His Story IV
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His Story IV | |
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Written by Mike Schwartz Air Date February 1, 2007 on  DVD • iTunes • Syndication | |
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- “Listen up, faces. In order to save us all some time I will call all the males Daves and all the females Debbies.”— Dr. Kelso
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[edit] Synopsis
Once again, J.D. gives up narration for the duration of the episode, this time to Sacred Heart's chief of medicine, Dr. Bob Kelso. He has become lazy and sees only one patient a day; and today it is an injured Iraq Soldier, Brian Dancer, who after a head injury is suffering memory loss. The theme of the Iraq War spreads throughout the hospital like an infection, and the hospital is divided between pro-war Republicans (Laverne, Elliot among others) and the anti-war Democrats (Turk, Dr. Cox and many others).
However, the war debate starts taking priority over other patients, including Brian Dancer himself, who crashes but is saved by Dr. Kelso's quick thinking. Dr. Kelso realizes that the war is causing problems, but is focusing on making staff like him more through numerous methods, including filling in for Carla as Head Nurse. However, after hearing the nurses talking about him, Brian Dancer tells him how sometimes it isn't about making people like you, but uniting everyone else instead - so Dr. Kelso does exactly this and removes Coffee Buck's employee discount, so that instead of the staff arguing with each other, they are again united in their hate for Dr. Kelso. J.D. then arrives back from spending the whole day reading up on the Iraq War to find that no one wants to discuss it, except for Janitor who makes J.D. realize he still doesn't know very much.
[edit] Plot Points
- Dr. Kelso struggles to maintains peoples respect for him after the debates cause problems.
- The hospital is divided after the Iraq War is debated about.
- J.D. spends the day researching the Iraq War, which he knows nothing about.
[edit] Recurring Themes
[edit] Fantasies
- Dr. Kelso uses Ted's head as a human magic eight ball. However, this is revealed to be real when Ted falls over, dizzy, in another scene.
- Dr. Kelso walks up to a Vietnamese woman in Navy dress uniform, and carries her off while "Up Where We Belong" Plays (in Vietnamese)
- A Vietnamese woman in Navy dress uniform walks up to "nurse" Kelso and carries him off while "Up where We Belong" Plays
[edit] Janitor story
When J.D. comes back from researching the Iraq War, Janitor is the only person who wants to discuss it, but makes J.D. realize he still knows very little.
- “Point to Iraq on this globe.”— Janitor
[J.D. tries his luck and points randomly on the globe]
- “That's China.”
- “You're China!”
- “You're China!”
- “I'm China? What an outrageous accusation.”
[edit] J.D.'s Girls Name
[edit] Guest Stars
- Caroline Do as Best Friend
- Michael Weston as Private Brian Dancer
- Lindsay Ravage as Debbie
- Shaughn Buchholz as Jason Cabbagio
- Sulekha Naidu as Janice
- V. Lynn Meneses as Nurse
- Elizabeth Tippet as Jessica
- Kattia Ortiz as Nurse Bernice
[edit] Music
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- "Up Where We Belong" by Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
- "Thrift Store T-Shirt" by Brent Jordan
[edit] Quotes
- “Iraq? You know how controversial that topic is, Bob; quick, change the subject!”— Dr. Kelso's narration
- “So, Pluto's not a planet anymore, what's up with that?!”— Dr. Kelso
- “So, Pluto's not a planet anymore, what's up with that?!”— Dr. Kelso
- “Well played, Bobby...”— Dr. Kelso's narration
- “Point to Iraq on this globe.”— Janitor
- “Why do you carry a globe around?”— J.D.
- “Why do you carry a globe around?”— J.D.
- “In case I get lost.”
[J.D. tries his luck and points randomly on the globe]
- “That's China.”
- “You're China!”
- “You're China!”
- “I'm China? What an outrageous accusation.”
- “Don't you get it Turk? All the terrorists want to do is kill you. They want to kill you!”— Elliot
- “Elliot, if you...”— Turk
- “Elliot, if you...”— Turk
- “Kill you!”
- “Well, even though no one ever comes, every time I hit this nurse's button I feel a little better.”— Brian Dancer
- “That's morphine.”— Dr. Kelso
- “That's morphine.”— Dr. Kelso
- “That explains it.”
- “"I like laughing at poor people." -Elliot Reid”— Coffee Cup's "Quote of the Month"
- “When I said that, I was watching Good Times!”— Elliot
- “When I said that, I was watching Good Times!”— Elliot
- “"My Bajingo's on fire" - Elliot Reid, May 2004”— Coffee Cup's "Quote of the Month"
- “What's a Bajingo?”— Brian Dancer
- “What's a Bajingo?”— Brian Dancer
- “Listen up, faces. In order to save us all some time I will call all the males Daves and all the females Debbies.”— Dr. Kelso
- “Debbie's actually my name!”— Slagathor
- “Debbie's actually my name!”— Slagathor
- “Then out of fairness to the others, you will be Slagathor. Daves, Debbies, Slagathor, I will be in my office, if you need anything, feel free to bother Dorian.”
- “You know what's so messed up? I just got to the point where President Bush gave his "mission accomplished" speech on a battleship and I still got, like, 400 more pages to go.”— J.D. on Iraq War for Dummies book
[edit] Trivia
- In this episode it is revealed that Elliot and Keith are Republicans.
- In the cafeteria scene you can see the anti-war oriented sitting on the left side, while the war supporters are sitting on the right.
- Michael Weston is a long time friend of Zach Braff's and former roommate.
- Sam Lloyd did his own stunts during the "Human Magic 8-Ball" sequence and the sequence after that, where he pratfalls onto a rack.
- Although "The Iraq War for Dummies" is not a real book, there are numerous other war-related "...for Dummies" books.
