This show may feature many heartbreaking incidents, what with patients coming in seriously injured every episode and sometimes dying, yet Chicago Med manages to still add some humor and light into their episodes.
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Season 1
1x01 Derailed
- In the middle of all the chaos, Rhodes turns to Reese and asks who she is. As she replies, "Sarah Reese, 4th year med student," she has her arm raised in the pointing position people make when thinking, "Hold on, I know this...", as if it was a hard question she was trying to get right.
1x05 Malignant
- Joey high-fiving his co-worker after Sarah walks away because he successfully flirted with her is really funny.
1x13 Us
- Maggie is seen complaining to Roger on the phone about how badly the ED needs its bedpan order. Fast forward to later in the episode to Maggie surrounded by boxes of bedpans and yelling at Roger via phone to get them out of there. Goodwin comes in and wonders if they're prepping for a listeria outbreak. Maggie explains someone accidentally added a zero to her order, so instead of 4 dozen...Goodwin: (before bursting into laughter) You got 40 dozen?!
1x18 Timing
- In "Timing", Dr. Choi is trying to convince the parrot he 'acquired' in "Disorder" to fly (at the time, it did nothing but pace). This involves him hilariously "flying" around the room. This would be funny for anyone, but for The Spock, it's particularly humorous."Come on, like this, flap your wings. (flaps arms) Come on, flap your wings. Come on, fly."
- There's also the ongoing humor of Dr. Charles "diagnosing" the bird.
Season 2
2x15 Lose Yourself
- A guy in superhero costume walks in carrying an unconscious old woman. Maggie takes one look at him and calls out, "Dr. Reese!" (psych resident)
2x19 Ctrl Alt
- The ending where Dr. Latham reveals that it was he who paid the hackers the ransom because he was sick of not being able to properly treat his patients. He says it in such a deadpan way, and as he walks away from his team they stare at him in awe.
2x23 Love Hurts
- Dr. Stohl dealing with practical jokes of the graduating med students throughout the episode. They put balloons in his office, glue his mug to the ceiling, and put an ad out for "free penis examinations".Maggie: Dr. Stohl, I, uh, I found your mug.Dr. Stohl: Where?(opens door to the doctor's lounge, revealing it glued to the ceiling)Dr. Stohl: (sighs) Thank you.Maggie: I'll, uhm, call maintenance to get it down.(phone rings)Dr. Stohl: Hello?Dr. Stohl: It's a joke. There are no inspections. It's a joke!Maggie: (laughing as she's on the phone and Stohl storms off angrily) Get me maintenance.
Season 3
3x13 Best Laid Plans
- Noah gets a 55-year-old (seemingly) post-menopausal patient who turns out to be pregnant. 9 months pregnant, to be exact, as nobody realizes she's pregnant until her water breaks in the ED. During labor, her husband is trying to figure out when it happened. Their adult son later shows up with his family, wide eyed and mouth agape, saying, "My God, you weren't kidding." The last time we see them, the mom/grandma is telling her granddaughter, "Come meet your... aunt."
Season 4
4x14 Can't Unring That Bell
- Will talks a patient's family into letting Sam do a very risky surgery to save his leg when the safer choice is to amputate. After Connor talks some sense into him, Will runs in as Sam is scrubbing in and tells him not to do it. Sam replies in the best tone, "Are you on drugs?"
Season 5
5x11 The Ground Shifts Beneath Us
- Most of the episode is actually very riveting and kind of terrifying, considering everyone thought Dr. Abrams was horrifically burned and would be taken off the ventilator, and while it still is sad to think that it wasn't him, but instead a stranger he gave his seat to, the ending where Ethan attempts to tell Sam that he presumes his much younger wife wanted to take him off the vents to get his insurance and Sam tells him that she is actually the one who is rich and he he most likely the one mooching off of her is kind of funny.Dr. Abrams: I'm the eye candy in this relationship.
5x17 The Ghosts of the Past
- Dr. Abrams comes in to give the patient's results: no sign of seizures. Natalie asks, "Are you sure?"... and he replies, "Am I sure?!" as if that's the most absurd question anybody on Earth could possibly ask.
Season 6
6x02 Those Things Hidden In Plain Sight
- It's so out-of-character for Dr. Charles to get angry, that there's something really funny about the way he says "Ari-freaking-zona."
6x07 Better Is the Enemy of Good
- Ethan passing out at work may not be funny, but everyone's reaction to learning he had gall bladder surgery that morning and just left AMA to come back to work is HILARIOUS!
Season 7
7x04 Status Quo
- As part of his undercover assignment, Will "pitches" using the Vas-COM for an upcoming surgery to Dr. Archer. Archer says, "I'll consider it," then a second later, adds, "Okay, I've considered it. No."
Season 8
Yep, This is the World We Live In
- Ethan's on his way into Treatment 4. Maggie tries to reassign Will to Treatment 4 because she urgently needs Ethan in Six. But Dean's already got that one... Actually, she needs him in Seven! A very confused Ethan tells Will he's got this one, pulls open the curtain to Four, and it's... April with some guy. Maggie just gives her a helpless "I tried" shrug.
