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In the unreal world of Sacred Heart Hospital, John "J.D." Dorian learns the ways of medicine, friendship and life.

9 Seasons
181 Episodes
Canceled
Comedy
Cast & Characters
episode image My Screw Up
9.7/10 (6321 votes)

#1 My Screw Up

S3:E14

Jordan's brother and sister return, but Dr. Cox learns that his brother-in-law Ben hasn't visited a doctor about his cancer in the two years he has been gone traveling the world.

episode image My Lunch
9.6/10 (3972 votes)

#2 My Lunch

S5:E20

J.D. asks Dr. Cox out for lunch, but runs into annoying former patient Jill Tracy, who unexpectedly teaches him something about responsibility. Elliot and Carla discover that Todd has been lying about all his hospital "conquests" and suspect that he's been less than truthful about other issues. Turk warns them not to meddle in his affairs.

episode image My Last Words
9.3/10 (2467 votes)

#3 My Last Words

S8:E2

J.D. and Turk make a huge sacrifice concerning a decade-long steak night tradition for a dying patient. Meanwhile, Dr. Maddox, the new Chief of Medicine, begins to show her true colors.

episode image My Fallen Idol
9.2/10 (1893 votes)

#4 My Fallen Idol

S5:E21

Dr. Cox starts drinking after his decisions result in the death of three of his patients. The staff tries to cover for him at the hospital, while everyone tries to convince him how inspiring he is for them. Turk starts his new rotation with orthopedic surgery, but isn't so fond of his attending doctor's touchy-feely methods. Thus, J.D. and the Janitor attempt to help Turk find ways to bond with his new supervisor.

episode image My Old Lady
9.1/10 (3060 votes)

#5 My Old Lady

S1:E4

The three interns are each assigned patients with various illnesses. Statistically speaking, one of the three is going to die. J.D.'s patient is 86 year old Mrs. Tanner, who is in renal failure. 20 year old David Morrison is Turk's hernia patient and Elliot's patient Mrs. Guerrero only speaks Spanish and might have lupus.

episode image My Way Home
9.1/10 (2080 votes)

#6 My Way Home

S5:E7

In a "Wizard of Oz" homage, J.D. is trying to go home, Turk searches for a heart donor and Carla worries, that she doesn't have the courage to become a parent. Meanwhile, Elliot doesn't believe, that she has the brains to lead a question and answer session. Also, the Janitor is painting color coded lines throughout the hospital for easier navigation.

episode image My Finale
9.1/10 (2110 votes)

#7 My Finale

S8:E18

J.D. is planning on leaving Sacred Heart but before he goes there are a few things that he wants to do including; getting a hug from Dr. Cox, and learning the Janitor's real name. Elliot is ready for the next step in her and J.D.'s relationship and she begins moving her furniture into J.D.'s apartment.

episode image My Occurrence
9.0/10 (2103 votes)

#8 My Occurrence

S1:E22

Jordan's brother Ben is admitted at Sacred Heart for having an accident with a nail gun. J.D. learns that Ben has leukemia, but won't believe it, since there have been many mixups in the hospital lately, so he goes on a search for the real test results.

episode image My Long Goodbye
9.0/10 (1615 votes)

#9 My Long Goodbye

S6:E15

Laverne is brain-dead, and her family decides to take her off life support. One by one, the staff say their goodbyes, except Carla, who stoutly refuses to accept what's happening. She consequently finds herself "haunted" by Laverne. Meanwhile, Jordan gives birth, but Dr. Cox doesn't want to tell anyone because he doesn't want his daughter's birthday to always be associated with Laverne's death.

episode image My Catalyst
8.9/10 (1655 votes)

#10 My Catalyst

S3:E12

J.D. believes he may have finally found a mentor in Dr. Kevin Casey, a surgeon with obsessive-compulsive disorder, and it turns out that Dr. Cox has always been jealous of the guy. Meanwhile, the Janitor and his new assistant help Kelso out with a garbage problem.

episode image My Musical
8.9/10 (3652 votes)

#11 My Musical

S6:E6

A new patient at the hospital wakes up and sees everything happening around her as a musical. Carla can't decide whether or not to return to work and Elliot must find a way to tell J.D. he can't move into her new house with her.

episode image My Cake
8.8/10 (1465 votes)

#12 My Cake

S4:E6

When Dan resurfaces, J.D. is shocked to learn his father has passed away. The reactions from his co-workers help J.D. a little, but the one person, Dr. Cox, who he wanted to be there for him is too busy with J.D.'s patients. Meanwhile, Dan sits drunk in the bath tub the whole day and Turk finds out he has Type II Diabetes.

episode image My Hero
8.7/10 (1734 votes)

#13 My Hero

S1:E23

Ben takes the news of his diagnosis pretty well - at least better than his sister Jordan and J.D. Remarkably, it is Dr. Cox who is the voice of reason and compassion, until his own fears get in the way. Meanwhile, Turk and Elliot have their own issues to deal with. Turk is upset because he wasn't chosen to assist on a difficult surgery and Elliot is criticized during rounds by Dr. Kelso for the 100th time.

episode image My Last Day
8.7/10 (1603 votes)

#14 My Last Day

S1:E24

It's J.D.'s last day as an intern, and soon he will become a resident. Carla and Turk are arguing about dating other people. Elliot finally rebels against being everyone's doormat, and J.D. is just trying to stay out of people's way. Jordan has returned to get a physical and a new patient, Mr. Bober, has been admitted, because he needs his gall bladder removed. He really needs the surgery, but doesn't have the insurance to pay for it. They enlist the help of Dr. Cox, Dr. Wen and Jordan.

episode image My Butterfly
8.7/10 (1477 votes)

#15 My Butterfly

S3:E16

An ever present butterfly prompts the question on what could have happened different as Turk looks for his lucky do-rag for surgery, and Elliot tries to find a lost stuffed animal for a child needing a bone marrow transplant.

episode image My Last Chance
8.7/10 (1386 votes)

#16 My Last Chance

S4:E8

When Molly takes a job at a different city, she and J.D. end up having a night of kissing, and he tries to rush to sleep with her before she leaves. Dr. Cox goes on ambulance duty with a maniac, who he eventually finds out is a woman who has lost her son to an accident.

episode image My No Good Reason
8.7/10 (1366 votes)

#17 My No Good Reason

S6:E14

Laverne and Dr. Cox engage in a philosophical debate. Carla finds a hot nanny for Isabella, and Turk struggles to find a way not to leer at her. Elliot smuggles a patient's dog into the hospital to cheer her up and ends up in hot water with Dr. Kelso. A tragic twist awaits at the end, challenging everyone to decide if they think everything happens for a reason.

episode image His Story
8.6/10 (1458 votes)

#18 His Story

S2:E15

Elliot meets a nice guy at the bar, but freaks out when she finds out he's a male nurse at Sacred Heart. Turk keeps asking Carla to marry him, but she still won't give an answer. Dr. Cox feels the pressure he puts on himself everyday: His psychiatrist, his subordination to Dr. Kelso and his paternal feelings for J.D.

episode image My Porcelain God
8.6/10 (1420 votes)

#19 My Porcelain God

S3:E13

Elliot finds herself perplexed over a simple procedure that leaves her questioning her career path. She goes to seek Dr. Kevin Casey's advice but becomes frustrated when she learns that the epiphany toilet, which the Janitor secretly installed on the roof, is getting more attention than she is. Meanwhile, Turk asks J.D. to be his best man at his wedding, which sends J.D. into sheer bliss momentarily until he hears a phone message that makes him question his friendship with Turk.

episode image My Best Moment
8.6/10 (1320 votes)

#20 My Best Moment

S4:E12

When J.D. has to address a bunch of pre-med students about what it's like to be a doctor, he strays off the beaten path and chooses to discuss his best moments as a doctor instead. When he challenges the rest of the staff to do so, they all remember their best memories in the medical field. Meanwhile, Elliot is forced to face her fear of children, when she must befriend a ten year old boy, whose father is being treated in the I.C.U.

episode image My Half-Acre
8.6/10 (1359 votes)

#21 My Half-Acre

S5:E9

J.D. meets the klutzy Julie, and when he becomes smitten, Elliot attempts to help out with romance advice. Meanwhile, Carla tries to find Dr. Cox's soft side, when he refuses to kiss his son. Turk and the Janitor put together an air band to win a contest, but Kelso gives them a tremendous obstacle.

episode image My Overkill
8.5/10 (1732 votes)

#22 My Overkill

S2:E1

Relationships between the staff of Sacred Heart Hospital have been shaken since Jordan's revelations. Turk is sleeping on J.D.'s bed, after Carla kicked him out of his own. Elliot is having a hard time facing J.D. every day at work. J.D. desperately tries to get Dr. Cox's attention back, unsuccessfully.

episode image My Philosophy
8.5/10 (1555 votes)

#23 My Philosophy

S2:E13

J.D. bonds with a patient, who is waiting for a heart transplant and discusses with her their idea of what death must be like. Elliot puts her foot down and demands a feminine locker room from Dr. Kelso. Turk decides it's time to propose to Carla, but a kid swallows the engagement ring.

episode image My T.C.W.
8.5/10 (1435 votes)

#24 My T.C.W.

S2:E18

J.D. flirts with the wife of a patient who's been in a coma for the past two years, whom they all call T.C.W. (Tasty Coma Wife). He feels guilty for doing that, even though she wants to go ahead with it. Meanwhile, he can't stand listening to any more relationship problems, as everybody dumps their issues on his ears: Elliot, sabotaging her relationship with Paul over beef jerky, Carla, finding out her engagement ring passed through a patient's digestive system and Dr. Cox's unsucessful attempts to get some attention from Jordan, who can only think about her baby right now.

episode image My Dream Job
8.5/10 (1390 votes)

#25 My Dream Job

S2:E22

J.D. and Turk's college buddy, Spence, drops by for a visit, and accidentally tells Dr. Cox a secret. Too much partying with successful Spence causes Turk and J.D. to show up late and drunk for work, which Dr. Kelso fully reprehends them for. Elliot's feeling low since she can't measure up to Dr. Kelso's standards, and the Janitor starts another feud – this time over paychecks – with J.D.

episode image His Story III
8.5/10 (1236 votes)

#26 His Story III

S5:E19

Turk and Carla turn J.D.'s old bedroom into a nursery for the baby. The Janitor seizes an opportunity to shove J.D. out of the picture for a day. Elsewhere, Elliot uses her mother to learn information about Keith's peers and Turk & Dr. Cox accuse each other of not being hip.

episode image My Road to Nowhere
8.5/10 (1125 votes)

#27 My Road to Nowhere

S6:E8

After being convinced to go to Tacoma for Kim's first ultrasound, J.D., along with Carla, Elliot, Janitor, Keith and Ted, takes Kelso's new RV on a road trip. Meanwhile, Jordan and Dr. Cox have trouble when Jordan's ultrasound reveals that the baby will need surgery.

episode image My Dumb Luck
8.5/10 (1143 votes)

#28 My Dumb Luck

S7:E9

Dr. Cox had a patient that he hadn't been able to diagnose for two years, and he is back again. Dr. Kelso has to face a retirement board when his true age is revealed. Elliot and Carla try to find enough people in favor of Dr. Kelso to keep him as Chief of Medicine.

episode image My Bed Banter & Beyond
8.4/10 (1794 votes)

#29 My Bed Banter & Beyond

S1:E15

After going to bed and spending an entire day having sex, J.D. and Elliot go to work trying to hide their new secret romance, but everybody already knows it.

episode image My Fifteen Seconds
8.4/10 (1314 votes)

#30 My Fifteen Seconds

S3:E7

As J.D.'s relationship with Danni progresses, he and Dr. Cox are forced to spend more time together outside of the hospital, to Perry's great chagrin. Meanwhile, as they each deal with problems in their own relationships, Carla and Elliot work to find their own balance between their personal and professional relationships. Dr. Kelso accidentally punctures his eardrums giving the hospital staff an opportunity to tell him how they truly feel about him.

episode image My Best Friend's Wedding
8.4/10 (1274 votes)

#31 My Best Friend's Wedding

S3:E22

The big day for Turk and Carla has finally arrived, but a patient holds up Turk. With Elliot still angry at him, J.D. attempts to reconcile her with Sean as a way to make everything right again in their friendship.

episode image My Old Friend's New Friend
8.4/10 (1213 votes)

#32 My Old Friend's New Friend

S4:E1

Turk and Carla start to have issues when Carla tries to change everything about her new husband. Molly Clock (Heather Graham), the hospital's new psychiatrist, becomes friends with Elliot because she believes Turk, J.D. and Carla are shutting her out. Also, when Turk and J.D.'s car blows up, Carla lets him pick out the new ride only to find that instead of a car, he buys three scooters for them, further proving Carla's point that she needs to always be in control. The episode guest stars the Sugarhill Gang.

episode image My Best Laid Plans
8.4/10 (1218 votes)

#33 My Best Laid Plans

S4:E19

J.D. ditches a seemingly uninterested Kylie for Dr. Molly Clock, who just returned from Milwaukee. Carla fumes over Turk's frequent phone calls to an ex-girlfriend. The Janitor and Dr. Cox make a wager over Elliot.

episode image My Jiggly Ball
8.4/10 (1190 votes)

#34 My Jiggly Ball

S5:E4

J.D. is asked to introduce Dr. Kelso at an awards dinner, so he wants to find out something good about him. Dr. Kelso and Dr. Cox each have a patient, whom they feel deserves the benefit of a new experimental treatment, but there is only one open slot. Elsewhere, Carla and Turk try to help Elliot get her old job at Sacred Heart back. And the Janitor taunts J.D. with the made up game of "Jiggly Ball."

episode image My Five Stages
8.4/10 (1188 votes)

#35 My Five Stages

S5:E13

J.D. and Dr. Cox go through the five stages of grief with their favorite patient, who is declining in health. Carla forces Turk to go on a string of double dates, including Elliot and her booty call Keith. Elsewhere, Dr. Kelso hits Ted with his car, thus Ted finally has the upper hand with a potential lawsuit.

episode image My Bright Idea
8.4/10 (1118 votes)

#36 My Bright Idea

S5:E16

Turk finds out, that Carla is pregnant, before she does, so J.D. convinces Turk to tell the entire hospital staff to surprise Carla with the news. But Carla wants to personally share her baby news with everybody, so Turk and J.D. have to quickly contain the hospital gossip. Meanwhile, when Elliot puts Dr. Cox into an embarrassing situation, he decides to get even with Elliot through Keith and Carla.

episode image Their Story
8.4/10 (1186 votes)

#37 Their Story

S6:E17

The perspective shifts between Jordan, Ted, and Todd, as they go about their day. Jordan messes with Elliot and Keith's relationship and is disturbed when it doesn't give her any satisfaction. Ted tries to settle a pay dispute between the nurses and Dr. Kelso. Todd has found his calling in plastic surgery, but must convince Turk not to interfere with a sixteen-year-old girl getting breast implants.

episode image My Cold Shower
8.4/10 (1274 votes)

#38 My Cold Shower

S6:E19

J.D. tries to get together with Elliot's sorority sister Melody, but she just wants to make out with him without going further. Meanwhile, Keith re-proposes to Elliot after she gets to make everything perfect, while everyone has fantasies about being married to Elliot. Elliot and Carla are having problems figuring out what is wrong with two elderly patients, who show the same symptoms but have no obvious connection.

episode image My Conventional Wisdom
8.4/10 (1136 votes)

#39 My Conventional Wisdom

S6:E20

J.D. and Turk go to a medical convention in Phoenix, Arizona, where they run into J.D.'s ex-girlfriend Dr. Kim Briggs, who has a surprise for J.D. Meanwhile at Sacred Heart, the janitor pretends to be the chief of medicine and Dr. Cox starts to put doubts about the wedding into Elliot's mind.

episode image My Point of No Return
8.4/10 (1255 votes)

#40 My Point of No Return

S6:E22

In the season finale, J.D. and Elliot start thinking about their future and if they both made a mistake in not being with each other. The Janitor activates the "Brain Trust" to come up with the perfect wedding gift for Elliot.

Cast & Chracters

character image John 'J.D.' Dorian

John 'J.D.' Dorian

Actor: Zach Braff
character image Christopher Turk

Christopher Turk

Actor: Donald Faison
character image Perry Cox

Perry Cox

Actor: John C. McGinley
character image Denise Mahoney

Denise Mahoney

Actor: Eliza Coupe
character image Lucy Bennett

Lucy Bennett

Actor: Kerry Bishé
character image Drew Suffin

Drew Suffin

Actor: Michael Mosley
character image Cole Aaronson

Cole Aaronson

Actor: Dave Franco

The highest rated episode of Scrubs is "My Screw Up" (S3E14) with a rating of 9.70.

This episode received 6,321 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "My Night to Remember" (S6E11) with a rating of 5.30.

This episode received 1,548 votes.

The highest rated episode is "My Old Lady" (S1E4) with a rating of 9.10.

This episode received 3,060 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "My Sacrificial Clam" (S1E21) with a rating of 7.60.

This episode received 1,456 votes.

The highest rated episode is "His Story" (S2E15) with a rating of 8.60.

This episode received 1,458 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "My Nightingale" (S2E2) with a rating of 7.80.

This episode received 1,399 votes.

The highest rated episode is "My Screw Up" (S3E14) with a rating of 9.70.

This episode received 6,321 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "My Rule of Thumb" (S3E10) with a rating of 7.70.

This episode received 1,170 votes.

The highest rated episode is "My Cake" (S4E6) with a rating of 8.80.

This episode received 1,465 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "My Common Enemy" (S4E7) with a rating of 7.80.

This episode received 1,134 votes.

The highest rated episode is "My Lunch" (S5E20) with a rating of 9.60.

This episode received 3,972 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "My Rite of Passage" (S5E2) with a rating of 7.80.

This episode received 1,053 votes.

The highest rated episode is "My Long Goodbye" (S6E15) with a rating of 9.00.

This episode received 1,615 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "My Night to Remember" (S6E11) with a rating of 5.30.

This episode received 1,548 votes.

The highest rated episode is "My Dumb Luck" (S7E9) with a rating of 8.50.

This episode received 1,143 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "My Inconvenient Truth" (S7E3) with a rating of 7.70.

This episode received 998 votes.

The highest rated episode is "My Last Words" (S8E2) with a rating of 9.30.

This episode received 2,467 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "My Absence" (S8E9) with a rating of 7.50.

This episode received 1,032 votes.

The highest rated episode is "Our First Day of School" (S9E1) with a rating of 6.50.

This episode received 1,124 votes.


The lowest rated episode is "Our Couples" (S9E8) with a rating of 5.90.

This episode received 790 votes.

Name Department Job
Carey Bennett Costume & Make-Up Costume Design
Brad Quick Crew Transportation Captain
Bill Lawrence Production Executive Producer
Brett Benner Production Casting
Corey Nickerson Production Supervising Producer
Danny Rose Production Co-Producer
Debby Romano Production Casting
Josh Bycel Production Executive Producer
Kevin Etten Production Supervising Producer
Liz Newman Production Producer
Prentice Penny Production Co-Producer
Randall Keenan Winston Production Co-Executive Producer
Zach Braff Production Executive Producer
Christa Miller Sound Music Supervisor
Jan Stevens Sound Music
John W. Cook II Sound Supervising Sound Editor
Peter Nusbaum Sound Supervising Sound Editor

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