- “I believe in team-building too, Newbie, and I'd make my interns agree with me but they're on a time out because one of them used the phrase "Let's rock and roll".”— Dr. Cox
"My Rite of Passage" is the second episode of the fifth season of Scrubs. In this episode, J.D. tries to build a relationship with his interns, even though Dr. Kelso advises him to treat them like crap. Dr. Cox doesn't want to work around the hospital with Jordan, and Carla loses Elliot's trust after spreading gossip.
Synopsis[]
Sam Thompson returns to Sacred Heart.
Dr. Cox is unsure about working with his wife at the hospital. Dr. Cox warns Jordan to stop the carpool torturing games or he will put a Plexiglas separator down the middle of the car so she'll stop driving him crazy. During lunch, Jordan joins Dr. Cox but he tries to avoid sitting by his wife to sit with Dr. Kelso. Dr. Cox tells Jordan to make friends and asks for space in the work environment. Jordan decides to join J.D., Carla, Turk's table and tells them to be her friend. Later, when Jordan joins her fellow colleagues again, everyone escapes except Turk. Sam, an ICU patient, offers to become Jordan's friend. Turk realizes the patient Jordan befriends is an ex-junkie from the past who conned Elliot into giving him drugs. He tries to warn Jordan, but Dr. Cox decides Jordan should experience what it's like to work at the hospital. Jordan is conned out of $500.00. Dr. Cox tells Jordan she had to go through a rite of passage in order to be accepted in the hospital as it happens to all new employees. In the end, Turk, J.D., and Carla invite Jordan to sit with them at lunch.
As the new attending physician, J.D. tries to build a relationship with his interns. He begins leading his interns in a group huddle to cheer on their day's work, practices trust exercises with blind folds and also spent the weekend building a house for the homeless. Dr. Kelso advises J.D. to treat his interns like crap. J.D. also tells jokes that he thinks are hilarious and thinks his interns like them too. Janitor tells J.D. that the interns only laugh at his jokes because he's the boss, though J.D. thinks Janitor is wrong.
Charlie frightens Elliot.
Elliot likes everything about her fellowship except her co-fellow Charlie who tries to scare her to death. Elliot declines Charlie invite to work on the osteogeneis imperfecta therapy together. Later, Elliot loses her fellowship when her Director announces that Charlie found a cure for the OI disease and no longer needs her. Elliot is embarrassed when her co-workers start teasing her after Carla gossips to the nurses about an embarrassing experience. Elliot confides in Carla that she's a big gossip and that she should learn how to keep a secret, otherwise she'll never trust her again. Carla earns Elliot's trust back when she decided to not tell Turk and J.D. that Elliot lost her fellowship position.
The new batch of interns.
Recurring Themes[]
J.D. pushes Rex off the rood
Fantasies[]
- J.D. pushes all his interns off the roof, one by one.
Rex bleeding
Flashbacks[]
- J.D. and his interns building houses, J.D. cuts open Rex's chest with a circular saw.
- J.D.'s "one pump mocha" joke.
- Turk remembers Sam Thompson trying to con Elliot for drugs.
- Elliot farting at an ATM, getting a new nickname, 'Bankfarter'.
Janitor Story[]
Janitor tries to prove to J.D. that the only reason that J.D.'s interns laugh at his jokes is because J.D. is their boss. He goes about proving this in disguise, firstly as an intern and then as a security guard.
J.D.'s Girl Name[]
- Daphne
- “Daphne, ketchup.”— Dr. Cox
Episode Gags[]
- On two occasions, Turk unwittingly gives J.D. a set up for a joke, and J.D. carries him off to find someone else to hear it and laugh.
- On two occasions, staff members run away, trying to avoid Jordan, leaving Turk as the only person stuck with her.
- J.D. has a "cocky self-laugh" (as noted by the Janitor) whenever he's trying to be funny.
Guest Stars[]
Aaron Ikeda as Rex
- Christa Miller as Jordan Sullivan
- Alexander Chaplin as Sam Thompson
- J.P. Manoux as Charlie
- Robert E. Beckwith as Dr. Johnson
- Shaughn Buchholz as Jason "Cabbage" Cabbagio
- Frank Encarnacao as Dr. Mickhead
- Aaron Ikeda as Rex
- Christina Miles as Gloria
- Jordan Zucker as Lisa
- Tom Schmid as Fellowship Director
- Keli Daniels as Nurse
- Daniel Graves as Older Businessman
- John Siciliano as Homeless Guy
- Sloan Robinson as Cafeteria Worker
- Curt Clendenin as Practical Joke Intern (uncredited)
Music[]
♫ List of music featured in Scrubs
- "Sooner or Later" by Michael Tolcher
Quotes[]
Jordan torments Dr. Cox
J.D., Jason, and Keith build a house
Cox puts his interns in a corner
Carla visits Elliot at her new job
Elliot farts in a bank
Elliot at her new job
Todd points at breasts
Janitor dressed as an intern
- “Kick some ass today, guys! Except for Mr. Woodsen in 302.. he's got that rectal tear!”— J.D.
- “I believe in team-building too, Newbie, and I'd make my interns agree with me but they're on a time out because one of them used the phrase "Let's rock and roll".”— Dr. Cox
- “Sir, I’d love to chat but it’s already 8. I’ve got to rock and roll.”— J.D.
- “Sir, I’d love to chat but it’s already 8. I’ve got to rock and roll.”— J.D.
[Dr. Cox forces J.D. into the corner with every other intern who used the phrase "Let's rock and roll"]
- “I’m an attending!”
- “I’m an attending!”
- “Tell it to the wall, Newbie.”
- “Oh, maybe by diagnosing all of your female patients with 'Turk Fever'.”— Carla
- “Oh, maybe by diagnosing all of your female patients with 'Turk Fever'.”— Carla
- “Honey, a lot of women suffer from that.”
- “It's true, I even had it.”— J.D.
- “It's true, I even had it.”— J.D.
[Turk and J.D. are playing 'Multi-Ethnic Siamese Doctor']
- “Here it is.”— J.D.
- “Here it is.”— J.D.
[Turk eats the burger]
- “Mmmmmm.”
- “Mmmm, that's heading right to our joint colon.”
- “Mmmm, that's heading right to our joint colon.”
- “That's what she said. Zoom, zoom, zoom!”— J.D.
- “That's what she said. Zoom, zoom, zoom!”— J.D.
- “Really?”— Keith
- “Really?”— Keith
- “Nah, See your death.”
- “Have you guys been fake laughing at my jokes? Be honest. I promise, absolutely no ramifications. ”— J.D.
- “Well we've been kind of fake laughing”— Keith
- “Keith, I hope you die a violent death and bugs eat your corpse.”— J.D.
Trivia[]
The new interns are scoulded
- Alexander Gaberman, one of the stars of Bill Lawrence's previous show Spin City makes his second guest appearance on Scrubs as Sam Thompson.
- Regardless of his intent in torturing his fellow doctors and in aping classic sci-fi, whether or not his character is aware of this, Charlie's persistent homage to the Alien franchise is at least apparent and obviously chosen in writing: creeping down, mouth opening, off screen scream heard as "blood" (coffee dropped) is violently spilled and victim taken. Clawed hands are unnecessary, but this is also an adult xenomorph feature, in addition to their smoothed carapace (Charlie's shaved head).
- When Dr. Cox is talking to Jordan, he takes a bite out of his unwrapped "heroin/smoked turkey" sandwich. When the camera angle changes, the sandwich is in white paper and no bite has been taken out of it.
- J.D. learns 314/315 names of Sacred Heart employees in "My Identity Crisis", so 75 may be the amount of seats in the cafeteria.
- Towards the end of the episode when Jordan sits at the table with J.D., Turk, Carla, and Laverne, it can be seen that Jordan is wearing red slippers.
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