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ER	comment	Long-running Medical Drama that redefined the genre. It was the first to show graphically realistic emergency procedures and reproduce the disorganised clutter of a real metropolitan hospital. Its creator, Michael Crichton, based many of Season 1's stories on real patients he'd had during his time as a doctor, though he handed the reins to John Wells starting in Season 2 and had little involvement with the show from then on.Set in Cook County General Hospital, the show followed an ever-changing, ethnically diverse cast of doctors, nurses, administrators and medical students as they deal with the day-to-day angst of saving lives. Their personal lives took a back seat to taut scenes of trying to help patients with their various physical and emotional emergencies. The main character arc was that of John Carter (Noah Wyle), who evolved throughout the course of the show from an uncertain medical student to the wise and infinitely capable chief resident.Due to its long run (15 seasons) it had numerous characters. The original cast consisted of Anthony Edwards, George Clooney, Sherry Stringfield, Noah Wyle, Julianna Margulies, and Eriq La Salle, with Gloria Reuben and Laura Innes joining them as regulars in Seasons 2 and 3, respectively.Not to be confused with the 1984 sitcom E/R, which also took place in a Chicago hospital and also featured George Clooney.
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ER / int_10309e78	type	Piano Cover Slam
ER / int_10309e78	comment	Piano Cover Slam: Benton's son Reese has his fingers broken when he is playing with Cleo's piano and the lid to the keys slams on his fingers. Since Reese is Deaf, his injury will prevent from signing for a month. Carla, Reese's mom, is furious at Cleo.
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ER / int_1042bae6	type	Limited Advancement Opportunities
ER / int_1042bae6	comment	Limited Advancement Opportunities: Dr. Greene's wife is desperate for him to move on to private practice or a suburban hospital so she can pursue her own career. He does get promoted from chief resident to attending. Minor characters, particularly nurses Haleh, Chuny, Lily and Malik and paramedics Doris and Zadro, work in the ER through all 15 years of the show's run. Haleh is mentioned as having already worked in the ER for 20 years in the first season.
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ER / int_107edaa4	type	Comforting the Widow
ER / int_107edaa4	comment	Comforting the Widow: Subverted with Ray towards Neela. In the Season 12 finale "21 Guns", after learning that Pratt is the only non-family member to attend Gallant's funeral, Ray tells him that he's been trying to contact Neela, his former roommate-turned-love interest and Gallant's widow. Pratt gently tells him to give her some space and not complicate things. Ray looks guilty at the insinuation, but he takes Pratt's advice and refrains from engaging in a relationship with her. Played Straight with Gates towards Neela. Despite learning that Gallant was killed in action, Gates gets into a relationship with Neela in the second episode of Season 13, only weeks after Gallant's funeral, by kissing her when she's drunk. This doesn't sit well with Ray throughout the rest of the season.
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ER / int_1171ed72	type	Sexy Shirt Switch
ER / int_1171ed72	comment	Sexy Shirt Switch: Played Straight plenty of times, but Subverted with Ray and Neela. Neela wears Ray's shirt to bed because it's comfortable, not because they're sleeping together. This is later important because the two develop feelings for each other and she offers it back when she moves out.
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ER / int_1237828f	type	Anyone Can Die
ER / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Used in conjunction with Killed Off for Real and Tonight, Someone Dies. Memorable examples include: Lucy Knight being stabbed to death in Season 6. Mark Greene succumbing to brain cancer at the end of Season 8. Robert Romano being crushed by a helicopter in Season 10. Michael Gallant being blown up by a roadside bomb in Iraq in the penultimate episode of Season 12 (something that was spoiled by a teaser beforehand). Greg Pratt suffering from wounds due to an explosion in the final season premiere. Several other recurring characters were killed off as well (some of them after being involved with the show for many seasons), including Raul Melendez, Dennis Gant, Carla Reese, and Sandy Lopez. And that's not even mentioning the various actors who guested more than once as the parents/grandparents of various characters — did any of them (other than Elizabeth's and Abby's mothers) survive the 15-year run?
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ER / int_12b6fe15	type	Walk and Talk
ER / int_12b6fe15	comment	Walk and Talk: John Wells, producer of ER, went on to take the helm of The West Wing.
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ER / int_13a984c	type	Hopeless Auditionees
ER / int_13a984c	comment	Hopeless Auditionees: In the Season 12 Christmas Episode, Haleh auditions ER staffers to perform with her at a Christmas concert. We get to hear Abby, Chuny and Ray all being quite bad. Happens again in Season 13 when Abby and Luka interview childminders.
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ER / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
ER / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Basically everyone at one point or another: Mark had a massive one after losing a mother during a delivery. Benton had a few. One after losing his mother. Another after almost killing a baby when Dr Keaton expressly told him just to close up. A third after Dennis Gant's (suspected) suicide. A fourth after his son is born prematurely. Doug had one after a woman he had been with OD'ed and died in the ER. Neela has one so bad after being notified of Gallant's death that she turns around and picks up two charts to go back to work, as if nothing has happened.
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ER / int_1484dba1	type	Foreshadowing
ER / int_1484dba1	comment	ForeShadowing: There are subtle hints planted about Amanda Lee's true nature before the reveal that she's a fraud impersonating a doctor. She often uses stories about dead relatives in order to gain sympathy from others, with over exaggerated scenarios to inflate their importance. A husband who died in a freak horse riding accident, and a brother who commited suicide. As noted by Greene, she seems remarkably okay with these scenarios despite their recent occurence. Amanda's changes to the ER are completely superficial in nature and don't actually increase efficency. The dual charts for doctors and nurses seems like a good idea, but just leads to additional work and increased confusion. And the music in the lounge area only serves to distract and annoy the staff. What's more, she seems to be more interested in making the nurses happy rather than enhancing efficiency. The final nail in the coffin is how during a trauma emergency in the ER, Amanda never actually takes the lead in the situation, instead letting others take charge while she merely intubates the patient- perhaps one of the easiest jobs in such a situation. Compare this to someone like Kerry Weaver who would be the one to take charge in the situation and be barking orders to everyone.
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ER / int_14c04cad	type	Butch Lesbian
ER / int_14c04cad	comment	Butch Lesbian: Maggie Doyle is a pistol-packing lesbian doctor, although unlike most examples of this trope, she's long-haired and pretty, making her a combination of this and a Lipstick Lesbian.
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ER / int_1616e13	type	Ripped from the Headlines
ER / int_1616e13	comment	Ripped from the Headlines: "The Show Must Go On" was inspired by a real balcony collapse that happened in Chicago two years prior, which killed 13 people and resulted in lengthy investigations of other balconies across the city.
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ER / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
ER / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Mark thinks that Anspaugh will turn out to be a Jerkass, only for him to be this instead. Anspaugh, as it transpires, does have his cantankerous moments, but he's generally a kind and understanding person (see Carter's transfer to Emergency Medicine). In "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," an elderly man is brought into the ER with multi-organ failure. Mark's not even sure if they should be trying to revive him and tells the nurses to try to find out if he has a Do Not Resuscitate order. In the meantime he goes through the motions, and the old guy keeps pulling through somehow. His son shows up, but seems fairly unintelligent, doesn't understand Mark's questions about whether his father would want to live on a machine, and doesn't remember signing his father's living will stating that he didn't want to. He leaves, and Mark is just about to take the old man off the ventilator when the man (played by Lawrence Tierney) wakes up. The first thing he says is, "Call me Jack." Later, he and Mark are talking.
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ER / int_177ecc0f	type	Unexpected Positive
ER / int_177ecc0f	comment	Unexpected Positive: An episode had Carter demonstrating to several medical students how to examine a patient's lymph nodes—only to discover a lump in the neck of the student he was examining. After doing a biopsy, he gently informed him that he had lymphoma.
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ER / int_18150c85	type	Democracy Is Flawed
ER / int_18150c85	comment	Democracy Is Flawed: Luka expresses a belief similar to this to Carter in the first episode of the "Doctors Without Borders" arc.
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ER / int_1989b0c	type	Comic-Book Time
ER / int_1989b0c	comment	Comic-Book Time: Averted. Most episodes take place over the course of a day (although episodes are, for the most part, non-consecutive) and each season takes place over the course of a year, with characters, who don't get killed off, aging, getting married and having children, and leaving the hospital as would be appropriate. Played Straight at least once. Rachel suddenly ages two extra years to match the age of her replacement actress, Hallee Hirsh. This was probably done because Rachel's three main storylines following the switch — taking drugs in Season 8, asking Elizabeth for birth control in Season 10, and following in her father's footsteps by applying to medical school in the series finale — probably wouldn't have been appropriate for the slightly younger Yvonne Zima. Nevertheless, there is an incongruity, as Rachel celebrates her sixth birthday in 1995.
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ER / int_1b65dfad	type	The Cameo
ER / int_1b65dfad	comment	The Cameo: David Schwimmer had an uncredited, unseen cameo as Doctor Karubian in the first episode of Season 3.
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ER / int_1ce1cfd8	type	all lowercase letters
ER / int_1ce1cfd8	comment	all lowercase letters: The opening credits.
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ER / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
ER / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Doug and Mark. The fact that Mark is Doug's boss often puts their friendship in jeopardy. Abby and Neela.
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ER / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
ER / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Quite a few doctors are this to their patients: Doug reveals himself to be this early on by assaulting the father of a girl who was kicked out of a window when he sees his boot print on her bare back. Benton becomes one when Reese is born. To see Benton go from being an arrogant and egotistical doctor to a loving, doting father is rather startling. He also displays inclinations of this toward Carter, training him, working much closer with him and treating him much better than he does his other students (Gant especially). Benton is genuinely hurt when Carter switches from surgery to Emergency Medicine, complaining that Carter went to Anspaugh, and not him, first (although Carter once tried to go to Benton for advice on the Dale Edson situation and he brushed him off). Carter in turn shows signs of it towards Lucy, but only after they shared a kiss but didn't let things progress any further. Luka is one of the most prominent ones, with a number of examples. Malucci attempts to assault a man on the operating table, and later gives him stitches without use of anesthetics when he finds out from the man's young daughter that she was raped by him. The Father in "Rampage" thinks he is, avenging his son being taken away from going on a mass shooting. Mark shows him what that actually is by letting the Shooter die after he found out that the Shooter was going to kill his family as well.
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ER / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
ER / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: "Take These Broken Wings", while technically being in the same "one day" format as most episodes, is interspersed with Susan's therapy sessions, which clearly—given the different outfits she's seen in—take place over several days.
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ER / int_1e7c47ab	type	Stealth Pun
ER / int_1e7c47ab	comment	Stealth Pun: The title of the season eight episode "A River in Egypt" is the Orphaned Punchline to the old gag "denial ain't just a river in Egypt". The episode features several characters who are in denial but there's no Title Drop or explicit explanation of the title, you've just got to work it out for yourself.
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ER / int_20c73e98	type	Creepy Cockroach
ER / int_20c73e98	comment	Creepy Cockroach: One episode has a woman who gets a small cockroach removed from her ear. She immediately freaks out and stomps on it. Carter visits Anna's studio apartment and sees a cockroach climbing along one of her cupboards. She crushes it. She's later embarrassed by the incident and Carter having to see how poorly she lives when she finds out that Carter is absolutely loaded.
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ER / int_213dc284	type	Closest Thing We Got
ER / int_213dc284	comment	Closest Thing We Got: Downplayed in "Family Practice". Mark is in San Diego visiting his dad in a military hospital when the doctors there get swamped due to a helicopter crash. While Mark is certainly that kind of doctor, he's not on the staff, nor is he licensed to practice in the state of California, but the military docs aren't feeling picky about it given the circumstances. They compromise by having him talk an intern through a procedure rather than doing it himself. Probably a case of writers who experienced an In-Universe Factoid Failure, as in reality, military and government hospitals allow any licensed physicians to practice regardless of what state carries the doctor's license. Mark's Illinois medical license would've been perfectly valid at any military hospital in the U.S.
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ER / int_2292c854	type	Between My Legs
ER / int_2292c854	comment	Between My Legs: This shot is used when Abby is taking pictures of Neela.
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ER / int_22a59b45	type	Self-Harm
ER / int_22a59b45	comment	Self-Harm: In one episode, a self-injurer is treated at the clinic.
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ER / int_22cf50f9	type	Chekhov's Gag
ER / int_22cf50f9	comment	Chekhov's Gag: In "Get Carter", Carter tells Kem that she shouldn't go out with the paramedics while pregnant because she doesn't know what the baby could be exposed to. It looks like a throwaway line and a bit of a joke that Carter is being overprotective and underestimating Kem (who in theory has seen much worse in Africa). A few episodes later, he's proven tragically correct when the baby dies in utero.
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ER / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
ER / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: Kerry uses the sternal saw she so vigorously lobbied to purchase for the ER in Season 5 to crack Lucy's chest open after Lucy is stabbed by a mentally ill patient in the Season 6 episode "All in the Family".
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ER / int_23698fa8	type	Aborted Arc
ER / int_23698fa8	comment	Aborted Arc: Such a long running series with many writers mean that some plotlines are started then abruptly scrapped when it's realized they don't work or simply forgotten about. Dr. Bob in Season 1. Bogdanilivestsky Romansky, nicknamed Bob by the other staff, was a Polish immigrant who worked as a general aide in the ER, mainly as a sort of janitor. In the episode "Blizzard" she saves a patient's life by suddenly operating on them when the other surgeons are busy. Turns out than in her native country, she was actually a surgeon and she's worried she'll be fired for what she did, but the staff all praise her and give her the new nickname "Dr. Bob." Carter promises to help her with her English so she can take her Board exams and practise medicine in the States. But, after just a few more appearances in season 1 with no mention of her studies, she appears once more in Season 2's second episode "Summer Run" and then never appears and is never mentioned again, and we never find out what happened to her. Two in Season 2: Doug Ross reconciles with his estranged father after getting attention for his heroic feats in Hell and High Water. But when his dad abandons him again, Doug cuts ties with him. Doug's dad then skips town after sending Doug a lot of money, causing Doug to start a relationship with his father's ex to partially get back at him but he eventually falls for her for real with the final episode of the season having Doug declare his intent on staying with her. Come season 3 this is completely dropped and Doug is now having flings with multiple women. In season 2, part of Carol Hathaway's arc is her becoming increasingly frustrated with the hosptial system as it increasingly cuts back her work hours and fails to provide adequate care for the sick and injured. This reaches it's climax in the final episode of the season where Carol quits in frustration. Come the first episode of season 3, Carol's back to work with no mention of her quitting save for a one off line saying that they wouldn't allow her to quit. In Season 5, Amanda Lee is hired as the new ER chief, until it is discovered that she actually isn't licensed to practise medicine and isn't even a real doctor, and is just some crazy woman pretending. She flees the ER and the events are never even mentioned ever again. In the Season 12 finale and Season 13 premiere, we see Sam Taggart get kidnapped by her ex-partner Steve, along with their son Alex. The ordeal is horrific, as Sam and Alex witness the mentally fragile Steve get increasingly unstable, even killing his two accomplices. He then proceeds to rape Sam, and then while he is sleeping, Sam shoots him point blank in the head, makes it look like a suicide, then flees back to Chicago with Alex. In the following episode, Luka Kovac asks if she is OK. And then none of it is ever mentioned again.
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ER / int_237404cc	type	Ironic Echo
ER / int_237404cc	comment	Ironic Echo: When a patient dies, Benton gives his relative a standard "I'm sorry" speech. Later in the episode, he is paged about his mother and rushes to her nursing home to find that she has died. The doctor proceeds to give him the exact same speech, which while perfectly acceptable when Benton gave it, now sounds horribly generic and detached while in another physician's hands.
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ER / int_23ff95fb	type	Brutal Honesty
ER / int_23ff95fb	comment	Brutal Honesty: Benton in particular was never one to mince words with his patients, especially in the early years, such as when he bluntly chided a teenager with diabetes.
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ER / int_240fd641	type	Long-Runner Cast Turnover
ER / int_240fd641	comment	Long-Runner Cast Turnover: The series transplanted most of its original cast over the fifteen seasons; while some (Susan Lewis) came back and then went away again, and some of the characters came back in the final season, the final cast was composed of none of the members of the original cast. Lampshaded more than once: The first few minutes of Susan's Season 8 return (by which point only half the original cast remained) had her running into people she didn't recognize. It took forever for her to encounter Mark, Kerry, Carter, the nurses, etc. Jeanie has a similar reaction when she came back in Season 14, by which point none of the original cast, nor Kerry, who she specifically asked for, remained. Once in the final season. Two of the newer characters—Neela and Sam—meet two of the original characters—Doug and Carol—and they realize that the staff of the hospital has changed so much over the years that they have only one common acquaintance, surgeon Donald Anspaugh. Most of the people who worked in the hospital when the original characters left had already stopped working there by the time the new characters arrived; however, Doug mentions Kerry and Susan, two people whom Neela and Sam do know, they just don't work there anymore. They do have other mutual acquaintances—most notably John Carter, the very person they're there to get a kidney for, but also Haleh Adams, Chuny Marquez, Lily Jarvik, Malik McGrath, and Jerry Markovic—but those never come up in the conversation.
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ER / int_244e413	type	Bolivian Army Cliffhanger
ER / int_244e413	comment	Bolivian Army Cliffhanger: Just about every season.
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ER / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
ER / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: Wendy skidding around the hospital on roller blades in "Blizzard". In "Hole in the Heart", there's a really funny moment when Kerry is ranting angrily at Mark. Anna slips by in the background and the "man, glad I'm not on the receiving end of that" grimace on her face as she exits the scene is priceless. Mark himself gets a moment like this in "Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magic", as he's at the nurse's desk when Malucci begins screaming at Kerry. Ostensibly to make a phone call, but if you watch carefully, he isn't paying any attention to the call and is watching Kerry getting reamed out with what a Television Without Pity recapper very aptly described as "unabashed interest".
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ER / int_2828fd9a	type	Promotion to Opening Titles
ER / int_2828fd9a	comment	Promotion to Opening Titles: This happened with all of the aforementioned Ascended Extras: Carol Hathaway was a guest star in the Pilot and became a main cast member in the subsequent episode. Jeanie Boulet was a recurring character in Season 1 and joined the main cast in Season 2. Kerry Weaver was first introduced in Season 2 and got upgraded in Season 3. Anna Del Amico appeared in the last three episodes of Season 3 and became a starring cast member in Season 4. Robert Romano was a major presence throughout Seasons 4 and 5 before he officially became a main cast member in Season 6. Dave Malucci was credited as a guest star in his first few appearances in Season 6 before getting upgraded later that season. Jing-Mei Chen was a recurring character in Season 1 and, after a five-year absence, returned as a main cast member in Season 6. Abby Lockhart was a guest star in Season 6's "Great Expectations" and was upgraded later that season. Michael Gallant was a guest star in his first few episodes in Season 8 before getting upgraded later that season. Greg Pratt was introduced towards the end of Season 8 before being declared as a main cast member in Season 9. Archie Morris was a recurring character in Seasons 10 and 11 before becoming a main cast member in Season 12. Tony Gates was briefly featured in Season 12 and then added as part of Season 13's main roster. Simon Brenner came in during the latter half of Season 14 and was made part of the main roster in the final season.
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ER / int_28c1d543	type	Defrosting Ice Queen
ER / int_28c1d543	comment	Defrosting Ice Queen: Doug and Kerry initially don't get on very well (they have past history) and Doug does a rather insensitive impression of her that she happens to walk in on. However, Doug sees her good side when they treat a deaf girl and Doug sees that Kerry is also very good with children.
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ER / int_28cd01ca	type	Disappeared Dad
ER / int_28cd01ca	comment	Disappeared Dad: Doug's father abused alcohol, him and his mother, and then eventually up and left. Ironically Doug is one himself—he has a son with an unnamed woman who he has never met or seen before, and the circumstances of the boy's birth and Doug's lack of involvement are never explained.
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ER / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
ER / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: In one episode, Luka recited part of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy, and lapsed into Croatian after a few lines. Crosses over to Actor Allusion also, as Goran ViÅ¡njić's biggest role up to that point had been a Croatian production of the play. In the Season 3 episode "Whose Appy Now?", after their brief affair, Nurse Chuny, speaking Spanish, more-or-less confirmed to Nurse Wendy Goldman that what they say about bald men is true and that all Mark ever seemed to want was sex. In a Season 6 episode, when Carol is nearing the end of her pregnancy Luka comes in and says she looks great. Carol responds that she looks like an overgrown pumpkin. Luka then responds "I'd say more of a lubenica" and then (in fear of offending her) claims he forgot how to say it in English. "Lubenica" is Croatian for watermelon. Pretty much anytime a foreign language was spoken, no subtitles were provided, leaving only viewers who spoke it themselves to understand.
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ER / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
ER / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: In "The Human Shield," the abusive kidnapper refers to his victim as "Mezoti". This is a reference to a child character on Star Trek and the truism among police that all pedophiles are Star Trek fans. Neither part of the dark joke is explicitly discussed on-screen, it's just there for those in the know to connect the dots.
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ER / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
ER / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshaded, albeit tragically, in "All in the Family", when Benton operates on Carter after his stabbing. Benton is so distraught at Carter's condition that he nearly removes a salvageable kidney and has to be talked down by Anspaugh. Meanwhile, Romano insists on trying to revive Lucy, whereas with a patient he had no connection to, he would have been objective enough to acknowledge that she was gone.
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ER / int_2be15316	type	Ambiguously Jewish
ER / int_2be15316	comment	Ambiguously Jewish: Mark. He claims that one of his parents was an agnostic Jew, although which one is not made clear (probably his mother), and he knows a bit of Yiddish and some Jewish prayer. However, Mark seems to have no expressed faith.
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ER / int_2bf993ad	type	Secret Relationship
ER / int_2bf993ad	comment	In Season 2, Benton tells a grandfather that Doug completely missed his grandson's bone cancer when he came in for treatment four months ago. He did this even though Mark specifically told him not to (it wouldn't have helped the patient and would have put the hospital at considerable risk of lawsuit) and even though it wasn't Benton's case. Understandably Doug was really pissed off, as were the rest of the hospital staff (some of who outright refused to work with him) and Mark, who called him on it and claimed Benton was just angry that he couldn't do anything about Carl Vucelich's manipulation of research data. Only Jeanie thought he did the right thing. Then again, they were having an affair at the time.
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ER / int_2c3ec06e	type	Better as Friends
ER / int_2c3ec06e	comment	Better as Friends: Elizabeth suggests being Friends with Benefits to Benton, citing their mutual attraction and interests, as well as busy schedules that don't leave them much time for dating people outside of work, then suggests being this trope when she realizes that he'll never get over his discomfort about dating a white woman.
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ER / int_2f5790f5	type	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine
ER / int_2f5790f5	comment	I Want You to Meet an Old Friend of Mine: Often times special guest stars will be actors that share a relationship with at least one member of the main cast, although unlike most examples of the trope, the guest stars rarely, if ever, interact with the actor they have a previous relationship with. Notable examples include: Miguel Ferrer—George Clooney's cousin—as a lung cancer patient in the Pilot, treated by Susan. Rosemary Clooney—Clooney's aunt—as a Broadway singer and Alzheimer's patient in Season 1, treated by Carter. Julianna Margulies and Ron Eldard had been dating for several years before he was cast as Carol's paramedic boyfriend Shep in Season 2. Goran ViÅ¡njić worked with Clooney in The Peacemaker two years before he joined the cast as Luka KovaÄ� in Season 6 following Clooney's departure. Diane Baker—Kellie Martin's co-star in the 1998 CBS TV movie About Sarah—as the daughter of a Parkinson's patient in Season 6, treated by Jing-Mei and Carter. James Cromwell—Anthony Edwards' co-star in Revenge of the Nerds—as a bishop in four episodes of Season 7, treated by Luka.
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ER / int_2f70bc95	type	Welcome to Hell
ER / int_2f70bc95	comment	Welcome to Hell: In "Doctor Carter, I Presume?"
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ER / int_2f7e9080	type	Placebo Effect
ER / int_2f7e9080	comment	Placebo Effect: In one episode, a doctor plans to give a patient some "Obecalp" to satisfy her and her parent's fears about something being wrong. When Kerry finds out about this, by the intern trying to find "obecalp" in the book of medicines, she calls the doctor out on the recklessness of this action and if something went south because of this "medicine" they could sue the hospital for the whole affair.
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ER / int_310f67d2	type	Unrequited Love Switcheroo
ER / int_310f67d2	comment	Unrequited Love Switcheroo: This happened very often with the show's Love Triangles: Doug spent the first half of Season 1 pining for Carol, who rebuffed him, as she'd moved on and gotten engaged. By the second half of the season, he'd begrudgingly accepted this and moved on into a new relationship himself, only for Carol to be the one to be jealous every time she saw them together. Carter spends Season 7 mooning over Abby, who's with Luka. By the time she breaks up with Luka, Carter's with Susan.
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ER / int_313d7228	type	Previously onâ€¦
ER / int_313d7228	comment	Previously onâ€¦: Perhaps one of the most notable examples. Every episode (excluding the pilot, obviously) began with a montage of clips from previous episode(s) to remind the viewer of what happened, as the show had many long-running arcs that spanned several episodes. Strangely, these recaps are cut out on the DVD releases (and sometimes very badly, too). Even more strangely, the digital versions (such as those on iTunes or streaming platforms) have them present in some seasons and others not. The digital versions of Seasons 1, 2, 6 and 14 have no recaps for absolutely no reason at all, since the original broadcast versions did. The versions with the recaps are now extremely hard to find as the ones generally distributed are versions without recaps.
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ER / int_315a122	type	Hospital Hottie
ER / int_315a122	comment	Hospital Hottie: Hospital full of hotties, more like.
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ER / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
ER / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: In the Season 4 episode "Do You See What I See?", during a Christmas party in the ER, when Doug announces that he intends to marry Carol, everyone cheers and congratulates them, and Chuny raises her glass, saying "All right! To Carol and Doug! Get it right this time!" Several characters, in both the main and recurring cast, support Ray/Neela: Dubenko tells Neela that he's glad she and Ray get along so well in "Lost in America", and then assures her that moving to Baton Rouge is a good thing, despite his earlier misgivings, in "Shifting Equilibrium". Pratt seems to Subvert this in the Season 12 finale, where he tells Ray to give Neela some space and not complicate things while she mourns Gallant. However, given the circumstances, he just wants Ray to not try anything at an inappropriate time. In Season 13, it's Played Straight, as he wants to give Ray advice on how to sort things out with Neela in "A House Divided", and he quickly picks up on how Ray has thought about settling down with Neela in "I Don't". Abby reminds Neela of Ray's love for her in "300 Patients" — albeit in a Kick the Dog moment — and then sincerely encourages her to reunite with him in "Shifting Equilibrium". Sam and fellow nurses, Lily Jarvik and Dawn Archer, cheer and applaud at their reunion in "Haunted", along with Morris and Frank. In "I Feel Good", Frank tells Sam that he's glad Neela's happy in Baton Rouge with Ray, as she looks and sounds better than she had in a long time. Morris is the captain of the Ray/Neela pairing. In "Strange Bedfellows", he thinks that Ray and Neela have a "roommate with benefits thing" going on, and makes it clear that he approves it, despite her being married to Gallant at the time. In "Haunted", once he finds out that Ray has returned to the ER for a brief visit, he pages Neela constantly to come down from Surgery to reunite them, and when Ray obliquely asks him if Neela is seeing anyone, Morris replies, with a smile, that she isn't. Finally, in "Age of Innocence", when Neela tells him that Ray has a girlfriend, he expresses his disappointment over it, and he makes sure that Neela is okay when it's clear that she's hurt and jealous.
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ER / int_327a8110	type	Life/Death Juxtaposition
ER / int_327a8110	comment	Life/Death Juxtaposition: Frequently. In "Hell And High Water", a little girl dies of her injuries from a hit-and-run accident while the little boy in the next room whom Doug rescued from a storm drain regains consciousness. In "Sand and Water", Abby supports a mother and father when their baby is born so premature that any treatment would be futile. After surviving for nearly 12 hours, the baby dies at the same time that Kerry makes a decision to put a terminally ill woman on a ventilator against the patient's wishes because the woman is a lesbian and her partner did not have the legal authority to consent to a "do not resuscitate" order for her. The woman is not allowed to die, while the baby cannot be given any lifesaving treatment.
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ER / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
ER / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Kerry Weaver gets a lot less focus after being Kicked Upstairs due to becoming Chief of Staff in Season 10, occasionally getting a short arc to remind us that she's still around. This coincided with Laura Innes getting more involved with directing the show, which she continued to do after Kerry was written out. Despite the title, the series originally focused on two departments: the titular ER, and the surgical department. The latter drifted out of focus after Romano's accident, and all but vanished with the departure of Corday.
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ER / int_3504feff	type	Code Silver
ER / int_3504feff	comment	Code Silver: There had been a few hostage situations and shootouts in the hospital.
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ER / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
ER / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: While almost everyone in the main cast had temporary romantic relationships with each other, the following couples got a lot of focus and became endgame for good: Doug and Carol. Mark and Elizabeth, until Mark's death. She reveals to Benton in the series finale that she hasn't been serious with anyone else since Mark. Benton and Cleo. Kerry and Sandy, until Sandy's death. Kerry reveals in "Breach of Trust" that she hasn't been able to move on since Sandy's death, and that moving to Florida with their son Henry will help her move on. Luka and Abby. Ray and Neela.
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ER / int_361a1d26	type	Anguished Declaration of Love
ER / int_361a1d26	comment	Doug rushes to Carol's engagement party to deliver the abovementioned Anguished Declaration of Love...she screams at him to leave her alone, and her fiancÃ© punches him. It works out in the end.
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ER / int_37001209	type	Annoying Patient
ER / int_37001209	comment	Annoying Patient: Dozens, throughout the show's 15-year run. Some to the point of Asshole Victim—when the serial rapist who's been terrorizing the city is brought in, the unhurried atmosphere in the trauma room is in stark contrast to what we've seen hundreds of times.
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ER / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
ER / int_392372f9	comment	In one episode, Luka recited part of Hamlet's "To be or not to be" soliloquy, and lapsed into Croatian after a few lines. Crosses over to Actor Allusion also, as Goran ViÅ¡njić's biggest role up to that point had been a Croatian production of the play.
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ER / int_3a98aac8	type	Epunymous Title
ER / int_3a98aac8	comment	Epunymous Title: Episodes called "It's Not Easy Being Greene", "Greene With Envy", "Welcome Back, Carter!", "Benton Backwards", "How the Finch Stole Christmas", "Day for Knight" and "Abby Road".
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ER / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
ER / int_3b113b7	comment	Romano caught Morris smoking a joint on the job in the bathroom and dragged him out to tell him to wait in a seat and touch nothing, as he would be dealt with later. Morris does wait, but Romano is killed by the helicopter, so no one is there to report Morris' crime. A lot of Morris' Character Development took place after this event, so he evidently realized how incredibly lucky he was (albeit in a horrible way), and resolved to shape up.
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ER / int_3bf7904f	type	Vengeful Vending Machine
ER / int_3bf7904f	comment	Vengeful Vending Machine: The series pulls this gag at least once a season.
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ER / int_3fe2b13f	type	Ungrateful Bastard
ER / int_3fe2b13f	comment	Ungrateful Bastard: The patient whose life Kerry saves by performing an exceedingly-controversial late-term abortion, polarizing the opinions of the cast in the process. Kerry meets up with her later in recovery, and she reveals that she's been pregnant several times before and had an abortion every time because her husband doesn't want kids. When Kerry tries to tell her to use birth control, the patient brushes it off with "More likely you just never get any yourself."
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ER / int_3ffce9c2	type	Family Relationship Switcheroo
ER / int_3ffce9c2	comment	Family Relationship Switcheroo: An example of the child doing this. Sam's son Alex, to whom she gave birth at age 15, has told his friends she's his older sister. They think she's hot.
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ER / int_414b064b	type	Lonely Funeral
ER / int_414b064b	comment	Lonely Funeral: Elizabeth is the only one to attend Romano's memorial service.
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ER / int_42c9f1ec	type	Downplayed Trope
ER / int_42c9f1ec	comment	Downplayed in "Family Practice". Mark is in San Diego visiting his dad in a military hospital when the doctors there get swamped due to a helicopter crash. While Mark is certainly that kind of doctor, he's not on the staff, nor is he licensed to practice in the state of California, but the military docs aren't feeling picky about it given the circumstances. They compromise by having him talk an intern through a procedure rather than doing it himself. Probably a case of writers who experienced an In-Universe Factoid Failure, as in reality, military and government hospitals allow any licensed physicians to practice regardless of what state carries the doctor's license. Mark's Illinois medical license would've been perfectly valid at any military hospital in the U.S.
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ER / int_43a045de	type	Dropped a Bridge on Him
ER / int_43a045de	comment	Dropped a Bridge on Him: Few of the main characters' deaths were dignified and done with respect. Romano had a helicopter fall on him. Gallant in Iraq. Pratt in an explosion. And many more.
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ER / int_43c77dd9	type	Hellish Copter
ER / int_43c77dd9	comment	Hellish Copter: A helicopter crashes down in the Hospital's courtyard and kills Romano, who was in said courtyard specifically because he wanted to avoid it after having his arm chopped off by one a year earlier.
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ER / int_43ff290e	type	Revolving Door Casting
ER / int_43ff290e	comment	Revolving Door Casting: By the end of the series, none of the original cast (or the extended cast members from Seasons 2 and 3) remained. They did all return for guest appearances during the final two seasons.
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ER / int_4583a262	type	Shirtless Scene
ER / int_4583a262	comment	Shirtless Scene: Plenty.
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ER / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
ER / int_4781adbb	comment	Surgical intern/resident Dale Edson (Seasons 2-5, 8-9). Unlike the previous examples, Edson never developed into a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
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ER / int_47fea76b	type	Butt-Monkey
ER / int_47fea76b	comment	In "Night Shift", a patient who is badly mangled after jumping (or falling) onto the tracks in front of an elevated train is rolled into a trauma room. Benton tells Nurse Lydia to page his "favorite" medical student Dennis Gant, and everyone is horrified when the patient's beeper goes off—it's Gant on the table!
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ER / int_4885c04b	type	Road Trip Plot
ER / int_4885c04b	comment	Road Trip Plot: The episodes "Fathers and Sons" (Doug and Mark travel to California for the former to settle his dead father's affairs and the latter to visit his parents) and "Sailing Away" (Carter and Abby travel to Oklahoma to rescue her ailing mother).
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ER / int_497e7df	type	Quirky Doctor
ER / int_497e7df	comment	Quirky Doctor: Doctor Romano mostly just gets away with being an asshole to everybody but occasionally pulls more bizarre stunts, such as bringing in and operating on his own dog. No one dares suggest that it's inappropriate to operate on a dog and the incident is never mentioned again.
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ER / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
ER / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Following Mark's death, Kerry and Carter have a conversation about the future of the hospital under Carter's leadership, subtly referencing how Noah Wyle was the last actor from the original cast to have stayed with the series all the way up until this point: One indication of Victor Clemente's increasing Sanity Slippage is when he freaks out at the sight of Jane the medical student during a late night shift, claiming they've never met before. As a matter of fact, up until that point, they never had shared a scene together.
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ER / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
ER / int_4a852458	comment	Big Good: Donald Anspaugh.
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ER / int_4e3d253b	type	Downer Ending
ER / int_4e3d253b	comment	Downer Ending: Many episodes, but "Love's Labor Lost" really stands out. At the end of a two-episode arc in Season 12, a young woman who had woken up from a six-year coma slipped back into it as Luka frantically tried to keep her conscious.
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ER / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
ER / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: In "Exodus"- "Do you smell that? Smells like Benzine..." In "Last Rites", Carla plans to move with Roger to Germany and they plan to take Reese with them. Carla and Benton are arguing and Carla suddenly yells out "You may not even be his father!" Benton is stunned and staggers for a bit, before he asserts himself and says "Reese is my son." In "Night Shift", a patient who "tripped or jumped" in front of the El-Train comes in, unlikely to make it. Lydia pages Dennis Gant, then the victim's beeper starts going off: A patient commits suicide in the ER after having been on a Jerry Springer-esque talk show where it was revealed to her that her boyfriend was "really" her long-lost brother. As her mother sits beside her body, she tells Mark that "It was a lie"—she just wanted to get her daughter onto the show. In "The Letter", a fax is sent to the hospital from Mark, going on and on about how much he loves and respects everyone there. Carter reads it, then pauses to deliver an addendum from Elizabeth. Even though everyone on and off-screen knew it was coming, it still has this effect:
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ER / int_4e7f703c	type	Wham Shot
ER / int_4e7f703c	comment	Wham Shot: Mark's head getting slammed into the men's room sink in "Random Acts," signaling the start of his savage beating. In the Season 6 episode "Be Still My Heart", Carter is stabbed twice in the back by a schizophrenic patient and slumps to the floor. We watch him writhe in pain for a few seconds before another Wham Shot arrives when we switch to Carter's POV and see what's lying across the floor from him: Lucy, stabbed in the neck and chest and bleeding out. In the Season 13 finale, Neela finally tracks down the missing Ray in another hospital after learning he was hit by a truck. She sees him being wheeled to his bed and smiles. Then the wheelchair is pulled back further and she—and we—see that both of his legs have been amputated.
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ER / int_4eaa9b84	type	Author Tract
ER / int_4eaa9b84	comment	Author Tract: Any of the "Doctors Without Borders" episodes. Not even the cast liked those episodes very much, and in interviews have said they would have preferred it had the show just stuck to Chicago. Prior to this the show, like many American medical series, expressed its views on the hopelessly corrupt American medical system as well as several hot button topics, like HIV/AIDS. Unlike the MSF episodes, however, these were rarely so heavy handed.
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ER / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
ER / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early-Installment Weirdness: The hospital is explicitly referred to as "Cook County General Hospital" in the first few episodes, of course placing it in the real-life Cook county in Chicago, Illinois. Later on, it is only ever referred to as just "County General Hospital" and more commonly just "County General" or "County." The mention of Carter's sister in an early episode who is never mentioned or seen later on, despite all of his other mentioned family (grandfather, grandmother, mother, father and cousin) being seen at some point in the series (except his brother, who died before the events of the series began). The two mentions of Doug's son. The changes in the hospital layout during the second season that are completely unexplained. The exterior of the hospital the ER ambulance bay also change appearance throughout early episodes. From the second season onwards, the layout and appearance remains consistent, until it undergoes further major remodels in Season 7 and Season 10 (but both of these are major plot points that span several episodes). In season 6 when Luka Kovac is asked about his family, he says they were "Taken" and then killed. Later episodes would establish that wife and children were wounded in an attack on their home, and Luka was faced with either staying with them or going to get help. Morris is actually reasonably competent when he first joins the staff, only to turn into an idiot a few episodes later. He becomes competent again towards the end.
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ER / int_50b9b3d0	type	Crazy Jealous Guy
ER / int_50b9b3d0	comment	Played Straight with Gates towards Neela. Despite learning that Gallant was killed in action, Gates gets into a relationship with Neela in the second episode of Season 13, only weeks after Gallant's funeral, by kissing her when she's drunk. This doesn't sit well with Ray throughout the rest of the season.
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ER / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
ER / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Ray does this in "I Don't", after he witnesses Gates caressing Neela's cheek on the balconynote This is after Neela confessed to Ray that she regrets rushing into a relationship with Gates because she was On the Rebound from losing Gallant, and she implied that she was finally choosing him over Gates. Ray bitterly leaves the scene and, unfortunately, doesn't witness Neela pushing Gates' hand away and implying that she wants to break up with him. Unaware of Neela's true intentions, Ray gets drunk at the bar, verbally and physically fights with Gates over her, gets drunk again at another bar, and then gets run over by a truck.
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ER / int_52c6a4d	type	Last-Minute Baby Naming
ER / int_52c6a4d	comment	Last-Minute Baby Naming: Carol names her younger daughter Kate after Mark suggests using his late mother's middle name for the baby.
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ER / int_5313c266	type	Bookends
ER / int_5313c266	comment	Book Ends: Dr. Mark Greene calls to third-year medical student Carter in the Pilot. Carter calls to prospective medical student Rachel Greene (Mark's eldest daughter) in the series finale. Also in the pilot, Dr. Morgenstern tells Mark, "You set the tone, Mark. You get the unit through this," referring to Carol's suicide attempt. The departing and dying Mark later says the same to Carter, and the departing Carter says the same to Morris, after which he recants and says "Never mind" upon seeing how hungover Morris is. During Mark's pep talk to Carter in the pilot, he notes with casual relief how it's stopped raining. He off-handedly says it again during their final conversation in Season 8. Later in the pilot, Mark offers some words of encouragement to rookie med student Carter. Carter uses more-or-less these exact same words with rookie medical student Gallant. The pilot was the first day for rookie medical student Carter; the series finale was the first day for rookie physician Dr. Julia Wise. Both the pilot and finale begin with Nurse Lydia Wright waking up a senior member of the ER. In the pilot, it's Mark; in the finale, it's Morris. Even the pilot itself has bookends, because it starts and finishes with Mark being awakened by Lydia. A lighter variant: In the pilot, Mark has to treat a patient complaining of a hangnail amidst all the "real" emergencies. Years later, his very last patient (possibly the same woman) says "I have this hangnail, and it is very painful." He replies "I have a brain tumor, and it's inoperable. (Beat) I win."
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ER / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
ER / int_53c9fc92	comment	Flashback: When Mark is having surgery to remove his brain tumour he has a seizure and sees a bunch of things from his past (possibly a case of his life flashing before his eyes). Among them are visions of his mother, his father (blowing smoke) and Jen holding a crying baby Rachel and complaining that Mark didn't come home when he said he would. In "Time of Death", Charlie Metcalf has apparent flashbacks to aspects of his life while being treated. Most of it involves him trying to get his past self to reunite with or be there for his son, instead of going to prison. In "Heal Thyself", Catherine Banfield has a flashback on the anniversary of her son's death to her first time coming to County Hospital, which is when and where he ended up dying. It also serves as a way of bringing Mark back to the show, as it turns out he ended up treating her son shortly before he died.
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ER / int_55473bc9	type	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable
ER / int_55473bc9	comment	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable: As far as "clean" and "pretty" are concerned, typically played straight. In terms of "reliable," usually somewhat averted, as virtually all patients who are in cardiac arrest require defibrillation, and most require ACLS drugs. And of course, many patients don't make it. Averted in one episode where Carter is vomited on when he tries to give CPR to an overdosing medical student. Carter breaks an elderly man's rib once during CPR while awaiting a defibrillation. Averted in "Hell and High Water", when Doug spends about half an hour doing CPR unsuccessfully on a young, hypothermic drowning victim. It ultimately takes a bypass machine to revive him. Deconstructed in "All in the Family", when Romano cracks Lucy's chest open to attempt internal heart massage while she is dying of a pulmonary embolism. He is unsuccessful.
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ER / int_59633e4c	type	African Terrorists
ER / int_59633e4c	comment	African Terrorists: The doctors of County General have faced both the Mai Mai in the Congo and the Janjaweed in Sudan while treating their victims.
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ER / int_596f675a	type	Smoking Is Cool
ER / int_596f675a	comment	Smoking Is Cool: Jerry smokes a cigar occasionally. In the first three seasons Susan also smokes occasionally, which is odd considering the vast amount of lung cancer patients she has treated. Even worse, she's sharing an apartment with her infant niece! Mark starts smoking after his beating, but eventually quits after seeing a dying lung cancer patient. Carter smokes after his stabbing and quits after deciding that he'll get serious about rehab. Abby smokes and drinks.
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ER / int_5bdf025f	type	Instant Sedation
ER / int_5bdf025f	comment	Instant Sedation: Both Averted and Played Straight.
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ER / int_5c4d8a9e	type	The Intern
ER / int_5c4d8a9e	comment	The Intern: Several are seen through the series.
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ER / int_5e2e55e4	type	The Casanova
ER / int_5e2e55e4	comment	The Casanova: Doug and Carter were both very popular with women. Mark, amazingly, managed to take after Doug following his divorce and Susan's leaving, scheduling three dates on the same day (they all find out about it). Following that incident, Mark has several abortive relationships with many attractive women. Luka, being a taller, more European version of Doug, with a similar (if not worse) degree of emotional scarring.
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ER / int_5eb8a669	type	"Angry Black Man" Stereotype
ER / int_5eb8a669	comment	"Angry Black Man" Stereotype: Benton has shown shades of this. He's initially reluctant to go out with Elizabeth because she's white; the relationship later ended because Eriq La Salle had a problem with it being shown as "less problematic" than his relationships with black characters. Later he's reluctant to continue a relationship with Cleo because, as a bi-racial woman, she doesn't understand the "needs" of the African-American community, which rings fairly hypocritical considering that Jeanie (or at least, Gloria Reuben) was also half-white and Benton never considered it an issue, hiring her especially to take care of his mother. It's a wonder he was ever happy.
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ER / int_5f1999a0	type	Building of Adventure
ER / int_5f1999a0	comment	Building of Adventure: The earlier series are set entirely within the hospital.
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ER / int_60547993	type	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
ER / int_60547993	comment	I Want My Beloved to Be Happy: The reason Luka breaks up with Abby the first time. Luka bends over backwards to try and make Abby happy but she's always miserable and content with being so. It gets to the point where they have a fight, Luka says a lot of things he didn't mean and they break up. In a deleted scene from "On the Beach", Mark says that he has no problem with Elizabeth marrying again, reasoning that he'll be gone and that he wants Elizabeth to be happy and Ella to have a father. Despite this, most of Elizabeth's relationships after Mark's death fail for one reason or another.
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ER / int_605b8f40	type	Bumbling Sidekick
ER / int_605b8f40	comment	Bumbling Sidekick: The medical students. With very few exceptions, all the students seen on the show that get assigned to ER rotation are incompetent and incapable of doing anything useful. Apparently this is not an uncommon occurrence, as in the Pilot Susan hopes they get some good students because "the last ones were really useless."
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ER / int_6138b3cd	type	Carrying a Cake
ER / int_6138b3cd	comment	Carrying a Cake
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ER / int_62434fe2	type	Sanity Slippage
ER / int_62434fe2	comment	One indication of Victor Clemente's increasing Sanity Slippage is when he freaks out at the sight of Jane the medical student during a late night shift, claiming they've never met before. As a matter of fact, up until that point, they never had shared a scene together.
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ER / int_62907b90	type	Bottle Episode
ER / int_62907b90	comment	Bottle Episode: The vast majority of episodes took place over the course of one day and within the hospital. Some took this even further and focused on only one story, while one took place in real time over only 45 minutes. Even within that formula, the episode 'Secrets and Lies' is a more classic version, taking place not only in one day but also mostly in one room.
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ER / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
ER / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: A fair amount of episodes in Season 8, as well as the descriptions for the DVD box-set read like a sales pitch for Season 9. Particularly egregious is the season finale, which completely undercut the powerful and sad "On the Beach" for a completely obvious sequel hook that could have easily been the Season 9 premiere instead.
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ER / int_62f9d08e	type	Freeze-Frame Bonus
ER / int_62f9d08e	comment	Throughout the final season, departing cast members, starting with Abby, are taken to the basement to have their name plates placed on the wall. A Freeze-Frame Bonus reveals that the name plates◊ of all doctors who have left the staff/cast over the years are present.
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ER / int_641cf81d	type	Viewers Are Geniuses
ER / int_641cf81d	comment	Viewers Are Geniuses: Aside from averting As You Know, this was the main reason for leaving the bulk of the medical jargon "untranslated"—when writing the Pilot, Michael Crichton reasoned the audience would be able to rely on context and observation to figure out what was going on.
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ER / int_648fe274	type	But for Me, It Was Tuesday
ER / int_648fe274	comment	But for Me, It Was Tuesday: An early Season 1 episode has the heroic variety. Mark encounters a former patient who rushes into the ER on the one year anniversary of the doctor saving his life from some medical issue. The patient hugs, and lifts Mark off the floor, while loudly and happily proclaiming it to be "Dr. Greene Day" and he was going to reward the doctor with ribs. Mark, for his part, is first shocked and confused, but hides the fact this man was one of easily a dozen or more patients he encounters and whose lives he tries to save on a daily basis.
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ER / int_66721882	type	Jumping-On Point
ER / int_66721882	comment	Jumping-On Point: At the beginning of season 5 with the introduction of Lucy Knight, starting a new student-mentor arc with Carter moving up to the mentor role. Although Carter had been a mentor to students before, Knight's introductory episode was more openly a soft relaunch for the series, with a lot of effort put in to explain things for new viewers. For instance, every character gets an introduction using their full name, there are multiple As You Know moments to bring viewers up to speed, and several scenes of Lucy and other students walking around the ER, to show off the set.
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ER / int_66805a18	type	Race for Your Love
ER / int_66805a18	comment	Race for Your Love: At least two notable Aversions: Doug rushes to Carol's engagement party to deliver the abovementioned Anguished Declaration of Love...she screams at him to leave her alone, and her fiancÃ© punches him. It works out in the end. Mark runs to the train station to catch the departing Susan, only to have her gently rebuff him and leave anyway. He eventually found someone else. Played Straight: Carter buying a $9,000 plane ticket to Japan so that he can get past security and get to the gate to give one last kiss to his departing girlfriend Kem. Carter again racing through the streets of Paris to get to Kem's place and declare his love for her. The best example is of Carol rushing to catch a plane to Seattle in the hopes that it's not too late to reconcile with Doug. Subverted in "Shifting Equilibrium", when Brenner rushes to the airport to catch Neela before she leaves to reunite with Ray. It's not to declare his love and beg her to stay, but to hash out their unresolved issues and be able to part as friends.
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ER / int_670db7d7	type	Formula-Breaking Episode
ER / int_670db7d7	comment	Formula-Breaking Episode: Every season of the show featured an episode that was completely unlike the others. Notable highlights include: "Love's Labor Lost" (one story as opposed to multiple), "Hell and High Water" (similar), "The Long Way Around" (took place mostly outside the hospital), "Ambush" (live, "documentary style"), "Fathers and Sons" (took place completely outside of the hospital and over several days rather than the 24-hour format of most episodes, had nothing to do with medicine, and focused on only two of the main characters), "Secrets and Lies" (A Breakfast Club-type episode in which four of the doctors and Abby attend a sexual harassment seminar), and "Time of Death" (took place in real time).
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ER / int_67fe4b8e	type	Ship Sinking
ER / int_67fe4b8e	comment	Ship Sinking: Benton and Jeanie fall in love over the course of Season 1, beginning an affair as it ends. However, she soon ends it, declaring that she's not ready to end her marriage. She resurfaces a few episodes after that, having left her husband after all, but there's too much tension and anger for any talk of resuming their relationship. The final nail in the coffin is when he's a completely unsympathetic and unsupportive jerk to her over her HIV status.
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ER / int_68069489	type	Nipple and Dimed
ER / int_68069489	comment	Nipple and Dimed: During one scene a woman's bare breasts were visible as a realistic representation of what doctors have to do (e.g. cut someone's shirt off) during emergency medical treatment. The woman was elderly to minimize the risk that it would be perceived as titillating. There were plans to do this again, but then that Janet Jackson thing happened and they were shelved.
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ER / int_6849cc47	type	Where da White Women At?
ER / int_6849cc47	comment	Benton's brief, troubled relationship with Elizabeth is partly because Benton can't get over his discomfort with dating a white woman, thus echoing his portrayer's sentiments.
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ER / int_6a4f3cf7	type	Took a Level in Dumbass
ER / int_6a4f3cf7	comment	Took a Level in Dumbass: Neela in Season 13. Instead of properly mourning Gallant's death by staying single for a while, she enters a relationship with Gates only weeks after Gallant's funeral. Then, despite being angry at Gates' constant lying and issues with Meg and Sarah, and despite clearly being miserable in the relationship, she doesn't break up with him. Then, after she and Ray share their First Kiss and he tries to pursue a relationship with her, she tells him that she needs time to figure out her feelings for both him and Gates, even though she has genuinely been enjoying spending time with him again. Thankfully, she gets better—first, she admits to Ray that she made a mistake by rushing into a relationship with Gates because she was On the Rebound from losing Gallant, and she would've felt guilty if she used him as her rebound. Then, she breaks up with Gates. Then, she spends all of Season 14 single. Then, she comes to terms with her love for Ray in the final season, culminating in her leaving County Hospital to reunite with him in Baton Rouge.
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ER / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
ER / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: In "Night Shift", a patient who is badly mangled after jumping (or falling) onto the tracks in front of an elevated train is rolled into a trauma room. Benton tells Nurse Lydia to page his "favorite" medical student Dennis Gant, and everyone is horrified when the patient's beeper goes off—it's Gant on the table! When Mark discovers his wife is having an affair. Although, much like Carter's wealth, there were subtle hints beforehand that Mark just didn't pick up on. When Kerry discovers Carter and Lucy bleeding to death on the floor of a patient's room. When Neela discovers that Ray had both of his legs amputated following his accident.
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ER / int_6b7e3069	type	Birth-Death Juxtaposition
ER / int_6b7e3069	comment	Birth-Death Juxtaposition: A woman dies in childbirth in "Love's Labor Lost". Susan's sister Chloe gives birth at the beginning of "Motherhood", and Benton's mother dies at the end of the episode. Literally in "Great Expectations"—Carol gives birth to one of her twins in one room, while an elderly woman dies of renal failure in the room next door.
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ER / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
ER / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "You set the tone" was a commonly repeated phrase in the series: It was first told to Mark by Dr. Morgenstern in the Pilot. When Mark is leaving County to die from his tumor, these were his last words to Carter. And when Carter was leaving, he said this to Morris. Though it did take Morris a few years to be ready to set it, he would become one of the best doctors in the hospital. There's also the line "It's okay to miss him/her. Missing him/her keeps him/her here." Doug said this to Mark after Susan's departure in Season 3, Mark said this to Carol after Doug's departure in Season 5, and Carter said this to Susan after Mark's death in Season 8. The pep talk Carter gives new student Gallant after the latter freaks out during a gruesome trauma is identical to the one Mark gave Carter in the pilot. This was done intentionally.
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ER / int_6d2a892a	type	Everybody Is Single
ER / int_6d2a892a	comment	Everybody Is Single: Originally Averted—Mark was married (the only doctor in the ER who was), but the Pilot made it clear that his marriage was rocky. Played Straight after he got divorced, although he eventually married Elizabeth, only to die and leave Elizabeth widowed and therefore single. Keep in mind that the original cast was made up of actors chiefly in their early thirties, except for Noah Wyle, who was in his early twenties, and of them only Anthony Edwards was recently married (George Clooney was recently divorced), making this a less egregious use of the trope.
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ER / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
ER / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Dennis Gant throws himself in front of a train because of Benton's treatment of him. Officially it's ruled an accident, but Benton and Carter know the truth.
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ER / int_6ef9d3fe	type	Christmas Episode
ER / int_6ef9d3fe	comment	In the Season 12 Christmas Episode, Haleh auditions ER staffers to perform with her at a Christmas concert. We get to hear Abby, Chuny and Ray all being quite bad.
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ER / int_6fe06cc5	type	FootFocus
ER / int_6fe06cc5	comment	Carol and Susan, for no apparent reason, tanning on the roof of the hospital, the shot emphasising their bare feet.
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ER / int_70c73c20	type	TheUnseen
ER / int_70c73c20	comment	The Unseen: Starting from Season 3, Benton's brother-in-law Walter (played by Ving Rhames) stopped appearing and was only ever mentioned.
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ER / int_71598ac8	type	Internal Affairs
ER / int_71598ac8	comment	Internal Affairs: The hospital has M&M, wherein the treating doctors present cases in which a preventable accident/injury/death occurred, in front of the hospital board and several other doctors. Frequently a place for doctors to assign blame to either the patients (i.e., their difficult medical conditions) or other doctors.
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ER / int_716c0b1b	type	And the Adventure Continues
ER / int_716c0b1b	comment	And the Adventure Continues: The series finale. Crosses over with Book Ends, as a Greene enters and leaves the hospital with Carter.
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ER / int_72e0023f	type	Invoked Trope
ER / int_72e0023f	comment	Invoked. In the Season 10 episode "The Greater Good", after returning from Doctors Without Borders, Luka becomes obsessed with doing the bare minimum for his patients, as that is what doctors in countries like the Congo have to work with, although he was really trying to keep from doing unnecessary tests and procedures to save them money. Pratt calls him out on this, telling him "Maybe you should just go back to Africa." Luka's response? "Maybe you should go to Africa!" Pratt is black, so this understandably pisses him off quite a bit. In Luka's defense, he only meant it in the sense of "Try doing medicine under those conditions and get back to me." Ironically, Pratt did go to Africa in Season 12, on Luka's orders no less.
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ER / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
ER / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "You set the tone." Said by David Morgenstern to Mark Greene in the pilot. Passed on by Mark to John Carter in Season 8's "Orion in the Sky." Passed on by Carter to Archie Morris in Season 11's finale "The Show Must Go On." Carter notes when he returns in the final season that Archie took the words to heart.
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ER / int_750146b4	type	Lethal Diagnosis
ER / int_750146b4	comment	Lethal Diagnosis
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ER / int_754df088	type	Put on a Bus
ER / int_754df088	comment	Put on a Bus: While many characters were put on this, the most upsetting is Ray, who is first hit by a truck and then departs on a literal bus at the end of Season 13, and then is put on a figurative bus in Season 14. For all its cruelty, at least he finally becomes a couple with Neela in the final season. All the original cast members eventually left, but until the show got rid of its opening theme after Season 12, you could still see "incidental" shots of them from the Pilot. The Bus Came Back for several, especially in the final season.
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ER / int_75538142	type	Friend to All Children
ER / int_75538142	comment	Friend to All Children: Doug is remarkably good with children. Kerry, despite being unable to deal with adults, is also very good with children. Luka has a rapport with children and, like Doug, dates a woman with a kid for a while, getting close to her through the kid.
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ER / int_75f95361	type	TheDocumentary
ER / int_75f95361	comment	The Documentary: The Season 4 premiere "Ambush", which was performed live.
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ER / int_77063cd7	type	Hooker with a Heart of Gold
ER / int_77063cd7	comment	Hooker with a Heart of Gold: Loretta.
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ER / int_775a1af6	type	Married to the Job
ER / int_775a1af6	comment	Married to the Job: Almost everyone. Part of the Character Development for both Mark and Benton is the discovery that other things are more important. In Season 1 both cannot break away from their jobs to be with their families, ultimately leading to divorce for Mark and the death of Benton's mother. By Season 8 Benton decides to leave County to get a job with better hours so that he can be with his son, and Mark eventually leaves the hospital to spend time with his daughter in Hawaii (though in Mark's case, it's more that he's dying and doesn't have much time left, rather than him reducing his working hours).
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ER / int_78270847	type	Curse Cut Short
ER / int_78270847	comment	Curse Cut Short: When Abby accidentally cracks Luka's fish tank in the Cold Open of "Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik":
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ER / int_786bf97f	type	Real Life Writes the Plot
ER / int_786bf97f	comment	Real Life Writes the Plot: Kerry had her hip dysplasia surgically corrected in Season 12 because ten years of walking with a crutch had begun to cause hip problems for her actress, Laura Innes. The Real Life pregnancies of several of the show's actresses—Ming-Na Wen, Alex Kingston, and Sherry Stringfield—resulted in their characters being pregnant as well. Many characters were written out because the actors playing them wanted to do other things. Most notably, George Clooney left both because his film career was starting to take off and because he felt that all of Doug's potential storylines had been exhausted. Anthony Edwards left to spend more time with his family. Benton's brief, troubled relationship with Elizabeth is partly because Benton can't get over his discomfort with dating a white woman, thus echoing his portrayer's sentiments. The malpractice storyline that resulted in Jing-Mei angrily resigning was because Ming-Na Wen was filming a movie and needed the time off.
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ER / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
ER / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later-Installment Weirdness: It began as a fairly realistic portrayal of a hospital emergency room, but later seasons included kidnappings, explosions, arms being chopped off, helicopter crashes, shoot-outs and many other things. Also the entire cast was different.
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ER / int_7b8b3def	type	Celebrity Paradox
ER / int_7b8b3def	comment	Celebrity Paradox: ER and Third Watch take place in the same universe, but Michael Beach appeared on both, on ER as Al Boulet (Jeanie's ex-husband) and on Third Watch as Monte "Doc" Parker. Lisa Vidal also appeared on both—as Dr. Morales on Third Watch (Doc's love interest) and firefighter Sandy, Kerry's eventual wife on ER. ER was also referenced as a being a TV show on Third Watch.
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ER / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
ER / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: Ellis West, the slick pharmaceutical bigshot whose company is attempting to purchase management of the ER in Season 4 and who might as well have "SHARK" tattooed on his forehead. He's also played by Clancy Brown. Yeah, The Kurgan just looks so trustworthy.
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ER / int_7c1bfcea	type	Scary Surprise Party
ER / int_7c1bfcea	comment	Scary Surprise Party: A Running Gag where the staff would trick a co-worker into thinking they were needed for a medical emergency, only to happen upon their surprise birthday party/welcome back party/going away party/bridal shower/baby shower. The first use of the gag was in season 1 for Benton's birthday except that it was his mother's birthday. Carter had overheard him discuss a birthday over the phone and assumed it was Benton's. Averted with Susan in Season 3. The staff plan one of these, but then they get caught up in an actual medical emergency and can't give her a proper send-off.
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ER / int_7d30a8fa	type	But We Used a Condom!
ER / int_7d30a8fa	comment	But We Used a Condom!: Frequently comes up, with at least two notable examples: Jeanie tells Benton to get an HIV test, reasoning that while they were careful they weren't that careful. He tests negative for HIV. Benton finds Carla in the ER waiting room, waiting to see the OB Attending. He is baffled by her pregnancy as they used protection. As it turns out, after Benton has invested years in the resulting child, Reese turns out not to be his biological son.
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ER / int_7ec94d53	type	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds
ER / int_7ec94d53	comment	Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Curtis Ames loses his health, hand, livelihood, money, and even family from Luka's error, finally snapping and making Luka—at gunpoint—break his own hand via vise, giving him Ames's pain and hurting his own livelihood. And when Luka finally invokes My God, What Have I Done? and apologizes for Ames's Trauma Conga Line, Ames is Driven to Suicide, having nothing left.
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ER / int_7efe2c19	type	Portmanteau
ER / int_7efe2c19	comment	Portmanteau: Benton and Carla come up with Reese's full name by combining their last names.
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ER / int_7f933d43	type	Claustrophobia
ER / int_7f933d43	comment	Claustrophobia: Jeanie and Neela.
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ER / int_80a247a9	type	Breather Episode
ER / int_80a247a9	comment	Breather Episode: Many of the hard-hitting, wrenching episodes ("Love's Labor Lost", "The Storm, Part 2", "All in the Family", "It's All In Your Head"), were followed by episodes that were more upbeat or mundane, making the fallout from the previous episode the B-plot rather than the main focus or ignoring it altogether—"Middle of Nowhere", which followed "The Storm, Part 2", even left the ER completely, following Benton to Mississippi.
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ER / int_81eb806a	type	Live Episode
ER / int_81eb806a	comment	Live Episode: The Season 4 premiere "Ambush". The cast did it twice. Once for the East Coast USA and once for the West Coast USA. The set up was a documentary crew put up cameras around the hospital to watch the staff.
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ER / int_820ac3c5	type	Dysfunction Junction
ER / int_820ac3c5	comment	Dysfunction Junction: Most of the ER staff are this: Doug's father was abusive and ultimately abandoned him and his mother. Carter's relationship with his parents was never that great (they're never around) and his grandfather refused to accept his career choice, insisting that it was just a phase and instead wanting him to run the family business. Subverted with Mark. He and his father have a difficult relationship and he resents him for being a tough military type, unwilling or unable to show any affection for Mark. Doug, who really did have an abusive father, pointed out that his dad was always there for him and told him to "get your head out of your ass!" As it transpires, Mark's father sacrificed his chances at making admiral to come home and help him with a bully (taking a desk job instead). His mother, however, didn't want him at first. She had only been on a couple of dates with his father and wasn't ready to settle down. Mark eventually admitted to his eldest daughter Rachel that he didn't even remember why their relationship was so bad, only saying that it was "probably my fault." Kerry's mother gave her up for adoption, and for years Kerry grappled with the fact that it might've been due to her congenital hip dysplasia (as it turns out her birth mother knew nothing about it). Abby's father left her when she was very young and her mother and brother have bipolar disorder. She herself is a recovering alcoholic. Same thing with Pratt's father, though he tried to get back with Pratt's mother, but she never answered his letters. Sam comes from a family of alcoholics.
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ER / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
ER / int_8409a385	comment	Also in "Blizzard", bordering on Exactly What It Says on the Tin, as an actual blizzard outside coincides with—and causes—a massive influx of patients. This was the first, and arguably the best, of the show's "mass casualty" episodes.
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ER / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
ER / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: Remember Tracy Young, the third-year medical student beginning her ER rotation in the Pilot? Neither does anyone else. She was intended to be Carter's Distaff Counterpart and a possible love interest for Doug, but she was Dropped After the Pilot when TPTB decided to have Carol recover from her drug overdose. In Season 1, it's mentioned at least twice that Doug has a son. Scant details are given about this except the boy's age (8) and that Doug doesn't even know the boy's name. His son is never mentioned again throughout the rest of his time on the show, not even during key storylines where it would make sense—his abusive father resurfacing and later dying, and then his and Carol's decision to have a baby. At one point, when someone asks Doug if he has any kids, he replies "no." Some recurring characters just flat out disappeared, notably Dr. Angela Hicks, "Dr. Bob", and several others. Oddly enough, in Season 6, Hicks' locker is clearly next to Kerry's, even though Hicks stopped appearing after the second episode of Season 4, "Something New". Child prostitute Charlene "Charlie" Chiemingo (played by Kirsten Dunst) had a six-episode arc in Season 3, where Doug tries to get her off the streets. In the Season 3 finale, Doug and Anna treat her after she overdoses on hardcore drugs, but she escapes the ER to go back on the streets. They give up on her after failing to locate her, and she's never mentioned or seen again. Maggie Doyle originally disappeared without explanation, but then it was implied by Kerry that she was forced out when her sexual harassment case against Romano fell apart because Elizabeth refused to testify. Dr. Cooper, who started as a second year resident at the same time as Morris and Pratt, disappears after the episode "Freefall", with no mention of him for the rest of the season even though he was far more competent than Morris and apparently carried him through their intern year.
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ER / int_86e1653c	type	Working Through the Cold
ER / int_86e1653c	comment	Working Through the Cold: Abby on Mark's and Elizabeth's wedding day, Malucci during flu season (though, an also sick Kerry wimps out and goes home), Morris works, even with food poisoning.
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ER / int_86f27af6	type	Bait-and-Switch Tyrant
ER / int_86f27af6	comment	Bait-and-Switch Tyrant: Kerry Weaver and Donald Anspaugh. In the final two seasons, we get Kevin Moretti and Catherine Banfield.
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ER / int_8797239c	type	Bait-and-Switch
ER / int_8797239c	comment	Bait-and-Switch: In one episode, Kerry treats a little girl present when her father was shot. When Kerry questions her, the girl admits that she shot her father. When Kerry gently asks why, and if he was abusing her, the girl matter-of-factly answers "He wouldn't let me watch TV." For a moment, it appears that she's an Enfant Terrible, until she elaborates and says that he threatened to shoot her if she turned on the TV while he was sleeping, "so I shot him first", thus revealing that he was an abusive parent after all.
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ER / int_89631688	type	The Chosen One
ER / int_89631688	comment	In the series finale, a patient stated that "I am The Chosen One, I am Lugia."
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ER / int_8a1215e0	type	Bratty Teenage Daughter
ER / int_8a1215e0	comment	Bratty Teenage Daughter: Rachel Greene was a sweet little girl, but then became any parent's worst nightmare as a teenager. Rumor had it that was the reason the part was recast to a slightly older actress, despite the continuity errors it caused.
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ER / int_8c49c29e	type	Zig-Zagging Trope
ER / int_8c49c29e	comment	Zig-Zagged with Carter. He started out as an idealistic young medical student, then went through a period of jerkassery in Season 2, mainly in imitation of the cutthroat surgeons (namely Benton) he was working alongside then. By Season 3 he had mostly gotten it out of his system, although in his last few seasons he reverted a bit. He comes back in the final season as almost saintly.
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ER / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
ER / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Benton's sister Jackie after the murder of her son. Comes to a head during the custody battle over Reese between Benton and Roger McGrath when she tells Roger to butt out of their life and that Reese is "theirs." This is despite the fact that Roger also views Reese as his own son and treated him as such. Benton himself, who had the same attitude, even refusing Roger's completely reasonable offer to give him full custody as long as he could visit. When the judge hands down a custody agreement that is virtually identical to the offer Roger made, Benton's behavior becomes especially pointless. Mark after Susan leaves, and then after getting beaten up.
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ER / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
ER / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: One of the most notable was also one of the first, "Love's Labour Lost", featuring Mark trying to save a pregnant woman and her child. He succeeds with the latter, but not the former. "Random Acts." It starts as a rather harmless episode, with some lighthearted fun based around finding a racy story written about an ER with clear stand ins for the staff as part of the cast. Then, out of nowhere, Mark is attacked in the men's bathroom and savagely beating, causing a massive attitude shift for him that would last well into the 4th season. "Be Still My Heart" is a very run-of-the-mill episode...until the final minutes, when Carter is stabbed. As he collapses, he—and we—see Lucy in even worse condition. The follow-up episode "All in the Family" is just as intense, but it appears that Carter and Lucy will be okay...until she develops a pulmonary embolism and dies.
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ER / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
ER / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	In the Season 6 finale, when Luka refuses to take his less critically injured patient off a helicopter in favor of Benton's more severely injured one. Why? As he says to Benton, "Your patient killed people!" (the patient was a school shooter who had been himself shot by the police; Luke had taken one of his victims into the helicopter instead). Benton tells him that that's not their call to make, to no avail. Sure enough, the man dies because he's unable to reach the hospital in time. In fact, Luka has many moments like this throughout his tenure on the show, tending to treat his Asshole Victim patients with utter contempt rather than remaining objective. Considering where Luka comes from and his backstory, it's entirely understandable.
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ER / int_927b2f11	type	The Bus Came Back
ER / int_927b2f11	comment	The Bus Came Back for several, especially in the final season.
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ER / int_92bec282	type	Back to Front
ER / int_92bec282	comment	Back to Front: There was a backwards-running episode which "began" with a defenestration from a hospital window. Subsequent scenes showing earlier and earlier events revealed the reason for the suicidal character's desperation. Another one "starts" with two staff members being brought into the hospital following a car accident. The flashbacks reveal that this was the culmination of a horrible day for one of them and that the reason he was driving recklessly was because of his mishandling of a patient's care.
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ER / int_931fc523	type	Back for the Finale
ER / int_931fc523	comment	And, of course, all the departed regulars from the original cast (including, via flashback, Mark) returned for guest appearances in the final season.
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ER / int_94e4b975	type	Vomit Indiscretion Shot
ER / int_94e4b975	comment	Vomit Indiscretion Shot: At least once a season. Averted in "All in the Family". When Kerry steps outside into the ambulance bay to puke into a trashcan after seeing the results of a schizophrenic patient's attack on Lucy and Carter, her head is obscured by the lightbar of a police vehicle in the foreground.
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ER / int_9593e2d7	type	Stereotype
ER / int_9593e2d7	comment	Stereotype: invoked Invoked. In the Season 1 episode "Blizzard", Caucasian Doug mistakes African-American Angela Hicks for a nurse—to the point where he's giving her orders, etc.—before she coldly informs him that she's a doctor and the new Attending ER physician. He winces at the mistake, realizing how badly he's come across. It's a pretty cringeworthy moment for someone who's heretofore shown no signs of being a racist nor sexist, despite his womanizing. Invoked. In the Season 10 episode "The Greater Good", after returning from Doctors Without Borders, Luka becomes obsessed with doing the bare minimum for his patients, as that is what doctors in countries like the Congo have to work with, although he was really trying to keep from doing unnecessary tests and procedures to save them money. Pratt calls him out on this, telling him "Maybe you should just go back to Africa." Luka's response? "Maybe you should go to Africa!" Pratt is black, so this understandably pisses him off quite a bit. In Luka's defense, he only meant it in the sense of "Try doing medicine under those conditions and get back to me." Ironically, Pratt did go to Africa in Season 12, on Luka's orders no less.
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ER / int_96fbeaf	type	There Are No Therapists
ER / int_96fbeaf	comment	There Are No Therapists: Averted. Susan sees a therapist after losing baby Suzie (who she raised as her own after Chloe abandoned her) to her sister. Carol tries to get Shep to see a psychiatrist to deal with his PTSD, but he outright refuses to go, or even admit he has a problem. Carol, as a result, breaks up with him. She sees him months later with another, blonder, woman. Doug sees a shrink (offscreen) after one of his one night stands ODs and dies in the ER. Played Straight with some patients. Often times the ER doctors will try to get patients who obviously need psychiatric help admitted to the psychiatric department (or psych, as they call it) only for these patients to be turned away for various reasons. These patients inevitably either come back, having harmed themselves or others, or turn up dead. Most notably, in "Be Still My Heart", Lucy and Carter call for a psych consult on a schizophrenic patient but are kept waiting long enough for the patient to have a psychotic break and stab both Lucy and Carter, ultimately killing the former and permanently damaging the latter both physically and psychologically. Subverted in one episode in which Luka appears to be talking to a therapist before it's revealed that she's a prostitute.
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ER / int_973d220f	type	Never My Fault
ER / int_973d220f	comment	Never My Fault: Played With. While the doctors internally feel a lot of guilt when routine procedures go haywire and the patients are left dead or irreparably damaged, often times they deflect the blame onto someone or something (i.e., the patient's pre-existing medical conditions) else. Most notably seen in the aftermath of "Love's Labour Lost". The 'Father' in "Rampage". He's just shot Nineteen people, killing nine of them. Even as Mark tries to save his life, the father is screaming at Mark how all of this was Mark's fault for daring to report the abuse of his son.
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ER / int_9788e2b1	type	Black Dude Dies First
ER / int_9788e2b1	comment	Black Dude Dies First: Not first considering this is ER, but two regular black male cast members (out of three) eventually die on the show, both blown up. One in The Teaser with a voice over. Long before that, Dennis Gant threw himself in front of a train.
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ER / int_986bd638	type	This Is a Work of Fiction
ER / int_986bd638	comment	This Is a Work of Fiction: The hospital is called Cook County General Hospital. It wasn't intended to be a fictionalised version of the real-life Cook County Hospital, now named the John H. Stroger, Jr. Hospital of Cook County. However, the head of Emergency Medicine at the actual hospital was so infuriated at the depiction of the hospital in the show, partly because some of the stuff depicted actually happens in the real-life hospital, that he tried to lean on the ER producers to rename it. They eventually relented somewhat and the hospital is usually referred to as County General. However, as this article points out, by doing so, the ER producers missed a veritable gold mine of story ideas based on the strange stuff that actually goes on in the real County Hospital.
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ER / int_9a1d239e	type	Been There, Shaped History
ER / int_9a1d239e	comment	Been There, Shaped History: In the final season episode "A Long Strange Trip," a very old man with advanced dementia who wanders into the ER turns out to have been one of County's best doctors in its entire history, who is listed as having been, among many other accomplishments, one of the pioneers of the Call 911 system in the early '60s.
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ER / int_9ae85487	type	Dr. Jerk
ER / int_9ae85487	comment	Dr. Jerk: A few doctors like these come and go, especially Romano. Morris flirts with this trope, before becoming a Jerk with a Heart of Gold. Benton was Ã¼ber-driven, and incredibly unforgiving of anyone he felt didn't have the same level of drive that he did.
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ER / int_9c4003a1	type	One True Love
ER / int_9c4003a1	comment	Abby reminds Neela of Ray's love for her in "300 Patients" — albeit in a Kick the Dog moment — and then sincerely encourages her to reunite with him in "Shifting Equilibrium".
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ER / int_9d0daa7d	type	Last Episode Theme Reprise
ER / int_9d0daa7d	comment	Last Episode Theme Reprise: After dropping it following Season 12, the original theme song was played over the beginning and end of the series finale.
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ER / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
ER / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Occasionally, stories or dialogue would allude to some of the show's classic episodes from previous seasons—when Mark was sued for the wrongful death of a patient, the family's lawyer brought up the events of "Love's Labor Lost". Throughout the final season, departing cast members, starting with Abby, are taken to the basement to have their name plates placed on the wall. A Freeze-Frame Bonus reveals that the name plates◊ of all doctors who have left the staff/cast over the years are present. The series finale has plenty of references to the Pilot, starting with Nurse Lydia Wright waking up Mark/Morris for their shift, and it continues from there.
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ER / int_9dd2af4a	type	Inspirationally Disadvantaged
ER / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Kerry. Despite her disability, she is consistently depicted as an uber-competent doctor. In fact, her abrasive personality (rather than warm and fuzzy) might even make this a subversion. At the end of Season 13, Ray is hit by a truck and loses both of his legs. He reappears in the final season, having recovered, left Emergency Medicine, and now specializing in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, fully capable and mobile thanks to state-of-the-art prosthetics, and truly enjoying his new specialty. He outright says that seeing how accomplished he is gives hope to the disabled military personnel he often works with.
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ER / int_9e447c8c	type	Suspiciously Apropos Music
ER / int_9e447c8c	comment	Suspiciously Apropos Music: In "All In The Family", Mark and Elizabeth are on a Valentine's Day dinner, singing Billy Joel's "Piano Man" at karaoke. As they sing the following lyrics, their pagers go off, calling them back to the hospital to help save Carter and Lucy, who had been stabbed. In "Freefall", Romano is subjected to an elevator music version of Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" moments before he's killed by a helicopter falling on him.
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ER / int_a031893b	type	Prom Baby
ER / int_a031893b	comment	Prom Baby: Sam explains this to be the case with her son Alex.
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ER / int_a0671da	type	Tragic Stillbirth
ER / int_a0671da	comment	Carter and Kem's son Joshua is stillborn. While the couple goes on to get married after the tragedy, their relationship is fragile and its fate remains ambiguous.
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ER / int_a0947d78	type	Token Trio
ER / int_a0947d78	comment	Token Trio: Gender Inverted. Abby, Neela and Ray have this dynamic in Seasons 11 and 12—Abby is a white woman and the central female character; Neela is a British-Indian woman and Abby's best friend; and Ray is a white man.
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ER / int_a0db7803	type	It's Personal
ER / int_a0db7803	comment	It's Personal
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ER / int_a1575551	type	Living Prop
ER / int_a1575551	comment	Living Prop: Various doctors, nurses and police officers fill the background. Particularly jarring in some scenes where the main characters claimed to be the only doctors when there were clearly other ones milling about.
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ER / int_a24670a4	type	Benevolent Boss
ER / int_a24670a4	comment	Benevolent Boss: Dr. Morgenstern.
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ER / int_a4c37cbe	type	Mood Whiplash
ER / int_a4c37cbe	comment	Mood Whiplash: The episode "Random Acts" is a largely harmless episode to start, with a running subplot about a racing fanfic written with Suspiciously Similar Substitutes for the ER staff. Then Mark is unexpectedly attacked by a mysterious assailant in the Men's Room, leaving him battered, bruised and emotionally compromised for many episodes to come.
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ER / int_a6123b72	type	Enfant Terrible
ER / int_a6123b72	comment	Enfant Terrible: A few over the years. In the final season, there's one utterly blase about the fact that she keeps trying to hurt her sister.
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ER / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
ER / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Carol Hathaway, Jeanie Boulet, Kerry Weaver, Anna Del Amico, Robert Romano, Dave Malucci, Jing-Mei Chen, Abby Lockhart, Michael Gallant, Greg Pratt, Archie Morris, Tony Gates, and Simon Brenner were all credited as guest stars in their respective first appearances before being promoted to the main cast. Carol in particular was actually supposed to succeed in her suicide attempt in the Pilot, but Michael Crichton and John Wells were impressed with Julianna Margulies (as were test audiences, who were also intrigued at the hints of her past with Doug) and kept her on, making her a Breakout Character. Unfortunately, this makes her suicide attempt something of an Out-of-Character Moment. This evolved into pretty much being the producers' official means of auditioning new cast members in the last several years: Bring a bunch of new people on as recurring characters each season and promote the best ones to the main cast later on. Played With for Nurse Chuny (Laura CerÃ³n). She never actually "ascended" to the main cast, but she appeared in more episodes than any other main or recurring cast member after Noah Wyle and Laura Innes. Averted with Maggie Doyle. Doyle got a lot of air-time, consistent with the guest stars that become main cast members, and she was an ER resident. But before she could ascend, Jorja Fox was offered more substantial roles in other shows, beginning with The West Wing and culminating in CSI, so instead Doyle just disappeared. Tellingly, Doyle's the only character on the wall of locker tags seen in the final season not to have been a main cast member.
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ER / int_a6e8221e	type	Status Quo Is God
ER / int_a6e8221e	comment	Status Quo Is God: This was all but guaranteed anytime it seemed that a character might be leaving the hospital for another job. As long as it was known that their portrayer didn't intend to leave the show, there was no reason to angst: Doug is fired a third of the way into Season 2 and by the beginning of the next episode, accepts a job offer at a prestigious clinic. However, said episode was the legendary "Hell and High Water". By the episode after that, the hospital administration was so impressed by his heroic actions that they offered him his previous job back. In the Season 2 finale, Carol gets fed up with the red tape she constantly has to deal with and quits. By the Season 3 premiere, she's back at work, with absolutely no explanation as to how she got her job back and aside from one other person snarking, "Well, you could always quit again" when she was complaining about something, no references to it were ever made. At the beginning of Season 9, Elizabeth was shown to have returned to London (with her husband's death, she no longer had any ties to Chicago. It was also completely plausible, given the longer time frame). By episode's end, being very unhappy and having realized that she no longer fits in in England, she decides to return to Chicago. By the very next episode, she's back at work, having resumed her job and moved back into her house without the slightest blip.
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ER / int_a70223	type	Karma Houdini
ER / int_a70223	comment	Karma Houdini: Mark's assailant is never caught. Whoever was killing Elizabeth's patients—it's implied that it's Alexander Babcock, but this is never followed up. Romano caught Morris smoking a joint on the job in the bathroom and dragged him out to tell him to wait in a seat and touch nothing, as he would be dealt with later. Morris does wait, but Romano is killed by the helicopter, so no one is there to report Morris' crime. A lot of Morris' Character Development took place after this event, so he evidently realized how incredibly lucky he was (albeit in a horrible way), and resolved to shape up. Jen Greene makes Mark feel guilty about trying to advance his career at County and tries to get him to follow her career and move to Milwaukee. She constantly rags on him for being friends with another woman (Susan)—but she's the one who cheats on him and leaves him for the other man, and instead of incurring Mark's wrath in the form of divorce court proceedings and custody battles, they both eventually relent and decide to split amicably. When she decides to move her and Rachel to St. Louis, Mark puts up absolutely no resistance. Kerry. From Season 6 onward, she began to pull numerous duplicitous stunts in order to advance her career and never once incurred punishment for any of them, eventually becoming Chief of Staff. She finally gets a taste of karma in Season 13, when after making the huge mistake of hiring Victor Clemente, a dangerous paranoid schizophrenic, as an Attending and ignoring Luka's complaints about how unstable he was, Anspaugh demotes her below Luka, who ultimately ends up axing her due to budget cuts.
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ER / int_a7f99c1f	type	Two First Names
ER / int_a7f99c1f	comment	Two First Names: Doug Ross, Susan Lewis, John Carter, Archie Morris, Frank Martin, Tess and Kate Ross, and Carla Reese, among others.
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ER / int_a8559a9f	type	RealLife
ER / int_a8559a9f	comment	The Real Life pregnancies of several of the show's actresses—Ming-Na Wen, Alex Kingston, and Sherry Stringfield—resulted in their characters being pregnant as well.
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ER / int_a8abe9d1	type	Separated by a Common Language
ER / int_a8abe9d1	comment	Separated by a Common Language: Happens in Dr. Corday's first episode, where she asks for "Casualty", which is what Emergency departments are referred to in the United Kingdom.
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ER / int_a8b5a55e	type	Welcome Episode
ER / int_a8b5a55e	comment	Welcome Episode
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ER / int_aa77f7b8	type	Blood Transfusion Plot
ER / int_aa77f7b8	comment	Blood Transfusion Plot: In the episode "The Good Fight", Carter and Lucy spend the entire episode running around the city trying to find an injured girl's father so that he can donate her rare blood type.
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ER / int_ace24b2c	type	Halfway Plot Switch
ER / int_ace24b2c	comment	Halfway Plot Switch: In "Exodus" (S 4 E 15) the episode starts off with Elizabeth Corday going with paramedics to help with an explosion at a mining facility, and struggling to free a trapped civilian. Meanwhile back at the ER, it's a day like any other, setting up a dynamic similar to the classic "Hell and High Water" where the action will focus on Elizabeth out in the field while the ER remains relatively out of focus. But Elizabeth frees the patient fairly early on, and at the same time several minders who were earlier evacuated make their way to the ER, unknowingly leaking toxic Benzine into the atmosphere, which leads into the real crux of the episode- a massive evacuation attempt by the staff, led by John Carter in order to keep the patients alive while setting up temporary ER's and ICU's for the critical patients.
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ER / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
ER / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: It's a medical procedural. These are going to come hard and fast. Kerry has this reaction in the Season 9 episode "Walk Like A Man" when, while demonstrating flu shots on live TV, she forgets to switch needles. She's left staring at the camera in horror. She has another in Season 8 when she sees Jing-Mei arriving at the hospital with a lawyer and realizes that Jing-Mei has found out that she lied about not receiving any pages the night a patient died—she misplaced her beeper, leaving her unable to be reached. Carol has this in "Great Expectations" during the C-section birth of her twins, as she sees a suction tube fill with blood when complications begin to set in. Mark quickly tried to reassure her. Thankfully, she pulled through, and both her daughters were born okay.
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ER / int_aeec99a9	type	Immediate Sequel
ER / int_aeec99a9	comment	Immediate Sequel: A handful of episodes pick up within minutes of the previous one's ending.
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ER / int_afc6df04	type	What You Are in the Dark
ER / int_afc6df04	comment	What You Are in the Dark: Mark gets a moment like this in Season 6. He's alone in an elevator with a mass shooter that's blaming Mark for getting his son taken away and therefore him shooting nineteen people. Mark has found out that the shooter was going after Mark's family next when he was shot by one of his victims. The shooter starts to crash. Mark quickly prepares to defib him, but then suddenly stops, looks the man in the eyes and discharges the defibrillator in the air without even saying a word, watching him die.
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ER / int_b066acc0	type	From Roommates to Romance
ER / int_b066acc0	comment	From Roommates to Romance: Ray later realizes he is in love with his roommate Neela.
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ER / int_b09c818	type	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word
ER / int_b09c818	comment	"Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: Subverted. An unsuspecting Benton walks in on Dr. Keaton and Carter snuggling in her office during their affair (since she's an Attending and he's an intern, this is a major no-no that could have gotten her instantly fired if found out); aside from surprise, he doesn't evince any reaction. But when he later asks Keaton about taking on another pediatric surgical fellowship (something she had earlier refused to allow him to do), she naturally assumes the worst.
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ER / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
ER / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Many of the doctors working in the ER have screwed up parents. Some of the patients also turn out to be victims of parental abuse.
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ER / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
ER / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: Early on, Benton insisted that he had not checked the "African-American" box when applying to med school because he wanted to succeed solely on his own merits (which would seem to fit with his incredibly driven characterization). A few seasons later they changed this and he was revealed to have checked the box and gotten into med school ahead of some more-qualified white applicants. Rachel Greene (Mark's eldest daughter) was 5 when the series began, and aged naturally year by year. When Yvonne Zima (b. 1989) was replaced with Hallee Hirsh (b. 1987) from Season 8 onward, the character was made two years older: 14 when she should have been 12. However, this worked out for the series finale, since it made Rachel exactly the right age (22) to be applying to medical school in 2009.
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ER / int_b5785433	type	ColdOpen
ER / int_b5785433	comment	When Abby accidentally cracks Luka's fish tank in the Cold Open of "Blood, Sugar, Sex, Magik":
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ER / int_b6caa5b4	type	Operation: Jealousy
ER / int_b6caa5b4	comment	Operation: Jealousy: In Season 13, Ray deliberately asks out a medical student named Kateynote Which is inappropriate, as he's a third-year resident, therefore she's his subordinate right in front of Neela, solely because he's bitter over the latter's relationship with Gates, and he makes it clear that he doesn't care about Katey. When Neela expresses her jealousy over his new "relationship", Ray calls her out on it because she already chose Gates and, therefore, has no right to care about who he dates. However, Neela's jealousy causes Ray to completely forget about Katey, and he tries to pursue a relationship with Neela after they share their First Kiss. When Katey reveals that Ray hasn't called her in months and asks if it was because he started dating Neela, he laughs nervously and asks if they can talk. Katey easily sees right through him and breaks up with him. Although Ray briefly looks guilty for using her, he quickly gets over it and focuses on trying to enter a relationship with Neela.
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ER / int_b6cebad3	type	Double Standard
ER / int_b6cebad3	comment	Double Standard: The female staff staring at handsome male coworkers/patients/relatives of patients and commenting on their good looks is seen as perfectly normal and not the least bit unprofessional. Male staff ogling gorgeous female coworkers/patients/relatives of patients and commenting on their good looks are viewed as lecherous perverts. A very striking example of this is when Pratt is accused of groping a female patient (he didn't, but his efforts to put her at ease by telling jokes backfires on him). All the women not only instantly assume that he's guilty, they accuse all male doctors of having gone to medical school solely to have a chance to ogle women, while sanctimoniously—and falsely—insisting that they have never had an inappropriate thought about an attractive male patient. Also, it's totally acceptable for the medical doctors to bitch about unpleasant things that happen to them on their jobs, many of which are caused by sick or injured people who can't help puking or bleeding all over their caretakers, but any doctor from the psych department complaining about the behavior of their patients is treated to disgusted looks and snide remarks from the other staff. Elizabeth accuses her mother of neglecting her or practically abandoning her in favour of her work, but her father gets a free pass. Her mother calls her out on this. Likewise, Carter confronts his mother for abandoning him and for not being there for him after his brother died, but the fact is that Carter's father was equally absent from Carter's life and his father gets absolutely none of Carter's angst.
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ER / int_b6ec7566	type	Twofer Token Minority
ER / int_b6ec7566	comment	Twofer Token Minority: Raul Melendez, the paramedic and Shep's partner, is both Hispanic and gay. Kerry's girlfriend Sandy Lopez is Hispanic, gay, and a woman. The show had no less than three bi-racial women, including Gloria Reuben (Jeanie Boulet), Michael Michele (Cleo Finch) and Thandiwe Newton * Credited as Thandie Newton (Kem).
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ER / int_b7d2dbed	type	Tonight, Someone Dies
ER / int_b7d2dbed	comment	Tonight, Someone Dies
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ER / int_b7efeb58	type	Magical Defibrillator
ER / int_b7efeb58	comment	Magical Defibrillator: Defibrillators are actually generally portrayed accurately on this show. There was maybe one exception, and it was mentioned that they were desperate and trying everything they could at that time.
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ER / int_b8dbe475	type	Blood from the Mouth
ER / int_b8dbe475	comment	Blood from the Mouth: Countless patients, including Pratt.
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ER / int_b96fdd94	type	Extra-Long Episode
ER / int_b96fdd94	comment	Extra-Long Episode: The first and final episodes were two hours long.
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ER / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
ER / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Susan Lewis' sister Chloe is spectacularly self absorbed. While it could be partially due to an undiagnosed personality disorder, it doesn't change the fact that one of the first things we see Chloe do is impose herself on her sister to crash at her place and borrow some money, which then leads to her stealing her TV and gets upset when Susan gets mad at her for stealing it. Chloe's pregnancy with Little Susie only causes her to get worse, as she abandons her daughter multiple times, pretends to go to school after dropping out, and can't even keep a simple waitressing job. Even after it seems Chloe gets her life together, she relapses hard in the eighth season and is never seen again.
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ER / int_bc00493f	type	Precision F-Strike
ER / int_bc00493f	comment	Precision F-Strike: In Mark's final regular episode, his body was really failing and he collapsed to the floor. Frustrated and not wanting his family to see, he screamed "Shit!" (on network TV). Word of God says they got clearance from the FCC to do this, citing situational necessity. Several physical versions as well. A just-shy-of 18 teenage boy gives Doug the finger after the latter revives him. The kid had end-stage Cystic Fibrosis, he didn't want resuscitation but, being under-age, his mother, who didn't want to let him go, reneged on the DNR order.
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ER / int_bc21c08f	type	My Life Flashed Before My Eyes
ER / int_bc21c08f	comment	When Mark is having surgery to remove his brain tumour he has a seizure and sees a bunch of things from his past (possibly a case of his life flashing before his eyes). Among them are visions of his mother, his father (blowing smoke) and Jen holding a crying baby Rachel and complaining that Mark didn't come home when he said he would.
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ER / int_bcc5c9a5	type	Replaced the Theme Tune
ER / int_bcc5c9a5	comment	Replaced the Theme Tune: The theme was dropped after Season 12, but was brought back for the series finale. The original theme tune had two different lead-ins. Either the music would start with a "hard" lead-in (a loud heartbeat-like sound) or a "soft" lead-in. Often, the soft lead-in would be used when the episode's cold open featured a particularly serious or somber scene. The soft version is also what appears on the show's official soundtrack album.
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ER / int_bd9beaf4	type	Unexpected Inheritance
ER / int_bd9beaf4	comment	Unexpected Inheritance: With Romano's death, the Hospital was the beneficiary of a great sum of money. Knowing he was homophobic, Kerry decided to put it to a treatment center for the LGBT community.
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ER / int_c145f69b	type	Subverted Trope
ER / int_c145f69b	comment	Subverted with Ray towards Neela. In the Season 12 finale "21 Guns", after learning that Pratt is the only non-family member to attend Gallant's funeral, Ray tells him that he's been trying to contact Neela, his former roommate-turned-love interest and Gallant's widow. Pratt gently tells him to give her some space and not complicate things. Ray looks guilty at the insinuation, but he takes Pratt's advice and refrains from engaging in a relationship with her.
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ER / int_c23525d4	type	Character Title
ER / int_c23525d4	comment	Character Title: When character names were incorporated into episode titles, it was usually as a Shout-Out or Epunymous Title (or a combination of the two), but "John Carter, M.D." in Season 2 and "Makemba" in Season 10 are straight examples.
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ER / int_c25c7890	type	Fun with Acronyms
ER / int_c25c7890	comment	Fun with Acronyms: When Pratt gets accused of inappropriately touching a female patient, Morris makes a crack about how he "TUBEd her." He realizes too late that Kerry is nearby and that she will not be amused by what "TUBE" means: Totally Unnecessary Breast Exam.
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ER / int_c289826f	type	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male
ER / int_c289826f	comment	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male: Happens twice with respect to Carter. In season 1, Carter wakes up in a hospital bed after accidentally being knocked out by a female classmate and is told by a nurse (also female) that she allowed the classmate to give him a full physical while he was unconscious, including genital and rectal exams, which Carter is visibly upset and freaked out by. It turns out that they had just been saying it "as a joke" to mess with him, but it's hard to imagine it being treated the same way if the genders were reversed. During the discussion about virginity in the season 8 episode "Secrets and Lies," Carter (somewhat reluctantly) admits to his coworkers that he lost his virginity at age 11 to one of his parents' staff, a woman he estimates to have been around 25. This is played for laughs and joked about by the other characters present.
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ER / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
ER / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Mark raises the possibility of pre-eclampsia in one patient one week, only to completely mis-diagnose a patient actually suffering from it a few weeks later. Similarly, Carol blasts a nurse for two major errors—(1) giving a patient the wrong medication, which almost killed him, and (2) icing a patient's football instead of his severed foot, leaving surgeons unable to reattach it and him crippled for life. (The woman was overwhelmed by the fast pace of the ER). A few months later, Carol is similarly overwhelmed trying to do the work of three nurses and makes a similar mistake—giving a patient the wrong type of blood, killing him. And even more ironically, Carol ultimately decides not to report the nurse for the medication error, citing that even the best of nurses could become flustered. Even though precisely the same thing happens to her and her supervisors tell her the same thing, indicating that they're willing to let her off the hook, Carol insists on the incident being reported and taking whatever punishment is doled out Furthermore, when the incident happens, Kerry makes it clear that she admires Carol for refusing to lay the blame on others and being willing to accept whatever punishment comes. Fast-forward a few years later when Kerry is among those responsible for the death of a patient (she was not present to supervise the other doctors treating him and therefore correct their mistakes) and proceeds to do exactly the opposite—lying through her teeth about her involvement in order to escaped unscathed. Because Carla put Benton's name on Reese's birth certificate she would have no legal right to challenge his paternity, which is why she doesn't when Benton sues the McGraths for trying to take Reese with them to Germany. Ironically, after she dies, Roger is perfectly welcome to challenge Benton's paternity, which he does. Despite being a skilled surgeon, Benton reacts like any other loved one in regards to his mother's increasing illness and frailty—with complete denial. Abby, as an OB/GYN nurse, assisted in the birth of Carol's twins, which had become complicated, and helped save her and her uterus. Years later, Abby lost both her own uterus to a complicated C-section.
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ER / int_c33ba0a8	type	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome
ER / int_c33ba0a8	comment	Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Doug and Carol are noticeably absent from Mark and Elizabeth's wedding in Season 7 and then Mark's funeral in Season 8. This is especially jarring because, during the entirety of Doug's tenure, he and Mark were depicted as best friends. George Clooney explained that he didn't want to come back for the funeral scene in Season 8 because he didn't want his appearance to overshadow Mark's death (which is understandable, given NBC's outrage at not being told about Clooney's uncredited cameo in "Such Sweet Sorrow"). Still doesn't explain his and Carol's absence, nor the lack of explanation, from the wedding, and in Carol's case, her absence from the funeral and lack of explanation for it. Most recurring characters who stop recurring do so without any explanation (apart from the ones who are explicitly killed off, like Dennis Gant or Sandy Lopez). This even extends to long-runners like Conni and Randi. It happened to Jerry twice.
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ER / int_c3585f4a	type	Boom, Headshot!
ER / int_c3585f4a	comment	Averted in the Season 6 finale. At the scene of a mass shooting, Luka told a police officer to stop giving CPR to somebody whose brains were splattered all over the concrete.
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ER / int_c3943bf3	type	Pilot
ER / int_c3943bf3	comment	Remember Tracy Young, the third-year medical student beginning her ER rotation in the Pilot? Neither does anyone else. She was intended to be Carter's Distaff Counterpart and a possible love interest for Doug, but she was Dropped After the Pilot when TPTB decided to have Carol recover from her drug overdose.
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ER / int_c40c8b74	type	And Starring
ER / int_c40c8b74	comment	And Starring: Eriq La Salle, for Seasons 1-8. Paul McCrane, for Seasons 9-10. Laura Innes, for Seasons 10-13. Angela Bassett, for the final season.
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ER / int_c63e7d67	type	Invoked
ER / int_c63e7d67	comment	Invoked by Carter for Lucy. Carter originally isn't thrilled about Lucy's joining the hospital, partly because she's fairly useless and partly because Anna had just left to live with her recovering drug addict boyfriend in Philadelphia, which hurt Carter who had unresolved romantic feelings for her.
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ER / int_c6aa9afc	type	First-Person Perspective
ER / int_c6aa9afc	comment	First-Person Perspective: The seventh-season episode "Piece of Mind" makes frequent use of this with many characters, including Mark during his brain surgery.
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ER / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
ER / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: In the second episode of Season 1, Susan spends the day clashing with a psychiatrist. At the end, she's still complaining about the case in question to her unseen bedmate, who is promptly revealed to be the same psychiatrist, much like Hill Street Blues did with Furillo and Davenport. The penultimate episode of Season 1, "Motherhood", was directed by Quentin Tarantino and features a number of references to his works, including: Benton hearing a mantra/speech that he repeatedly has to give ("We used all our capabilities") and wondering what it really means—like Jules in Pulp Fiction. A woman has her ear cut off. Carol and Susan, for no apparent reason, tanning on the roof of the hospital, the shot emphasising their bare feet. A Trunk Shot. In the Season 3 finale, Mark pulls a gun on some punks harassing him on the train, although he doesn't shoot them. In the series finale, a patient stated that "I am The Chosen One, I am Lugia."
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ER / int_c83751cb	type	Description Cut
ER / int_c83751cb	comment	Description Cut: There's this conversation from "Wake Up":
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ER / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
ER / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: Played with. In the Season 9 episode "No Good Deed Goes Unpunished", during Jing-Mei and Pratt's relationship, she lets Susan borrow a blouse after Susan's gets stained during their shift. When Susan and Abby later do a procedure which requires a Wood's Lamp (a blacklight), they notice an obvious, and suggestive, series of blotches on the front of the blouse. When Susan returns the blouse and tries to tactfully ask about this, Jing-Mei explains she'd spilled club soda on it while at the bar the previous night — reminding Susan that dried club soda also flouresces under black light — which was why she'd had it hanging up in the staff room to dry, and asks Susan if they really thought she was "the ER slut coming into work with spunk all over her?" Susan feels guilty and tries to apologize, but the offended Jing-Mei walks out. As she leaves the building, however, she takes the blouse and tosses it in a trash can, implying that the stain actually was from Pratt's semen.
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ER / int_caa28b82	type	Cloudcuckoolander
ER / int_caa28b82	comment	Cloudcuckoolander: Morgenstern.
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ER / int_cb70651c	type	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
ER / int_cb70651c	comment	Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane: There are hints that supernatural forces are at work in and around Chicago, even as early as the first season, but nothing is ever confirmed either way: In Season 1's "Blizzard," a nun randomly appears out of nowhere to give Last Rites to a religious man who had just passed away during a mass-casualty incident, then disappears as quickly as she came, prompting confusion from staff members. Benton's generation of random Christmas miracles wherever he goes in "Do You See What I See?" Two seasons earlier, the mysterious, Santa-like, toymaker who vanishes while Carol is treating him. A Season 14 episode suggests that Santa Claus is real, as Archie glimpses something that is accompanied by sleigh bells and whistling snow (coupled with him yelling, "Holy...!" before the episode ends) as he leaves the hospital for the night.
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ER / int_cc0a4909	type	Wall Glower
ER / int_cc0a4909	comment	Wall Glower
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ER / int_cc28a8d7	type	Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?
ER / int_cc28a8d7	comment	Have I Mentioned I Am Gay?: One of the show's first recurring stated gay characters is Yosh Takata, a long-running but relatively minor supporting character who never gets a substantial storyline of his own, let alone a romantic one. The only reason we know he is gay is because another character once describes him as a "fairy", prompting others to stand up for him.
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ER / int_cc4b45f6	type	Word of God
ER / int_cc4b45f6	comment	Someone writes a torrid soap-opera romance novella set in an emergency room and featuring characters that are all romanticized—or in Kerry's case, vilified—versions of the ER staff. Word of God says the author was Kerry.
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ER / int_cef91828	type	SteadiCam
ER / int_cef91828	comment	SteadiCam: The show's visual trademark was a "oner" of doctors working on a patient, filmed using a SteadiCam, with the camera operator circling the room. Often it involved going to the second room in a track shot, cover the situation there and return to the first patient with another doctor joining the procedure.
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ER / int_d29a6629	type	Death by Childbirth
ER / int_d29a6629	comment	Death by Childbirth: One of the most famous, most well-regarded episodes of the show's entire run was in "Love's Labor Lost", in which Mark spends most of the episode trying to save a pregnant woman with eclampsia. He fails.
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ER / int_d2aa7d09	type	Littlest Cancer Patient
ER / int_d2aa7d09	comment	Littlest Cancer Patient: In Season 1, Tatiana, the littlest AIDS patient, is abandoned by her adoptive mother ten days after bringing her from Russia. Scottie, the son of hospital Chief of Staff Dr. Anspaugh in Season 4. In Season 6, Dakota Fanning made her acting debut as a kid with leukemia who'd been in a car accident. That's Littlest Cancer Patient up to eleven right there.
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ER / int_d397657d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
ER / int_d397657d	comment	Hoist by His Own Petard: After Doug lands a position as a Pediatric Attending, he puts a rule in place that if one of the regular ER doctors sees a pediatric patient, then the Pediatric Attending has to sign off on their chart after the fact. Of course, with Doug's luck, this leads to the ER getting jammed with pediatric cases his first day on the job, and with him being the only Pediatric Attending at the time, he's there until late into the night. When Kerry sees his dedication to it, it's the final step in their formerly antagonistic relationship becoming somewhat friendly.
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ER / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
ER / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: In Season 2, Benton tells a grandfather that Doug completely missed his grandson's bone cancer when he came in for treatment four months ago. He did this even though Mark specifically told him not to (it wouldn't have helped the patient and would have put the hospital at considerable risk of lawsuit) and even though it wasn't Benton's case. Understandably Doug was really pissed off, as were the rest of the hospital staff (some of who outright refused to work with him) and Mark, who called him on it and claimed Benton was just angry that he couldn't do anything about Carl Vucelich's manipulation of research data. Only Jeanie thought he did the right thing. Then again, they were having an affair at the time. In Season 3, Mark violates Jeanie's privacy by snooping through her medical records in order to find out if she's HIV positive. Upon finding out that she is, he displays a stunning level of ignorance for a regular person, much less a doctor—yanking her away from treating patients, relegating her to only triage and nothing else, etc. Even when Mark lets Jeanie stitch up his cut forehead, he admits that he'd be hesitant to let her treat his daughter Rachel. When Jeanie and especially Kerry find out about this confidentiality violation, they're rightfully furious with him and Kerry lays into him about it for two consecutive episodes. Also in Season 3, Benton gets torn a new one by Abby Keaton when he disregards her instructions, which nearly kills an infant during surgery, because he stubbornly refused to ask for help the moment he realized he was in over his head. This ultimately costs him his surgical fellowship. Carter gets this in Season 4 when he's in charge of treating a teenaged serial rapist who had sent several elderly women to County earlier in the season. Rather than use the ER's last unit of blood on the rapist, Carter uses a riskier method of treatment (auto-transfusion) that could have resulted in the patient's death. When the rapist survives, Carter not only gets the cold shoulder from some of the other staff for saving the guy, Anna lays into him for taking chances and endangering his patient. Carol massively lays into Doug in Season 5 after his decision to help a distraught mother euthanize her terminally ill son leads to her clinic being closed, Mark and Kerry facing disciplinary charges, and a possible criminal investigation being opened by the boy's estranged father (though nothing ultimately comes of the last one). In the Season 6 finale, when Luka refuses to take his less critically injured patient off a helicopter in favor of Benton's more severely injured one. Why? As he says to Benton, "Your patient killed people!" (the patient was a school shooter who had been himself shot by the police; Luke had taken one of his victims into the helicopter instead). Benton tells him that that's not their call to make, to no avail. Sure enough, the man dies because he's unable to reach the hospital in time. In fact, Luka has many moments like this throughout his tenure on the show, tending to treat his Asshole Victim patients with utter contempt rather than remaining objective. Considering where Luka comes from and his backstory, it's entirely understandable. Benton again gets a moment like this in the Season 7 finale, where he ignores a patient's repeated assertions that he doesn't want any treatment and is ready to die, to the point where he prepares him for a blood transfusion and surgery once the man passes out. It's pretty bad for a doctor who's been objective almost to a fault to so blatantly ignore and override his patient's wishes like that.
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ER / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
ER / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: The crew helps a homeless girl who turns out to be on the run from a Cure Your Gays-institution. A person from the facility shows up to take her back, but Carter refuses to release her...by claiming that she is pregnant. What are they going to do, say that that is impossible?
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ER / int_d52d28b6	type	Hypocrite
ER / int_d52d28b6	comment	Hypocrite: Pratt accuses Kerry of being this after she disciplines him for performing a breast examination without a nurse present, as his demeanor had made the patient uncomfortable. Dr. Hicks calls out Benton for disclosing to a patient's grandfather that Dr. Ross had missed a cancerous tumor in the boy's leg in an earlier visit, followed by Benton blaming Jeanie Boulet for misdiagnosing an appendicitis that later ruptures in a patient that Benton had discharged without even examining.
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ER / int_d53ad027	type	Cheerful Child
ER / int_d53ad027	comment	Cheerful Child: Zig-Zagged. Children on this show are either angels or demons.
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ER / int_d72edeb0	type	Fake Guest Star
ER / int_d72edeb0	comment	Fake Guest Star: Laura CerÃ³n (Nurse Chuny) and Deezer D (Nurse Malik) appeared in more episodes than anyone other than Noah Wyle and Laura Innes...all with guest star billing. Emily Wagner (paramedic Doris Pickman) appeared in 168 episodes, and was featured in every single season, but was always credited as a guest star. Lily Mariye (Nurse Lily) appeared in 127 episodes, and was featured in every single season, but was always credited as a guest star. Montae Russell (paramedic Dwight Zadro) appeared in 117 episodes, and was featured in every single season, but was always credited as a guest star. Yvette Freeman (Nurse Haleh) is one of only six actors—the others being the aforementioned Laura CerÃ³n, Deezer D, Emily Wagner, Lily Mariye, and Montae Russell—from Season 1 who stuck around to the end, and appeared in more episodes than Anthony Edwards or Eriq La Salle. She and Deezer D literally were a part of the show from the Pilot to the Grand Finale, but neither were ever promoted to the opening credits. Leland Orser as Dr. Lucien Dubenko in the final five seasons.
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ER / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
ER / int_d7472e4f	comment	Kerry Weaver gets a lot less focus after being Kicked Upstairs due to becoming Chief of Staff in Season 10, occasionally getting a short arc to remind us that she's still around. This coincided with Laura Innes getting more involved with directing the show, which she continued to do after Kerry was written out.
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ER / int_da297ad2	type	One of Our Own
ER / int_da297ad2	comment	One of Our Own: Frequently. Hospital staff, cops, and paramedics get preferential treatment, which is Truth in Television in real-life emergency departments. The first and best example of this is Carol's suicide attempt in the Pilot. The entire staff practically come to a standstill after seeing Carol come in. Some want to know why she did it, something they don't usually care about. Mark says to Morgenstern that they have to try everything, for morale if nothing else. Lampshaded, albeit tragically, in "All in the Family", when Benton operates on Carter after his stabbing. Benton is so distraught at Carter's condition that he nearly removes a salvageable kidney and has to be talked down by Anspaugh. Meanwhile, Romano insists on trying to revive Lucy, whereas with a patient he had no connection to, he would have been objective enough to acknowledge that she was gone. When treating his infant daughter for a drug overdose in "Damage is Done", Mark hesitates to do everything that he knows deep down is medically necessary, to the point where Kerry gently but firmly takes over the case, pointing out that had this been anyone else's child, he would have intubated her immediately, but is reluctant to cause such discomfort to his own. Catherine Banfield experiences a form of this with her son—he had acute leukaemia but she failed to see the symptoms, when Mark was treating him she, meaning well, inadvertently tried to obstruct him—and the incident forms part of her backstory. Incidentally her son was treated by Mark not long after his aforementioned incident. Played for laughs in "Whose Appy Now" — Carter is not distraught but thrilled that he gets to operate on Benton.
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ER / int_da46a2c0	type	Hollywood Atheist
ER / int_da46a2c0	comment	Hollywood Atheist: Doug, who instead jokingly claims to be Pagan—though he crosses himself several times during the episode "Fathers and Sons", implying that he was raised Catholic even if he's now lapsed. Also possibly Lucy. In a deleted scene from "On the Beach", Mark says outright that he doesn't believe in God.
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ER / int_dbb414ed	type	Hand Wave
ER / int_dbb414ed	comment	Midway through Season 5, a woman named Amanda Lee is hired as the new ER chief. It's eventually discovered that she's a nutcase who never even went to medical school. It's highly unlikely this wouldn't have been discovered beforehand—she would have needed to submit numerous credentials, all of which would have to be verified (it's offhandedly explained at one point that she passed the credentials of an actual doctor with a similar name off as her own, but there's no elaboration on how nobody saw through this). Afterwards, there's never any mention of the incident again, even though the hospital would likely be facing massive lawsuits should anyone discover they were treated by a fake physician.
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ER / int_dc0d80ee	type	High-Pressure Blood
ER / int_dc0d80ee	comment	High-Pressure Blood: On numerous occasions.
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ER / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
ER / int_dcb9c541	comment	Ship Tease: Tons, but none more merciless than Ray and Neela.
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ER / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
ER / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Halfway through Season 12, a wealthy cancer patient, Richard Elliott (played by Armand Assante), hires Sam to be his private nurse. At the beginning of Season 13, when the ADA is attempting to press charges against her for killing her abusive ex-husbandnote Who by this point had shot up the ER in the process of kidnapping her and their son in a crazed attempt at reuniting their family, shot and killed his two cohorts, and raped her, he uses his connections to get a her a top notch lawyer as well as convince the DA not to bother pursuing a case against her.
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ER / int_dd6ce5db	type	Artistic License
ER / int_dd6ce5db	comment	Artistic License: A lot of scenes have the ER staff doing things that in Real Life would be done by the nurses or other physicians in other sections of the hospital. In "Love's Labor Lost", there's is no way an OB/GYN wouldn't have taken over the case, especially since it was a high-risk case. Not only is Mark's treatment of the woman woefully incompetent, it went on for hours, enough time to call in an OB/GYN from another hospital or practice or even another city if necessary. Midway through Season 5, a woman named Amanda Lee is hired as the new ER chief. It's eventually discovered that she's a nutcase who never even went to medical school. It's highly unlikely this wouldn't have been discovered beforehand—she would have needed to submit numerous credentials, all of which would have to be verified (it's offhandedly explained at one point that she passed the credentials of an actual doctor with a similar name off as her own, but there's no elaboration on how nobody saw through this). Afterwards, there's never any mention of the incident again, even though the hospital would likely be facing massive lawsuits should anyone discover they were treated by a fake physician. A business example—when Romano was under consideration for the chief of staff position in Season 6, a meeting of department heads is set up to discuss it, with Romano present. Mark and Kerry agree beforehand that they need to try to prevent Romano's promotion (because they both hate him). At the meeting, none of the department heads raise an objection to Romano getting promoted until Mark speaks up and says that Romano rubs a lot of people the wrong way. Kerry, who had not spoken before then, is asked if she agrees, and she says no, that she's fine with Romano getting the job. Mark is understandably furious that she threw him under the bus, but she tells him later that she could tell from the mood of the room that Romano was going to get the job and if they both spoke against him it would just poison him against the entire ER. But in reality, it never would have happened like that; there's no way Romano would have been present during a meeting discussing his promotion, so that people would be able to speak freely without fear of retribution. As well, such a decision would never have been made so rapidly. Quite glaring when you recall that only a season earlier, the search for an ER chief took over a year but was ultimately unsuccessful. Yet within one day, Romano is made Chief of Staff, appoints Kerry ER Chief at the same time, and a few years later, the two switch positions within roughly the same time frame. When Abby reports to Mark that she witnessed Carter injecting himself with pain medication, Mark calls Carter into the lounge with himself, Kerry...and Abby. There's no way that the person making such a complaint would be present when the person in question is being confronted—it puts them at great personal/professional risk. If Carter had been so inclined, he could have given her a poor evaluation as payback. In Season 7, Kerry has Abby assigned to the ER, apparently without asking Abby's supervisor or even Abby herself. Aside from the fact that Kerry would have no authority to do this—as stated, such moves would be handled by the nursing supervisor—as an OB nurse, Abby would likely be out of her element in the ER. In fact, this had been a plot point earlier in the series, as management intentionally assigned senior nurses approaching retirement to departments they were unfamiliar with, in the hopes that they'd screw up and get disciplined, so that they could be fired before maxing out their pensions. Several doctors end up working at County despite not having officially matched into a residency program there. Pratt in particular just simply declares that he'll be there the next day (and presumably just not show up at the hospital he DID match into). As any physician can tell you, this is next to impossible. In the Season 7 episode "Sand and Water" a couple seeks to have their newborn baby baptized and spend the majority of the episode trying to find a priest who can baptize the infant. In reality, any baptized Christian can baptize a person in danger of death if they or their guardians consent and baptism does not require an ordained clergy member to do so. Just the intent to baptize (and some clean water, depending on denomination) is enough.
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ER / int_de306ba6	type	Worst Aid
ER / int_de306ba6	comment	Worst Aid: Typically Averted, though some of the CPR scenes practically qualify as Narm. Most of the erroneous CPR was justified: performing completely realistic-looking CPR on an actor could be dangerous. The trope still applies to the more egregious examples, though. Averted in the Season 6 finale. At the scene of a mass shooting, Luka told a police officer to stop giving CPR to somebody whose brains were splattered all over the concrete.
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ER / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
ER / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: Elizabeth Corday is set up to be the viewpoint character in S 4 E 15's "Exodus." But her plot is resolved halfway through, with the action instead shifting to Carter as he leads the staff's efforts to safely evacuate the ER and save as many lives as he can.
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ER / int_df93387b	type	I Got You a Drawer
ER / int_df93387b	comment	I Got You a Drawer: Doug asks for one as a sign he wants to get serious with Carol.
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ER / int_df9eda66	type	Write Who You Know
ER / int_df9eda66	comment	Write Who You Know: invoked Someone writes a torrid soap-opera romance novella set in an emergency room and featuring characters that are all romanticized—or in Kerry's case, vilified—versions of the ER staff. Word of God says the author was Kerry. Michael Crichton was a physician. Many of the events of the Pilot were based off his experiences, particularly the bit where Mark leaves a "wake up" note on an exam room door.
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ER / int_e16cd2c8	type	Grief-Induced Split
ER / int_e16cd2c8	comment	Grief-Induced Split: Carter and Kem's son Joshua is stillborn. While the couple goes on to get married after the tragedy, their relationship is fragile and its fate remains ambiguous. Catherine Banfield and her husband became estranged following the death of their four-year-old son to leukemia, though they reconcile by the final season.
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ER / int_e3cee2e7	type	Empathic Environment
ER / int_e3cee2e7	comment	Empathic Environment: In the Pilot. Also in "Blizzard", bordering on Exactly What It Says on the Tin, as an actual blizzard outside coincides with—and causes—a massive influx of patients. This was the first, and arguably the best, of the show's "mass casualty" episodes.
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ER / int_e4f48a7f	type	The "Fun" in "Funeral"
ER / int_e4f48a7f	comment	The "Fun" in "Funeral": When Abby brings her brother to Millicent Carter's funeral, he makes a scene, accidentally destroys a floral tribute and falls into the grave.
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ER / int_e5406b1b	type	Beat
ER / int_e5406b1b	comment	A lighter variant: In the pilot, Mark has to treat a patient complaining of a hangnail amidst all the "real" emergencies. Years later, his very last patient (possibly the same woman) says "I have this hangnail, and it is very painful." He replies "I have a brain tumor, and it's inoperable. (Beat) I win."
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ER / int_e5421161	type	Expy
ER / int_e5421161	comment	Expy: Alan Alda plays Dr. Gabriel Lawrence, a very intelligent and skilled doctor who served in the army. While being tested for Alzheimer's, he even describes a picture of a funnel as a martini glass without the base. Dr. Julia Wise isn't Rory Gilmore, she just acts exactly like her and happens to be played by the same actress.
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ER / int_e545d293	type	Narm
ER / int_e545d293	comment	Typically Averted, though some of the CPR scenes practically qualify as Narm.
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ER / int_e5e6640b	type	Flanderization
ER / int_e5e6640b	comment	Flanderization: Romano's prickish tendencies became more exaggerated with each passing year. Originally, the only indication the viewer had that Romano was a racist was him asking Benton if he liked Chris Rock.
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ER / int_e7e558	type	The Oner
ER / int_e7e558	comment	The Oner: One of the trademarks of the series, with camera following entire procedure of doctors working on a patient. Due to the amount of details presented in those shots, it's one of the main reason why the show redefined Medical Drama ever since.
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ER / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
ER / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Seen a lot in "All In The Family", which deals with the efforts to save Carter and Lucy after their stabbing. Romano temporarily stops being a Jerkass, Kerry is so disturbed that she has to go outside to throw up into a bin, and even Randi is visibly shaken by events.
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ER / int_e8b295de	type	PlayedWith
ER / int_e8b295de	comment	Played With for Nurse Chuny (Laura CerÃ³n). She never actually "ascended" to the main cast, but she appeared in more episodes than any other main or recurring cast member after Noah Wyle and Laura Innes.
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ER / int_e8ca5cb3	type	Freudian Slip
ER / int_e8ca5cb3	comment	Freudian Slip: There's this conversation between Ray and Neela in "Two Ships", which is the first episode to indicate that his feelings for her run deeper than being just roommates:
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ER / int_e9c022ea	type	Secretly Wealthy
ER / int_e9c022ea	comment	Carter visits Anna's studio apartment and sees a cockroach climbing along one of her cupboards. She crushes it. She's later embarrassed by the incident and Carter having to see how poorly she lives when she finds out that Carter is absolutely loaded.
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ER / int_e9f517e1	type	Artistic License â€“ Geography
ER / int_e9f517e1	comment	Artistic License â€“ Geography: In the Season 9 premiere, Elizabeth is shown going past Big Ben to get to work (Presumably St Thomas Hospital), which is on the other side of the Thames. But later when she is said to be on the roof of the hospital shes shown to be facing Tower Bridge about 3km away. She's also not on a hospital roof at all. She's on the roof of The Tower hotel.
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ER / int_ea2c71c0	type	Hospital Paradiso
ER / int_ea2c71c0	comment	Hospital Paradiso: Mark in the Pilot, to the letter. Averted with Benton. Not only does Benton pursue work in such a place, he takes it. This was because he needed to be around to take care of Reese and Romano wouldn't/couldn't offer him the hours he needed at County. Also at the beginning of "Hell and High Water". Having been fired from the hospital in the previous episode, Doug is seen interviewing at one of these. Despite the higher pay and better hours, he's clearly not happy about it, and his heroics in the episode prompt the hospital to rehire him. Despite working in an inner-city emergency room, Carter seems to think he's playing this trope out, writing a huge check to benefit a grungy clinicnote Unfortunately, the guy supposedly running it is a scam artist, and ultimately going to work in Africa. Pratt spends all of Season 9 eagerly anticipating matching into a residency program in a more prestigious hospital. He does. . . and on what's to be his last day at County, decides to stay.
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ER / int_eb1fcaf7	type	Improbable Hairstyle
ER / int_eb1fcaf7	comment	Improbable Hairstyle: A lot of the long-haired women were often seen wearing their hair loose. Most female medical professionals won't do this—aside from the fact that hair isn't sterile and could therefore contaminate an open wound, it could also get in the way, be grabbed onto, or get soiled by body fluids.
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ER / int_eb6da8ef	type	Crossover
ER / int_eb6da8ef	comment	Crossover: With Third Watch.
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ER / int_eb8ec7c8	type	Jerkass
ER / int_eb8ec7c8	comment	Jerkass: Most of the characters who initially behaved like this have later gone on to be examples of Jerk with a Heart of Gold instead. Romano. However, there are numerous episodes which show him as being a Jerk with a Heart of Gold—"All in the Family" springs to mind. He ultimately reverted to full Jerkass status. Benton is often arrogant, narcissistic and completely self-serving, to the point that he never seems to care about anyone other than himself. Like Romano, however, he has his moments, and the birth of his son changes him a bit. Zig-Zagged with Carter. He started out as an idealistic young medical student, then went through a period of jerkassery in Season 2, mainly in imitation of the cutthroat surgeons (namely Benton) he was working alongside then. By Season 3 he had mostly gotten it out of his system, although in his last few seasons he reverted a bit. He comes back in the final season as almost saintly. After Mark got beat up he became cynical and rather unpleasant to both his co-workers and his patients. Fortunately a trip to California with Doug is enough to snap him out of it. Doug himself during the first three seasons. His promiscuity is heavily implied to be the result of some deep-seated issues (abuse, abandonment) rather than him just being an unfeeling jerk, and even if not, he's consistently shown to be an excellent and compassionate pediatrician. Surgical intern/resident Dale Edson (Seasons 2-5, 8-9). Unlike the previous examples, Edson never developed into a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
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ER / int_eb8f64a6	type	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
ER / int_eb8f64a6	comment	No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: The type of tumour Mark is diagnosed with, Glioblastoma Multiforme, can be caused by ionizing radiation, such found in x-rays. It is quite possible that Mark's illness and eventual death was purely a by-product of being a good and caring doctor, by going with his patients to x-ray. The very title of an episode that has Carter visiting the inner-city clinic of a cantankerous doctor who he made a generous donation to check up on him. Only to find the place completely abandoned and realize that he's been ripped off. In the episode "Ambush", two patients are brought in. One is a gangbanger beaten up the gang he was trying to leave, the other is a bystander who was trying to help. The gangbanger recovers while his would-be savior is left paralyzed from the neck down.
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ER / int_ed05cfee	type	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer
ER / int_ed05cfee	comment	As the other original cast members left, others characters were often introduced in either the abrasive go-getter mold, or the plucky NaÃ¯ve Newcomer.
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ER / int_edaedf90	type	Vomit Discretion Shot
ER / int_edaedf90	comment	Averted in "All in the Family". When Kerry steps outside into the ambulance bay to puke into a trashcan after seeing the results of a schizophrenic patient's attack on Lucy and Carter, her head is obscured by the lightbar of a police vehicle in the foreground.
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ER / int_ee7a60e9	type	One-Steve Limit
ER / int_ee7a60e9	comment	One-Steve Limit: Usually Subverted: There were two characters named John in Season 1—John Carter and John Taglieri—but avoided any confusion by using nicknames for both men. There were two characters named Abby—Abby Keaton and Abby Lockhart—but as they appeared at different times (oddly, both were love interests to the aforementioned John Carter), there was no confusion. There were three important characters named Ray throughout the show, two recurring and one main: Ray Ross (Doug's father), Ray Shepard (Carol's paramedic boyfriend), and Ray Barnett. However, the second one always went by his nickname "Shep", and the one time he and Doug's father appeared in the same episode—Season 2's "The Healers"—they didn't share any scenes together. Also, both Doug's father and Shep only appeared in Season 2, while Barnett joined the cast long afterwards in Season 11, so there was no confusion.
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ER / int_f0089082	type	Early-Bird Cameo
ER / int_f0089082	comment	Early-Bird Cameo: Troy Evans appears in the Pilot as injured cop "Officer Martin". Later on, he turns up as recurring character, desk clerk Frank Martin, in Season 6's "Such Sweet Sorrow". Although fans generally assumed the two characters were one and the same, it wasn't confirmed by Word of God until after the show ended.
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ER / int_f09b6509	type	Last Episode, New Character
ER / int_f09b6509	comment	Last Episode, New Character: The final season brought in a slew of new doctors—mostly interns, but also Dr. Catherine Banfield as the new ER chief, and the series finale was the first day for new intern Julia Wise.
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ER / int_f0c4ce7d	type	The Lost Lenore
ER / int_f0c4ce7d	comment	Kerry and Sandy, until Sandy's death. Kerry reveals in "Breach of Trust" that she hasn't been able to move on since Sandy's death, and that moving to Florida with their son Henry will help her move on.
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ER / int_f1029720	type	Rising Water, Rising Tension
ER / int_f1029720	comment	Rising Water, Rising Tension: Occurs in "Hell and High Water", as Doug tries to rescue a boy trapped in a storm drain. There's a very scary moment when you realize that they're both going to drown if he can't free the kid.
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ER / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
ER / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: In "The Human Shield", Pratt, Ray and Abby are forced to attend a demonstration headed by Eve and Clemente. During the demonstration, Neela comes over wearing a Little Black Dress. Pratt does a Double Take, Clemente comments on how sexy she looks, and Ray never takes his eyes off her.
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ER / int_f5a3e496	type	Suspiciously Similar Substitute
ER / int_f5a3e496	comment	Suspiciously Similar Substitute: Following his departure, Doug was replaced with three people in Season 6—Cleo (a skilled and dedicated pediatrician), Luka (brooding hunk with a troubled past and a yearning for Carol, and a resemblance to him), and Malucci (brash, impulsive, problems with authority). As the other original cast members left, others characters were often introduced in either the abrasive go-getter mold, or the plucky NaÃ¯ve Newcomer. Except for Carter, one of the only characters to be in every season, even if he's only mentioned in passing. The others being minor characters that never receive main cast billing.
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ER / int_f8671289	type	Trunk Shot
ER / int_f8671289	comment	A Trunk Shot.
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ER / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
ER / int_f9f2c33	comment	A Running Gag where the staff would trick a co-worker into thinking they were needed for a medical emergency, only to happen upon their surprise birthday party/welcome back party/going away party/bridal shower/baby shower.
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ER / int_fb03c2ca	type	Relationship Reveal
ER / int_fb03c2ca	comment	Relationship Reveal: "Baby Shower" had a minor, lighthearted one with a patient. A young man and woman come into the ER, the woman about to give birth. After she has her baby, another couple arrives...and it turns out that rather that being two heterosexual couples, the men are a gay couple and the women a lesbian couple. The women used their gay friend as a surrogate father and made him and his partner both the godfathers.
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ER / int_fb04ced0	type	Excuse Me, Coming Through!
ER / int_fb04ced0	comment	Excuse Me, Coming Through!: Done with a runaway bottle of compressed air.
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ER / int_fb9e25e9	type	Team Mom
ER / int_fb9e25e9	comment	Team Mom: Angela Hicks, to Benton and Carter. The two are literally on her team, and she takes care of and counsels both Benton and Carter before Carter switches to Emergency Medicine and Benton joins Romano's team.
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ER / int_fd5b9124	type	There Is a God!
ER / int_fd5b9124	comment	There Is a God!: The episode "Whose Appy Now?". Carter's upset because he's being denied the chance to perform an exciting surgery and reassigned to an appendectomy instead.
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ER / int_fdc1e848	type	Will They or Won't They?
ER / int_fdc1e848	comment	Will They or Won't They?: Several throughout the series: Doug and Carol, during the first three seasons. Mark and Susan, again during the first three seasons. They don't. Luka and Abby. Ray and Neela.
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ER / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
ER / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: Annoyed with Kerry's confidentiality-serving abbreviation system, Carol wonders if "BE" stands for "Barium Enema." In the last scene of the episode, she suggests giving one to a patient with food poisoning who dumped an elderly man on the ER staff to free up his weekend. The Hesselbach Triangle takes about a season and a half from the episode it's first spoken of until it finally lands right in the middle of an operation, and not from the expected source.
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ER / int_feaf5424	type	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious
ER / int_feaf5424	comment	You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: In the Season 12 finale, when Sam's ex-husband plans a prison escape (faking an illness serious enough to get taken to the hospital, and having two accomplices in place to help), he also forces Sam (at gunpoint) to help. Abby sees Sam escorting people out of the hospital (something that typically isn't a nurses job), and asks if Sam's seen Luka (who was tied up and drugged by one accomplice). Sam tells her that she should look for Luka in the suture room (where he is), then ends by saying "Okay, Abigail?" Since no one calls her that, Abby immediately senses something is wrong, and the situation spirals into a shootout between the escapees and some cops that are in the ER. Romano normally calls Elizabeth "Lizzie." On the rare occasion he calls her "Elizabeth" instead, it's almost always a signifier of a particularly genuine or serious moment.
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ER / int_ff7f34c5	type	Pet the Dog
ER / int_ff7f34c5	comment	Pet the Dog: Benton, who had been "kind of a jerk" to Carter throughout his first year at County, can be heard advocating him to Dr. Angela Hicks for the surgical position (saying "But I've been training him all year"). Not only that, but Benton gave Carter a glowing evaluation (which made Carter feel guilty as he gave Benton a 16 out of a possible 40 on his evaluation) and, before Carter left for the summer, took the time to tell him he's going to be a great doctor. He did something similar the next year, only to lapse into being his usual rough self at beginning of the following year. Romano signing to Reese, "Take care of your father." Also quite literally, with Romano's dog coming to the OR for a procedure. A dog randomly hit in the hospital parking lot gets mouth-to-mouth from Carter in Season 1. Also happens pretty much every time Romano and Elizabeth are on screen together. Elizabeth may have been his only friend, but by damn, she was a good one. Jeanie's relationship with Kerry. The firing incident aside, Jeanie's the only person who doesn't have a contentious relationship with Kerry. Kerry, without hesitation, offered to take care of Jeanie and make sure her condition doesn't worsen. Kerry also kept her secret until Mark found out. Doug's attempt at doing an ultra-fast detox on an eight month old baby who was born addicted to methadone. Doug tries to do the procedure in secret and Carol insists on helping him. The baby then goes into respiratory arrest and Mark hears the monitor alarms going off, stumbling upon the procedure. Mark and Kerry are very pissed at Doug for once again violating the rules but the anesthesiologist at the Pedes ICU and the senior members of the hospital staff are actually very supportive of what Doug did and allow him to continue the procedure agreeing that while he stepped over the line what he did was morally right. Perhaps as a result Doug gets offered the position of Pedes Attendingnote It doesn't hurt that he also turned himself in, not only showing that he could admit to being wrong but also allowing him to control the narrative, rather than Kerry being able to.
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ER	hasFeature	CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Calling Parents by Their Name / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Calling the Young Man Out / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Camping a Crapper / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Cane Fu / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Car Meets House / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Carrying a Cake / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Caught with Your Pants Down / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Changing of the Guard / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Chaotic Good / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Character-Magnetic Team / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Character Signature Song / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Child Abuse Is a Special Kind of Evil / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Chocolate Baby / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Christmas Miracle / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Circumcision Angst / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Claustrophobia / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Closet Key / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Code Emergency / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Code Silver / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Commuting on a Bus / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Confess in Confidence / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Conflicting Loyalty / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Contractual Immortality / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Contractual Purity / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Copycat Mockery / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Cough Snark Cough / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Cousin Oliver / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Covert Distress Code / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Crazy Cat Lady / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Creepy Cockroach / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Creepy Physical / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Crowded-Cast Shot / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Cruel to Be Kind / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Crying After Sex / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Daddy Didn't Show / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Dance Party Ending / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Dead Man Writing / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	"Dear John" Letter / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Death by Looking Up / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Death Notification / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Decontamination Chamber / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Deep South / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Defiled Forever / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Delivery Guy / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Department of Child Disservices / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Deus Angst Machina / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Developer's Foresight / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Did They or Didn't They? / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Diner Brawl / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Directed by Cast Member / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Disposable FiancÃ© / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Documentary Episode / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Does Not Like Men / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Double Standard Rape: Female on Male / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Double Standard: Rape, Male on Male / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Dr. Jerk / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Dramatic Dislocation / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Drinking on Duty / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Driving Stick / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Dropped After the Pilot / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Elder Abuse / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Embarrassing Tattoo / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Erotic Dream / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Estranged Soap Family / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Everybody Knew Already / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Everything Is Racist / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Examples Searching for a Trope / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Excuse Me, Coming Through! / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Extra-Long Episode / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Eye Awaken / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Failure-to-Save Murder / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Fair-Weather Friend / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Fake Guest Star / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Family Relationship Switcheroo / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Finale Season / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Finger-Twitching Revival / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	First Girl Wins / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	First Period Panic / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Fix Fic / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Flashback with the Other Darrin / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Flatline / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Florence Nightingale Effect / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Focus Group Ending / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Fond Memories That Could Have Been / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Forced Miscarriage / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Forgotten Fallen Friend / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Fourth-Date Marriage / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	From Roommates to Romance / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Functional Addict / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Funny Foreigner / int_d4fdfff4
FurryFandom	seeAlso	ER
ER	hasFeature	Gassy Scare / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Gayngst / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Gayngst-Induced Suicide / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Genius Cripple / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Get Out! / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Glorified Sperm Donor / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Good Adultery, Bad Adultery / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Good Girls Avoid Abortion / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Good Morning, Crono / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Good People Have Good Sex / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Grow Old with Me / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Guy on Guy Is Hot / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Half-Breed Discrimination / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Happier Home Movie / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Hates Everyone Equally / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Hates Rich People / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	He Had a Name / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Heal It with Booze / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Heartbeat Soundtrack / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Heel–Faith Turn / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Helicopter Blender / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Hellish Copter / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Henpecked Husband / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Heroic Fire Rescue / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Heroic Safe Mode / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Hiccup Hijinks / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Hidden Disdain Reveal / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Hide Your Pregnancy / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Hideous Hangover Cure / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Home Porn Movie / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Homoerotic Dream / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Hopeless Suitor / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Hospital Hottie / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Hospital Paradiso / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Hostage Situation / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Hypocrite Has a Point / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	I Am Not My Father / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	I Got You a Drawer / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	I Have This Friend / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	I Never / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	I Shall Taunt You / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Idealized Sex / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her... / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Ignored Vital News Reports / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	I'll Pretend I Didn't Hear That / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	I'll Take Two Beers Too / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	I'm Not a Doctor, but I Play One on TV / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Improbable Hairstyle / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Improbable Infant Survival / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Inconvenient Hippocratic Oath / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Infant Sibling Jealousy / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Inspirationally Disadvantaged / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Instant Drama, Just Add Tracheotomy / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Instant Sedation / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Insufferable Genius / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Intercontinuity Crossover / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Intergenerational Friendship / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Intimate Hair Brushing / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Ironic Nursery Tune / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Is This Thing Still On? / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	It Never Gets Any Easier / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	It Was Here, I Swear! / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	It's a Wonderful Plot / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	It's Always Spring / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	I've Come Too Far / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Judgment of Solomon / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Jumping-On Point / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Kidnapped Doctor / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Kids Play Matchmaker / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Kinda Busy Here / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Know Your Vines / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Labcoat of Science and Medicine / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Ladykiller in Love / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Lamaze Class / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Last Episode Theme Reprise / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Late Coming Out / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Late Pregnancy Realization / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Lesbian Cop / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Let Them Die Happy / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Lie Detector / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Life/Death Juxtaposition / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Lifesaving Misfortune / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Lightning Can Do Anything / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Likes Older Women / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Literary Allusion Title / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Littlest Cancer Patient / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Live Episode / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Living Prop / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Lonely at the Top / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Lonely Funeral / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Long-Runner Cast Turnover / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Longing Look / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Loose Lips / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Loser Son of Loser Dad / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Lost Wedding Ring / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Love Makes You Crazy / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Lying Finger Cross / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Magical Defibrillator / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Major Injury Underreaction / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Malcolm Xerox / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Man in a Kilt / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Marriage Before Romance / int_d4fdfff4
MaryMcDonnell	seeAlso	ER
ER	hasFeature	Master-Apprentice Chain / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Maternity Crisis / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	M.D. Envy / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Meaningful Background Event / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Meaningful Funeral / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Miniature Senior Citizens / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Misery Poker / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Mistaken Age / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Mistaken for Cheating / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Mistaken for Junkie / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Mistaken for Pedophile / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Mood-Swinger / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Mum Looks Like a Sister / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Muse Abuse / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	My Car Hates Me / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	My Sister Is Off-Limits / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	NaÃ¯ve Newcomer / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Naturalized Name / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Naughty Nurse Outfit / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Nazi Grandpa / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Nephewism / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Nepotism / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Nerds Are Virgins / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Neutral Good / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Never Got to Say Goodbye / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	New Child Left Behind / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	New Year Has Come / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	No Bisexuals / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	"No" Means "Yes" / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	No Medication for Me / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	No Pregger Sex / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Nobody Over 50 Is Gay / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Non-Idle Rich / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Not Staying for Breakfast / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Now or Never Kiss / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Obvious Pregnancy / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Off the Wagon / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	One Drink Will Kill the Baby / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	One-Episode Wonder / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	One of Our Own / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	One True Love / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Open Heart Dentistry / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Open Mouth, Insert Foot / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Orderlies are Creeps / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Out of Focus / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Pac-Man Fever / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Paper Destruction of Anger / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Parental Favoritism / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Pater Familicide / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	People Fall Off Chairs / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Physical Disability in Media / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Piano Cover Slam / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Pilot / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Pity Sex / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Pizza Boy Special Delivery / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Placebo Effect / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Platonic Prostitution / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Playboy Has a Daughter / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Playing the Victim Card / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Please Wake Up / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Plot Threads / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Police Code for Everything / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Post-Robbery Trauma / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Post-Script Season / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Potty Failure / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Power Hair / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Pregnancy Scare / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Previously onâ€¦ / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Prison Rape / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Profiling / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Prom Baby / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Promiscuity After Rape / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Promotion to Opening Titles / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Pronoun Trouble / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Proscenium Reveal / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Pull the I.V. / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Pulled from Your Day Off / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Punch a Wall / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Queer Establishing Moment / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Quip to Black / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Race for Your Love / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Racist Grandma / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Railroad Tracks of Doom / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Rape as Backstory / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	"Rashomon"-Style / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Reckless Gun Usage / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Redheads Are Uncool / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Relationship Sabotage / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Remaster / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Retargeted Lust / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Retirony / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Revolving Door Casting / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Rising Water, Rising Tension / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Road Trip Plot / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Rugby Is Slaughter / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Runaway Bride / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Ruptured Appendix / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	STD Immunity / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Say Your Prayers / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Scary Surprise Party / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Science Marches On / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Screaming Birth / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Searching the Stalls / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Secret Relationship / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Secretly Wealthy / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Seduction as One-Upmanship / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Series of the 2000s / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Seven Minute Lull / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Sex at Work / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Sex for Solace / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Sex God / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Sexy Shirt Switch / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Shoo Out the New Guy / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Short-Distance Phone Call / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Side Bet / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Someone to Remember Him By / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Stacy's Mom / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Stage Names / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Sticky Fingers / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Stock Scream / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Straight Gay / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Straw Feminist / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Stress Vomit / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Strike Episode / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	"Stuck at the Airport" Plot / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Suicide by Pills / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Super Couple / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Supporting Leader / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Surgeons Can Do Autopsies If They Want / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Surprise Incest / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Survivor Guilt / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Switching P.O.V. / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Sympathetic Adulterer / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Table Space / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Tall, Dark, and Handsome / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Tampon Run / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Teacher/Student Romance / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Test Kiss / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Thanksgiving Episode / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Bet / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Big Board / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Breakfast Plot / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Cameo / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Foreign Subtitle / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Generic Guy / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Intern / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Loins Sleep Tonight / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Masochism Tango / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Mourning After / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Napoleon / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Oner / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Patient Has Left the Building / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Place / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Shrink / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Teaser / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Villain Knows Where You Live / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	The Watson / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Theme Tune Extended / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Therapy Is for the Weak / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	There Are No Therapists / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	There Is a God! / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Thermometer Gag / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Title-Only Opening / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Token Black Friend / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Token Minority Couple / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Tragic Stillbirth / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Train-Station Goodbye / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Trans Character, Cis Actor / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Translation Matchmaking / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Trapped in a Sinking Car / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Traumatic C-Section / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Trick Dialogue / int_d4fdfff4
TV's Greatest Surprises	seeAlso	ER
ER	hasFeature	Two First Names / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Two-Timer Date / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Typhoid Mary / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Tyrant Takes the Helm / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Unbalanced By Rival's Kid / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Uncomfortable Elevator Moment / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Unexpected Positive / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Unexpected Virgin / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Unfocused During Intimacy / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Unpopular Popular Character / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Unto Us a Son and Daughter Are Born / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Unwinnable Training Simulation / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Uptight Loves Wild / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Urgent Medical Alert / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Victory Pose / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Voice-Only Cameo / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Vomit Discretion Shot / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Wacky Parent, Serious Child / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Wag the Director / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Wall Glower / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Wall Slump / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Was Too Hard on Him / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Wastebasket Ball / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Welcome to Hell / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	What Did I Do Last Night? / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	What Were You Thinking? / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Where da White Women At? / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	White Guilt / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Why Couldn't You Save Them? / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Why Waste a Wedding? / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Wife-Basher Basher / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	With This Ring / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Working Through the Cold / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Working with the Ex / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Workout Fanservice / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Worst Aid / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Worthless Foreign Degree / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Write Who You Know / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Written-In Infirmity / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Wrong-Name Outburst / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	You're Not My Father / int_d4fdfff4
Switch!	seeAlso	ER
MonsterAbridged	seeAlso	ER
ER	hasFeature	Closet Shuffle / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Dance of Romance / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Establishing Shot / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Lipstick Lesbian / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Redemption in the Rain / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Sad-Times Montage / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Suddenly Sexuality / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Too Happy to Live / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Unseen Audience / int_d4fdfff4
ER	hasFeature	Walk and Talk / int_d4fdfff4

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