- You can, and do, recite the intro every single time.
- You always try to get the DUN DUN on time, and you’re successful maybe 1 out of 10 times.
- You slowly but surely developed a deep emotional bond with Olivia Benson.
- You’re still crying about the fact that Olivia and Elliot never got together.
- Mostly because Olivia is a beautiful princess and none of the guys she dates are worthy of her time.
- You pop a lady bonder every time Detective Stabler gets angry.
- Fin’s one-liners are really the only reason you started watching in the first place.
- You always predict who’s guilty, and you’re usually right, which terrifies your roommate.
- You refer to said guilty person as the “perp.”
- You subconsciously believe that every ADA is a tall, skinny blonde woman with glasses.
- You automatically recognize the plot within the first minute of any episode.
- “NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!” –You, when Benson asked for a new partner.
- Regular old “Law and Order” is like non-alcoholic beer: there’s literally no fucking point.
- You wish you could adopt Captain Cragen as your grandpa, because he’s just so goddamn wise.
- You would pay outrageous sums of money to have Dr. Huang as your personal, on-call psychologist.
- Fin and Munch’s bromance makes you ridiculously happy.
- You freak the fuck out every time you see a famous extra, because there are SO MANY OF THEM.
- You definitely kind of know the Miranda rights by heart.
- You sing along with the intro song comes on, even though there are zero lyrics.
- Your heart races any time a detective says the word “bitch.”
- You seriously considered boycotting when Stabler left because his absence was insanely depressing.
- You hold your breath every time Olivia goes under cover, because if she dies your whole world would come crashing down.
- You have cancelled multiple social occasions to binge SVU instead.
- You feel like you’ve seen so many courtroom scenes that you could be a legitimately gifted lawyer.
- Which of course you could not, because you’re too busy watching SVU to study for the LSAT.
- Rollins’ weirdly weak southern accent started out annoying, and is still pretty annoying.
- You’re livid that there aren’t more seasons on Netflix.
- Seriously, where the fuck are seasons 1-12 and why won’t they give them to us?
- You would invent an SVU drinking game if the show weren’t so goddamn fantastic sober.
- Nick Amaro gives you the warm fuzzies, and you pause the show every time he’s shirtless.
- Watching Elliot balance his career and home life is an emotional investment.
- Dr. Warner makes you want to enroll in every science class you can fit into your schedule.
- Stabler’s tattoos are the reason you keep living.
- You can’t go to bed after a new episode starts, because you’ve been hopelessly wedged down the rabbit hole since the 90’s.
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