First off, I love the title. It actually had me chuckling when I saw it on the Tivo screen and before I even started watching it. The episode itself was good, a solid double that almost got stretched for a triple. Once again, J.D. was not the driving force behind the plot but more of a spectator to events happening around him. The central premise was that if you stay somewhere long enough things tend to repeat themselves. And so we're treated to sort of a greatest hits tape of lines from previous episodes of Scrubs. The Todd urgently tells someone there's a breast reduction surgery about to take place and he has to go stop it. J.D. stumps The Janitor with a riddle and other such things. It's a pretty funny device that at least is better than a standard sitcom clip-show.The actual original plot lines involve Elliot trying to gain Dr. Cox's respect after an embarrassing moment for her. She had thought she was helping him to regain his confidence after coming back on the job but ultimately Cox turned it into an opportunity to make a fool out of her. After she confronts him, saying that in all the years she's worked there he's never given her his respect, he makes an admission to her. He was a little gun shy in making a decision on a patient's care and she did actually help him. It's important to him, though, that he maintain his image around the hospital.
The other story has an increasingly pregnant Carla deciding that Turk can't do anything she can't do. That means no beer, no coffee and no late-night partying. That causes some problems with Turk, who doesn't understand why he has to sacrifice when he's not the pregnant one. Eventually, though, they come to a compromise and life goes on.
Good episode with plenty of laughs and dramatic moments. The best moment had to be the "Dr. Coxer" t-shirts the gang wore to welcome Dr. Cox back. NBC should totally be selling those online.
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5-10-2006 @ 10:40AM
JimF said...
I loved Elliot's line: "I even started an 'I hate Cox' chatroom, but the only people there were me, an intern, and a bunch of lesbians"
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5-10-2006 @ 10:47AM
Sujay said...
Maybe I'm in the minority but these last two episodes haven't really satisfied me. I'm a huge Scrubs fan, and I love the times when Dr.Cox's vulnerable side shows, but they seem to be stretching that a little thin this time and it truly doesn't seem like Cox at all. I dunno, we'll see what happens next, maybe I'll change my mind.
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5-10-2006 @ 11:25AM
Happy said...
Favorite line:
"What has two thumbs and doesn't give a damn? *points thumbs at himself* Bob Kelso!"
hee hee hee
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5-10-2006 @ 11:51AM
Wizard said...
I thought this was a good time to release such an episode with plenty of hilarious moments and it is a good welcome after the last 2 weeks which were pointed in a more seroius direction.
This episode shows everthing that I like about Scrubs and it was top nothch.
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5-10-2006 @ 12:19PM
Kristie said...
I thought the best part of the show was JD's daydream about what he'd look like when he's older. The whole "I learned it from watching you, Dad" thing had me laughing hysterically. I hadn't thought about that commercial in so long.
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5-10-2006 @ 12:41PM
Scott M said...
this is the second week in a row that Scrubs has done some joke on the premise of a PSA. Last week's NBC "You Ought to Know" thing with just Zach stepping "out of character" and then the coffee machine. i'd welcome these as a running gag.
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5-10-2006 @ 12:57PM
Yme Sandelmann said...
Elliot: "I started an 'I hate Cox' chatroom. Hasn't really worked that way I planned... It's me, two interns and 14,000 lesbians."
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5-10-2006 @ 1:00PM
elf said...
Sujay, I don't think they're stretching Cox's vulnerability thin as you seem to. I see it as a believable character development cycle. If you go through a traumatic event as Cox did, it may take a while until your ego recovers to the point where it was pre-trauma. In fact, I'd be disappointed if Cox returned to his impenetrable-ego persona immediately after last week's episode because it would mean that the intervention had no lasting effect on the character. Certainly someone with the mental fortitude of Dr. Cox will revent to his normal persona much faster than other people, but I like that he had a strong personal realization and who knows, it may be something that comes back to him next season as well.
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5-10-2006 @ 1:51PM
Mast3r Mind said...
This episode of Scrubs is brilliant! I think the Todd definatly has the best lines in this episode. If you dont count the line about the I hate Cox chatroom and the 14,000 lesbians.
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5-10-2006 @ 2:07PM
Chaim said...
I think the recent episodes have been wonderful. True classic Scrubs. I really think that in 20 years people are going to look back on this show as some of iconic show.
They mature characters in a very realistic and believable way.
Who else has the brains to pull off a show featuring classic lines and situations from past season. This show does a great job of poking fun of itself, being real and still managing to have a feel good vibe. You laugh, you think, you smile. Isn't this the picture perfect show?
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5-10-2006 @ 2:09PM
RAB said...
No disrespect to elf, but I'm with Sujay on this. The show takes a very cavalier approach to character realism -- which is no bad thing in itself -- but it's unbalanced when we end up with a J.D. who is even more wildly frivolous and dippy than he started out being (instead of maturing and becoming more capable) while poor Perry Cox has to suffer constant erosion of his edge and vitality to become more vulnerable. Cox was always the most realistic and the most vibrant character on the show, but now he's actually much less so for being softened this way. In this episode it seemed as if they wanted to have it both ways: they skewer Eliot's cliched touchy-feely warm-and-fuzzy "let's be there for him" response...but then they turn around and have Cox admit she was right all along in exactly the sort of obvious sentimental moment they'd just demolished. That was disappointing.
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5-10-2006 @ 4:16PM
Wizard said...
They cannot have the characters do the same things over and over - change is good and i for one am really enjoying how these characters have developed over the last 2 seasons in particular.
It is not hurting the show one bit and lets just hope they confirm Scrubs for next season.
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5-12-2006 @ 1:00PM
John said...
So I finally got around to watching this and, I have to ask...
Should this be considered a clip show?
Personally, I am and I thought it was a brilliant design of one.
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