TV-Reviewed

In “Their Story II” we go into the heads of someone other than J.D. which is refreshing every once and a while when the production staff decides to change it up a bit with this show. The change works very well in this episode though and it might be interesting to revisit this in the future when the show chooses to go without J.D.

This week saw the inclusion of a new surgical intern named Derek played by Lee Thompson Young. Most of the episode is narrated by him, but he doesn’t actually speak until then which is something that you won’t notice until the very end of the episode. Right off the bat I have to say that he gave off an unlikable presence. It’s one thing to be straight forward with people, but sometimes it just seemed like he was in a bad mood.  It doesn’t end being that bad, because it’s a character that we don’t and really never have had on this show, unless you want to count Denise who is a little different on in my opinion.

Apparently since Dr. Cox became chief, J.D. has been the person that’s had to go ask them for things that are needed around the hospital making him the local celebrity around the hospital. Turk seemed okay with this, but we slowly start to see that he’s a little bothered by this. One of the funniest moments came when Carla remarks that today if she and Turk had sex that Turk wouldn’t be the only one thinking about J.D. It’s comments like that, that make Scrubs so funny and just the idea of Turk thinking about J.D. is funny, but seemingly normal to anyone who watches Scrubs.

Donald Faison as Dr. Christopher Turk

J.D. did get another prank played on him by the Janitor this episode, which was a lot better than the prank that Carla did the last episode which had the Janitor tricking J.D. into thinking that he had been hypnotized and J.D. trying to find the word that sets him off.  We also saw the Janitor bring out his motor operated cart, which came at the right time, just before it was about to his an old lady in a wheelchair. Sunny, Howie and Katie end up getting tormented for touching his cart. At first the janitor punishes Howie and Katie the normal way which is rigging the elevator which strangely leads to the two making out, but it seemed like Sunny was going to get away scott-free, which is fine, because it would horrible to watch something bad happen to her. The fact that nothing was happening to her was starting to make her not so happy, until the end when we find out that making Sunny think she was weak and having her be obsessed about it was all part of his plan.

The Janitor’s tricks always work really well because the characters that he plays them on can be believed that they would fall for them. There has always been an imaginary rule of certain people who can’t really be pranked by the Janitor which includes, but is not limited to: Dr. Cox, Dr.Kelso, and Carla (Turk possibly too). It works really well with J.D. due to the fact that J.D. is such a child in the mind to a degree.

Elliot and Denise had a patient this week, but disagreed about the diagnoses. When Denise convinces Elliot to run a test, it ends up negative and patient is upset about the scar left on her face. I have to say the scar wasn’t that horrible, but pairing Elliot and Denise up was a good match for some reason.  I like when the residents are paired up with the interns, because on a normal episode without the interns, the residents look like normal people with problems, but when we seem paired with an intern, it shows just how much they’ve grown from the first season and now they’re passing it on to the next generation.

I think the ending was interesting though when Derek decides to speak his mind to everyone including to Dr. Cox, while his speech wasn’t very good. It was great to see him come in the next day and instead of people being mad at him he got the respect for speaking his mind.

I thought this episode was much better than last episode, which really seemed sort of like a throwaway episode when it comes to Scrubs. This episode focused more on the interns and Derek which isn’t a bad thing. The interns are really starting to grow on me and it would be nice if at least a few of them would be included for next season.

Rating: 7.7