Northern Exposure

Toro, toro! It's a buII year

for MinnifieId Communications with earnings up a gnarIy 18% .

To ceIebrate, CEO Maurice MinnifieId's popping for happy hour

at The Brick today, so drop on by, everybody.

Don't miss out on SheIIy Vincoeur's righteous guacamoIe dip.

Chris in the Morning, 570 on the AM diaI, the voice of the borough of...

You should really try to keep your heads clean, Dr. Fleischman.

Yeah, well,

think you can at least get the tape out?

l ' ll do everything l can. l can ' t promise anything.

My throat ' s dry. You got something to drink? Check the fridge.

This gonna take long?

l can ' t say yet.

Ed, how long has this been here?

Oh, you didn ' t drink any of that, did you, Dr. Fleischman?

Yeah, l drank it. Why not? lt ' s orange juice, right?

Yeah, well, sort of. lt kind of has some other things in it.

What do you mean? What other things?

Well, healer type medicinal things.

What are you talking... There ' s medicine in here, Ed? What kind of medicine?

Well, Leonard gave me the recipe.

lt ' s for body aches, you know,

when you ' re just in so much pain,

you wish you could just get out of your body.

Well, this helps you with that.

All right, just tell me exactly what you put in here, please.

Well, there ' s some elder root,

parsnip,

a little crushed beetle, some fox musk...

All right, l gotta rinse my mouth out.

You got any Listerine in here?

Whoa!

Taxi!

(MAN SPEAKlNG FORElGN LANGUAGE)

Dr. Fleischman.

Are you okay?

Maurice?

Well, yeah, you can call me that if you want to.

The last person to call me that was my mother.

Maury, get me a cab, will you?

Right away, Mrs. Partridge.

You better get upstairs, Dr. Fleischman.

The missus is looking for you.

Good afternoon, Dr. Fleischman.

How about those Mets?

There you are. l thought you ' d been abducted.

Did you get the Pepto-Bismol?

Huh?

My stomach ' s on fire.

Come on.

Oh. Yeah, here.

Bobo, are you all right?

Yeah, l just, l don ' t know. l kind of feel...

l feel disoriented.

Joel, you ' re making yourself crazy over this.

lf she doesn ' t have the courtesy to give you an answer tonight,

l ' d ask her point-blank on Monday.

Ask who what?

Dr. Miller!

God, l hate it when you zone out like that.

She was supposed to tell you two months ago.

You know, hers isn ' t the only internal medicine group in Manhattan.

lf she doesn ' t make you a partner after all the endocrine patients

you ' ve brought to the practice, l ' d quit.

Yeah.

lt never fails.

Twenty-five people coming to dinner, new caterer,

Ed ' s screaming for the offering circular,

which l haven ' t finished, of course,

and my gastritis kicks into overdrive.

Mrs. Fleischman...

Oh, hi, Dr. Fleischman.

What is it, Maggie?

Well, l ' m afraid Mr. Brown got out again.

Mr. Brown?

Jodie ' s ferret.

There you go again. Where are you?

This is all we need. l told you we should never let her get that thing.

lt wasn ' t my fault.

Evan left the cage open.

Mr. Brown wanted more air.

That ' s stupid. You ' re a stupid idiot.

Jodie, l ' ve asked you not to call your brother stupid.

He started it, Dad.

We ' re going to have to find that animal.

Maggie, the kids have been inside all day.

Why don ' t you take them to the Park for a little while?

Yes, ma ' am. See you later, kids.

Come on, y ' all.

Can l get gelato?

You had gelato yesterday.

Dad says it ' s too much cholesterol. Shut up.

l like Maggie, but maybe we ought to get a male au pair.

A what?

lt would be good for the kids to experience a nurturing male figure.

Besides, Evan would have someone to toss the football with.

You better get ready. They ' ll be here at 5:00.

CHRlS: Tamara, your left arm, just a little higher.

Yeah. No, no. Like...

Like this. Okay?

Yeah, perfect.

Perfect!

Don ' t move.

Oh, yeah, hold still.

Chris? Hey, Bernie.

Can l speak with you for a second?

Yeah. Sure.

Take five, everybody.

Why do they have bags on their heads?

Okay, right.

l know that wasn ' t part of your...

Your original, you know...

Accessories?

No, no, no, your

overall concept.

But l thought since we,

you know, we live in such a faceless society, that l...

You know, l would just...

What? Come on, get it out.

l thought it gave the models a kind of...

Facelessness?

No, no, no, no.

Anonymity.

Chris, what is it, Greek, Sanskrit? l ' m lost, okay?

Would you remember we ' re here to sell my clothes,

not your artistic pretensions?

Now take the bags off.

l...

Guys, change of plans.

l know $20 seems like a lot of money,

but this has a patented flying buttress design

that will keep it from turning inside out in a stiff wind.

All right.

There you go, Mr. Warburg. l ' m sure you ' ll enjoy it.

lf you don ' t, you know exactly where to find me.

Maury, what are you doing?

Super said if he caught you selling any more stuff, he ' d have you fired.

Big deal, Eugene. l ' m not gonna be a doorman forever.

This country was founded on entrepreneurship.

The spirit of capitalism is the lifeblood...

Hey, l hope the spirit of capitalism keeps you warm

when you ' re sleeping on a subway grate.

Hello, Maggie. Hi.

Wow, l really admire you, Maury.

How ' s that?

Well, you just don ' t give a hoot if you ' re fired or not.

Let me tell you something, Maggie.

lt ' s not gonna be long before l ' m able to own this building.

Did you ever hear of Mr. Edward Chigliak?

Mr. Moneybags. Yeah.

Yeah, Mrs. Fleischman ' s his lawyer.

He kind of gives me the willies.

Well, he is a barracuda, but he ' s also a financial wunderkind.

And he gave this little investor some insider ' s poop.

You know, there ' s a big merger coming up

between Cimarron Cable and GBD Communications.

l got in on the ground floor.

Mr. Brown.

Hey, Mr. Brown, l got a nice Carr ' s water cracker for you.

He ' s not in the living room.

Yeah, well, he ' s not here, either.

Perfect. Don ' t tell the guests about this.

My asthma ' s acting up.

Hey, Shel, do you ever get the feeling like,

like you were just kind of dropped here?

What?

Well, l don ' t know.

lt ' s just all day l ' ve had the oddest sensation.

Just...

l don ' t know, just a kind of detachment or...

Bobo, you do realize, don ' t you, that even if Dr. Miller makes you

a partner, you ' ll never earn the kind of money l do.

And extra 50 K a year isn ' t going to change the equation.

And l don ' t care.

What?

lsn ' t that what this is really all about?

Your obsession with the partnership?

lsn ' t it about feeling adequate in our marriage?

l feel adequate.

Joel, l didn ' t mean that as an attack.

l just want you to feel good about yourself.

l do. l feel good about myself, really.

l feel fine about myself.

l ' ve just been feeling a little light-headed, that ' s all.

Look, please, just do me a favor.

l can ' t stand it when you fawn all over Dr. Miller.

Wait a minute. l don ' t fawn all over her.

All right, will you do me a favor, then, okay?

Why don ' t you try and keep God out of the conversation for just one night, okay?

What ' s that supposed to mean?

Lately, we can ' t go to a party without you subjecting everyone to your own

little personal quest for the Almighty.

That ' s not true.

Oh, what was last week in the Hamptons with Bill and Marsha on the deck, huh?

Marsha happened to be very interested in what l was saying.

Oh, come on, l agreed to raise the kids Catholic. ls that not enough?

Don ' t lie...

All right, now they ' re here, okay?

Dr. Miller, NlH wants you in Atlanta on the 15th to chair a symposium

on multidrug-resistant microbacterial TB.