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I watched this episode right after the last and though I found many parts funny there were a lot that I didn’t like. Dr. Miller was in this one and that definitely played a part.

This episode was different because though it started off with J.D. doing the narration, much of it was handed off to Turk throughout the show. Turk was hesitating to mail in all of the wedding invitations, again on this theme of him having doubts about making the commitment. It seems like because of his doubts he became suddenly aware of every other female’s assets, including his boss. That brings us to Dr. Miller

Dr. Miller is this hypocritical seductress that Dr. Cox and Bob Kelso were fighting over. This storyline to me appeared more random than any one of J.D.’s odd flashbacks or daydreams, it just wasn’t appealing. There’s something about an old man going after an attractive young woman and actually imagining he has a shot that really ticks me off. There’s also something about this “professional” woman doctor prancing around the hospital in a slutty dress even though she demands the utmost respect that ticks me off too. I loathe Dr. Miller.

Back to Turk. Turk made a fool of himself trying to seem “in control” in front of Dr. Miller, made a mistake and effected a young boy’s hand for life. The boy was a piano player. Turk also had the storyline with mailing the invitation letters for Carla but I felt they really beat it over the head with a stick already about them having doubts and then realizing they’re perfect for each other. They’re perfect, we can see that in every episode, the emphasis is truly not needed. I know that their wedding is coming up so there will most likely be an episode about it so therefore these episodes of them “doubting” each other is good for one time use. After that it’s just not believable, we know they won’t break up.

The sweet story that turned sour was with J.D. and Elliot. Out of nowhere towards the end of the show Elliot had an epiphany and liked J.D. for the night and they had sex. Practically two seconds after they finish Sean shows up and literally sweeps Elliot off her feet. Elliot doesn’t seem the least bit concerned with J.D.’s feelings and goes off with Sean waving and smiling good bye. It’s interesting how in my last few posts I noted that they hadn’t had anything with J.D., Elliot or Sean and they bring them all back in this one. Though I wanted things to be spiced up, I felt that everything happened incredibly fast. Elliot went from calling Sean to sleeping with J.D. and back to Sean all in one day. I personally would have had Elliot torn between the two and wouldn’t have brought Sean back so quickly. Then again, Bill Lawrence said he didn’t want this to be a “Ross and Rachel” storyline.

My least favorite part is Turk’s imagination when he sees Dr. Cox and Dr. Kelso fighting over Dr. Miller. He imagines them having a tug of war with her arms and then the arms just ripping off and blood going everywhere. It was disgusting, plus I really don’t like blood.

My favorite part is when Turk is narrating and thinks Carla is in his head and can read his mind. He makes a statement about using it to his advantage and thinks “Make me a grilled cheese sandwich woman” and she replies “make it yourself” and then he turns around and screams in his thoughts =O.

I’d rate this episode a 3. There were parts that were very funny but there were also parts I didn’t like. I also wasn’t a huge fan of the storylines with the exception of J.D.’s and Elliot’s at the end, but even that got ruined.

Maybe it was because it was around 2 in the afternoon and I was in a really good mood, or possibly because this episode was just that good, but I found this to be the funniest episode yet!

First thing I noticed were the excellent camera angles. J.D. introduces the audience to a surgeon that spent a few years traveling around the world performing surgery on children and I immediately knew he wasn’t going to be of importance or respected because of the camera angle they showed him. They showed him from an extremely high camera angle so that the audience is looking down on him, making him appear small. Right after I thought this Dr. Kelso finishes telling everyone who he is and asks if anyone has any questions for him but no one does, Dr. Kelso then says “See I told you no one cares”.

The second camera angle I liked was when Carla, the new surgeon (who turns out to be someone she had history with) and J.D. are in the cafeteria. Carla and the surgeon are on one side talking and catching up and J.D. is shown across from them directly in the middle of their conversation. You then hear what J.D. is thinking, about him hating being around people with history and him mocking their conversation. I found this so funny, I always like when you can hear the characters thoughts and they’re reacting to the situation without saying anything. As usual the last thing they say makes sense to us, but leaves them looking crazy to the characters in the show. J.D. must do this about 15 times an episode. I love it.

The first scene that actually made me literally laugh out loud was when Carla asks J.D. “You flirt sometimes, it’s harmless right?” and then J.D. has a flashback of him hitting on a woman in an elevator. She asks if he wants her to push his button and he suggestively replies “I don’t know…can I press yours?” and then she proceeds to beat him with her purse. What was so funny was that J.D. is so pathetic he really looked like he was getting beat up.

The one storyline that I didn’t find that funny and actually on the verge of disturbing was the Janitor pretending to have this creepy twin brother. The whole episode he is trying to convince J.D. and Turk that he has this brother “Rosco” but it just doesn’t work out. The sweet part of it though is at the end J.D. tells him he almost believed it to make him feel better, and it works, but when they leave J.D goes to put his arm around him and Janitor replies “Too much”. J.D. then pats his ass. It was weird but cute.

I’d rate this episode a four because there were so many hilarious scenes. I think what made it so funny was that the theme was light. It was about Carla and Turk getting over their doubts about marrying each other but it was really silly and easy to laugh at.

I had to leave you this video, enjoy.

After a tough day of classes at around 5 PM I turned on some scrubs. I needed a laugh and it was the perfect episode for it.

This episode is titled “My Butterfly” because it centers around how one butterfly could effect an entire day. When the butterfly landed on the girl with a really large chest, it caused J.D. and Turk to stare and Carla to react negatively to them. This lead J.D. to knocking into someone who spilled drinks on the floor which lead the Janitor not being able to search for the doll that Ellliot promised the little girl she’d find. This also caused J.D. to be early and Dr. Cox to be late which lead to J.D. being in charge for the day, and Carla not finding Turks lucky bandanna. All of these events somehow lead up to the reasons they couldn’t save a certain patient.

After the patient died, Dr. Cox is reassuring J.D. that they did everything they could. J.D. sees the butterfly and can’t help but wonder “what if”. In the middle of the episode they rewind and go back to the first moment with the butterfly and instead this time it lands on a really unattractive guy’s chest. This causes everything in the day to go right, but in the end they still lost the patient. Dr. Cox is shown again telling J.D. there’s nothing they could have done, it was just his time to go. J.D. sees the butterfly and wonders again “but what if?”.

I really enjoyed this episode and would rate it a 4 for originality. They showed how one insignificant event, if changed, can have 2 completely different series of events but still can’t change the fate of whether a person is meant to pass on or not. I have to also give a lot of credit to the writers, the stuff that happens in this show whether it’s a quick one liner that you have to catch or one of the obvious jokes are just simply hilarious. For example, the first half of the show Dr. Kelso throws a pen to J.D. and he misses and says “yeah I’m a lefty”. When they go back in time and things happen again, he misses and says “yeah I’m a righty”. It’s silly humor I can appreciate.

This episode reminded me of the structure of Greek stories such as in the Iliad by Homer. The gods are constantly meddling and seemingly twisting fate but when it is a mortals time to go they completely back off.

This also is a big statement about the question ‘what if’ that we all wonder. I guess it means that things could have gone differently but it will still lead to the same ending result. What’s meant to be will be.

I enjoyed it as well because J.D. was actually the center of the episode. In the last few he’s been more of a narrator than the actual storyline so I started to lose the connection to him but this brought some of it back. I also noticed that they haven’t touched upon the J.D., Elliot, and Sean storyline so I wonder when they’ll get back to that. Hopefully soon, I think it’s time to spruce up the romance and step slightly away from the tears.

One of my favorite scenes is when J.D. is thinking of how to buy time for Dr. Cox because he was late and thinks of himself playing the banjo with Dr. Kelso dancing along. It was so out of nowhere and so funny just to see an old doctor dancing to banjo music in the middle of the hospital for no reason. J.D.’s daydreams crack me up.

I just watched this episode right after the previous one and even though I’d rate it a 3, it was sort of nice to take a break from all of the other episodes that were full of emotion. It felt good to watch an average episode that had a familiar rhythm of things.

This episode was about dealing with the death of a loved one, sexual harassment at work, and the overall obstacles between men and women that work together. Topics that many of us can relate to.

Dr. Cox and Jordan were mourning the death of Ben, both in different ways. Dr. Cox handled it by not doing anything, literally not talking or even bathing, and Jordan seemed to be handling things just fine. She even had two girlfriends staying over. Dr. Cox at the end of the episode realized that even though Jordan appeared to be a “rock” on the outside, she was just as hurt as he was and needed comforting too. Who’s to say that the man or the woman should be the “rock” of the relationship? This tied into the gender theme as well. I don’t think the message was that Dr. Cox needed to man up or was wrong for moping, it just showed that the death affected them both and they needed each other equally.

Losing a loved one is something that we all unfortunately go through. Some of us are more visual, obvious in our feelings, others hide the pain they’re going through and pretend that they’re okay. I think it was a good way to show that it’s okay to be hurt and that at times like these people need to be there for one another.

There was a new strong female character in the show sort of like a woman version of Dr. Cox, Dr. Miller. My favorite line of hers was “Don’t ever say ‘It’s Miller time’” while she was going over the rules with the surgeons. She accuses Turk of being sexist even in his attempts not to be, and tells Elliot that she shouldn’t let her femininity hold her back from being a respectable doctor. Even though Elliot exclaims “I love her!” because she felt that she could use a strong woman in her life as a good example to look up to, I absolutely hated her. I think I hated her because even though she preached all of these non-sexist ideas, I felt she still used being an attractive woman to her advantage. In the expressions she made I felt that she was almost flirty or suggestive and her look contradicted every word that spewed out of her mouth.

Carla was put in charge to teach a sexual harassment lesson to those who were complained about. Of course it wound up being The Todd, Dr. Kelso, and Dr. Cox. Dr. Cox was in there for calling the male doctors different women names. Though this is a comedy and I understand they treated the topic lightly, it’s something personally that I find serious. They show The Todd about to grab a nurse’s ass and Dr. Kelso stopping him and explaining that it’s okay to look but not to touch. I didn’t find this too funny because sexual harassment at work is something that isn’t funny at all, it’s actually extremely uncomfortable, especially when the person is of higher authority than you. Thank god that guy got let go. Nevertheless, this was not one of my favorite parts. It also wasn’t my least favorite part. That was when they showed J.D. getting “eaten” by Jordan’s two friends. He had a daydream that they were vampires and feasting on him. There was blood all over and it was creepy aside from that because the women were much older.

Turk and Elliot had an interesting short debate. They disagreed over who had more difficulty being respected, a black male or a white woman. Right after a black female doctor walks by. I think this answered their question.

Even though this show is random, sometimes bizarre and seemingly irrelevant to life it’s really not. This was an excellent example of how they discussed very regular topics that effect everyone, not just doctors.