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My Best Friend's Mistake

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My Best Friend's Mistake

Directed by Adam Bernstein
Written by Eric Weinberg
Air Date - October 9, 2001 on NBC
Transcript - Images
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Season One Episodes :
  1. My First Day
  2. My Mentor
  3. My Best Friend's Mistake
  4. My Old Lady
  5. My Two Dads
  6. My Bad
  7. My Super Ego
  8. My Fifteen Minutes
  9. My Day Off
  10. My Nickname
  11. My Own Personal Jesus
  12. My Blind Date
  13. My Balancing Act
  14. My Drug Buddy
  15. My Bed Banter & Beyond
  16. My Heavy Meddle
  17. My Student
  18. My Tuscaloosa Heart
  19. My Old Man
  20. My Way or the Highway
  21. My Sacrificial Clam
  22. My Occurrence
  23. My Hero
  24. My Last Day
   Episodes: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 w • 9


“You seem unhappy. I like that.”— Janitor

Contents

[edit] Synopsis

J.D. and Elliot start to get closer to each other. While they're talking about their stressful work days, they start flirting, as if on a date. Elliot acts like she wants to kiss J.D, and he is not sure if she's joking or if he should really kiss her. He decides to go for it, but before he can, Dr. Cox enters the room and breaks the mood. Now J.D. is under pressure to kiss Elliot since he only has 48 hours before they both start over-thinking things and he gets stuck in "the friend zone."

Elsewhere, Turk and Carla have begun dating. Turk gets to close on a patient - Mr. Bidwell - for the first time, while Elliot gets in trouble again when she confronts Dr. Kelso because he has called her "sweetheart" during rounds and she thinks it's sexist. Later, Mr. Bidwell's condition worsens and J.D. fears that Turk has forgotten something inside of him during surgery. It turns out that J.D. had given Bidwell insulin although he was diabetic. Turk realizes this before J.D. and helps him out.

Only then does J.D. remembers that he's got just 30 seconds left to kiss Elliot. He gets to her in time, but when he wants to kiss her, she just wants to talk. J.D. is disappointed and in his imagination he is now stuck in the "Friend Zone".

[edit] Plot Points

  • J.D. only has 48 hours to kiss Elliot before he is stuck the "friend zone".
  • Turk gets too close a patient for the first time.
  • Elliot accuses Dr. Kelso of being sexist when he calls her "sweetheart" during rounds.

[edit] Recurring Themes

[edit] Fantasies

  • J.D. gets kicked out of Sacred Heart and becomes homeless, offering "Physicals for Food", or he and Elliot get married, and have a threesome.
  • Dr. Kelso wears a red velvet jacket and smokes a pipe while seducing Elliot.
  • Turk runs out of the room so quickly that the remote is still in the air after he's no longer in the room.
  • A patient, and then Nurse Roberts turns into Turk and tells him the cold hard truth J.D. doesn't want to hear.
  • Ted sings and dresses like Elvis
  • J.D. enters "The Friend Zone" - a closet full of people who were only friends with Elliot, but wanted more.

[edit] Janitor story

The Janitor generally makes life hard for J.D., commenting that J.D.'s unhappiness pleases him. He later locks J.D. out of the hospital while J.D. is short on time.

[edit] Guest Stars

[edit] Music

Music from Season:

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9

  • "A Little Respect" by Erasure

[edit] Quotes

"You seem unhappy. I like that." - Janitor to J.D.

"I miss you so much it hurts sometimes" - J.D. to Turk

"And you, you neurotic one-woman freak show, take your blah-blah to the blah-blah-ologist. " - Dr. Cox to Elliot

[edit] Trivia

  • When Dr. Cox is speaking with Elliot about confronting Kelso, He swears to Allah, which is overdubbed with "Ayeesha", possibly to avoid controversy.
  • Dr. Cox doesn't call J.D. any girl's name in this episode.
  • In this episode, Turk is seen playing basketball for the first time and also for the first time, we see/hear Ted sing.
  • In the "Friend Zone" fantasy, one man claims to have worked at Penguin's with Elliot. This cannot be true since Penguin's is located exclusively in California. Elliot is from Connecticut and attended Brown University in Rhode Island unless she worked there for a summer in California which could be true but has not been mentioned on screen.

[edit] Title explanation

J.D. thinks Turk made a mistake when closing a patient for the first time. He then gets to obsessed with protecting Turk he doesn't realize that he was the one who made the mistake.

[edit] Images

J.D. has a threesome

Ted sings

Kelso seduces Elliot

J.D. is homeless

J.D. and Elliot get married

J.D. ends up in the "friend zone"

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