David Bianculli from the Daily News gave the episode three stars and claimed that placing Drew in a coma was "strange even by 'Carey' standards." However, Bianculli thought the situation was "quite funny" and used the concept with "gleeful abandon." Bianculli concluded that the show had made comas look more fun than they actually are and thought the rap song backed by a harp was a television first. A reporter for the Spartanburg Herald-Journal commented that the episode was funny, despite the premise sounding like it would not be. The reporter liked the sequence inside Drew's head, saying it "amounts to a truly surreal escapade." The Cincinnati Post's Rick Bird branded the episode "hilarious". Joel Brown, writing for The Spokesman-Review, chose the episode as one of his highlights of the day, but the plot made him questioned what had happened to the show. Phil Rosenthal for the Chicago Sun-Times called the premise of the episode "over-the-top" and realised Drew would not die because of the light script. Ben Doherty from The Newcastle Herald enjoyed the episode, although he thought that it entered "pretty soppy territory" when Drew's friends gathered around his bedside to decide whether to pull the plug or not. Doherty added "Drew transports himself and us to a wonderful fantasy world not dissimilar to something Homer Simpson might dream up." At the 53rd Creative Arts Emmy Awards, editor John Fuller earned a nomination for Outstanding Multi-Camera Picture Editing for his work on the episode. References External links "Drew's in a Coma" at TBS 2001 American television episodes The Drew Carey Show episodes