Ally: Today's gonna be a, a less bad day, I can feel it. Sometimes I wake up and I just know everything's gonna be... less bad.
Ally: You... you loved me. Billy: Yeah, that's the truth. So much that sometimes when we were apart we used to keep an open phone line at night so while sleeping I could listen to you breathe. Is that what I should have told Georgia?
Georgia: I'm... I'm sorry but.... I, I really hate you. I'm ashamed to admit it... Ally: No. No... it's OK because I, em, I really hate you, too. Georgia: Really? Ally: Yeah. Georgia: You're not just saying it? Ally: No.
(Talking to Ally) Richard: It's important they come out of that meeting believing they'll be paying less taxes. Less taxes, reduced, not as much, diminished, abated, less, less than lower. I'm nothing if not redundant. I, I also like to repeat myself.
Ally (V/O): I do wish my breasts were bigger. Not huge, but... less small. They... they could... I'd look good less small.
Renée: It'll kill you, getting up early. Ally: I don't have to get up earlier. Renée: Working with your ex-boyfriend, hair and makeup alone is an extra half hour. Ally: Renee, I stopped caring 3 years ago. Renée: That's why you're in here changing lip liner and wishing your breasts were bigger.
Ally: Great. Great. So, uh who's your best litigator? Richard: That would be Billy. Ally: Oh that would figure. Who's your second best? Richard: Ally, this lawsuit, is it more about accounting for yourself or do you want to give it to Billings ? I sense that you'd like to grind up this guy's head and feed it through his intestines. Ally: Something like that.
Ally: Rich... Richard, Richard I'm in the bathroom. Richard: Oh well unisex. Studies show it helps employees breed familiarity. So long as they don't come in to just breed.
Richard: John Cage is my co-founder, you'll love him. He's out today getting his frown lines bo-toxed. Makes rain in his sleep. Look at this office avant-rich. It stinks of money.
Ally (V/O): I don't understand. I go to law school 'cause I was so in love with a guy. He leaves me to make law review and now I'm singing up with somebody who... who... who... who started his own firm for the piles ?
Richard: I can't believe, I haven't seen you forever. Ally: Richard, how are you? Richard: I'm outstanding, you look fabulous. Ally: I know, I just got fired for it.
Ally (V/O): They got their wish. I remembered that "fool for a client" rule so I retained independent counsel, filed a claim and planned to go public. But he didn't care about it being public. In fact, to help bolster his O.C.D. defense, he started squeezing butts all over, as strategy. To do it in the open, he must have O.C.D. That was the thinking anyway.
Ally (V/O): He claimed O.C.D. – obsessive compulsive disorder, the sickness being to squeeze butts.
Ally (V/O): When I told Mr. Lyne the story he got fired. Ralph: What? Ally: The guy grabbed my buttocks.
Ally: Love and low are the same, romantic in concept but the actual practice can give you a yeast infection.
Ally (V/O): I'm not sure how it all started. Oh it was 'cause I smelled his bottom. It wasn't that stupid. We saw dogs do it. That's how they knew for sure so... No we didn't even smell anything. Oh... it was the kiss. It was too... so... Oh I actually felt my whole body tingle. Or maybe it was when our tongues touched or... No, no it was that first kiss... which was so soft... his lower lip barely touching my top lip. That was magic. The first time wasn't... I pinched a nerve in my neck. If we could have just stayed broken up... but I just had to follow him to law school. I didn't even want to be a lawyer. I... I just, hum... maybe I studied to hard. No. No it wasn't me. It was him. He's the one who had to transfer to Michigan.
Ally (V/O): I actually like the quest, the search. That's the fun. The more lost you are, the more you have to look forward to. What do you know? I'm having a great time and I don't even know it.
Renée: (to Ally) That's why you're in here changing lip liner, wishing your breasts were bigger
Ally (V/O): So here I am, the victim of my own choices. And I'm just starting.
The episode features the first appearance of Vonda Shepard, who plays herself/music performer during the entire series. During the first season, Vonda will be signed only as a guest star, although she will appear in all 23 episodes.
Featured Music: "Maryland" by Vonda Shepard "Searchin' My Soul" by Vonda Shepard "Neighborhood" by Vonda Shepard "Wildest Times of the World" by Vonda Shepard "Tell Him" by the Exciters Theme from "Psycho" "Drown In My Own Tears" by Vonda Shepard "Baby Don't You Break My Heart Slow" by Vonda Shepard "Like a Hemisphere" by Vonda Shepard.
David E. Kelley originally wanted Bridget Fonda to play the role of "Ally McBeal," but the role later went to Calista Flockhart.
First 11 episodes of Ally McBeal aired in Canada one day prior to the original airing in the USA.
Gil Bellows, who plays William "Billy" Thomas on the show, had a role in a 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption where his character was named Thomas William.
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