Fathers and Sons

Season 4, Episode 7, Aired

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    • Somewhere in Doug's life he had to have had some Catholic upbringing. After he knelt in front of Pedro Lopez's marker on the side of the road (Pedro Lopez was the man Doug's father killed in the accident), he rose up and made the sign of the cross.
    • This is the first episode of ER to take place entirely outside the hospital.
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    • Mark: What are you thinking about, Doug? Doug: Carol... I'm in love with her. I mean, I used to think I knew what love was. I cared about a lot of women. I just don't think I've ever really been in love. I think about her all the time. I don't like it when I'm not with her, I don't want to be with anyone else. That's love, isn't it? Mark: Yeah. That's love.
    • (while dumping his father's ashes off a cliff in the desert) Doug: I hated the son of a bitch. And I loved him.
    • Doug: I'm confused now. Your father's still alive, right? He's still with your mother. Mark: So that's the criteria for a good father? Longevity? Doug: Did he smack you around a lot? Used to smack your mom around? Mark: Poor Doug. Doug: Wait. Poor Doug? Your father, did he, did he come into your room in the middle of the night and throw up on your bed and pass out? Did he do that? Did he leave you in a hallway in Atlantic City while he screwed some hat check girl, Mark? Did he do that? Did he do that, Mark? Your father was there for you every night, you and your mother. And that's love. Now, whether it's the way you want it or not, it's love, Mark. You grew up in Ozzie and Harriet land. Get your head out of your ass.
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    • Mark's mother collects Hummel figurines. First introduced in 1935, these cheerful works of art are products of a collaboration between Franz Goebel, head of the W.Goebel Porzellanfabrik, and a talented German artist, Sister Maria Innocentia Hummel. Sister Hummel died in 1946, but her artistic legacy has been carried on to this day by the Goebel Group.
    • Titls: "Fathers and Sons" This episode shares a title with Ivan Turgenev's 1862 novel about the inevitable conflict between generations and the clash of values between traditionalists and intellectuals. Fathers and Sons is also the title of a 1969 Muddy Waters album.
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