My Buddy's Booty

"My Buddy's Booty"
Scrubs episode
Episode no.	Season 5 Episode 11
Directed by	Randall Winston
Written by	Mark Stegemann
Production code	511
Original air date	February 28, 2006
Guest stars
Christa Miller as Jordan Sullivan Travis Schuldt as Keith Dudemeister Johnny Kastl as Doug Murphy Robert Maschio as Todd Quinlan Michael Learned as Mrs. Wilk Aaron Ikeda as Rex Robert Forster as Janitor's Crony Shaughn Buchholz as Jason Ellerine as Old Woman Callard Harris as Attractive Guy Rachel Jackson as Nurse Kellie Madison as Sexy Girl Marisa Petroro as Cavewoman Jack Yang as Patient
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"My Buddy's Booty" is the 104th episode of the American situation comedy Scrubs. It originally aired as Episode 11 of Season 5 on February 28, 2006.

Summary

Mrs. Wilk (Michael Learned) encounters a major setback in her recovery from her serious disease when she develops a lung infection. In order to keep her alive, she will have to intubated for a week. This procedure is extremely risky and cannot be done safely while the patient is conscious, so she has to be sedated and put into a medically-induced coma until the infection clears. Just before being put into the procedure, she tells J.D. and Dr. Cox to let her die if the procedure fails.

Everybody deals with Mrs. Wilk's status in their own way; Turk goes to work out, Carla and Elliot eat six gallons of ice cream, Cox goes to the bar and J.D. tries to pick up women. When that doesn't work, Turk suggests J.D. make a "booty call". J.D. enlists Elliot to booty call someone as well. They decide to choose from a pool of interns, but are all too unattractive. But Elliot turns the tables by hooking up with J.D.'s nemesis, intern Keith Dudemeister.

J.D. believes the relationship won't last long, until he finds them in post-coital bliss in their apartment. J.D.'s original suggestion backfires completely when Elliot turns Keith into her own "sex puppy" - he'll do anything she wants for a little attention. J.D. isn't happy about it, since he didn't hook up with anyone, and asks her to stop hanging out with him. She doesn't, and to make matters worse, she tells Keith to page her if J.D. bothers him.

Meanwhile; Carla asks Turk to approach Dr. Kelso about making the gym more female friendly. Dr. Cox gets wind of the idea and convinces Turk that would be a bad idea. Turk and J.D. go to Kelso's office, but instead of asking him, they phrase their sentence to make it seem like they asked him about a doctor named Jim who needs medical equipment. When Kelso gives them a resounding no and throws them out of his office, Carla is convinced that they did their job. Turk's cover is later blown when Dr. Kelso changes his mind and OK's Dr. Bianco getting the new MRI, which is what Turk really asked him about, instead of the gym.

While Cox is worrying about Mrs. Wilk at the bar, he and Janitor begin bonding as drinking buddies. Cox is stunned when Janitor later reveals that he can't be friendly to Cox at the hospital, because it will ruin his reputation with his fellow, working class friends. Cox accepts this and their friendship ends peacefully, although he is privately sad over it.

All the couples end up in an argument in the same elevator, but it ends when they each get a page on Mrs. Wilk's condition: she awakes from her coma with the infection cleared.

This sudden appearance of good luck causes all of their petty arguments to fade away. In the end, the gym gets new equipment designed for women, Cox and Janitor become bar-friends again (but not work-friends), and J.D. and Elliot make up, even as J.D. still hates Keith.

Cultural references

• This episode shows the Janitor's van which appears to be an exact replica of the A-Team van.
• The Janitor refers to Dr. Cox as "Doogie" referencing Doogie Howser, MD.

Featured music

• "Shadow" by The Southland
• "Open" by Rob Laufer
• "Head Off" by Moris Tepper
• "Without You" by Tart
• "Blue" by Jayhawks

External links

• "My Buddy's Booty" at the Internet Movie Database
• "My Buddy's Booty" at TV.com
• http://scrubs-tv.com/ep104.html
• http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/02/28/scrubs-my-buddys-booty/