It's a Hard Doc Life

"It's a Hard Doc Life" is the one hundred thirty-third and final episode of Doc McStuffins. It premiered on April 18, 2020 and is the fourteenth episode in the fifth season.
==Plot==
Doc is overwhelmed because she is in charge of the new water wing construction at the McStuffinsville Toy Hospital; she has to interview toys to work for the water wing, and her patients and staff in the hospital still need her. The stress causes her to accidentally give Boppy the wrong prescription which makes him overinflate, then she ends up making the Water Wing deflate, leading to the hospital getting flooded. When Doc tells her toys that she had to stay and clean up the mess, her toys tell her to go home and rest. Doc believes that her patients don't need her anymore, so she returns home.
When she returns home, her mom tells her that everyone makes mistakes, including doctors, but the important thing is about learning from them and says that tomorrow would be a better day. That night, after she falls asleep, Hallie appears to her in a dream and shows what the would would be like without Doc McStuffins.
First, Hallie takes Doc back to the past where Sir Kirby and The Wicked King got stuck together from "Kirby and the King". However, since Doc was not around to fix them, they never figured out how to get unstuck. And then, Hallie shows her some more scenarios from past episodes.
She then takes her back to the present time and finds out that McStuffinsville has become a barren wasteland taken over by Stanley. Bathtub lake was out of water, Nikki's bank for safekeeping was taken over by Stanley, and the hospital was renamed to "Stanley's No Hospital for Toys".
Finally, Hallie transports Doc to the future, where every toy in McStuffinsville is being forced to go to Stanley's tower. Now realizing how much toys need her, Doc wakes up happy to see all her friends.
She returns to McStuffinsville the next day and apologizes for the mishap with the water wing and promises to always be there for her patients. Doc and her friends build together a Hospital Water Wing and the Water Wing is open. Doc concludes she can do anything with her best friends by her side and she and her toys give each other one last group hug to end the series.
==Cast==
*Laya DeLeon Hayes as Dottie McStuffins
*Robbie Rist as Stuffy
*Jess Harnell as Chilly/The Wicked King/Buddy
*Loretta Devine as Hallie
*Lara Jill Miller as Lambie/Robot Orderly
*Kimberly Brooks as Dr. McStuffins/Surfer Girl
*Rob Paulsen as Sir Kirby
*Rodger Bumpass as Army Al
*James Arnold Taylor as Boppy
*Mary Faber as Quackson
*Bernardo De Paula as Saltwater Serge
*Dee Bradley Baker as Robot Ray
*Leslie Grossman as Riley Rhino
==Songs==
*"What's Going On?"
*"A World Without Doc"
*"Water Wing"
==Trivia==
*The plot is similar to the 1946 Christmas film .
*The title is a play on the song "It's the Hard Knock Life" from the Broadway musical Annie and its film adaptations.
*Diagnosis: Overblown-aplexy
*This is the eighth episode where Doc did not sing "What's Going On?". Instead, Lambie sings it.
*This episode marks the last appearance of Doc McStuffins, Lambie, Stuffy, Hallie, Chilly, Emmie, Alma, Carlos, and Dr. McStuffins.
*During the song "A World Without Doc", flashbacks from the episodes "Kirby and the King", "Toy in the Sun", "A Fairy Big Knot", "Blast Off!", and "Don't Fence Me In" were shown differently.
**Also, there were some diagnosis drawings from The Big Book of Boo-Boos which were from "That's Just Claw-ful", "On a Roll!", "Lambie and the McStuffins Babies", "A Lesson in Diagnosis", "Dixie Gets Glued", "Triceratops Trouble", "Mermaid in the Midfield", "The Lake Monster", "Yip, Yip, Boom!", "Get-Well Gus Gets Well", "Pop-Up Paulo", "Joni the Pony", "Moo-Moo's Tutu Boo-Boo", "Going for Broke", "Bust a Move", "St. Patrick's Day Dilemma", "Black Belt Kangaroos", "Winded Winnie", "Sleepless in Stuffyland", "Nurse's Office", "Huggable Hallie", and "Top Lamb".
*Doc says one of the final lines of the entire Doc McStuffins series, and the final line is: "I can do anything with my best friends by my side."
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