At Jackie's somewhat reckless suggestion, Coop switches cases with Eleanor -- who is dealing with a poison ingestion, far away from Jackie, which is how she wants it -- but then out at the nurses' station they're all noshing on donuts and getting a speech from Gloria about childhood obesity -- FLOTUS's whole deal, of course -- and how this is the key to getting Mrs. Obama to visit them over Bellevue. Also, there's a history with Bellevue where Gloria's counterpart/nemesis Lily Chung is better at this kind of thing, networking, so we'll presumably be hearing about or running into her as this thing develops.
Gloria keeps handing everybody donuts, even poor Thor, and I guess there's some kind of irony or hypocrisy having to do with them eating donuts that seems maybe better on the page than in execution. Coop keeps trying to slip Sam an apology donut in a way where he simultaneously won't and will notice the apology donut, and it's sad and kind of sweet, but of course Sam is not interested. And since Jackie spends this entire episode on the same trajectory -- trying desperately to get Eleanor and Kevin to love her again, because without them she is nothing -- it's even more touching to watch Coop try to figure out how people act and what the protocol is to make somebody stop being angry with you and go back to loving you. There's never been a lot for Sam to do on this show, so it's nice on that level; even nicer in the same way that Thor's diabetes struggles last year were such a soft, bright contrast to the unhealthy addictions of our antiheroine.
Gloria: "Do you have any idea what that kind of press will do for our profile? CNN, MSNBC. People magazine, I'm talking People, people. You can't put a price on it. So please join me in making fat kids enemy number one at All Saints."
(And again, please, please, please let Gloria's war on fat kids be a priority in this season, because that sounds adorable and hilarious, two things this show does well -- vide Zoey; vide again Fitch Cooper on his best days -- when it remembers to do them at all.)
Pee Lady: "Urine urine urine valium urine."
Jackie: "I am acquainted with urine."
Pee Lady: "Yeah, but you get paid."
Jackie: (Can't disagree.)
Pee Lady, verbatim: "You know how I get paid? IN URINE!"













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