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`LAW & ORDER' LETHAL WEAPON.


Byline: - David Kronke

Tonight's episode of NBC's ``Law & Order'' (10 p.m., Channel 4) opens with the following obligatory obligatory /ob·lig·a·to·ry/ (ob-lig´ah-tor?e) obligate.

obligatory

unavoidable; something that is bound to occur.
 disclaimer: ``The following story is fictional and does not depict any actual person or event.''

It then proceeds to relate the tale of a celebrity, pulled over for drunk driving, who calls a female police officer ``sugar tits Sugar tit is a folk name for a baby pacifier, or dummy, that was once commonly made and used in North America and Britain. It was made by placing a spoonful of sugar, or honey, in a small patch of clean cloth, then gathering the cloth around the sugar and twisting it to form a bulb. .''

We suggest the following disclaimer for future ``Law & Order'' episodes:

``Look, we've been on the air for 17 years, plus we have a couple of spinoffs still on the air snatching salacious sa·la·cious  
adj.
1. Appealing to or stimulating sexual desire; lascivious.

2. Lustful; bawdy.



[From Latin sal
 story lines from our grasp. Most shows run out of ideas after four or five years. Cut us some slack, will ya?''

In tonight's show, Chevy Chase Chevy Chase (chĕv`ē), town (1990 pop. 8,559), Montgomery co., W central Md., a residential suburb of Washington, D.C.; founded as a village, inc. 1914.  gives his funniest performance in about two decades as Mitch Carroll, a washed-up entertainer (big stretch there). Through a clenched clench  
tr.v. clenched, clench·ing, clench·es
1. To close tightly: clench one's teeth; clenched my fists in anger.

2.
 jaw that apparently serves as character development, Chevy's Mitch spews such invective as ``Are you a Jew? You're a Jew, right? I should've known they'd stick me in a room with a Jew cop!''

For more on the episode, go to Kronke's blog at dailynews.com/freshtv; click on ``blog.''
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Nov 3, 2006
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