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My Friend the Doctor

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My Friend the Doctor

Directed by Ken Whittingham
Written by Gabrielle Allan
Air Date - December 4, 2003 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


“Wow, you must be dancing on the wind right now! That sounded straighter in my head...”— J.D.

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[edit] Synopsis

When Turk performs a successful surgery, he is the stud of the hospital, but Dr. Cox doesn't like Turk getting all the attention, so upstages him on the basketball court by performing a dunk but when he lands his back starts hurting. After Turk does so well in surgery, Elliot says she still doesn't feel like a doctor. The Janitor is tricking everyone in the hospital into thinking he is someone who he is not, and J.D. wants him to stop pretending to be someone else. Dr. Cox confides in Carla about his back so she can help him recover, but Carla wants him to own up, but he refuses because it will make him look old. Then that night Jordan comes up to Dr. Cox and says they haven't had enough sex recently and that she wants to have sex in a physically-demanding position, and Cox knows, despite the pain, he will have to have sex or Jordan would know something was wrong.

Meanwhile J.D. was watching The Fugitive with Carla and Danni and sees Janitor in one scene, and believes Janitor is actually an actor. Elliot feels that she needs to save someones life and get the thanks from their family to feel like a doctor, and he opportunity arrives when she gets an emergency code and runs down the hall towards where a patient needs emergency help but J.D. catches her up from behind her and gets to the patient first and J.D. gets all the thanks. Carla and Dr. Cox discuss Dr. Cox's back and Dr. Cox thinks he is too old to bring up a baby would look like a "weird old guy", and Carla decides she would prefer a baby early, and thinks she is ready now, although Turk isn't. Then Elliot gets another code and runs to get to it, but again J.D. catches up and gets to the door first, but he waits at the door and lets Elliot take care of it. Even though the patient dies, Elliot feels like a doctor as she leaves the hospital. Carla and Dr. Cox then both admit they are old and getting older and know they have to accept it.

[edit] Plot Points

  • J.D. tries to stop The Janitor from tricking everyone into thinking he is someone he is not.
  • Turk becomes the stud of the hospital after a successful surgery.
  • Elliot doesn't feel like a doctor, and wants to saves someones life to feel like one.
  • Dr. Cox hurts his back while showing off and realizes he is getting old.

[edit] Recurring Themes

[edit] Fantasies

  • Turk jumps out a moving car when Carla suggests they should have a baby, as Turk was the driver, Carla and J.D. go off a bridge and crash. The crash scene is from Vanilla Sky.
  • As Turk walks through the hospital, everyone sings about him and praises him as he is the "stud" of the hospital.
  • J.D. keeps thinking of him and Elliot kissing. When he is supposed to think of Sean kissing Elliot, Sean turns out to be J.D.. And when he is supposed to think of Turk and Elliot kissing, Turk turns out to be a black J.D.

Flashbacks

  • Elliot has a small beard (from overdosing on birth control pills) and has to shave it before her homecoming date arrives.
  • J.D. brings a patient to a formal reunion, so when the other people are boasting about their lives, J.D. can say "This is Mr. Booker, he's alive because of me".

[edit] Janitor story

Janitor is pretending to be different people in front of other people. He claims he is "Klaus" the German with Doug, "Nigel" a British man with Todd and Efrem who has a stutter with another doctor. J.D. doesn't like this and tries to stop Janitor but he won't. Later that day, J.D. is watching "The Fugitive" and sees The Janitor in a scene and comes to the conclusion that Janitor is an actor, and when he confronts Janitor about this, he is told that Janitor picked being a janitor over being an actor.

[edit] Episode Running Gags

  • Enrique Iglesias' "Hero" plays when Dr. Cox hurts his back attempting to do various things in slow motion.
  • J.D. is having a "gay day" accidentally saying various feminine or homoerotic phrases.

[edit] Guest Stars

[edit] Music

  • "Stuck In A Moment You Can't Get Out Of" by U2
  • "Theme from Shaft" originally by Isaac Hayes, parody performed by Donald Faison and cast
  • "Empty Room" by Brian Paturalski
  • "Hero" by Enrique Iglesias
  • "William Tell Overture" by Gioacchino Rossini.
  • "Someone" by Tammany Hall NYC

[edit] Quotes

“Oh, so he can call you "Smelliot" but I'm not allowed to call you "Vagina Face"?”— The Todd

“How's about we skip the insults and you do something helpful like prop me up, or throw on a skirt.”— Dr. Cox, as he is lying on the floor

“I'm having such a gay day!”— J.D.
“Day?”— Carla

“I thought you said there was going to be some bitches here?”— Mr. Booker
“Relax! We just got here!”— J.D.


“Back injuries are for 80 year old guys named Norman who have pants up to here, nose hairs down to here, and start every sentence with a very elegant...<loud, gross sniff and hacking cough>”— Dr. Cox

[edit] Trivia

  • The scene in the beginning of the car driving off the bridge is footage from the movie "Vanilla Sky" starring Tom Cruise.
  • The Janitor's portrayer, Neil Flynn, did in fact have a small role in The Fugitive.
  • As Klaus, the Janitor says "Why is your Lake Titicaca not filled with boobs and poop?" the word "your" implying that Lake Titicaca is in the United States. Lake Titicaca is in South America, on the border of Peru and Bolivia.

[edit] Images

Carla and J.D. crash after Turk jumps out of the car when asked about having children

Elliot has a beard after taking too many birth control pills

Dr. Cox hurts his back when he dunks a basketball

J.D.'s high school reunion

The Fugitive

J.D. praises himself in front of a family

J.D. fantasizes that he is Turk kissing Elliot

Janitor reveals to J.D. that he was an actor in The Fugitive

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