Heathen

No, he hasn't remarried and still wears his wedding ring. When I was little, I thought the "olden days" meant the 1950s, which annoyed my parents because they were born in the '50s.

His father worked from home before his wife died, and I believe he continued to do so and also homeschooled the kids. I'm sure there was a lot of responsibility put on Kelton after his mother died (as in, can you cook dinner, Kelton?), but they probably got some help from relatives and "sweet church friends," too. Quotation marks because that term is so nauseatingly fundie.

Yale, either biochemistry or microbiology. I remember that because somebody -- maybe Gallant or Pratt -- made a comment about how she must feel out of place. That was in her first episodes. Let's be real -- at the time Neela started in the ER, the show writers had already started up the train that soon went off the tracks.

This forum really needs an anger emoticon. Layla is nothing more than a prop to her lazy-ass, attention-whoring parents. I wonder how long it took goddamn Carlin to get the right photo for her shill.

Or fundie sexy wear. 🤢

And it's not like some of the adult Bateses are likely to be much tidier than the children.

When did Carter display a callous attitude toward pets? As for Gamma, she was older, confused, driving at night, and she thought she hit a dog. I'm not sure she even knew where she was.

Personally, I don't get the impression that Kelton is rigid or controlling. Yes, he's a bible-thumping ass, but that doesn't mean he's abusive or isolates his wife from her family. My impression of Kelton has always been that he sees Josie's family as a bad influence, which is a sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with. If I were a parent, I wouldn't want my children spending a lot of time around lazy slobs like Gil or Kelly or some of the other in-laws (outlaws?). Imagine your little kid coming home from Granny's and telling you she doesn't have to wash her nasty dirty feet because they don't have to do that at Granny's house. Or that they don't have to do chores, or work if they're adults, because Grandpa and Granny don't do that or Uncle Evan and Aunt Carlin don't work. To each her own, of course. I don't have children, but I do have some lazy, gross, self-centered family members who I would not want around them if I did. Ironically, as an atheist and progressive, I would see Kelton as a bad influence and wouldn't want him around my children, except for his enviable work ethic.

Granny doesn't take care of her own damn kids, and probably hasn't since Michael was old enough to take over!

Carlin and Evan would be pea-green with envy.

Did she get an Angelina Jolie leg at the shop, too?

The street-kid episodes are in season 13. It's HIPAA -- not HIPPAA -- and its date of origin was years before the episodes in question aired, not to mention that Mark's character was long dead at that point.

I'm skipping around the truly sucky, later seasons. I kind of like the storyline overall, but what is with the way they dressed the unhoused street kids? The one kid is gray. And "the man at the desk told" Gray Kid that the kid with rabies was at the care something? HIPAA laws, anyone?

Don't forget the woman in season one who gave him an STI, and Harper, who cheated on him with Doug.

MOST of the Africa episodes are boring. But Eamonn Walker...not so much. I still think Carter and Debbie would have made a good couple. Kem can go find someone else to whine and feel superior to.

I finished season 8 this week, and frankly, I don't really give a damn about watching the subsequent seasons. They're just dull. I might watch the Darfur episodes (because Eamonn Walker), but otherwise, I'll find something else to do. I have books calling my name.

My grandmother always got a discount for displaying the contractor's sign in her front yard -- roofers, driveway pavers, septic tank, you name it. The Websters aren't unique in that respect. I guess Allie's lousy Christmas paid for the paint job and the new SUV and whatever else John and Alyssa got that wasn't for their children.

Not to mention that she went from ER intern to super duper surgeon, doing brain transplants by herself, in about two years. Come on.

We'll see if that holds true when the Golden Penis is older. I think you're right that Alyssa is bitter, both about her shitty childhood and about her adulthood not being what she thought it would be. She needs therapy, not that she'll ever get any, and she'll make her daughters' childhoods unhappy, too.

That brown thing they wrapped the baby in looks something from the reject pile at the St. Vincent de Paul. What a way to welcome a new baby -- with a dirty dull rag for a blanket.

Geez, Timmy has a Duggar-boy hairline.

More St. Crabby -- in season 8, episode 2, why did the writers think it made sense for Haleh to ask for assistance from Abby? Haleh is a veteran ER nurse who probably knows as much as the doctors and can put in a Foley catheter in her sleep. Abby hasn't even been in the ER that long! The Abby adoration is stupid, and kind of nauseating.

I've progressed to season eight -- I'm into the St. Crabby, Adored by All Men crap. She's even more annoying this time around. She and Carter are about to head to Oklahoma -- maybe she'll get lost on the way back and only Carter will return to Chicago. I'd like someone to explain why it was acceptable for Kovac, an attending, to superglue Malucci's hand to his face.

How did that error happen? I'm thinking of Romano, when his dead arm was about to be amputated, having Corday write "Not this one, idiot" on his good arm.

Even the O'Brien lawsuit went from death to deposition to settlement in like a year -- maybe even less. For St. Crabby, it probably would have been blatant malpractice to settlement in her favor in half an hour.