Buried Pleasures is the second episode of Season Three and the forty-eight episode of Ally McBeal.
Synopsis[]
Ling and Ally share some lesbian passion. The Biscuit, after erroneously over hearing Nelle's fantasy wish, spanks Nelle and gets kicked out of her apartment.
Plot[]
Ling confronts Ally alone and asks about kissing a woman. Ling admits to having a dream about kissing another woman and gets very insecure about her sexuality. They agree to go to dinner to work on their relationship.
At the dinner, Ling and Ally start a 'dirty dance' to make the guys there frustrated and excited at the same time, as Ling put it. Ling then admits to Ally that the dream she had was about Ally. Once they leave dinner and arrive at Ally's apartment, Ally offers some coffee but Ling declines. Ling starts to leave only to turn around to give Ally a kiss on the cheek.
Meanwhile, John and Richard are having issues with their women. They are having problems pleasing them and they feel as if they have lost it. After searching on the Internet, Richard says that according to a survey, women love to be spanked. They leave their brush on the bed wanting their men to spank them. John stores this in his mind and feels rejuvenated.
Renee and Billy are involved in a sexual harassment case involving a woman who is believed to be a slut who dresses too sexy at work. Renee ends up calling Billy a male chauvinist pig. Tension builds between the two and Renee refuses to collaborate with Billy regarding the closing statements. Her closing statement wins over the jury and she and Billy win the case.
Back at the firm, Ally and Ling find themselves locked up in a room. Their curiosities have become too overwhelming and they finally kiss, lip to lip. Later on, Ally and Ling agree that they still like men because of that one extra variable men possess. Ally also promises Ling that she will never kiss another woman.
John, while in bed with Nelle, tricks her to lean over him to get a present he has for her under the bed. However, there was no present under the bed. Instead, John grabs the brush and starts repeatedly spanking Nelle. Nelle gets outraged and springs out of bed. She screams at John and says that she should call the police and kicks him out.
Script[]
You can find a transcript here and here.
Trivia[]
- This was censored in Singapore due to its lesbian theme.
- In a 2017 Hollywood Reporter interview, Lucy Liu recalled that the lip-to-lip kissing was the first big female-to-female kiss on primetime television. She also added that Calista Flockhart had some super soft lips.
Songs[]
- Oh, Pretty Woman | Roy Orbison
- Ally and Ling dance to tease the men in the restaurant.
- Fire | Vonda Shepard (cover, performed by the Pointer Sisters)
- Ally and Ling kiss, lip-to-lip.
- This Magic Moment | Vonda Shepard (cover, performed by the Drifters)
Cast[]
Starring
- Calista Flockhart as Ally McBeal
- Courtney Thorne-Smith as Georgia Thomas
- Greg Germann as Richard Fish
- Lisa Nicole Carson as Renée Raddick
- Jane Krakowski as Elaine Vassal
- Vonda Shepard as Herself
- Portia de Rossi as Nelle Porter
- Lucy Liu as Ling Woo
- with Peter MacNicol as John Cage
- and Gil Bellows as Billy Thomas
Guest Starring
- Heidi Mark as Alice Gaylor
- Dee Wallace as Gail Clarkson
- Paula Newsome as Phyllis Butters
- Michael Kagan as Robert Perry
- Victoria L. Kelleher as Helen Fischer
- Nancy Stephens as Judge Washington
- Tom Kemp as Foreman
Producers[]
- David E. Kelley - Executive Producer
- Jonathan Pontell - Co-Executive Producer
- Shea Farrell - Associate Producer
- Roseann M. Bonora-Keris- Supervising Associate Producer
- Jeffrey Kramer - Producer
- Mike Listo - Producer
- Steve Robin - Producer
- Pamela J. Wisne - Producer
- Kim Hamberg - Co-Producer
- Nat Bernstein - Consulting producer
- Mitchel Katlin - Consulting Producer
- Peter Burrell - Coordinating Producer