My Big Mouth
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My Big Mouth | |
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Written by Mark Stegemann Air Date - October 17, 2002 on  DVD • iTunes • Syndication | |
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- “Fork! Me can't eat soup! (Grunts)”— Janitor
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[edit] Synopsis
While treating a patient, J.D. realizes that he knows very little about Carla, her personal life and her feelings and asks her about it, but Carla tells him she doesn't usually open up to people because the would think she is crazy. Eventually she opens up to J.D., revealing all her insecurities, including that she thinks Turk and Bonnie (Turk's rival surgeon) have something going on together when she watches them taunt each other. J.D. thinks that it is ridiculous and tells Turk about it, who accidentally lets slip to Carla that J.D. betrayed her and told him. Carla gets furious at J.D. and refuses to ever trust him again, as well as telling a hot nurse about J.D.'s secret (that he swaps her shifts to suit him).
Meanwhile, Bonnie is being picked for better and more surgeries that Turk and is taunting Turk about it. But then Dr. Kelso picks Turk over Bonnie to come on the "Doctors Without Borders" program with him and Turk gets his own back on Bonnie by taunting her. But his tauntings are cut short when Dr. Wen reveals that he was only picked over Bonnie (even though Dr. Wen recommended her) because she is a girl and Dr. Kelso is a sexist. When Dr. Kelso admits this, Turk allows Bonnie to go on the program instead but she refuses and makes fun of Turk further so he decides to let Todd go on the trip instead because he knows he would spend the whole trip thinking about Bonnie being better than him.
Elsewhere, Elliot tries to get noticed by and get more of a relationship with Dr. Cox and repetitively tries to have a conversation with him and he eventually allows her to help him: by giving all the patients the bad news on behalf of him, but Elliot soon finds the sadness to overwhelming for her and forgets about Dr. Cox and his new found respect for her, and puts her happiness first.
[edit] Plot Points
- J.D. betrays Carla by telling Turk her feelings.
- Turk realizes that he was selected over Bonnie by Dr. Kelso because she was a girl, not because he is better.
- Elliot delievers bad news for Dr. Cox to get respected more by him.
[edit] Recurring Themes
[edit] Fantasies
- Carla slaps everyone, as she is the bad cop.
- Carla pops her head open to let J.D see goes on in her mind, revealing a bright white light that melts the skin and muscle off of his face, a reference to the 1981 film Raiders of the Lost Ark.
- J.D duct-tapes Turk's mouth shut, and the two along with Carla learn sign language.
- Janitor and his cafeteria worker friend Troy bathe in J.D's egg salad.
[edit] Janitor story
J.D inadvertently insults the Janitor and his cafeteria worker friend, Troy, so the two of them decide to annoy J.D. by pretending to be overly stupid such as not being able to work a phone.
[edit] Guest Stars
- Charles Chun as Dr. Wen
- Lela Lee as Bonnie
- Brian Powell as Mr. Hogan
- Joe Rose as Troy
- Lindsey Stoddart as Nurse Lauren Halston
[edit] Quotes
- “Fork! Me can't eat soup! (Grunts)”— Janitor
- “It makes me so...”— Janitor
- “Sad?”— J.D.
- “Sad?”— J.D.
- “Yes, that's it, I'm a janitor so I'm not smart enough to think of the word sad! I was going to say 'mop'.”
- “Let me explain, I -”
- “Let me explain, I -”
- “Go ahead, I'm mopping.”
- “Maybe I shouldn't bother.”
- “Maybe I shouldn't bother.”
- “Maybe you 'mopn't'.”
- “Huh! So I'm doing a Nissen gastric fundoplication; and you're doing...yet another appendectomy. How fun for you!”— Bonnie
- “Please, you call that smack-talk? You shoulda asked me how it feels to be so far below you, I wouldn't be able to read "Suck it, Turk" if you wrote it on the bottom of your shoe.”— Turk
- “Please, you call that smack-talk? You shoulda asked me how it feels to be so far below you, I wouldn't be able to read "Suck it, Turk" if you wrote it on the bottom of your shoe.”— Turk
- “Okay. How does that feel?”
- “Damn!”
- “Damn!”
- “J.D. said you're a big ol' can o' crazy.”— Turk
- “A little can... a very tiny, small can.”— J.D.
- “A little can... a very tiny, small can.”— J.D.
- “Nah, you said big can.”
- “Yes, it's like being blind in one eye... except you'll be blind in both.”— Elliot
[edit] Trivia
- When Turk is holding a tissue by Bonnie's forehead in the start, his hand position changes between shots.
- When Elliot is lying on the floor, the cereals on her change their position. At first there is more from them on her stomach.
- During the scene where they are sitting in the cafeteria talking about ninjas, a woman in a purple sweater is near the beginning of the line behind JD. When they cut to the otherside of the table the lady with the puple sweater is at the cash register 20 feet further down the line.
- "My Big Mouth" refers to J.D telling Turk that Carla is crazy.
- The Scrubs crew occasionally hold contests to see who can eat the most disgusting thing. Many members of the cast ate the egg salad that the Janitor and Troy bathed in.
