# ER 5/3: Sweeps month = wedding **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641 "2007-05-03T18:22:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/1 "2007-05-03T18:22:51Z")
Isn’t that always the way it is on TV? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 7:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/2 "2007-05-03T19:18:46Z")
The show starts early tonight: 9:53 Eastern / 8:53 Central. I’ll certainly be watching, but I don’t have very high expectations for ER’s “very special” episodes. Maybe there’ll be a big shoot-em-up. Maybe Dr. Romano will wander in, having lived on the streets with amnesia for years after the big helicopter crash. Maybe Sam’s son Alex will burn the church down. Maybe Kovac will leave Abby at the altar, and run off with Morris to live in Africa. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 7:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/3 "2007-05-03T19:27:33Z")
Isn’t Dr. Carter still in Africa? Now that would be a menage-a-trois - Carter, Kovac and Morris. 😛 If Romano wanders in, there will have to be another helicopter disaster. Maybe a kid will have a toy helicopter that decapitates him. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/4 "2007-05-03T19:44:55Z")
I haven’t watched ER in years, but I’ve seen the prview for the wedding. I’m wondering why they’re being married by a Rabbi? Kovac is Catholic and Abby doesn’t have a faith, as I recall. I rememeber Kovac not going to church because he was mad at God for the death of his family, but from the one ep I saw, he still thinks of himself as Catholic. StG ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2007, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/5 "2007-05-03T20:48:12Z")
I believe Abby’s maiden name is Wyczenski (that’s her brother’s last name), so I’m guessing that she would be nominally Catholic. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/6 "2007-05-04T01:29:06Z")
bump ---
**Author:** ![Emeria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Emeria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emeria)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/7 "2007-05-04T02:59:41Z")
Wow, really enjoyed this episode tonight - and ER has been kind of mediocre lately. If I didn’t know better I would have said it was the season finale - hurray for sweeps making episodes better. What did everyone think? ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/8 "2007-05-04T03:02:26Z")
That’s it. I’m done with this show. How many seasons? Twelve? Thirteen? I’ve missed a single episode in all that time, because I was delivering my baby. I even praised the Darfur episode. I …argggh… I have never been so pissed over a television episode. Erm…sorry. I had to get that out. ---
**Author:** ![Queen\_Tonya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/4491bb/32.png) [@Queen\_Tonya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Queen_Tonya)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/9 "2007-05-04T03:09:02Z")
Well damn, girl, don’t keep us in suspense, why the hatin’ _now_? I mean, sure it was sweet and schmaltzy and we knew it would be going in. I enjoyed it well enough for what it was, what’s with the fervor? ---
**Author:** ![Rebo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rebo/32/13005_2.png) [@Rebo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rebo)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/10 "2007-05-04T03:44:31Z")
I loved the surprise wedding! It was so very sweet and moving. Loved Neela’s nonsense in Pakistani (?)- is that right? I forget where she’s from. It was great. OMG, not Ray!!! ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/11 "2007-05-04T05:05:20Z")
[QUOTE=Queen Tonya] Well damn, girl, don’t keep us in suspense, why the hatin’ _now_? I mean, sure it was sweet and schmaltzy and we knew it would be going in. I enjoyed it well enough for what it was, what’s with the fervor? [/QUOTE] I’m sorry. It’s in Dolores Reborn’s spoiler box. I just wish they could …hell I don’t know…NOT do that crap. Everything I could add to it would be a spoiler and I’m to backwards addled and sickly tonight to figure it out. That might be adding to my reaction too. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/12 "2007-05-04T06:43:26Z")
When I saw Ray walking out into the middle of the street and the shot from overhead, I said “and here comes the helicopter!” and then, “well, OK. A truck.” What a crappy, schmaltzy episode. That blonde chick who planned everything, the one with Morris, she would drive me crazy. ---
**Author:** ![jacquilynne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/67e7ee/32.png) [@jacquilynne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jacquilynne)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 11:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/13 "2007-05-04T11:32:29Z")
I agree with Rushgeekgirl on the part that sucked, tremendously. But otherwise, this is the most fun I’ve had watching ER in years. Is the girl playing the new intern the same one who played the musical genius / improv comedy fan with the rich daddy on Studio 60? ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/14 "2007-05-04T12:03:11Z")
[QUOTE=jacquilynne] Is the girl playing the new intern the same one who played the musical genius / improv comedy fan with the rich daddy on Studio 60? [/QUOTE] Yup. [Julia Ling](http://us.imdb.com/name/nm1788146/) ---
**Author:** ![Turek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/turek/32/18782_2.png) [@Turek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Turek)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/15 "2007-05-04T12:04:23Z")
[QUOTE=McNew] That blonde chick who planned everything, the one with Morris, she would drive me crazy. [/QUOTE] Wasn’t she pretty aggressively christian when she first appeared? They seemed to have dropped that. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/16 "2007-05-04T12:22:19Z")
[QUOTE=Turek] Wasn’t she pretty aggressively christian when she first appeared? They seemed to have dropped that. [/QUOTE] She was. It’s almost as if it was an act to see how hard Morris was going to work to get her to “go time”. So :rolleyes:-worthy. And the whole story line about how everybody and their brother (and sister) was hot for Neela? Spare me. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/17 "2007-05-04T13:07:59Z")
Can someone explain why the wedding was officiated by a rabbi? StG ---
**Author:** ![Sweetums](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Sweetums](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sweetums)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 1:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/18 "2007-05-04T13:28:19Z")
[QUOTE=StGermain] Can someone explain why the wedding was officiated by a rabbi? StG [/QUOTE] ``` It was supposed to be a JOP, but he was sick, and sent the rabbi as a sustitute. I have to admit that i almost split a gut when the intern girl planted on on Neela. When neela walked into the bathroon, and she started talking, I was thinking "let me guess, another member of the I want to jump Neela club." When I found out I was right... I also called the "Ray becomes roadkill." thing, but they telegra[phed that so much that people wathing the baseball game on another channel saw it coming. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Emeria](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/3be4f8/32.png) [@Emeria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Emeria)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/19 "2007-05-04T13:31:31Z")
**St. G** , apparently the Justice of the Peace couldn’t make it and sent a replacement. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2007, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641/20 "2007-05-04T15:35:03Z")
Poor Neela! Surgeon guy and his “Finally!” (I’m pulling for Ray but I think the surgeon guy is the most favorable of the pack for long-term stability. Of course Neela seems to prefer drama.) I’ve never seen so many people focus in on the same intended. I **really** don’t get the “it’s been seven years” bit. Um, John Carter almost proposed to Abby during that time, Luka lived with Sam…it’s not like they’ve been exclusive all that time. :smack: And then the previews for next time “One of their own is missing…” Missing? How can he be alive? The ER was closed and I guess that could make the difference for someone who you would assume died. (And they can’t pull another Gant.) Perhaps other ERs have better luck than this one. :smack: :smack: [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/er-5-3-sweeps-month-wedding/402641.md?page=2)