Boston Legal is by far my newest favorite TV show and this is one example of why. One of the lawyers on the show, Denise Bauer, defended a man who tried to buy a lung off of a man who was dying of cancer. Bauer finds out that he died during a lung transplant surgery from a mariachi band that invades her office. She decides to go to the hospital, accompanied by another member of the firm, Alan Shore, to pay her last respects.
When they get there they are surprised to find that his remains are enclosed in a medium sized Tupperware container... the explanation: that the man donated his entire body to science and other people. All that is left is a foot. Since they are there anyway, they decide to look -- Shore gets the first line after the foot is uncovered: "He looks so peaceful."
Hysterical. The woman objects that not only was her friend's foot smaller than the one in that box, but that her friend was not African-American. The attendee at the morgue doesn't know what to say, because she is getting a little upset. Finally the deadlock is broken by Shore who says, "Look, can you just find my friend something a little lighter, possibly in a size 8?" And end scene.
And, end blog.
Ooops, not quite, just finished watching the show... turns out that his body was stolen and sold on the black market, his head to a haunted house in Salem. Since the information was ascertained in a lawyer-client privileged situation, the mourning lawyer ends up going to the haunted house to seek closure.
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