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* [[Break the Haughty]]: Dr. Craig. His {{spoiler|son dies}}, his {{spoiler|artificial heart patient regrets his surgery and then dies}}, he punches a mirror and injures his hand, leaving him unable to operate, and {{spoiler|his wife leaves him and begins an affair with another man. They eventually reconcile.}}. Oh, and in one episode, he's mistaken for being homeless.
* [[Bunny Ears Lawyer]]: The nymphomaniac [[Hospital Hottie]], pathologist Dr. Cathy Martin.
* [[Butt Monkey]]: Boomer Morrison, ''literally''.▼
** Let's see, his wife {{spoiler|dies tragically}}, his toddler son disappears (but eventually is found), he gets raped during a prison riot by the husband of a former patient in an especially brutal [[Call Back]] to Season 1, and then later said rapist escapes prison, stalks Boomer, and finally takes him and his new wife and kids hostage, only to be saved when {{spoiler|Boomer's son, who's around six by now, shoots the rapist dead}}. Boomer's entire arc on the show can be described as [[It Got Worse]].▼
* [[The Bus Came Back]]: Shirley Daniels, twice.
* [[Bus Crash]]: {{spoiler|Bobby Caldwell}}'s (off-screen) death from AIDS in the finale.
▲* [[Butt Monkey]]: Boomer Morrison, ''literally''.
▲** Let's see, his wife {{spoiler|dies tragically}}, his toddler son disappears (but eventually is found), he gets raped during a prison riot by the husband of a former patient in an especially brutal [[Call Back]] to Season 1, and then later said rapist escapes prison, stalks Boomer, and finally takes him and his new wife and kids hostage, only to be saved when {{spoiler|Boomer's son, who's around six by now, shoots the rapist dead}}. Boomer's entire arc on the show can be described as [[It Got Worse]].
* [[Call Back]]: Early in Season 1, a sociopathic domestic terrorist detonates a bomb in a bank, killing and wounding many, including the bomber. The causalities are brought to St. Eligius, including the bomber. The husband of one of the victims comes to the hospital, and after his wife dies ends up wondering around aimlessly throughout the episode. Finally, when the time comes to transfer the bomber to the US Marshals, the distraught husband appears out of nowhere and shoots the bomber dead. Roll credits. Now, flash forward several seasons. Boomer Morrison is volunteering at a prison clinic, where he ends up treating the husband who's been serving hard time for murdering the bomber. Somehow during the episode, a prison riot breaks out, Boomer ends up being taken hostage by the husband who then proceeds to make with the prison rape. It's stuff like this that makes the show memorable for its continuity.
* [[Catch Phrase]]: Dr. Craig: "Oh, for crying out loud!".
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* [[Christmas Episode]]: A particularly heartwrenching one following the death of {{spoiler|the Craigs' son}}, which is also the one where they actually kill off '''''{{spoiler|[[Anyone Can Die|Santa Claus himself]]!}}!'''''
* [[Chuck Cunningham Syndrome]]: Drs. Ben Samuels and Annie Cavanero both disappear without explanation.
* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]]: Sometimes played straight, but often averted.▼
* [[Cloudcuckoolander]]: Dr. Cathy Martin.
▲* [[CPR: Clean, Pretty, Reliable]]: Sometimes played straight, but often averted.
* [[Crossover]]: The show had connections with a number of other shows and had minor crossovers with others including ''[[Cheers]]'' of all things.
* [[Cuckoo Nest]]: Either a subversion, or a really hardcore example.
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* [[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.
* [[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?]].
▲* [[Gratuitous Rape]]: Dr. Morrison couldn't catch a break.
* [[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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* [[Revenge]]: Shirley Daniels {{spoiler|shoots Dr. White to avenge the rape of Cathy Martin}}. If you watch the scene carefully, you'll see that she actually {{spoiler|shoots him twice}}...and, appropriately, {{spoiler|the first shot [[Groin Attack|isn't to the heart]]}}.
* [[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.}}
▲* [[Scenery Censor]]: A few times.
* [[Shout-Out]]: Dr. Craig starts singing "Sit Down, John" from ''[[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|Mrs. Stevens]]... you ''saw'' the sofa levitating?".
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