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A partial list of people who haven't played judges on The Good Wife yet, but should.
In case you haven't heard, Jeffrey Tambor is going to be playing a judge in the Season 5 premiere of The Good Wife this fall, joining a group of esteemed actors including Jane Alexander, Kurt Fuller, David Paymer, and many others. And though the report doesn't reveal what Tambor's character's quirk is going to be, it's a fair bet that he'll have one, like Denis O'Hare's Occupy sympathies/sciatica and Ana Gasteyer's insistence that attorneys preface or follow all their statements with "in my opinion."
Who should join Tambor in this or future seasons of Good Wife jurists, and what idiosyncrasies might they evince? Here are some of each that haven't been used yet.
| Guest Judge | Quirk |
|---|---|
| Patti LuPone | scaly elbows |
| Stacy Keach | propensity for quoting showtunes |
| Audra McDonald | crippling fear of having judgments thrown out on appeal |
| Ethan Hawke | chronic lateness |
| Jennifer Coolidge | intolerance for lateness |
| David Hyde Pierce | vocal abhorrence of modern technology |
| Becky Ann Baker | narcolepsy |
| Jay O. Russell | veganism |
| Megan Hilty | ADHD |
| Alec Baldwin | habit of secretly reading a novel at the bench while presiding over legal proceedings |
| Phylicia Rashad | large collection of Disney's Little Mermaid memorabilia |
| Bill Irwin | insistence on bringing chihuahua to court |
| Annie Parisse | distractingly unconvincing hairpiece |
| Tom Wopat | germophobia |
| Jennifer Holliday | fondness for Cockney rhyming slang |
| Victor Garber | sideline selling Amway |
| Alice Ripley | Robitussin addiction |
| Frank Langella | refusal to acknowledge his/her partial hearing loss |
| Debra Monk | constant flirtation with the court reporter |
| James Naughton | audible flatulence |
| Elizabeth Marvel | tendency to cry at witness testimony |
| James Badge Dale | courtroom stage fright |
| Harriet Sansom Harris | nail-biting |
| Stephen Pasquale | affected, George Plimpton-like patrician accent |
BONUS: Build your own Good Wife episode synopsis!
Alicia (Julianna Margulies) worries that Judge Franklin ([ACTOR]) and his/her [QUIRK] will derail her case -- that is, until she enlists Kalinda (Archie Panjabi) to [VERB] the judge's [NOUN], buying Alicia time to craft a [ADJECTIVE] defense.
For example: Alicia (Julianna Margulies) worries that Judge Franklin (Phylicia Rashad) and her sideline selling Amway will derail her case -- that is, until she enlists Kalinda (Archie Panjabi) to joke with the judge's shore, buying Alicia time to craft a grey defense.
It's your turn in the comments.