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Sleepless in Chicago

Season 1, Episode 17, Aired Feb 23, 1995

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Benton pulls a 48-hour shift and refuses to sleep, despite Hicks's orders, which later proves disastrous for his mother. A doctor spends the entire day studying the ER as a model for a new hospital, and offers Susan a job; he turns out to be a psych patient who wandered downstairs. Jenn tells Mark she wants a separation. Doug treats an abused young girl, and Carol receives bad news about her attempt to foster Tatiana.moreless

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GUEST STAR
Lili Flanders

Ms. Brown
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Robert Carradine

John Koch
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Sanford Meisner

Joseph Klein

Eriq La Salle

Dr. Peter Benton
Anthony Edwards

Dr. Mark Greene
Julianna Margulies

Nurse Carol Hathaway
Noah Wyle

John Carter
Sherry Stringfield

Dr. Susan Lewis
George Clooney

Dr. Doug Ross

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A great set up for Love's Labor Lost. The two episodes deliver a one-two punch, knock out.

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By cwbybri, Jun 03, 2011

Love's Labor Lost is one of the series classic episodes. Sleepless in Chicago is a wonderful companion, and sets us up for a dramatic, tearful season event.

We have a conclusion for the Tatiana storyline, and it's not a happy ending. Carol is given the bad news that she cannot be Tatiana's foster mother because of the suicide in season one. It's very heartbreaking, and it certainly make you feel for Carol. I thought it was interesting that she ran to Doug, and not to Tag, for comfort.

This episode also has Jennifer announcing to Mark that she is leaving him. This becomes a very important problem, for the upcoming episode. But you'll have to read my review of "Love's Labor Lost" to find out why.

And the reason for the title, Peter is on call for 48 hours straight, because of his shift swapping. When he is finally off, he goes home to watch over his mom. With the exhaustion of working for so long, he's asleep when his mom falls down the stairs.

Doug treats a little girl with a burned hand. We find out that the mom burns the girls hand whenever she's caught touching herself. This is the second episode in a row, where Doug has an abused child in the ER.

It wasn't all dramatic. There are some very light moments during this episode. Which are needed, because the next episode has very few light moments.moreless
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All the sleepless..

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By Parricida, Dec 26, 2010

Benton is being up many many hours in order to give his sister and her family change to get out of the house. because of that, he is grouchy and acts bad with people. Carter gets part of it as he tries to help a man who is dying and he cannot contact no family. Benton thinks he should not become surgent as he waists his time with patients. Mark's marriage, despite he saws hope, is falling apart and Jenn says she is leaving. Carol is trying everything to help that Tatjana but because she tried to kill herself - her application to adopt her is said no. She is down and goes to Doug as it seems that he is only one understands it. Even her finance does not care as we learned in previous episode.

And Benton - he makes home, fells asleep and fer mother, who he suppost to take care, fell down from stairs. A real cliffhanger ending.moreless
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poor carol. I really wanted her to be able to adopt tatiana.

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By abanana, Jul 03, 2010

This episode was pretty good. Benton is absolutely insane. If i had been working 48 hours straight and somebody offered me to take a nap, there would be no question about what I would be doing. I really feel bad for carol not be able to take care of tatiana. It seems so unfair because carol is the best thing for this little girl. But i guess it makes sense. They can't let a bunch of suicidal people adopt children. But I love that scene where she goes to Ross' house and she tries to kiss him and he says something like "I'll drive you home". Thats about the first mature thing he's done this whole season.

I really liked Carter in this episode when he was halping the old man.It was really cute in a wierd kind of way. Carter cares so much about all the patients, that's what I love about him.

Poor Greene also, his wife finally left him... well I saw it comming a mile away. meh, he's better off without her anyways.

That crazy guy who pretended to be making a new hospital was hilarious. And he offered Susan a job. And he was so convincing lol I thought it was hilarious :Dmoreless
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- Goof: The mother of the abused girl scratches Doug's neck and Carol puts a bandage on it, yet later in the episode, when Carol goes to Doug's apartment, he does not have a bandage or even a mark on his neck.
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- (Carter reads to Mr. Klein from "Passage to India," a poem in the book Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman) Carter: O soul thou pleasest me, I thee, Sailing these seas or on the hills, or waking in the night, Thoughts, silent thoughts, of Time and Space and Death, like waters flowing, Bear me indeed as through the regions infinite, Whose air I breathe, whose ripples hear, lave me all over, Bathe me O God in thee, mounting to thee, I and my soul to range in range of thee. O Thou transcendent, Nameless, the fibre and the breath...
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- (about fostering Tatiana) Carol: Maybe... maybe I... I shouldn't have thought about doing this. Ross: No. You were exactly what she needed. Carol: You are the only person who thinks that. Ross: Well, I know you.
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- Ross: So, I hear you're fostering Tatiana. Carol: You gonna try and talk me out of it like everyone else? Ross: No, I think it's a wonderful thing what you're doing. Carol: Really? Ross: Absolutely. I always said you'd make a great mother.
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- Benton: Where's Deb? Carter: She's sick. Benton: Who said she could be sick?
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- Benton: Carter, you are wasting your time. You don't think like a surgeon. Carter: Why, because I don't think like you?
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- Benton: Carter! There's a "code brown" in 2. Find a nurse, get it cleaned up. Now!
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- Marty: It's amazing how modern medicine systematically dismantles the rituals of death. We make it routine, a non event. People don't die here—they code. We can do better.
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NOTES (3)
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- Paul Manning and Christopher Chulack provided DVD commentary for this episode.
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- Anthony Edwards and Robert Carradine appeared together previously in the 1984 movie Revenge of the Nerds.
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- Baseball player J.T. Snow makes a brief cameo in this episode.
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- The poem Carter reads bedside to Mr. Klein is "Passage to India," from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass. Whitman published the collection of 12 poems at his own expense in 1855.
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- Title: "Sleepless in Chicago" The title of this episode is a play on the title of the 1993 film Sleepless in Seattle. It starred Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan.
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