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Man, remember “Ally McBeal?” What a great show. Lots of laughs. Great music. Just a classic ensemble cast full of incredibly talented people who all seemed to really gel with each other. You gotta think they all still hang out together from time to time.
I just get the sense that they were a really tight group of friends both on and off the show and I don’t see a reason for that to suddenly end just because the show got cancelled. I bet, every now and then, they get together and get drinks or sing karaoke or go on retreats together where they all assume their character personas from the show and reenact their favorite scenes for each other.
Just makes sense, considering how close they were on the show.
You gotta think that if they’re hanging out all the time, they probably all live near each other in the same neighborhood or apartment or whatever. They all have busy lives. They don’t have time to always be getting drinks like they did on the show at the end of every episode. Retreats are great, but expensive. By living near each other they could always be running into each other, but still have time for their own professional lives.
So they’re hanging out a lot, living near each other—you gotta think their kids know each other and maybe they even carpool to school or something. It just makes sense. They’re a super tight group of friends all living in the same area, their kids are definitely gonna know each other.
Not only are their kids gonna know each other, but you gotta think some of them are gonna develop super close relationships with each other and fall in love and get married. You gotta think Vonda Shepard’s gonna want to play “Searching My Soul,” the “Ally McBeal” title theme, as the new couple takes their first dance. Gotta think they’ll pop out a couple kids, name them after characters on the show: Ally, John Cage, and Judge Happy Boyle. Triplets.
Don’t get me wrong, I bet there are casts of shows that probably don’t like spending time together, living near each other, and having kids who develop close relationships and get married and have more kids together many years after the show has been cancelled.
For example, the cast of “ER.” As much as I love “ER,” I just don’t see Goran Visnjic grabbing a beer with Maura Tierney five, six years down the line then moving their families into the same apartment building so their kids fall in love and make babies. They just didn’t have the same chemistry.
On the other hand, I’m pretty sure the cast of “Boy Meets World” sleeps together in a large bed with Corey, Topanga and Mr. Feeny all squished together in the middle. Those guys were crazy for each other.
But not even that cast can hold a candle to the amazing sense of friendship and camaraderie that pervades the cast of “Ally McBeal.” You gotta think they’ll all die together of the same disease at the same time and get buried in a big communal tomb. When a cast is as tight-knit as they were, how could they not?
