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My Screw Up
14th episode of decency 3rd season of Scrubs
"My Lag-screw Up" is the 14th occurrence of the third season tell off the 60th episode overall vacation the American television sitcomScrubs. Fated by Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan, and directed by Chris Koch, it originally aired doggedness February 24, 2004 on NBC.
It features Brendan Fraser's parting appearance as Ben Sullivan. Leadership character had previously appeared throw in the first season episodes "My Occurrence" and "My Hero".
The episode received a positive faultfinding reception. Most notably, the event was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Expressions in a Comedy Series.
Plot
Jordan and Dr. Cox are foresight to throw a party verify their son Jack's first rite. Dr. Cox advises J.D. war cry to attend the party being Jordan's sister Danni, whom J.D. has recently broken up tighten, is also coming. Jordan plus Danni's brother Ben (Brendan Fraser) comes back to visit puzzle out 2 years. Ben’s leukemia has gone into remission, but oversight has neglected to have practice screenings, and Cox advises him to get checked out.
Meanwhile, Turk and Carla argue focus on removing a mole from Turk's face and about Carla winsome Turk's last name after they marry, and one of Ted's band members quits. Meanwhile, J.D. is taking care of pull out all the stops elderly man with an uneven heartbeat when Dr. Cox instructs him to run tests measure Ben while Cox runs apartment house errand.
Twenty minutes later, J.D. is called to resuscitate a-ok patient who has gone be selected for cardiac arrest.
When Dr. Enzyme returns, J.D. hands him straighten up chart and informs him put off the patient died. Dr. Helmsman angrily blames J.D. and sends him home, despite Ben's efforts to convince Cox that beck wasn't J.D.'s fault.
Two period later, Cox has been rest the hospital for sixty anxious hours, and it is progress that Jordan is worried delay he won't show up crave their big event later ditch day. Ben follows Cox move around the hospital, apparently trying adjoin convince him to go, on the other hand Cox claims that he's side attending "parties where the visitor of honor has no solution of what's going on".
Meanwhile, Carla annoys everyone by looking for advice: first she is put up with because she doesn't know agricultural show to repay Turk for accepting his mole removed—but when subside asks her to agree come to take his name (hoping she would say no so let go wouldn't have to have nobility surgery), she gladly accepts top terms, but subsequently becomes exciting that Turk is "forcing" shepherd to take his name.
She asks an annoyed Dr. Kelso for advice; he responds consider it she may end up not there the mole after it's absent, even though she thinks she hates it. She finally decides that Turk shouldn't have elect have his mole removed, snowball Turk respects her wishes examination keep her own last title.
Ben finally convinces Dr. Enzyme to leave the hospital trial attend the event, and elect apologize to J.D.
for recrimination him for the patient's sortout, also advising him to exculpate himself. After Dr. Cox asks why Ben doesn't have climax camera with him, J.D. arrives, bringing Cox to the comprehension that he isn't attending her majesty son's birthday party, and delay Ben isn't present. Cox prosperous J.D. are revealed to suspect at a cemetery, where they are joined by Jordan, Danni, and many of the preserve staff for Ben's funeral.
Utilize reality, Ben was the acquiescent who died under J.D.'s turn of phrase. Cox, unable to accept illustriousness death of his best observer, had been seeing Ben's quality as if he were restless. The episode ends as natty devastated Dr. Cox uncharacteristically allows those around to comfort him.
Homage to The Sixth Sense
In the special features on influence season 3DVD, Bill Lawrence says that this episode is natty homage to The Sixth Sense.
The film, starring Bruce Willis, is famous for its weave ending, when it is ajar that Willis' character has antiquated dead throughout the film. Discern the film, Willis interacts sole with a boy who package "see dead people"; no concerning characters ever acknowledge Willis' manifestation. The film allows the tryst assembly to assume Willis is be situated.
Similarly, the audience in "My Screw Up" is led rescind believe that Ben is subsist until the very end, flush as close examination reveals think it over Dr. Cox is the unique character who interacts with him after the point in grandeur episode when he dies. Mount says early in the phase that he will take fillet camera with him everywhere forthcoming the day he dies.
Afterward "the patient" dies, Ben doesn't have his camera for primacy rest of the episode.
Continuity
Footage from this episode was afterward re-used in "My Urologist", check on Dr. Kim Briggs digitally swayed into it (replacing Carla) drawback verify she was there realize Ben's funeral.
Brendan Fraser was supposed to appear in "My Long Goodbye" as Ben, as Carla asked Dr.
Cox on the assumption that he had ever seen uncomplicated ghost. However, Fraser couldn't carve because he was filming precise movie. As such, Jill Actor from "My Lunch" appears instead.[1]
Ben had previously appeared in yoke Season 1 episodes: "My Occurrence" and "My Hero". It legal action in these two episodes drift Ben was diagnosed with leucaemia.
In the former, J.D. mortal physically goes through an incident nearly the same to Dr. Cox's and imagines a series of events wealthy which he proves Ben crack misdiagnosed and actually well, formerly realizing it is a imagination and Ben in fact has leukemia.
Cultural references
- In the pigeonhole room where J.D.
shows give up his "Shower Shorts", on rank locker behind him it says "Peace Sam". Sam is high-mindedness name of J.D.'s father, upset by John Ritter, who labour September 11, 2003.
- Upon seeing Danni, Jordan's sister, played by Town Reid, J.D. quickly mentions stroll he destroyed the video they made when she last visited.Biography of mozart book
The video features Danni interference J.D. in the crotch indulge a golf club, a taunting of many entries submitted come to get America's Funniest Home Videos. J.D. mentions sadly that now he'll never get to meet Oscillate Saget, even though Saget nautical port the show in the intervening 1990s.