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My Overkill

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My Overkill

Directed by Adam Bernstein
Written by Bill Lawrence
Air Date - September 26, 2002 on NBC
Transcript - Images
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Season Two Episodes :
  1. My Overkill
  2. My Nightingale
  3. My Case Study
  4. My Big Mouth
  5. My New Coat
  6. My Big Brother
  7. My First Step
  8. My Fruit Cups
  9. My Lucky Day
  10. My Monster
  11. My Sex Buddy
  12. My New Old Friend
  13. My Philosophy
  14. My Brother, My Keeper
  15. His Story
  16. My Karma
  17. My Own Private Practice Guy
  18. My T.C.W.
  19. My Kingdom
  20. My Interpretation
  21. My Drama Queen
  22. My Dream Job
   Episodes: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 w • 9


“This is the guy that screamed on you for like twenty minutes for dropping a thermometer? And he hasn't raised his voice once about you bumping uglies with his ex-wife?”— Turk

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[edit] Synopsis

J.D. wakes up the morning after an incredibly awful blowout between all his close friends and co-workers, hoping it was all a bad dream. Turk is sleeping next to him since Carla kicked him out of his own room for not telling her about how Dr. Cox felt about her. At Sacred Heart, J.D. passed Dr. Cox, who is ashamed with Carla, mad at Dr. Kelso for misleading him about a job offer, and furious with J.D. for sleeping with his ex-wife. He also sees Elliot who quickly leaves, ashamed to be seen by J.D. now that he knows she still has feelings for him. After Dr. Cox unleashes his anger on Dr. Kelso, he proceeds to be surprisingly polite to J.D. Meanwhile, Turk is trying to get back on Carla's good side but is confused when he realizes he doesn't know why she is mad at him. Elliot and J.D. have an awkward conversation where J.D. suggests they sleep with each other, giving a reason for Elliot to be mad at him.

When J.D. realizes that Dr. Cox isn't yelling at him because he doesn't care about him anymore, he pages everyone to the cafeteria, where everyone argues and nothing is resolved. J.D. is late for rounds and hasn't done any tests or medication for Mr. Zerbo yet. When Dr. Kelso confronts him on this, J.D. is honest and said he did nothing, to which Dr. Kelso compliments him as good doctors know that any patient bounced from ward to ward has a high risk of fever. Shocked at this response, J.D. realizes that doing nothing sometimes works and all people need is time.

Eventually, J.D. and Elliot are comfortable to be around each other again, Dr. Cox realizes he just idealizes Carla, Carla lets Turk back into his own room and Dr. Cox starts yelling and caring about J.D. again, putting everything back to normal.

[edit] Plot Points

  • J.D. tries to get everyone back as friends after what happened at the end of the last episode.

[edit] Recurring Themes

[edit] Fantasies

  • On their way to work, J.D. and Turk pass Colin Hay who starts following J.D. around the hospital singing "Overkill".
  • After publicly apologizing for sleeping with Jordan, everyone in the cafeteria and on the street stops what they are doing and stares at J.D., and later when he admits he hasn't done anything to treat Mr. Zerbo.
  • J.D is being shouted at by Dr. Cox and is enjoying all of the spit that comes out of Dr. Cox's mouth onto him.
  • Everyone in the hospital floats around.
  • While waiting for Colin Hay to stop singing, Dr. Cox become impatient and smashes his guitar against a wall.

[edit] Janitor story

The Janitor spends his time spraying J.D.'s crotch with water to make it look like he wet himself, at one point spraying him with ammonia.

[edit] J.D.'s Girl Names

  • Felicia
  • Oprah
  • Farrah

[edit] Guest Stars

[edit] Music

[edit] Quotes

“This is unacceptable. You said we were gonna sleep head-to-foot.”— J.D.
“Dude, either way the naughty bits are still in the middle.”— Turk
“Yeah, but with the head-to-foot alignment, it's just--there's no way for them to lock in.”


(Janitor sprays J.D.'s pants with water)

“Whoa.... Looks like someone switched to big-boy pants a little too soon.”— Janitor
“Ah, that's--that's very clever...it looks like I wet myself. Do you actually think that that's funny?”— J.D.

(The Janitor shoots him in the pants again, and laughs.)

“Yeah!”


“Life in a hospital is made up of highs and lows. For instance, my spare pair of scrubs doesn't match, but I put my underwear in the microwave to dry them off, and they feel gooooooooooood!”— J.D.


“Here you go, whiz-kid.”— Dr. Kelso
“Ooh! Is that my new nickname? 'Cause, you know, I actually thought people were gonna start calling me that in high school when I was in our production of 'The Wiz'.... Yeah, it was the--sort of the "hip" version of The Wizard of Oz.... Nipsey Russell played the TinMan? [sings:] "Come on and ease on down, ease on down the road!" Remember that? No? Well, anyway, you know, kids can be mean and everyone just started calling me "Dorothy." ...High school was hard.... ''”— J.D.
“Oh, I'm sorry, sport; I was thinking about soup.”

[edit] Trivia

  • This is one of the only episodes with the extended opening.
  • J.D. is uncomfortable with sharing a bed with Turk, although in later episodes, the roles are reversed; Turk is the one who shows discomfort at the homoerotic undertones of their relationship, and J.D. is the one who seems to be slightly gay.
  • Although Turk whips the covers off of the bed to reveal a fully clothed J.D., in previous shots J.D. appears to be undressed.
  • When everyone is floating around in a fantasy, you can see Carla's dolly pulling her along at the bottom of the frame for a second or two. In the same fantasy, Sarah Chalke (Elliot) is not using a dolly but instead Rollerblades, because she can rollerblade.
  • The episode is named after the Men at Work song "Overkill". In fact, Men at Work lead singer Colin Hay appears in the episode as a troubadour that follows J.D. everywhere and sings the acoustic version of that song from his album "Man at Work".
  • Todd wears a banana hammock for the first time in this episode.
  • This is the first episode in which someone acknowledges what Janitor does to J.D.: Dr. Kelso laughs at his pranks.

[edit] Images

J.D. dries his pants.

When J.D. makes a loud announcement...

...everyone stares...

...in disbelief.

J.D. enjoys Dr. Cox's anger.

Turk has been kicked out of his own bed.

J.D. knocks over Laverne.

Dr. Cox is not patient with Colin Hay.

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