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Ally McBeal

Making Spirits Bright

Season 2, Episode 10, Aired Dec 14, 1998

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Fish throws his annual Christmas bash as Ally and Billy get drawn into a high stakes case involving a wealthy bond trader claiming wrongful termination. Rene and Matt consummate their affair but with painful consequences. Ling tries out Christmas cheer but it doesn't work. Cage tries to be the aggressor with Nelle with a little help from Ally and some mistletoe.moreless

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Richard T. Jones

Matt Griffin
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John de Lancie

Jackson Poile
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Mark Linn-Baker

Sheldon Maxwell

Calista Flockhart

Ally McBeal
Courtney Thorne-Smith

Georgia Thomas
Greg Germann

Richard Fish
Lisa Nicole Carson

Renée Raddick
Jane Krakowski

Elaine Vassal
Vonda Shepard

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Dreams and Honesty count in real life!!

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By shomerony, Jul 30, 2010

Among the many wonderful episodes of this serial this one ranks in the creme-la-creme in terms of it\'s sheer emotions and heart tugging power. Ally defends a person who is wrongly terminated for seeing a unicorn. In the course of her case she remebered her own visions of unicorn as a child. Unicorn stands for honesty and purity and is visible only to people pure at heart. She wins her case and our hearts in the process. In the end when she is reunited with the unicorn a definite lump in the throat is felt.

In this materialistic world it is touching to see a person so honest and pure yet so charming and successful. She is the ideal modern woman.moreless
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- During the scene where Ally walks in on her roommate, Renee, and her boyfriend, there is an old episode of "The Practice" playing on TV in the background. The episode playing was from Season 3, episode 3: "Body Count." Since both shows exist in the same universe, this was most likely a little joke by David E. Kelley to play on die hard "practice" fans who would find this gem amusing.
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- Richard: You've got to remember John. You're not who you are, you're only what other people think of you. Fishism.
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- Richard: Nelle, remember how you hate people talking about you behind your back? Nelle: Yes. Richard: I can't do that when you are in the room.
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- Helen Gamble: You look like you could eat a cookie. Ally: Maybe we could share one.
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- Portia de Rossi (Nelle Porter) and Lucy Liu (Ling Woo) are added to the opening credits as regulars, after recurring for the first part of this season.
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- Featured Music: "Silver Bells" by Vonda Shepard "Silent Night" by Vonda Shepard "Baby Don't You Break My Heart Slow" by Vonda Shepard "Dreaming of a White Christmas" by Vonda Shepard "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" by Peter MacNicol "Tell Him" by Vonda Shepard "Jingle Bells" by Vonda Shepard "Run, Run, Rudolph" by Jane Krakowski "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by Vonda Shepard
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- In an uncredited cameo, actress Lara Flynn Boyle crosses over her character, Helen Gamble, from The Practice in a scene where she runs into Ally in a courthouse.
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