[Denny and Alan are out on the balcony mid episode]
Is the show over already? You look beaten.
I just caught Tara laughing with another man.
Are you sure they weren't just...kissing or something?
“Schadenfreude” · Season 2, Episode 2
In this episode: Denny Crane (5), Alan Shore (2), Catherine (1)
[to Bernie] What are ya going to do? Whack me on the head?
When a beautiful woman says, 'get me off', you 'get her off', Shirley, it's as simple as that.
[to Kelly] I'll visit you in jail. Conjugal.
I'm sorry, your honor. I have mad cow disease. I think you do, too.
Schadenfreude. From the German words, Schaden and Freude, damage and joy. It means to take spiteful, malicious delight in the misfortune of others. We used to dismiss this as simply an ugly side of human nature, but it is much, much more than that. Recently a Stanford professor actually captured Schadenfreude on a brain scan. It's a physiological medical phenomenon. When we see others fall it sometimes causes a chemical to be released in the dorsal striatum of the brain which actually causes us to feel pleasure. If you watch the news or read the papers, which of course you don't because the Judge said not to, but if you did, you would see the undeniable delicious joy of the media and the public over Kelly Nolan's plight. I have no doubt that you want Kelly Nolan to be punished. She married for money, she had an affair, she carried on naked in the pool with her boyfriend. She's cold, materialistic, unlikable, and it might bring you all pleasure to see her go to jail. But as for evidence to establish that she committed a murder beyond all reasonable doubt? It just isn't there. The only possible route to a guilty verdict here is Schadenfreude.
[Denny and Alan are out on the balcony mid episode]
Is the show over already?
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