It was recently reported that Isaiah Washington and Patrick Dempsey came to physical blows on the set of Grey's Anatomy, on which they star together. Though they, and their people, have scaled back the altercation to a mere "argument," and denied that anyone choked...or was choked. But if it turned out that Dempsey's publicists painted too rosy a picture of the scuffle -- their client having only recently become sufficiently famous for such tales to leak out to the media -- it would be but the latest on-set fracas Dempsey has suffered in his long and varied career:

Outbreak When Dempsey tries to take the last banana from Craft Services, the performer playing the diseased monkey pelts him with feces.

The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! Dempsey is questioned by police for several hours after a dead hooker dressed as Princess Peach is found in his dressing room.

With Honors While engaged in a heated debate over baseball with co-star Moira Kelly, she kicks Dempsey hard enough in the groin to send one of his testicles inside his body cavity, requiring medical attention.

Mobsters Running from an enraged Costas Mandylor, following a spat over whether soccer is "wussy," Dempsey trips over a prop tommy gun, which discharges into his armpit.

Iron Jawed Angels At Dempsey's ninth joke about "whether you gals really needed the vote, anyway," Molly Parker breaks his nose.

Sweet Home Alabama Dempsey wedges himself into a pair of too-small cowboy boots, from which he must be cut out with surgical scissors.

Will & Grace Dempsey teases an extra so mercilessly about his buckteeth that the extra shoves Dempsey into a shelf on a Banana Republic set, dislocating Dempsey's shoulder.

Scream 3 Dempsey and Neve Campbell are accidentally locked to each other with a pair of prop handcuffs; he suffers permanent damage to his tendons trying to chew his way free.

Coupe de Ville Dempsey, unable to resist saying Alan Arkin's surname in a "comical" chicken voice, forces Arkin to get into the titular car and reverse it into Dempsey, breaking both Dempsey's kneecaps.

Loverboy Dempsey refers to Kirstie Alley, to their co-stars, as "Kirstie Eyebrows"; Alley bites two full ounces of flesh off Dempsey's arm.

Can't Buy Me Love Dempsey falls off a riding lawnmower and, when it rolls over him, loses two fingers.

Hugo Pool Dempsey stands too close to Alyssa Milano, so that when she turns around too quickly, he suffers a detached retina when he is struck in the eye by one of her breasts.