When Paul Rhoades (Harrison Ford) goes to see the neurologist, hoping to diminish a flare-up in his Parkinson’s symptoms, he sits next to a patient with the same disease, just further along. Jerry commiserates with Paul over their joint stiffness, lack of balance, and uncontrollable tremors, but they don’t dwell on their afflictions for long. Rather, Jerry — played by Emmy-winner Michael J. Fox, who starred in “Shrinking” co-creator Bill Lawrence’s first TV show, “Spin City,” and who suffers from Parkinson’s in real-life — provides Paul with his new mantra: “Fuck Parkinson’s.”
As Paul later tells Jimmy (Jason Segel), the new refrain keeps him from getting too depressed over everything he can’t control. He even asks Jimmy to help him stick to it: “Keep me in check,” Paul says. “If you see me sinking, pull me up.”
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