E.R. - best episode?

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With ER now being all up on Demand4, I’m rewatching it and it’s sooooo good! The episode everyone always talks about is the one where Doug Ross saves the trapped boy in the storm drain, but I have a real soft spot for the episode where Carter takes over and moves the ER to the cafeteria when there’s a chemical spill. Oh, and the Christmas one where Bob the desk clerk performs open heart surgery.

Any other fans?

I have happy memories of RE.

When I was on call for the cath lab we often got called in about 11pm on a Thursday, we used to joke with the consultant that he had just watched ER and so wanted to do some 'sexy medicine'.

I also remember taking bin bags of VHS to a friend's mum's house, she hadn't got cable so the sacks had Buffy and Angel and ER. I'm not sure why she couldn't get ER but I remember the Carter and Lucy attack when she kept saying, "what happens?", "No don't tell me".

My favorite - when Lucy manages to get a cardiac assist device to save a patient but Benton isn't qualified so she goes to Romano's house and gets him to come into the OR.

I also really like the last episode(s), Cater getting his new kidney and opening the new centre, and the old stars meet up for dinner and Rachael Greene as a med student assisting Carter.

ER not RE, I have no happy memories of RE

There were definitely spoilers I remember Zoe ball just blurting out the Lucy and carter stabbing (and Ross saying Rachel I friends !) on the radio 1 breakfast show after she'd come back from a holiday in the states 😡

I vividly remember Snow Patrol playing when Lucy got stabbed. There’s a line in the song “should I just lie here”

I bawled my eyes out.

I'm blessed with a very poor memory. It's on TV here, three episodes a day, and I've just watched the chemical spill. It's followed by Grey's Anatomy, which I'd never seen before. It's amazing how many storylines they filched!

@wingobingo

I think you're mixing up the Grey's Anatomy musical episode with ER.

Be still my heart (the stabbing episode) came out in ~2000. Chasing cars came out in 2006!

Pratt dying

He was reincarnated in House though so not all bad.

“Love when Mark is in the lift with that patient and just activates the paddles whilst glaring at him but not saving him - very shocking for his character to do that” I don’t know, mark is portrayed as having a “saintly” reputation especially in comparison to the “loose cannon” of doug. But his actions as a husband, father and occasionally dr can leave much to be desired eg does he ever truly accept he fucked up in “loves labor lost”? Been a long time since I watched but iirc he didn’t certainly not straight away.

Sashhhh I think you’ll find that was the actor that played Gant, not Pratt.

OMG just watching ep 1 now and an awful prophetic storyline, Miguel Ferrer playing a smoker diagnosed with cancer.

The episode where Mark dies and the episode where Carter and Lucy get stabbed always stick in my mind. I love the relationship between Carol and Doug and love the Benton/ Carter storylines. Fabulous programme best thing on tv.

Omg mark just said Rachel's 5 at beginning of show so she'd be 30 now but...

She'd have only been 20 as a med student?! Something wrong there

Graphista

I stand corrected.

She'd have only been 20 as a med student?! Something wrong there

Maybe, maybe not. As far as I remember she was still doing pre med and applying to whichever uni provides students to County.

I think in the US it's 4 years UG then 4 years med school so if she went to college age 17, which is not unknown and she was in her last year of premed then it just about fits.

That makes sense re Rachel's appearance at end of series.

Been reading the trivia points on wikia and mark was only 38 when he died

Which also doesn't make sense as that would have made him only 24 at start of series when he was a chief resident! Which I THINK is roughly equivalent to a snr registrar in Uk terms

@Graphista but he died series 8 so surely he would have been 30 in the first series?? If he was only 24 then carter would have only been 18.....

Actually 16!??

ER wasn't known for being too careful about keeping details like character age strictly accurate... 🤷🏻‍♀️

Rampage for me was one of the best episodes, it's the one where Mark had an abused son taken from his father, and then the father went on a killing spree. He pretty much shot anyone who got in his way on his way to finding his son and Mark, that's why the social worker ended up in a wheelchair. Mark not shocking him in the lift was 😲, the look on his face when he was shocking the air to show the machine had been used was just not like Mark.

Pratt wasn't in House, that was Gant, and Carter doesn't have a daughter in season one or ever. Do you mean Mark Greene?

Oh I love love love ER.

Fave episodes are definately the one where Lucy and Carter get stabbed.

The one where Lucy goes to beg Romano for the mechanical heart and then the patient dies.

The episode I think is named 21 guns where Sam's ex kid naps her and theres a shoot out when abby realises something is up. Sam just says " thank you abigail" and she twigs. Kovac is tied to a bed then has to watch abby collapse through the window. Their son is delivered prematurely and abby nearly bleeds out.

Then theres the one where sandy dies. "please, shes my wife" so sad.

The one where genie treats an elderly lady and keeps quiet when she discovers that her husband "killed" her. They had planned it for ages and hed helped her get up and dressed and do her hair and make.up ready.

The one where pratt dies is also really good. That tear that runs down his cheek when he realises that hes probably going to die as they try and clam.off the artery in his mouth. And that slow.walk to the elevator lead by his brother... and then they go have that party for him after in that dive of a bar eating mozzarella sticks...

The one where carters baby died. Shes so relaxed not worried at all thinks.the baby is just asleep. Only goes to the er because Carter makes her. And then.....

ER always tackled the hard issues. Euthanasia, racism, homophobia, psychological issues, addictions etc. Done really well.

The one where theres that elderly couple and kovac breaks the rules when one tells him shes been her girlfriend for decades but then Weaver by law still has to call a brother who hasnt spoken to his sister in forever because the law didnt recognise their relationship and instead if letting her go like she wants they have to stick her on machines.

I think ER formed the basis of alot of my ethical arguments/points in humanities debates in school

@ItsNovemberNotChristmas I just watched that one! Series 7 ep 22. I searched out this thread purely to post about it - @Yesbutno mentioned it upthread. It’s the same episode where Weaver comes out as a lesbian to Romano of all people! (Tbf she was defending Legaspi).

I am avidly watching the re-runs, although I think that many of the later series' episodes I'm actually watching for the first time.

I feel it has stood the test of time well, although obviously AIDS/HIV is no longer the death sentence it was made out to be in the very earliest episodes.

I have enjoyed many of the episodes already mentioned but also the Series 11 one with Gallant and Neela, switching twixt their respective experiences in Iraq and in Chicago.

I can’t remember the exact details but there was a story with a seriously ill boy, I think he was one of the surgeons child. Jeannie was assigned to care for him and sang Good Riddance’ by Green Day to him as he was dying. I was sobbing throughout.

Oh, that was so sad @Kierenthecommunity - it was Anspaugh's son.

Where is season 13?? Just watched 21 Guns (finale of season 12) bed was eagerly anticipating the release of the next season today - Fridays are the highlight of my week

Is it going to be like CBS all over again, only showing up to a certain point?

Not sure about an episode. But the moment when John Carter persuades his wife to drink iced water to try to make the baby move has stayed in my mind for years