Okaaaaaaayyyyyy, and we’re back!It is the last Thursday night of ER. First, I want to thank all of you who were so passionate about my previous rant. It's great to know that there are people nuttier than I am out there. Wow!
So, I gave a quick look to the cable guide and saw that the show starts at 8:00! Oh, wait a minute; it’s a RETROSPECTIVE OF FAVORITE MOMENTS FOR AN HOUR?
Damn, I thought I’d be in bed by 10. Oh well.
I watched the last fifteen minutes of this “best of” show. There were a few find memories, like the shot of the asshole doctor who’s arm got cut off by the helicopter blades, getting killed by a falling helicopter! You remember that guy, I talked about him last time. He was in the movie “Fame.” Yea, that guy. Oh, and there was a good shot of Abby and a very bad hairdo. Ooh, a running clip of all of the celebrity guest stars – Alan Alda, Sally Field, Danny Glover, Gwen Stefani. Ahhh, good times. Dr. Green dying. The black guy dying. I sort of remember it all.
It’s 9:00. It is pouring down raining (the weather is ALWAYS shitty in Chicago it seems), and Uncle Jesse goes out to the ambulance. Ooh, I see the Hispanic nurse (Chuni?) that’s been on this show forever! Oooh, there’s the white, redheaded nurse who’s been on this show forever! Nice to see them. Did they ever leave at any time?
Good Grief – what the hell happened to the big, huge guy who works the desk, Jerry right? Shit, he looks like he’s auditioning to play Moses!
Wow, Deezer D. is still there! Ooh, there’s the longtime Asian (Amer-Asian?) nurse!
So it seems that the night is going like this - there is a young teenage girl in a coma from alcohol poisoning that she got during a party at a friends house. The parents said that they supplied the booze and Kool-Aid. Uncle Jesse got pissed and called the cops. There’s also a PV case (projectile vomiting), and an old lady who wandered out of her daughter’s house and into the street, fell and broke her wrist. I’m getting sleepy. Wait a minute, there’s Carter, Weaver, and Lewis in a huge, beautiful building. It looks like Dr. Carter took the family fortune and built a medical facility of some sort. Weaver is very proud of him.
Carter shows up at the ER with a big grin on his face. He gets excited when a pregnant woman comes in. He follows the crew into the trauma room and participates in the action. Amazingly enough the baby comes out all clean, not all splotchy and covered in cream cheese and jelly. Carter just beams.
There’s another baby to come.
HOLY SHIT! RACHEL GREENE SHOWED UP! I thought her facelooked familiar. Damn I remember her being such a BRAT! I think she’s applying to be a new resident. Oh, there’s an AIDS patient who just discovered he now has cancer. He’s handling it gracefully, remembering all of his friends who died in the 80’s.
Uh oh, looks like the second twin is having problems! Mom is bleeding like crazy. TRAUMA! Her uterus turned inside out, the mother is screaming her head off. CUT TO COMMERCIAL! Oy VEY, it’s only 9:45.
Annnd, were’d back. Another bus pulls up – there’s the black, female EMT with the braids! I remember her. Wow, there’s Ernest Borgnine! His character has a dying wife in the ER.
Back to Carter and his new facility. It’s going to be for AIDS patients, homeless, etc. take up the slack for County…wait a minute, there’s Benton and his son! He looks like he's about 10 and has the same face. It’s 10:10 and I want to go to bed. Awww, Uncle Jesse and Samantha’s son give her a classic convertible Mustang for her birthday!
Guest Star #2 – Marilu Henner!
Hey, Corday joins the gang for cocktails at a local bar after the opening of Carter’s new building. Wow, it’s just like my high school reunion. But not really.
Okay, it’s 10:30 and I haven’t seen Abby, or Doug, or Carol. I just read that Ray got hit by a car and lost his legs!? Damn.
Looks like the reunion is ending – Carter, Benton, Lewis, etc. leave the bar. Then Carter brings Greene’s daughter to a field trip to the ER. It’s 10:43. I’m nodding off.
It is now 10:55 and about 8 ambulances pull up with burn vics from an explosion. TRAUMA! ACTION! RUBBER GLOVES! GURNEYS! The theme music builds, the camera pulls back. It keeps backing up, backing up, until you see a little kid’s hand around a snow globe with a teeny-tiny County General Hospital building in it.
Well, I wish that were how it ended. It would have been a hell of a lot better than what just wasted the past two hours of my life. I want them back now.
I can't wait for "Rescue Me" to start its new season. Yay!
Love,
Crystal
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