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My Butterfly

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My Butterfly

Directed by Henry Chan
Written by Justin Spitzer
Air Date - March 16, 2004 on NBC
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Season Three Episodes :
  1. My Own American Girl
  2. My Journey
  3. My White Whale
  4. My Lucky Night
  5. My Brother, Where Art Thou?
  6. My Advice to You
  7. My Fifteen Seconds
  8. My Friend the Doctor
  9. My Dirty Secret
  10. My Rule of Thumb
  11. My Clean Break
  12. My Catalyst
  13. My Porcelain God
  14. My Screw Up
  15. My Tormented Mentor
  16. My Butterfly
  17. My Moment of Un-Truth
  18. His Story II
  19. My Choosiest Choice of All
  20. My Fault
  21. My Self-Examination
  22. My Best Friend's Wedding
   Episodes: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 w • 9


“Me, I don't believe in fate. I believe we have more control than we think and that every action has a reaction.”— J.D.

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[edit] Synopsis

J.D. talks about superstition. The surgeons start their day with an ass slap, and have their own personal good luck rituals. Turk can't find his Tabasco do-rag. Elliot's patient lost her stuffed pink doggie and is scared of her bone marrow transplant. Turk's surgical record with the do-rag is 23 and zero, so he wants to find it.

At the reception, Turk and J.D. watch a butterfly land on a busty woman's breasts, and the two stare for a while before walking off but J.D. walks straight into Laverne who drops all the drinks she was carrying.  Elliot tries to ask the Janitor to help her find the pink doggie, but he is too busy cleaning up the spilled drinks. Turk asks Carla to go home and find the do-rag.  Dr. Kelso begins to chastise Carla for clocking out 9 minutes late, and Turk defends her, angering Carla because it made her look weak.  When Carla arrives home, she finds an old Snickers bar in the couch, but before she can bite into it, she is called back to the hospital by Elliot asking her to help find the little girl's doggie.  Carla rushes back to the hospital, forgetting to bring the do-rag, which was in the bathroom on Rowdy's head.  J.D. and Dr. Cox begin to treat Mr. Strauss, a patient that they believe has a GI bleed.  After Dr. Cox decides to let J.D. take the lead on the patients case, J.D. tries to help Elliot find the doggie.  They try to look into the Janitor's supply closet, but are kicked out by the maintenance staff, who all hate J.D.  By the time the little girl goes into surgery, Elliot still has not found the doggie.  Mr. Strauss codes, as they find out that he had an aortic dissection that J.D. and Cox missed earlier.  He is sent to surgery.  Turk, who still does not have his lucky do-rag, performs the surgery, but Mr. Strauss dies.   J.D. then wonders how things would be different if the butterfly landed on a fat man's chest instead, and how the whole series of events were caused because of that one butterfly.


The events are different the second time around.  J.D. and Laverne do not bump into each other, and thus Laverne does not spill the drinks on the floor.  The Janitor does not have an extra mess to clean up and is able to help Elliot look for the doggie.   During Kelso's confrontation with Turk and Carla, Turk does not defend Carla, but Carla is still angry, this time because Turk is not supportive.  When Carla gets home, she finds the Snickers bar, and bites it.  Carla does not get the phone call from Elliot because the Janitor already agreed to help her.  She is disgusted by the taste of the candy bar, and runs into the bathroom to spit it out into the sink.  Since Carla ran into the bathroom she managed to find the do-rag on Rowdy's head.  J.D. still believes that Mr. Strauss has a GI bleed, but since he was late for his shift the second time around, Cox does not let him take charge and merely sends him off to get coffee.  J.D. goes to the elevator to try to make a wise-ass remark, only for the door to close on him before he can do so.  J.D. overhears three attendings talking about a patient with ischemic bowel disease and realizes that Mr. Strauss may have the same ailment and asks Dr. Cox to order a CT-scan.  The CT-scan does not find ischemic bowel, but it does detect the aortic dissection that Mr. Strauss originally died from.  Dr. Cox decides to prepare Mr. Strauss for surgery and calls Turk, who now has the lucky do-rag, to operate.  However, even with the do-rag, the surgery is still unsuccessful and Strauss still dies.  Elliot tries to look for the doggie in the Janitor's supply closet.  When the same maintenance staff member tries to kick Elliot out, the Janitor vouches for her and allows her to look in the maintenance staff's Lost and Found/Free Stuff box, and gives her the doggie.   J.D. again looks at the butterfly and wonders what would happen if things were different.


[edit] Plot Points

  • Turk can't find his lucky do-rag which helps him with surgery, and thinks his performance will be affected.
  • Elliot has to look for her patient's lost stuffed pink doggie which will comfort the patient who is having a bone marrow transplant.
  • J.D. wonders how events would be different, including the result of surgery on a patient, if one butterfly took a different course.

[edit] Recurring Events

[edit] Fantasies

  • Randall pops out of a patient while Turk is operating.
  • J.D. distracts Dr. Kelso by playing the banjo. (When the butterfly landed on the woman's breasts.)
  • Dr. Cox plays the banjo, while Dr. Kelso plays the washboard. (When the butterfly landed on the fat man's chest.)

[edit] Flashbacks

  • When Dr. Cox asks J.D. if this moment was always how he pictured it, he flashes back to playing with two homemade dolls of himself and Perry, and repeats the same question.

[edit] Janitor story

When the butterfly landed on the woman's breasts The Janitor then had to clean up the dropped drinks which meant he didn't have time to help Elliot look for the lost stuffed doggie. When the butterfly landed on the man's chest he was happy to help Elliot look for the stuffed doggie and they eventually find it in time.

[edit] J.D.'s Girl Name

  • Carol
“Look, Carol, I know you think you look dashing in your navy blue scrubs, but I can't deal with the fact that I walk into the front door of this place and I find you standing there taaaalking at me.”— Dr. Cox
  • Debbie
“It's your show, Debbie. Is this moment just like you always pictured?”— Dr. Cox
  • Eleanor - When the butterfly lands on the woman's breasts, Dr. Cox actually leaves J.D. in charge of the hospital, so J.D. attempts to impersonate Dr. Cox, which doesn't faze him at all.
“Here's the deal, Eleanor, We're gonna go ahead and get a full work-up on this guy. So, while I drop an NG tube and do a gastric lavage, why don't you go ahead and get an order on EKG with cardio biomarkers. If you need to know where those are, they're on page 37 of the Ann Taylor catalog -- right next to that salmon cable-knit sweater you've wanted for so long but haven't had the courage to order...'cause you're worried the weave's so thin, your nipples might just go ahead and peek their little pink selves through. Isn't that right, Dr. Cox.”— J.D.

[edit] Guest Stars

[edit] Music

  • "What a Wonderful World" by Joey Ramone

[edit] Quotes

“I got a pink doggie for you. But it's not little.”— Todd
“If you show me your penis, I am going to take it away from you.”— Elliot
“Cool!”
“Me, I don't believe in fate. I believe we have more control than we think and that every action has a reaction.”— J.D.


“I couldn't help but think two things. First, I do look stunning in these navy scrubs - I mean, come on, who wants a taste?”— J.D.


“Turk! Why didn't you stand up for me?”— Carla
“Baby, you said I was too whipped.”— Turk

[edit] Trivia

  • Janitor has a flashback to when he was a child, and we learn what inspired him to become a janitor.
  • The actor John Ritter who played J.D.'s father died of an aortic dissection, the same way J.D.'s patient dies in this episode.
  • Dr. Mickhead is wearing blue scrubs in this episode, despite being a surgeon.

[edit] Images

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