Hard to say, it was parasitic on ER and its knockoffs to set up expectations, which means it was kind of a comedy about being in a soapy medical drama.

Contrast Ally McBeal, which while comedic was a soapy legal drama, and probably had more to say about How We Romance Now (er, Then) – the dancing baby protomeme about the way professional women’s romantic adventurism was constrained by a felt need to be partnered and childbearing by a certain age; the unisex-bathrooms-as-kibbitz-zone about the gender-integrated professional workplace as a crucible of intimacy…