Ally McBeal: Silver Bells
Silver Bells
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- Season: 1
- Episode: 11
- First Aired: 12/15/1997
- Prod Code: AM10
Three intelligent, successful and motivated adults approach Judge Whipper Cone about the possibility of getting legal representation in their quest to have the courts approve a legal, binding, three-way marriage. Fish assigns Ally and Cage to the case, knowing Ally's incurable romanticism and Cage's legal acumen is a potent combination with Whipper assigned to the case. Ally is opposed, claiming the three-way relationship is morally repugnant, but Georgia, feeling punkish around the holidays, points out that the clients' triangle isn't very different from the one in which Ally, Georgia, and Billy find themselves. Georgia accuses Billy of being more relaxed and open in their marriage ever since Ally re-entered the picture. Whipper, herself experiencing an annual bout of Holiday Blues, causes Fish to propose marriage, even though both know he really doesn't want to. Add a recap »
- Writers:
- David E. Kelley
- Director:
- Joe Napolitans
- Stars:
- Calista Flockhart (Ally McBeal)
- Courtney Thorne-Smith (Georgia Thomas)
- Greg Germann (Richard Fish)
- Lisa Nicole Carson (Renée Raddick)
- Jane Krakowski (Elaine Vassal)
- Gil Bellows (Billy Thomas)
- Recurring Role:
- Dyan Cannon (Whipper Cone)
- Peter MacNicol (John Cage)
- Renée Elise Goldsberry (Ikette #1)
- Vatrena King (Ikette #2)
- Eric Cohen (The Dancing Twin)
- Vonda Shepard (Herself)
- Steven Cohen (The Dancing Twin)
- Sy Smith (Ikette #3)
- Guest Star:
- Katie Mitchell (Patti Horton)
- Peter Roth (Network President)
- Bailey Thompson (Jean Horton)
- Amanda Carlin (Mindy Horton)
- Eric Pierpoint (James Horton)
- When Whipper visits the house of the "three-way-marriage", The Simpsons is on the TV in the background. edit »
- This is the first episode to feature the Ikettes, the back-up singers for Vonda Shepard, consisting on Renée Elise Goldsberry, Vatrena King and Sy Smyth, and occasionally other backups when either of the trio was not available. edit »
- Featured Music:
"More Today Than Yesterday" by Greg Germann
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" by Jane Krakowski
"Let's Get It On" by Marvin Gaye
"Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" by Lisa Nicole Carson and Vonda Shepard
"Please Come Home for Christmas" by Vonda Shepard edit » - Harry Groener had some scenes shot for this episode as a character Vermont, but his scenes were cut. edit »
- FOX repeated this episode on December 21, 1998. edit »
- Peter Roth, the "network president", actually is president of Fox Entertainment. edit »
- Ally: What made you stop believing in Santa?
John: I did believe until I was 12 years old.
Ally: What made you stop?
John: My mother - she told me he fondled the elves. Some therapist told her step one was to at least undermine my admiration for him. Next year she told me he died - heart attack. I blamed myself for leaving the cookies...fat man trying to squeeze through a narrow chimney, and I taunt him with Oreos and a glass of whole milk.
Ally: And you call me odd. edit » - Ally: Relationships should be in twos, or at least even numbers! edit »
- Georgia: Do you just sniff trouble and seek it out?
Elaine: Yes, and if there's any way I can complicate it... edit » - (Elaine is singing "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" while Richard and Renee look on)
Richard: You know if she caught her mom with Santa, she'd tell her father.
Renée: In a second. edit » - Georgia: (to Billy) I don't think you're being unfaithful, but I think there's little pockets of intimacy that you can't get to with me that you do get to with Ally. edit »
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