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My Porcelain God

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My Porcelain God

Directed by Adam Bernstein
Written by Tim Hobert
Written by Eric Weinberg
Air Date - February 17, 2004 on NBC
Transcript - Images
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Season Three Episodes :
  1. My Own American Girl
  2. My Journey
  3. My White Whale
  4. My Lucky Night
  5. My Brother, Where Art Thou?
  6. My Advice to You
  7. My Fifteen Seconds
  8. My Friend the Doctor
  9. My Dirty Secret
  10. My Rule of Thumb
  11. My Clean Break
  12. My Catalyst
  13. My Porcelain God
  14. My Screw Up
  15. My Tormented Mentor
  16. My Butterfly
  17. My Moment of Un-Truth
  18. His Story II
  19. My Choosiest Choice of All
  20. My Fault
  21. My Self-Examination
  22. My Best Friend's Wedding
   Episodes: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 w • 9


“Watching Kevin go, I wondered how gay I looked giving that two-handed handshake”— J.D.'s narration

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[edit] Synopsis

The Janitor installs a toilet on the roof of the hospital, claiming that he can look at his life better than if he used a "germ-infested" stall in the building. These life-changing thoughts give the toilet the name of the "epiphany toilet." The episode features, for the second time, Dr. Kevin Casey, who is an amazing doctor in both the fields of medicine and surgery, but has a severe case of OCD.

Turk asks J.D. to be the best man at his wedding, but J.D. hears a message from Turk's brother that reveals that Turk had first asked his brother to be his best man. Turk later explains that he only asked his brother because he knew that his brother wouldn't be able to make it. Elliot is afraid of intubating patients and seeks help from Dr. Kevin Casey. The doctor does help her, but in the form of an epiphany while she is on the Epiphany toilet (after he left a note instructing her to use it).

Dr. Kelso shuts down an entire wing of the hospital in order to save a large sum of money, but many patients are arriving and there are not enough rooms to accommodate them. When Bob Kelso asks Dr. Cox and Carla to find a room for his gardener, Dr. Cox turns Dr. Kelso's office into a room for the gardener. Kelso eventually re-opens the shut-down wing.

[edit] Plot Points

  • Dr. Casey tries to sit on "The Epiphany Toilet", a germ-infested toilet which he is scared to sit on.
  • J.D. is upset when he hears Turk chose his brother to be best man.
  • Dr. Cox tries to persuade Dr. Kelso to re-open a wing which was closed for budget costs.

[edit] Recurring Themes

[edit] Fantasies

  • Dr. Kevin Casey asking The Epiphany Toilet "Why Can't I sit on you? Why?"
  • At Turk and Carla's wedding, they ask J.D. for the ring, who is dressed as a pimp and doesn't know where the rings are in all the "bling".
  • Elliot has an epiphany while on the toilet, she believes a helicopter lands on the roof and she has to do what she can't do herself: intubate a patient. She then sees that the helicopter paramedic is Dr. Casey, and the two lean in to kiss before wakes up from her fantasy/epiphany.

[edit] Janitor story

The Janitor builds an Epiphany Toilet on the rooftop of Sacred Heart Hospital, which becomes his secret that, to his annoyance, is revealed to the hospital and everybody queues up to use it.

[edit] J.D.'s Girls Name

  • J.D. is called Turk's best woman as opposed to the best man.

[edit] Guest Stars

[edit] Music

  • "Murder of One" by Counting Crows

[edit] Quotes

“This is a roof toilet.”— Janitor
“You say that like it's a normal thing.”— Dr. Kevin Casey


“Todd, "surgeon" is spelled G-E-O-N, and there are two Ds in Todd”— Turk


“What has two thumbs and still doesn't give a crap? Bob Kelso. I thought we met.”— Dr. Kelso

[edit] Trivia

  • This episode is the first that Snoop Dogg Intern has a speaking part.
  • All the pictures in the ending credits are characters on the toilet.
  • Dr. Cox asks Carla to tell a Spanish-speaking patient something in Spanish, but in other episodes, Dr. Cox knows how to speak Spanish.
  • Due to Michael J. Fox's special guest appearance on the show, the original air time of this episode was lengthened to 40 minutes (instead of the traditional 30 minutes). However, in the syndicated repeat of this episode, it is edited back down to 30 minutes, removing a crucial scene in which Elliot intubates a patient incorrectly, and Dr. Cox is forced to redo it while J.D. and Elliot watch in stunned silence. Instead, in the edited version, Elliot is seen intubating this patient with no mistake, then for the rest of the episode, she is afraid of intubating patients for no apparent reason.

[edit] Images

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