"Whose Appy Now?" is the fourteenth episode of the third season of ER.
Plot[]
Doug treats a dying 17-year old cystic fibrosis patient who doesn't want to be resuscitated. Carter gets to operate on Benton.
NBC Description[]
DATING MATTERS: Newly single Dr. Greene cancels a date so he can instead juggle two other women on the same night. However, all three discover the truth and one, Dr. Pomerantz (Jami Gertz) is particularly peeved.
Doyle and Carter learn to cooperate when Doyle takes Carter to a rifle range and teaches him to shoot.
Carter performs an appendectomy on Benton and Nurse Haleh Adams (Yvette Freeman) takes over for suspended Hathaway.
Short summary[]
Mark Greene has gone on a dating binge and he finds himself juggling three women. Things get sticky when it turns out two of them know one another and all three meet in the ER. Dr. Benton is in a funk and John Carter tells him he is joining Dr. Hicks' surgical team. Carter reacts with glee when Benton has to have his appendix removed and Hicks lets him perform the operation. With Carol Hathaway still under suspension, the ER isn't functioning quite as smoothly as it normally does. Jeanie finally gives in to Greg's repeated requests and agrees to go out on a date.
Cast[]
Main[]
- Anthony Edwards as Dr. Mark Greene
- George Clooney as Dr. Doug Ross
- Noah Wyle as Dr. John Carter
- Julianna Margulies as Nurse Carol Hathaway
- Gloria Reuben as Jeanie Boulet
- Laura Innes as Dr. Kerry Weaver
- Eriq La Salle as Dr. Peter Benton
Guest starring[]
Special guest starring[]
Co-starring[]
Trivia[]
- The night before beginning to shoot this episode, George Clooney called the writer of the episode notifying him he sprained his ankle playing basketball that day and they had to rewrite pieces of the episode.
- The title is a play on words; "Who's happy now". The title refers to Benton's appendectomy.
Quotes[]
- Wendy: This pamphlet says that 40% of all doctors don't wash their hands between patients.
- Doug: No kidding.
- Wendy: Yeah. And medical personnel pick their noses on average of three times an hour. And many interns only bathe twice a week-
- Doug: (interrupting) Wendy, there's a limit on how well-informed I want to be.
- Angela: Change in plans. Simon's got the gunshot. We're doing the appy.
- Carter: The appy?
- Angela: Disappointed?
- Carter: Yeah. They're kind of boring.
- Angela: You haven't seen the patient yet.
- [Carter looks out the window and sees Dr. Benton being wheeled down the hall on a gurney]
- Carter: Ohhhhhhhh, there is a God!
- Jerry: This is ridiculous. I do not need hand-washing lessons!
- Greg: Scrub hard Jerry, to scrape off the bacteria.
- Jeanie: But the most important thing is to wash your hands after you go to the bathroom.
- Jerry: What, every time?
- [Dr. Carter is performing an appendectomy on Dr. Benton]
- Carter: I am ready to close.
- Angela: Nice work, Carter.
- Carter: Thanks. Maybe I'll staple my name into his belly.
- Chuny: I thought you had a date.
- Mark: Canceled.
- Chuny: They busted you?
- Mark: They busted me.
- Chuny: Men are so stupid. How many women were you dating when you were with me?
- Mark: Just you.
- Chuny: Really?
- Mark: Yeah, you know, except for that night when my neighbor, the ballerina, broke up with her boyfriend. You know, I had to comfort her.
- Chuny: Yeah, so that was like a public service.
- Mark: Yeah, other than that, I was totally faithful.
- Chuny: Oh, I feel blessed.
References[]
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#1 "Dr. Carter, I Presume" • #2 "Let The Games Begin" • #3 "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" • #4 "Last Call" • #5 "Ghosts" • #6 "Fear of Flying" | |||||||||