What happened?
Does anybody know what happened to Kato Kaelin? I was watching the show a few weeks ago and he's not on the show anymore.
Yea I know they also split it so that now there are two cases per half hour. Also the bat is different, the letters are actually engraved unlike the old bat.
Same thing we do every night try to take over the world
Not to mention that Akim sits and watches the litigants "fight" out their cases from a small TV. Is it just me, or did the production value go down for this show? It was so awesome when Kato was there. Now it's... eh.
TO: ROB
FROM: MEL
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Well, it IS different.
As audience members, it's nice to be able to see the revenge take place. In previous seasons, the revenges were taped days or weeks after the case, and we audience members generally couldn't see those until the episode eventually aired.
I think one of the reasons they made the change is that sometimes it was simply hard to get the litigants back together to tape the revenge (especially when they came from elsewhere around the country), and I heard they lost several good cases because the litigants didn't show back up. With the new approach, the revenges take place right then and there, and are in the can before the next case is tried.
I think it's natural to be concerned about changes to a formula one likes the way it is, but I generally came away from the fourth season tapings feeling that it's still a great show. It's just different.
The Bat is different each season because after the last case for each season is taped, they award the Bat to the person present that they judge the show's greatest fan. I have "the" Bat used in third season, and "a" Bat for fourth season (but "my" fourth season Bat was not the one used in taping the cases).
One of the other Bats given out at the end of the fourth season tapings was, I think, the historic ORIGINAL "Bat"... I think it still bore the signs (including tiny particles of glass?) of when it had been used to smash the windows in that car...!