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My Rule of Thumb

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My Rule of Thumb

Directed by Craig Zisk
Written by Janae Bakken
Air Date - January 22, 2004 on NBC
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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


“Now, even though I won't be performing the transplant, I am a key member of the surgical team. It's too complicated to explain what it is I do, but in layman's terms I... I guess you'd call it "watching."”— Turk

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[edit] Synopsis

Dr. Cox is in a good mood, as his good friend Mr. Iverson is on the top of the liver transplant list. After Perry takes a shot at Turk after surgery, and both Elliot and Turk really want to know what Dr. Cox actually thinks of Turk, Carla asks Dr. Cox this and he tells her he thinks that Turk isn't good enough for her. Later, Danni explains to J.D. that she wants to move in with him after seeing Jordan and Dr. Cox having sex. Because Dr. Cox is so happy, and thus unable to put fear, he is getting no respect of attention from everyone, and during his speeches no one is listening, and later on no one turns up except Doug who records the speech.

Maggie is Carla and Elliot's patient, who is 38 and is going to die and she regrets still being a virgin when she dies. Carla and Elliot then go and try and find some male prostitutes for her but are arrested and J.D. has to pick them up. Turk is the surgeon who will be performing on Mr. Iverson, but after he finds out Mr. Iverson has broken hospital policy while drinking a small amount of alcohol while on the transplant list (therefore suggesting he will not look after the new liver), Turk refuses to perform surgery. Dr. Cox tries to convince him nonetheless, but Turk refuses, arguing that it will be unfair to the donor.

J.D. realizes he doesn't want Danni to move in and tries to convince her not to, but she has already got a set of keys for the apartment. Turk then shows Dr. Cox the patient who he believes should get the liver, Stephanie. Turk wants Dr. Cox to allow him to perform the transplant on her, because she has proved responsible and deserves it more, and Dr. Cox accepts this. Maggie then eventually has sex with Ted, Danni moves in with J.D. which he is not happy about and Carla then asks Dr. Cox what he 'really thinks about Turk, and he tells her Turk is "a complete tool, but she could do a lot worse". Dr. Cox, meanwhile, realizing he has to put fear back in the teachings for the resisdents to take him seriously, gives them a truly fearsome speech regarding responsibility.

[edit] Plot Points

  • Turk refuses to perform surgery on a patient who Dr. Cox is good friends with.
  • Danni wants to move in with J.D., but he doesn't want her to move in.
  • Maggie, who is Carla and Elliot's patient, is soon to die and regrets still being a virgin when she dies, so Carla and Elliot try to fulfill her last wish.

[edit] Recurring Themes

[edit] Fantasies

  • A karate midget jumps out J.D.'s locker, and punches him in the crotch.
  • Dr. Cox's breath of happiness spreads around the hospital, and lifts everyone's spirits, most notably Ted's, who was just about to commit suicide.
  • J.D. walks in on Dr. Cox and Jordan having sex with bondage. There is a large masked man chained up in the corner and suddenly the karate midget jumps out from the shadows and punches J.D. in the crotch.
  • Danni is in J.D. and Turk's apartment, and she as well as the whole room is covered in toilet roll.
  • J.D. is sitting reading a book in the corner of the apartment while men wearing nothing but banana hammocks are dancing round the apartment with Danni.
  • When Danni shows J.D. the apartment they can move in to, he has an out of body experience and floats back to the apartment. Turk offers him bugles, but J.D.'s hands go right through the bowl.

[edit] Janitor story

Janitor's spirit is lifted by Dr. Cox's breath of happiness and starts dancing with his mop in J.D.'s fantasy. In the real world, he warns J.D. not to open his locker anytime soon for some unknown reason.

[edit] J.D.'s Girls Name

  • For some reason, Dr. Cox just calls J.D. "porn-star" instead of a proper girls name.

[edit] Guest Stars

[edit] Music

  • "Happy Go Lucky Me" by Paul Evans
  • "Its Raining Men" by the Weather Girls

[edit] Quotes

“Have the other doctors been making fun of the way I look?”— Elliot
“What, no, of course not!”— J.D. & Carla
“Hell ya.”— Laverne
“Only the girl ones and you know they're all reeah!'”— Carla
“Catfight?”— Todd
“Sorry, Todd.”— Carla
“Let's try to be a little more careful when we use that noise!”— Todd

[edit] Trivia

  • The first episode where Dr. Kelso uses the "two thumbs" joke (what has two thumbs and doesn't give a crap).
  • This episode initially was shot as a medical marijuana episode, Elliot and Carla were supposed to get marijuana for a chemotherapy patient. The network however didn't allow that, so they had to reshoot the episode involving getting them a man whore for a patient who never had sex before, with which there was no problem. [1]

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