Season Five of Scrubs first aired between January 2006 and May 2006.
Story
J.D.'s, Elliot's and Turk's fifth year at Sacred Heart brings exciting events and original people. New interns arrive, one of whom becomes the love interest of Elliot, and the rival of J.D.. Emotions must be separated if professional relationships are to be sustained. The existence of a urologist at Sacred Heart becomes very important to J.D., as his relationships with mentors get put into perspective. Turk and Carla try to have a baby, while Dr. Cox and Jordan focus on their own family. Dr. Kelso and Janitor continue to play by their own rules, often to the dismay of their co-workers.
Now an attending physician, J.D. is proud to welcome a new group of interns to Sacred Heart, and Elliot transfers to another hospital on a fellowship grant. ("My Intern's Eyes") J.D. wants his interns to like him, so tries to form personal relationships with every one of them, despite Dr. Kelso's warning. ("My Rite of Passage") J.D. soon realizes that despite being a doctor, he hasn't accomplished much in his life so he runs a marathon. ("My Day at the Races") Because Elliot's fellowship ended early, she continues to work at a free clinic without receiving help from her friends. ("My Jiggly Ball") Turk and Carla begin to see marital problems and use Elliot as a buffer while Jack Cox gets baptized. ("My New God") When a very nice patient, Mrs. Wilk, is admitted, J.D. and Cox battle to be her doctor. ("My Missed Perception") J.D. is paged to Sacred Heart on his day off, and is constantly distracted from making his way home, in an homage to the Wizard of Oz. ("My Way Home") He soon begins a personal quest to have a patient thank him for doing his job. ("My Big Bird") J.D. falls for Julie Quinn on a blind date and buys a half-acre in an attempt to be more mature. ("My Half-Acre") Carla becomes increasingly more interested in getting pregnant, and gets a fertility test. ("Her Story II") Elliot begins sleeping with Keith, who soon becomes J.D.'s least favorite intern. ("My Buddy's Booty") His favorite intern, however, manages to struggle with medicine. ("My Cabbage")
As Mrs. Wilk nears death, Dr. Hedrick helps J.D. and Dr. Cox cope with death. ("My Five Stages") Dr. Cox is named the city's best doctor, but hits a wall while diagnosing a patient. ("My Own Personal Hell") J.D. gets in hot water when he offers to shave his head for a patient about to enter chemotherapy. ("My Extra Mile") Turk makes a huge discovery about Carla, and J.D. struggles to keep the secret. ("My Bright Idea") Dr. Kelso's dog Baxter dies and Carla helps him deal with the staff's questions. ("My Chopped Liver") Always wanting to make people happy, J.D. takes an obese patient's case and gets upset when he realizes he has to take him to the zoo for treatment. ("My New Suit") Janitor locks J.D. away for an entire day, and spends his time talking to a patient who can't communicate. ("His Story III") J.D. and Dr. Cox meet Jill Tracy at the grocery store, and she soon passes away at Sacred Heart. Complications from her death kill three other patients ("My Lunch") and Dr. Cox takes to drinking, blaming himself for their deaths. ("My Fallen Idol") He returns to work, and J.D. sees that things run in cycles. ("My Déjà vu, My Déjà vu") J.D. meets Kim at the bar and they hit it off and begin dating. ("My Urologist") His world is turned on its head when she reveals that he has impregnated her. ("My Transition")
Cast
- Full list: Category:Season 5 Cast
Main Cast:
- Zach Braff as Dr. John "J.D." Dorian
- Sarah Chalke as Dr. Elliot Reid
- Donald Faison as Dr. Christopher Turk
- Judy Reyes as Carla Espinosa RN
- John C. McGinley as Dr. Perry Cox
- Ken Jenkins as Dr. Robert Kelso
- Neil Flynn as Janitor
Supporting Cast
- Travis Schuldt as Dr. Keith Dudemeister (18 episodes)
- Robert Maschio as Dr. Todd Quinlan (17 episodes)
- Christa Miller as Jordan Sullivan (16 episodes)
- Aloma Wright as Laverne Roberts RN (12 episodes)
- Sam Lloyd as Theodore Buckland, Esq. (12 episodes)
- Johnny Kastl as Dr. Doug Murphy (8 episodes)
Guest Cast
- Cheryl Hines as Paige Cox ("My New God")
- Jason Bateman as Mr. Sutton ("My Big Bird")
- Mandy Moore as Julie Quinn ("My Half-Acre")
- Michael Learned as Patricia Wilk ("My Half-Acre")
- Elizabeth Banks as Dr. Kim Briggs ("My Urologist")
Awards
- Full list: List of Scrubs' awards and nominations
The fifth season won the George Foster Peabody award. The press release specifically noted the episode "My Way Home", directed by Zach Braff.
Episodes
- Full list: Category:Season 5 Episodes
Directed by: Victor Nelli Jr. - Written by: Kevin Biegel
- J.D. and Dr. Cox's argue over who is the doctor of Mrs Wilk.
- Turk and Elliot deal with a patient with an unknown issue causing him severe pain.
- Carla tries to rally all the hospital staff together for the annual staff picture.
Directed by: Zach Braff - Written by: Neil Goldman & Garrett Donovan
- J.D. is called into the hospital on his day off, and attempts to leave to get back home.
- Turk needs to convince a family to donate their son's heart, so that he can perform the transplant.
- Carla realizes that she doesn't enjoy looking after children, and worries about when she has her own.
- Elliot attempts to come across as an Endocrinology expert, but struggles to do it all from memory.
Directed by: Rob Greenberg - Written by: Debra Fordham
- Turk, Carla, J.D., and Elliot explain what happened before a patients death which portrays as a series of events.
- Turk and J.D. are busy trying to get a thank you out of a patient who's life was saved by J.D.
- Carla was busy convincing people to all put in money for joint lottery tickets, and asks them what they'd do with the money.
- Elliot accidentally kisses a man thinking he was single, but is then chased around the hospital by his wife.
Directed by: Linda Mendoza - Written by: Bill Callahan
- J.D. finds the perfect girl, Julie Quinn, on a blind date - whose only downfall is her clumsiness.
- Dr. Cox struggles to become a caring father.
- Ted, Janitor, Lloyd and Turk form an air band, The Cool Cats, but struggles with Dr. Kelso.
Directed by: Chris Koch - Written by: Mike Schwartz
Directed by: Randall Winston - Written by: Mark Stegemann
- Everyone's favorite patient, Mrs. Wilk, is put into a coma for intubation after developing a lung infection - a coma she may not come out of.
- Elliot starts a booty call with J.D.'s least favorite intern, Keith Dudemeister.
- Carla asks Turk to convince Dr. Kelso to make the gym more female-friendly, but Turk doesn't want Carla in the gym - and pretends than he asked Dr. Kelso.
- Dr. Cox and Janitor become friends at the bar, but Janitor is embarrassed to admit it to other people.
Directed by: Jay Alaimo - Written by: Tad Quill
- J.D. and Dr. Cox go through the five stages of grief with their favorite patient, Mrs. Wilk, who is declining in health.
- Carla forces Turk to go on a string of double dates, one of which includes Elliot and her booty call Keith.
- When Dr. Kelso hits Ted with his car, Ted finally gains power over Kelso with a potential lawsuit.
Directed by: Adam Bernstein - Written by: Eren Celeboglu
- Turk and Carla try for a baby.
- Dr. Cox is named the city's best doctor, but has trouble treating a patient.
Directed by: Ken Whittingham - Written by: Mark Stegemann
- J.D. encourages his colleagues to go the extra mile with their patients and his dedication is put to the test.
- Turk is under a lot of stress when he finds his ranking as a surgeon.
Directed by: Victor Nelli Jr. - Written by: Tim Hobert
- J.D. takes an obese patient under his wing, but can't make himself reveal a harsh truth to the patient.
- Dan Dorian visits J.D. and is interested in Elliot.
- Dr. Kelso forces Dr. Cox to work with Ted after an insult.
- Carla and Turk choose names for their child, only to find that it brings problems.
Directed by: John Inwood - Written by: Angela Nissel
Directed by: John Michel - Written by: Tad Quill
- J.D. and Dr. Cox run into Jill Tracy at the supermarket at lunchtime.
- Jill dies, and J.D. and Dr. Cox feel bad that they didn't help a person who clearly needed help.
- Jill's organs are donated to three transplant patients, but something goes terribly wrong.
Directed by: Joanna Kerns - Written by: Bill Callahan
- Friends try to cheer up Dr. Cox after the accidental death of several patients.
- Turk can't connect with an extremely extroverted surgeon.
Directed by: Linda Mendoza - Written by: Mike Schwartz
- Doctor Cox returns to the hospital after his drunken breakdown.
- J.D. notices moments from the past seem to repeat themselves.
- Carla only lets Turk do things she can do while pregnant.
Directed by: Richard Wells - Written by: Neil Goldman & Garrett Donovan
- J.D. begins to fall for Sacred Heart's urologist Dr. Kim Briggs.
- Elliot hits a rough patch with Keith, but Carla calms her down.
Music
- Full list: List of music featured in Season Five
The fifth season of Scrubs includes songs from Jet, Keane, Men Without Hats, Toto, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Loverboy, Five for Fighting, Boston, Pearl Jam, Ben Folds, The Fray, and many more. Scrubs, Volume 2 (Soundtrack) was also released May 9th, the day "My Déjà vu, My Déjà vu" aired.
The DVD
- Full list: Scrubs CDs, DVDs, Blu-ray discs, & downloads
The complete fifth season was released onto DVD in region one on May 22, 2007. The three disk set includes all 25 episodes, plus the following special features:
- Extended cut episode: "My Way Home" with commentary by director Zach Braff
- Audio commentaries by cast and crew: "My Big Bird" (Neil Flynn) (Randall Winston) "My Lunch" (John C. McGinley) (John Michel)
- My 117 Episodes: A retrospective look back at the past five seasons
- Deleted scenes from 7 episodes
- Alternate lines
See Also
- Category:Season 5
- Category:Season 5 Characters
- Category:Season 5 Images
- Category:Season 5 Patients
- Category:Season 5 Transcripts
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