I don't know, I do that and tell bad jokes but the staff look at me like I'm nuts. It hasn't dissuaded me from continuing though. Pro Tip: Never quote Shakespeare in the hospital for a laugh. It won't go well.
what’s sad is while he’s trying to comfort her by saying it’s routine he admits he keeps saying her name while he can. showing he’s just as scared as she is
I know that the show had lost a bit of its sense of humor by this point and it certainly showed with the seriousness of this episode. But it was brilliant in its own right. So many of us have experienced spending our own time in hospitals and dealing with sick family that it resonated in a powerful way. This is excellent writing.
Now more than then, Niles is right about coronary artery bypass surgery being "routine." Most people today would not get that fretful and tearful about it, or start mourning for themselves as if they were about to die -- or if they did, there would be very few who would sympathize all that much.
My favorite sitcom episode on any show bcuz it feels so real to life as to how things feel&I love who ever wrote about what I had always thought when passing different rooms on different floors where our lives biggest moments had occured.
Niles had a toothache, and there was a 1 in 10000 chance that it was a heart condition. And it was. So he needs open-heart surgery bc he has clogged arteries.
He had a toothache which turned out to referred pain from his heart which had a blockage which essentially a walking (silent) heart attack (but without arm grabbing and falling over in pain and trouble breathing). And thankfully, they caught it early before a major episode could occur.
I wonder if David Hyde Pierce was having troubles negotiating his contract around this time like they could have written this episode to kill off Niles if they weren't able to come to an agreement or something and then maybe later on Daphne would end up marrying Frasier.
Shows have done that before so that would make sense. However it may not have been their intention here since the character Niles was created for David Hyde Pierce.
It's always hard when someone we care about is in the hospital. Sometimes the symptoms are sudden, other times they grow gradually. We knew something was wrong my mom when she wasn't able to enjoy the same things she always enjoyed. The symptoms began in September of that year and she didn't go in for surgery until her doctors finally said that they should the following February. Of course, what began as a routine gallbladder removal extended into much more after the doctors found something else. Tests revealed pancreatic cancer. She fought the cancer through every available method for over a year. It had already spread beyond her pancreas. Things just happen. No rhyme or reason. They just do.
