St. Elsewhere: Difference between revisions

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* [[Actor Allusion]]: Many.

* [[All Just a Dream]]: The finale.

* [[All There Is to Know About The Crying Game]]

* [[All There Is to Know About "The Crying Game"]]

* [[And Starring]]: William Daniels gets an "and starring as Dr. Mark Craig" credit in the open.

* [[Anyone Can Die]]: Not even {{spoiler|Santa Claus}} and {{spoiler|Mimsie, MTM Enterprises' adorable kitten mascot}}, are safe.

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* [[Furry Fandom]]: The Birdman of St. Elsewhere is probably the [[Ur Example]] in mainstream media. Ironically, he's written with considerably more nuance and sensitivity than most people who think they're animals are written on TV today, now that furry fandom is more widely known, and heavily associated with squickiness. The show still used him mostly for laughs, although it avoided making viewers look down their nose at him, and when the Birdman decides he can fly away from the hospital by jumping off the roof...nobody's laughing.

* [[Gratuitous Rape]]: Dr. Morrison couldn't catch a break.

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Dr. Craig's {{spoiler|artificial heart patient}} ended up feeling like a freak, with a side of [[What Have I Become]].

* [[Gone Horribly Right]]: Dr. Craig's {{spoiler|artificial heart patient}} ended up feeling like a freak, with a side of [[What Have I Become?]].

* [[Hahvahd Yahd in My Cah]]

* [[Heroic Sacrifice]]: While he's being treated for a ''massive'' heart attack that almost killed him, Dr. Elliot Axelrod's room-mate goes into a Code Blue situation. Elliot, despite being on his last legs, gets out of bed to help as he's ''technically'' the closest doctor around. The strain and the stress of cause Axelrod to have ''another'' heart attack, but even while dying himself he gets the patient's heart restarted.

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* [[Sanity Slippage]]: The residency program, coupled with marital problems, eventually became too much for {{spoiler|Dr. White}}.

* [[Series Continuity Error]]: In a season two episode, Dr. Westphall tells a family that he doesn't believe in taking comatose patients off of life support, and yet in the season 4 [[Whole Episode Flashback]] "Time Heals", he is shown {{spoiler|personally disconnecting his brain dead wife from life support}}, which happened several years before the events of the season 2 episode!

** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Not necessarily. He could have been all for it in the past, but {{spoiler|[[My God What Have I Done|the guilt and regret of having done it to his wife]] changed his mind on the issue.}}

** [[Fridge Brilliance]]: Not necessarily. He could have been all for it in the past, but {{spoiler|[[My God, What Have I Done?|the guilt and regret of having done it to his wife]] changed his mind on the issue.}}

* [[Scenery Censor]]: A few times.

* [[Science Marches On]] / [[Technology Marches On]]: The series ended in 1988. Medicine and technology have both marched on quite a bit since then!

* [[Shout Out]]: Dr. Craig starts singing "Sit Down, John" from ''[[Seventeen Seventy Six|1776]]'' when the Craigs go to Philadelphia.

** In one episode, Dr. Beale (the psychiatrist) is heard speaking with someone on the phone: "I'm sure your daughter-in-law isn't a witch, [[Bewitched (TV)|Mrs. Stevens]]... you ''saw'' the sofa levitating?".

** In the morgue: "Patient [[~~Mash~~ (TV)|#4077, Blake, Henry]]. Cause of death: [[McLeaned|Plane crash]]."

** In the morgue: "Patient [[M*A*S*H (TV)|#4077, Blake, Henry]]. Cause of death: [[McLeaned|Plane crash]]."

** Reference is made to a one-armed patient being sought by a "[[The Fugitive|Dr. Kimble]]".

** In the second season episode "After Dark", Shirley Daniels goes to the morgue to get "the report on [[Knight Rider|that Hassllehoff car wreck]]".