Well, I voted for them so I’ll take partial credit.

Nashville is an oasis of blue in a red state… But I suppose that describes all big cities in red states these days.

Don’t get all pissy about it, it works great!

Robert Picardo directed a lot of those episodes, so I’m sure he could have written in that recognition…but preferred the tension of having talent and ability mixed with a personality that made him unbearable. His character recognized this at times but never really grew. One of the better jokes was that all the other EMRs of him were so toxic that they were decommissioned as doctors and put to work piloting garbage transports.

Also famously an early lgbt ally. Before the term gay existed in the 20s and 30s the polite way of asking if a man was homosexual was if they were a friend of Dorothy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_of_Dorothy