I still get emotional after all these years, Mark was the heart of ER. This shows that you never know what can happen in life, and that nothing lasts forever...
@@joemckim1183 I seem to remember a series of episodes in which they didn't play a laugh track relentlessly, and it was much better. The show also improved, arguably, in the last few seasons, after the most ridiculous characters were gone (and Klinger began wearing a uniform): it became more dramatic, less silly.
I remember when I was in highschool I used to watch this show religiously, I sat on my bed thinking how amazing will be to be like Dr Greene, I became a doctor years later, it is hard and draining but at the end of the day it worths it.
Thank you so much for becoming a Dr. especially during these crucial times! My grandmother had passed 5 months ago from COVID. Even though they weren’t able to save her I’m thankful for their efforts. She was 77 and had been a nurse herself for 10 years.
It’s been 18 years since this happen and I balled my eyes out then and I’m balling my eyes out now . I love Dr Greene and this show . The show of the mid 1990s , the best medical drama ever
My favorite part “You set the tone Carter” it’s like a passing the torch moment. Especially since it’s exactly what Dave Morgenstern said to him in the first episode!
Michael Jerome Johnson Yup onto Morris! I’d like to think in the future, Mark’s daughter Rachel would become chief resident and then Morris would pass it on to her. Then it would feel like it came full circle.
The thing that makes that you set the tone line so special to me. David morgenstern said it to Mark Green in the very first episode after Carol is brought in with the overdose. Mark says it to Carter. Carter says it to Archie Morris. Which I disagreed with it should have been Pratt but ER legitimately had the characters pass knowledge that you watched them learn. The speech that Mark gives Carter when Carter gets sick in the first or second episode. Carter later gives to Michael Galant. I love stuff like that
We are born, we live as best we can, and then we leave. All time. And the world goes on. But it was nice to be there. In the end, it's almost always worth it. Thanks to whoever created these stories. I was a kid, I didn't miss a single episode, and I often cried. Nobody is offended, but I have never seen anything so beautiful on TV.
The show in the later seasons with Luka, Neela, Sam, Tony, Abby Pratt and others is still so much better then any of these crappy Grey's Anatomy type of shows.
Mark Greene is the doctor we all wish to have should we need one. Also, this episode meant so much to me as his last patient's name was Katie....my name.
I love this character and missed him. what he said to Katie made me cry. the man who was my doctor all through my childhood Dr. Sam was like Carter, a bright light in medicine. He delivered me and the first human I was held by and introduced to from my mother's womb. He took off the tissue that covered by body and said hello. and I was his last patient before he left his office for good. I was going to school to be a dental assistant. He died the next day in his home. to met people like these people is a gift
Loved Mark Greene. He loved what he did and he was a great doctor. But he didn't have a life, and by the time he knew it, it was too late. Things can change on a dime. Still get misty-eyed even after all this time.
What was sad about that is the way she tells him Good Night then turns back giving him a small smile. She has no idea she was seeing him for the very last time. She expected to see him again but she never did. :(
Abby spent most of this episode looking out for Dr. Greene, giving him green tea that boosts his immune system and looking after him with his iv.. also picking up a tube he dropped. She really cared about mark. And her saying goodnight to him looking back at him I’m sure she had no idea it was her final moments with him.
When Mark died, part of the show died with him. He really was the soul of this show. He was always there, until he wasn't. No character on any other medical drama I've seen has ever had the same impact that Mark had on ER. And the reason we still cry now watching this,, almost 20 years later, is because of how well his sendoff was done. From the quotes to the music.
I thought the curtain closing on them was telling. Even on the occasion they were able to focus on each other, something out of their control separates them.
@@RogueBlackOp Yeah the writers were planning on Mark and Susan getting together but then Sherry Stringfield left and they had to abandon that storyline; by the time Susan came back, Mark was married to Elizabeth and it would’ve been out of character for him to leave his wife for another woman. I’m glad that Sherry Stringfield came back in time for Anthony Edwards’ last season, Mark and Susan were best friends and it wouldn’t have felt right for him to die without reconnecting with her again.
Kerry took Mark's advice seriously and focused on her personal life. I loved that long gaze between Mark and Susan. So much potential but they never got together. A shame really. It was Susan's regret I'm sure. That you get the tone to Carter just means that people will look up to him. Exactly what Kerry said later.
@@l.a.3479 He told Kerry not to make your work your everything in life Take a vacation Spend time with family Do something fun other then sit in a hospital and get nukes by machines that later get you cancer
Abby: "Goodnight Dr. Greene" Mark: "Goodbye" (Abby looks at him and smiles) I'm weird, but that little exchange always gets me. The entire scene is beautifully written. I only wish the clip would have started with the homeless man refusing treatment because I think that's when Mark made the decision to leave.
@@jonathandaniel7424 I suspect that when Susan came back, she was eventually going to cause a break with Mark and Elizabeth. You could clearly see that Elizabeth and Mark were having a lot of problems with their relationship leading up to Marks second diagnosis... Had Anthony Edwards stayed on and not left the show for another few seasons he probably would have ended up with Susan/Sherry Springfield's character. Also if you think about it, Carter was in this particular scene a replacement for George Clooney's character Doug Ross who had left the show seasons before. If Doug/Clooney was still around, it would have been Mark and Doug who had played basketball one last Time in the ambulance bay/parking lot instead of Carter and Mark. This is a fantastic show but it would have been interesting to see how the original dynamics would have played out if some of the characters had not left many seasons before. It's a testimony either way to the fantastic writers who wrote the scripts and treatments for ER as a whole.
@@Fnord23Gnosis mark and Elizabeth had problems because he wouldn’t choose between his two daughters. After the accidental OD. They loved each other and Susan did not share the same feelings for mark. Susan said it was nothing more than a crush mark had on her.
For years I always wondered about this show with curiosity. I could never watch it because I was a kid when it was still running but I can see that I missed out on one amazing show. I have been binge watching for the past month (on season 11 now) and I have never felt apart of a show full of characters like I have with this one. Mark was the character that stuck out for me. The adversity he faced would have broken people long beforehand but he never faulted. His death broke my heart. It reminded me of the time I witnessed my Aunt go in & out of hospitals for years then she was gone on the morning of Valentine's day. The look Halay' gave Mark made it tougher once I realized the respect she had for him as a dad, husband, doctor and overall person. Mark reminded you of that one special person that lightened your life and his death brought you back to that hurt you felt when you lost that special someone.
Beautifully put. I agree 100 %. Mark Greene impacted me from the first show. Great doc, great man and wonderful character. I haven’t seen these episodes since the 90’s and yet all of the story w/ Dr Greene comes back like I watched it yesterday.
@@hugopirela5694 From a writers stand point the series ended when Mark left. I never enjoyed it as much once he was gone. It slowly withered on the vine and went on wayyyy past its time. Again, from a writing perspective, everything that happens in this episode is the perfect bookend to the very first episode. They should have ended it. What an ending.
@@OpenMawProductions same here. Losing Doug Ross left a void, but when Mark left the show was never the same. The “jump the shark” moment, however, didn’t come until the helicopter fell on Romano IMO. After that, especially from season 12 onward, they went more toward a Grey’s Anatomy style and started to go away from what I truly loved about the show.
This is still one of the most heart wrenching moments in television history IMO. I was a kid when I saw this the first time and it has always stuck with me
I've gotta say, I do love that salute between Mark and the homeless guy with the cart. For those who might not remember, it turns out the guy's basically not well enough to keep living out on the streets and survive, and at first Mark tries to convince him to go live with family or in a shelter where he can be checked up on and looked after. But eventually Dr Greene relents when the homeless guy says something to him along the lines of "I don't belong inside anymore, if I'm gonna go let me go where I want to", which obviously strikes a chord with Mark and he decides to discharge him after the basic treatment they give him. I kinda like the idea of a salute being their farewell greeting, cause although the homeless guy obviously didn't know Mark had his tumour, it kinda struck me as two soldiers, both fighting a war they know they'll lose but who've decided to go ahead and lose on their own terms, acknowledging each other and wishing the other luck and peace in their coming battle. I know I'm reading too much into that, but its just the thought that pops into my head whenever I watch this scene 💜
The homeless guy is Marks guardian Angel he’s in the very first episode and tells Mark that. After this episode you’ll see the homeless guy back in the E.R. around the same time as Mark dies in Hawaii he dies in the E.R.
I watch these clips knowing I'm going to cry. You know it's a good show when years later you still feel the same hurt as you did the first time you watched it.
Aaaand I’m crying again. Watched this episode (for the first time!) last night, and teared up on and off through the whole thing. Mark and Jen’s conversation, Mark walking around the ER with his IV of chemo meds, him telling Elizabeth he wants to stop treatment. And of course, I sobbed through this entire scene. The show won’t be the same without Mark in the ER.
When I first watched this episode, I thought Mark would utter just those words. If he had, I think it woukd have finalized the metaphor of his leaving and all that came with it. "You set the tone," ended up serving that purpose, but I would have loved to have heard it. He gave a line or look to everyone as a means of personalizing the send-off only he knew. This ranks as a very minor observation. The music, acting, verbal and non-verbal, and the setting (night) rank an 11 on a scale of 1 - 10.
When I was taking my stuff out and leaving the hospital after completing my residency, this music was playing in my mind. Though we majored in different specialty, and I, luckily, didn't have untreatable malignancy in my brain, I felt somehow related to this man, who taught me about the plight and joy of medicine, more than anyone I've ever met in my real life.
Mark did not have it easy and I think that is why his death is so hard. He was married to Jen who was cold. He got beat up, he doesn't end up with Susan, he loses his dad and when he finds happiness with Elizabeth he gets terminal cancer. He has a rebellious teenager that almost kills his other daughter. So unfair that a healer had such a rough existence. I just wanted him to be happy. He was the tragic character and the heart of this show that everyone rooted for. Carter too had it rough. I stopped watching after he passed and went back years later to watch later episodes. The show lacked the same spark without the main characters. It says a lot for this actor to carry this show like he did.
Mr Mark Greene the absolute greatest of the great, the show was still good after he left but was, Never the same he was my all time favorite, So wish Since they started with him that the show would have have ended with him, although 15 seasons would have been an extremely long time to stick around but he was just so great
“You set the tone Carter” After this, Carter gets Greene’s stethoscope. And the final episode of the season, he deals with a smallpox epidemic. I like how the final episode wasn’t Greene’s death, but Carter stepping into his role as a leader.
Cannot stop crying… just one of the most emotional and yet beautiful scenes in it’s own way… we all never know what life has in store for us!! Best show ever… simply unforgettable!😭😭 Take care everyone and God Bless L x 🇨🇦💕
It was kind of cool how Pratt got to interact with Mark even ever so briefly, would've been a missed opportunity if they debuted Pratt after Mark had left the hospital.
Thanks for this great moment this series get to the end a few years ago. and is so present in mi memory this episode, and many more. i cry with this!!!
"Never let your work become your life." "Your ball needs air." (It's your ball now, Buddy.) "You set the tone, Carter." This scene! Greene said a mouthful. But he couldn't say the big goodbyes - just the little one to Abby. Gave the advice he wanted to give, softly put the mic down, and exited stage left, no fuss and bother. Anthony Edwards was, and is, an amazing actor.
And so many more from other episodes. My other favourite is the ending score from When Night Meets Day. Martin Davich did a wonderful job, we definitely need a release of these
That’s so scary, though- knowing a death sentence is so inevitable to the point that you’re saying goodbye so wisdomattically (my new word) and some people have no idea it’s the last time they’ll see you? 😢💔 The small smile from Abby and when Mark and Susan exchange looks gets me every time 😭
His character always left an empty spot in my mind. The show was never the same again . I stop watching after that season. I guess you got to live a little.
He was the heart of the show, and when his character died, a part of the show died with him. At that point, Doug, Carol and Peter had already left, but them leaving didn't leave much of an impact because you just expected Mark to always be there. There was just a different vibe once he was gone. New characters came, and they were OK, but I just didn't care about them like with the others. originals.
On the Beach is a fantastic episode and it confuses me why Edwards wasn’t even nominated for the Emmy, but sometimes I kinda like thinking this was his last appearance. Just something mystical about it, he retired from his work and disappears into the night.
Mark Greene was a fantastic man. He didn’t deserve the fate they assigned him in this show. He was real, and he reminded me of a doctor I knew years ago. Mark was the best doctor ever portrayed on TV. I still cry over his death on this show. This scene was heartbreaking. It wasn’t fair that he had a tumor, and he died too young. He did not get enough praise for his acting. ( Neither did John Carter’s character)
And it sucked for the Greene family. His mother died off early in Season 4. His father died off in Season 6. Then Mark gets diagnosed with brain cancer in Season 7, and dies at the end of Season 8.
Dr. Morgenstern said first to Greene in the very first episode. It's been an ongoing thing throughout the show. This clip shows all three times it was said th-cam.com/video/BUlrXHr3tpk/w-d-xo.htmlsi=jVWAMBLhPgBcygky
Probably one of the best scenes of the series and also the end of an era. The part where Dr. Greene says your ball needs air and then Carter goes it's not my ball I always want to add well it is now dammit! Do you have the scene where Carter takes Dr. Greene's stethoscope?
This was the scene that made me get into the medical profession. I obtained my cna license, certified medical assistant and in February I’ll be graduating from my eeg class. The moments where You can make a impact on someone’s life is worth more than money
When Abby said goodnight and Mark replied with Good bye that was a very telling thing that he wasn't going to come back to work again. If its just a regular end of day and you're going to be into work again soon you'd reply with good night to you too or something along those lines. But with Goodbye he was basically saying to them that is probably the last time they'll see him in person.
@@PlumbPitiful I think she actually turned back with that little smile and didn't think she'd never see him again. I think she was kinda like, "Why goodbye? I'll see you tomorrow." I don't think she realized that was her last time seeing him.
What i loved watching was the proverbial changing of the guard we watched mark come from being a resident to being the cheif of the ER then when he left carter who was inept in the first season become a powerhouse leader then he left and chose Morris to take over it was like watching evolution in motion
Dr. Greene is right. You set the tone because we all set the tone in our own way. Never let your work become your life. Live a little. Truer words have never been said. Rest in peace, Mark. Thank you for everything.
When he thanks the little Girl and says "You just became my last Patient." nearly 20 years later, it still makes me weepy. As hard as I tried I could not watch the show after he left. The episode progressed from that point on and Mark wasn't in "Doctor Mode" I noticed his delayed speech for "and never come...back." and how that bloody tumor....So difficult to watch.
I love ER very much all this years from my childhood till now for so many moments in which I want to cry or laugh. And this sad and great episode shows us that everything in life happens for the first time and happens for the last... And probably the main thing is how much we managed to do and who to help between them.
Having gone through the series, this truly is the divide point. Not that the show is bad afterward, but when Greene leaves it really does feel like the end. The series always had an ensemble cast that would gradually rotate. But Greene is the one there from the opening of the very first episode. And given what happens to his character, while tragic, does feel like a closing point to the series.
"Goodnight Dr. Greene."
"Goodbye."
20 years later and I still cry like a baby.
Me too.
So do I😔😔😔
I'm not crying. You're crying
Me too 😞
Wow going off to die still gets to me
I still get emotional after all these years, Mark was the heart of ER. This shows that you never know what can happen in life, and that nothing lasts forever...
So true
Very true..
There has not been a medical show ever that made people love the cast and feel a part of their lives like ER did.
Many of us felt that way about MASH, though obviously that was not a traditional medical show.
ER & Scrubs are the best hospital shows
💯 👍🏻 agree.
@@PlumbPitiful Mash is a show that hasn't aged that well. Most of the jokes on that show aren't funny anymore.
@@joemckim1183 I seem to remember a series of episodes in which they didn't play a laugh track relentlessly, and it was much better. The show also improved, arguably, in the last few seasons, after the most ridiculous characters were gone (and Klinger began wearing a uniform): it became more dramatic, less silly.
"Never let your work become your life" - Dr Mark Greene. Words we all need to hear and be reminded of.
Look at her face. She knew he wasn't ever coming back. You can see a lot of sadness in Kerry's eyes. They all knew he wasn't coming back.
I remember when I was in highschool I used to watch this show religiously, I sat on my bed thinking how amazing will be to be like Dr Greene, I became a doctor years later, it is hard and draining but at the end of the day it worths it.
Thank you so much for becoming a Dr. especially during these crucial times! My grandmother had passed 5 months ago from COVID. Even though they weren’t able to save her I’m thankful for their efforts. She was 77 and had been a nurse herself for 10 years.
Thank you for your reliable, and undying service to your country and to humankind. My salutations to you! :)
You and me both! This show got me through nursing school. There were days I wanted to quit and I swear, it’s because if this series I stayed in it!
I wonder how many people are in the medical field after being inspired by ER, the amount would be massive, and worldwide too.
You did rectals on your dolls to prepare for them right
"Never let your work become your life." Now those are words to always remember
My work is what I do, not who I am….
Dr. Greene was just the Doctor we all want to care of us. Patient, wise, comforting and kind. That's why it hurts so.
RIP Paul Benjamin, the guy who salutes Mark on the way out. He was a phenomenal actor!
@Samuel Astic Yes, thanks from me too.
was great in Do the Right Thing!
@@aaronburgin1442 whooo names their son "BROKE DICK WILLIE?"
I'll tell you, a fool!!!
Legendary character actor
It’s been 18 years since this happen and I balled my eyes out then and I’m balling my eyes out now . I love Dr Greene and this show . The show of the mid 1990s , the best medical drama ever
*BAWLING*
Mark really had a special character. He really really did. Poor guy really went through so much, yet he fought all the way up until the very end!!!
My favorite part “You set the tone Carter” it’s like a passing the torch moment. Especially since it’s exactly what Dave Morgenstern said to him in the first episode!
Dan Gurney And then, Carter passed it on when he left. It’s a wonderful tradition.
Michael Jerome Johnson Yup onto Morris! I’d like to think in the future, Mark’s daughter Rachel would become chief resident and then Morris would pass it on to her. Then it would feel like it came full circle.
When he salutes to the homeless man & stares at Susan gets me every time
The thing that makes that you set the tone line so special to me. David morgenstern said it to Mark Green in the very first episode after Carol is brought in with the overdose. Mark says it to Carter. Carter says it to Archie Morris. Which I disagreed with it should have been Pratt but ER legitimately had the characters pass knowledge that you watched them learn.
The speech that Mark gives Carter when Carter gets sick in the first or second episode. Carter later gives to Michael Galant. I love stuff like that
Dan Gurney Yes!!! ❤️
Mark: “You just became, my very last patient.”
Us: 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Yep
Mark passed on the lesson: "You set the tone." It's an important one.
Spot on.....
We are born, we live as best we can, and then we leave.
All time.
And the world goes on.
But it was nice to be there.
In the end, it's almost always worth it.
Thanks to whoever created these stories. I was a kid, I didn't miss a single episode, and I often cried. Nobody is offended, but I have never seen anything so beautiful on TV.
Even the later seasons when the core of the cast had gone, ER was such a superior medical show to anything that has come along since them.
The show in the later seasons with Luka, Neela, Sam, Tony, Abby Pratt and others is still so much better then any of these crappy Grey's Anatomy type of shows.
Well, scrubs was also a top tier medical show, but for completely different reasons in a different genre. But for medical dramas, youre right
@@JKSSubstandard
There'll never be a medical comedy better than Scrubs.
@@JKSSubstandard And John C. McGinley was awesome as Dr. Cox.
Why do all ER fans ignore existence of House MD...
He was the best. I sobbed like a baby when he died.
Same
The music was perfect it’s so touching
Me too
Me too
I remember bawling my eyes out when it first aired on TV. My brother made fun of me lol
Mark Greene is the doctor we all wish to have should we need one.
Also, this episode meant so much to me as his last patient's name was Katie....my name.
And Kate means Pure. He had a good ending with the child telkimg him about the stars.
I love this character and missed him. what he said to Katie made me cry. the man who was my doctor all through my childhood Dr. Sam was like Carter, a bright light in medicine. He delivered me and the first human I was held by and introduced to from my mother's womb. He took off the tissue that covered by body and said hello. and I was his last patient before he left his office for good. I was going to school to be a dental assistant. He died the next day in his home. to met people like these people is a gift
@@deirdremorris9234 *telling*
Loved Mark Greene. He loved what he did and he was a great doctor. But he didn't have a life, and by the time he knew it, it was too late. Things can change on a dime. Still get misty-eyed even after all this time.
That simple sweet way Abby says good night Dr. Green gets me.
What was sad about that is the way she tells him Good Night then turns back giving him a small smile. She has no idea she was seeing him for the very last time. She expected to see him again but she never did. :(
“...Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
Abby spent most of this episode looking out for Dr. Greene, giving him green tea that boosts his immune system and looking after him with his iv.. also picking up a tube he dropped. She really cared about mark. And her saying goodnight to him looking back at him I’m sure she had no idea it was her final moments with him.
No medical show could ever come close to this one it was truly great
When Mark died, part of the show died with him. He really was the soul of this show. He was always there, until he wasn't. No character on any other medical drama I've seen has ever had the same impact that Mark had on ER.
And the reason we still cry now watching this,, almost 20 years later, is because of how well his sendoff was done. From the quotes to the music.
In retrospect, very strange seeing Greene and Pratt together. Two different eras meeting.
That bit where he and Susan held a look for the last time, both clearly wondering what could have been, was the best and most poignant part.
I thought the curtain closing on them was telling. Even on the occasion they were able to focus on each other, something out of their control separates them.
More like, I'll miss you friend but okay. Mark was the only guy to have her back regularly. Did people really ship them?
@@vingram100 When Susan left the first time, they both admitted they loved each other. They understood each other and had amazing chemistry together.
@@RogueBlackOp Yeah the writers were planning on Mark and Susan getting together but then Sherry Stringfield left and they had to abandon that storyline; by the time Susan came back, Mark was married to Elizabeth and it would’ve been out of character for him to leave his wife for another woman. I’m glad that Sherry Stringfield came back in time for Anthony Edwards’ last season, Mark and Susan were best friends and it wouldn’t have felt right for him to die without reconnecting with her again.
He was the heart and soul...
Kerry took Mark's advice seriously and focused on her personal life. I loved that long gaze between Mark and Susan. So much potential but they never got together. A shame really. It was Susan's regret I'm sure. That you get the tone to Carter just means that people will look up to him. Exactly what Kerry said later.
What he actually said to Carter is, "You SET the tone." And we know what it means.
@@l.a.3479 He told Kerry not to make your work your everything in life
Take a vacation
Spend time with family
Do something fun other then sit in a hospital and get nukes by machines that later get you cancer
Abby: "Goodnight Dr. Greene"
Mark: "Goodbye"
(Abby looks at him and smiles)
I'm weird, but that little exchange always gets me. The entire scene is beautifully written. I only wish the clip would have started with the homeless man refusing treatment because I think that's when Mark made the decision to leave.
I went in tears when Dr Green saw Dr Lewis, remind me when he said goodbye at train station 😢
They were the couple that should have been.
@@jonathandaniel7424 I suspect that when Susan came back, she was eventually going to cause a break with Mark and Elizabeth.
You could clearly see that Elizabeth and Mark were having a lot of problems with their relationship leading up to Marks second diagnosis...
Had Anthony Edwards stayed on and not left the show for another few seasons he probably would have ended up with Susan/Sherry Springfield's character.
Also if you think about it, Carter was in this particular scene a replacement for George Clooney's character Doug Ross who had left the show seasons before.
If Doug/Clooney was still around, it would have been Mark and Doug who had played basketball one last Time in the ambulance bay/parking lot instead of Carter and Mark.
This is a fantastic show but it would have been interesting to see how the original dynamics would have played out if some of the characters had not left many seasons before. It's a testimony either way to the fantastic writers who wrote the scripts and treatments for ER as a whole.
@@Fnord23Gnosis mark and Elizabeth had problems because he wouldn’t choose between his two daughters. After the accidental OD. They loved each other and Susan did not share the same feelings for mark. Susan said it was nothing more than a crush mark had on her.
"never let your work become your life"
One of the great shows and ensemble casts for all times.
For years I always wondered about this show with curiosity. I could never watch it because I was a kid when it was still running but I can see that I missed out on one amazing show. I have been binge watching for the past month (on season 11 now) and I have never felt apart of a show full of characters like I have with this one. Mark was the character that stuck out for me. The adversity he faced would have broken people long beforehand but he never faulted. His death broke my heart. It reminded me of the time I witnessed my Aunt go in & out of hospitals for years then she was gone on the morning of Valentine's day. The look Halay' gave Mark made it tougher once I realized the respect she had for him as a dad, husband, doctor and overall person. Mark reminded you of that one special person that lightened your life and his death brought you back to that hurt you felt when you lost that special someone.
Beautifully put. I agree 100 %. Mark Greene impacted me from the first show. Great doc, great man and wonderful character. I haven’t seen these episodes since the 90’s and yet all of the story w/ Dr Greene comes back like I watched it yesterday.
I'm not crying, it's just raining. On my face.
Your face is apparently raining on MY face. Please stop.
It's raining on my face, too! Must be a powerful storm!
I thought he said it stopped raining???
Still raining lol.
I miss this show
This scene leaves me feeling so empty. It's like a part of me died with him. No words can describe the perfection and sadness of this scene.
Part of ER died with him. The very heart of it. No disrespect to Carter...
@@hugopirela5694 From a writers stand point the series ended when Mark left.
I never enjoyed it as much once he was gone. It slowly withered on the vine and went on wayyyy past its time.
Again, from a writing perspective, everything that happens in this episode is the perfect bookend to the very first episode. They should have ended it. What an ending.
@@OpenMawProductions same here. Losing Doug Ross left a void, but when Mark left the show was never the same. The “jump the shark” moment, however, didn’t come until the helicopter fell on Romano IMO. After that, especially from season 12 onward, they went more toward a Grey’s Anatomy style and started to go away from what I truly loved about the show.
When it was on tv my mom cried when he died
Just in terms of writing, its lovely that Mark's final moment is with Carter.
This is still one of the most heart wrenching moments in television history IMO. I was a kid when I saw this the first time and it has always stuck with me
1:22 haleh realizes mark's not coming back.
I saw that too. Wonder how what he said made her think that.
@@elizabethh776 Haleh always knew what was going on!!
all of them know something.
Relax he´s back and the final season.
Just watched this episode. Cried the whole episode. Set the tone Carter.
Love Dr. Greene. Will never be a show like ER.
So powerful when the homeless man salutes him…An angel in disguise
I love Marks words of wisdom!!
I've gotta say, I do love that salute between Mark and the homeless guy with the cart.
For those who might not remember, it turns out the guy's basically not well enough to keep living out on the streets and survive, and at first Mark tries to convince him to go live with family or in a shelter where he can be checked up on and looked after. But eventually Dr Greene relents when the homeless guy says something to him along the lines of "I don't belong inside anymore, if I'm gonna go let me go where I want to", which obviously strikes a chord with Mark and he decides to discharge him after the basic treatment they give him.
I kinda like the idea of a salute being their farewell greeting, cause although the homeless guy obviously didn't know Mark had his tumour, it kinda struck me as two soldiers, both fighting a war they know they'll lose but who've decided to go ahead and lose on their own terms, acknowledging each other and wishing the other luck and peace in their coming battle. I know I'm reading too much into that, but its just the thought that pops into my head whenever I watch this scene 💜
Beautifully said and thanks for the background on that character!
The homeless guy is Marks guardian Angel he’s in the very first episode and tells Mark that. After this episode you’ll see the homeless guy back in the E.R. around the same time as Mark dies in Hawaii he dies in the E.R.
I watch these clips knowing I'm going to cry. You know it's a good show when years later you still feel the same hurt as you did the first time you watched it.
The music on ER will always be incredible.
“Goodnight Dr. Greene”
“Goodbye”
😥😥😥😥😥😥
Aaaand I’m crying again. Watched this episode (for the first time!) last night, and teared up on and off through the whole thing. Mark and Jen’s conversation, Mark walking around the ER with his IV of chemo meds, him telling Elizabeth he wants to stop treatment. And of course, I sobbed through this entire scene. The show won’t be the same without Mark in the ER.
"Your ball needs air"
"It's not my ball"
It is now Dr. Carter. Another example of excellent writing.
When I first watched this episode, I thought Mark would utter just those words. If he had, I think it woukd have finalized the metaphor of his leaving and all that came with it. "You set the tone," ended up serving that purpose, but I would have loved to have heard it. He gave a line or look to everyone as a means of personalizing the send-off only he knew. This ranks as a very minor observation. The music, acting, verbal and non-verbal, and the setting (night) rank an 11 on a scale of 1 - 10.
@@mikelavin9704 totally agree. This is truly the best television has to offer.
That ball was the "torch". He literally passed the torch to Carter.
THE best medical show ever!
Dr. mark Green's last patient's is my daughter's name.
Mark was the heart of ER big respect.
"Dr. Mark Greene's Last Patient" is her name? Wow! That's a long name!😃
When he salutes to AL I lose it Orion in the sky and on the beach are two of the saddest episodes in television history
When I was taking my stuff out and leaving the hospital after completing my residency, this music was playing in my mind. Though we majored in different specialty, and I, luckily, didn't have untreatable malignancy in my brain, I felt somehow related to this man, who taught me about the plight and joy of medicine, more than anyone I've ever met in my real life.
Mark did not have it easy and I think that is why his death is so hard. He was married to Jen who was cold. He got beat up, he doesn't end up with Susan, he loses his dad and when he finds happiness with Elizabeth he gets terminal cancer. He has a rebellious teenager that almost kills his other daughter. So unfair that a healer had such a rough existence. I just wanted him to be happy. He was the tragic character and the heart of this show that everyone rooted for. Carter too had it rough. I stopped watching after he passed and went back years later to watch later episodes. The show lacked the same spark without the main characters. It says a lot for this actor to carry this show like he did.
Damn, 2021, and this still gets to me, hits me hard….
Mr Mark Greene the absolute greatest of the great, the show was still good after he left but was, Never the same he was my all time favorite, So wish Since they started with him that the show would have have ended with him, although 15 seasons would have been an extremely long time to stick around but he was just so great
Such a powerful quote
Never let your work become your life
“You set the tone Carter”
After this, Carter gets Greene’s stethoscope. And the final episode of the season, he deals with a smallpox epidemic. I like how the final episode wasn’t Greene’s death, but Carter stepping into his role as a leader.
Wow the words you would say to someone if you knew you were dying...this scene was so powerful with such little emotion from Dr. Mark Greene 😢💔💚👏👏👏
Cannot stop crying… just one of the most emotional and yet beautiful scenes in it’s own way… we all never know what life has in store for us!! Best show ever… simply unforgettable!😭😭 Take care everyone and God Bless L x 🇨🇦💕
This character will aways be a legend for me.
I've watched this a million times...and every time, I cried.
It was kind of cool how Pratt got to interact with Mark even ever so briefly, would've been a missed opportunity if they debuted Pratt after Mark had left the hospital.
Thanks for this great moment
this series get to the end a few years ago.
and is so present in mi memory this episode, and many more.
i cry with this!!!
My favorite character... love him
That look Haleh gives Mark as he's walking off...she knew something was up; you can't pull one over on her.
I don't think he was trying to. The way he says "tell her never come back" always felt like a hint to me, and she picked up on it. Heartbreaking
"You set the tone." Almost a motto for the series when a major character leaves.
my parents let me watch this show when i was young. it was my first medical show to watch.
Mark greene was my fav and I was sad then at this scene and I am sad now decades later
"Never let your work become your life."
"Your ball needs air." (It's your ball now, Buddy.)
"You set the tone, Carter."
This scene! Greene said a mouthful. But he couldn't say the big goodbyes - just the little one to Abby. Gave the advice he wanted to give, softly put the mic down, and exited stage left, no fuss and bother. Anthony Edwards was, and is, an amazing actor.
HE WAS SAYING GOODBYE WITHOUT ACTUALLY SAYING GOODBYE 😭😭😭😭
I wish there was an official soundtrack release of this music. This hits hard every time I watch it.
And so many more from other episodes. My other favourite is the ending score from When Night Meets Day. Martin Davich did a wonderful job, we definitely need a release of these
I can’t watch this without crying. It was on when I was a nurse. 😷 one of the best and most realistic medical shows ever.
That’s so scary, though- knowing a death sentence is so inevitable to the point that you’re saying goodbye so wisdomattically (my new word) and some people have no idea it’s the last time they’ll see you? 😢💔
The small smile from Abby and when Mark and Susan exchange looks gets me every time 😭
His character always left an empty spot in my mind. The show was never the same again . I stop watching after that season. I guess you got to live a little.
I quit watching after this, too. I mean I tried, but it wasn't the same.
He was the heart of the show, and when his character died, a part of the show died with him. At that point, Doug, Carol and Peter had already left, but them leaving didn't leave much of an impact because you just expected Mark to always be there.
There was just a different vibe once he was gone. New characters came, and they were OK, but I just didn't care about them like with the others. originals.
That look Haleh gives Mark when he walks away. She knew that its the last time she will see Mark.
On the Beach is a fantastic episode and it confuses me why Edwards wasn’t even nominated for the Emmy, but sometimes I kinda like thinking this was his last appearance. Just something mystical about it, he retired from his work and disappears into the night.
You set the tone carter😭😭😭
Sad because Carter had no idea what he was talking about and he didn't realize Mark wasn't returning.
@@elizabethh776I think he did in his heart of hearts. We all expect our heroes to live forever.
Down to his very last patient ever Dr. Greene was class A-1.
This episode is the best in the entire series…it might be the best episode of tv I’ve ever watched
When he says, ‘just the Doctor..’
Ah man....
“Your ball needs air.”
“It’s not my ball.”
...it is now...AAAAAAAAAH!!!
Mark Greene was a fantastic man. He didn’t deserve the fate they assigned him in this show. He was real, and he reminded me of a doctor I knew years ago. Mark was the best doctor ever portrayed on TV. I still cry over his death on this show. This scene was heartbreaking. It wasn’t fair that he had a tumor, and he died too young. He did not get enough praise for his acting. ( Neither did John Carter’s character)
And it sucked for the Greene family. His mother died off early in Season 4. His father died off in Season 6. Then Mark gets diagnosed with brain cancer in Season 7, and dies at the end of Season 8.
You set the tone, Carter
Carter 3 years later: "You set the tone".
Dr. Morgenstern said first to Greene in the very first episode. It's been an ongoing thing throughout the show. This clip shows all three times it was said
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no matter how many years go by that i don't see this scene, i always cry when i see it
Dr Mark Greene inesquecível❤
Probably one of the best scenes of the series and also the end of an era. The part where Dr. Greene says your ball needs air and then Carter goes it's not my ball I always want to add well it is now dammit!
Do you have the scene where Carter takes Dr. Greene's stethoscope?
I miss Dr. Greene, time to re-watch the series again...never gets old.
This was the scene that made me get into the medical profession. I obtained my cna license, certified medical assistant and in February I’ll be graduating from my eeg class. The moments where You can make a impact on someone’s life is worth more than money
Years later this scene makes me cry
"You set the tone." The credo of the series.
Granted there were some bad episodes, but on the whole...man, I miss this show.
Haleh knew that was the last time she would see the goat.
The music was so powerful man….
When Abby said goodnight and Mark replied with Good bye that was a very telling thing that he wasn't going to come back to work again. If its just a regular end of day and you're going to be into work again soon you'd reply with good night to you too or something along those lines. But with Goodbye he was basically saying to them that is probably the last time they'll see him in person.
She caught it too. He said goodbye which made her turn to look at him again....one last time
@@PlumbPitiful I think she actually turned back with that little smile and didn't think she'd never see him again. I think she was kinda like, "Why goodbye? I'll see you tomorrow." I don't think she realized that was her last time seeing him.
"You set the tone," it's very true. When Mark had PTSD, the whole crew was on edge. The leader sets the tone for sure.
What i loved watching was the proverbial changing of the guard we watched mark come from being a resident to being the cheif of the ER then when he left carter who was inept in the first season become a powerhouse leader then he left and chose Morris to take over it was like watching evolution in motion
*chief*
Dr. Greene is right. You set the tone because we all set the tone in our own way. Never let your work become your life. Live a little. Truer words have never been said. Rest in peace, Mark. Thank you for everything.
thank you dr Green, i became a good doctor because of you too
this medical drama was a masterpiece. still today, in 2021, it manages to enozionarmi as twenty years ago.
When he thanks the little Girl and says "You just became my last Patient." nearly 20 years later, it still makes me weepy. As hard as I tried I could not watch the show after he left. The episode progressed from that point on and Mark wasn't in "Doctor Mode" I noticed his delayed speech for "and never come...back." and how that bloody tumor....So difficult to watch.
Mark Green passing torch to John Carter to become a better doctor.
3:12-3:15 the best way to say goodbye to someone you love....
I love ER very much all this years from my childhood till now for so many moments in which I want to cry or laugh. And this sad and great episode shows us that everything in life happens for the first time and happens for the last... And probably the main thing is how much we managed to do and who to help between them.
All doctors should be like Mark.
And Luka. And Carter. 😄
@@_Lane_ Luka is such an amazing guy I was glad they put such a sweetheart on there.
The way he looks at dr Lewis ❤️
She didn’t share the same feelings it was a crush nothing more.
Having gone through the series, this truly is the divide point. Not that the show is bad afterward, but when Greene leaves it really does feel like the end. The series always had an ensemble cast that would gradually rotate. But Greene is the one there from the opening of the very first episode. And given what happens to his character, while tragic, does feel like a closing point to the series.