My Best Moment

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My Best Moment

Directed by Chris Koch Written by Angela Nissel Air Date - December 7, 2004 on Transcript - Images Watch this episode! DVD • iTunes • Syndication

Season Four Episodes : My Old Friend's New Friend My Office My New Game My First Kill Her Story My Cake My Common Enemy My Last Chance My Malpractical Decision My Female Trouble My Unicorn My Best Moment My Ocardial Infarction My Lucky Charm My Hypocritical Oath My Quarantine My Life in Four Cameras My Roommates My Best Laid Plans My Boss's Free Haircut My Lips Are Sealed My Big Move My Faith in Humanity My Drive-By My Changing Ways    Episodes: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 w • 9

“God, I hate Christmas. I really do.”— Dr. Cox

Contents 1 Synopsis 1.1 Plot Points 2 Recurring Themes 2.1 Fantasies 2.2 Flashbacks 2.3 Janitor story 2.4 J.D.'s Girl Names 3 Guest Stars 4 Music 5 Quotes 6 Trivia 7 Images

[edit] Synopsis

It's Christmas time at Sacred Heart, and J.D. is giving a speech to pre-med students about what it is like to be a doctor. After going off-topic by talking about how to do his hair, he is brought back on track when he is asked his best moment in medicine - and tells them about the time when he watched a baby being delivered on the hospital ramp, before having sex with the baby's Grandma. He recalls this story to everyone, but when he asks them to recall their best moment, they all quickly leave. Mr. Milligan, checks into the hospital after being constantly tired, and arrives with his son, Tyler. J.D. diagnoses his with mono, but Dr. Cox tells him off when he tells Mr. Milligan he will beat Santa home - because something is bound to go wrong. He is right, Carla comes through and tells them Mr. Milligan is unconscious. While Dr. Cox keeps a tight check on J.D. to check he doesn't mess up, but after a while J.D. gets fed up with him looking over his shoulder, and says he is responsible enough to deal with it - even though they can't find what is wrong with him. Carla then tries to convince Dr. Cox to trust J.D. but does not succeed.

Turk and Elliot aren't directly responsible for Mr. Milligan, but for the sake of getting him home for Christmas, they both help out. When Carla finds out Mr. Milligan has no insurance, which would mean that they have to bounce him once he is stable, Turk tries to convince Dr. Kelso to let him stay, although he doesn't succeed. Elliot, meanwhile, looks after his son, Tyler, despite being scared of children because of their scarily small hands. Eventually she gets too freaked out and gives Tyler money to go get chocolate milk. However, both Turk and Elliot's problems are solved when Tyler turns up in Dr. Kelso's office, who takes a liking to Tyler and agrees to let Mr. Milligan off-the-hook with his insurance.

After being ignored before, Carla brings up that being kicked by Tyler may be responsible for Mr. Milligan's problems - and she is right and they decide to operate. Despite not liking family members watching surgery because it makes it seem too personal, Turk decides to allow Tyler to watch as he starts surgery on Mr. Milligan. Everyone else, meanwhile, is waiting outside surgery to find out how Mr. Milligan does, as they have all taken a liking to him. Turk burst through the door with Tyler and Mr. Milligan and announces that surgery was a success, and as J.D. then takes charge of the situation and assigns tasks to everyone, Dr. Cox finally realizes that J.D. is a responsible doctor. While speaking to another group of pre-meds, J.D. realises it was everyone's best moment in medicine; Elliot dealt with her issues with children, Turk found the confidence to let family members watch surgery, Dr. Kelso worked around the insurance issue and Dr. Cox found trust in J.D., who kept his promise to get Mr. Milligan home by Christmas.

[edit] Plot Points

• Everyone remembers their best moments while at Sacred Heart.
• Mr. Milligan is admitted to the hospital and everyone tries to get him home by Christmas.

[edit] Recurring Themes

[edit] Fantasies

• J.D. imagines a black family watching Turk perform surgery as if they are at a movie theater. They are acting like the stereotypical black movie-goers - shouting "don't go beind the kidney, there's a tumor in there!", before getting scared and screaming while chucking their food around in terror.

[edit] Flashbacks

• J.D. is in a party, the only one not currently kissing a girl. One girl turns around and sneezes on him, giving him mono.
• Janitor gets vengence Turk by spelling out 'Gum goes in the trash!' in gum on his windshield.
• Everyone remembers they're best moment in medicine:
  • J.D.: Witnessing a baby being delivered on Sacred Heart's ramp, before having sex with the baby's Grandma.
  • The Todd: The now Legendary, Miracle Five. An old man flat lines in surgery, but Todd isn't giving up. He orders a nurse to "prop his hand up", before performing an act of God, in the form of a high five.
  • Elliot: As a thank you, a patient hooks her up with a sweet new ride, a pony.
  • Dr. Kelso: At a Plomox retreat in the Bahamas, Kelso is drinking with two scantily clad young women. A man has just fainted, so another young man asks if Kelso is a Doctor, to which he replies "Not this weekend, son." before ordering another Bahama Mama, "easy on the Bahama, heavy on the Mama".
  • Carla: The last time a doctor actually listened to her. She advised Dr. Mickhead on how to get a coffee stain out of his white coat.

• • Turk: Breaking Beardface's record for the fastest Appendectomy.
  • Dr. Cox: Cox is repeatedly throwing scrunched up paper in to the waste bin when a man starts to choke. He does the Heimlich maneuver on him and his gum flies out of the man's mouth and into another woman's mouth. Cox does the Heimlich maneuver on her as well and the gum flies through the air and into the waste paper bin ,after circling the basketball rim that was above it .

[edit] Janitor story

Turk angers the Janitor by dropping gum on the hospital floor, he retaliates by writing 'Gum goes in the Trash' in gum on his windshield.

[edit] J.D.'s Girl Names

• Phyllis

“Phyllis, outside.”— Dr. Cox

[edit] Guest Stars

• Matthew Kaminsky as Mr. Milligan
• Mike Weinberg as Tyler Milligan
• Colin Bain as Intern Steve
• Charles Chun as Dr. Wen
• Reggie Currelley as Man #1
• Frank Encarnacao as Dr. Mickhead
• Kareem Ferguson as Waiter
• Libby Hudson as Hot Mom
• Shanola Hudson as Woman
• Kattia Ortiz as Nurse Bernice
• Linda Porter as Old Woman
• Wells Rosales as Student
• Geoff Stevenson as Dr. Beardface

[edit] Music

• "Flight of the Bumblebee" by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
• "Joy to the World" by The Butties
• "Take On Me" by a-ha
• "What It's Like" by Everlast

[edit] Quotes

“What do you think his family's gonna be like?”— Turk

[J.D. fantasizes]

“There's a tumor in there! There's a tumor in there!”— Black woman

“Don't go behind the kidney, Brutha!”— Black man

“AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!”— Whole Black family

[Back in real life]

“Pppppssssshhhh.”— J.D.

“You didn't go to the 'Black family yelling at the movie screen' stereotype, did you?”— Turk

“Like a Bear to honey.”

“That's right. The Miracle Five.”— Todd

“You take this one, Perry.”— Dr. Kelso

“Great moment there, Dumbass. It starts out with a profound misunderstanding of how the Human body works, and wind up with you shattering some old man's hand.”— Dr. Cox

“Oh Yeah.”— Todd

“Yeah, I'm not that great with kids. They've got such tiny hands. It's creepy.”— Elliot

“My dad's in the I.C.U. What does that mean?”— Tyler

“Well, uh, Tyler, that stands for "Intensive Care Unit." It's where we put our patients who need extra care, like somebody who might need help breathing because their lung collapsed, or maybe they had a brain aneurysm, which is basically when a vessel ruptures and then blood pours into the- You know what, forget it. You wanna see someone who's worse off than your dad? We call him The Head in the Bed!”— Elliot

“Dr. Reid. Would you sign this for me, please?”— Laverne

“Sure! So... what are you doing this weekend, Laverne?”— Elliot

“Minding my own business. How 'bout you?”

“Hopefully lighting the crap out of Saint Martha's auditorium!”

“Yippee.”

“God, I hate Christmas. I really do.”— Dr. Cox

“You know, try and discourage me all you want, because kites fly highest against the wind.”— J.D.

“What?”— Dr. Cox

“I'm a kite! I'm a big, beautiful kite! Fly!”

“I wouldn't worry about that. Mr. Milligan only has a son, and Elliot lost him.”— J.D.

“Awesome!”— Turk

[J.D. looks at him with disgust]

“...for me.”

[While Dr. Kelso is on treadmill]

“Is that fun?”— Tyler

“No, son. It's work. But this body didn't happen by accident.”— Dr. Kelso

“Mabel, this is Bob Kelso. Uh, what's say we juggle some things and see if we can't free-ride Mr. Milligan financially for a while, okay?...Yes, this is really Bob Kelso!”— Dr. Kelso on phone

“...I feel like we're missing something from his Patient History.”— J.D.

“When he came in, Mr. Miller said that he and his son had been wrestling and goofin' around.”— Carla

“Oh my God, he just might have 'Goof-around-itus'.”— Dr. Cox

“We should also check for the 'Silly Willys'.”— J.D.

“Have you even seen a drunk baby?”— Dr. Cox on J.D.

“You wanna know what I think?”— Carla

“No.”— Dr. Cox

[Elliot opens a closet, that contains a crying intern]

“Cool.”— Tyler

[edit] Trivia

• Continuity - In J.D. fantasy about the black family watching the surgery, the items being held by the family changes from one shot to the next.
• We find out that Elliot speaks some French as well as German.

[edit] Images

J.D. talks about his best moment in medicine	Mr. Milligan arrives back from a successful surgery	Janitor leaves a message for Turk in gum	Todd performs the life-saving Miracle 5
Elliot is scared about how small children's hands are	Dr. Kelso asks about free-riding Mr. Milligan financially	J.D. fantasizes about the black-people-at-the-movies stereotype	Tyler drops his ice-cream