Scrubs "My Inconvenient Truth"
Original Air Date: November 8, 2007
Rachel - TwoCents Staff Writer
All is right in the world (well, except for the whole writer’s strike) because Teddy Buckland is back! I was getting nervous since my favorite character had not been in the first two episodes of the season, but my pathetic little environmentally conscious (who knew?) lawyer started out the episode with a bang: he was wearing biker shorts. In keeping with NBC’s “Green Week,” Ted teaches Janitor about that global warming thing by showing him the documentary An Incontinent Truth. Oh, Al, just declare your candidacy already!
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Original Air Date: November 8, 2007
Rachel - TwoCents Staff Writer
All is right in the world (well, except for the whole writer’s strike) because Teddy Buckland is back! I was getting nervous since my favorite character had not been in the first two episodes of the season, but my pathetic little environmentally conscious (who knew?) lawyer started out the episode with a bang: he was wearing biker shorts. In keeping with NBC’s “Green Week,” Ted teaches Janitor about that global warming thing by showing him the documentary An Incontinent Truth. Oh, Al, just declare your candidacy already!
While Ted and Janitor run around Sacred Heart punishing people who are contributing to the death of Mother Earth, JD’s brother Dan (Tom Cavanagh) shows up bearing gifts and surprising news. You see, last time we saw Dan, he was a big loser… bigger, even, than JD. Back then, JD told him off for being such a slacker, which apparently sparked some soul-searching and life changes in Dan. Now he is a successful house-flipper and has come back to thank JD for his tough love by giving him a hybrid car. Nothing but suspicious, JD tries to figure out why this new-and-improved Dan irks him so much.
Meanwhile, Dr. Cox and Elliot go head to head in a fight about the hypocrisy of doctors at Sacred Heart. She can’t stand it when, for example, a doctor who smokes tells his patient to quit before she dies. Perry’s argument is that they are all hypocrites and it should never be about the doctor, only the patient. Though the course of the episode, he makes it his mission to point out everything she does that his hippocratic (and I don’t mean the oath). She reluctantly agrees and starts making it about the patient, not her.
JD, with the help of Turk (of course) realizes that he is upset with Dan because his own life is so screwed up (Kim moved away, he hasn’t seen Sam since he was born, etc.). JD decides that he liked hanging out with Dan before the big change because Dan made JD’s life look better. In some of the greatest two words ever spoken to JD, Dan tells him he needs to, nay should, “grow up.” In the final scene, JD listens to Dan’s advice and takes him in his new car on a little road-trip to meet his son, Sam.
I really liked the “Scrubbiness” of this episode (Dan’s zombie-hug entrance, some odd face-painting moments involving both Harry Potter and basketball, the wasp-hive punishment, etc.). Most of all, this episode made me jump for joy at the reappearance of Ted. May you never leave us again.