Ally McBeal
TV Show • 1997
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Ally McBeal is a young lawyer working at the Boston law firm Cage and Fish. Ally's lives and loves are eccentric, humorous, dramatic with an incredibly overactive imagination that's working overtime!
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Is rape mentioned?
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E10
Casual prison rape joke 11 minutes in. Told to a trans/GNC person who would be going to male prison. Ally quickly realized it was in bad taste, but blames it on Freudian slips and the scene moves on.
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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Is there sexual content?
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The whole show is predicated on gender politics and sexual / romantic relationships, the lack of them and the search for them. Not often actual sex scenes or anything explicit, but occasional ogling of an attractive person, occasional mentions of SH.
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Are there transphobic slurs?
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No but a transwoman prostitute is talked into using transvestite fetishism as an insanity plea.
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Is there decapitation?
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E13
Plane crash dream sequence as a cold open. Discusses the dream after and ally is made fun of for being upset. Mention of decapitation. Later on a daydream sequence has Ally decapitating her current boyfriend/partner.
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E10
Constant misgendering of the trans client. Obviously even the title refers to the trans woman as a "boy"
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S1
E9
Dirty joke, ableist joke about a quadruple amputee
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E10
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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Ally is often day dreaming with extremes and CGI special effects as one-off non sequitur often. Almost once per episode at minimum.
one example, people litterally putting their foots in their mouths as if they were stretchy and unrealistic.
one example, people litterally putting their foots in their mouths as if they were stretchy and unrealistic.
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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Does a woman get slapped?
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Ally Mcbeal often, at least 1 per epsode will day-dream something fantastical. Being completely frozen or in later seasons, a dancing baby. It's not until later seasons where the question of derealization / disconnection to reality come up. Mostly its just one-off jokes.
It can border on hallucination occasionally.
It can border on hallucination occasionally.
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There are funerals and mentions of death off screen. Flashbacks to the person being alive, I have not seen a person die on-screen yet.
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S1
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Dream sequence as a cold open. Discusses the dream after and ally is made fun of for being upset.
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Does a parent die?
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Not on screen and not a main character, or a main characters parent.
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S1
E9
"The dirty joke" the titular joke is about a 4 time amputee and is in fairly bad taste.
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Season 2 episode 5 John Cage’s show frog gets flushed down a toilet. The frog re-emerges in S2E6 and gets flung against a door and is on life support. He comes out of it S2E7 only to be flung again, revived and later due to a misunderstanding at a restaurant is cooked and served. It was all completely unnecessary and totally gratuitous.
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S2E5 Not deliberately but Nell is startled by John’s show frog and hits him across the room into Richard’s hand. The frog is okay but is later accidentally flushed down a toilet in the unisex. The frog re-emerges in S2E6 and gets flung against a door and is on life support. He comes out of it S2E7 only to be flung again, revived and later due to a misunderstanding at a restaurant is cooked and served. It was all completely unnecessary and totally gratuitous.
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