Law & Order ends its 20 year run
Law & Order ends its 20 year run tonight. To put that in perspective, here's a quick snapshot from the beginning and end of the series' lifespan:
'Law & Order' Goes Out on a Oddly Personal Note
The procedural series' finale can't totally resist the urge to get series finale-y, giving us an emotional scene of Lt. Anita van Buren coping with a disease.
While van Buren's name may remind us of L&O's long-standing tradition of giving their police officers awesome porn names (Det. Lennie Briscoe, Det. Joe Fontana) it breaks L&O's cardinal rule: "never pretend anyone gives a shit about these characters."
However, we'll always remember the good time thanks to the series' twisty episode length story arcs, and the fact that it has been on at least one cable channel constantly for the past 12 years.
Theme Song
The thing we'll probably miss the most is the theme song.
Law & Order's "dum-DUMMM" are inarguably the most recognizable two notes in TV music history. The only show to ever challenge its supremacy, '24' (Beep- Boop, Beep-Boop, Beep-Boop) also airs its final episode tonight.
Unlike '24', the 'Law & Order' theme and writing staff had the professional courtesy to not just keep hitting those same two notes over and over until you felt like you were in some sort of migraine induced time loop.
Here's a clip of Will Arnett playing air guitar to the funky jazz guitar riff that filled out the remainder of the them song. Yes, the 'Law & Order' is so old, the theme song was played on something called a jazz guitar.
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Replyback in the 20th century, they used to go on and on about how the entertainment industry was destroying the morals of the youth, now in the 21st century, they b***h about how young people are damaging those same industries.
L&O SVU rules. Well, it doesn't, but I like it.
Replyalso, Lennie Briscoe's catch/joke/phrases are so much funnier and better than Horatio's without the aid of glasses or Roger Daltrey.
(BTW our national TV series are so bad, that US series like this look so f*****g awesome in comparison)
Best show ever!
ReplyShould've stayed on for one more year, just to claim the record for longest-running TV show ever. I forget, what's the show it's tied with?
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesGunsmoke.
The Simpsons would still have it beat.
*cough*Dr Who*cough*
Guiding Light has been airing for like 60 years.
The show has been horribly over-written for almost all of its 20 years. When asked a simple question by the police (in real life), most people just answer it, without pinning a stupid moral/slice-of-life-story to their response, for example. Somewhat self-conscious might be good, but this show suffered from some of the most cumbersome writing ever to pass itself off as good television.
ReplyIt passed itself off as good television?
Wouldn't it make sense to focus on the more interesting extremes?
After Jerry Orbach died, the show was never the same.
Replyagreed. He f*****g ruled.
f**k that they need to make Law and Oder Chicago! In that show they pick up a random black guy and torture him till he confesses to a murder he didn't commit!
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesThat sounds like a normal episode of SVU
Possum's right, also I don't see how that is a specifically Chicago-centric situation. Seems like that would work for L.A., Baltimore, Atlanta...
Because there was a huge case recently about this that had been investigated for a while.
What's "Law & Order"?
Reply Hide All See All 3 RepliesThis should read "what's funny?" because your not!
Never watched it. Couldn't even tell you if it's on over here. I've heard of CSI, NCIS, and all their spin offs but I've couldn't tell you which channel is showing Law & Order, never mind the fact it's supposedly been on for 20 years. Guess thats one good thing of being in UK!
Well, you'll have your chance, considering there's one on in UK, now.
The original Law & Order is the only one being canceled. Actually, nbc is creating a new series in place of the original. They just started airing commercials for Law & Order: Los Angeles
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Replyits only the mothership. svu and criminal intent are still running. you can still watch the cop killah be a cop.
ReplyThat's it? How dare you not run through the entire changing cast roster through the 20 year run! I demand mention of every ADA, and the manner in which they departed.
ReplyWell that was.....brief.
ReplyThis is it? This is all you have to say for the end of Law and Order? Oh, the humanity!
ReplyA jazz guitar is basically a normal guitar playing jazz music.
ReplySilly writer.
I know, right? And people act like being able to play electric is the same as learning an entirely different instrument (than acoustic).
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ReplyI'd call it hardcore punk.
Isn`t there a Law and Order UK?
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ReplyThe guitar in the Law & Order theme song is a thin, clean, Fender Strat type of guitar... while old (from the 50's), it's hardly a "jazz" type of sound, and more of a "funk" type of sound..
ReplyJazz guitars are bigger, hollow, and more "fat" sounding.. There's a very noticeable difference, even to people who don't play guitar. If you can hear different pitches, you can tell the difference..