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I'm binging on ER... favourite episodes?

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YellowRedBlueGreen · 13/10/2022 22:37

When Carter and Lucy get stabbed. Especially when Benton comes storming down the stairs. So arrogant but deep down cares so fiercely.

When Mark gets attacked in the toilets. Brutal.

Sally Field as Abby's bipolar mother. She played the role phenomenally.

The chemical spill when everyone randomly starts passing out and Carter takes charge. The first time Benton really started taking him seriously.

Love's Labour Lost. Heartbreaking and Mark was amazing.

...but the very best masterpiece of all - when Doug Ross saves Ben from the storm drain. Seriously gripping stuff.

I'm on Season 7 so I'm looking forward to Susan reappearing and meeting Pratt, who I know nothing about. I am NOT looking forward to a certain character's death 💔👓

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RainBow725 · 14/10/2022 00:32

Yes to all those in the OP. i can still picture the scene of Lucy and Carter on the floor looking at each other. 😭 I rewatched them all recently but had to skip a few which were too emotional!

bettytaghetti · 14/10/2022 00:45

Definitely Mark Green and his daughter in Hawaii. ❤️
I spent so long trying to find out what the song was (no Shazam back then!) and listened to about every single Hawaiian artist before finally finding it was Israel Kamakawiwo'ole. Also 'discovered' Jack Johnson along the way, so was effort well spent!

JacquelineCarlyle · 14/10/2022 00:47

Carter and Lucy for me too. From reading this thread, I feel the need to watch it all over from the start again as love most of episodes mentioned here too.

Probably also the opening one with Carol Hathaway trying to commit suicide - first time I'd seen anything like that on TV!

Absolutely the best medical drama ever!

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stillvicarinatutu · 14/10/2022 01:36

The one where mark green is trying to deliver a baby that gets stuck

I used to smoke then

Think I went through about 20 fags

TheDouglasChater · 14/10/2022 02:43

I've never seen ER Blush based on this thread though it sounds like I'm missing out!

Jowak1 · 14/10/2022 03:37

ER is the best medical tv drama ever made!! For me I get shivers down my spine watching the episode Carter and Lucy get stabbed! The music that is playing just adds to the whole suspense of the episode.

sashh · 14/10/2022 05:00

Carter and Lucy.

At the time it was shown I used to record it for a friend's mum as I had cable and she didn't. She also lived a few hours away so I would arrive with a black bin bag full of VHS tapes (I also had to record Buffy and Angel).

Me and friend would go out for the day, friend's mum would sit on the sofa to binge, and when we got back she would still be there.

When it started I was still working in a hospital and on Thursday nights we would quite often be called in. We used to joke that the Dr who called us in had watched Er and wanted to do some, "sexy medicine".

ER is the best medical tv drama ever made!!

Yes and one of the few where they know a laryngoscope is used with the left hand.

LearnerCook · 14/10/2022 05:03

When Dr Ross saves the little boy from the storm drain, singing a baseball song to keep him calm and awake.

AllotmentTime · 14/10/2022 05:31

+1 vote for pretty much everything that’s been said so far
Especially Sam’s ex where she’s adamant that she Will. Not. go with him and then he opens the van door and her son’s in there and she jumps straight in

And one that hasn’t been said- the episode with Cynthia Nixon in some kind of locked in state where she can hear and see everything around her but can’t move or speak, and the whole episode is from her perspective.

Plus I love all the episodes where they’re watching some kind of disaster on TV and it ends up on the ER’s doorstep.

Oh and the one where Carol gets taken hostage in the corner shop.

user1494050295 · 14/10/2022 07:26

I thought if the carter and Lucy one immediately. Glad this is the first one you mention. And Benton too

NorthernSoul55 · 14/10/2022 07:52

The very first episode. That you don't initially know that the suicide is Carol or that there is a relationship between her and Doug is brilliant telly. I've never rewatched it so it sticks in my mind all these years later.

Whatwouldscullydo · 14/10/2022 07:57

ER is one of the best TV shows ever made. ( next to x files of course ) Even the later series whic
which didnt do so well. I still liked them

Favourites include

The one where Lucy and Carter were stabbed. The silent scrubbing scene..

21 guns 2 parter. Sam trying to get someone to go to sutures to find luka worried he was dead with no one to bag him was really tense.

The book.of abby. It was fab to see sarcastic assertive abby. Her speech to the board protecting sam was brilliant.

I have to give a mention to the episode where gallant, kovac, abby, Lewis, Carter all ended up in a sexual harassment seminar after going through the belongings of a dominatrix 🤣

The one with carter's intervention. Carter fighting with benton saying all sorts of horrid stuff even punching him and he not only takes it but stays with him all the way to rehab. It was rare to see bentons softer side only suppased by Romano. But when it was there. It was really there.

Greens hawaii episode. " fix rachel" corday's realisation that he had gone there to die was heartbreaking.

I could list more but there are 15 seasons and so so so many amazing episodes.

stillvicarinatutu · 14/10/2022 07:58

Oh and the one where Romano gets his arm chopped off

Rupertgrintismyguiltypleasure · 14/10/2022 07:59

Jowak1 · 14/10/2022 03:37

ER is the best medical tv drama ever made!! For me I get shivers down my spine watching the episode Carter and Lucy get stabbed! The music that is playing just adds to the whole suspense of the episode.

The moment when Carter falls to the floor and sees Lucy on the other side... that almost killed me.
I don’t care to much for Kerry weaver but when she’s the one that finds them, I did feel a bit heartbroken for her 🙁

Rupertgrintismyguiltypleasure · 14/10/2022 08:01

Another one that deserves a mention is the Ray liotta episode. Absolutley brilliant acting from him as usual

sashh · 14/10/2022 08:06

I actually think the last couple of episodes are perfect, in that last series you see all the main characters and Rachel Green following in her father's footsteps. Perfect.

caroleanboneparte · 14/10/2022 08:37

I watch it through one a year or two.

I liked the one where Lucy and carter had a tryst in the x ray room. Shame they never progressed their relationship. His girlfriend is the mum from modern family!

I liked Marks first wife. She was written as a shrew then I don't imagine it would be written like that now. Mark was painted as the good guy but he put a job with his buddies over keeping his family together and supporting his long suffering partner. If she put her side on mn we'd be on her side and say ltb!

Also I find it difficult to watch the early episode where carol is treating a rape victim. So much victim blaming! Shameful how that was written/filmed. It would definitely put a victim off reporting.

Mark not shocking the murderer in the lift was chilling. He also euthanised the terminal cancer woman.

I'm never sure if we are meant to believe if it was the basketball players associates who beat him up in the toilet? Or if we should think that's what led to his tumour?

fleurdelee · 14/10/2022 09:06

I am not sure I could watch again but I loved the pilot With Doug on the drip!!
Also when the helicopter crashed

Gilm0reGirl · 14/10/2022 09:24

All of the episodes mentioned 💯! One I haven't seen mentioned that I always remember is the one where there is a shooter taking revenge on people who had his son put in foster care and Mark can't get hold of Elizabeth and it's all so tense. Then when the shooter gets shot and ends up at county and Mark is accidentally left alone with him in the elevator...that scene! I've never forgotten it, it was so well done and intense

Cigarettesaftersex1 · 14/10/2022 09:31

All of those mentioned plus the one with Ray Liotta, I found that one incredibly moving. The one with the old guy who was going blind, Susan Lewis used to visit him and got quite close to him, she was then held up at work when she was supposed to go to his for dinner. You saw him arranging the plates, cutlery and flowers and he then shot himself in the head, her reaction when he was brought into the ER Sad

Latenightreader · 14/10/2022 09:51

There is an episode where a man is on a business trip and collapses due to his heart condition. He keeps 'dying' and being brought back with a shock or CPR and is completely conscious during CPR. They are trying to keep him alive so his wife and daughter can say goodbye. Heartwrenching stuff.

I agree about Mark's wife Jen - I had so much sympathy for her when I rewatched the early seasons a couple of years ago.

OhLookCriedNed · 14/10/2022 09:56

I'm so glad there's a thread about this!
I've just started rewatching now on maternity leave. Dreading getting to Mark Greene's storyline, not sure I'll be able to handle it.
Can't wait for DP to finish Pat Leave so I can crack on again. The adverts on All4 are annoying though, wish I hadn't donated my box set 🙁

Whatwouldscullydo · 14/10/2022 09:58

I agree about Mark's wife Jen - I had so much sympathy for her when I rewatched the early seasons a couple of years ago

Its a common theme in.most American shows I watch. Over investment and an entitlement to still affect the.lives of people you are no longer with/dumped/treated like crap.

They all seem to not want them but not want anyone else to have them either.

passport123 · 14/10/2022 10:00

I can't remember which series it is but the episode with John Mahoney, who played Marty Crane in Frasier, coming in with his gay partner who is dying and their relationship isn't recognised by his partner's family. I believe John was gay but not out for much of his life and it's an amazingly poignant moment. I find all the stuff about HIV fascinating given how much has changed in terms of prognosis with HIV.

I watched it live as a med student, and recently all again on All4 (after a while decided £4 a month was worth it to lose the ads) and it was interesting that with age, maturity and kids I empathised with different characters. Now I think Carter is a spoilt brat, Doug is an arrogant tosser and for many of the series so was Mark Greene in the way he dealt with his wife and daughter - and actually I can see a lot of the good in Kerry Weaver that I couldn't see when I was younger.

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