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During Avery's midnight feeding last night, I watched the most recent episode of Boston Legal. Mmmm. It seems like someone said "It's been a while since we've been reminded how awesome Alan Shore is." Thus, the most recent episode.

What interests me about the episode though, is one line from the end. When Alan joins Denny on the balcony to smoke cigars and drink brandy, he does so for the first time in the episode (rather than the second, third, or even fourth time as often happens in any given installment of BL). When he arrives, he says:

How are you? I haven't seen you much this episode.

As Moe Sizlack might say: WHAAA? Boston Legal, while filled with the usual David Kelly nuttiness, has never nodded toward anything like self-referentiality. And Shore's comment goes un-remarked-upon as he and Denny chat. There's no sly look to the camera, no nothing. He just said "episode" instead of "week". I'd like to imagine a Purple Rose of Cairo kind of deal, where Alan is getting tired of dancing around on the screen and is readying to leap into the real world: he's testing the waters.

Posted by briley at January 26, 2006 5:40 PM