'Scrubs': Da-nah-nah, Da-nah-nah
"Scrubs" starts us off tonight with a verrr-errrr-errrr-errrheeee-y (channeling Dr. Cox) dirty joke about doing the dishes. Good lord, "Scrubs!" At 8 pm/7 pm central. Whooo boy! I have never been so excited about ABC buying "Scrubs" as I was to see a Sportscenter cameo. That JD-Turk joke had me rolling. I love the Sportscenter of old (Keith Olbermann, Dan Patrick and Craig Kilborn. Good stuff).
JD & Turk
A kid broke his neck and is going to be paralyzed. Turk has to tell the father that his child probably won't walk again but gives the father false hope by telling him there might be something the doctors can do. JD tries to talk Turk out of it, but Turk wants to try the Kevin Everett therapy (real-life case that is featured in the Sportscenter clip from earlier in the episode). Kevin Everett was a tight end for the Buffalo Bills who sustained a potentially life-threatening cervical spine injury. He was treated with hypothermia therapy, which is an experimental treatment where a patient's
body temperature is lowered to slow metabolic activity. This cooling
appears to protect or reduce damage to the nervous system after a
traumatic injury by preventing cell damage and inflammation, which is
the immune system's response to injury. The process is similar to icing
a battered limb after an accident to reduce swelling.
It's a controversial therapy and any complications with it are on Dr. Turk. Carla asks him "What would you do if it was one of our kids?" There is his answer. He hooks up his patient to the thermal regulation system. The father is optimistic and Carla is proud of Dr. Turk.
It turns out the hypothermia therapy helps. Yay for Dr. Turk.
JD's final daydream is a way to get on Sportscenter, which is "involuntary luge" by Dr. Cox. Awesome.
Cox & Jordan and Janitor & Lady
Cox and Jordan are off their game, including Cox wearing a wedding ring that he found stuck to some gum in the medicine cabinet. Janitor is unsettled by Lady not wanting to hold his hand. Kelso laughs about it from his muffin-holding perspective in the coffee shop.
Cox comes clean with Jordan that he's wearing his wedding ring because he just "wants to." It isn't for other people to see, it's for him. He wonders why Jordan cares that much.
Janitor and Jordan have a heart-to-heart about their respective problems. Elliott gives them some advice about talking to their partners first, not tearing things apart because they're afraid to feel vulnerable. Janitor stammers his way through an apology with Lady, but it turns out she's a hand-phobic germophobe. Also the Janitor is a dead-ringer for her father. Oh dear. So many issues. But they can be weird together and it's cute.
Jordan makes up with Cox by showing up at the hospital with her wedding ring on. Awww.
All the storylines felt a little rushed to me, but I did like the Kevin Everett thing. I was watching the game that happened during and it was scary. Not a bad episode of "Scrubs," but not the best effort this season.
Scrubs is one of my favorite shows, but tonight's episode was weak.
The whole SportsCenter theme felt like it was forced by a Disney exec wanting "synergy."
This was a great episode. You must not like sports.
I hope that wasn't directed at me. I love sports and I actually knew what the Kevin Everett story was about.
I agree that tonight's episode wasn't one the show's best, but there were some solid laughs. I loved pretty much everything the Janitor said tonight. Plus, I'm glad we get to see the more human side of him.
The Jordan subplot fell flat for me, but that's mostly because she has become too much of a caricature. She used to be this smoking hot ice queen, now she's just a mean spirited sociopath.
The tagging on of Kelso and Elliot was a little forced, but at least the band's back together.
Overall, a decent episode but not a home run.
I liked the Turk-Carla-Janitor exchange where the Janitor says it's a good time to buy a house and Turk is like, that sounded strangely sensible (or whatever he said). Then he throws a house in with all the things he and Carla could lose if he is unsuccessful with the experimental procedure and Carla's like - what house?
Also - Turk says performing the procedure is not up to him but his boss and then proceeds to walk right by Cox straight to Carla. I know it's obvious but it's still funny.
Also - J.D. recapping the first conversation he had with Turk about Elliot. "How's the butt?", "Flat just like I like it."
JD- "Sportscenter, the place for sports!"
Easily one of the worst [or least-good] episodes of the entire series. Time to let it fade out with dignity.
If nothing else this season, JD has shown us that the unshaven look clearly doesn't work for everyone. It's a fashion fad that's out of control.
i miss scrubs but i can not watch it anymore because I will not watch abc programming after abc family cancelled kyle xy
where is the recap for 'better off ted'?