Ally Oop
I wasn’t a regular watcher of the series Ally McBeal, that starred Callista Flockhart, though I did watch it a lot, especially during its first few years. And one of my very favorite things in the show was Peter MacNicol’s deep, profound, ethereal love for the singer Barry White, most especially the song, “My First, My Last, My Everything,” which he would periodically use to gear him up for something important, often a big court case. The music would begin to thump in, generally in MacNicol’s head, and off he’d go. And even if others couldn’t hear, when they saw MacNicol go into his zone, the others in the law office would know. Sometimes it would last for just a few seconds, but often they’d go into full Barry White.
This may be one of the best uses of McNicol and the song – joined in the office’s unisex bathroom by Taye Diggs and Robert Downey Jr.
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