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jl_theprofessor t1_jd51k99 wrote

All I know about St Elsewhere is this scene and not much else. I really have no idea what it's about.

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Maninhartsford t1_jd54bka wrote

That's what makes the ending so bizarre - it was a fairly standard hospital show.

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AnakinKardashian t1_jd58wvf wrote

Denzel Washington, George Washington, Howie Mandel, Ed begley Jr, Mr Feeney, and Mark Harmon work in a hospital where weird shit happens

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Kryptoniian OP t1_jd5m5te wrote

right?? based on what i’d heard about the ending, i thought it was a sci fi show or something, but it’s just a hospital show like greys or er, which is Wild

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sweetpeapickle t1_jd91qff wrote

How old are you people? It's funny how many will use the phrase jumping the shark, usually wrong, but don't know what St Elsewhere was about? This is why tv lists on reddit rarely seem to hit the last century. These are the shows people should binge, because many are the reasons the shows popular today, came about.

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cabose7 t1_jd5tm2r wrote

Mr. Feeney is really mean in it based on the first 4 episodes I watched last week

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muklan t1_jd4q7k9 wrote

Here is some crazy shit on this topic.

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derstherower t1_jd4ycq5 wrote

I love how the "Law & Order Universe" has its own section.

But even aside from the "omg fan theory it was all in his mind" stuff, it really is insane how this has been able to be mapped out. Cory in the House is connected to Better Call Saul

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muklan t1_jd5257p wrote

Battlestar Galactica and Firefly have an interesting link- in an early CGI scene you can see a Firefly class ship. R2D2 is in there too.

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Maninhartsford t1_jd548b9 wrote

That's a fun Easter egg. Since they both are about societies that began on earth, there's no real reason why they couldn't exist simultaneously, albeit far across the galaxy from each other

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muklan t1_jd560da wrote

Iirc, the time frames are roughly the same, 2500ish.

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ButthurtBilly t1_jd70van wrote

Malcolm in the Middle and Breaking Bad exist in the same universe, via the X-files, leaving us with not one, not two, but three distinct Bryans Cranston occupying a very small region of the fiction omniverse. Except Breaking Bad is also a dream within Malcolm in the Middle... which is itself all part of some other kid's dream!

kid writes some damn good teevee though, I'll give him that

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DynamixRo t1_jd52okr wrote

'Stargate' at the very top, just as it should be. Next to 'Heroes', but still, right there at the top.

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muklan t1_jd53f15 wrote

Damn right- my wife and I have matching home symbol tattoos lol

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Benny-Harvey t1_jd7taew wrote

did anyone think that maybe the kid just grew up and became a TV writer?

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Legitimate_Ad8347 t1_jd4zug6 wrote

Simply one of tv's biggest mindf**ck or/ f**k you by the writers.

I never seen it, but I heard about it. I wonder how people felt about when it first aired. Must have been some angry and/or confused people.

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emby5 t1_jd5j601 wrote

Wasn't that much of an outcry, it was unusual, but it wasn't a phenomenon. M*A*S*H had sort of set the standard for finales at that time, and not many shows in that era knew ahead of time they would have a final episodes. Many shows didn't know their fates for the following season.

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-DementedAvenger- t1_jd4vnr3 wrote

Did you listen to the Rooster Teeth podcast to get the idea to look for this?

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sweetpeapickle t1_jd92t4e wrote

Love, love love St Elsewhere. I still remember Murder She Rote, Mrs Hufnagel a recurring "patient" and the malfunctioning hospital bed. You would have to watch the series to understand how hysterically funny it was....over someone's death.

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les196781 t1_jda5i61 wrote

You nailed it. Probably my favorite hospital show ever, which I almost stopped watching because I thought it was going off the rails with the Peter White story line

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CollateralSandwich t1_jdbna5p wrote

NewsRadio spoofed the scene in its episode "Daydream", which at the end shows Mr James looking into a snow globe of WNYX

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StarChild413 t1_jd5v6nr wrote

But isn't the all-those-other-shows-are-in-this-kid's-imagination theory (nothing's to say they couldn't be connected otherwise they just can't be six-degrees-of-St.-Elsewhere-d into being even more fake) disproven by the fact that The X-Files did a crossover with what's ostensibly a reality show, COPS, therefore potentially connecting our universe to that whole Gordian knot but we couldn't watch those shows if we were

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Northern-Pyro t1_jd79nns wrote

There was even another COPS cameo in my name is earl. Just straight up one episode is a COPS parody

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DanGrima92 t1_jd82w4z wrote

But what if we're in that kids head? X-Files theme plays

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