Review of Childrens Hospital

Rob Cordry and cast and crew knock it out of the park with this absurdist, surreal, over the top take on hospital dramas. it's like "Scrubs" on acid. Take every single stereotype from hospital shows and throw them in a blender with vain, horny, not very medically skilled, trying to advance their careers and simultaneously cover their asses attributes pour that formula into a great ensemble cast of comedians and skilled actors and you have "Children's Hospital". Rob's character is like a funhouse mirror of Patch Adams with a huge pair of lungs-shaped bloodstain (or possibly angel wings shaped) on the front of his scrubs where he either wipes his hands or is the collective blood of several patients. Their patients are conveniently ignored or just fodder for the crazy hi-jinks. There is a secret weird hierarchy of nurses. They slip into a strange MASH-like alternate universe for a season. Sexual harassment, blind ambition, wrong-headed philosophical observations and every kind of ridiculous stereotype are served in heaps. A nurse is promoted to surgeon because of an observation in the ER. The next day the head nurse vows to sabotage her. When she asks for a scalpel she's handed a corkscrew, asks for a defibrillator and is handed a pair of hamsters etc..and doesn't notice. They roam the landscape looking for and finding laughs at the expense of the medical community something that is usually made to appeal to people's sense of concern, caring and respect.