In Popular Culture
- The "South Park" episode "It Hits the Fan" lampoons the controversy over the show using the word "shit", with a plotline that concerns the controversy that erupts when a network TV show announces it will use the word. The episode then goes on to use the word "shit" 162 times in its 30 minute running time.
- In the Early Edition episode "The Choice", as Gary picks up a hurt girl, a bystander (Eddie Jemison) tells him not to and asks "Don't you ever watch Chicago Hope?" The girl in the episode was played by Mae Whitman.
- Episode 5 of Season 3, "Liar Liar", took a nod to its rival medical series, ER, when a publicist hired by the hospital creates a promotional video that looks and sounds almost exactly like the opening credits of ER, but with "ER" replaced by "CH" and minus the actors' names.
- The show also appears once on Ally McBeal in the episode "Love's Illusions" when Ling Woo turns on the television and says "uh! Chicago Hope" after a failed attempt at sexual intercourse with Richard Fish.
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