His Story
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His Story | |
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Written by Bonnie Schneider Written by Hadley Davis Air Date - January 30, 2003 on  DVD • iTunes • Syndication | |
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- “Must... fight urge... to rub it in his face!”— Dr. Cox's narration
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[edit] Synopsis
Since she still won't give him an answer to his marriage proposal, Turk tells Carla that he will keep asking her until she says yes. Later, while Carla and Elliot are having drinks at a bar, a hot guy sits next to Elliot. The guy, Paul Flowers, begins the conversation by complaining about people talking on their cell phones, as Carla is doing exactly at that moment. Elliot starts to defend Carla, but when she gets a look at Paul, she is immediately attracted to his good looks. It turns out that he works at the hospital as well. They immediately hit it off. Just before they leave the bar, Paul asks Elliot out. But before she answers, she gives him a big kiss. Carla stands off to the side, embarrassed by their public display of affection. But she gets even more mortified moments later because Turk and J.D. have stopped their car across the street. J.D. is running around the car with lit sparklers in his hand and Turk is on top of the car yelling, "Carla, will you marry me?" and asking people to honk their horns in support. Still, no answer. A day later Elliot finds out that Paul is actually a Nurse in the hospital and not a Doctor as she thought. As a result, she is mocked at and avoids being seen with Paul.
Meanwhile, Dr. Cox (who narrates portions of this episode) is planning to throw a party with the other senior doctors while his therapist, desperate with him, cancels their meetings, and tells him that if he won't start laying off of his friends, he won't have any left. Furthermore, Dr. Kelso asks him to do a physical for him. Dr. Cox is initially reluctant, but J.D. convinces him to go through with it. However, when Cox reaches Kelso's office, the Chief of Medicine tells him to just sign the form and pretend that he ran the physical. Perry, however, insists on doing a proper one.
Later, at Cox's party, J.D. shows up and tells him he had enough of Cox picking on him and that he requested to be transferred to another attending physician. After J.D. leaves, Cox returns home and it is revealed that no one showed up for his party. Fortunately, the next day Kelso approaches him and tells him that it turns out that his physical revealed a high blood pressure that would've led to his death had Cox not discovered it. He thanks Dr. Cox and says he owes him one, and Cox, through a titanic effort of will, avoids rubbing it in his face.
Realizing that his therapist's prediction proved true, Dr. Cox interrupts him in a middle of a dinner with his wife and tells him of his incident with Kelso. The therapist is initially skeptical that Cox did something that both forwarded his career and personal life, rather than intentionally picking the hard way as he always does. Cox confesses that J.D. talked him into it, and the therapist observes that a person who managed to talk Cox into doing something he didn't want is nothing short of a genius, and a person that Cox should definitely keep close by. Reflecting on this, Cox asks for J.D. to switch back to him, and J.D. immediately agrees.
Elliot, meanwhile, realizes that she can't run a relationship with Paul the way she does, and decides to stop being ashamed of having a relationship with a male nurse, While Turk grows tired of Carla's constant over-thinking of his proposal. In fact, he almost goes on a date with Jenny the waitress, but when Carla realizes the various reasons that she hesitated in agreeing (namely, fear of commitment) she calls him and begs him back. He runs to her and asks for her hand in marriage. She agrees.
[edit] Plot Points
- J.D. and Turk try and convince Carla to marry Turk.
- Elliot gets attracted to a man called Paul, but it later turns out that he is a male nurse.
- Dr. Cox realizes that what his psychiatrist told him is true, and realizes he partially likes J.D.
[edit] Recurring Themes
[edit] Fantasies
- Dr. Cox is at a meeting with people discussing their problems, but he gets annoyed and whacks whoever talks about their problems around the head with a chair.
- Laverne jumps over patients in wheelchairs and on gurneys to gossip about Elliot and Paul.
[edit] Janitor story
- J.D. doesn't hold the elevator door for The Janitor, and when Janitor hunts him down, J.D. hides behind a patient. Another time when J.D. is in the lift, The Janitor traps J.D. inside and takes his chance at revenge.
[edit] J.D.'s Girls Names
- Betsy
It is heard in Dr. Cox's narration that Dr. Cox is going through a list of girls names in his head until he finds a new one. He calls J.D. Betsy, thinking it's a new name, before J.D. points out "Betsy" was used "about 6 months ago". Dr. Cox claims not to care, but his narration tells otherwise.
- Katie
- “Well, tears-&-hugs, there, Katie.”— Dr. Cox
Katie is the name used when Dr. Cox tells J.D. he can't come into Dr. Cox's house because all the other 20 people are about to make the party go "nutty", even though there is actually no one there.
- Lily
[edit] Guest Stars
- Rick Schroder as Nurse Paul Flowers
- Eric Bogosian as Dr. Gross
- Lenore Thomas as Jenny
- Bergen Williams as Carol Stonewater
[edit] Music
- "The Stripper" written by David Rose. Hummed by John C. McGinley.
- "Question" by Old 97's
[edit] Quotes
- “Thanks to the high blood pressure you found, my insurance premium is gonna cost me an extra six grand this year! That's six grand my wife already spent on a new chin.”— Dr. Kelso
- “I spoke to my cardiologist and he said if you hadn't caught my high blood pressure and if it continued unchecked it might have resulted in a mild case of... death.”— Dr. Kelso
- “She's embarrassed because she's dating a nurse, and I can't see why.”— Paul Flowers
- “Well, that's because you're doing a woman's job, son.”— Dr. Kelso
- “Well, that's because you're doing a woman's job, son.”— Dr. Kelso
[edit] Trivia
- This is the first episode not entirely narrated by J.D.
- This is also the first episode where the title doesn't start with "My"
- Turk eats sugar directly out of the shaker at the diner, possibly a foreshadowing of his diabetes.
- The scene where J.D. is doing karate in the elevator is re-used in My Urologist, with Kim Briggs transposed in.
- When Turk and J.D.'s car is holding up traffic during Turk's proposal, none of the cars attempt to pass it, even though there is an open lane on the road which is not occupied by any cars.
- Turk states in this episode that he has slept with only two women before Carla although in the earlier episode, My Monster he claimed 12 women on his scorecard (in this episode he was with Dr. Cox and J.D. so he may not have been as honest with them as he would have been with Carla)
[edit] Images
 Dr. Cox can't handle group therapy |
 Turk re-proposes to Carla |
