George gives a tour of the ER set. Transcript below.
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"This is part of the whole catheter 'No Junior, don't squeeze the catheter bag' thing."
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"Now the nice thing about doing a show like this is that you can have all the free drugs that we want. I think that that is important."
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"A little thing here for the hair, you know....oooh, yeah."
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"A lot of hospitals have this now. This is the whole, this is the new colonic thing what we're all pretty proud of. Great feeling. I've never
felt better since I.... Oooh! I feel lighter!"
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"Then over here we have the most important thing, the doctor's lounge. If you follow me you'll see why this is one of the more important elements
(picks up golf club)....true doctor's lounge."
ET: "The set of ER is one of the most elaborate and authentic sets ever built for a television series. Stepping into one of TV's most famous
waiting rooms, it's easy to get an immediate sense of hospital life."
George: "Because it's such a huge set it takes very little time to feel like you're actually in a hospital, you know. Most sound stages, you walk
through a room and there's just a bunch of plywood and this, when you walk through a room and there's another, somebody laying in a gurney with fake
blood all over them." <ertour01>
ET: "George took ET on an exclusive tour of the set and he shared with us some important medical knowledge he picked up during his tenure as Doctor
Douglas Ross."
George: "This is the main lobby, the admitting lobby of the hospital. <ertour02> This is a wheelchair for smaller people. This is actually, in
fact, Billy Barty's wheelchair. Now this is an interesting thing most hospitals don't have. It's a sound cart, which I think is great in case you
wanna record people screaming or bleeding or anything like that. Here we have, of course, the thermos (picks up a plastic urine bottle)
which....strange. This, I don't quite understand either, (picks up what looks like some kind of pressure gauge) this was....fell out, fell off
a....think it was part of a pacemaker thingy. <ertour03> This is part of the whole catheter 'No Junior, don't squeeze the catheter bag' thing.
<ertour04> Now the nice thing about doing a show like this is that you can have all the free drugs that you want. <ertour05> I think that that is
important. Bottles of, see, oil and vinegar. Flowers, nice touch. Not a lot of hospitals actually have flowers. That's a typewriter from 1975.
Payphone. This is where you call the loved one. Now, here we go into the....what we're coming on actually....some more, er, feed bags here.
That's an IV in case you get thirsty or something. A little, a little thing here for the hair, you know....oooh, yeah. <ertour06> And then....more
wheelchairs. We're not quite sure what this is for (looks like some kind of machine fixed to an IV stand)....but we got it there and I think it looks
kinda neat. And then over here we have the most important thing, the doctor's lounge. <ertour07> If you follow me you'll see why this is one of
the more important elements (picks up golf club) <ertour08>....true doctor's lounge. <ertour09> Medical garb....green for, um....aliens. A lot of
hospitals have this (a cleaning cart) now. This is the whole, this is the new colonic thing which we're all pretty proud of. Great feeling. I've
never felt better since I.... Oooh! I feel lighter! Camera equipment often time's right next to the incubator."
ET: "But it was off the set one day that the entire cast learned a valuable lesson about the medical profession."
George: "We were at the Smoke House with Tony - Anthony Edwards - and the whole cast, and we're all in our doctor's garb and we're eating and his
little baby starts to choke on something. And there's five actors, you know, looking like doctors, jumped up and went, 'Somebody do something!' and
everybody's looking as us like, 'You do something, idiot!'"