St. Elsewhere: Difference between revisions

* [[Everybody Smokes]]: Especially in the early episodes. Patients smoke in their rooms and doctors smoke in the hallways, and it's all quite jarring for a modern audience.

* [[Every Episode Ending]]: Every episode ends with the picture freezing on the last few seconds of action.

* [[Face Heel Turn]]: {{spoiler|Dr. White}}.

* [[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.