Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Difference between revisions

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''[[Most Wonderful Sound|CHUNG CHUNG]]''

** Starting in season 13, Alex Cabot and Casey Novak both return in (mostly) alternating episodes.

** Subverted in "Disabled" where the EADA, Garrett Blaine, is male. Given a lampshade in his first appearance in the episode:

'''Blaine:''' Still Looking. Stuck with me for now. }}

* [[Ambiguous Situation]]: [[Law and Order SVU]] loves to leave stuff unresolved for the audience to ponder. Usually it's on the simple level whether the guy is guilty or not (such as in the episode "Doubt"), but sometimes they take it to a much deeper level. The detectives just keep spawning new theories, and none of them either gets verified. For example, the episode "Slaves" features a husband, his wife, and their nanny/girlfriend/SexSlave Elena. They keep the relationship hidden...

* [[The Cast Showoff]]: SVU has had exactly three episodes featuring French (or Franco-African) characters, two of which just so happened to be when Detective Beck was on the show. Interestingly, it appears that the writers actually showed restraint on this one, seeing as Connie Nielson speaks ''[[Omniglot|eight]]'' languages.

* [[Catch Phrase]]:

'''Kathy''': Well, [[Lampshade Hanging|that's refreshing]].<br />

SVU Portable, we need a bus at ... }}

* [[Dirty Harriet]]: Olivia does this twice, albeit briefly, in Season 10. She goes undercover as a prostitute in "Wildlife", and a madam in "Hothoused".

* [[Dirty Old Woman]]: Rita Wills in ''Bedtime''

* [[Distressed Dude]]: Stabler in '"Zebras''.

* [[The Doll Episode]]

* [[Internal Affairs]]

* [[I Take Offense to That Last One]]: Happens often to the detectives when interrogating a suspect. An example is in "Hate":

Suspect: "Hey, I'm no psycho!" }}

* [[Ironic Death]]: {{spoiler|Sister Peg dealt with mentally unstable homeless people, vicious pimps, and drug addicts on a daily basis, not to mention the various attempts on her life, and the person who (accidentally) kills her? A random teenage girl who was aiming at someone else. Then again, Sister Peg risking her life and heroically sacrificing herself is very appropriate.}}

== J ==

* [[Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique]]: At times, Elliot, Fin or Olivia beat up suspects and [[Complete Monster|culprits]] alike, or emotionally blackmailing both witnesses and victims, {{spoiler|driving at least one of them to suicide}}. It's all in the name of justice!

* [[Jerkass]]: Elliot Stabler, at times. He beats up innocent men, verbally abuses others, ruins one innocent man's life after accusing him of pedophilia on a flawed report, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|commits at least several counts of police misconduct.]]

* [[John Munch]]: (Classic!)

** Twisted up in the episode where Terrence Howard's DA from ''[[Law & Order: LA|Law and Order LA]]'' [[Crossover|appears]] to defend his cousin, who {{spoiler|raped a woman who turned out to be the granddaughter of one of three men who raped his mother when he was a child ''and made him watch'' (and called her a whore to escape justice on top of it). Except he didn't -- he couldn't bring himself to do it and she only said that because grandpa told her no one would believe she was merely attacked and "black men always rape". The DA's cousin still gets a measure of revenge because the granddaughter A) is going to jail because of the false accusations and B) now utterly despises her grandfather.}}

* [[Rich Bitch]]: ''[[Up to Eleven|Holy hell]]'', the grandmother (who's [[Spider-Man (film)|May Parker]]!) in the [[Mushroom Samba]] episode "Wet," who sees her granddaughter as weak for becoming a drug addict and needing [[Sarcasm Mode|silly things]] like therapy and emotional support. Later, she visits her granddaughter after a suicide attempt just to take back her necklace and disown her {{spoiler|the granddaughter ''did'' kill someone (who grandma saw as more of a granddaughter than her own) but even the detectives can see how grandma drove her to it}}.

'''Grandma''' [[Bitch in Sheep's Clothing|(in a sweet old lady voice and a slight smile)]]: Well she's dead! }}

* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: Just too many.

* [[Running Gag]]: As Benson puts it, "why does everyone think I'm a lesbian?"

** Also the fact that Elliot gets terribly wounded every time he runs into a certain FBI Agent, Dana Lewis. {{spoiler|In the most recent episode "Penetration", he actually gets ''shot'' by her because a bullet she fired at her rapist ricocheted off of a metal beam. The resigned look on his face after getting shot is absolutely [[Crowning Moment of Funny|hilarious.]]}}

* [[There Are No Therapists]]: Averted. They come by the buttload, but they don't seem to make that much difference to the protagonists despite their best efforts.

** Depends on who is getting the therapy. Munch and Stabler (to a lesser extent, Cragen) are very resistant and only concede in dire circumstances, but Tutuola and Benson have attended therapy willingly.

* [[There Should Be a Law]]: To the point where the show isn't even about a sex crime half the time.

* [[Too Dumb to Live]]: In "Personal Fouls", a manager of the basketball star Prince Miller had told detectives he was wearing custom-made prototype shoes. {{spoiler|He wore those shoes when he killed a man who would effectively expose the fact that Prince had been sexually abused by his coach years ago}}.