My Rite of Passage
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My Rite of Passage | |
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Written by Janae Bakken Air Date - January 3, 2006 on  DVD • iTunes • Syndication | |
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- “I believe in team-building too, Newbie, and I'd make my interns agree with me but they're on a time out because one of them used the phrase "Let's rock and roll".”— Dr. Cox
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[edit] Synopsis
Dr. Cox is unsure about working with his wife at the hospital. Dr. Cox warns Jordan to stop the carpool torturing games or he will put a Plexiglas separator down the middle of the car so she'll stop driving him crazy. During lunch, Jordan joins Dr. Cox but he tries to avoid sitting by his wife to sit with Dr. Kelso. Dr. Cox tells Jordan to make friends and asks for space in the work environment. Jordan decides to join J.D., Carla, Turk's table and tells them to be her friend. Later, when Jordan joins her fellow colleagues again, everyone escapes except Turk. Sam an ICU patient offers to become Jordan's friend. Turk realizes the patient Jordan befriends is an ex junkie from the past who conned Elliot into giving him drugs. Dr. Cox decides Jordan should experience what it's like to work at the hospital. Jordan is conned for $500.00. Dr. Cox tells Jordan she had to go through a rite of passage in order to be accepted in the hospital as it happens to all new employees.
As the new attending physician, J.D. tries to build a relationship with his interns. He begins leading his interns in a group huddle to cheer on their day's work, practices trust exercises with blind folds and also spent the weekend building a house for the homeless. Dr. Kelso advises J.D. to treat his interns like crap. J.D. also tells jokes that he thinks are hilarious and thinks his interns like them too. Janitor tells J.D. that the interns only laugh at his jokes because he's the boss, though J.D. thinks Janitor is wrong.
Elliot likes everything about her fellowship except her co-fellow Charlie who tries to scare her to death. Elliot declines Charlie invite to work on the osteogeneis imperfecta therapy together. Later, Elliot loses her fellowship when her Director announces that Charlie found a cure for the OI disease and no longer needs her. Elliot is embarrassed when her co-workers start teasing her after Carla gossips to the nurses about an embarrassing experience. Elliot confides in Carla that she's a big gossip and that she should learn how to keep a secret, otherwise she'll never trust her again. Carla earns Elliot's trust back when she decided to not tell Turk and J.D. that Elliot lost her fellowship position.
[edit] Plot Points
- J.D. tries to build a relationship with his interns, even though Dr. Kelso advises him to treat them like crap.
- Dr. Cox doesn't want to work around the hospital with Jordan.
- Carla loses Elliot's trust after spreading gossip.
[edit] Recurring Themes
[edit] Fantasies
- J.D. pushes all his interns off the roof, one by one.
[edit] Flashbacks
- J.D. and his interns building houses, J.D. cuts open Rex's chest with a circular saw.
- J.D.'s "one pump mocha" joke.
- Turk remembers Sam Thompson trying to con Elliot for drugs.
- Elliot farting at an ATM, getting a new nickname, 'Bankfarter'.
[edit] Janitor story
Janitor tries to prove to J.D. that the only reason that J.D.'s interns laugh at his jokes his because J.D. is their boss. He goes about proving this in disguise, firstly as an Intern and then as a Security Guard.
[edit] J.D.'s Girl Name
- Daphne
- “Daphne, ketchup.”— Dr. Cox
[edit] Episode Gags
- On two occasions, Turk unwittingly gives J.D. a set up for a joke, and J.D. carries him off to find someone else to hear it and laugh.
- On two occasions, staff members run away, trying to avoid Jordan, leaving Turk as the only person stuck with her.
- J.D. has a "cocky self-laugh" (as noted by the Janitor) whenever he's trying to be funny.
[edit] Guest Stars
- Alexander Chaplin as Sam Thompson
- J.P. Manoux as Charlie
- Robert E. Beckwith as Dr. Johnson
- Shaughn Buchholz as Jason "Cabbage" Cabbagio
- Keli Daniels as Nurse
- Frank Encarnacao as Dr. Mickhead
- Daniel Graves as Older Buisnessman
- Aaron Ikeda as Rex
- Christina Miles as Gloria
- Sloan Robinson as Cafeteria Worker
- Tom Schmid as Fellowship Director
- John Siciliano as Homeless Guy
- Jordan Zucker as Lisa (Intern)
- Curt Clendenin as Practical Joke Intern (uncredited)
[edit] Music
- "Sooner or Later" by Michael Tolcher
[edit] Quotes
- “Kick some ass today, guys! Except for Mr. Woodsen in 302.. he's got that rectal tear!”— J.D.
- “I believe in team-building too, Newbie, and I'd make my interns agree with me but they're on a time out because one of them used the phrase "Let's rock and roll".”— Dr. Cox
- “Sir, I’d love to chat but it’s already 8. I’ve got to rock and roll.”— J.D.
- “I beg your pardon?”— Dr. Cox
- “I beg your pardon?”— Dr. Cox
[Dr. Cox forces J.D. into the corner with every other intern who used the phrase "Let's rock and roll"]
- “I’m an attending!”
- “Tell it to the wall, Newbie.”
- “Tell it to the wall, Newbie.”
- “How would we embarrass her?”— Turk
- “Oh, maybe by diagnosing all of your female patients with 'Turk Fever'.”— Carla
- “Oh, maybe by diagnosing all of your female patients with 'Turk Fever'.”— Carla
- “Honey, a lot of women suffer from that.”
- “It's true, I even had it.”— J.D.
- “It's true, I even had it.”— J.D.
[Turk and J.D. are playing 'Multi-Ethnic Siamese Doctor']
[Turk eats the burger]
- “Mmmmmm.”— Turk
- “Mmmm, that's heading right to our joint colon.”
- “Mmmm, that's heading right to our joint colon.”
- “Ketchup is for winners, Ted.”— Dr. Kelso
- “I am your new friend, so suck it!”— Jordan
- “His tumor is looking so big, it's starting to look like a three-mor!”— J.D.
- “I was going to be a cardiologist, but I didn't have the heart.”— Dr. Kelso
- “There it is, just like I said. I can feel your hatred like a cool spring breeze. Ahhh.”— Dr. Kelso
- “Keith, don't worry, buddy. We're cool.”— J.D.
- “Really?”— Keith
- “Really?”— Keith
- “Nah, See your death.”
[edit] Trivia
- Alexander Gaberman, one of the stars of Bill Lawrence's previous show Spin City makes his second guest appearance on Scrubs as Sam Thompson.
- When Dr. Cox is talking to Jordan, he takes a bite out of his unwrapped "heroin/smoked turkey" sandwich. When the camera angle changes, the sandwich is in white paper and no bite has been taken out of it.
- Apparently, 75 people work at Sacred Heart, despite J.D. learning 314/315 names in My Identity Crisis.
- When J.D. offers the ketchup to his interns, and Elliot immediately calls for it, J.D. tosses it to her with no indication that the ketchup had been recapped.
