ER

Okay,

so how about ER? Yes, that's one of them.

Very good.

That's what I count as the abbreviation, and I pronounce it er.

are my two guesses.

Okay.

So we have seven more to get, and we got the abbreviation ER.

There is one that's a number, and I'll leave that out there too.

And was he gorgeous?

yeah like from what I could see from the bridge but I think he's naturally a very handsome man so he's so handsome yeah I would assume that he looked he looked as good back then but he's someone like what happened to his career after Eeyore like I don't know he was around a bit but I couldn't even tell you what he's been like in my head he was like a bat guy like I'm like I know that guy but am I gonna look up

who he is yeah no uh even though i'm making a podcast about this movie and in the both the book and the film he's like very abusive and he ends up dying and she's been drugging him but in the film actually that was the most distressing scene in the film i'd say the girl's in the car with him in the book so they don't try and bring him back from the dead they just

bury him okay a wise a wise choice yeah

[upbeat music] Hello, everyone, and welcome to another episode of Setting the Tone, an ER retrospective, the show where we do a chronological breakdown of every episode of our favorite TV medical drama.

My name is Elizabeth, and joining me today, as always, are Lauren-

Hello

... perhaps, perhaps you've heard of him.

Uh, he was in Coming to America.

Uh, this is his one and only appearance in the director's chair for ER, which is crazy because this is kind of more what he's known for now.

Like-

Mm-hmm

It's rough.

I'm doing that with ER now, 'cause we're on ER.

Oh, my God.

I was not allowed to watch ER when it was on because-

You were too young.

No, no.

Oh, right.

And I was a fucking nerd.

... we first met when he was, you know, on back porches of all their friends drunk doing Buddy Hackett imitations.

And like, this was before, um, what was that, the show he did where he was a doctor, you know, ER?

ER.

That thing.

Yeah.

It's before he got that.

The other ER.

The other ER, but it's where he was doing all the pi- He was like George of the pilots before he became Super George.

Signs that he's played by Paul McCrane.

Early role, later plays Romano on ER.

The guy gets killed by, chopped by a fucking, arm chopped off by a helicopter, later gets killed by a helicopter.

Also, my buddy Jim was dating a girl who was an extra, who was in a coma in an ER episode.

And the three of us are trying to get tickets outside of the Springsteen show in 99 in LA.

We ran into Paul McCrane.

This is the peak of him being an asshole in ER.

And they just knew each other from being there for a couple weeks.