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  • In the pilot, Doc Cassidy, whose Love Interest just went back to New York, hears his actor Billy Ray Cyrus' song "Achy Breaky Heart" on the car radio. He comments that he hates it.
  • Dr. Crane's attempt to steal Doc Cassidy's credit at an awards ceremony gets intercepted by Dr. Hebert, Nurse Nichol, and Tippy the receptionist. It ends with Crane getting accidentally pushed into a cake. The funniest part is that Doc Cassidy seemingly doesn't recognize their attempts to keep Dr. Crane away from the podium as purposeful, casually commenting that Crane just didn't make it to the stage.
  • Dr. Hebert gets the hiccups, and chaos ensues as people try to help him shake them. Doc walks in on him trying to drink from the wrong side of a glass and comments that he thought he'd seen New Yorkers do everything. It climaxes with Dr. Hebert running into a thug. Expecting a scare prank from the thoroughly unsympathetic Dr. Crane and not feeling in the mood, he confuses the would-be mugger with his blasé attitude and then scares him off with fake martial arts poses and the claim that his hands are "lethal weapons."
  • Dr. Crane fires the clinic's much-liked custodian after his performance begins slipping thanks to his having to work two jobs. After Dr. Hebert, Nurse Nancy, and Tippy bring her a petition, Ms. DeWitt says that this tactic won't work; they'll have to convince Crane that it's his idea. The rest of the episode has the conspirators — including Ms. DeWitt — driving Dr. Crane up the wall with a set of unsuitable candidates.
  • Nate gets jealous when Beverly sees a successful old boyfriend at a high school reunion, and further when the boyfriend invites her (and Nate) to dinner with him and his wife. He changes his mind and decides to try to be nice just in time to see the guy kiss the unwilling Beverly, who smacks him hard enough to knock him on his back. When the guy tries to get up, Nate advises against it, saying he might not manage to restrain her.
  • Dr. Crane having a Catapult Nightmare of Tippy in uniform, lecturing like a soldier about safety.
  • Beverly gets obsessed with remote-control racecars, to the point that the boys are afraid to practice in the apartment lest she take over the "track" and Nate has to go restrain her. He ends up buying Beverly a remote-control racecar of her own, causing Raul and Justin some dismay when she shows up at the race.
  • While Beverly is pregnant, her snoring keeps Nate awake all night. On Dr. Crane's advice, he sews tennis balls to the back of her nightgown to keep her from turning on her back. The problem is, now Beverly can't sleep, and she makes sure that Nate can't either by asking him dangerous questions like whether he would remarry (and how long would he take) if she happened to die first.

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