Poison Ivy (Season 1 Episode 8)

I'm still shocked by the math I did a few days ago about how many episodes we've committed to watching and when we're going to be done. We started with 797 and that number is a moving target because three L&0 series are still in production. Adding to the challenge, I'm uncovering other shows that I think we need to add to the list.

We'd already accounted for three cross-over episodes with the show Homicide. But Detective John Munch, a critical member of L&0 SVU, was in all seven seasons of Homicide. So I think we probably need to add the entire series. It gets worse. John Munch holds the television record for the most series that the same character has appeared in, nine.

The shows are Homicide, L&0, L&O SVU, L&0 Trial by Jury, The Wire, X-Files, Arrested Development, The Beat, and a French version of L&0. Adding the full Homicide series would add 116 to our total. Munch only appeared in single episodes of The Wire, X-Files, Arrested Development and The Beat, so that's only four episodes for us. And the French L&0 was a mercifully short 13 episodes.

Sarah seems against adding these to the list. I'm of the mind that we've taken up a hobby that's basically defined by being absurdly large and that we should respect the absurdity by adding all the episodes in. Plus, she took French in high school and could use a chance to brush up.

BTW, Episode 8 is about an Ivy League kid from the ghetto who gets shot by a cop. It's based on the real life Edmund Perry case. And, get this, the full length version of Michael Jackson's video for Bad is based this story as well. Do we need to add that to the list?