ScrubsMy Absence
Original Air Date: Feb 10, 2009
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There is a new intern. Her name is Sunny. She is annoying. Dr. Cox has given the interns the job of taking care of a man who has been in a coma for several years who is in the process of dying. Sunny, of course, takes it upon herself to keep him alive until his sister arrives the next day. Yeah. Good luck with that.
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There is a new intern. Her name is Sunny. She is annoying. Dr. Cox has given the interns the job of taking care of a man who has been in a coma for several years who is in the process of dying. Sunny, of course, takes it upon herself to keep him alive until his sister arrives the next day. Yeah. Good luck with that.
ReplyDeleteJD is out of town and Elliot is miserable. She and Denise/Jo are treating a patient named Peggy who has pneumonia and whose husband died recently. They had been married for over 50 years, and Peggy is miserable, too, just like Elliot. She decides to spend most of their time apart on the phone with JD. (On a side note, the reason Zack Braff wasn’t in this episode and the reason why a main cast member is missing from each episode is that when ABC negotiated their contracts, they didn’t have enough money to pay for them all to do each and every episode. Weird, huh?)
Meanwhile, Carla gives Turk some good news: She’s pregnant again! As Turk runs wildly through the hospital telling everyone about the baby, he is upset at the lack of reaction. Dr. Cox gives him the truth: the second baby just isn’t exciting news. Nobody cares. It’s nice, sure, but so what? Turk is indignant. Then he meets Gooch, Ted’s cute-as-a-button girlfriend and tells her that it is his first child. She gives him the reaction he is looking for and even writes him a song on her ukulele: “First-Time Dad.”
Remember the coma patient? Well, Sunny tries to get Dr. Cox to help her keep him alive until his sister arrives, but Perry couldn’t care less about the “potato.” He does, however, steer Sunny to Carla who always cares, to a fault, even. Perry knows that he doesn’t have to care because Carla always will. Right? Carla turns Sunny down... she has better stuff to do. What?
Back to Elliot. She misses JD so much! Then Peggy the pneumonia patient dies and the only clinical reason is that since she missed her late husband so much, she simply gave up. This freaks Elliot out. How could she let herself get so vulnerable? She doesn’t want to be the kind of woman who croaks just because the man in her life did. Dr. Kelso chimes in that Elliot is no different than Peggy, and that that is not a bad thing.
Perry decides to call Carla on her attitude. He goes to her apartment and tells her that she has changed. She is not the person he thought she was. Ouch! Carla rushes to the hospital the next morning to make sure the coma patient didn’t die (he didn’t). She has changed, and she is so angry at Dr. Cox that she can hardly think straight.
Gooch finds out that Turk lied about being a first-time dad. You do NOT want to lie to Gooch. She threatens to smash her ukulele into his face. Gooch is so cool! Turk feels bad. He confided in Ted that he, too, isn’t as excited about this baby as much as he was about Izzy. Ted, in a rare moment of clarity, tells Turk that things are always different the second time around, but that doesn’t make it any less wonderful.
JD mirrors that sentiment via telephone. “Things are always different the second time around...” Just because things are changing around them, it doesn’t mean that they are changing themselves. Elliot decides it’s OK to miss JD just as much as she did the first time they dated, Carla decides to help Sunny with the coma patient because she is still the kind of person that cares too much, and Turk decides to celebrate the way he wants to because he is still going to be a father. Again. Oh, and in Perry’s apology to Carla, we lean his full name: Percival Ulysses Cox. Nice.
What do YOU think? How cool is Gooch? How annoying is Sunny? Give us your Two Cents… We’ll pitch in to the actor’s salaries so that they can appear in each episode.
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