- The hospital agrees to let Vinnie film a documentary about Doogie. However, his annoying techniques and intrusive behavior annoy Doogie who must tell a family that their daughter might have cancer.
- The episode opens from Vinnie's point of view through his video camera as he enters Doogie's room through his usual entrance - the upstairs window - and pans around the room. Vinnie enters the bathroom, where Doogie is taking a shower, and pulls back the curtain. Doogie shoves Vinnie's camera back, pulls back the curtain, and finishes his shower. Vinnie explains that he's making a video for his video class. His teacher said to pick a subject he found fascinating, so naturally he selected Doogie. Doogie says he doesn't want to be in Vinnie's video, and besides, Dr. Canfield will never give permission. Vinnie says he already got it, saying he's doing a serious documentary, and starts to film again. Doogie tells Vinnie to get lost, and to make his point puts shaving cream over the lens.
At the hospital, Dr. Canfield tells Doogie that he's responsible for Vinnie's actions while on hospital property. Doogie complains that he didn't even want to be in the video in the first place. Canfield isn't thrilled with the idea either, but says that he was asked to give Vinnie permission as a personal favor to someone who donated $2 million to the hospital last year. He adds that the same person is pledging to donate the same this year.
As Vinnie makes the rounds with Doogie, video camera in tow, he sees the nameplate of the donor, saying that's the person who made his project possible. Doogie counters with the fact that the donor's granddaughter is in Vinnie's class and is in love with him. He adds that he doesn't want Vinnie interfering with his work. Vinnie says the whole point of making a documentary is for the documentarian - himself - to stand back and observe. However, when four attractive female nurses enter the elevator, Vinnie hits on them and records them, drawing Doogie's ire in the process.
Vinnie makes his way down to the emergency room, where Doogie attends to a patient with a wound from a construction accident. He suggests that Vinnie stay out, saying it could be messy, but Vinnie follows anyway. When Vinnie learns that the victim sliced off his thumb and that he brought it in an Italian ice cup to keep it cool, he faints. Nurse Curly attends to him, and he admits he's trying to look up her skirt with the camera, causing her to shut it off.
Doogie sees Megan, a young girl who hurt her arm when she fell off the bed while playing with her dog. Megan refuses to let Doogie look at her arm until he invites Vinnie in and asks Megan what he could be doing that's doctorlike that Vinnie can film. Megan suggests that Doogie examine her arm, which he does. She asks if there's kissing in the movie, and Doogie says that anything Vinnie's involved in gets to that eventually. She puckers up, and Doogie gives her a quick kiss, then orders X-rays of her arm to find out more.
When Doogie examines the X-rays, he discovers a bony lesion around the fracture site that he suspects might be cancer. Vinnie goes to accompany him to tell Megan's mom, but Doogie asks Vinnie to stay back because of what he may have to tell her. Vinnie obeys, but records Doogie talking to Megan's mom, and her reaction, from the glass window into the waiting room.
The next morning, Vinnie films Doogie's parents as they have breakfast. He says he's been following Doogie for three days now and thinks he's really getting under his skin, to which Doogie's dad concurs. Hearing the car start up, Vinnie realizes that Doogie is leaving without him and runs out after him.
Doogie visits Megan, leveling with her as to what'll happen during her biopsy. He says that when he was a kid, a doctor lied to him once, and he had trouble trusting that doctor afterward. As a result, he promised himself that if he became a doctor he would never lie to a kid. He hugs Megan before leaving.
After the biopsy, Vinnie catches up with Doogie. When he asks Doogie to come out of the elevator again so he can film it, however, Doogie cuts him off, complaining that Vinnie hasn't left him alone for three days. Vinnie retorts that when they were 6, and Doogie said he was going to be a doctor, he didn't laugh at him. Doogie confronts Vinnie, telling him, "You're completely done. Fade out. The end. Goodbye." and walks off.
That night, Doogie's dad comes in as he's lounging on the bed. He says that Vinnie dropped off a tape, which Doogie doesn't want to see as he says it's probably embarrassing. Doogie complains that Vinnie acts like a kid, is totally insensitive, and is out of control half the time. Doogie's dad agrees, but reminds him that Vinnie yelled out his congratulations when Doogie graduated from medical school. He adds that when Doogie's hair fell out from chemotherapy, Vinnie also shaved his head in a show of solidarity.
After his dad leaves, Doogie pops in the tape. The footage starts with Doogie answering the phone at the nurses' station, then meeting some colleagues from Japan, greeting them in Japanese. The video then cuts to Doogie's mom saying that when they saw how good he was at languages, they started taking a Spanish class together, and by the end of the first week he was helping her with her homework. Vinnie then goes to an interview with Doogie's nursery school teacher, followed by Wanda saying he's kind of dumb when it comes to girls, but she likes that. Doogie's colleagues also say he's the best, followed by Dr. Canfield saying that he was doubtful of Doogie's ability to cope. Canfield's words are interspersed with Doogie trying to revive a patient, getting frustrated when the effort fails, and the footage of Doogie lecturing Vinnie with the "fade out, the end" remark. The video shifts to Doogie saying that for him, the hardest part of being a doctor is trying to be emotionally distant enough so he doesn't get bummed out by the terrible things he sees, but not so distant that he's not affected as a human being. The footage shows him advising Megan's parents that the lesion was not cancerous and they removed all traces of the lesion. The video ends with Vinnie saying that Doogie can be as big a jerk as anyone, but he likes that, as it makes them feel more like equals. He adds that he's known Doogie since they were 5, making him almost a permanent fixture in his life. Vinnie says that if something's gonna be there permanently, like your family, you'd be lucky to get someone like Doogie.
Doogie closes the episode by adding a diary entry: "I know I'm supposed to be the smart one, but when it comes to the art of friendship, Vinnie's a genius."
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