So ER ends tonight after 15 seasons.  Personally I don't think I've watched it in at least 10 years, but when it first started airing Celeste and I would watch it every week.  I have fond memories of watching the show in its early years because our kids were toddlers at the time and we had no social life.  We were living in the first place we'd ever purchased and we didn't have two nickels to rub together, so our entertainment was limited to whatever we could find on the tube.  Even though we knew the show offered a portrayal of emergency medicine that was as accurate as CSI Miami's portrayal of police crime scene work we still found it a nice change of pace from everything else that was on the tube at the time.  BTW Law & Order was another staple of our viewing week and that show's still going strong and it's one we still watch fairly regularly.