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Here's a little test for you.
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What medical drama about doctors
working in a children's hospital
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has been on television the longest?
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Well, if you had said anything
other than "Childrens Hospital"
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or "Kid Emergency Room,"
you'd be wrong.
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But that's all about to change,
because after fifteen long years on
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the air, "Childrens Hospital"
is pulling the plug.
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I almost forget what I look
like without the makeup on, you know?
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And later on in the program,
dolphins have long been
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derided as poor man's tuna...
Not quite fish, not quite mammal.
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I'm Louis La Fonda.
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All that and Andy Rooney
tonight on "Newsreaders."
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For the cast and crew of
"Childrens Hospital" and its
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many fans, next Friday at 10:30 P.M.
marks the end of an era.
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That's when the final episode
airs for the first time, in one sense,
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a victim of its own success,
but in another more real sense,
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a victim of low ratings.
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Got the
"Newsreaders" crew here.
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Hi, Mom.
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"Newsreaders" set out to
document this historic final episode,
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but what we actually
found may surprise you.
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Action.
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If he dies, let it be
on your conscience.
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You mean I'm not gonna get
in any real trouble if he dies.
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If you can live with
yourself afterward.
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Yeah, sure, totally.
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Up top.
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I'm sorry, David?
Can we cut?
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I... I can't remember which hand
Blake uses to do things.
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Well, which hand do you use?
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Blake would use the hand you use.
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Look, are you right-handed
or are you left-handed?
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I'm sorry.
I'm just really confused.
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But before there was the
"Childrens Hospital" of today,
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there was this pilot that was
made originally for daytime TV.
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It never made it to air, but it
contained the DNA of what the
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show would eventually become.
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You're both damn good doctors...
and lovers, but I have to fire one of you.
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No, Chief.
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Chief, no.
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I actually play the role of,
uh, both twins.
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Stop and we'll just switch the,
uh... Switch it over.
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Okay, good.
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Quickly, please.
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This is the 1960s, guys.
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In fact, as soon as anybody
opens their mouth on a TV show,
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you have to pay them a lot more money.
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Isn't that right, Jay?
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But some people were lucky enough
to get lines, fifteen seasons worth.
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The cast of
"Childrens Hospital."
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None of us knew it would get so big
so fast, did we?
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It was like a runaway train with
its head cut off, wasn't it?
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I couldn't walk down the street
without being mobbed.
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I had to walk down through
neighborhoods where mostly blind
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people lived so I could have
some peace while walking.
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"It's hard for me
because I don't speak English.
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Fans think that because I learn
all of my lines phonetically,
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I understand them when they
make sex talk at me.
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I only kind of do."
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Yeah.
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You're gorgeous, you know that.
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You're gorgeous.
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Very beautiful.
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By the end of the first season,
"Childrens Hospital" was a bona fide hit.
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But even as these gorgeous
doctors were breaking hearts,
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the show itself was breaking new ground,
such as this scene from season four,
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the first time a doctor
was portrayed on television...
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by a woman.
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Oh!
Sorry, nurse.
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We thought the new
doctor was coming in.
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She did just come in.
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First of all, you
mean "he" just came in.
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And where is he?
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No, I definitely
did not mean "he."
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What are you talking about, nurse, uh...
What is your name again?
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The name is Lola Spratt,
Dr. Lola Spratt.
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Righteous!
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And "Childrens Hospital"
would popularize more than just the
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catch phrase "Righteous!"
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The show had become a
global phenomenon.
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Foreign-language versions were
produced in Canada... Hawaii...
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Los Angeles...
Even India.
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But as the flagship show
reached its late middle age,
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some thought that the writers
had lost touch with their original vision.
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The story lines became convoluted.
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Everyone relax.
The tornado has passed.
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We may be trapped here for a while,
but help is on the way.
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My water just broke.
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- I'm gonna have a nephew.
- What?
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Who are you?
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We're the Boom Town Breakdance Troupe.
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We're in town for a show
and decided to stop by.
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Looks like you guys
could use some help.
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In a creative lull,
the cast and crew became
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disillusioned and bored,
culminating in the now-infamous
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scandal that would mark the
beginning of the end of
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"Childrens Hospital," as well as the
end of the middle of our news story.
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Tell me about the scandal.
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Well, you can listen to the tabloids,
but here's my side of the story.
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I was trading derivatives in
Asian markets and rededicating
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the returns into
municipal slush funds.
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I was heavy on domestic
commodities, so I was merely
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repurposing the dividends into
auction market preferred stocks.
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I messed up.
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To combat the sagging
popularity of the show,
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the producers hired Fred Nunley,
a well-known TV veteran who has
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been brought in to save many beloved
shows over the last three decades.
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None of those shows have
made it to another season.
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"Childrens Hospital"
had jumped the shark.
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The show's cancelation was
announced after the first
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episode of this season.
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How did you all feel when you knew
the show was coming to an end?
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I think we all had the same reaction,
you know, which was, "Thank God!"
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The first person to hear
the news was Dixie Peters,
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who played Dr. Cat Black up
until this season, when her
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character died unexpectedly
in childbirth.
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Ironically, Ms. Peters died in
real life shortly before taping
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this interview.
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The idea of doing another episode
makes me physically ill.
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I mean, I'd rather do anything else.
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I'd rather do a fifteen-minute
low-budget comedy for basic cable.
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I mean, not literally.
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I watched all my friends
skyrocket to stardom
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while I was stuck, day in and day out,
year after year, on this show.
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Just Falcon
joined the cast in 1993.
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I was offered
"Crocodile Dundee"...
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But they kept me locked into my contract,
so three sequels later,
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my very good friend Paul Hogan
is a former millionaire.
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The answer to your question is...
Yes, we are all best friends in real life.
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The man that
plays the clown makes me sad.
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On the surface, filming
this last episode was
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just like another day at the office,
even if tensions were running a little high.
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I don't care if it's your birthday.
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You quit sulking!
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"I am a doctor."
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Yet, no one would speak about
the 200-pound gorilla in the room.
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This is a very difficult
time for you, isn't it?
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No.
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Unwilling to let go
after fifteen years on the show,
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Cutter Spindell organized
protests to the network.
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But I guess it didn't work.
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I know I've only been
working here a few months,
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but already, you all
feel like family to me.
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I'm gonna miss this place...
More than you know...
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More than you'll ever know.
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Hello?
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Doctors?
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And cut!
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And that's a wrap, folks!
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Hold on, hold on, hold on!
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Everyone, quiet!
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Hey, listen, listen.
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Word is the cancellation...
has been canceled.
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A bunch of fans or who knows
who wrote letters, and...
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They're gonna continue the
show indefinitely.
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All the contracts are
automatically renewed,
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and call time's 5:45 in the morning.
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Turns out my
hard work paid off.
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Georgene here saw my sign,
and she recruited thousands of
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people to write letters.
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I did it for the kids.
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I mean, I couldn't imagine why a
TV network would want to shut
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down a children's hospital.
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I'm sorry.
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- I just wanted to clarify...
- We did it.
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Well, what needs to be clarified?
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We wrote letters,
and she saved the hospital.
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I helped save
a children's hospital.
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Well, you helped to save
"Childrens Hospital,"
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not a children's hospital.
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A children's hospital.
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Right.
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- I'm sorry...
- And that's that.
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And that's that.
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What a success story.
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Like a death-row prisoner
granted a reprieve at the 11th hour,
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"Childrens Hospital"
lives to see another day.
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Only, this show won't spend its
first day of freedom getting
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wasted at a strip club.
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I'm Louis La Fonda,
and this is "Newsreaders."
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Pa... parox... paroxy...
oxysmal... yocult.
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Otoacoustic.
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Otoacush... ot...
otoacoustic... oto.
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Oto.
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He has an injury to his elbum...
Elbowe... elboum... Elbowe.
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I think this man
needs an oper-an-n.
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Operadion.
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A operishun.
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Opera-teon.
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Peer-adion.
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E-l-b-o-w.
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Elbowe.
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Can I see it written down?
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Elboom, elbowe.
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What is even the elblow?
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Give me 10cc
of penis-illin.
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Penis-illin.
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What the hell is that?
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What is penis-illin?
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Penicillin.
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Penicillin.
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Oh!
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What the hell is that?
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Next week on "Newsreaders,"
Kate Walsh, star of the hit series
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"Private Practice".
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Taye Diggs or Tim Daley?
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