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My Dream Job

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My Dream Job

Directed by Bill Lawrence
Written by Bill Lawrence
Air Date - April 17, 2003 on NBC
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Season Two Episodes :
  1. My Overkill
  2. My Nightingale
  3. My Case Study
  4. My Big Mouth
  5. My New Coat
  6. My Big Brother
  7. My First Step
  8. My Fruit Cups
  9. My Lucky Day
  10. My Monster
  11. My Sex Buddy
  12. My New Old Friend
  13. My Philosophy
  14. My Brother, My Keeper
  15. His Story
  16. My Karma
  17. My Own Private Practice Guy
  18. My T.C.W.
  19. My Kingdom
  20. My Interpretation
  21. My Drama Queen
  22. My Dream Job
   Episodes: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 w • 9


“News flash: you can't drink and then come to work. You're not airline pilots.”— Dr. Cox

Contents

[edit] Synopsis

Turk and J.D.'s college buddy Spence comes to town and in a flashback we discover that Spence is the one responsible for J.D.'s signature hair style. The three of them go out drinking together. While recovering from their hangovers the next day, Spence inadvertently informs Dr. Cox that he (Dr. Cox) is the father of Jordan's baby. Dr. Cox is infuriated that Jordan lied to him and wants nothing more to do with her. J.D. and Turk show Spence around the hospital, and Spence remarks that it looks like the two of them have landed their dream jobs. This provokes the opposite thought from J.D.. Meanwhile Dr. Kelso is looking for a resident to pick on. Elliot accidentally throws a needle in his face and from that point on he starts giving her a really hard time.

Spence offers to take J.D. and Turk out for some fun, and the three of them go hot tubbing and beer drinking, even though J.D. and Turk are the backup on-call doctors that night. They tell Spence they would only get paged in the unlikeliest of events. Unlikely events occur, and they both get paged after having had several beers apiece. When they show up at the hospital smelling of beer, Dr. Cox delivers a scathing lecture, then sends them both back home as unfit to work. Meanwhile Jordan relentlessly keeps hanging around Dr. Cox, saying she won't leave him alone until he forgives her. Dr. Cox briefly escapes into the on-call room, only to find Elliot, who tells him that Dr. Kelso is really getting to her and she can't take it any more. Dr. Cox can't help her because he has too much stuff of his own going on.

J.D. and Turk want to blame Spence for their disgrace but he tells them they both hate their jobs and were looking for any excuse to blow off work. They know he's right. Jordan tells Dr. Cox that things are different now that they have a baby together and she won't go home until he promises to go home with her. He finally relents and gently tells her to wait for him at home and he'll be along later. J.D. realizes that the reason he and his friends became doctors is because they all want to help people, and they have to keep remembering that as the going gets tougher; that it takes perserverance, fortitude and sacrifice at this stage of their training.

J.D. saves his angry patient's foot with the correct medical treatment and Dr. Cox gives him a back-handed compliment, which thrills J.D.. Dr. Cox confesses to J.D. that he was upset because he's afraid he's going to be a rotten father. J.D. tells Dr. Cox that he shows great fatherly instincts, and that if Elliot was his daughter he'd know exactly how to help her in the face of Dr. Kelso's increasingly vicious bullying. Dr. Cox realizes that J.D. is right. He punches Dr. Kelso in the nose (much to Ted's ecstasy) and tells Elliot that she's doing a fine job.

[edit] Plot Points

[edit] Recurring Themes

[edit] Fantasies

  • J.D. signs papers as they fly through the air.
  • J.D. imagines himself as "John Dorian - Chocolate King", and eats Turk's chocolate hand.
  • J.D. fantasizes about pulling Turk's chocolate ear off his head and eating it.

[edit] Flashbacks

  • Spense helps J.D. figure out how he will style his hair - mouseing the crap out of it.

[edit] Janitor story

The Janitor claims to make more money than J.D., and tricks J.D. into revealing his PIN number. Later, he taunts J.D., calling him "Food Stamps" and offering to make a donation. J.D. responds angrily, hurting The Janitor's feelings. The next day, J.D. apologizes and then compliments The Janitor on the cleanliness of the floor. He says it's clean enough to eat off of it. The Janitor drops some turkey from his sandwich on to the floor and J.D. reluctantly eats it, not realizing until later that the floor cleaning solution the Janitor uses is a powerful diuretic.

[edit] J.D.'s Girls Name

  • Wilma (or Betty. it appears he looks at Turk first then J.D. so Turk was Betty and J.D. was Wilma)
“Betty. Hey Wilma. What the hell, you're only forty minutes late.”— Dr. Cox

[edit] Guest Stars

  • Ryan Reynolds as Spence
  • Richard Voigts as Mr. Weinberg
  • Steve Susskind as Mr. Groff
  • Sarah Lilly as Wife
  • James Henriksen as Husband

[edit] Music

  • "Pinch Me" by the Barenaked Ladies
  • "Candy Man" performed by Sammy Davis Jr.
  • "Sunday" by Keren DeBerg
  • "My Brilliant Feat" by Colin Hay

[edit] Quotes

“Ronk!”— Mr. Weinberg


“Newbie, if the next two words out of your mouth aren't 'See ya', then the third will be 'Oh my god, my crotch. You punched me in the crotch'.”— Dr. Cox

[edit] Trivia

  • J.D.'s Social Security number according to this episode is 987-65-4320 (which is not a valid Social Security number. [1])
  • Ted calls Dr. Kelso "Dr. Oslek", which is his character's name in "My Princess".

[edit] Images

Spence helps J.D. with his hair

John Dorian - Chocolate King

J.D. grabs Turk's hand...

...and eats it

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