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My Old Lady

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My Old Lady

Directed by Marc Buckland
Written by Matt Tarses
Air Date - October 16, 2001 on NBC
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Season One Episodes :
  1. My First Day
  2. My Mentor
  3. My Best Friend's Mistake
  4. My Old Lady
  5. My Two Dads
  6. My Bad
  7. My Super Ego
  8. My Fifteen Minutes
  9. My Day Off
  10. My Nickname
  11. My Own Personal Jesus
  12. My Blind Date
  13. My Balancing Act
  14. My Drug Buddy
  15. My Bed Banter & Beyond
  16. My Heavy Meddle
  17. My Student
  18. My Tuscaloosa Heart
  19. My Old Man
  20. My Way or the Highway
  21. My Sacrificial Clam
  22. My Occurrence
  23. My Hero
  24. My Last Day
   Episodes: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 w • 9


“Pretty sneaky Death”— J.D.

Contents

[edit] Synopsis

J.D., Turk and Elliot each get a patient. Statistically, one of these three is going to die. J.D.'s patient is a 74-year old woman, Mrs. Tanner. Turk has to perform surgery on David Morrison, and Elliot's patient, Mrs. Guerrero, only speaks Spanish.

All three of them try to get close to their patients and talk to them. Mrs. Tanner at one time leaves the hospital to celebrate her granddaughter's birthday in the park. J.D. goes there and takes her back to the hospital. Turk and David watch a classic football game on TV and Elliot learns some Spanish from Carla to be able to talk to Mrs. Guerrero.

In the end, all three of the patients die and the young doctors have their first experience with death. Mrs. Tanner chooses to die because she thinks she is old enough and doesn't want to have dialysis, while Turk's and Elliot's patients died due to their sickness and the doctors couldn't do anything to save them.

[edit] Plot Points

[edit] Recurring Themes

[edit] Fantasies

  • J.D. rewinds time to take back a comment he made to Elliot and Carla, only to say it again.
  • Mrs. Tanner escapes from Sacred Heart as if it were a prison.
  • J.D. pushes Samantha Tanner's face into her birthday cake.
  • J.D. and the Grim Reaper play Connect 4, and the Grim Reaper wins (diagonally -- pretty sneaky).
  • A ton of bricks falls on J.D.

[edit] Janitor story

Janitor threatens J.D., and later intimidates him with a floor waxer.

[edit] Guest stars

[edit] Music

Music from Season:

1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 • 9

  • "Dracula from Houston" by The Butthole Surfers
  • "Hallelujah" by John Cale

[edit] Quotes

“Hello? I'm the doctor!”— J.D.

[family continues to bicker]

“I'm...I'm...I'm the doctor.”
“What are you, sixteen?”— Tommy Tanner
“Oh, this is unacceptable.”— Gina Tanner
“What'd you have, like, coupons to this hospital, ma?”
“I should--we should have gone to my doctor.”
“Now that's enough! Now, sure, he's young, but he's probably a very good doctor. [to J.D.] Are you a good doctor?”— Mrs. Tanner
“It's kinda too soon to tell.”


“I'm a chunky monkey from funky town.”— Elliot
“I'm gonna have a little trouble translating that.”— Carla


“'Neat?' Dude, the 1930s called and they want their lingo back.”— Turk


“I feel like you're missing out. Like, this Mrs. Tanner, she's got this...incredible energy and...and warmth.”— J.D.
“Dude, the League of Women Voters called and they want to know where to send your membership info.”— Turk
“You're using that "somebody called" joke a lot.”
“I know, I can't help it. I got a hernia patient to take care of.”
“What's his name?”
“Well, his name is Hernia Patient, but we've gotten close so I like to call him "Hernia".”
“He must feel so safe and taken care of.”
“Shut up. ”


“Speaking of heparin, have you slept with Turk yet?”— Elliot


“Sweetie, I'm seventy-four years old, I'm ready to go.”— Mrs. Tanner
“Yeah, but with dialysis, you could live another...eighty or ninety years.”— J.D.

[edit] Trivia

  • Zach Braff once said that he was mad at Sarah Chalke while filming this episode. In the final scene, J.D. does not look at Elliot and just interacts with the other two characters, Turk and Carla.
  • Again, like in "My Best Friend's Mistake", Dr. Cox doesn't call J.D. a girl's name.
  • This episode is the first one in which the Grim Reaper and Lloyd appear.
  • The line Mrs. Tanner says in Japanese, means, "I lived in Kyoto for about five years."
  • J.D. tries to cheat death, when he plays Connect 4 with the Grim Reaper. He has placed eight chips, while the Reaper only has placed six.
  • This episode received a Humanitas Prize.

[edit] Title explanation

J.D. gets an old woman as a patient. She does not want dialysis because she thinks she's old enough to die. J.D. tries to convince the Mrs. Tanner to stay alive.

[edit] Images

J.D. rewinds his mistake

J.D. pushes Samantha's face into the cake

Mrs. Tanner escapes Sacred Heart

J.D. is hit with a ton of bricks

J.D. plays Connect-4 with the Grim Reaper

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