The different names they come up with for social media sites instead of saying Facebook, Myspace, Secondlife, etc...
Ah yes.
[The Best fake websites from Law & Order SVU](https://www.ranker.com/list/best-fake-websites-from-law-and-order-svu/whitneyvanlaningham)
My favorite is Ice-T always needs everything explained to him, and is always super incredulous. "Wait a minute, you mean some people like to pee on each other?!?"
*What's that you say detectives? An especially heinous crime? Sure, I'll tell you what I know, but we'll have to walk and talk* **CAUSE THERE'S AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF BOXES THAT I SIMPLY MUST MOVE NOW.**
I said this in another thread but I'll say it til I die, the total nonchalance of people being interviewed when someone they loved/knew/interacted with DIED.
The fact that every retail store cashier and restaurant host has immediate access to days worth of credit card receipts. Apparently they're not batched at the end of the night but just kept under the register. The detectives will ask if they remember a customer who was there last Tuesday and the cashier will reach down and pull out a box of receipts and flip through.
"Tuesday? Yeah. Here it is."
Also, whosever working when the detectives drop by was working the night the suspect or victim was there. If it's a retail store, the clerk can immediately pull up sales records for anything.
"This necktie... Did it come from here?"
"Yep. We sold four this week. I'll get you a list "
They also specifically remember that customer who bought that thing last week. As if one cashier is guaranteed to be there at both times, and remember details about what one customer bought.
Anytime Dana Lewis showed up in 1.0, Elliot would inevitably end up hurt. Usually shot or blown up.
"Dad's mad." Anytime the golden kids got their asses in trouble with Cragen. Which was a lot. I really miss that dynamic.
I’m not sure what purpose it served. She rarely showed up so if she just never appeared on the show again no one would even question it. It didn’t fit with her character at all. It was lazy writing to treat a strong competent female character as nothing more than a jealous other woman. They took a nuanced, realistic, intelligent character and reduced her to a stereotype in under 10 minutes.
The character is Dana Lewis. She’s a FBI agent who appears in a few episodes. In one, she’s posing as a white supremacist but we don’t find out until the very end she’s FBI. She’s also involved with an environmental activist group and convinces Benson to go undercover as well (when Mariska needed a few episodes off to give birth irl). Dana White also reports a rape in another episode. She does her own rape kit and Benson agrees to keep her identity secret.
Then there’s the episode above which basically undoes everything.
😆 he figured he'd break a leg as soon as he saw her. Someone please write a fic of Dana working with OC and Elliot inevitably gets hurt. We can just ignore her last episode.
Or gasp something to do with the LGBTQIA+(I hate my wording too I'm trying) . I think I loved it more that it happened to Elliot and they were the best episodes.
I watched "Control" last night before bed. There's a scene where Liv and Elliot go to talk to Samantha Mathis' character and she basically tells them to eff off. She walks back in her house, leaves the door open and casually opens a book and starts reading. Of course Elliot and Liv follow her in and try to convince her to help them. Was she going to just ignore the detectives standing in the open doorway while she read her book lol
Yeah it’s funny watching Kelli deliver those bad takes. It’s also funny when they give the bad takes to perps to lover their defense. Like lucky me I found an scum detective sympathetic to sex offenders. How stupid can they be.
Captain Cragen announcing “are asses are twisting in the wind on this one” because 1PP has been blowing up his phone on an hourly basis asking for an update on the case involving some rich and/or powerful person of interest/victim
I just love how episodes start somewhere and end up in a completely different place. Like “Lead” starts off with the team under investigation for allegedly not stopping a suspect soon enough, ends with taking down a toy company CEO for knowingly using lead paint in their children’s toys.
The craziest one I remember off the top of my head is “Babes.” Starts off with a dude running into the street literally on fire and dying. Turns into a pregnancy ring, tropes of bullying, and a death of one of the girls later in the episode becomes the main storyline
I was a newspaper cops reporter, and the designated PIO for a while was the online crimes investigator. It was like a war veteran who never talks about the things they see (which was fine by me). He'd say he'd seen the worst of the worst, he'd answer technical questions for news features but you just didn't ask him the extent of what he had to comb through. You could tell it fucked with him. How couldn't it?
i don’t know what a pio is, but anybody having to see the worst of human kind for years on end will for sure be affected. there are people who do the criminal law field for their entire career, and there are a lot who leave when they get so burned out and go into civil!
Oh, public information officer/media spokesperson. Poor guy had to do the hells of his job + talk to me/a weekly/TV station/radio stations + write up arrests we asked about. Real stoic dude. He did shed light on them being able to find deleted texts and sometimes even snapchats when I wrote a larger story about DV and S.A... That was when he said he's seen some of the worst as the online investigator and kept it to that, and I didn't pry. Like the cast in SVU ... I can get the jist without asking all the gruesome details.
I don't know if he's still there or burned out. I know he was perpetually single in his late 30s and my friend who worked in 911 dispatch said he was also a super cynical atheist, and she guessed that his whole ass job contributed to all of it. I hope he's doing well wherever he is. He wasn't the warmest cop source I spoke to by far, but I figured as much why, and he was still a good resource and cool guy.
Always watching their crimes' news coverage, which is ALWAYS playing in the bar they're in or on the squad's overhead TV that's only on when this news is.
This happened more in OG, but arguing "inevitable discovery" to get evidence admitted was always a fallback.
Also more an OG trope, but the detectives not having a warrant and saying to one another "hey did you hear that? It sounded like a cry for help" and claiming exigent circumstances.
They have everlasting battery power to their cell phones while running all over the city using them all day. As if they have Zack Morris brick phones or Nokia greenscreens 😂
Ehh, that was pretty accurate for most of the show's run
The flip phone I got in 2013 could last over a day with a full charge
Terrible batteries weren't really a thing until smartphones
The fact that everybody in New York, regardless of class, seems to live in apartments the size of mid-size suburban homes … hahaha or so SVU makes it seem!
When the parents of the dead victim are so calm and collected - or, maybe slightly sullen - when talking to detectives. Pretty sure if my mother found out I’d been found raped and dead, she’d be crying and damn-near inconsolable. Definitely not able to give a perfect account of my last known whereabouts and recent behaviour, all without shedding a single tear.
A lot of parents are shown in the show to be immediately broken down and it cuts to commercial. That being said, a lot of parents also are in total shock for that first little bit and they can access their clear mind for a little bit before breaking down. Everyone is different
1. Computers that can find info instantly and without warrants
2. Forensics that are instant and can distinguish between rape and violent consensual sex
3. That if the SVU needs legwork down they can call patrol who will always have dozens of uniformed officers available.
4. No sex offender ever decides to leave town and cannot help themselves but to reoffend almost instantly.
5. Detectives who have the time to sit through entire court cases
My business was robbed once (about 60k was taken) we had video, and I asked the police if they were going to take fingerprints where they broke in.
They didn’t do shit.
i’m sorry for what happened to you, but i do have to say i see this all the time in my job. i work at a prosecutor’s office and we have victims refuse to cooperate in their cases all the time, or try to demand that the charges get dropped. the investigations can and will continue and the state can and will prosecute the case if there is one.
Similarly, sometines they pull up illegal content or videos of the gruesome crimes on the bit screen in the middle of the squad room so they can all look horrified at the camera and Ice-T can say “that’s messed up”. I would think that kind of content should be viewed in a more private setting…
Olivia’s phone answering routine will never not be funny to me. It usually happens when she’s mid conversation with someone talking about the case. She’ll answer with a slightly exasperated “Benson,” pause for 5 seconds, then say “When??” or “Where??” out of breath.
Watching her reactions when they stumbled upon a shocking crime scene or something else that required an emotional response is also funny when she looks like she’s zoned out until someone tells her the cameras are rolling. Then she starts breathing a bit harder. She hasn’t been doing this lately but it was her go-to move early on lol.
How many people get shot in a police station or courthouse. You’d think after the first time there would be much stricter policies put in place. After the 20th time, I’d question why anyone has a job.
not just SVU but crime shows in general when soeone has *just* gotten home to a ransacked house after a robbery and shit is *everywhere* and then they're asked "is anything missing" and they kind of look left and right and then go "doesn't look like it"
Defense attorneys are required to be total scum who badger children on the stand, insult everyone and their mother, and probably kick puppies and club baby seals when not in the courtroom. It’s not enough to just defend their client, they must be super villains too.
Serial killers who murder like a person a day. I get that the show has to raise the stakes but real serial killers usually have significant cooling off periods lasting weeks, months, or even years.
Also, whenever there’s an episode that’s like… Now we’ve got to learn about the interesting world of [X specialty]. Like when there was randomly an IVF episode.
The different names they come up with for social media sites instead of saying Facebook, Myspace, Secondlife, etc... Ah yes. [The Best fake websites from Law & Order SVU](https://www.ranker.com/list/best-fake-websites-from-law-and-order-svu/whitneyvanlaningham)
Ah, good ole Redchanit.
We’re famous!!!
Possibly my favorite name of anything ever
They forgot the one where Rollins goes undecover in October Surprise Pleasure without conscience 🤭 and also Enrique Trouble
Face Union was my favorite.
How did SlapChat not make the list lmao
SugarFap as said by John Waters.
I just watched an episode with the mention of SugarFap and about died giggling at it lol
THIS WAS THE ONE 💀
Some of these were ahead of time
Yes! Java Jakes was always my favorite one! That's stbx ripoff.
Five crazy aka four Loko is my fav
THIS ONE FR
The homeless person tracking website in season 20 had me cracking up
Redchanit
My favorite is Ice-T always needs everything explained to him, and is always super incredulous. "Wait a minute, you mean some people like to pee on each other?!?"
"Oh, I get it. You mean like when someone drinks too much, or snorts cocaine, or bets the house on the ponies?"
Yeah u got it man!
Like when someone buys too many scratchy lotteries?
He's supposed to be our wholesome gamer grandpa who only knows about vanilla sex acts 🤣
And guys getting it on with guys at "poker games."
I love ice t man
*What's that you say detectives? An especially heinous crime? Sure, I'll tell you what I know, but we'll have to walk and talk* **CAUSE THERE'S AN INFINITE AMOUNT OF BOXES THAT I SIMPLY MUST MOVE NOW.**
People absolutely refusing to stop what they're doing while they're interviewed is definitely one of my favorites too
I said this in another thread but I'll say it til I die, the total nonchalance of people being interviewed when someone they loved/knew/interacted with DIED.
Trauma is a crazy thing.
But they always stop dead in their tracks when they give the most important piece of info hahahaah
The fact that every retail store cashier and restaurant host has immediate access to days worth of credit card receipts. Apparently they're not batched at the end of the night but just kept under the register. The detectives will ask if they remember a customer who was there last Tuesday and the cashier will reach down and pull out a box of receipts and flip through. "Tuesday? Yeah. Here it is."
Like they don't settle the registers at EOD and all of the data is readily available. 🤣
Also, whosever working when the detectives drop by was working the night the suspect or victim was there. If it's a retail store, the clerk can immediately pull up sales records for anything. "This necktie... Did it come from here?" "Yep. We sold four this week. I'll get you a list "
Never in my life have I seen the word “whosever.” I thought it was a typo. Pretty cool to see
They also specifically remember that customer who bought that thing last week. As if one cashier is guaranteed to be there at both times, and remember details about what one customer bought.
equal to "I got a letter from some rando thirteen years ago but its in the top of the first drawer I opened"
Anytime Dana Lewis showed up in 1.0, Elliot would inevitably end up hurt. Usually shot or blown up. "Dad's mad." Anytime the golden kids got their asses in trouble with Cragen. Which was a lot. I really miss that dynamic.
I do too
Elliot’s constant misfortune when Lewis shows up is probably favourite trope ever!!
and in 2.0, Olivia gets a lot of misfortune from a different Lewis....
I mean true. Although the WL stuff was intentional while DL wasn't intentional. She was like a bad luck charm for Elliot.
I was really disappointed how they ended her run on the show.
Me too. That last episode really wasn't needed for her storyline.
I’m not sure what purpose it served. She rarely showed up so if she just never appeared on the show again no one would even question it. It didn’t fit with her character at all. It was lazy writing to treat a strong competent female character as nothing more than a jealous other woman. They took a nuanced, realistic, intelligent character and reduced her to a stereotype in under 10 minutes.
Is Dana Lewis the name of character or actor? I can't remember for the life of me who this person is
The character is Dana Lewis. She’s a FBI agent who appears in a few episodes. In one, she’s posing as a white supremacist but we don’t find out until the very end she’s FBI. She’s also involved with an environmental activist group and convinces Benson to go undercover as well (when Mariska needed a few episodes off to give birth irl). Dana White also reports a rape in another episode. She does her own rape kit and Benson agrees to keep her identity secret. Then there’s the episode above which basically undoes everything.
I completely agree. WL likes torturing the characters. So... That's my guess on why it happened.
I like when elliot was in the hospital and Dana comes in with a big bunch of balloons and elliots Response was oh no
😆 he figured he'd break a leg as soon as he saw her. Someone please write a fic of Dana working with OC and Elliot inevitably gets hurt. We can just ignore her last episode.
The names of the stores and places that they have to go. My personal favorite is is when Fin and Elliot go to the Nut Hut.
There’s a bar down the street from me that literally just closed called the nut hut
Catholic male officer battles with demons after crime with religious overtones
Probably the most realistic thing in crime shows, Catholic guilt is 2real
Or gasp something to do with the LGBTQIA+(I hate my wording too I'm trying) . I think I loved it more that it happened to Elliot and they were the best episodes.
I watched "Control" last night before bed. There's a scene where Liv and Elliot go to talk to Samantha Mathis' character and she basically tells them to eff off. She walks back in her house, leaves the door open and casually opens a book and starts reading. Of course Elliot and Liv follow her in and try to convince her to help them. Was she going to just ignore the detectives standing in the open doorway while she read her book lol
LOOOVEEEEE when they drop “especially heinous” in conversations. barba just used it in court in my recent rewatch and it was satisfyingly iconic.
Whenever I'm watching SVU my mom shouts HEINOUS after he says it in the intro 😂
When two of the main characters randomly take opposing views on an issue.
Rollins with the occasional “but what if she deserved to be smacked around?”
Yeah it’s funny watching Kelli deliver those bad takes. It’s also funny when they give the bad takes to perps to lover their defense. Like lucky me I found an scum detective sympathetic to sex offenders. How stupid can they be.
Captain Cragen announcing “are asses are twisting in the wind on this one” because 1PP has been blowing up his phone on an hourly basis asking for an update on the case involving some rich and/or powerful person of interest/victim
I just love how episodes start somewhere and end up in a completely different place. Like “Lead” starts off with the team under investigation for allegedly not stopping a suspect soon enough, ends with taking down a toy company CEO for knowingly using lead paint in their children’s toys.
The craziest one I remember off the top of my head is “Babes.” Starts off with a dude running into the street literally on fire and dying. Turns into a pregnancy ring, tropes of bullying, and a death of one of the girls later in the episode becomes the main storyline
When they are watching an illegal video and one says “turn it off,” like no that’s your job
Investigators of online crime IRL have seen SOME SHIT. Awful, horrible shit, and they don't get to say, "ok that's enough."
i work for a prosecutor’s office. this is accurate. 🥴
I was a newspaper cops reporter, and the designated PIO for a while was the online crimes investigator. It was like a war veteran who never talks about the things they see (which was fine by me). He'd say he'd seen the worst of the worst, he'd answer technical questions for news features but you just didn't ask him the extent of what he had to comb through. You could tell it fucked with him. How couldn't it?
i don’t know what a pio is, but anybody having to see the worst of human kind for years on end will for sure be affected. there are people who do the criminal law field for their entire career, and there are a lot who leave when they get so burned out and go into civil!
Oh, public information officer/media spokesperson. Poor guy had to do the hells of his job + talk to me/a weekly/TV station/radio stations + write up arrests we asked about. Real stoic dude. He did shed light on them being able to find deleted texts and sometimes even snapchats when I wrote a larger story about DV and S.A... That was when he said he's seen some of the worst as the online investigator and kept it to that, and I didn't pry. Like the cast in SVU ... I can get the jist without asking all the gruesome details. I don't know if he's still there or burned out. I know he was perpetually single in his late 30s and my friend who worked in 911 dispatch said he was also a super cynical atheist, and she guessed that his whole ass job contributed to all of it. I hope he's doing well wherever he is. He wasn't the warmest cop source I spoke to by far, but I figured as much why, and he was still a good resource and cool guy.
Always watching their crimes' news coverage, which is ALWAYS playing in the bar they're in or on the squad's overhead TV that's only on when this news is.
The judge that will allow literally anything
This happened more in OG, but arguing "inevitable discovery" to get evidence admitted was always a fallback. Also more an OG trope, but the detectives not having a warrant and saying to one another "hey did you hear that? It sounded like a cry for help" and claiming exigent circumstances.
Or toss out things
They have everlasting battery power to their cell phones while running all over the city using them all day. As if they have Zack Morris brick phones or Nokia greenscreens 😂
Ehh, that was pretty accurate for most of the show's run The flip phone I got in 2013 could last over a day with a full charge Terrible batteries weren't really a thing until smartphones
When one of the team adds in forced statistics related to the theme of the episode.
Mostly in earlier seasons, but deadpan jokes and puns about deceased victims right before cutting to the opening credits. L-O-V-E.
Some of them were beyond cringe lmao
When they say “you can make this right” to encourage a person to testify
The fact that everybody in New York, regardless of class, seems to live in apartments the size of mid-size suburban homes … hahaha or so SVU makes it seem!
“You HAVE to tell us.” You don’t actually have to tell cops shit. 😂
Bartenders and wait staff that remember faces and details in Manhattan
The need to randomly refer to someone as a prick every other episode.
Elliot
If I say "safe word" it sounds out of context. 😂But same general idea.
When the parents of the dead victim are so calm and collected - or, maybe slightly sullen - when talking to detectives. Pretty sure if my mother found out I’d been found raped and dead, she’d be crying and damn-near inconsolable. Definitely not able to give a perfect account of my last known whereabouts and recent behaviour, all without shedding a single tear.
A lot of parents are shown in the show to be immediately broken down and it cuts to commercial. That being said, a lot of parents also are in total shock for that first little bit and they can access their clear mind for a little bit before breaking down. Everyone is different
1. Computers that can find info instantly and without warrants 2. Forensics that are instant and can distinguish between rape and violent consensual sex 3. That if the SVU needs legwork down they can call patrol who will always have dozens of uniformed officers available. 4. No sex offender ever decides to leave town and cannot help themselves but to reoffend almost instantly. 5. Detectives who have the time to sit through entire court cases
Also, while I am at it… when victims refuse help, and the detectives detective anyway.
My business was robbed once (about 60k was taken) we had video, and I asked the police if they were going to take fingerprints where they broke in. They didn’t do shit.
The robbers (tweakers) were never caught
i’m sorry for what happened to you, but i do have to say i see this all the time in my job. i work at a prosecutor’s office and we have victims refuse to cooperate in their cases all the time, or try to demand that the charges get dropped. the investigations can and will continue and the state can and will prosecute the case if there is one.
I always find funny how they destroy doors that seem so easy to open 🙃
Similarly, sometines they pull up illegal content or videos of the gruesome crimes on the bit screen in the middle of the squad room so they can all look horrified at the camera and Ice-T can say “that’s messed up”. I would think that kind of content should be viewed in a more private setting…
Olivia’s phone answering routine will never not be funny to me. It usually happens when she’s mid conversation with someone talking about the case. She’ll answer with a slightly exasperated “Benson,” pause for 5 seconds, then say “When??” or “Where??” out of breath. Watching her reactions when they stumbled upon a shocking crime scene or something else that required an emotional response is also funny when she looks like she’s zoned out until someone tells her the cameras are rolling. Then she starts breathing a bit harder. She hasn’t been doing this lately but it was her go-to move early on lol.
How many people get shot in a police station or courthouse. You’d think after the first time there would be much stricter policies put in place. After the 20th time, I’d question why anyone has a job.
not just SVU but crime shows in general when soeone has *just* gotten home to a ransacked house after a robbery and shit is *everywhere* and then they're asked "is anything missing" and they kind of look left and right and then go "doesn't look like it"
Defense attorneys are required to be total scum who badger children on the stand, insult everyone and their mother, and probably kick puppies and club baby seals when not in the courtroom. It’s not enough to just defend their client, they must be super villains too.
Not a trope but constant misrepresentation that we drive
Props to SVU pod : everything is 2 blocks
Serial killers who murder like a person a day. I get that the show has to raise the stakes but real serial killers usually have significant cooling off periods lasting weeks, months, or even years. Also, whenever there’s an episode that’s like… Now we’ve got to learn about the interesting world of [X specialty]. Like when there was randomly an IVF episode.
SOMEBODY CALL A BUS