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[quote=Anonymous]I recently finished watching the West Wing and am currently watching ER (inspired from watching the Pitt). Both shows, I saw some episodes of when they aired but I was a teenager/college student at the time and not really sitting around watching a ton of TV.

One thing I noticed in both shows is how often the main characters do things that are absolutely insane to do in public or in front of other people. On the West Wing, various characters frequently just insult people to their face for not being smart enough or not working at the White House. A non-main character will be like "how are you" and the staffers (or sometimes the President himself) will go on these long diatribes about all the important stuff they are doing, as though that is a normal or appropriate way to respond to polite conversation. In an early episode of ER, one doctor's wife shows up to tell him she passed the bar. She literally interrupts him while he is in the middle of treating the patient, and then they hug and jump around to celebrate, bumping into this patient who is in real pain. It's played for laughs, sort of, but the show is a drama so all I could think was how insanely unprofessional and self-centered this is.

You don't see behavior like this on contemporary shows. It makes me wonder if people who grew up watching shows like this got the false impression that this kind of behavior was normal and that's why some people are just bizarrely self absorbed or treat other people as bit players in their own dramas? The West Wing, in particular, is reminding me so much of many people I've met in DC and it's like "oooooh, they think they are Josh Liman." [/quote]

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