Ge der is a Northeastern dialect tag that follows a word and adds disdain, as in 'what do you expect?'. The line 'ni xiwang ge der' (你希望个嘚) comes out roughly as 'hope for what, exactly?'. Where it is used is disputed: a Liaoning user said it is rarely used there, and a Heilongjiang user said the same of their province, which shows how hard it is to pin a dialect to a place. Small Town Remedy's dialect gap runs through this line.
Dramas
Where it comes up
Neon & Nine-to-Five
Small Town Remedy's hero can't follow his hometown dialect
Xiao Zhan's doctor in Small Town Remedy comes home to Northeast China and can't follow the local dialect. Viewers are already arguing over whether the show's Northeastern is real, and Cantonese speakers say his Cantonese isn't either. That double miss may be the point.