My Dumb Luck
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My Dumb Luck | |||
Directed by Rick BlueWritten by Aseem Batra Air Date - April 24, 2008 on  DVD • iTunes • Syndication | |||
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- “Thanks for everything Ted. Sincerely.”— Dr. Kelso
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[edit] Synopsis
Carla and Elliot work to get the board of directors to change their decision to force him to retire. They ask Jordan for advice on the issue and she states that the board does not like confrontation, and that a large group showing up at a meeting would make the board change its mind.They try to rally the staff of Sacred Heart to help them save Kelso's job,but they find it impossible until The Janitor reveals that the reason no one will help is because they know Dr. Cox despises Kelso and wants him gone,and nobody wants to cross Cox because they are afraid of him.With this knowledge,they set about persuading Dr. Cox to help them save Kelso's job and convince him to come to the board meeting,in the hope that if they can get Cox's help,they can get everybody's,but to no avail.
Dr. Kelso sits on a bench outside the hospital alone,he spots Boon on his way in and tells him to join him so he can reminisce on his past 40 years at Sacred Heart,
Meanwhile,an old patient of Dr. Cox - Alex Macrae - is back in the hospital for a condition that Cox has been unable to diagnose for two years. J.D. and Turk are aware of this,so they decide to rile up Dr. Cox with a game they call Poke the Bear,where they converse about a patient they cannot diagnose (refering to Dr. Cox's inability to diagnose Mr. Macrae) with Dr. Cox within ear-shot. Cox catches on and stares them both down, before walking off disgusted.
Ted appears afterwards,looking jaded at Turk and J.D. embracing one another,they tell Ted that he should be happy that Kelso's being forced out.Ted,still looking dull,says that he didn't know Dr. Kelso was retiring,he then excuses himself.He's then found streaking through the hospital naked,he runs out onto the carpark where he's struck down by The Janitor in his van.
When Dr. Cox emerges from Mr. Macrae's room with a urine sample he relays to Turk and J.D that his file on Mr. Macrae is so big that he has to bind it together with a bike bungee,he then exacts revenge on J.D for his conversation earlier using the bike bungee.He treats them as orderlies and asks them to take the patient's urine sample for analysis. After accidentally leaving it outside in the sunlight, it turns purple. They Google it and diagnose the patient. When Cox tells the patient that the disease has no cure but is manageable, he is relieved. It then dawns on Dr. Cox that an enemy (Kelso), that he knows is better than one he doesn't know.
At the board meeting Dr. Cox shows up with some other influential doctors including Dr. Beardface and Colonel Doctor. The board then announces to Dr. Kelso that he can keep his job, to which he tells them to "shove it up your ass". He steals the portrait of himself, thanks Ted for all his hard work, gives the hospital one last look from his convertible,before driving off into the sunset,his portrait sat in the backseat.
[edit] Plot Points
- Dr. Kelso reminisces to Boon on his past 40 years at Sacred Heart.
- Carla and Elliot work to get the board of directors to change their decision about Kelso.
- Dr. Kelso leaves the hospital for the last time as Chief of Medicine.
[edit] Recurring Themes
[edit] Fantasies
- While herding elderly patients to new rooms, J.D. fantasies them riding a Love Train composed of a tiny train engine and wheel chairs while disco lights and confetti make it all the more fun.
- Later, when Dr. Cox is bringing some doctors to the board meeting, J.D. imagines them riding the Love Train.
[edit] Janitor story
Janitor hits Ted with his van accidentally while he is streaking. This causes Ted to bite off a small chunk of his tongue. Elliot stitches him up, but for the rest of the episode, Ted can't talk: he can only point or moan incoherently. When Carla and Elliot are looking for influential people to persuade the board, they don't ask Janitor because they don't think he is important enough to the hospital. He claims to control people with his mind, which only validates Elliot's point. Then they decide to include not just medical personnel, but also support staff for the hospital. They ask Ted to tell them who is the leader of the hospital's support staff, and he points at Janitor. At first Janitor refuses to help now that he has been proven right, but he quickly relents and agrees to help because he can't resist Elliot's face.
[edit] J.D.'s Girl's Name
- Hermione
- “Hermione, have you seen Mr. Macrae's urine test?”— Dr. Cox
- “I'm on it, Slick.”— J.D.
[edit] Guest Stars
- Tyler Poelle as Boon
- Peter Holden as Alex Macrae
- Jerry Sherman as Mr. Mandelbaum
- Duke Stroud as Rodney
- Alison White as Butch Doctor
[edit] Music
- "Love Train" by The O'Jays
- "Little Victories" by Matt Nathanson
[edit] Quotes
- “Are you familliar with the term 'Delusions of Grandeur'?”— Carla
- “I believe I coined that term.”— Janitor
- “That was a fun fantasy. I wish it didn't have to end.”— J.D.
- “Turk and I couldn't resist playing a game we like to call 'Poke the Bear'.”— J.D's narration
- “So Turk, yesterday I had this patient I just could not diagnose.”— J.D.
- “Wow, you must have felt like a real jackass.”— Turk
- "I did feel like a jackass, but then I was able to figure out what was wrong with him, because I'm not a jackass, I'm a good doctor. [OK, now stay calm, so he doesn't know what you're up to. Oh no! Turk's breaking. Quick! Distract the bear with a casual greeting]. Oh hey Dr. Cox, how are things?"
- [A disgruntled Cox leaves.]
- “Oh my God that was amazing, I've never felt so alive in my whole life.”— to Turk
- "My heart stopped for a second."
- "We made it. I love you, man."
- "I love you, too."
- [They hug.]
- "You smell like an athlete."
- “I need one of those.”— Ted
- “A hug?”— J.D
- "No, a black friend. I think it would make me much cooler."
- “Yipes!”— Janitor
- “I keep thinking about Kelso. He reminds me of my grandpa: he's pervy, demeaning and an eensy bit racist, but you crave his love anyway 'cos he smells like peppermint.”— Elliot
- “Fall!”— Janitor
- [Woman falls]
- "whoa-hoo-hoo."
- “When I was an intern, they made us work 60 hour shifts. Quite a few colleagues got drummed up 'cos they couldn't cope, the rest of us were so sleep deprived we could barely manage to stay sane. I'll never forget the day we caught Seth Finkeljetly cradling a cadaver head which he swore belonged to his ex-girlfriend, Milly [Laughs]. A year later Seth actually did kill Milly. Ironically, Milly donated her body to science, and that Spring we caught another intern cradling her dead head [Laughs again]. Life's lil' cycles.”— Dr. Kelso
- “So, have you killed anyone yet?”— Dr. Kelso
- “What? No!”— Boon
- "Well, you will."
- "Super."
- “Well, well, well. Look who's come crawling back through the Desert of Shame to the Oasis of Hope, begging for just one sip of cool, Janitor forgiveness. Well, the answer's no.”— Janitor
- “Please, Janitor.”— Elliot
- "All right I'm in. Doggarnit, I cannot resist that adorable mug of yours. I would have to throw a cup of acid on it, to keep it from having power over me."
- “Google that bitch!”— Turk
- “Son, my blood sugar's low and unless you have a candy bar in that gay little knapsack of yours, shush it!”— Dr. Kelso
- “Can i get a 'Hell no!' from any random doctor?”— Dr. Cox
- “Hell No!”— Josephine
- “I realize that your heart is made up of mostly muffin bits, the souls of little babies and the denture grip you swallow everytime to suck your teeth to get out the muffin bits and baby souls stuck in there...”— Dr. Cox
- “Wait! There's more people coming.”— J.D.
- “When!?”— Carla
- "Right now! Love Train!"
- “Girls, Thank you for saving my job. The one thing I wanted was to end things on my own terms and since you're letting me... you can shove it up your ass, Rodney. I'm outta here.”— Dr. Kelso
[edit] Trivia
- At the end of the episode Dr. Kelso steals the portrait of himself from Season Two which Dr. Cox modified to declare him dead.
- Just before revealing to Dr. Cox that they've diagnosed his patient, J.D. beatboxes while Turk plays the air guitar, both to the tune of "Superman" by Lazlo Bane, the show's opening credit's song.
- J.D. and Turk 'poke the bear' [Cox] much like Dr. Cox did previously with Dr. Kelso. (My Balancing Act)
- Although J.D. has pronounced it correctly in a previous episode, both J.D. and Dr. Cox pronounce "acute intermittent porphyria" incorrectly, they pronounce the last part"poe-FUR-ia", while it is pronounced "Poe-FEAR-ia." (My Ocardial Infarction)
- The name of one Dr. Kelso's dogs as a boy, Jojo, is a name on one of the plaques behind the bench where Dr. Kelso and Boon talk.
[edit] Images
The Love Train |
 Ted streaks |
 Ted has his tongue reattached |
 J.D. and Turk discover the pee to be purple... |
...and they research it's cause |
Kelso reminisces to Boon |
 Dr. Cox leads another Love Train... |
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 ...with many other doctors |
The staff unites for Kelso |
 Kelso steals his portrait |
