The Knick Jr.

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Steven Soderbergh's grim turn-of-the-century hospital drama gets a preschool makeover, with small children running the operating theater on crayons, glue and Pixy Stix.
Parody
Drama Parody
Period Piece
Hospital
Doctors
Child Actors
Gore
Dark Comedy
Absurdist
Children

He just needs more glue!
After we parted ways, it was ravaged by cooties.

Administrator Herman Barrow welcomes a man with a bowel infection to the Knickerbocker Hospital and hands him over to its celebrated chief surgeon, Dr. Thackery, who, like the rest of the surgical staff and the gallery watching from above, is a small child. The kids diagnose the patient with confident guesswork, mark him up with a crayon, open him up in a spray of blood, try to fix him with glue and lose him anyway. Thackery is scolded for downing Pixy Stix before dinner, and when the board hires a second chief of surgery, the boys fight over whose hospital it is until Barrow orders them to share. Then Thackery's ex, Amy, arrives with her nose eaten away by cooties, and the children graft her face to her arm, sending her home in that position while insisting it doesn't look weird. A closing card credits executive producer "Lil' Stevie Soderbergh."

Jeremy Bobb reprises his role as hospital manager Herman Barrow from The Knick, the Cinemax drama the sketch parodies.

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