History TearJerker / NightCourt

* In another episode, Harry confronts another older judge on his erratic behavior, and learns that the man is on the verge of cracking after a career of seemingly futile decisions. Judge Drayton finally breaks down after this speech:
--> '''Judge Drayton:''' There was once this girl who came through my courtroom, carrying a baby. Beautiful girl, seventeen or eighteen. Long, dark hair, dark complexion... and a big black eye where her husband had hit her. She asked me to make him stop. I said, fine, I'll send him to jail. I gave him two years...then she changed her testimony, she said she was lying! She didn't want her husband to go to jail! He was a good provider, he brought home money so the family could eat! All she wanted, was ''for him to stop hitting her!'' And I couldn't make him stop, Harry! In twenty-five years, I couldn't make ''anybody'' stop!
** To make it worse Judge Drayton does similar comedy bits as Harry, but to such an extreme that it is affecting the court. When Harry finally confronts him Drayton asks Harry how long he's been on the bench and then sadly states that Harry is young and by the end could very well end up exactly like him

** Probably the biggest scene to hammer it home is Bull's final reaction. Early on, he's acting like his old self, but on the day where they're picking a permanent replacement, he gets drunk. He alternates between being a surly jerk and a clueless buffoon. When he sobers up enough, he's just so devastated.