The fall 2024 TV schedule may be winding down, but NBC still has one big primetime premiere left before the end of the year: Night Court . The hit comedy returns for its third season, with Wendie Malick on board as a series regular with India de Beaufort out . Fun guest stars are on the way, including Mayim Bialik for a Big Bang Theory reunion with Melissa Rauch and Ryan Hansen returning as Jake.
Lacretta, who of course plays Gurgs, has her own idea for a guest star to pay off on a joke from Season 2: Christopher Meloni , as the wait for Law & Order: Organized Crime Season 5 continues. Back in a Season 2 episode, Gurgs had a running joke that was somehow even funnier than John Larroquette going full Klingon in a nod to Star Trek III . She revealed that she had a "dalliance with Christopher Meloni" when he shadowed her "for his greatest role" as star of Bailiff: The Musical .
(The nudity was of course Gurgs' idea.) She went on to drop more bits of background about what she dubbed "one of Christopher Meloni's greatest Broadway triumphs," including that "Double Dangerous" was the name of Meloni's big number in the musical. The episode also added another chapter of Gurgs' lore, with the reveal that they "have unfinished business.
" All in all, it was a hilarious running gag that immediately made me want to see the Law & Order: Organized Crime star step away from playing Stabler for a bit to play a fictionalized version of himself as Broadway star/Gurgs' nemesis . So, when I spoke .