- The patients gather for group. Nurse Ratched is about to return to Mr. Harding's problems when McMurphy volunteers to get something off his chest. Ratched encourages him to continue.
- He says he'd like the hospital's work schedule to be changed so the patients can watch the World Series.
- Nurse Ratched says it's a bad idea because some patients take a long time to get used to the work schedule and it wouldn't be right to change it.
- But she compromises and offers to put the matter to a vote. The vote is against watching the World Series and Nurse Ratched is clearly pleased that McMurphy's idea has been defeated.