Survey results: (updated Feb 7thth 97)

• On Feb 7th, 40 people answered the survey
• 72.5% (29) were females; 27.5% (11) were males.
• 92.5% (37) rated the show as "Very Good" (highest rating), 7.5% (3) rated the show as "Good".
• Average age is 22.11 years old, with the youngest at 13, and the oldest at 45.
• Favorite Characters:
  Gary : 32 votes (80.0%)
  Chuck: 6 votes (15.0%)
  Marissa: 2 votes (5.0%)
• Favorite Episodes:
  Choices: 13 votes (35.1%)
  the pilot:: 6 votes (16.2%)
  The Paper: 6 votes (16.2%)
  Gun: 6 votes (16.2)
  Thief Swipes Mayor's Dog: 3 votes (8.1%)
  His Girl Thursday: 2 vote (5.4%)
  Baby: 1 vote (2.7%)
  After Midnight: 1 vote (2.7%)
  Christmas: 1 vote (2.7%)
  
  

Favorite Funny Scene:

• Baby -- when Chuck is supposed to deliver twins in an elevator -- LOL!!!
• Can't remember all details - but it was probably something with Chuck and his car. (I very much liked the more recent Santa Claus episode, with funny scenes, but that's not yet on here.)
• Chuck's vagrancy arrest in "After Midnight"
• I don`t really have a favorite one, but i likes a lot when Gary hits his ex-boss in the nose in an squash game. The episode when his ex-wife, Marcia is getting married to his ex-boss.
• I don't remember which episode but in it, Gary saves a family from a tornado. Afterwards, the funny part is Chucks expression when he says, "My car?!" The car had disappeared.
• When he went to save the old lady from getting hit and she slapped him. I think it was the pilot.
• In the episode of "His Girl Thursday," when Chuck steals the stock quotes for the next day and his colleagues start fainting.
• Marissa coming into the bathroom while Gary was in the shower, and hhis covering up when he first sees her.
• I love the scene where Gary flushes Sparky down the toilet.January 11th Episode
• IN the pilot when Gary is taking a shower and Marissa comes in, and he thinks she can see him.
• Chuck's car ending up in a tree after a tornado. Forgot the name of the episode.
• When Chuck has the two babies in his arms when he didn't even deliver them!
• begginning of christmas episode
• The one when Chuck has to sit in jail and they take his cell phone away
• When Gary and the reporter kept poking each other in the shoulder in the motel room.
• The one that comes to mind is when Gary spends lunchtime with Marissa placing bets on the various horse races. I was amuzed by the comments made by Marissa, when he sat down to a plate of cold food. (This expisode is the pilot episode.)
• The funniest scene is when Chuck is sitting with the pregnant women in the hospital on "The Choice"
• In the episode that aired on January 11, 1997, an elderly man stands on a street corner waiting for the right time to get run over by a car, but our dear Gary "saves" him. The old man leaves mumbling to himself about this guy with a "hero complex". Throughout the show everyone he tries to save labels him as having a "hero complex". Funny.
• Chuck fainting when he's supposed to be delivering the baby in the elevator and Gary has to slip in, deliver the baby, and make it look like Gary did it for the newspaper photographers. "Baby" Episode
• In a valiant attempt to save Pritchard (and others) from food poisoning, GH accidentally causes flaming kabobs to fly through the air toward his ex-boss and ex-wife. ROFL! -The Wrong
• There were too many. I can't choose just one.
• Chuck Fischman stuck in the elevator with the pregnant woman about to deliver.
• when gary and meredith are bickering but at the same time attracted to each other in "the paper"
• Some of the scenes of rapport betwenn Gary and Chuck, but to date "The Wrong" when you see the look of mortal terror on Pritchard's face when he sees Gary for the third time that week after the racquet balle scene where Pritchard runs to the bathroom. Why do executives always run to either their office or the bathroom?
• When the 'Fishmobile' was found in the tree after the Tornado in "His Girl Friday/Thursday"
• I like the episode (again I don't remember the name), where in the beginning Gary and Kyle are walking and Kyle keeps doing the good deeds, stops the robbers over $50, gives the nickel to the poor woman so she doesn't give away her million dollar nickel, and stops the little girl from running away.
• Chuck's fish goes down the toilet. And he calls a plumber. His fish went down the toilet. LOL! I don't remember the episode name. The really cold one.
• chuck and santa clause in jail.christmas episode
• Chuck trying to give the cat a bath, fully equipped with hockey mask and mittens.

Favorite Drama Scene:

• Choices -- when Gary saw that the girl's father was the pilot and the plane did not even take off the runway. I had a lump on my throat on that one!
• When Gary opened the trunk and found the paper that said, "live your life."
• His Girl Thursday - The hallway kissing scene. Wish it was me instead of Leslie Hope!
• I don`t have really a favorite one, I like most of the dramatics moments. But it could be in the Gun episode, when he saves the kid at the end.
• Gary and his ex-boss sitting on the park bench together.
• I have two. In "Choices," when Gary thinks he has failed. I believe that it would have been more dramatic for the series if he did fail one and had to live with the consequences. The other was in, "His girl Thursday", when Gary and the Meredith see their death as the headline.
• The shower scene. In all of them.
• In "Choices," when Gary finds out that the little girl's father was the pilot of the ill-fated plane that was to crash.
• As the clock hit the time for the plane to go down, and Gary was with the girl in the hospital.
• The best moment is when you think the plane went down in the 2nd Episode.
• The end of the last episode (Part 1 of 2) Don't remember the episode title... where he's running down the street on the run from the police and the Secret Service.
• In the episode where he has to choose between the little girl or the plane and the camera takes Gary's point of view looking into the little girl's room and we see the mom and dad walk in. In the dad's hand is a pilot's cap and Gary hears him explain how he was just about to take off, when he heard his daughter was in the hospital and we realize at the same time as Gary thatin saving the little girl, he saved the plane full of passengers as well.
• end of piolot episode
• The episode, "choices", in which Gary sits alone in the hospital, and we see his face as the clock strikes, and he knows that those on the plane died(or so he thinks). Second place is "Gun", which kept me on the edge of my seat for an hour. Also, the end of the latest cliffhanger.
• In Choices when Amanda gets hit by the car and Gary yells no
• when gary takes the little girl to hospital. choices
• When Gary was reading the news to happen tomorrow about the little brother that would shoot his older brother on accident. That reading sent chills up my back (I still say that Kyle needs to read more of the monologues). That was from the episode "Gun"
• The scene where Gary saves Meridith at the top of the building and the paper flutters away and you see the headline of reporter dead, combined where they clutch each other right afterwards and you see the relief in anxiety on their face as they realise how close they came to losing it all. Ot the episode "The Wrong" where Gary sits on the bench with Pritchard and they discuss the turns that the chase for hapiness can take in life.
• anything involving the mother holding the baby in "the baby"
• When Gary saves the little girl in the hospital, not knowing her dad's the pilot
• When he saw the pilot in the hospital after saving the little girl and thinking he let all the people on the plane die.
• In "Choices," GH is sitting in the hospital waiting room saddened about the fact that he was unable to save the plane w/ 300 some people on board from crashing when the girl's father (who he saved instead) came out of the elevator with his captains uniform on and everything... I teared up!
• "Choices" episode: when Gary discovers that the father of the little girl he help to save is the pilot of the plane he needed to stop (from taking off)--and thus did!!
• My favorite dramatic moments are when Gary has the look in his eye. He doesn't have to say anything, just look and you can feel the drama.
• A favorite dramatic moment - Again, it would come in the pilot episode, when Gary comes across the "paper vender" who has been severly injured. He asks the policeman what happened, and the response he receives is to read tomorrow's paper. At that point, he looks at his paper and sees a photo that is being taken that instant. I think that this scene is very important, because it makes Gary realize that he holds information about the future. One can make decisions on what to do, and what should be done, with this information.
• Just before the pilot walked down the hall asking for his daughter's room when Gary was feeling bad about not saving the plane.
• In the Choice, when he is at the Hospital and thinks he didn't stop the plane and he feels responsible for the death of all the passengers.
• hmm...I can't think of one really good one right now. There are lots!

How does Gary pay for his expenses: (Please note that we now have the official answer to this question, so this question has been removed from the survey)

• From his savings
• I think he uses the newspaper to earn just enough money to keep himself afloat; no more than is needed and no less. (He feels a bit distressed by this but he realizes it's the only way he can be free to do what is necessary.)
• C'mon, he used to be a stockbroker. He probably lives off profits of stock he bought while he was employed. And he doesn't have a car or anything. Still, he'd need money - hanging out at McGinty's with Chuck and Marissa and shooting pool can get expensive.
• He uses the paper for his daily expenses and to pay his hotel, besides the help that his friends give him.
• With all of the dough he saves without having to pay for a subscription, of course!
• Probably had money saved up from working.
• I think he gets it all by his good looks and personality.
• He panhandles on the streets of Chicago in his spare time, when he is not busy saving people and looking absolutely gorgeous!
• It's only been a few months, he's bound to have savings.
• Gary is a stripper during the off season.
• Buying a lotto ticket once a month.
• There is no possible way he could do it without a job. He must play the lottery so he makes just enough.
• The latest episode show that he bets just enough on a horse each month to fit his budget. So, I think that's how. Also, it's not wrong to do so, since he nly does it to keep his home, and no more.
• I think he has stock somewhere and he collects on that
• bank savings
• Returns from investments he made as a stock broker -- NOT from "early" info from the paper.
• In my opinion, Gary must be rather well off, to be able to afford his hotel accomodations. Some of it is probably due to inheritance, while the other portion is due to the fact that Gary seems to be someone who saves. He doesn't strike me as a person with many frivolous expenses.
• I've been asking myself that same question.
• He might have part ownership in the hotel he stays in.Or whoever gives him the paper secretly pays for it or leaves money in the paper and you just don't see it.
• As an ex-stockbroker, he invested enough and wisely to be able to save Chicago.
• The person who sends the paper pays for it.
• Savings, money from divorce settlement(e.g., sale of jointly owned property, housing); inheritance?
• He was a stockbroker afterall... maybe he is slowly liquifying his assets. If this is the case, he has alot of money and would probably be better off buying an apartment. IMHO
• From previous investments?
• I haven't a clue!
• TV magiche will only realize he needs money when the paper reports that he has gone bankrupt.
• He says in the pilot that money was never a problem, so maybe he has some good investments before he left his job. There are people who pay a reduced rate in hotels and other places because they live there constantly, so if you factor that in with say an invested income of $250,000 gathering an average of about 10% interest per year he has the minimum paid for to live by.
• He had saved up some money while being a stockbroker. Think about it he was responsible for turning small amounts of money into large ones! Maybe he has some invested into Stocks!?
• He must have a really substantial savings account. However, he did apply for a job in one of the episodes (I can't rememeber which episode). Maybe he gets alimony from his ex :).
• With him saving money on a *free* newspaper everyday, he's rich!

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