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After the Ball Is Over

Episode Number: 2    Season Num: 1    First Aired: Sunday September 21, 2003    Prod Code: 102
A practical joke leads Ben to a piece of the puzzle that is his past. Brother Justin and his sister Iris try to turn a brothel into a house of worship. Sofie tends to her comatose mother.

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Writer: Daniel Knauf, Ronald D. Moore
Director: Jeremy Podeswa
Star: Clea DuVall (Sofie),  Toby Huss (Stumpy Dreifuss),  Patrick Bauchau (Professor Lodz),  John Fleck (Gecko),  Clancy Brown (Brother Justin),  Adrienne Barbeau (Ruthie),  Tim DeKay (Clayton Jones),  Brian Turk (Gabriel),  Diane Salinger (Apollonia),  Debra Christofferson (Lila),  Cynthia Ettinger (Rita Sue Dreifuss),  John Savage (Scudder),  Rob Knepper (Tommy Dolan),  Carla Gallo (Libby Dreifuss),  Michael J. Anderson (Samson),  Amy Madigan (Iris Crowe),  Ralph Waite (Reverend Norman Belthus),  Nick Stahl (Ben Hawkins),  Karyne Steben (Alexandria),  Sarah Steben (Caladonia)
Recurring Role: Blake Shields (Osgood),  Amanda Aday (Dora Mae Dreifuss),  K Callan (Eleanor)
Guest Star: Cass Asher (Calvin),  Gigi De Leon (Prostitute),  Vladislav Kozlov (Russian Soldier),  John Savage (Heck Scudder),  Ted Rooney (Flasher),  George Kee Cheung (Mr. Chin),  Kathleen Gati (Emma Templeton),  Dennis W. Hall (Garrett),  Brent Hinkley (Wheel Man),  Linda Eve Miller (Waitress),  Bill Mosely (Possum),  Patrick T. O'Brien (Clark),  Stephen White (Lester),  Lisa K. Wyatt (Minnie),  Michael Massee (Russian Soldier),  Ron Perkins (Carroll Templeton)

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Music from this episode includes:
Ruth Etting: Love Me or Leave Me
Rita Abadzi: The Bouzouki (edit)

Quotes

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Rita Sue: (to Dora Mae) Gal, you eat like a lumberjack, you're gonna look like a lumberjack, and nobody wants to see a lumberjack dance the cootch!
Libby: I'd like to see a lumberjack dance the cootch. (edit)

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Title: After the Ball Is Over
The episode title is taken from the song After the Ball, written in 1891 by Charles K. Harris. It can be heard towards the end of the episode, sung by Alexandria and Caladonia. (edit)
Jonesy: Babe get that homer yet?
Samson: It's still sitting around 699.

Samson and Jonesy, like the rest of the U.S., are eagerly waiting for Babe Ruth to hit his 700th home run. He eventually hit it on July 13, 1934, placing this episode's events sometime in the early summer 1934. (edit)
"Crazy as mud-bugs on a griddle": Mud-bugs are another name for crawfish. This phrase is an analogy to being highly upset about the current events one finds themselves in. (edit)
Crack-up: Colloquialism for a car accident. E.g. "You're lucky you didn't have a crack-up" (edit)
Your ma is a turnip: This is a way of saying someone is in a vegetative state. In this case, Ben said it referring to Apollonia, who suffers from chronic catatonia. (edit)
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After the Ball Is Over
"Filler episode"
OMG, I fell asleep.
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After the Ball Is Over
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The ball caught me
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