This Pitt video game parody is pretty good

I just started watching the HBO medical drama The Pitt because I’m a fan of a sad old man who needs fixing. Noah Wyle’s Michael “Robby” Robinavitch is a walking, talking, stressed, crying Bat-Signal that screams at me that there are crimes to solve. And these crimes are the emotional dysregulation of men over 40. Although I’m early on, I’ve seen enough of his brand of high-stress workplace drama to have a sense of the tropes and archetypes his characters occupy. That’s how I can tell this mockup is from a PS2 era Pitt the game completely nails it.

The clip comes from comedy duo Hotel Art Thief and pokes fun at half the cast as they have the “player” trying to manage their emotions while treating patients. Robby needs help bottling up his feelings, so you literally do it with his brilliant “thoughts” scattered around the hospital.

Intern Santos is abrasive and gives everyone bad nicknames. Dana, the nurse in charge of the entire operation, is stern but caring, telling the player to put on their scrubs and “get away” before reminding them that she’s still the surrogate mother figure in the ER. Each character’s quirks are dialed up to 11, and they were already at a 10 in the show.

It’s not all riffs and parodies, though, because there’s a rather twisted scene of the player putting a broken arm back in place executed with all the forceful force of similar scenes in the show. So if you’re bothered by a medical procedure rendered in PlayStation 2 graphics, maybe just watch this part.

The PittThe second season finale aired last night on HBO Max, and the third season has already been greenlit and is expected to land on the streaming service next year.