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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A patient has failed laser surgery done on him... and becomes an eunuch at a harem. It might take a while to understand what happened...
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** One nurse nurse, Nathalie, complained as to why they have to wear the same boring white nurse uniforms everyday. So the next day, she comes in a bikini and does sexy Hawaii dancing. This cause an elderly patient to get overly excited and he dies from a heart attack.
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* CoversAlwaysLie: The paperback album covers rarely show something that actually happens in the stories inside. One cover shows a nurse doing an injection on Franchise/{{Superman}}, and another one shows an ArabOilSheikh getting an oil-like blood fountain coming out of his operated body... none appeared in these books.
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* StayInTheKitchen: One episode has a female doctor whose patients refuse to be handled by her because she is a woman. Her husband tries to help her ... with bad results.
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* StayInTheKitchen: One episode has a female doctor doctor, Dr Barney, whose patients refuse to be handled by her because she is a woman. Her husband tries to help her ... her, posing as a patient to be operated on... but she has to be supervised by a doctor and has [[spoiler:to replace her husband's stomach with bad results.a rabbit's]].
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* LivingStatue: A story shows that several men who had a special hardening liquid injected into them - in order to give them lasting muscles - turned completely still and blank, becoming living statues whose only "job" was to be exposed at an art gallery.
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* LivingStatue: A story shows that several men who had a special hardening liquid injected into them - in order to give them lasting muscles - turned completely still and blank, becoming living statues whose only "job" was to be exposed at an art gallery. Despite this, they still are alive and capable of thinking, not even being too upset into being stuck in a AndIMustScream position.
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* RuleOfFunnyRuleOfFunny: Yes, the medical stuff is very obviously inaccurate more often than not. But hey, it's jokes!
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* AuthorFilibuster: It is expressed several times that being a nurse is terrible and stressful job, and that young women should do something else instead.
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* AuthorFilibuster: It is expressed several times that being a nurse is a terrible and stressful job, and that young women should do something else instead.
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** Another gag has a rebellious teenage son defend himself against his father. The reason? [[spoiler:He enlisted himself for organ donor transplant, which the father feels is horrible. Disgruntled the son goes to the hospital, signs himself up and then gets a car accident on his return home. Instead of saving him the doctors decide to use all his body parts for donor transplants!]] Should also count as a BrokenAesop, because [[spoiler:what is the message, exactly? Enlisting for donor transplants will result in doctors rather use your organs for other patients than save your own life?]]
*** The joke is more that the son was a SmallNameBigEgo KnowNothingKnowItAll, thinking that nobody could "take advantage of him in life", and he [[spoiler:enlisted for organ donation because that seemed like easy money, so he was more like an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist, and the joke was that despite not wanting to be taken advantage of in life, he ''was'' in ''death''!!]]
*** The joke is more that the son was a SmallNameBigEgo KnowNothingKnowItAll, thinking that nobody could "take advantage of him in life", and he [[spoiler:enlisted for organ donation because that seemed like easy money, so he was more like an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist, and the joke was that despite not wanting to be taken advantage of in life, he ''was'' in ''death''!!]]
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** Another gag has a rebellious teenage young son defend himself against his father. The reason? [[spoiler:He enlisted himself for organ donor transplant, which the father feels father, who says he is horrible. Disgruntled the son goes to the hospital, signs himself a pretentious loser that'd always end up and then gets a car accident on his return home. Instead of saving him the doctors decide to use all his body parts for donor transplants!]] Should also count as a BrokenAesop, because [[spoiler:what is the message, exactly? Enlisting for donor transplants will result in doctors rather use your organs for other patients than save your own life?]]
*** The joke is more that the son was a SmallNameBigEgo KnowNothingKnowItAll, thinking that nobody could "take advantage of him in life", and he [[spoiler:enlisted for organ donation because that seemed like easy money, so he was more like an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist, and the joke was that despite not wanting to bebeing taken advantage of in his life. The son decides to get "easy money" by getting hired as a future organ donor at a hospital. The payment is ridiculously low - for petty reasons - but he takes it anyway and [[spoiler:dies in a road accident. The hospital then makes a HUGE profit from selling his young healthy organs abroad, and ends up tossing his ashy remains on the sidewalk. Turns out, not only was he taken advantage of in his life, he ''was'' but also in ''death''!!]]his death!]]
*** The joke is more that the son was a SmallNameBigEgo KnowNothingKnowItAll, thinking that nobody could "take advantage of him in life", and he [[spoiler:enlisted for organ donation because that seemed like easy money, so he was more like an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist, and the joke was that despite not wanting to be
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* CrossOver: ComicBook/PierreTombal the gravedigger, from his eponymous series. It was also written by Cauvin.
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* CrossOver: ComicBook/PierreTombal the gravedigger, from his eponymous series. It series, appears several times when a patient dies and is buried. His series was also written by Cauvin.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A patient has had failed laser surgery done on him... and becomes an eunuch at a harem. The joke has probably gone over many children's heads.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A patient has had failed laser surgery done on him... and becomes an eunuch at a harem. The joke has probably gone over many children's heads.It might take a while to understand what happened...
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* LivingStatue: A story shows that several men who had a special hardening liquid injected into them - in order to give them lasting muscles - turned completely still and blank, basically becoming living statues whose only "job" was to be exposed at an art gallery.
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* FragileFlower: An early nurse character, Madeleine, was prone to easily get upset by criticisms and burst out crying.
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* LosingYourHead: A man is guillotined and to be brought back to life, Doctor Minet had to focus on either saving the head or the headless body. He chose the head, who remains sentient, talking and capable of drinking and smoking.
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* MsFanservice: Some of the nurses.
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* OrganAutonomy: A patient is treated by an operation machine, but his whole body is destroyed except his foot. The ''foot itself'' is still alive, having a heartbeat.
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* NeverMyFault: The mother of a nurse student decides to pick up a suicide victim so that her daughter could practice operating on him. When she tells her that he is already dead, the mother decides to blame her ''husband'' - who was very reluctant to the whole thing - for not checking the body well enough.
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* YouBlockhead: The mother of a nurse student decides to pick up a suicide victim so that her daughter could practice operating on him. When she tells her that he is already dead, the mother decides to blame her ''husband'' - who was very reluctant to the whole thing - for not checking the body well enough.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: Although the first album was published in 1986, many elements prove this series is more hooked on TheSeventies:
** One story has the patient being a man who was sentenced to be killed by the guillotine. Death penalty was abolished in 1981 in France (where the story allegedly takes place).
** An eyepatch joke refers to Israeli General Moshe Dayan, who was then famous for his war maneuvers.
** One story has the patient being a man who was sentenced to be killed by the guillotine. Death penalty was abolished in 1981 in France (where the story allegedly takes place).
** An eyepatch joke refers to Israeli General Moshe Dayan, who was then famous for his war maneuvers.
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* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: This series has quite a lot of dark, even gory humor, and yet it is often put along "kid comics" categories.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: One Although the first album was published in 1986, many elements prove this series is more hooked on TheSeventies:
**One story has the patient being a man who was sentenced to be killed by the guillotine. Death penalty was abolished in 1981 in France (where the story allegedly takesplace).place).
** An eyepatch joke refers to Israeli General Moshe Dayan, who was then famous for his war maneuvers.
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** An eyepatch joke refers to Israeli General Moshe Dayan, who was then famous for his war maneuvers.
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* YouBlockhead: The mother of a nurse student decides to pick up a suicide victim so that her daughter could practice operating on him. When she tells her that he is already dead, the mother decides to blame her ''husband'' - who was very reluctant to the whole thing - for not checking the body well enough.
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* ArtEvolution: The art has evolved a LOT from the first issues. It started out as very cartoonish people with huge noses and googly eyes, until it has gotten to the semi-realistic iconic sketchy Bercocivi trait.
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* FormallyFat: EyepatchOfPower: When a nurse tries to get eyes to be transplanted, she goes to an eye bank, and the employee gives her several options, such as a single eye with an eyepatch. The joke is that the eye is Israeli - referring at the time to famous Israeli general Moshe Dayan who wore an eyepatch.
* FormerlyFat: A patient, Robert, managed to lose 167 kilograms in 15 days, following a specific diet. His main problem after this was the excess skin... and after getting it removed, his tightened skin ''tearing up'' at random places.
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* HairOfGoldHeartOfGold: Nathalie the nurse, one of the recurring characters, has a blonde ponytail and is one of the nicest characters.
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* MercyKill: A patient inside the hospital has been in a deep coma for more than ''twenty years''. Pulling a lever would turn off the life support and kill him. However, nobody dares to euthanize the patient, and when a new nurse comes in and is presented the patient, she thinks of breaking in the hospital to pull the lever [[spoiler:which was the intention of the other nurses, setting her unknowingly into a test. However, she doesn't dare to pull the lever, and the nurses still wish for a newcomer who would do the act.]]
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* AcquittedTooLate: In a story, a man is sentenced to be killed by the guillotine; he is expecting a pardon (likely from the President) and it eventually comes... ''just after'' he has been executed. He is sent to hospital emergency where Doctor Minet manages to save him, except he had to "choose" between his head or the rest of his body. Thus, his severed head keeps on living on its own.
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** One gag has the father of a family choke on his food. [[spoiler:The mother suggests to call an ambulance, but the daughter, who studies medicine, tells her to wait, because she just happened to have studied what to do in such a situation. She runs upstairs to search her notes, which takes a while. She eventually finds them. Cut to the last panel, where they stand next to his grave, muttering: "Daddy couldn't wait."]]
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** One gag has the father of a family choke on his food. [[spoiler:The mother suggests to call an ambulance, but the daughter, who studies medicine, tells her to wait, because she just happened to have studied what to do in such a situation. She runs upstairs to search her notes, which takes a while. She eventually finds them. Cut to the last panel, where they stand next to his grave, muttering: "Daddy couldn't "You know your father, he could never wait."]]
*** The joke is more that the son was a SmallNameBigEgo KnowNothingKnowItAll, thinking that nobody could "take advantage of him in life", and he [[spoiler:enlisted for organ donation because that seemed like easy money, so he was more like an UnsympatheticComedyProtagonist, and the joke was that despite not wanting to be taken advantage of in life, he ''was'' in ''death''!!]]
* CordonBleughChef: A restaurant called "The Laughing Slug" is shown during a story to have caused many patients to be sent to the hospital because of their bad food. Becomes a BrickJoke at the end.
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* EverythingIsMessierWithPigs: A patient gets pig organs transplanted on him, and he increasingly begins to act dirty and messy...
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* EverythingIsMessierWithPigs: A patient gets pig organs transplanted on him, and he increasingly begins to act dirty and messy...messy.
* FormallyFat: A patient, Robert, managed to lose 167 kilograms in 15 days, following a specific diet. His main problem after this was the excess skin... and after getting it removed, his tightened skin ''tearing up'' at random places.
* GallowsHumor: The severed head patient keeps making jokes about his condition, such as talking about doing a movie on king Louis XVI.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A patient has had failed laser surgery done on him... and becomes an eunuch at a harem. The joke has probably gone over many children's heads.
* FormallyFat: A patient, Robert, managed to lose 167 kilograms in 15 days, following a specific diet. His main problem after this was the excess skin... and after getting it removed, his tightened skin ''tearing up'' at random places.
* GallowsHumor: The severed head patient keeps making jokes about his condition, such as talking about doing a movie on king Louis XVI.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: A patient has had failed laser surgery done on him... and becomes an eunuch at a harem. The joke has probably gone over many children's heads.
** When the hospitals do a promotion ad for the nurse job, they are forced to recruit a professional glamorous model because the real nurses are not attractive enough or they are always sad/frowny-looking; the only smiling one did so because she was to quit her job!
* LivingStatue: A story shows that several men who had a special hardening liquid injected into them - in order to give them lasting muscles - turned completely still and blank, basically living statues whose only "job" was to be exposed at an art gallery.
* NonIronicClown: The nurses and Doctor Minet have to operate a clown who suffered a stroke. Unfortunately, they had to bring him in a rush and he still has his makeup and costume, so they can't help laughing when looking at him. [[spoiler:This causes him to die, but at least he makes the other dead people in the graveyard happy and laughing.]]
* SirensAreMermaids: An actual mermaid in an episode. When operated on, she sang "Le Temps des Cerises" and enthralled the operating stuff.
* StrawHypocrite: Doctor Minet is shown to clearly be one in a story: he accidentally kills a patient during a benign operation, feels awful about it, and is cheered up by a colleague who reminds him humans can do mistakes. Almost ''immediately'' after, he finds out a nurse got the wrong medecine for a patient, and promptly ''fires'' her for it. Even when another nurse tries to defend her by using the same argument that Minet received, he stands by his decision.
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* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: One story has the patient being a man who was sentenced to be killed by the guillotine. Death penalty was abolished in 1981 in France (where the story allegedly takes place).
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: If a patient is told he is going to be only undergoing a "benign" operation, you can bet things are going to get really ugly for him!
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: This series has quite a lot of dark, even gory humor, and yet it is often put along "kid comics" categories.
* WhatTheHellCostumingDepartment: One story had Nathalie the nurse suddenly wear flashy pink tights. For no reason, and this was not referenced. Possibly an OffModel error.
* WhatCouldPossiblyGoWrong: If a patient is told he is going to be only undergoing a "benign" operation, you can bet things are going to get really ugly for him!
* WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids: This series has quite a lot of dark, even gory humor, and yet it is often put along "kid comics" categories.
* WhatTheHellCostumingDepartment: One story had Nathalie the nurse suddenly wear flashy pink tights. For no reason, and this was not referenced. Possibly an OffModel error.
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''Les Femmes en blanc'' ("''The Women in White''") is a FrancoBelgianComics series created and written by Raoul Cauvin with art by Philippe Bercocivi. It began in 1986 and is ongoing with 31 volumes so far.
The stories are set in a hospital and involve nurses (the eponymous women in white) and doctors.
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!!Tropes:
* AnyoneCanDie: Some gags end with patients dying.
* ArtEvolution: The art has evolved a LOT from the first issues.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Oh, so many times. This is due to RuleOfFunny, of course. How else could:
** ... a severed head keep on living by itself, still capable of talking, drinking and smoking?
** ... legs transplanted from a ballerina onto another man still dance by themselves to ballet music?
** ... a severed foot keeps on living by itself because it "still has a heartbeat"?
** ... a patient get a rabbit/monkey stomach transplanted on him and only be able to eat [[StockAnimalDiet carrots/peanuts]] from then on?
* AuthorFilibuster: It is expressed several times that being a nurse is terrible and stressful job, and that young women should do something else instead.
* BlackComedy:
** One gag has the father of a family choke on his food. [[spoiler:The mother suggests to call an ambulance, but the daughter, who studies medicine, tells her to wait, because she just happened to have studied what to do in such a situation. She runs upstairs to search her notes, which takes a while. She eventually finds them. Cut to the last panel, where they stand next to his grave, muttering: "Daddy couldn't wait."]]
** Another gag has a rebellious teenage son defend himself against his father. The reason? [[spoiler:He enlisted himself for organ donor transplant, which the father feels is horrible. Disgruntled the son goes to the hospital, signs himself up and then gets a car accident on his return home. Instead of saving him the doctors decide to use all his body parts for donor transplants!]] Should also count as a BrokenAesop, because [[spoiler:what is the message, exactly? Enlisting for donor transplants will result in doctors rather use your organs for other patients than save your own life?]]
* ComedicSociopathy: A lot of the humor relies on this.
%%* ContemptibleCover: [[http://www.dupuis.com/Couvertures/G/9782800116358-G.JPG This one]], for instance. But CoversAlwaysLie...
* CrossOver: ComicBook/PierreTombal the gravedigger, from his eponymous series. It was also written by Cauvin.
* DrJerk: Doctor Minet is one of the recurring protagonists. Most of the time, he does quite nasty things.
* EverythingIsMessierWithPigs: A patient gets pig organs transplanted on him, and he increasingly begins to act dirty and messy...
* HospitalHottie: Most of the nurses are attractive young women.
* KarmaHoudini: A story is about two nurses who blackmail their patients into getting some extra money for cleaning their bed. They get away with it and can afford a new car!
* NoSympathy: This can happen to a patient to the point of DudeNotFunny.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: One patient in an episode happened to be a mermaid. She sang and tried to eat anyone who came close to her. The doctor had to find the right species of fish scales to transplant on her injured tail. In the meantime, he transplanted human legs on her... with ill results.
* RuleOfFunny
* RunningGag: Being a nurse is HARD work, but being a plumber is so MUCH nicer. Honestly, what do the authors know?
* SawAWomanInHalf: A patient undergoes laser surgery. He is literally cut in half at the waist. He says his life is over, but in the last panel, is working as a magician's assistant for his body-sawing act.
* ShoutOut: One gag had a man who was morbidly obese and wanted a liposuction. After they did so he was left with a lot of drooping skin, causing him to cry. A nurse helps him out by sticking the leftover skin into his shirt and golf pants, causing the patient to look like Franchise/{{Tintin}}!
* StayInTheKitchen: One episode has a female doctor whose patients refuse to be handled by her because she is a woman. Her husband tries to help her ... with bad results.
* TakeMeToYourLeader: When a receptionist is replaced by a nurse, she suddenly gets a ''lot'' of people coming in, including an alien asking her to bring him to her leader.
* TakeOurWordForIt: One patient was a man who had a face so ugly and misshapen that it gave his mother a heart attack, made the doctor jump out the window and scared away all his schoolmates. His actual face was never shown to the reader.
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The stories are set in a hospital and involve nurses (the eponymous women in white) and doctors.
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!!Tropes:
* AnyoneCanDie: Some gags end with patients dying.
* ArtEvolution: The art has evolved a LOT from the first issues.
* ArtisticLicenseBiology: Oh, so many times. This is due to RuleOfFunny, of course. How else could:
** ... a severed head keep on living by itself, still capable of talking, drinking and smoking?
** ... legs transplanted from a ballerina onto another man still dance by themselves to ballet music?
** ... a severed foot keeps on living by itself because it "still has a heartbeat"?
** ... a patient get a rabbit/monkey stomach transplanted on him and only be able to eat [[StockAnimalDiet carrots/peanuts]] from then on?
* AuthorFilibuster: It is expressed several times that being a nurse is terrible and stressful job, and that young women should do something else instead.
* BlackComedy:
** One gag has the father of a family choke on his food. [[spoiler:The mother suggests to call an ambulance, but the daughter, who studies medicine, tells her to wait, because she just happened to have studied what to do in such a situation. She runs upstairs to search her notes, which takes a while. She eventually finds them. Cut to the last panel, where they stand next to his grave, muttering: "Daddy couldn't wait."]]
** Another gag has a rebellious teenage son defend himself against his father. The reason? [[spoiler:He enlisted himself for organ donor transplant, which the father feels is horrible. Disgruntled the son goes to the hospital, signs himself up and then gets a car accident on his return home. Instead of saving him the doctors decide to use all his body parts for donor transplants!]] Should also count as a BrokenAesop, because [[spoiler:what is the message, exactly? Enlisting for donor transplants will result in doctors rather use your organs for other patients than save your own life?]]
* ComedicSociopathy: A lot of the humor relies on this.
%%* ContemptibleCover: [[http://www.dupuis.com/Couvertures/G/9782800116358-G.JPG This one]], for instance. But CoversAlwaysLie...
* CrossOver: ComicBook/PierreTombal the gravedigger, from his eponymous series. It was also written by Cauvin.
* DrJerk: Doctor Minet is one of the recurring protagonists. Most of the time, he does quite nasty things.
* EverythingIsMessierWithPigs: A patient gets pig organs transplanted on him, and he increasingly begins to act dirty and messy...
* HospitalHottie: Most of the nurses are attractive young women.
* KarmaHoudini: A story is about two nurses who blackmail their patients into getting some extra money for cleaning their bed. They get away with it and can afford a new car!
* NoSympathy: This can happen to a patient to the point of DudeNotFunny.
* OurMermaidsAreDifferent: One patient in an episode happened to be a mermaid. She sang and tried to eat anyone who came close to her. The doctor had to find the right species of fish scales to transplant on her injured tail. In the meantime, he transplanted human legs on her... with ill results.
* RuleOfFunny
* RunningGag: Being a nurse is HARD work, but being a plumber is so MUCH nicer. Honestly, what do the authors know?
* SawAWomanInHalf: A patient undergoes laser surgery. He is literally cut in half at the waist. He says his life is over, but in the last panel, is working as a magician's assistant for his body-sawing act.
* ShoutOut: One gag had a man who was morbidly obese and wanted a liposuction. After they did so he was left with a lot of drooping skin, causing him to cry. A nurse helps him out by sticking the leftover skin into his shirt and golf pants, causing the patient to look like Franchise/{{Tintin}}!
* StayInTheKitchen: One episode has a female doctor whose patients refuse to be handled by her because she is a woman. Her husband tries to help her ... with bad results.
* TakeMeToYourLeader: When a receptionist is replaced by a nurse, she suddenly gets a ''lot'' of people coming in, including an alien asking her to bring him to her leader.
* TakeOurWordForIt: One patient was a man who had a face so ugly and misshapen that it gave his mother a heart attack, made the doctor jump out the window and scared away all his schoolmates. His actual face was never shown to the reader.
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