E.R. quotes

Gates

Hey! What are you doing out here?

I figured you'd be home soon, and we could go get something to eat.

Gates

Ok, what do you want?

Chinese?

Gates

Chinese it is.

Can we go to the movies after?

Gates

No, after we have Chinese food, I'm gonna take you back to Wisconsin.

What?! [Gates nods, pause] You changed your mind, didn't you? You don't want custody of me.

Gates

Yes, I do.

Come on, Tony-

Gates

Sarah, sometimes... sometimes, you have to do things you don't want to... so that you can get what you really want in the end.

What's that supposed to mean?

Gates

Well, I'm trying to make it so that we live together forever- but if you keep running away from your grandparents, that's not gonna happen. You gotta work with me here.

I guess we should probably call them.

Gates

[nods] I already did. [pause, smiles] Chinese?

[smiles] Yeah.

[to Abby, after her son Joe is injured and being sedated] I remember, when Alex was three... I took him to one of those bounce-houses at the carnival. Of course, he's in there with five and six-year-old kids, so he gets knocked down, right? And every time he tries to get up, he keeps getting knocked down- and he's crying, "Mommy, Mommy!" And- the attendant won't let me in because he thinks I'm some stupid teenager, right?

Abby

So, what'd you do?

I stood there, and I... cheered him on. And, every time he got knocked down, I told him, "I know you can get up!" But... that's when it hit me. They fall. And all you can do is be there... and hope they keep gettin' up.

Neela]

You know, when Ray got hurt, I was in a lot of shock. We all were.

Poor you.

Neela

What happened to Ray had nothing to do with me. He's the one that got pissed drunk at Abby's wedding. He's the one who stumbled in front of that truck. Not me. Even he says that.

You done?

Neela

You can hate me as much as you like. I couldn't care less, but I will not take the blame for what happened to Ray. You got that?

Neela

Are you ever gonna tell me why you call me that?

Gates

May Day? Well, she was my favorite Bond girl. Grace Jones in A View To A Kill. Started off as a bad guy, then she saved the whole world. Hey, you're lucky. Could have been Pussy Galore.

I'm getting my pretty boy on for my last night with Hope. I ordered the works package. I can't wait.

Frank

It's gonna take more than the works to save that mug of yours.

Oh my God, so mean.

Pratt

That's his baseline. You'll get used to it.

Abby

[about Joe] You know, it's totally different when it's your kid on the table. And it would be a lot easier if I wasn't doing this alone.

Okay, you're feeling some pressure? Excellent. Name me three bacteria for neonatal sepsis.

Pratt

Bend over and kiss my ass.

Those are not bacteria!

Moretti's looking for you.

Gates

I'm taking this guy to ICU.

He's in the break room.

Gates

Well he's gonna have to wait.

He said it's important.

Gates

What the hell does he want?

Don't shoot the messenger! Jeez...

Pratt

So, Harold, how do you like your iPod?

Yeah, it's cool.

Neela

Abdomen's soft and non-tender.

Pratt

I remember when you had to go to the record store to buy music.

Harold

I bought my first CD when I was 10.

Chuny

Sonosite's ready.

Pratt

So, when was that, like mid-'90s? Eminem? Huh?

Harold

He wasn't around yet.

Pratt

Right, right. Probably, uh, Spice Girls then?

Harold

Mozart Clarinet Concert in A Major, Richard Stoltzman, soloist.

Harold

[to Neela, talking about his "first time" with his girlfriend] I've never been to the dance. I don't know how to do the mambo or pin the corsage.

Abby

[on Frank relentlessly chasing her down with some information] I think Frank has a crush on me.

Skye

What kind of creepy loser hangs out in the break room all night, second-guessing the Attendings when he's not even on the schedule? I don't know if I'm being Punk'd, or if you haze all new Attendings this way, but I don't need you double-checking my work. The only reason I am here is to make some extra cash for a surf trip. Come December, I am gone. So you can stop worrying that I'm after your job, or your promotion, or whatever you and your micropenis are so afraid of.

Hi. Archie Morris. I have no idea who you are or what you're talking about. Gotta bounce. You good?

Skye

[about working nights] It's much better than being stuck in a hospital all day when it's beautiful outside.

Frank

I hear you. I'm a big hiker, myself.

Haleh

You bump your head?

Abby

I didn't go to med school to check boxes and push paper.

All this wasted energy is severely inflating my carbon footprint!