"My Intern's Eyes" is the first episode of the fifth season of Scrubs. In the episode, Turk and Carla decide to get pregnant together, Elliot begins a new job at a new hospital, and J.D. meets his first batch of interns as an attending physician.
Synopsis[]
Elliot at her new hospital.
Things have changed recently for J.D.: he is currently living in a hotel after the ceiling of his apartment collapsed, his best friend Turk is trying for a baby with Carla, and Elliot is working at a new hospital. He's also reached the same professional level as Dr. Cox: an attending physician, though he wears thin on his mentor's nerves by dressing identical to him.
The new interns arrive at Sacred Heart Hospital and J.D. imagines what it must be like for them. The majority of the rest of the episode is seen through first-day intern Keith's eyes as he tries to find the courage to talk. Dr. Cox gives J.D. five man cards, which will be taken away from him every time he does something feminine. J.D. loses a card within seconds of receiving them.
Meanwhile, Carla tries to convince Elliot to make friends at her new hospital, but Elliot is more concerned with appearing as a strong independent doctor in her new job. Instead of asking for help she races back to Sacred Heart to grab supplies and ask her former colleagues for help. When she is caught by Dr. Kelso, she is forced to pretend she still works at Sacred Heart.
Carla seducing Turk
As Turk and Carla are trying to make a baby, Turk has second thoughts about fatherhood and starts secretly giving Carla birth-control pills. Carla then finds one in a brownie that Turk made for her. J.D. also catches someone in a precarious spot, as Dr. Cox has been telling J.D.'s interns a treatment method that J.D. disagrees with. J.D. tries to confront him about this, but Dr. Cox just walks away - and the same thing happens when Turk tries to confront Carla.
Elliot then reveals to Dr. Kelso that she doesn't work at the hospital anymore and that she has been stealing hospital supplies and Carla finds out that J.D. has been sneaking back into the apartment. Carla gets annoyed with her three friends for not being able to move on, Turk for not wanting a baby, J.D. for not being able to start living on his own, and Elliot for not being able to make friends at her new hospital. Carla then manages to convince Turk that having a baby isn't so bad, after telling him it's like having a dog that learns to talk.
By the end of the episode, Carla and Turk prepare to make a baby, Elliot sits down for lunch with her new co-workers, and Keith finally manages to find the courage to speak to J.D.
Recurring Themes[]
Sacred Heart Horse Hospital
Dr. Cox lists the one rule of being an attending.
Fantasies[]
- Sacred Heart Horse Hospital — Sacred Heart is now a hospital which treats patients like horses, with all the staff carrying round shotguns and putting anyone down who is ill.
Turk drops a birth control pill into Carla's mouth
Flashbacks[]
- Turk drops a birth control pill into Carla's mouth while she is sleeping.
Janitor Story[]
As J.D. has new interns, he gives Janitor the challenge to bother him without being around him, so Janitor makes life sized cardboard cutouts of J.D. and leaves them around the hospital. At one point J.D. uses these to try and hide from Dr. Cox.
J.D.'s Girls Name[]
- Angie
- “Angie, my buddy down in the lab just told me that your urinalysis came back positive for the birth control pill. So! I will be taking one of... these. Thank you!”— Dr. Cox
- Lindsay
- “Lindsay, by you reaching the level of Attending Physician, you've somehow managed to become a member of a club that I belong to.”— Dr. Cox
Episode Running Gags[]
J.D. driving a Porsche
- Keith carries around a to do list, which has only one thing on it: "Find courage to talk."
- J.D. eats homemade brownies that Turk made and laced with birth control pills for Carla. J.D. has one of his man-cards taken away because the birth control pill was found in his urine test. Later he still eats more of the brownies even though he now knows that they are drugged.
- J.D. takes another man's Porsche, driving scarf, driving gloves, and driving sock, which he has stuffed down his pants. J.D. later has another sock stuffed in his boxers.
- J.D. can do an impression of Turk's voice.
- J.D. has to sneak out of the apartment in his underwear in order to do laundry. At the end of the episode, he is sneaking back into the apartment in his underwear to "make a quick twosie."
- J.D. gets tackled by Johnny the tackling Alzheimer's patient (seen through Keith's perspective).
Guest Stars[]
- Christa Miller as Jordan Sullivan
- Shaughn Buchholz as Jason "Cabbage" Cabbagio
- James Carraway as Johnny the tackling Alzheimer's patient
- Aaron Ikeda as Rex
- Jordan Zucker as Lisa
- Tom Schmid as Fellowship Director
- Joe Costanza as Mr. Kellerman
- Keli Daniels as Nurse
- Josh Hammond as Razor
- Opender Singh as Omar
- Joe Souza as Guy
Music[]
♫ List of music featured in Scrubs
- "Anything Can Happen" by The Finn Brothers
- "Are You Gonna Be My Girl" by Jet
- "Devil Baby" by Mark Knopfler
Quotes[]
J.D. matching Cox's outfit
J.D. in Turk's gym bag
Janitor's snake face
"Who am I!!!"
Turk getting excited by his sandwich
J.D. musses Keith's hair
Man cards
Sacred Heart Horse Hospital for Humans
J.D. shoots a patient
Keith's to-do list
- “It hates you, Bob.”— Dr. Cox
- “It hates you, Bob.”— Dr. Cox
- “Excuse me?”— Turkish Omar
- “Excuse me?”— Turkish Omar
- “Heh, not you, Omar. I love your people. I'm talking about their lovey-dovey crap.”
- “Did you take my Porsche from the valet?”— Porsche Owner
- “This didn't feel like my scooter.”— J.D.
- “This didn't feel like my scooter.”— J.D.
- “I'm gonna go ahead and give you back one of these Man Cards. You deserve it.”— Dr. Cox
- “Wow. ...Wanna hug?”— J.D.
- “Wow. ...Wanna hug?”— J.D.
- “You held on to it as long as you could, didn't you?!”
- “You know what I've been doing? I mean, besides listening to my Alanis Morissette CD to get pumped up to talk to you?”— J.D.
[Hands over a man card to Dr. Cox]
- “Here.”
- “Now, I really don't like being Den mother to you three!”— Carla
- [Elliot, J.D. and Turk look at her in disbelief]
- “Fine, it's like crack to me.”
- “I don't wanna get pregnant, shoot”— J.D.
- “I don't wanna get pregnant, shoot”— J.D.
- “Dr. Dorian, I've kept my mouth shut about all the recent sexual harassment complaints because I don't think it's fair to punish a man for making small talk.”— Dr. Kelso
- “Dr. Cox says it's like having a dog that gradually learns to talk.”— Carla
- “Awesome!”— Turk
- “Awesome!”— Turk
- “Lindsey, by reaching the level of Attending Physician you've somehow managed to become a member of a club I belong to, obviously there was no vote because if there had been you would still hear the sound of my voice screaming "Nay Nay oh dear God one thousand times Nay", that being said it is my obligation to let you in on the organization's one rule, we are men.”— Dr. Cox
Trivia[]
- It is shown in this episode that J.D. speaks Turkish, or just enough to keep Ömer from stealing his pudding. He says "o benim muhallebim ömer" in Turkish. But the headdress Ömer is wearing is actually traditional Sikh.
- Syndicated airings of this episode usually cut out the J.D.'s "o benim muhallebim Ömer" quote and truncate Carla's rant about being the den mother.
- The "horse hospital" scene may be a reference to the comic strip "The Far Side". The patient shot is named Mr. Larson after the author of the cartoon, Gary Larson.
- The "Ooga Booga" Dr. Kelso does while trying to scare Keith is similar to the one he does in "My Balancing Act."
- Elliot makes Kelso believe that she still works at Sacred Heart. However, her lab coat obviously has the logo of her new hospital on it.
- The few physical characteristics of Keith that are revealed in this episode (his height and hair color and style) don't fit with what he actually looks like when he appears in later episodes.
- When J.D. is hiding among the cutouts, the Janitor mouths to Dr. Cox "Number Five" but the real J.D. is actually sixth in the cutouts from left to right.
- Although he doesn't make a physical appearance until the next episode, this is the first appearance of Keith. It is not until later in the season that his last name is revealed as Dudemeister.
- Possibly inspired by the M*A*S*H episode "Point of View" which is from the eyes of an injured solider.