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Ah... the "Now imagine she's white" closing argument strategy.

Larroquette Battles As Carl Sack for Shatner's Denny Crane

Never did a scene make me laugh and scream so much in horror, at the same time.

jerry slam dunked this one

Gun control? You only need to look to the UK to see the slippery slope. After they banned all the guns people were using knives and swords. Now they banned knives and swords. Do you think that changed anything in the UK? Nope! There's always ways around laws. Criminals do it everyday. If you really want to stop the violence? Enforce the existing laws, or even strengthen them. This revolving door system that we have might make the Liberals feel good, but it certainly doesn't make them safer.

Meanwhile just listening to Scalia reading the majority opinion in Heller refutes his uneducated "rant", let alone the endless history, facts, and text of the amendment..

Kirk and Maltz

Ironically, Jerry was supposed to make a pro gun argument to make Denny lose and the case gets kicked up to the Supreme Court, but he ended up coming across as sarcastic. Denny won.

The towering sarcasm... spectacular.

2nd amendment is abolslut

The law... You're guaranteed the right AGAINST self incrimination. But you must give your DNA at the drop of the hat...every lawyer in America knows it but shrugs it off as , Naw, we didn't mean it.

Ha ha ha look at Hollywood pretending their interpretation of the forefathers constitution is better than the forefathers… Again ! At present we are blessed with the largest number of Hollywood idiots that promise to leave the country after the next election… So wonderful problem is they can bitch just as loud from across the pond

A well-regulated militia brings their own weapons to the fight.😮

Even if the 2nd amendment did not exist we would still have the right as persons to keep and bear arms because we are born with our rights. Our rights do not come from the state or the Constitution for that matter. If the second amendment means that only the militia had the right to keep and bear arms, it would have said that. But it does not say that, it says the right of THE PEOPLE to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. The clause points out that the militia is needed for a free state.

Let’s see I have more firearms training and hands on experience per year then the average soldier who shoots live rounds only a few times a year in training, or police officers who shoot 4 times a year, or national guard who shoot twice a year. So I think my proficiency in firearms is far more well regulated. And I recall having to join the emergency national militia before I was given the right to vote…it’s called the draft. It means at anytime for any reason for 30 years of my life I can forced to take up arms for my country. That is the roll of the militia. I think that counts so as long as we are 18 years of age and can be forced to go to war I count as a militia and keep my firearms

If you think the 2nd Amendment is referring to a "National Guard" or something.....do yourself a favor....read the Bill of Rights -witjout the 2nd-- from the 1st, 3-10.....they ALL describe individual rights..NOT state or federal rights. Therefore read the 2nd as the same.

Great scene I loved the way Denny had this look of admiration.

My God. The sarcasm.

Jerry Esperson is like the James Spader character.

Remember. The 1st Amendment protects all others. The 2nd is used to shoot the people who used the 1st.

This is an EXCELLENT video that perfectly encapsulates what your betters (Leftists, especially in Hollyweird) want you to think. Absolutely every single solitary thing our intrepid attorney said was 180 degrees the opposite of truth. Too long to dissect completely, but let's do a couple. The prefatory clause: A well regulated militia. At the time the Amendment was written, "Well Regulated" meant simply "ready to go". That means the militia had to be ready to go having a rifle and ammo that were in good working order so they could respond if called upon. So what is the militia (certainly not the military as was stated)? It was all the able bodied men between the ages of 16 (18 in some states) and 45 (60 in some states). Don't you remember that the Founders thought that a standing army was a bad thing? So how could you possibly think that they meant military if they thought having a standing military was a bad thing? So clearly we do want to "pay precise attention to the words in the Constitution".

Second Amendment <mic drop>

This lawyer would not be a lawyer after this, awesome scene that speaks the genuine truth, but is as unrealistic as it gets

Sorry, but you CAN'T have a "well regulated militia" without the "right to bare arms" !! The KEY in the 2nd amendment that IS overlooked is "shall NOT be infringed"!!

Roberts and Alito= enormous p.o.s's

⁠Now both first and second amendments are under attack from the left. The side that used to champion these amendments. That is proof about corruptible power. And the bastards that hold that power. The Government is made of people. Period. Humans. Not Gods. Greedy, corruptible people. And they fear the people the most. Take their guns and speech and you’ve taken them out of the equation. Now they use RICO laws and other handy tools not in the Constitution to payoff their buddies with our tax dollars and stop their enemies from getting elected. And they have yet to tell truths.

Funny thing about this case was that Danny and Jerry were trying to lose it so the appeal would go to a higher court but instead they end up winning and Danny then says “even when I am trying to lose I end up winning.”

Loved this show. Back when liberals weren't complete idiots

shitty writing, shitty argument

This show really pioneered combining proper legal analysis with sassy monologues

So true!!

Close your eyes, he sounds exactly like Alan shore

More left wing garbage from hollywood.

to be fair, a well regulated milita at the time of the founding fathers had a different meaning. regulated back in the founding fathers, up to the mid 19th century, was "to keep in working order" and the milita was at the time not a national guard or army or anything military related, but referred to the people arming up against a invasion force, rouge government or the common thief, which is later referred in the 2nd part of the 2nd amendment. so in reality, when the founding fathers wrote that in, the translation meant "healthy able bodied men of good character, necessary to the security of the free state, the right of those to keep and load arms against enemies foreign and domestic, shall not be infringed" thats the second amendment in a nutshell, from one autistic male. have fun debating in the comments~!

Two lawyers were sitting in front of me whining about anti-gun liberals, "What part of 'shall not be infringed' do they not understand?" I couldn't help but chime in with, "How about 'a well regulated militia being necessary to the defense..." They did not like me.

Look at John Larroquette's face, as Jerry continues on with his closing arguments.

I’m astonished how adept the actors in this series mastered pages of dialogue!

"Uh oh. He's using the Chewbazooka defense."

So let's just unpack a portion of the rambling emotion filled word vomit. The prefetory clause that he says is completely ignored is not ignored. They understand that words have changed meaning over time. Well regulated does not mean regulated by the government as that wasn't the intended usage of the words. They were used in a different context at that point in time. Yes, regulated does stem from Latin, which has the modern interpretation as well. But words have had different contexts throughout history. At that point in time, it was used to mean in good working order. Considering the entire purpose of the 2nd amendment is to avoid and fight a tyrannical government, why would they write a regulatory statute into the amendment itself. This, of course, can also be verified by the plethora of letters we have from the founding fathers that show exactly what they meant in the 2nd amendment. There is no question of our rights being violated when they try to disarm us. We have a right to personal and governmental freedom.

It's just a show but there is definitely some Hollywood mental gymnastics in saying "the well regulated militia" has to be ignored in order to form an argument that citizens have the right to bear arms. Because it states WHY after the fact. THE PEOPLE must be armed in order to protect themselves from their own government. If the government has guns and the people do not, that is what is called tyranny.

This was a PRO gun argument?

As an autist I am really thankful for Jerry Espenson, because for once we have an autistic character who isn't stereotypical and only defined by the one trait of being autistic, but a complex fully fledged character.

That was an excellent presentation. Hilarious and effective. ( I think he was learning from Alan Shore )

It is too bad they didn't include their meeting in the conference room outside the courtroom right after this scene where Denny give Jerry a cigar and explains to "Hackey sack man" what the strategy was in the courtroom.

Denny Crane!!!! 👍👍🙂

Still remember that judge riding a tri cycle in Laugh In.Maybe b4 u youngsters time

Carls face at the end will always get a laugh from me "what the fuck did i just get myself into"

Excellent social commentary. The irony is, Denny was hoping to loose in order to take it to a higher court, but the jury went along with Jerry's characterization of America's stance on the NRA's motto. Every mass shooting boosts gun sales. Sick, right?

You can't tell me he wasn't showing a little bit of Alan Shore in his argument. At times he literally sounded like Alan. Jerry was a genius, and Christian should get his own series. Great actor.

Jerry you lost, you freak. It makes no sense to enshrine a "right" for a militia to have guns. 20 years of that nonsense. Now it's settled. And, by the way, white people have 14th amendment rights, Jerry. You'll need to pass the "No Rights for Whites" amendment through the States. Good luck. Shatner was great. Spadernator was near-great. The rest of them? Meh-minus. Except the "hoot" guy, I liked him too. Magnificent Supreme Court. Only bloody thing Trump got right but it's not nothing.