My Old Lady

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My Old Lady

Directed by Marc Buckland Written by Matt Tarses Air Date - October 16, 2001 on Transcript - Images Watch this episode! DVD • iTunes • Syndication

Season One Episodes : My First Day My Mentor My Best Friend's Mistake My Old Lady My Two Dads My Bad My Super Ego My Fifteen Minutes My Day Off My Nickname My Own Personal Jesus My Blind Date My Balancing Act My Drug Buddy My Bed Banter & Beyond My Heavy Meddle My Student My Tuscaloosa Heart My Old Man My Way or the Highway My Sacrificial Clam My Occurrence My Hero My Last Day    Episodes: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 w • 9

“Pretty sneaky Death”— J.D.

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

[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

• J.D. tries to convince his 74-year old patient, Mrs. Tanner, not to want to die.
• Turk becomes friends with his patient, David Morrison, after watching a football game together.
• Elliot learns Spanish from Carla so she can talk to her Spanish patient, Mrs. Guerrero.

[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

• Mike Schwartz as Lloyd
• Kathryn Joosten as Mrs. Tanner
• Esther Mercado as Mrs. Guerrero
• Lela Lee as Bonnie
• Jennifer Naimo as Gina Tanner
• Jack Thomas as Jim Morrison
• Cooper Thorton as Tommy Tanner
• Liliana Mumy as Samantha Tanner
• Travis Wester as David Morrison

[edit] Music

Music from Season:

One • Two • Three • Four Five • Six • Seven • Eight

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

[edit] Quotes

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

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

[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] Images