| Before shutting the door on their trademark coed
bathroom & retiring to rerun land for an undoubtedly long life, America's sexiest lady
lawyer, her merry band of equally quirky cohorts, & creator David E. Kelly broke
spanking-new ground by opening the door on us & our favorite fetish to untold numbers
of unsuspecting eyes with the spanking-hottest episode ever of ALLY McBEAL.
Aptly title, "Buried Pleasures", the episode aired on November
11, 1999 to millions of Ally addicts & millions more (you know who you are!) who tuned
in to watch the much publicized KISS costars Calista Flockhart (Ally) & Lucy Liu
(Ling) were reportedly to/did share (above) at the apex of a sexy storyline surrounding an
erotic dream Ling has about Ally & their mutually enlightened quest to explore the
possibilities of lesbian love.
Well, the long, lingering, artfully shot & awesomely acted kiss was
worth the wait as was the rest of the intelligent, extremely erotic storyline that
led up to it. Butt...
Better still, buried within the "Buried" episode & totally
ignored in all the lesbian hype was another nicely done ditty revolving around another
female lead's, (Nelle, played by Portia De Rossi), "dirtiest little
fantasy" & her lover's (John, played by Peter MacNicol) sincere but
bumbling attempt to fulfill it despite a deep aversion to what he perceives as a simply
violent, abhorrent act.
If that sounds familiar, we're certainly not surprised. Everything about
this plot was on the mark, including... Our bumbling boy's failure to talk to his lady
once he discovers her secret... His erroneous assumption that his lover wants to be
beaten, not treated to the sexy-stern role-play patting she has fantasized about for so
long... And Nelle's claim that her curiosity about spanking surprised her too & was
spawned once upon a time by a chance encounter with a naughty novel named, appropriately
enough, "The Naughty Maid." Somehow, we think that will sound really
familiar to many. Butt, getting back to the story...
Although we & everyone else who tuned in heard every little
detail of the strong-willed lady lawyer's wonderfully informative confession, her lover
did not. And, since John is a sweetheart at heart who wants to please his woman, he turns
his baffled & bemused self over to the slightly less clueless care of his legal
partner & close friend, Richard, who just happens to be Ling's
worried-she's-turning-gay-on-him lover.
Rising above his own concerns, Richard shares the little he can about the
subject of adult spanking & how whacky women are in general. Then both men try to do
the right thing & rush on the web. There, they gawk at/we hear the cracking, slapping
audio action of a spanking video clip, (above right), but fail to do quite enough research
to overcome their frighteningly realistic misconceptions that spankings can be playful as
well as punitive.
As a result, John is left to fend for himself, save for the one tip he
picked up on the net that, of course, comes back to haunt our well-meaning but bumbling
boy later in the show when he & his love are in bed... "Sometimes, when a
woman wants to be spanked, she'll use a hairbrush in bed & leave it on the night stand
in the hope her lover will pick it up & use it on her."
Sure enough, next time John's sleeping over at Nelle's, she picks up a
rectangular, paddle-shaped wooden hairbrush on the way to the sack & starts brushing
out her long, blonde locks. Peter MacNicol's face portrays his acting talent as poor John
hates violence & hopes it ain't so. But it is! After taking her sweet time, Nelle sets
the brush on the night stand just like they said! (Not us!)
Soooo, our boy sucks up his courage & decides to give his love what he
THINKS she wants. Saying he has a surprise gift for her on his side of the bed, he gets
Nelle to lean over to retrieve it, quickly picks up the brush, raises Nelle's nightshirt
and... Pounds the brush against Nelle's presumably bare or panty covered bottom (we don't
get to see, sadly) like he's driving nails through concrete!
Naturally, Nelle is totally shocked by her mild-mannered man's surprise
attack & silently screams through the four sizzling swats he delivers before she can
scramble away & scream loudly enough for everyone to hear, "Are you out of
your mind?!?"
Poor John is totally flabbergasted & sounds a
little like Porky Pig as he tries to stammer out an explanation. But his heated-up (in
more ways than one!) hellcat won't let him get a word in edgewise while she tosses him out
of her apartment & into a new world of confusion... It's what she wanted,
isn't it? No it's NOT!
And, now, thanks to the fabulous folks connected with Ally
McBeal, we & all the fans who tuned in to the "Buried Pleasures" episode or
see it in future will know it, too! And we hope, come away with a new understanding of, if
not interest in, what we & good, old-fashioned spanking of the NEVER too old kind are
really all about! BRAVO!!
Footnote: Although Nelle forgives her well-meaning man in subsequent
episodes & forbids him from ever trying to spank her again, (Which, of course, John
eagerly agrees with. What else would you expect after such a traumatic first time for both
partners?), there was some cute dialogue between the couple before they buried the sword
such as Nelle snapping, "What are you going to do? Spank me again?!", when John
disagrees with her on a legal issue.
Additionally, since John inadvertently lets the cat out of the bag by
calling Richard on his cell soon after being tossed out of Nelle's apartment to lament
while he's busy winning back his not-so lesbian love, Ling... A cute scene we didn't
mention before where Lucy gasps, "He SPANKED her!"... the gang at the
office can't resist teasing John with various spanking references, thereby continuing the
CP thread, if not elevating it to the next level we would have dearly loved to see...
A spanking-second, properly paced segment featuring gentle
experimentation, lots of communication, encouragement and, of course, a rosy, wonderfully
warm & WOW conclusion! - cm |
 








Quotes & scene grabs presented here
courtesy of ALLY McBEAL, an outstanding David E. Kelly production originally broadcast on
FOX-TV. |