<p>This is the first episode I’ve attempted in over a year. Is it me or does John Stamos look awful - he’s always been so cute!?</p>
<p>I’m still an ER fan (has been a fan since its first season). I have not seen the tonight’s episode yet - we are on the West coast. I like this show because it has a nice blend of multicultural characters with real life (although sometimes a bit exaggerated) problems and challenges.</p>
<p>I watched and cried last week. Got a phone call tonight and so missed it.</p>
<p>Yeah I still watch it - always been a fan, what can I say. I like it because I’m a huge medical nerd, and now that I’m in med school and can actually understand a lot more of it, its that much cooler (just like House) haha</p>
<p>Youdon’tsay – You can watch full episodes on nbc.com. I don’t remember if you have to wait a day or so, but they are available before the next episode airs.</p>
<p>I watched every episode for years and years, starting all the way back in the second season I think. I stopped watching regularly sometime last year, but turned it on a week or two ago and didn’t recognize most of the characters. Did I read somewhere that Abby (Maura Tierney) left the show? I always liked her.</p>
<p>I have also watched it since the beginning. Some years were better than others. Over the years I’ve cried and laughed with the show. Watching ER has been part of our routine for so many years. When our children were young it was a bit of a treat to know they were in bed, and DH and I could relax while watching. That it won’t be around next fall when the first child is off at college seems sort of appropriate to me. I know it’s kind of weird to think of a TV show that way.</p>
<p>Hi, my name is momof3sons, and I confess that I still watch ER. I do NOT permit interruptions between 10-11 p.m. on Thursday evenings. I still get upset when I hear that version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” ER junkies will understand.</p>
<p>I watched from the beginning up until they killed Mark off. Watched sporadically after that and eventually stopped when I became a Without a Trace fan and had to choose. ER ‘oldies’ are on here everyday at 4 so I’ve seen many episodes I haven’t seen before if I get a chance to watch then.</p>
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<p>momof3, same here. Those few episodes remain the saddest I’ve ever seen on tv. Last week, one of my Ds sent me a link to a youtube video someone had made in ‘tribute’ to the character of Dr. Mark Greene, with that version of Somewhere Over the Rainbow playing. The tears flowed, even after all these years. It’s beautiful. If you want to see it, search Somewhere over the Rainbow ER and look for Darla89’s video. It makes me tear up just thinking of it.</p>
<p>We were such devoted fans for years. My almost 13 year old was born on a Thursday at 4 pm and by 9 pm Husband and I were watching ER (the one where the kid is stuck in the flooding drain pipe.) But by last year, I was so over it. I didn’t care about any of the characters anymore. Husband is still devoted. I had it on last night, but mostly because it had been an exhausting day, and I wanted to veg out on the couch for an hour…fell asleep.</p>
<p>I agree about that version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” Makes me tear up to think about it. A friend’s husband had died just a few weeks before.</p>
<p>Remember the episode where the happy pg couple comes in and by the end of it … argh.</p>
<p>I was pg at the time and my SIL called to see if I had seen it. I told her I had to tape because I had been at Lamaze class and she said, “DON’T WATCH THAT SHOW!” So I didn’t.</p>
<p>Of course, for me, it was never the same once Doug Ross left. And, yes, Donna, Abby left last week, which is why I was crying. She was the last character I really cared about.</p>
<p>OMG, I almost brought up that episode. My friends and I were all in the middle of our “child bearing years” so it was so frightening! What was so chilling was that Mark was a *good *doctor making bad decision after bad decision. When bad outcomes are depicted on TV (or by plaintiff’s lawyers), the doctors are always portrayed as not smart, or not caring, or impaired in some way. But Mark Green was a good doctor, making decisions he thought were the right ones, with a terrible outcome. Truly one of the most memorable episodes.</p>
<p>H and I still watch it, but I do think it is time to close it out (which they are doing). I still like it but it isn’t in my top 5 anymore. I knew Abby was going to leave, but Pratt dying threw me for a loop.</p>
<p>missypie, I think of ER as the show of my child-bearing years and LA Law as the show of mine and dh’s courtship …</p>
<p>Does Thirtysomething fall anywhere in there?</p>
<p>I have the last two weeks of ER TIVO’d, and haven’t watched the Abby leaving one…I’ve definitely lost interest in ER…and, ok, starting watching fluffier Greys and the Practice… I need fluff, I guess, since real life is so intense right now!!!</p>
<p>I watch Greys, because I love the Dr. Bailey character.
H and I think the best three shows on TV right now are The Cleaner (I think it’s in a break right now), Friday Night Lights (now on TNT) and Raising the Bar (a new lawyer show). We still love Cold Case and Without a Trace. My “not aimed at my age group” show that I get teased for watching is One Tree Hill.</p>
<p>I still miss St. Elsewhere.</p>
<p>I turned off ER a few seasons ago…it lost my interest.</p>
<p>Oh, I loved thirtysomething, but dh not so much. He started watching it with me but quickly grew tired of how whiny Hope and Michael could come off. I liked Ellen – I think that was her name. The one who wasn’t married and a little slutty. And I loved Peter Horton’s character.</p>
<p>I started with Grey’s and Private Practice, but they lost my interest. The only must-see drama now for me is Brothers and Sisters.</p>