My Lucky Night

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My Lucky Night

Directed by John Inwood Written by Neil Goldman Written by Garrett Donovan Air Date - October 30, 2003 on Transcript - Images Watch this episode! DVD • iTunes • Syndication

Season Three Episodes : My Own American Girl My Journey My White Whale My Lucky Night My Brother, Where Art Thou? My Advice to You My Fifteen Seconds My Friend the Doctor My Dirty Secret My Rule of Thumb My Clean Break My Catalyst My Porcelain God My Screw Up My Tormented Mentor My Butterfly My Moment of Un-Truth His Story II My Choosiest Choice of All My Fault My Self-Examination My Best Friend's Wedding    Episodes: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 w • 9

“It's a riddle! Two guys destroyed your bike with a crowbar and a bat. One of 'em wasn't me!”— Janitor

Contents 1 Synopsis 1.1 Plot Points 2 Recurring Themes 2.1 Fantasies 2.2 Janitor story 2.3 J.D.'s Girl Names 3 Guest Stars 4 Music 5 Quotes 6 Trivia 7 Images

[edit] Synopsis

J.D. muses about how he has adapted to life at the hospital, such as using Dr. Cox's rant time to get lots more patient work done. However, when J.D. asks him for a letter of recommendation so he can apply for a fellowship, Dr. Cox explains that J.D. needs to start doing things for himself.

Later at the bar, J.D. feels like a fifth wheel when sat with Elliot, Sean, Turk and Carla. Turk mistakenly reveals to Sean that J.D. and Elliot hook up every year, and Elliot is embarrassed because she had not talked about it with Sean yet. Sean is upset that Elliot did not tell him about her and J.D., but she does not seem to think it is a big deal. He is more upset when he finds out how close Elliot and J.D. are. However, he reveals that he is in fact not mad at her, but is pretending to be so he does not feel so bad for leaving for six months on a work related trip. He tells her that it would be better to break up than to maintain a long distance relationship, but Elliot fights for the relationship, hoping to maintain it despite the long distance.

At the hospital, J.D. confuses the Janitor and Troy with a riddle whilst Carla announces to Turk that she is covering for one of the surgical nurses and so will be working with him for a few days. While she is happy, Turk is less pleased about this. Carla begins to control him, stopping him from enjoying time with the other surgical interns and embarrassing him in front of Dr. Wen. However, he is given a good career opportunity and he realizes that it is because Carla worked with him in surgery, and so he begs for her to go back. She eventually agrees, and the two patch things up.

Dr. Cox and Jordan are looking for a nanny, and the latter is displeased that Cox is just going for young, attractive blonde women. Jordan says that they are too expensive, at which point Cox drops in that he planned to go for the Residency Director position at the hospital which recently opened up. To this, Jordan responds positively, offering to help him out as it is a board decision. However he is displeased, unwilling to let her help him. Reluctantly, Dr. Cox asks J.D. to go with him to a meet-and-greet dinner to help him gain the position, and J.D. agrees to do it in return for Dr. Cox writing his recommendation. Dr. Cox finally understands that he needs the help of Jordan to get the job, and so she agrees to help him and the board votes in his favor.

At the end of the episode, J.D. feels that he needs to tell Elliot how he feels, especially now that Sean is out of the picture. He goes to her apartment but unfortunately realizes that Sean is back, deciding to make the long distance relationship work.

[edit] Plot Points

• J.D. realizes how he feels about Elliot, after feeling like a fifth-wheel when with Elliot, Sean, Carla and Turk.
• Elliot is upset with Sean being away, and misses him.
• Dr. Cox wants a promotion, but realizes he needs Jordan to get it.

[edit] Recurring Themes

[edit] Fantasies

• J.D. fantasizes that Sean puts on lots of weight from drinking lots of regular sodas (Sean prefers diet). Elliot is upset and moves over to begin making out with J.D..

[edit] Janitor story

J.D. confuses the Janitor and Troy with a riddle: 2 coins add up to 30 cents and one of them is not a nickel - what are they? The duo spend the episode travelling to the bank to take out a large selection of coins to try to figure out the riddle, but J.D. reveals that the answer is that the other coin is a nickle. Him and Troy then destroy J.D.'s bike and tells J.D.: "It's a riddle! Two guys destroyed your bike with a crowbar and a bat. One of 'em wasn't me!"

[edit] J.D.'s Girl Names

• Molly
• Janice
• Denise
• Tiffany
• Amber

[edit] Guest Stars

• Scott Foley as Sean Kelly
• Joe Rose as Troy
• Matt Winston as Dr. Jeffrey Steadman
• Fred Ornstein as Bus Driver
• Arthur Roberts as Board member
• Jennifer O'Dell as Stunning woman
• Jeff Lapensee as Man
• Ian Kerr as Chairman
• Jan Devereaux as Female resident

[edit] Music

• "Blind, Deaf and Dumb" by The Churchills
• "Don't Know Much" originally by Linda Ronstadt & Aaron Neville, performed by Donald Faison
• "Almost Feeling Better" by Tart
• "On and On" by Keren DeBerg
• "Cindy" by Tammany Hall NYC

[edit] Quotes

“It's like a baguette.”— Dr. Steadman

[edit] Trivia

• At the bus station, Elliot's car has two replacement doors (red & yellow) because the two front doors were smashed off in "My Own American Girl".
• Dr Cox calls J.D. Tiffani Amber Thiessen, the name of an American actress.
• At the end of the thought chain, where the janitor is thinking to himself, trying to figure out the riddle, he goes 'Damn riddle! Easy, Janitor; you'll get this.' thus calling himself 'janitor' and leaving his name once more in obscurity.
• When Dr. Cox is talking to J.D. about his Hairmet an Asian intern is walking towards the side of them, but when the camera switches she doesn't walk past, although she walks past ten seconds later.

[edit] Images