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The show has increasingly adopted the devices of breaking the fourth wall and meta-reference, but usually in a sly manner that can also be interpreted as the characters only jokingly pretending they're on a television show. Some examples are:
In the episode "An Eye for an Eye," Alan is asked if there is "someplace he'd rather be" to which he quips that he'd like to be on cable as that is where all of the best work is being done.
In "Gone," Denny, after shooting a homeless man in the face with a paintball gun, tells Alan, "They can't get rid of me, I'm the star of the show!"
In episode 209 "Gone" Denny tells Alan while on the balcony "I get action, I won an Emmy." William Shatner who plays Denny Crane has won two Emmys for the role. Alan Shore responded, "Just the same," as James Spader has also won two.
Denny complained that he was "tired of [his] Alzheimer's being a story point."
Alan says to Denny, "Ah, there you are. I've hardly seen you this episode."
Denny also says, in a late episode in Season Two, that everything he wants to express in life is bottled up inside of him like a "kidney stone", which is a possible reference to the kidney stone that William Shatner passed and later auctioned.
Alan jokingly refers to the fact the show had switched the nights on which it aired as a reason why he hadn't seen a recurring guest star sooner. In the same episode, a co-worker cautions Alan not to get involved with the same woman, noting "She's only a guest star."
In the episode "Squid Pro Quo," Denny references a new character on the show, expressing that he can't wait to "see her next week."
During the second season finale, Denny attempts to persuade Shirley to kiss him by stating: "Shirley, this is the sweeps episode." At the end of the episode, Denny and Alan toast to "next season," with the hopes that it would be on the same night.
In an early Season Two episode, shortly after the series moved from its original Sunday night schedule to its new Tuesday home, Denny and Alan are fishing in a rain sewer grate, during which Denny muses on various changes in his life he has had to endure. Among them, he states, "I miss my old time slot."
In the second episode of the second season, Denny asks Alan, "Show over already? You look beaten."
In the season premiere of the third season, Alan is speaking of how his recent casual sexual relationship with Marlene Stanger (Parker Posey) allowed him to act more like his true self and says, "These past few years I've felt this inexplicable compulsion to be somewhat redeeming as if I were some series regular on a television show."
In the second episode of the third season, "New Kids on the Block," a new male law partner and a law associate arrive at the firm and tell Denny they're the new guys, to which Denny responds "If there were new guys they would have shown up in the season premiere." Then, Denny grabs the new girl's buttocks and says "Welcome to Boston Legal." After she complains, Denny looks at the camera and says, "cue the music," at which point the opening credits begin. As the opening logo to the show slides on from off camera, Craig Bierko's character Jeffrey is seen to be looking back and forth as if 'seeing' the credits transition on screen.
From the episode "Fine Young Cannibal": after winning a case involving a homeless man who ate his best friend while cremating him, Alan Shore asks Shirley Schmidt, as if asking the audience, "Do you think we win so much that we lose all suspense?"
At the end of the episode "Fine Young Cannibal," the closing shot focuses on the smoke rising from Alan’s and Denny’s cigars. At a certain point, the vocalist singing the end theme begins coughing as if enveloped in this cloud of smoke.
After a tirade on the modern implementation of the constitutional right granting freedom of religion: "Yes I know, I'll get letters." -Alan Shore
Denny's advice to Bethany in "Lincoln" is read off large cue cards held by Alan, which Bethany apparently does not notice. Alan does this again in "Dumping Bella," when Denny expresses his true feelings to Bethany; she again does not notice.
Also in "Lincoln," when Lincoln kidnaps Shirley, he comments that if this were a movie, we'd hear a real ominous chord right about now. Immediately thereafter, the audience does hear such an ominous musical chord.
When Denny and Alan are smoking cigars together at the end of the episode "Lincoln," Denny asks when Alan's trial is. Alan says it is Tuesday at 10. Although "Lincoln" was aired on a Sunday, Boston Legal's regular timeslot on ABC is Tuesday nights at 10:00 p.m. Eastern time, and it was then that the episode featuring Alan's trial was aired.
In "The Nutcrackers," when Shirley assigns Alan a new case, he asks her what his ‘motivation’ is so that he can get into ‘character’ for the case; this is a question typically asked by method actors (re their motivation in a given scene or role). Also, the case file that Shirley puts on Alan’s desk looks less like a folder or envelope and more like a sсriрt.
In "Angel of Death," Denny plays the first few notes of the show's theme song on his "trombone-kazoo," coinciding with the real song playing over the opening credits.
In "Nuts," Claire asks Clarence -- dressed as Oprah -- to bumper out to a commercial break, as is done on on the Oprah Winfrey Show, immediately before an actual commercial break on Boston Legal.
In "Dumping Bella," Shirley mentions during a trial that she had not received her "March of the Penguins" movie screener from the Academy yet. As a lawyer, she would not be eligible to receive such a screener. As the real-life Candice Bergen however, who is a member of the Academy, she is eligible.
At the end of "Dumping Bella," Denny (dressed as Dick Cheney) is dancing with Alan (dressed as Shirley Schmidt). Denny comments that the neighbors would be puzzled if they saw Dick Cheney dancing with Shirley Schmidt on their balcony. Alan replies, "Well, if they're regular viewers, they know by now [that] anything goes."
In "Fat Burner," after opposing counsel gives its closing statement, Denny responds by asking, "how come the other side always ha[s] short closings?"
In "The Good Lawyer," Denny recoils at the idea that he “seem like a Jew”: Shatner has made a living playing characters (such as Crane) who are ‘true-blue’ American (although Shatner, in real life, is Canadian), Christian (although he’s Jewish), and conservative (Shatner’s actual views, however, are anybody’s guess).
In "Witches of Mass Destruction," Denny shows up to the office costume party wearing the same pink flamingo costume that Alan is; Alan then tells him, "Denny, you look pretty in pink." This is probably an homage to his role as Stef in Pretty in Pink, and a nod to the scene where Molly Ringwald is joined at the prom by her friend Ducky at the last minute.
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