Hee. Love Dr. Cox. I haven't see the show in ages, though.

I need to say that there is no "fun part" to a limb being torn off.

I am not looking for reality from my scripted tv. believablity sure, but reality? nope. There is news and documentaries and non-fiction books for that. I avoid most of them also.

The other place you have seen Eion Bailey was chowing down on Principal Flutie in the hyenas episode of Buffy S1.

I think early ER was strong because it had a stated policy of undercuting "drama" in favor of humor, connection, or other surprising moments. The best parts of the Bradley Whitford episode are parts like Carter manually pinching arteries in Mom's belly, while everyone else is trying to save the kid, and the obstetrician bustles in (too late to help) and asks Carter what the hell he is doing. It's notable that in that episode, the big emotional "Hey, we accidentally killed your wife" moment is something we see silently, through a glass door, and the episode ends as the moment is only getting started.

Late ER is melodrama. It hasn't moved me in a long time.

Flourescents are doubly dangerous because they implode when they break. Putting pressure like that on one = yikes!

Dr. Cox: "Well, either this guy's colon had a very bright idea, or he's got a lightbulb up his ass."

That was a great ep. My college roommate is an M4 now, and she swears that Scrubs is the most realistic medical show on television.

The main stories I heard of note from friends who worked in ERs was objects lodged in places they had no business being.

"It was a million to one shot, doc! Million to one!"

Abby moves me. Pratt and Chen move me. Neela moves me, when she's working with Chen.

If only they'd give Luka something interesting to do, I bet he'd move me too.

Old school ER made Benton move me. Made the moving parts not so dependent on affection for the characters. The writing was more complex.

I give Homicide: Life on the Street major points towards realism.

The funnest part of that show is that they took stuff from real life. But, like, not "Ripped from the Headlines!" type of stuff; but stupid kids dropping a bowling ball off an overpass and killing a driver below, and the kids never getting caught.

Even Homicide had to go with the fulminating stunt now and then, but somehow they tended to persuade me to forgive them each time they did it.

I need to say that there is no "fun part" to a limb being torn off.

Doesn't that depend on if you're the tear-er or the tear-ee?

So, if we take GWB to an ER, they could get his head out of his ass?