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What are the weirdest and/or badly aged one liners of this show?
I'd say for me it's this one in s5e5 "In The Wee Small Hours (1)": Three kids are missing at a school trip and the detectives assume that two boys somehow assaulted or kidnapped a girl because all three of them went missing when find their lasertag vests in a storage room.
For some reason Alex says this:
"THE LIONS MOVED IN FOR THE KILL."
What is the worst one you can think of?
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Dunno about worst, but my favorite from this episode (about the entitled prep kids and their adolescent sex club modeled after Frank Sinatra and “The Rat Pack”):
Goren and Logan head out to go and spring an arrest at the pack leader’s poker game. Eames gives a knowing look to Barek mocking the male swagger. “There they go: Ocean’s Two.” 🤣 I liked Eames, she was like a mini-Lennie at times.
Eames again, looking at a picture of a so called handsome gigolo, "He looks like all three stooges."
In “Chinoiserie”:
Goren goes through all the intricate and fascinating history of Chinese calligraphy and the “provenance” of authenticated ancient treasures. Deakins is speechless. Eames smirks, says “he got that off his box of Wheaties this morning.”
She was great! One of my favs was when she was talking to a perp - paraphrased "My partner has a fancy name for people like you; psychopaths. I just call 'em screw ups."
The Good Doctor.
The Extra Man.
That’s hands down one of my favorite lines in L&O: CI
Not weird as in “bad” but weird as in “totally caught me by surprise”: there’s an episode where Briscoe shows up late to a crime scene, Green says it’s nice of him to show up, and Briscoe goes “I’m tired, hungry, and cranky. Mom forgot to pack my snack.”
It took me totally by surprise and I still cackle every time I think of it. It was so out of the blue and funny
Eames always rocks.
Another quip I remember is from "The Pilgrim" when she and Goren went to that port where delivery containers were. After discussing how the coffee table delivery for Leslie, the victim, was a test for terrorists to smuggle in other things, Eames says...
"The more I know, the less I sleep."
"The plot sickens"
Eames, "The Good Child"
I always imagine a loved one of the victim overhearing the quips of L&O detectives and going, “WTF you’re making jokes!”
Not really, because earlier in the episode they find evidence that a note was left at the lion statue for the girl that went missing.
In "Palimpset," the episode with the historic boom, when Nichols is meeting with the mysterious British woman.
Nichols "It was like something out of Dickens."
Woman: "No, Zachary, it was like something out of your life."
Yes, honey, it is called a simile. Something out of his life was LIKE something out of Dickens.
Me: "When I SCUBA, I'm like a fish."
Woman: "No, Ravel, you're like a SCUBA diver."
Egg Cup!
No, no. It was "EGG CUP!!!!!!!!"
Also... "Ungrateful biscuit eating son of a bitch."