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By Alex Richmond | Season 7 | Episode 21 | Aired on 05.11.2003
Whitebread Urban Hospital. We have a Code Bland! Code! Bland! Get me three Vanilla Cokes, no ice! Gah, this is diet! We're gonna lose them! Barry wheels around a corner, with his wife hot on his tail. She catches up with him, and he tells her his dad is at the hospital. She's all, did we know he was coming? Is he going to stay with us? Does he know I'm preggers, because I don't want anyone to know! Barry says he'll try to keep all of that down; then the head doctor guy comes up and yells at Barry, "Is this Take Your Family To Work Day?" Yes; it's also Bust An Underling's Chops Week. Keep up the good work!
Eric, still fumbling for purpose in the hallways, makes his way towards a door. Careful...caaarefull. Someone might be inside; then we'd get this slow-moving show on the road. Some guy roadblocks Eric. Eric looks afraid, then asks, "Are you Mister Hampton? Chandler...Sid Hampton's father?" He actually pauses between Chandler and Sid. Is that a shout-out? I'll take it. No, but he just got back from having some tests. Eric tentatively peers around a curtain and sees a very old man. The old man is incredibly nice. I think he's Irish. He offers Eric a piece of fruit, and says, "No more Mr. Hampton. I'm Andrew." Eric smiles, surprised, and the music is happy.
Whitebread Urban Hospital. We have a Code Mayo. Mayo! Get this mustard out of here, dammit! Andrew says, "I want to die. And I want to die without seeing Chandler." Wow. I want to die without seeing Chandler, too. But I need the money so I took this gig, and now look. I'm seeing Chandler all over the place. Eric wants to know why he can see Sid but not Chandler. Because "Sid's like me. Sid made mistakes!" And Chandler "never made a mistake in his life. When he continued on with his studies after I cut him out of my fortune, I realized he has something I'll never have. Integrity!" Damn. I'm floored at this portrayal of a nice guy that would rather die without seeing his son because he's ashamed of the good qualities he possesses. My mind, she is blown. And it's going to be Eric that tells him he's being a horse's ass? Wow. Andrew asks Eric to "tell him" how he feels, and that he "love[s] him. Thanks for stopping by, Reverend. Goodbye." Um, flying cross-country isn't "stopping by," you selfish bastard. Who paid for that flight? Did it come out of the church collection plate? What about the roof that fell in last week? Oh my farking god. When Eric leaves the room, he asks the tough guy who confronted him at the top of the scene why Andrew doesn't have a private room. Tough Guy asks if he looks like a "hospital administrator." No, you look like an extra from the Everybody Loves Raymond Family Reunion Extravaganza!