My Bright Idea
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Written by Janae Bakken Air Date - March 28, 2006 on  DVD • iTunes • Syndication | |
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[edit] Synopsis
Carla performs yet another home pregnancy test and to her dismay, it comes up negative. After she leaves, Turk realizes the result time for the test is longer than they expected and the test turns out to be positive. J.D. convinces Turk to take advantage of this unique situation and round up all of Carla's friends and have them surprise her with the news, becoming the first husband to ever tell his wife she is pregnant. When Carla reveals to Turk her greatest joy will be when she can tell her friends and family one by one that she is pregnant, Turk hastily scraps the plan.
With the help of their close friends, J.D. and Turk are able to keep the failed surprise under wraps and hint at Carla to take another test. Everything is going according to plan until J.D. accidentally lets it slip that Turk already told him. However, Carla explains she doesn't really care about being the one to spread the news - she's happy just to be pregnant with Turk.
Meanwhile, J.D. accuses Janitor of telling another lie. With Janitor seeming more vindictive than ever before, J.D. and Turk trick him into eating a penny, which is actually a GPS beacon, thus enabling them to evade him using a GPS receiver. Janitor is finally able to tackle J.D. by hurdling 100 meters in less than 10 seconds while J.D. is changing the batteries in the GPS receiver. While Janitor claims he easily outran world class speed (12.21 seconds), there is no guarantee the obstacles he hurdled match the official track.
[edit] Plot Points
- Carla's pregnancy tests continue to turn up negative, and Turk makes a huge discovery.
- J.D. helps keep a secret under wraps until the appropriate time.
- J.D. tricks the Janitor into eating a GPS transmitter.
[edit] Recurring Themes
[edit] Fantasies
- J.D. goes to a "Grandfather Kennel" to find a new grandpa.
[edit] Janitor story
The Janitor once again tells a fantastic story about him being a world class runner and sleeping with Amy Carter. J.D. confronts him about this, which angers the Janitor. After playing a hide & seek game with a tracking device with Turk, J.D. decides to put the tracking device (which looks like a penny) on the Janitor. Turk gets the Janitor to swallow the "penny" for five dollars. Later, when J.D. is changing the batteries to the tracker, a process that takes 12 seconds, the Janitor hurdles over obstacles from 100 meters away and body-checks him in less than 10 seconds, proving that he indeed was a world class runner.
[edit] Guest Stars
- Art 'Buddy' Botham as Old Man #2
- Charles Butler as Father Rosenberg
- Rebecca Metz as Volunteer Woman
- Christina Miles as Gloria
- Weston I. Nathanson as Old Man #1
- Hans Raith as German Guy
- Sabin Rich as Stanley
- Shannon Factor as Claire
[edit] Music
- "Running One" by Tom Tykwer, Johhny Klimek, and Reinhold Heil
- "All of the Words" by Kutless
[edit] Quotes
- “My friends, we have just lo-jacked the Janitor.”— J.D.
[edit] Trivia
- In this episode you can see a Terrible Towel on Turk and Carla's wall. The Terrible Towel is the good luck charm of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
- Dr. Cox talks to a red Swingline stapler, referring to his appearance in the movie Office Space.
- Turk says it takes "at least a minute" for the pizza rolls to cool off, which he was microwaving for a minute to time the pregnancy test, but burns his mouth eating the pizza rolls after reading the results, which appeared two minutes after Carla threw the pregnancy test away.
