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MeTV episode discussion - season 2 (cont'd)


picking up in the middle of the season.

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Johnny in the driver's seat!  At the first call, the house explosion from the cigar smoker and his wife, I still think Johnny's premise is flawed. He suggests that if the wife had been honest (telling husband she hates his cigars), then the explosion wouldn't have happened. That's a totally specious argument. Or, as Perry Mason would say when he objects, "Facts not in evidence." Interestingly, when he asks Roy, "Am I right or am I wrong?," Roy doesn't answer.

Dixie's back in the nurse's dress. And I still can't figure out where R and J went for their supplies. The 3rd floor? That never happens. Johnny says, "When you condemn honesty in someone, that's being ignorant." Another specious comment, to say the least. And for anyone who knows Craig Brice, it's also a dangerous one, lol.

"Injury in a pool." A good, complicated rescue, even though there are a few continuity goofs in it. I get the impression the PTB wanted to show off their "underwater camera," too.  I find it a bit ironic that after all the manhandling the guy has endured, they're so concerned about "not moving his head." And I wonder if that bystander will ever get those towels back. 

At Rampart, Johnny says he'll "try" to get in touch with the boy's aunt. I'd be interested to know how he goes about that. (Needle, meet haystack.) In any case, he somehow manages to do it in record time--and he doesn't even need Google!

So at the hospital, we run into two more cases in which truth would have saved the day--the mother who didn't tell Morton that she gave her son antihistimines, and the boarder who should have dropped a dime on her landlady's son. Those cases seem to validate Johnny's (new and short-lived) opinion that absolute truth, 24/7, is the way to go. And I wonder what Dixie's looking for in that Rolodex on the desk. 

Listen to Brackett when he says, in relation to the boy, "The next thing to do is treat the swelling below the larynx." Sounds like that one line was dubbed in, for some reason. (But it appears to match what he said.)

Final rescue, the house fire. As they cross the trestle bridge, we hear the engine's air horn, presumably to alert nearby traffic. But guess what--there's nobody else on that stretch of road, lol. At the house, I love how Johnny busts down the bedroom door by backward-smashing it, using his air tank like a battering ram. 

I know Roy's helmet strap is usually loose, but when he's getting Grandpa in the bedroom, it's completely undone. (Then, when he's going down the stairs, it's fastened, but hanging very loosely.)

Kel, you need to show the "loosened tie" look a little more often. 

Back at the station, we see a remorseful Johnny lamenting that he shouldn't have left Grandpa in the house, and agrees with Roy that the man "lied" by not telling Johnny he was blind. "If you ask me, it was a pretty noble lie," Roy observes.

Once that moment of insight is over, we see that there are FOUR glass ashtrays on the table(s) in the day-room. And then Chet arrives, and finally goads Johnny with his teasing about Jeanette, only to reveal that he was--wait for it!--lying about it. Except, of course, most people would call it teasing.

Oh, and... the doors of that fridge are filthy. 


Edit: I didn't change the heading, so now I just did. 



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I think this is a good episode. What is too much truth and how will people react?

I liked that Chet was teasing him and it was cute as to how annoyed Johnny got.

Glad the jumping guy is going to be okay but he's an idiot. LOL

The couple might need couples counseling.

The refrigerator looked like it had just been waxed but maybe to get the glare off?

Johnny and final rescue was interesting but I do agree with Roy, that was a noble lie. I think the mom should have thanked Johnny for bringing her kid out at least. But since Roy 'saved the day' like he seems to do, she just grew attached to him.

EDIT: Just remembered, the husband who had the chest pains and his wife, the wife looked like the last housekeeper for the Drummonds.

EDIT 2: I changed the title too of my reply. 

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At the first call, the house explosion from the cigar smoker and his wife, I still think Johnny's premise is flawed. He suggests that if the wife had been honest (telling husband she hates his cigars), then the explosion wouldn't have happened. That's a totally specious argument. Or, as Perry Mason would say when he objects, "Facts not in evidence."


Maybe Johnny's reasoning is that if the husband had known what the wife really thought of his cigars he might have just smoked then outside, or somewhere else away from the stove (or better still, quit). But yeah, that still would not have prevented the explosion; if the cigar hadn't set of the gas, then something else would have. However, telling lies like that one (that she loved his cigars, when in fact she hated them) is certainly no way to start off a marriage; maybe that should have been Johnny's angle in his pro-truth campaign.

Did anyone else see the guy in the pool moving his right arm during the rescue? 

At the house, I love how Johnny busts down the bedroom door by backward-smashing it, using his air tank like a battering ram.


I liked that, too. I also liked how Cap had to brush the leaves on that tree out of his face when he was giving orders after first arriving. 🍂🌿

Yes, Grampa certainly put Toby ahead of himself to be rescued, so that was indeed a noble lie. To end on a humorous note, the lady who lied about her husband's cigars was named Noble, so hers was a Noble lie, too! 

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Did anyone else see the guy in the pool moving his right arm during the rescue?

LOL, can't say that I noticed that one. But on this show I have seen other unconscious or paralyzed victims moving, and even saw a dead man move his leg to help firefighters remove him from the scene. Everyone's just so darn helpful in E!-land. 


To end on a humorous note, the lady who lied about her husband's cigars was named Noble, so hers was a Noble lie, too!

Good one!! 👏

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Yes, Grampa certainly put Toby ahead of himself to be rescued, so that was indeed a noble lie. To end on a humorous note, the lady who lied about her husband's cigars was named Noble, so hers was a Noble lie, too!


Haha, nice catch!

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We once again get to see an example of Dr. Morton's sparkling bedside manner. And that was some heated argument the boys had in the squad right after. None of the usual play fighting with Roy being exasperated by Johnny's harebrained idea of the day, they were serious. And obviously angry. Yeeps.  Although Roy was totally in the right IMO regarding Morton's callous behavior.

The swimming pool rescue is pretty interesting. I'm *almost* sure I saw paralyzed jumper's fingers move at least once. Johnny's the one who goes into the pool this time, but at least it was deliberate on his part, unlike poor Roy who always seems to go in against his will. 

I get the impression the PTB wanted to show off their "underwater camera," too.


Haha, yes. And they get to show it off again in the very next episode!

I really like the last rescue. It's one of my favorites. It's exciting, and with the victims being a blind old man and a baby, very emotional. The baby (before he morphs into a doll lol) reaches for Randy's face with his little hands. Awww!! The expression of horror on Johnny's face when the mom says "He can't follow you, he's blind!" gets me every time. It was nice of her to thank Roy for rescuing her grandpa, but Johnny deserved a thank you for rescuing her BABY, and not just a butt-chewing. 

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...or, Mrs. Teal Goes Round the Bend.

I always get a kick out of seeing these guys watching TV while sitting in those hard wooden chairs. At least J and R got those black padded ones.

Poor Mrs. Teal. Yet another unnatural pose for someone who fell or passed out. In the Teal house, you can see a curtain separating the room they're in from another room. Anyone remember that? My grandmother's house had a curtain to separate a room in her house, and I've seen that on TV in shows from the '60s. (The swingin' folks had bead curtains. So hip, man. )

Not sure why Johnny felt the need to specify to Rampart that the woman passed out during a seance. I suppose that info could be relevant to her mental state, but it could also have waited until they got to the hospital. It did give Randy an excuse to make a funny face, though, lol, and he'll make another one later, in the same room.

So R and J get back to the station before the movie's over, and nobody's taken their comfy seats??  And Johnny almost knocks over the (empty) popcorn bowl as Marco holds it up, lol.

Some mod, hip kids drive up to Rampart and unload Ken, who acts for all the world like he's temporarily blind. But other than his "eyes being rolled back in his head," there's no mention of his eyes at all, so I guess that's just how the actor decided to play it.

Once again Johnny's sleeping in "ready mode," with hand on the blanket, ready to fling it off at the first tone. (It's quite obvious once you notice it.) Maybe the first one in the apparatus room gets a prize and Johnny wants to win.  (And he still comes out of the Captain's office to get into the squad.) 

Did Chet misspeak when he described the attractive "gal" and her bowling? He said she "hovers the ball over the gutter." Maybe he meant hove, which is past tense of heave. Things like that make me wonder who fouled up: Tim, or the writer?

Kind of a relief to get the warehouse call--no seances or ghosts or anything. I guess you can say this victim really got hit with some drugs. Some heavy drugs.  (Because the cartons he got hit with were full of pharmaceuticals.) It's a little odd that we see that final scene at the warehouse as the ambulance is being loaded up, with the "hot-rodding" kid being fired. Makes for realistic consequences, though, I guess.

So the fire at the Teal house turned out to be not much of a fire after all, huh? Just one window, making for an impressive display from outside, but fifteen seconds with a hose takes care of it.  And of course R&J are the first ones in the house with a hose, which pretty much never happens--all so they can find Mrs. Teal and her husband in the den of their totally smoke-free home.

Running Mike alert!! Quick glimpse of Stoker running around the engine as he rushes to get the drug box.  

Final rescue... full of anomalies and errors as has been discussed previously. My best advice to Angie and the guys is to watch Mythbusters, and also get one of those window-punch tools. And I still can't believe the darn fire-boat doesn't have an underwater air tank the guys could use, so they can get the vic out more easily. (Aso, see the "abandoned tools" thread. )

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Don't you mean we need to call the Ghostbusters? LOL 

The beginning when they were watching a movie, Roy just looked bored or he didn't like it. I thought it was interesting all the guys watch the same movie at once.

I wished they had showed the chat between the boys and R/J because I think they would have gotten a good laugh out of it.

When the lady started getting angry, I kinda expected her to start throwing things at the guys for some reason.

The guy who had the balance issue, he's got kinda lousy friends but I guess if you are joking with them so much, they don't really know that you are serious and at first I thought the guy was blind.

So turns out he took too many tranquilers. I didn't like that Brackett told the girl that if she likes the guy, she should tell him. I didn't get the sense that they were lovers.

Night scene again and the boys wake up to the alarm to find, only R/J go to the home, again.

Love them in bunker pants... sooo cute.... 

Oh, good, a new rescue!! Not sure the boss could do that nowadays as to making that firing so public but not sure he could have done that then.

The boys are at the station and another call to the crazy lady who is afraid of ghosts. Should have called the Ghostbusters instead. 

Now we find out she is crazy and hopefully she finally gets the help she needs. Maybe it wasn't heard but I wonder if the Cap had canceled the other engine that was called since only Station 51 was just needed.

Water rescue!! I was wondering where our guys were but realized they both jumped in the water. I thought Johnny sounded kinda strange, like he was yelling.

Putting the tube in there is a good idea but I wonder if you can really do that nowadays? Probably not.




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I thought Cap was gonna fall asleep watching that movie in the opening of the episode!

At least the spilled popcorn was still on the floor.

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When this episode started I wished I was sitting in the room with them watching the old Universal film 🎥, as I love the Universal monster movies. Not to mention, eating REAL popcorn (there should be a bucket of popcorn icon). Since I was very young when this show was first run, I could have eaten a ton of real buttered popcorn (if I was there) and not have had to worry about the calories or fat...those where the days. Although, I would have wanted the couch and not one of those wooden chairs. Plus, my own bowl. There was too much passing, just get everyone their own smaller bowl and be done with it.

Nowadays, we don't realize the entertainment value of watching a good, old movie on TV as we have Netflix, DVDs, etc. Remember the movies of the week? Just as we were getting into it, dad would come in and change the channel...sigh.

I am not talking about Saturday night Shock Theater, watched while babysitting late at night, although that has it's own entertainment value even if a bit campy. Anyway, I am rambling and just wanted to point out the nostalgic nature of what they were doing.

What I really came here to talk about, and I know it has been mentioned before, but it is worth mentioning again. Roy looks T-shirtless under his blue coat during the night run, even though the shirt was seen as he got dressed. Johnny had his coat off at the Teal house, so his T was obvious, and part of it was sticking out after he was back in the squad and in his coat. However, Roy was showing a lot of lovely carpet under his coat with no shirt in sight...drool 

No, there isn't really any point to this post, just reminiscing and drooling...


“Listen, don’t any panic body, just because the comesters are ganging.”
J. Grumby

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I hope you checked out the screen cap thread for this episode, there are some pics of Roy with his jacket at the seance house. I don't see the t-shirt under his jacket, either. But then, Roy wears the deep-V shirt (deeper than Johnny's) so I guess it's still possible that he could have been wearing it under the jacket. (Although the thought of a bare-chested Roy is, um, it's... c09333kskle8oikniodb 8viowr4t. Oops, sorry, I lost my concentration there for a moment.)

Good point about the guys not sitting on the couch to watch the movie. You'd think they'd be able to move the TV so three of them could sit on the couch. Oh, and there IS a popcorn emoticon:
 It's in the last group of icons, with the old-school smiley-face.

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Oh, there it is . I wouldn't have thought to look for it there, thanks.

Oh yes, I have seen the screen shots, thanks much!

“Listen, don’t any panic body, just because the comesters are ganging.”
J. Grumby

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Hi, could you tell me which episode you're talking about here?









"Take these broken wings and learn to fly"

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This thread is about Season 2 episodes, and each comment title will tell which one is under discussion. So far there are comments/discussions about episodes Honest and Seance. 

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Oh ok great. Thank you very much.










"Take these broken wings and learn to fly"

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The first scene, of Roy emptying trash (how much paper do these guys go through in a day, anyway??) shows Johnny throwing a crumbled-up paper across the room... and it goes right in the basket. Then he tosses another one that misses and lands on the floor, which causes Roy to notice Boot's food dish. So the question is, was Johnny's "two-pointer" not supposed to happen, but was supposed to land on the floor, and that's why he threw the second paper? More importantly, what is he writing to begin with??

I like Boot as much as anyone, but to have four grown men all whistling and looking under the vehicles for a dog is a little, well, silly. I also roll my eyes at the whole conversation at Rampart about Boot. (Altho I just made myself watch 905-Wild yesterday, so compared to that, this scene is basically Oscar material. )

At the car-and-tanker accident, I still can't figure out where the blood is from that's on the girl's face. She says her leg is the only place she's hurt, so... she's a splasher??  And she asks Roy not to leave her; guess she doesn't know he doesn't have any charisma, lol. Don't get me started on the Vic Tayback character, whose attitude does a complete 180 from beginning to end.

At Rampart, a young man brings his father in, who keeled over when eating out at a restaurant. LA County restaurants must be very dangerous places; Doctor Parsons had a cardiac episode while dining in a fancy restaurant, this man's father fell ill at a restaurant, and later in The Indirect Method, a man has heart trouble when going out to eat with his family. But then, as we see in this episode, cooking at home isn't much safer, lolol.

Speaking of the Hapless Homemaker, her back door sure is narrow, isn't it?? Big enough to serve the purpose, of course, but not much more than that.

More Boot stuff. The son who brought his dad to Rampart is a looker, isn't he??   And Dr. Early lifts a curse. Then even more Boot stuff. 

The final call to Disaster Debbie sends her to the movies, and to heck with Bob from the office. She sounds like a girl Pete Malloy would like. (But wait, he's mine, so maybe not, lol.)

Dixie's back to wearing a pantsuit. For this episode, at least.

Explosion at Rampart--another dangerous place, apparently. (Monkey viruses, explosions, etc.) I thought hospitals are supposed to be places to get better, not get sick or hurt.  LOVE the 1940 car that's parked outside the lab that blew up; definitely brought in from the junkyard just so it could be set on fire and destroyed, don'tcha know.

Since when does Johnny address Kel as "Brackett"?? 

Finally, the only thing wrong with Boot is that Chet was "sore" at him. To think Chet doesn't care for Boot but develops such a friendship with Henry. (Which in real life he did only for increase screen time, lolol.)

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Wow.. so we had the crazy lady who saw ghosts Friday, now this episode has the lady who can't cook to save her life! 

I liked parts of the episode and about Boot, I thought maybe he just really liked Chet and didn't realize he was upset that Chet yelled at him.

I need to look at the episode again but I'm not sure how far her phone is from the wall as to her calling for help and I can't believe that the stove fire didn't spread in the time she made the call and they got there.

Dr. Morton, wow, he's a bit of an ass, yelling Johnny to go find someone when Johnny had to get the hose. Hey, doc, let the firefighters do their job and you do yours, okay?

Didn't care for the one with Joe talking to the guy, I thought maybe he was related to the ghost lady or something.

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Interesting incidental music in that first scene-not sure if we hear it any other time in the series.

At the car-and-tanker accident, I still can't figure out where the blood is from that's on the girl's face. She says her leg is the only place she's hurt, so... she's a splasher??


Maybe so. It looked like she had a head injury, but they gave her MS. 

Don't get me started on the Vic Tayback character, whose attitude does a complete 180 from beginning to end.


He would go on to play Mel Sharples in the TV show "Alice". Yeah, he could have used a good "Kiss Mah Griyits" in this appearance! The car was wedged under his truck; why did he offer to back it up? 

Disaster Debbie


Oh, you mean "Frantic Frannie"?  She was played by Ann Prentiss, who would also play the ambiguously named "Cindy's Mother" in "Messing Around", only without the Southern accent. Anyway, I'm glad she started over after the first responce; that stuff must have had some hair in it. (Sorry, can't find "yecch" emoticon).

Best transaction of the episode:

Roy; "Fire Department"
Fran: "I know, it's locked"
Roy: "I know, the window" 

Yeah, that lab parking lot was full of old cars, including the one that Dr. Frye was sitting on. Guess lab workers didn't make much money back then, either. 

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Or, the one where Johnny loses all common sense about clothes.

First response, to the man locked in his apartment, I noticed Johnny's passenger-side window in the squad is up, almost all the way. That's pretty unusual for this show. The woman who called the paramedics, who lives below the victim, said she heard what sounded like a body falling in the apartment above. Roy asks "how do you know it was a person falling?" Then she said she heard a loud moan come from the apartment. Yeah, it must have been loud, if she could hear it through her ceiling. Anyway, these remarks are foreshadowing to the truth we learn later on.

While working on the man, Brackett tells the guys to "increase the drip" on the IV. He doesn't tell them how much to increase it... I wonder if there's a standard increment that's used.

So what we have here is your basic locked-room mystery... except instead of a murder, the crime is theft. And our guys are the prime suspects. 

I know we discussed Roy's hair going from reddish to blondish to brown. In this episode it looks mostly light brown, but I'm noticing a few streaks of blond on him, mainly on the side. Not sure why or if it's just a trick of the lighting, but if it is, it's a pretty consistent trick. See screen-cap thread for examples.

I like the traffic accident/baby delivery rescue. I can only imagine that the immediacy of the situation kind of pushes aside the thought that these guys might go to jail.

Is it just me, or do the paramedics kind of ignore Mike (hubby and driver) at the scene? Yeah, I know the other guys are using the Jaws to extricate him, but I don't think Roy or Johnny even stop by to look at him first.

Another amazingly clean baby delivery; not a drop of goo or blood on those gloves. However they do it, these guys should franchise themselves. About Mike (hmm, yet another Mike?)--after the baby's delivered and Johnny finally goes to look at him, he notices dude has a head injury, but no attempt is made to put on a cervical collar or anything. Not to mention he doesn't try to stabilize the guy at the scene, which might have been beneficial. Also, if Johnny takes the biophone and drug box with him (and the husband), that means Roy has no equipment as he rides in the other ambulance with the new mother. What if there had been some sort of complication with the baby or mother??

I still say the whole conversation that Brackett has with the woman about her husband could be totally misconstrued by her. "I'm sorry" (as in "he's dead"), or "they're bringing him in now" (as in, "his body"), or whatever. Just like Morton, Kel might need to brush up on his bedside manner.

Okay, we've discussed to death the lack of union rep and general support for the guys by the fire department. And as for the lawyer the guys eventually see... the less said about that meeting with the lawyer, the better, especially as far as Gage Girls are concerned.  I'm sure Johnny (Randy) thought he was as cool as a movie star with those pants, but... well, let's just say the fashion didn't stand the test of time. The shirt Roy's wearing under his jacket--I think we've seen that shirt before (or will see it in future, I don't know which).

So the young mother tells Kel, "I'd like to see my husband now." It's at least a day or two after the accident--and she hasn't seen him yet? Color me crazy, but that seems odd.

The airplane rescue... So the airport manager (or whoever that guy is) isn't aware of the dangers/properties of liquid oxygen? He knows enough that that's what the plane is leaking, but doesn't know that it might be dangerous?  Too bad it was such a cloudy, gloomy day for filming this. Would have been nice to see an expanse of blue sky behind the guys as they stood on top of the plane.

When Johnny goes back to see how Roy's doing, I wonder why he's shouting? Roy responds in a normal tone of voice, but Johnny seems to think he has to yell.

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I like this episode despite noticing many of the odd things you did, slackersmom.

I like the traffic accident/baby delivery rescue. I can only imagine that the immediacy of the situation kind of pushes aside the thought that these guys might go to jail.
I liked that rescue and found myself wondering what real-life rescue this was based on. I'd have hated to be the mother in that situation -- yikes! Not only was the rescue spotless, there was no concern about a baby being so premature, especially back then. Yeah, I thought the lack of attention to the driver was odd.

There's part of me that would have liked seeing Johnny and Roy in handcuffs. 

When Johnny goes back to see how Roy's doing, I wonder why he's shouting? Roy responds in a normal tone of voice, but Johnny seems to think he has to yell.
It sounded noisy to me with the hoses going, but then we can indeed hear Roy just fine. Even better, when Johnny bellows at him, he seems to jump. Poor Roy! 

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Thought I posted but guess not.

I thought this episode was good but would have thought maybe Roy and Capt. would work on the pregnant woman and Johnny and Chet would work on the driver.

The lady who broke in, I thought she was the landlady? But I guess she lied even though it was cool to see Johnny kick down the door.

Anyone know if apartments were that thin walled to where you can hear someone fall from downstairs? So what if the lady went gambling with $500, I bet there was a guy who did the same. I need to watch that scene again but I thought the lady was behind Roy and John?

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Full disclosure: I was going to make some joke in the subject line about Audit and Scientology, but I decided not to. So I'll just do it here instead: "Audit - But not the Scientology kind." There. 

Love Johnny's response to Roy's joke about the four bits he gave Johnny, and not to tell the IRS about it. "Oh, it's Bob Hope now."  But I love Roy's version of what happened when he got audited: "They asked me some questions. I showed them my records. We shook hands. ZZIP--that's all there was to it." And the visual is even funnier as he grabs Johnny's hand to act out the hand-shaking.

Man-injured call: Ugh, it's Welman/Wells.   Not fond of this storyline. To distract myself, I'm going to imagine Johnny asking out the Girl With the Jane Fonda Hair. Well, maybe she's a little too flaky, even for Johnny; between her crazy drapes and her wild dress and that poncho on the coatrack, we can't afford to have her hanging out with Patchwork Pants Johnny. If these two go out on a date, somebody might end up going blind.  

Love how Roy chides Dixie for getting Johnny stirred up, just like one parent would to another about a child. "Why did you have to mention the Avengers movie? I just got him calmed down, and now he's all excited again."

I also skipped the "baby locked in the car" thing. It's just painful to watch for a number of reasons. (On the plus side, we know the coat-hanger is keeping company in the squad with broom and bullhorn and the old-school canteen. Somebody should start a list of these items; it's sort of like a clown car: they keep pulling all this weird stuff out of those compartments.) One funny thing about this... as the guys get back in the squad, we see some of the nearby stores, including Paper Doll Party Shop. Where I live there's a place called The Paper Doll... but it ain't no party shop. It's a place of, um, 'adult entertainment.' 

George Barton and his wife... yeah, he's a hottie under all that hair. And that horrendous auto-mechanic jumpsuit.

Confession time: I hate when Johnny goes on and on about something, then the next shift when someone says, "Well, what happened?" he plays innocent and says "With what?" Worse, he pretends like he was never freaking out in the first place.  Yeah, I know it's a minor thing, but it makes Johnny look shallow and narcissistic. (I think that's the word I mean.) Bad job, writers!

As they roll up to the final rescue, there's the blue Chevy pickup, front and center.  I do like the last rescue, of the construction foreman. It's about the only redeeming segment of the episode. James McEachin hasn't yet become Detective Crockett, and is in a real jam. Luckily Roy doesn't have to make a decision that would change both their lives forever.

Lastly, and possibly most importantly, do they really just climb into the squad when they're all dirty like that from mud, cement, oil, etc? I mean, I don't mind when they're all dirty and messy , but it's got to be tough on the squad. And we never see them cleaning it out afterward.

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Funny post, slackersmom! Love the Scientology joke. 

With those weird streaks in Roy's hair, I'm picturing a frosting cap having been used.

Love how Roy chides Dixie for getting Johnny stirred up, just like one parent would to another about a child. "Why did you have to mention the Avengers movie? I just got him calmed down, and now he's all excited again."
They did sometimes write Johnny like an overgrown kid and Roy as a parent of sorts, so that's not much of a stretch!
it makes Johnny look shallow and narcissistic.
I think it makes him just look like an imbecile.

Anyone else think it sounded like Randy had a cold? He sounds stuffy in some scenes.
On the plus side, we know the coat-hanger is keeping company in the squad with broom and bullhorn and the old-school canteen. Somebody should start a list of these items; it's sort of like a clown car: they keep pulling all this weird stuff out of those compartments.
I think that compartment had a Dymo label that said "Junk drawer/front hall closet."

That Wellman guy was liking having his faced by Brackett a little too much.

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Thought this episode was good but loved how Johnny drove everyone crazy.

Didn't care for this Wellman guy but you had to know something was up when he yelled he wanted a doctor and not R/J.

I thought it was interesting with the Hippie couple and how they just decided to finally see a doctor.

Johnny becomes a hero at the end. 

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On the plus side, we know the coat-hanger is keeping company in the squad with broom and bullhorn and the old-school canteen.

Sorry, I'm a little behind on these threads, but this particular scene really did made me laugh and I thought of you slackersmom and knew you would mention that the coat hanger was probably kept with the broom and canteen. HAHAHAHA why in the world would they have a coat hanger? So funny.

Luckily Roy doesn't have to make a decision that would change both their lives forever.


I know I mentioned this last time around but I still think Roy AND Johnny should have been involved in this decision. One of the other firefighers should have been cutting that pipe and Johnny should have been assisting Roy in this kind of crucial medical situation.

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Schatzie you are deeply missed and will never be forgotten. We love you Sweetie B:8/7/05 - D:8/6/16.

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Watching "Trainee." Kind of odd how heavily they had to rely on radio contact with the physicians so early on, but I guess it makes sense in light of how things were originally set up with the license of the physician under which they were operating. By the 80s, at least in our rural state, we had protocols for things mentioned in the episode like reducing fractures, clearing airways and inserting them. Sure, we reported in, but we were usually in the ambulance by then and it was largely to give the ER a heads-up.

Hell, I once managed to save a little kid's life in Peace Corps by recognizing he had a compound femur fracture from an accident we were both in and holding him up by one foot for traction until we got to a hospital. But of course, all those protocols and procedures didn't appear out of thin air.

The title character sure is obnoxious and headstrong, not to mention lacking in anything approaching a good bedside manner. I'm not sure I agree that Vietnam medics were generally like that once they went into EMS back home, but the script does do a great job of gradually showing how this one's cockiness leads to assumptions and mistakes. I know several of you regulars on here are in EMS or used to be, so I'm sure you know how deadly assumptions and making snap judgements before you've properly evaluated a field situation can be--and not just to the patient.

Also, is it my imagination or do Johnny and Roy *not* wear seatbelts while driving their rig? We'd have been *so* slammed if we hadn't used our shoulder belts every time!

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