Abby Lockhart Puns

First let me say that I love ER! I am in the last season of my rewatch and will watch again because it’s so hard to get tired of the show when it was in its peak.

That being said, the later seasons do drag for me, and part of that is because of Abby Lockhart. It seems like most of ER’s fans fawn all over her (and by extension, Maura Tierney, who is highly overrated from what I saw on ER) and think she’s super cool and relatable but I find the character rather bratty and tiresome.

Abby does not care about anyone but herself and her comfort for the most part. In Season 9, she decides it’s a great idea to drag her bipolar, manic brother to her boyfriend’s grandmother’s funeral and let him fall in the grave while she plays dumb to Carter afterwards. Abby just cannot accept that the day is not about her and her family. It’s Carter’s day and this is about his grief. But no, she makes it all about her family and her issues instead.

In Season 13, we see Abby in labor and she is trying to refuse drugs that would stop her pre-term labor and mature the baby’s lungs, then insisting she needs to be awake for a C-section even though that would be more dangerous for her and the baby. (I am not a doctor or nurse so I had to read a whole explanation from a real OB on why a spinal would be terrible in this situation.) When the OB tells Abby that betamethasone would mature the baby’s lungs she literally carries on screaming “No no no no NO!” and continues to argue with the doctor and rip an IV line away from the nurse. Abby, at that point you should be desperate to have a healthy baby and accept the drugs. If I were in labor and the doctor told me I needed meds that would help my baby’s development I would not even hesitate to take them. But no, again it’s all about how Abby needs to be cozy and birth exactly the way she wants. Why did she even carry the child if she wasn’t willing to ensure he got good care like this?

I also get that Abby is an alcoholic but I couldn’t even sympathize when she relapsed in S14. Not when she drove drunk with said child in the car. She’s also not particularly kind to her AA sponsor (the same OB who wanted to, you know, save her child’s life) and I never believed she truly wanted to change her life and was serious about being sober. Considering the way she behaved she is very lucky her friends and coworkers all accepted her again with open arms. The nurse who dared ask if she drank at work (she did, which she admits to her sponsor and of

I’m on my, maybe 4th run at the show, I just started season 7 and this where to me it’s the transition to my second favorite character. Tbh Abby is very relatable, she’s the reason why I kept watching the show after Green died.

HERE HERE! I am an Abby super fan! Lol

I'm pretty amazed that although there is still a lot of ER talk around on the net that I can't really find any criticism of the Abby Lockhart character. Even when I first watched ER as it was broadcasting on TV I absolutely hated her character. Usually the same droopy look and so sappy it hurt. Obviously she has an addiction on top of that a crazy mother and crazy brother on top of that she can't stay away from the bottle and on top of that they also had to make her a main love interest even though, even by ER standards, she wasn't in any way shape or form attractive. To top it all of she basically takes the cake when it comes to ignoring everyone because she "knows" better. She is always right in her own mind. The patients wishes don't matter, instructions don't matter, the law doesn't matter, former experiences of her style of work don't matter, nothing matters because Abby is always right and runs around moping if she doesn't get her way and she somehow "wins" in the end and even gets an attending position. It's just a joke all around.

To me her character symbolizes the downward trend of ER. After her appearance, which basically coincided with Doug's move to Seattle it just got worse and worse. Furthermore she hoged the spotlight until they tried to push the hapless Linda Cardellini down our throat. This whole Abby thing also coincided with ER turning from a show about medicine into something along the lines of Melrose Place, more interested in love triangles then anything else. It's really a blessing to me that I now get to basically speed through Abby's scenes and simply pretend she isn't involved in the show. Sure that also means that some episodes are only 10 minutes long, but I'm okay with that.

I like finding coincidences like this. That is all.

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I don't want to step on anybody's toes here, but the amount of non-dad jokes here in this subreddit really annoys me. First of all, dad jokes CAN be NSFW, it clearly says so in the sub rules. Secondly, it doesn't automatically make it a dad joke if it's from a conversation between you and your child. Most importantly, the jokes that your CHILDREN tell YOU are not dad jokes. The point of a dad joke is that it's so cheesy only a dad who's trying to be funny would make such a joke. That's it. They are stupid plays on words, lame puns and so on. There has to be a clever pun or wordplay for it to be considered a dad joke.

Again, to all the fellow dads, I apologise if I'm sounding too harsh. But I just needed to get it off my chest.

Do your worst!

They were cooked in Greece.

I'm surprised it hasn't decade.

For context I'm a Refuse Driver (Garbage man) & today I was on food waste. After I'd tipped I was checking the wagon for any defects when I spotted a lone pea balanced on the lifts.

I said "hey look, an escaPEA"

No one near me but it didn't half make me laugh for a good hour or so!

Edit: I can't believe how much this has blown up. Thank you everyone I've had a blast reading through the replies 😂

It really does, I swear!

Because she wanted to see the task manager.

Heard they've been doing some shady business.

but then I remembered it was ground this morning.

Edit: Thank you guys for the awards, they're much nicer than the cardboard sleeve I've been using and reassures me that my jokes aren't stale

Edit 2: I have already been made aware that Men In Black 3 has told a version of this joke before. If the joke is not new to you, please enjoy any of the single origin puns in the comments

Hi there and welcome to a list I’ve been wanting to get off my chest for quite a while, ever since my fanfiction-binging phase nearly a year ago, my top 30 favourite Harry Potter fanfictions! They’ll all be accompanied by a brief explanation as to why they’re oh-so-worthy of qualifying for the list, which I’ll do my best to keep spoiler-free, but I am very inebriated writing this, so no promises. Why am I writing this? Well, firstly, as a recommendation, to share what I consider to be damn good fics with those on the lookout for new stories to experience. Secondly, for catharsis, because it’s torturous creating these lists and be unable to share them with fellow HP enthusiasts (my dad doesn’t count, I haven’t even finished reading him the canon books yet!). One last note: because I’m relatively new to this section of the fanbase or unsure if a list like this is frowned-upon or not, let it be said this is not a definitive comparison between works and their authors and it scarcely needs saying that such contrasts are pointless anyway, because how do you even measure quality apart from pure individual subjectivity? You can't. But you can make a personal ranking out of it. So, away we go…

30: Blackpool by The Divine Comedian. A haunting Regulus Black classic. The final chapter is a tad too optimistic for my taste, considering the absorbingly dark atmosphere of the bulk of the story, not to mention it diverges from canon in a story that’s selling point for me, was how much of it was actually possible, since knowledge on Regulus’ journey into discovering the Horcruxes’ existence and other…disturbing secrets is quite sparse. I won’t spoil the twist but it’s a skin-crawler of a fic and my favourite Regulus-centric piece out there.

29: The Uneven Orbit by LadyofToward. The first of several stories on this list centering around Severus Snape, because he is unabashedly my favourite character, this one revolves around the love story between him and fellow Hogwarts teacher, Charity Burbage. It’s a rare but believable pairing and the writing and development of the romance is vivid and lovely to read. Once again, however, its only weak point for me is the ending, which takes great pains to erase the consequences of the story in order to fit better with canon events.

28: Realignment by PuzzleSB. The concept of Harry going back in time has been done to death, but one where he goes full-on Terminator on Tom Riddle is one that’s rarely been done with such gusto and vivi

BamBOO!

They’re on standbi

A play on words.

Pilot on me!!

Christopher Walken

My daughter, Chewbecca, not so much.

Nothing, he was gladiator.

Or would that be too forward thinking?

Dad jokes are supposed to be jokes you can tell a kid and they will understand it and find it funny.

This sub is mostly just NSFW puns now.

If it needs a NSFW tag it's not a dad joke. There should just be a NSFW puns subreddit for that.

Edit* I'm not replying any longer and turning off notifications but to all those that say "no one cares", there sure are a lot of you arguing about it. Maybe I'm wrong but you people don't need to be rude about it. If you really don't care, don't comment.

When I got home, they were still there.

I won't be doing that today!

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This morning, my 4 year old daughter.

Daughter: I'm hungry

Me: nerves building, smile widening

Me: Hi hungry, I'm dad.

She had no idea what was going on but I finally did it.

Thank you all for listening.

Where ever you left it 🤷‍♀️🤭

There hasn't been a post all year!

You take away their little brooms

It was about a weak back.

Hindus, on the other hand, never had any beef.

It’s pronounced “Noel.”

What did 0 say to 8 ?

" Nice Belt "

So What did 3 say to 8 ?

" Hey, you two stop making out "