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"Healing Hospital"
TEASER
FADE IN:
ER/ ADMISSIONS AREA
A BLACK MAN who kinda looks like a gang member (maybe we
could get Ice Cube or Ludacris or Kool Moe Dee for this
sweep episode) falls down in the ER really drunk and vomits
blood on the floor then starts to shake and stuff. CARTER
totally walks in all in his doctor clothes and is like...
CARTER
What's with this sick guy?
And KOVACH totally hears Carter because he's like...
KOVACH
He looks really sick so
tracheomaty.
And he totally cuts open his throat and saves him, but
before that ABBY walks up to Carter and they fight: (This
happens before the saving.)
ABBY
You don't pay attention to my
brother and mom who have this
problem where they get all crazy.
CARTER
(is all like)
Well I'm rich but I'm a doctor
anyway even though my dad...
(did you know the dad
is the dad from
Family Ties, Mike
Grosser or
something? I think
that's his name. So
weird that he's
playing a dad here
too.)
...and Gamma don't want me to be.
CUT TO:
ER/ HALLWAY
WEAVER comes walking down the hall, and her cane's going
CLACK CLACK CLACK on the floor so everyone knows she coming
and because she's a lesbian she's really pissed because she
hasn't gotten any cock since that dude from Highlander
porked her in Season 2 or 3.
CUT TO:
ER/ ADMISSIONS AREA
So Weaver totally criple-walks into the waiting area and
sees Kovach working on Snoop Dogg or Eminem's throat and
totally starts to wave around her cane angrily. Seeing her
do this - along with the CLACK CLACK CLACK noise - will
help viewers who have never seen the show understand that
she is handicapped (aka exposition). So she starts
yelling:
WEAVER
(the actress should
be really angry
here)
Hey! This is a healing hospital!
It's not Croatia or a mental
hospital or a rich dad's house...
(you know it's really
interesting how
Mitchell Gross was a
hippie dad on
"Family Ties" but
here he plays a rich
dad. I think we
should have him walk
around in the
background at some
point.)
...so get to work and make sure
you clear the board!
And Weaver holds up her cane and points it at the board to
show the doctors (and the viewers) that she means that
board. It also reminds us that she is a cripple.
SUDDENLY a CAR comes CRASHING into the ER and totally hits
all the DOCTORS! So now the DOCTORS are the PATIENTS!
SMASH CUT TO:
MAIN TITLES
(If I was a viewer, I'd totally be freaking out right now.)
Date Written: January 02, 2004
Author: Dolemite
Average Vote: 4.65385
Comments:
01/6/2004 Texxx (5): Wow. I can see you've been reading too many scripts. Sweet.
01/6/2004 Will Disney (5): a tour de force
01/6/2004 Ewan Snow (4): This is so true. Those F-ing screenwrites are such asswipes!
01/6/2004 Jon Matza (5): Nice job on the stage directions and parentheticals.
01/6/2004 Benny Maniacs (5): That was funny as hell. Not funny like ha-ha but funny like That's funny, because I thought you said you were at Marty's on Tuesday.
01/6/2004 Dolemite: Damn. I blew my proverbial load too soon with this one. I should have submitted my "Fraggle Rock" spec sample first.
01/6/2004 Texxx: There's nothing proverbial about your l*ad.
01/6/2004 Dolemite: Tell me about it. Of all the days to run out of Shout Wipes...
01/7/2004 Will Disney: that comment by maniacs is pretty damn funny too, actually.
01/7/2004 Dolemite: Can someone clue me in on Maniacs' comment? What's he talkin' 'bout Disney?
01/8/2004 Will Disney: sure - no problem. benjaminmaniacs is making a subtle meta-joke here. his first sentence is an actual complement. the rest is a kind of a meta-language joke. he's playing off the multiple meanings of the word 'funny' and specifically, the habit of people saying 'funny ha-ha' to describe 'funny' when it means "amusing". your short, in reality, is funny ha-ha. now, a simple joke that someone could make about your short would be to say, "oh it's funny, but not funny ha-ha, funny strange." this would be kind of stupid but passable on a site like this. maniacs is taking this medium joke to a slightly higher level by saying that your short is not funny ha-ha, but in fact, a third kind of funny, which is the funny that means "not completely credible", as in "funny, you said you'd never been to this male strip club, and yet you know all the dancer's names." so that's what it is - a complement plus a decent joke about a stupid joke - but nothing to do with your short. i hope this clears things up.
01/8/2004 Captain Crunch: I think I saw this episode!!! Is it from the first season? The show went downhil ever since Joge Cloony quit!!! ;)
01/8/2004 Texxx: Who's Marty?
01/8/2004 Dylan Danko (5): Didn't Weaver fuck an african guy at some point?
01/8/2004 Dolemite: Weaver's vagina did indeed feel the throb of an African cock before she realized that her cold, harsh demeanor was better suited to V-on-V action.
01/18/2004 Joseph Keith: i hate that chick!!!
02/13/2004 Noah Simple (5): Your best short. And maybe the best episode of ER ever.
02/20/2004 Mr. Pony (5): Man, I love this thing. Also love Disney's explanation below. But the vote is for the short.
05/20/2004 TheBuyer (4): TV makes you stupdi.
07/6/2004 ElTwisto (5):
01/20/2005 Litcube (5): Holy fuck!
02/28/2007 Master Bates (5): Whoop! Whoop!
08/18/2010 Marvin_Bernstein (2.5): and you said I was stupid?