anagrammy
Developing new uses for hindsight...
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God bless the lady that said Perry mason was before her time. I've asked before and I've googled it and still unexplained.
Gather round and I'll tell you the story 'bout Perry Mason.
Every episode I can remember included a grueling cross examination by Perry Mason who in a rising crescendo would ask questions leading to the moment when he "broke" the defendant,
"Yet when you hurried home from the ice cream shop, Mr. Brown, you found the time to change your shirt, DIDN'T YOU?"
Silence
"Recognize this shirt?" Audible gasp from the jury.
Defendant balls up shirt and snarls, "ALL RIGHT! I KILLED HIM! When I saw his wife with her black eye, I began having NIGHTMARES!!! They had to end, " (turns to jury) THEY HAD TO END! I had the key because my second job was a JANITOR at the WALTERS building! HE WILL NEVER PUNCH ANOTHER WOMAN....
and the bailiff leads him away.
They always looked crazy and said, "Do you SEE? Do you SEE?"
He had an attractive secretary named Delia that he explained the case to in the next scene. He would lean on her desk and gaze out the window, reflecting, saying things like, "He wasn't a bad man, really, he was one of the boys down at the Grange. Everything changed after his wife died, Delia, it broke him...
When people say "It was a Perry Mason moment, they are talking about when the defendant leaps up, grabs his hair and yells, "OK! OK! I DID IT--I KILLED HIM! God forgive me....cries....stumbles off stage lead by bailiff."