Did anyone watch ER last night? (11/20)

**lynnzop**[$] · #1 11-21-2003, 10:26 AM

I watched the first couple episodes this season and lost interest, but had it turned on last night while I was working on some jewelry.

I'm still thinking about the opening scenes. Wow.

**theworm**[$] · #2 11-21-2003, 10:33 AM

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lynnzop said

I watched the first couple episodes this season and lost interest, but had it turned on last night while I was working on some jewelry.

I'm still thinking about the opening scenes. Wow.

Like you, I had lost interest, but I did want to watch last night and missed it. Who died?

**lynnzop**[$] · #3 11-21-2003, 10:34 AM

You really want spoilers?

poseidon · #4 11-21-2003, 10:36 AM

I'll spoil it. Rocket died. I predicted it to Michelle as the show started -- it was poetic justice for him, plus his character was pretty much useless in the storyline all season.

It was pretty good, because he basically fired Pratt right before he was killed, and nobody else was aware that he did it, so Pratt got to keep his job.

**lynnzop**[$] · #5 11-21-2003, 10:37 AM

Yeah, but the way he died! Ack!

I missed that the EMT guy was actually married to Susan. Did they do it on a joke or something?

**theworm**[$] · #6 11-21-2003, 10:37 AM

Ok - I'm too far gone. Who's Rocket?

**lynnzop**[$] · #7 11-21-2003, 10:38 AM

Romano. One-armed-bitter surgeon

poseidon · #8 11-21-2003, 10:38 AM

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lynnzop said

Yeah, but the way he died! Ack!

I missed that the EMT guy was actually married to Susan. Did they do it on a joke or something?

I'm sketchy on the specifics, but I think it was a drunk thing done in Vegas. But, they seemed to have some genuine feelings for each other.

Rocket is Dr. Romano. Anyway, the helicopter falling and squashing him was poetic justice and rather comedic, if you ask me.

**mjfrombuffalo**[$] · #9 11-21-2003, 10:48 AM

Susan went to Las Vegas or something with the Asian doctor and got married as a joke except it wasn't and they got divorced/annulled, then started hanging out.

**mjfrombuffalo**[$] · #10 11-21-2003, 10:54 AM

He was doing just about everything short of putting a gun to his own head anyway.

**theworm**[$] · #11 11-21-2003, 11:23 AM

So first he lost his arm to a helecopter, and then one fell on him?

poseidon · #12 11-21-2003, 11:26 AM

Yes. That's why it is poetic justice... anyhow, the whole reason that he was killed by the falling helicopter was that he was in a full-blown panic attack after being on the helipad a few minutes earlier. He ran into the street to get some air, and then the helicopter crashed on him like a safe being dropped on Wile E. Coyote.

The guy was an @$$hole right until he was killed.

**lynnzop**[$] · #13 11-21-2003, 11:30 AM

The helicopter scene was pretty incredible. And the angle of the camera with the helicopter coming down and Romano yelling "NO!!!!" sticks in my mind.

I keep thinking of him (the actor) as the guy on "Fame". Didn't come to a good end there either.

#14 11-21-2003, 11:43 AM

Well played by the writers. Everybody's thinking that Chuck the Flight Nurse is going to buy it, he doesn't then he almost does, then he doesn't.

As for the loser reefer-boy, I figure they're going to make viewers suffer him until May sweeps.

**jgibson2**[$] · #15 11-21-2003, 11:58 AM

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As for the loser reefer-boy, I figure they're going to make viewers suffer him until May sweeps.

I was really disappointed that he wasn't under the helicopter too. I generally don't care to see characters killed off, but those 2 were making me change the channel anyway.

**theworm**[$] · #16 11-21-2003, 12:06 PM

Romano was in Fame????
I loved Fame - watched it a gazzilion times as a youngster. Remind me.

poseidon · #17 11-21-2003, 12:19 PM

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I was really disappointed that he wasn't under the helicopter too. I generally don't care to see characters killed off, but those 2 were making me change the channel anyway.

Nah. It makes it more realistic. You'd be amazed how many losers like that are in medicine.

**jgibson2**[$] · #18 11-21-2003, 12:29 PM

Jeff,
I'm a nurse. It's one reason I wanted him to be under the helicopter. We've only had a couple like that in the NICU and managed to mostly get them booted from the program.

I remember one resident who was completely useless. I used to walk in the door and see that he was on call and I was assigned to transports. I would immediately go to the charge nurse and inform her that if we got called for a transport, I would decline to get in the ambulance with him, because I wasn't willing to put a patient in jeopardy by allowing it to happen.

I was on transports EVERY time he was on call and I was working because the charge nurse knew I meant it. She new I'd make a huge stink and one of the attendings would have to ride along. She also knew I was damn lucky and the phone never rang for a transport when I was working and he was on call -- other, less stiff-necked, nurses rode with him. Sometimes it wasn't pretty.

**mjfrombuffalo**[$] · #19 11-21-2003, 12:54 PM

wormie - Romano was also in Cop Rock, the quickly-snuffed musical cop drama.

poseidon · #20 11-21-2003, 12:55 PM

My wife is a nurse, too, and her clinic has had to fire three nurses over the last two years due to the same sort of incompetence.

Like I said, there's a lot of them out there (thankfully, they're not remotely close to the majority). I think that this loser is necessary in the script to keep the realism there -- or at least as "realistic" as ER is.

**lynnzop**[$] · #21 11-21-2003, 02:42 PM

Who is the loser reefer boy? I missed him. Is he the one who just stood by the desk the whole show?

Delia, Romano was the skinny gay guy in Fame who commits suicide at the end. (Can't remember his name. imdb.com to the rescue, it was Montgomery MacNeil and the actor's name is Paul McCrane.)

poseidon · #22 11-21-2003, 02:51 PM

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Who is the loser reefer boy? I missed him. Is he the one who just stood by the desk the whole show?

Yes. He's a collosal screw-up and is there only because his parents made him go to medical school.

Just the kind of joker you want working on a loved one.