Big quitter Sam Waterston departs Law & Order after measly 400+ episodes

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This is kind of funny:

https://www.avclub.com/sam-waterston-leaves-law-order-after-measly-400-epis-1851280668

Waterston's Jack McCoy departed his TV courthouse for good tonight after just 30 years of Law & Order

In a move we can only deride for displaying a cowardly, and frankly embarrassing, lack of gumption, Sam Waterston quit his job at the Law & Order factory tonight, after making a measly 405 episodes of television for the long-running series. (Guess somebody was paying attention on the set of The Dropout, huh?) Waterston ended his tenure on the Dick Wolf-created show a scant three decades after beginning it—and that’s counting the gap between the show being canceled in 2010 and then revived in 2022—ending what is, yes, technically one of the longest tenures as a single character in television history, and what does he want, a medal? (We just checked, and Waterston already has several awards for his run on the series, including once being designated a New York “living legend” with his late co-star Jerry Orbach, so he should presumably be good on that score.)