I personally was very upset with the line in the TED movie " Hope you get Lou Gehrig's disease", I felt that it squashed  & demeaned ALS disease, the ALS community as a whole gets little support, this careless movie line undermined the horrifying affects of ALS and what it does to the patient & their loved ones, my personal feelings are summed up in this recent post READ HERE:  http://als-advocacy.blogspot.com/2012/07/dear-seth-macfarlane-you-give-us-way.html