My Inconvenient Truth

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My Inconvenient Truth

Directed by Bill Lawrence Written by Debra Fordham Air Date - November 8, 2007 on Transcript - Images Watch this episode! DVD • iTunes • Syndication

Season Seven Episodes : My Own Worst Enemy My Hard Labor My Inconvenient Truth My Identity Crisis My Growing Pains My Number One Doctor My Bad Too My Manhood My Dumb Luck My Waste of Time My Princess    Episodes: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 w • 9

“Obviously, as Environmental Officer I don't have any real power, but I can give you this citation, just as a symbolic gesture. You'll notice on the back, I made a list of possible consequences for violating the Hospital's new "green" policy. If you leave a light on, I make you lick a battery or make you eat a light bulb, your choice, and as for parking in a Car Pool Only Lane, well I can't really damage your car, but I might just throw a wasp hive in there...maybe mess with the locks so you can't get out.”— Janitor

Contents 1 Synopsis 1.1 Plot Points 2 Recurring Themes 2.1 Fantasies 2.2 Flashback 2.3 Janitor story 3 Guest Stars 4 Music 5 Quotes 6 Trivia 7 Images

[edit] Synopsis

The hospital receives a new patient scale, which causes all the female staff to worry about their weight. Dr. Cox tells a patient not to get so worked up over small things, before shouting at Boon about his coffee, and Elliot, who is trying to deal with such hypocrisy in the hospital, gets a patient, Robyn, who has passed out at work due to malnutrition. Dr. Cox, annoyed that Elliot (of all people) pointed out his hypocrisy, weighs Elliot, despite her threats, and it is found out that Elliot weighs less than her patient, thus calling her out on her own hypocrisy. Not wanting to be a hypocrite, Elliot decides that she will also try to gain some weight, but is put off after the male staffers, with some coercion from Dr. Cox, praise her appearance. After Carla reassures her that, on this occasion, her hypocrisy is no bad thing, Elliot gets tough on Robyn, much to the delight of Dr. Cox.

J.D. is a having a rough time after Kim and Sam move away, and to make things worse his brother Dan returns with the news that he has moved out of his mom's attic and found a job as a real estate agent. This especially annoys J.D. as he normally uses Dan's life as a way of finding perspective in his own. Dan knows J.D. is having a rough time and surprises him with a new car. J.D. disdains Dan's new found success and the notion of Dan giving him a car, so he breaks the windshield, stating that Dan is supposed to be the family screw-up. Dan tells J.D. that he needs to "grow up," which is reciprocated by everyone J.D. later asks, including Turk. J.D. accepts his brother and takes him to visit his new nephew Sam. J.D and Dan are then driving back, while Dan makes a statement that his nephew looks just like their dad.

[edit] Plot Points

• Janitor attempts to make the hospital "greener".
• Dan surprises J.D. with a new car.
• A new scale at the hospital worries some of the employees.

[edit] Recurring Themes

[edit] Fantasies

• Female hospital staff weigh Turk & J.D. and stamp them "Tubbo" and "Muscles Wanted", respectively.

[edit] Flashback

• Elliot remembers Carla's "You're both human" talk from My Own Worst Enemy, in which Carla said she didn't want to have to repeat herself two weeks later.

[edit] Janitor story

The Janitor becomes the Hospital Environmental Officer after Ted shows him An Inconvenient Truth. He enforces carpooling and recycling, but he quickly loses his interest in it. He becomes very upset in himself, but realizes that he actually did some good when he sees that Kelso and some of the attendings have begun to car pool into work.

[edit] Guest Stars

• Tom Cavanagh as Dan Dorian
• Corena Chase as Robyn
• Paul Latham as Mr. Barnhart
• Greg Martin as Tan Doctor
• Tyler Poelle as Boon

[edit] Music

• "1812 Overture (Opus 49)" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
• "Friends & Family" by Trik Turner

[edit] Quotes

“You look like you've been sick.”— Turk

“Turk, that's so sweet.”— Elliot

“How come you don't point it out when I ask good questions?”— Turk

“Because I don't love you like he does.”— Carla

“Told you.”— J.D.

“Hey you! Come over here an read this number will you.”— Dr. Cox

“No Boon! I will kill you family!”— Elliot

“Now who is that guy? What's behind that door? When is the next bus to Chicago? 7 O' Clock, be under it. Where is that girl going? Wanna see me do a funny dance? A-bika-tika-booka-tooka EH! EH! Wanna see me do it around you?...”— Dan Dorian as The Constant Questioner

“He has crazy eyes.”— Robyn

“I do. I'm OK with it.”— Dr. Cox

“Move it Jolly Green!”— J.D.

“I'm so disappointed in you, You're pathetic and weak, and I don't love you anymore, get out!”— Ted

“Janitors aren't human.”— Janitor

“He looks like dad.”— Dan

“I know.”— J.D.

[edit] Trivia

• This was a "green" episode during NBC's Go Green Week. NBC tried to raise the environment awareness by even making their NBC logo green.
• Dan's entrance mirrors that of Jigsaw's in the first Saw movie.
• Elliot's patient, Robyn, later appears in My Full Moon.

[edit] Images

Dan pranks J.D.	Turk paints his face like Harry Potter	Robyn as a patient	Janitor is the Environmental Officer
Dan buys J.D. a new car...	...which J.D. doesn't want...	...so he smashes it	Janitor and J.D.
Turk is trapped inside his car with some wasps	Elliot, Carla, and Turk	Turk tells Elliot that he doesn't care about his weight...	...which makes her and the other women mad...
...so Carla weighs him...	...and stamps him...	...as "Tubbo"...	...which makes him sad...
...but J.D. laugh...	...so the ladies mark J.D. as "Muscles Needed"...	...which is embarassing...	...and makes the ladies laugh...
...and Elliot and Carla happy