Jerry Orbach

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in the mind of my si- my, my single favorite Jerry Orbach line on, on OG Law & Order.

Yes.

Which is when-

I could be Dennis Franz.

I could be Jerry Orbach.

What's that guy have that I don't?

um, years of Broadway training.

You've got Don Rickles and Phil Hartman in the pre-show as the agents William and Morris, which is a joke that definitely lots of kids would enjoy.

And aside from Wally Bogue and Thurl Ravenscroft, you have Jerry Orbach as Pierre, and confusing anybody who knows him as Louie Aaron, thinking...

But he's not playing Lumiere, but he sounds a lot like Lumiere because, of course, he does.

And it just it turns into let's do songs like Friend Like Me from Aladdin.

And he goes back to work.

And Jerry Orbach is his editor.

Jerry

Orbach!

um they go to the shed aquarium uh there's a fundraiser for something she goes with griffin dunn he says you've made me very proud of myself

the entire time he's just like yes i did such a great job discovering you i did so good i am so good

he's a delightful little creep um and uh james woods breaks in there um by lying to people at the front To creep on her because he's decided and he tells Jerry Orbach he's going to do an expose on her because nobody knows anything about her.

And he's going to investigate her and bring her down.

Well, they did Law & Order: LA, but it, it lost something.

New York, I go back to the Jerry Orbach days.

Oh, geez, he was great.

Perfect role.

It's everything you, I mean, think that a, a New York detective, an aged New York veteran New York detective.

And, and I have a family member who was NYPD for a short time, who's FBI now, but it, it's, you know, such a large, massive, uh, city.

Um, you think about someone making detective, and Jerry Orbach just, just carried that out s- uh, episode after episode.

You know what really caught my attention, I mean, why I started watching it, was really the, like, the second season, I think it was, second or third season, was really, uh, Paul Sorvino, who, remember he played-

You know, like, I imagine Butlins to be like, you know, in Dirty Dancing, where they go to the, you know, they go to that kind of weird house in the, are they in the Catskills? Wherever they are.

They go to that weird holiday home and Jerry Orbach from Law and Order puts baby in the corner.

Anyway, there's dancing lessons.

You can play board games.