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The Dope On ER 10.3!!
SPOILER ALERT !!
Pratt plays “Meet the Chens”! Plus Rocket Romano’s back, and this time he’s got a hook! Here’s “Mr. Zambano” with the many exciting details:
Episode 10.3: "Dear Abby"
Luka is brought in on a gurney. Abby really wants to see him-- so badly
that
she is torn between doing her job, and chasing him up the hallway.
Romano is also back, with a hook, not his prosthetic of choice. His
insurance wouldn't cover the "Utah Arm" unless the hook interferes with
his
work, and it does. It makes him angrier, and especially defensive when
coworkers comment. It makes little girls stare.
He visits Weaver in her office to complain, and lets the hook drag
across
her antique table on the way out the door, leaving a scratch.
The nurses circulate a petition, and stage a walkout, which amounts to
a
reeeaally long break. Romano wants to fire or suspend everyone. Abby
absorbs
the extra work due to their shortness of staff.
Connie tells Romano: "You're the one who's going to be leaving."
Carter breaks up with Abby via a letter. She balls the letter up,
tosses it
to the trash can, and misses. Frank takes the initiative to pass it
around.
Abby is given a stool sample in a plastic baggie, and a lot of unwanted
advice: Edna calls Carter a putz, and remarks that too bad she didn't
dump
him first. Pratt tells her it's Carter's loss.
Jerry joins in the gossip. Romano attempts to read the letter out loud
in
front of everyone, but Abby snatches it out of his hand before he can
finish.
Weaver comes down to speak to Romano about inappropriate behavior.
Abby takes out her job frustrations on her coworkers and patients.
At one point, a 15-year old boy who has been shot by his mother is
brought
in. When the boy's brother tries to cover for their mother, Abby tries
to
convince the family to do the right thing. Abby herself was about to do
the
wrong thing -- ready to crack the patient's chest open herself against
protocol, and is told about it by Susan. The boy dies.
Medical student Nick Cooper has an asthma attack. Neela gives him 10
times
more medication than he needs. He goes into cardiac arrest, and Abby
has to
shock him with the paddles to return his heartbeat to normal. "Coop"
does
not want to go home. He wants to help Susan with a patient. He wants to
have
a few beers with Pratt after work.
Pratt has plans with Chen. Chen has plans of her own, and surprises
Pratt
with her parents: waiting for them at the table, at an upscale Chinese
restaurant. This does not go over well with anyone. Pratt wants to run
away.
Mr. Chen makes fun of him in Mandarin, and doesn't hide his
disapproval.
Dorset (remember him from last season?) makes an appearance downstairs,
to
amuse Elizabeth and save a life. In a subsequent episode we find out
Doreset
and Lizzy are dating.
Got all that?
New “ER” returns to the airwaves Sept. 25.
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Ahh. This show jumped when Greene left. Nuff said.
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In that entire description...three bodies were being treated in the ER...and two of them were staff....is this some of that fancy anti-bacterial soap????...And thus, I have given up! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
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"George the 7th chicken!!!" - typical retarded thing for a poster to write. I don't even know why I'm commenting.. I just keep accidently reading it and shaking my head.
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Aug 03, 2003 10:36:39 AM CDT
Yes! AICNers care about ER! Why haven't you said anything about
by alvinsimadeer
Rutgar Hauer is going to be playing Morgan Edge and Perry White will be appearing a few episodes!
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Here's the Utah Arm, a good choice for Romano because an actor who is not really an amputee can wear a glove that looks like the prothetic.
http://www.utaharm.com/utaharm.htm -
This PDF describes what Romano would have to do to get his insurance to pay for the Utah Arm:
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Well Annie, I read about that funny little arm....and quite frankly, it is pretty cool.....and now that I have satisfied the ONLY curiosity I had in watching "ER" this season.....I will now use the hour for semi-regular masturbation.....And thus, I need to re-stock the lube! - - - George, The 7th Chicken!!!!
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NBC has so much money tied to this Must See Thursday line-up that they'll throw million of dollars into a program that is creatively dried and boring as watching Ann Coulter blame the democrates and the liberals for all the worlds problems. This is the problem with the 1 hour drama format of recent years. While it does take a load of money to start a show, sticking with a program that lost it's wheels 3 or 4 years ago is not logical. So because there has been less development of new dramas, NBC sticks with a show (like ABC's The Practice) that should've been sent to stud a long time ago. Critics have panned CBS for skewing towards older TV viewers, but has finally struck back with the CSI franchise and Without A Trace. If CBS stole a page from NBC, then Zucker must steal it back and find the next drama to replace ER (and it better not be another Law and Order series). Like Friends, I think they have nothing promising. That's why ER and Freinds are still on the air. It took until this year to find a replacement for Friends -and hey, it's a spin-off!!ER would be hard to spin-off, if only because there is not one appealing member of the cast to build a series around. So, will have to put up with one more season of ER, with it's pedantic soap opera story lines, Abby whining about something, Susan looking lost, Ramano -actually the best character on the show -becoming sillier and sillier and Carter never knowing what he wants out of life. Sounds like some people I know, but still. Networks have to realize that while the written word is more important that a guest shot by Sally Fields, you have to make appealing characters and stories that are intersting. ER has moved away from these type of stories and have made all the doctors look like assholes, even when they are trying to help someone. Stop pouring money -what is it, $13 million and episode -and try to usher in newer dramas. Make Must See TV interesting again. All it is right now, is a ghost of what it once was. But, I could be wrong...
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I love the reruns of the earlier seasons of ER, but the show died with Greene. Since then its been the Abby Show. Neverending tales of her misery. I was actually excited when she joined the cast(Newsradio kicked ass). Like everyone says Romano is the only likable character left on the show, and he's supposed to be an ass. I think he's become so popular because he represents the audience's hatred for the rest of the cast.
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i am sick and tired of abby... it's like she's the only character left worth focusing on (which she is not). carter, pratt, chen, susan, great characters whom have nothing to do every episode (except for carter). why just abby? like, it's not like we haven't seen her before or anything. retire the character or start focusing on other characters. it is getting monotenous now. sorry, again, i hate abby.
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Nothing signals a shitty ER episode like the appearance of Sally Field. So let's take bets: when's Sally going to make her first appearance? ER 10.4? 10.5? We know it's going to be during sweeps, but the way NBC packs in the reruns, sweeps has no correlation to episode number. ER 10.6, maybe? And how many total episodes will feature Sally Field? With the November, February, and May sweeps periods, will ER be able to squeeze in 12 episodes with the Oscar winner no one really, really likes? 4 words: Kill this show now.
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how can the actors stay interested. I guess most are pretty new. I still like melrose place better.
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Aug 04, 2003 8:08:35 AM CDT
Why the fuck doesn't that cheap basterd just FUCKING pay for the
by bannthisucommies
I guess actually having anyone pay for medical care on ER would deflect the constant drum-beat of EVIL HMO EVIL HMO.... Not only is this a soap opera, its a shitty left wing soap opera. No wonder CSI is spanking the living shit out of it.
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Someone had to write it...
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dumb brit question : what's "sweeps"
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Who FUCKING cares? Just like the rest of the middle of the road mindless tripe that straddles the airwaves. Probably worse. At least Star Trek had the decency to leave the air while it was still a viable product. The network hacks at NBC will of course keep trying to beat money out of this pinata until the stick breaks.
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!!! -
Not to be a realist or anything, but for a "creatively dead" piece of crap show, it still usually lands in the top-5 of the weekly Nielsen ratings. I guess I understand the motivation in keeping it around. Hell, I haven't really watched it since they knifed off Kellie Martin (I know, she's a pretty mediocre actress and had squat to do on the show, but for some reason she does it for me - maybe because she reminds me of the retard next door's little sister who I always wanted to bang)
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Oh god, what a great idea! A five year old with a head trauma needs treatment, but Abby, mad about her love life, stabs him in the head with a needle! An elderly diabetic is admitted, but hearing that her old boyfriend has a new socialite date for the evening compels Abby to crush the man's vertibrae in her teeth! She proceeds to wound or mame every other patient in the ER until this becomes the new theme of the show! No longer a show about an inner city Emergency Room, ER is now about a psychotic nurse torturing every unfortunate bastard who checks in during her shift! Perfect! I'm so glad they did this because I didn't think they'd done enough to reverse all the praise they got for brining in Maura Tierney once upon a time...
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We're gonna need a bigger boat...I see the fin now! Set up the ramps and get those waterski's waxed, this puppy's about to make the big jump.
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"Sweeps" is the time that networks trot out the "best episodes" of whatever shows they have on during the season. Also a chance for them to kill off anything worthwhile to put another reality show in it's place.
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I think it was when they brought in Alan Alda as the alzheimer's doctor. The last truly great episode was the valentine's day ep in 2000 where Lucy and Carter got stabbed. Abby is a character I've never warmed to like Hathaway.
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I've got a fever---and the only prescription---is more Ming Na! She is one "scrumtrelessant" babe.
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Anyone who thinks that NEILSEN accurately reflects the viewing habits of the American public is smoking some really BAD shit.
ALL GLORY TO THE HYPNOTOAD!!! -
Aug 05, 2003 6:45:06 PM CDT
LOL, septimus, you willing to take down Mekhi Phifer for Doc Che
by terry_1978
The surgical gloves come off....
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Terry, I live by the motto "make love, not war". When Pratt breaks Chen's heart, I'll be there to pick u the pieces, STAT! She'll need some sexual healin' in my deep lovin ICU. Can you dig it?
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A little more info - there are three weeks during the year that are analyzed to set advertising rates based on audience ratings. These are called "sweeps weeks" and everyone does their best to artificially raise their ratings by showing new episodes and doing their most sensational plots/ "news" stories. So, they're not representative of the usual ratings, but they're treated as if they are. Go figure.
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There's not a single likable person left on the show, because it appears that no one on the show likes each other. In its heyday, I watched because I liked the Ross/Greene dynamic; they actually DID like each other and their conflicting personalities made things interesting. And the romantic sparks between Ross and Hathaway were genuine. Not one romance on the show since they left seems real. Abby/Susan and Carter/Luka are together cuz they're about the same age and single, not cuz they like each other much. Not a genuine emotional attachment evident anywhere. I've taken to begging the missus to turn this show off, but she's a die-hard, so I continue to suffer.
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I thought i read on this site that our sexiest tomboy beanpole on the planet was going to have a role on ER next season???
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locar, the actress from BEND IT LIKE BECKHAM that's joining the "e.r" cast is Parminder Nagra, not AICN's fan-boy fave Keira Knightley. Never fear---Looks as though you'll all get your daily fix of Ms. K as long as Mr. Knowles keeps that ad up on the site!
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