Anti-Graffiti Task Force Cameo On Law & Order: SVU

If you happened to watch Law & Order: Special Victims Unit last night, you might have noticed that the plot involved some graffiti tagging kids ("his tag is psyko, mine is psyke!"). So, of course, Detectives and Stabler went to the Anti-Graffiti Task Force to find out about a certain crew, and the Anti-Graffiti Task Force cop was all "The Anti-Graffiti Task Force caught this many perps, yo." Gothamist wonders if the folks at SVU timed it to coincide with the Mayor's new graffiti prevention scheme. And for some laughs, check out this Reward poster for tips on graffiti-ers (or people who commit graffiti vandalism).

As for the rest of the episode, it was the usual extremely disturbing fare, with mentions of bite marks on a penis plus much much more. If you missed it, it'll rerun on USA soon enough.

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By Jen Chung in Arts & Entertainment on January 19, 2005 11:45 AM

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BrianVan

I remember thinking at the end of the episode, "holy shit this is creepy, but ruined by the fact that I knew the ending 20 minutes before it happened." I also hoped it'd be randomly mentioned on Gothamist, and lo and behold it is here. I have no life, BTW.

I don't watch SVU very often, but I made note of the following:

1. Best current L&O. (now sending a royalty check to whatevs.org)

2. Mariska Hargitay - always good.

3. All the L&O's have major female ADA problems like Murphy Brown had a secretary problem.

4. The teamwork is written sloppily into the show, which is why I tire quickly of things like "Ice-T now gets his 5 seconds of face time to identify a street gang" or "Richard Belzer makes a cameo to give us a few Jerry Orbach-style lines". Meanwhile, Private Pyle is stinking it up on his own L&O as 10 decent actors fight over script scraps on this one. Dick, fix it.

5. End scene, twins, wall. Goosebumps, nausea.

6. MSM got a raw character deal, needs to be back.

7. It's a big deal when we see Janet Jackson's nipple, but we don't get a "Viewer's Discretion" warning about a botched circumcision discussion? Oiiiiii! (*crunches into fetal position*)

8. Graffiti. Tags. "syko". Points for skills. Hey, were the writers hanging out in an AOL chatroom or something?

9. I love it when Sam Waterston gets all pissed at a defendant and makes snippy comments about Charles Schwab... uhhh, no, wait... confused...

lily

The twin story was ripped from the headlines-- well back from Rolling Stone Magazine in 1997. I recognized it immediately-- http://www.infocirc.org/rollston.htm, which subsequently became a book "As Nature Made Him". I remember being horrified/ fascinated by it. It hit the news again last spring bc it ends tragically for both twins.

gar

same actor.

Jen

I think the $500 reward is to build a street team of narcs!

Was the girl played by the same actor as the son, or was it may a set of boy twins?

gar

Worst L&O episode EVER. The fact that the sister wasn't really a girl was plainly obvious to the audience - it was the same actor as the person playing the brother - so L&O's main strength was thrown out the window from the beginning. Usually a good show is one step ahead of the audience. This time we are 10 steps ahead of everyone on the show. So disappointing.

taki 183

Wouldn't it cost less than $500 to simply repaint over the graffiti? (and that doesn't include the cost of arresting and detaining vandals)

Don

Graffiti criminals?? Hmmm. I wonder if BlueJake was watching.

Dirk

Yes, the bite marks were the least disturbing part of the episode. I hope the Mary Stuart Masterson character isn't gone for good.

Jen

I have to say, my biggest problem with cop shows is that there are these "twists," but if these cops watched any TV or movies, these twists would be so obvious. They would be such better detectives if they did!

eatsdirt

The bite marks on a penis weren't as shocking as the ending.

Hell, by the end of the episode, I was waiting for Lindsay to get slapped around by her brother a few times a la Chinatown. "She's my sister...she's my brother...she's my sister...she's my brother...she's my sister AND my brother!"