly good shape. If you can’t find a copy you could download it at http://www.cinemageddon.org/details.php?id=2818 (I believe it is in the public domain).

    A strange movie. Shatner is quite good in it (For more Shatner goodness, try THE INTRUDER).

  16. Now the film that I would like to see released on dvd featuring William Shatner in PRAYER FOR THE WILDCAT which has Andy Griffith playing a bad guy and costars Robert Reed.

  17. As long as we’re thinking randomly:

    I want to see Punisher outted as a skrull for two reasons:

    1. Never liked killer as hero thing.

    2. would find it amusing to see the punisher logo in Green with pointy ears.

  20. I think both the Nemoy and Stewart idea’s are brilliant. I am still pìššëd that this is the last season. Unless Obama wins, then okay. But if (shudder) McCain wins, then this show HAS TO CONTINUE! Seriously.

  22. Mr. David: Why don’t you have your agent pitch it?

    Thom Zahler: Not a bad idea, would be fun.

    Brad: Patrick Stewart as head of London office? Oh, if only.

    Tim Robertson: What a way to end the series.

    As long as we’re playing Trekkie-fantasy, how about a marital dispute between characters portrayed by Leonard Nimoy and Arlene Martel, who is having an old-folks affair with one played by Lawrence Montaigne?

    But putting Brad’s and Tim’s ideas together is probably fanboy overkill….

  23. My two cents… much as I love the show.
    When Denny had his little episode in episode 2, he died. The remainder of the episodes are either all taking place in Alans head, or Denny’s dying head. But either way, the episodes get more and more bizarre up until the season finale. Probably ending with Denny before the Supreme Court again or something. And at the end, we cut back to the episode 2 scene, and we realise Denny’s gone for good. It would be an off-the-wall ending for a very off-the-wall show.

  24. Hey guys, don’t forget Larroquette was a Klingon… We just need Christopher Lloyd to come on as a killer judge out for vengence against the entire firm of C,P & S… gets them all up for disbarment for ethics or something, and Denny kicks him in the jaw repeatedly — ” I AM SICK AND TIRED OF YOU!” — during his closing arguments…
    I know…. quite a stretch. It could happen.

  25. Actually, long years back, I had this stupid notion of a TNG/LA Law takeoff called LA Law: The Next Generation. The Enterprise has been converted into a spacegoing law firm and courtroom, with Picard as judge. Worf would be the Harry Hamlin character, in an Armani suit… with Danny Devito as his sleazy little brother, Woof…

    Opening sequence was cool, too. Enterprise does a slow flyby, and the camera pans around to the main hangar bay, with the door rolling down as we focus in on the words LA LAW: THE NEXT GENERATION.

    Created by Gene Roddenberry and David Kelley.

    To quote Malcolm Reynolds, I’m a bad man…

    Miles

  26. Give Alan a goatee…!!! (Cue Confused-where-the-hëll-am-I-music)

    Either that or Teri Garr shows up needing a lawyer for her boss who was caught fiddling about at a secret government facility.

    Or best of all….KHAAAN!!!!!!

  27. I personally would *LOVE* it if it were at all in any way shape or form to get Tom Baker on the show for a guest spot. Tom could be a rival lawyer or Denny’s arch nemesis from college or something, but how great would that be? Two aging Sci-fi icons with some what inflated egos being allowed to go at in a no holds barred scenery chewing free for all. Who do I write to to make this happen?

  28. Peter,

    I have all the research ready for a Man Men episode featuring Harvey Kurtzman. But I’ll never submit it, because I am doing well as a writer in my home country. Since Mad Men is about everything that went wrong after the sixties, this story should be about the ‘what have you done lately’ mentality. “But he’s the man who invented Mad” “He used to be the man who invented Mad, now he’s just another bald jewish guy.”

  30. I kinda like the idea, except I think Burt Reynolds still looks younger than Shatner (he actually is five years younger).

    How about this: Denny has some kind of episode and they call up his distant cousin, Frasier? Or his other distant cousin, Niles?

  31. Going back to Burt Reynolds (as I never liked BOSTON LEGAL), I got a recent kick watching MY NAME IS EARL. In season 2, they had Burt Reynolds as the rich, eccentric owner of half the businesses in Camden County. (“If he’d been poor, people would have called him crazy. Since he was rich, everybody called him ‘sir.'”) In an episode from 2 weeks ago, when Seth Green’s character asks Earl “Have you ever seen a movie without Burt Reynolds in it?” Earl answers, “Not all the way through, no.” HA!

  32. My wife wants to see Harry Anderson from Night Court show up as a judge that Larroquette appears before.

  35. More randomness…That movie Peter has mentioned before with Richard Dryfuss comes to theaters this Friday.

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