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My Scrubs

Directed by   John Putch
Written by   Clarence Livingston
Air Date   March 15, 2007 on NBC
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Season Six Episodes :
  1. My Mirror Image
  2. My Best Friend's Baby's Baby and
    My Baby's Baby
  3. My Coffee
  4. My House
  5. My Friend with Money
  6. My Musical
  7. His Story IV
  8. My Road to Nowhere
  9. My Perspective
  10. My Therapeutic Month
  11. My Night to Remember
  12. My Fishbowl
  13. My Scrubs
  14. My No Good Reason
  15. My Long Goodbye
  16. My Words of Wisdom
  17. Their Story
  18. My Turf War
  19. My Cold Shower
  20. My Conventional Wisdom
  21. My Rabbit
  22. My Point of No Return
   Episodes: 1 • 2 • 3 • 4 • 5 • 6 • 7 • 8 w • 9
“Look at them standing next to each other. Two beautiful dead dogs.”— Turk

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[edit] Synopsis

At the park, Dr. Kelso eats lunch with his friend Maggie Kent. He notices her foot looks infected, and checks her into Sacred Heart. Carla finds out that Maggie isn't insured, so the doctors do their best to fudge paperwork to get deceased patient's insurance to pay for her bills. Meanwhile, after Kelso looks over the budget to find room for a new power transformer because Ted ran into the previous one when a prank of J.D.'s and Turk's went astray, he noticed that the hospital was spending a lot of money on scrubs. Ted tattled that people were stealing them for various reasons: to use as choir robes, shower curtains, and even to pretend you are a doctor. Dr. Kelso decides to fire anybody who confessed to stealing the scrubs. Because nobody wanted to be fired, he decided to only order disgusting brown scrubs. The next day, he saw Maggie again at the park. She told him that she was released because she didn't have insurance. After yelling at the staff in the cafeteria, J.D. and Turk explained that they didn't want to get in trouble with the tight budget. In the end, Dr. Kelso let them have colorful scrubs, and they continued to help Maggie.

At the same time, Dr. Cox tries to convince Elliot that Sam Thompson isn't quite clean. Sam is acting as the drug counsilor for the hospital, but Dr. Cox knows that a drug addict can never really come clean without a drastic change. Elliot believes he is clean, and her faith is reaffirmed when Sam's urine test shows that he is clean. As Dr. Cox vows to leave Sam alone, Lloyd explains that Sam is the best counsilor because he made the entire group give Sam all of their drugs. Sam knew he was guilty, and didn't deny it any further. However, Dr. Cox decided to not rub it in Elliot's face because he knew that the hospital would eventually ruin her faith in humanity and he didn't want to accelerate it if he didn't have to.

[edit] Plot Points

  • J.D. and Turk try to beat the system to treat the Kelso's uninsured friend Maggie Kent.
  • Dr. Cox tries to convince Elliot that a reformed drug addict isn't quite clean.
  • The staff is condemned to wearing brown scrubs when Kelso suspects a clothing thief in their midst.

[edit] Recurring Themes

[edit] Fantasies

  • J.D. fantasizes over "how much worse just a few years ago" the surgery on Maggie's foot would have been - amputation in medieval times. In that fantasy, he fantasizes about how much worse medicine was before that - clubbing her to death as a caveman. Then the signature sad theme plays and J.D. narrates his thoughts in "caveman talk."
  • When Kelso allows the staff to have their colorful scrubs again, the entire staff dances with glee.

[edit] Flashbacks

  • Various staff members have begun stealing scrubs for various purposes.
    - Ted comes home to his mom in blue scrubs to make her believe he is a doctor
    - Laverne's church choir wears scrubs of various colors.
    - J.D. uses various colored scrubs in the shower as towels.  Multiple sets of scrubs have been strung together as a makeshift shower curtain.
  • The Janitor reminds Carla of the Rowdy/Stephen incident.


[edit] Janitor Story

Janitor asks Carla if he can borrow her baby as he is getting into the Baby Brokerage business, prompting Carla to get a baby tracker. Janitor attempts to blackmail Carla over Rowdy, who was actually replaced with a lookalike named Stephen.  He found the real Rowdy the same day and kept him for two years until he needed something from her.  In return, Carla gives him salsa lessons and becomes his official taster at Coffee Bucks. She gets tired of having to keep the secret so steals Stephen so it looks like Janitor stole Rowdy. In the end, her guilt won out and she revealed that there were two dead dogs, and the boys were ecstatic.

[edit] Guest Stars

[edit] Music

Music from Season:

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

  • "Courage" by Glen Phillips

[edit] Quotes

“Well, darn it all, you look great today.”— Dr. Cox
“Thanks! I started using that new facial cream made from baby foreskins.”— Elliot


“Well howdy boys, remember me?”— Janitor, as Rowdy
“Ghost dog! Ghost dog!”— Ted


“Aw! Look at those two standing next to each other; two beautiful dead dogs.”— Turk


“I'm telling you sir, a lifeless ghost dog, glided in front of my car, wearing roller skates!”— Ted


“Nothing ever changes. The Artist Formerly Known as Prince is still just Prince. My ex-wife is still pretty much my wife. Grey's Anatomy always wraps up every episode with some cheesy voiceover that ties together all the storylines, which incidentally is my least favorite device on television. Newbie will continually try to violate my No Touching Policy. And Republicans will forever try to raise...”— Dr. Cox
“Sneak hug!”— J.D.
“Of Course I would go kill him right now but he actually just helped to prove my point.”


“This might hurt-ith a little.”— Turk
“Look, m'lady, I know it stinks that we're removing your foot and plan to eat it to eat it tonight at the healing feast, but you wouldn't believe-ith how much worse this would have been even a few years ago.”— J.D.

[edit] Trivia

  • Dr. Cox's mentions how he hates summing up the storyline in Grey's Anatomy, which is what Scrubs does at the end of every episode. This is the second reference made to the show, the first being in "My Buddy's Booty". Elliot dislikes generic voiceovers; J.D. then walks by doing just such a one.
  • The advert for the baby tracker reads "for white babies" and "protects your precious one from freaks and weirdos!" Also, the website for the product is "www.babytracker.poo".
  • Although Dr. Cox does not normally wear scrubs, he ends up wearing a brown T-shirt after the new srubs are implemented, and Ted wears a suit in the same color as the scrubs.
  • Aloma Wright's line "Let's do this. Laveeern Roberts!" is a reference to famous World of Warcraft character Leeroy Jenkins. He says exact the same words and yells his name just before he's doing something stupid. [1]

[edit] Images

Carla lo-jacks her baby

Sneak hug!

J.D. and Turk as doctors in the middle ages

J.D. and Turk as cavemen

J.D. and gang are happy about their scrubs

Double the pleasure, double the fun

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