Season 3 Episode Reviews

1. CAR WASH
After convincing a minister to marry a young couple even though the woman had sex with another man right before their wedding, Ally is shocked to discover that she knows the woman's fiancée. Meanwhile, Cage is troubled when he can no longer access his inspiration, Barry White.

2. BURIED PLEASURES
Billy and Renee face each other in court over a sexual harassment suit as Ling takes Ally out to dinner to discuss an erotic dream she had. After overhearing Nelle's fantasy about being spanked, Cage decides it's up to him to make her fantasy come true.

3. SEEING GREEN

Ally struggles with hallucinations of Al Green as her doctor struggles to get her on Prozac. Admitting that he is a male chauvinist, Billy begins attending male sensitivity meetings. Nelle and Cage defend a young boy whose innocent kiss caused him to get suspended from school.

4. HEAT WAVE

As Nelle, Ling, Cage, and Fish discuss faked orgasms, Ally is sued by Risa Helms for ruining her wedding and causing her emotional distress. Billy attends another male sensitivity meeting, tells the men it's time they took back their lives — and makes a statement of his own by bleaching his hair blond.

5. TROUBLED WATER
Ally's Thanksgiving dinner turns into a disaster. Ally shocks her parents by saying she escapes into her dream world when reality becomes too much — like the time she was three and caught her mother in bed with another man.

6. CHANGES
When Georgia catches Billy kissing a client, she announces that she's quitting her job and she's quitting him. After viewing his humiliating and stuttering interview on national TV, Cage is comforted by Ally, who says she considers him a soul mate because they are fellow weirdos. Ling and Fish decide to break up.

7. SAVING SANTA
Cage represents the Newman's Department Store Santa who was fired and replaced by a new, lean Santa. Ally hallucinates herself at ten years old and is stunned when her younger self tells her she must save Billy. Ally relates the hallucination to a disbelieving Billy, who finally admits he may possibly hate his life.

8. BLUE CHRISTMAS
Elaine finds an abandoned baby in a manger display and petitions for custody. Georgia turns down a date from Billy to the office Christmas party, prompting Billy to announce at his male chauvinist meeting that nothing he ever did was good enough for Georgia. It all makes him realize he doesn't really want to get back together with her.

9. OUT IN THE COLD
Ally discovers that the homeless man she took out for coffee is really a former insurance adjuster suffering from a paranoid personality disorder. Cage and Fish defend Ling after she's arrested for running an escort service for underage boys — a case that prompts Renee to tell Nelle how Cage once had sex with a hooker.

10. JUST FRIENDS
Ally's dream about Cage has her thinking he may be the one. But when she finally tells him, she's disappointed to learn Cage values their friendship more than any possible dating relationship. Meanwhile, Elaine learns that her blind date asked her out simply because he was told she would sleep with him on their first date.

11. OVER THE RAINBOW
Everyone at Cage and Fish rallies together when Georgia sues the firm over the breakup of her marriage. Although Cage argues that Georgia is attacking the firm because she cannot attack Billy, the judge grants a hearing, causing Fish to lament that working at his firm isn't fun anymore.

12. IN SEARCH OF PYGMIES
Ally rear-ends a cute guy to get his attention; when things don't work out, he sues her for $25,000 for accident-related damages. Cage, Fish, and Ling come to the aid of eighty-two year old Marty Brigg, whose outrageous tales of cannibals, pygmies, ghosts, and dragons are about to get him evicted from a nursing home.

13. PURSUIT OF LONELINESS
While in court, Ally is shocked to run into the coffee shop owner who has repeatedly asked her out on a date. Cage is shocked to discover just how much of a snob Nelle is, and is upset when she refuses to apologize for being elitist. Billy and his secretary, Sandy, decide to start dating.

14. THE ODDBALL PARADE
Cage defends four oddballs, when their employer, Mr. Schoefield, fires them just because one man dresses like a woman, another man's mental disorder makes him repeatedly clap his hands, one woman is overweight, and another man has a funny face. Elaine convinces Ally to enter a contest where the winner gets to sing back-up for Tina Turner.

15. PRIME SUSPECT
Ally, Fish and Cage take on a murder case when Paul, the hand clapping employee fired by Mr. Schoefield, becomes a prime suspect in the murder of his former boss. Billy begins having strange hallucinations and finally decides to see a doctor. Nelle makes an appointment for him to see a neurologist — then takes the opportunity to steal his biggest client.

16. BOY NEXT DOOR
When Cage is stuck in the elevator, Nelle grabs a cell phone and takes the opportunity to break up with him without having to tell him face-to-face. Billy and Ally defend a woman whose husband wants an annulment. During Billy's closing, it becomes obvious that his grasp of reality is vanishing. After Billy finishes his argument, Ally's reality is forever changed.

16. I WILL SURVIVE
Ally is shocked when Fish quickly hires Mark Albert to replace Billy. Despite her objections, Fish immediately teams Mark with Ally on a case defending Nora Flood, a woman charged with murdering her husband. According to the husband's physical therapist, Nora found them in bed together and, in a rage hit her husband over the head with his prosthetic leg causing him to fall down the stairs to his death.

17. TURNING THIRTY
The firm defends a woman accused of murdering her eighty-nine year old husband by suffocating him... with her breasts. Meanwhile, Ally struggles with turning thirty. She goes to church to find God, but instead finds an angry Reverend Newman who has a pet peeve about women who only need God between relationships. Ally's next stop at a plastic surgeon has even more devastating results.

18. DO YOU WANNA DANCE?
Man trouble abounds when Ally meets the man she has been chatting with online. Then, during a hearing, she finds herself attracted to Brian Selig, the opposing counsel. Meanwhile, the animosity between Nelle and Cage continues.

19. HOPE AND GLORY
Since Fish and Cage refuse to make her a partner, Nelle decides to leave the firm. With a bit of deception, she gets Elaine to give her the passwords to the client files, then offers Elaine a job as a paralegal at her new firm. When a client notifies Fish that he will be leaving to go with Nelle, a stunned Fish belatedly sounds the alarm to lock down client files. Down at the bar, Ally and Brian decide to begin dating each other.

20. ALLY McBEAL: THE MUSICAL, ALMOST
Ally introduces Brian to her parents and is upset when her father is uncharacteristically cold. Cage is once again depressed on his birthday because he feels he has become a "curmudgeon toad" and has nothing to show for his life — even the birthday party Elaine has planned is just an excuse for her to sing. Nelle arrives at the party and admits she wants to return to Cage and Fish.

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