My Fishbowl

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“My Fishbowl”
Scrubs episode

Episode no.	Season 6 Episode 12
Guest stars	Michael Weston as Private Brian Dancer
Written by	Kevin Biegel
Directed by	Chris Koch
Production no.	611
Original airdate	March 8, 2007
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"My Fishbowl" is the 129th episode of the American situation comedy Scrubs. It aired as episode 12 of season 6 on March 8th, 2007.

1 Episode overview
2 Featured music
3 Goofs
4 Quotes
5 Trivia
6 External links

[edit] Episode overview

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The day has come for Private Brian Dancer to be released from Sacred Heart, but after a touching string of goodbyes with the staff, they find him unconscious. Finding a letter from the army informing him that his injuries are too severe to return to service, Elliot surmises that his sudden fit of illness was in fact a suicide attempt, and they want to convince Brian to confess to them that it wasn't an accidental overdose so they can keep him in the hospital. However, he reveals that he has overheard them all whispering while he pretended to be unconscious, and says he sees no reason why he should be honest with them when they are lying to each other.

This sparks a series of confessions from Carla, Turk and Elliot, with Carla admitting that she switched several pictures of Dr. Cox for more unflattering ones as a joke, and we see a revival of the issue touched on in 6.03 (My Coffee), that J.D. found Turk in bed with his college girlfriend, saying that they had a water balloon fight and huddled under the covers, with Turk finally admitting that he was lying. Finally, in a revelation that shocked her friends, Elliot admits that when she was sixteen she attempted suicide by walking into a lake and trying to drown herself.

Finally Dr. Cox convinces Brian that even if he has nothing left to live for without his career, he owes it to the staff of Sacred Heart to keep trying, and allows him to be discharged after making him promise to talk to a therapist. As Private Dancer leaves the hospital, he shares a kiss with Elliot, and promises that if she's ever single in the future, he'll look her up.

While everyone is in the room, the Janitor waits outside the room for JD, holding a fish and fishbowl that JD received from another patient, waiting to harass him for "assuming [his] job is so unimportant" that he'd have time to hold that fish for JD. He soon realizes the fish can talk, and appears to be the reincarnated soul of Dr. Kelso's squadron leader in Vietnam (although this was most likely a hallucination). The fishbowl was accidentally smashed when J.D. exited the room and knocked the bowl, currently resting on the floor, into a wall: the episode ended with the Janitor hurrying to save the fish, whose fate is unknown. At the very end, Elliot kisses Brian.

Spoilers end here.

[edit] Featured music

"Half a World Away" by R.E.M.

[edit] Goofs

Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow.

The door that the Janitor stands outside of all episode opens away from him when Dr. Cox leaves, but opens towards him when JD exits at the end, although many hospital doors open both ways.

When Dr. Cox leaves the room he's holding the changed picture of himself but later on in the episode it is shown again still on the wall as Dr. Cox comes back into the room with a new picture he supposedly took from another room.

Dr. Cox says to Brian Dancer that the staff has spent three weeks looking after him; however, in "My Therapeutic Month," more than a month of time elapsed.

Dr. Cox has a full head of hair after mysteriously shaving it in the last episode. However, this is the result of continuity problems, and it has been stated that Cox shaves his head in 'future episodes'. This has occurred on Scrubs previously, when episodes have been shown out of continuity. e.g. My Dirty Secret and My Chopped Liver.

Dr. Kelso mentions having a squad leader who died in his arms in Vietnam, which would indicated that he served as a corpsman in a Marine Corps squad. Or that he's simply modified his way of explaining it after 30 years out of the service, which may seem a little more logical.

When Brian Dancer walks out of Sacred Heart, his name on his uniform says "Pvt. Dancer." The name patch on his uniform would only say "Dancer" with his rank being conveyed on another part of his uniform.

[edit] Quotes

JD (after imagining Turk flying in the air after a fart): If only I had a saddle I could have ridden you.

The Talking Fish (after the Janitor says he's not real): Oh yeah, well if I wasn't real, would I be able to hold this note?
(holds a high note)
Janitor: That was lovely.

Roger Dorsee (the talking fish) (after Dr. Kelso says Roger Dorsee was the name of his squad leader): Tell Bob I love him.

Dr. Cox: Carla, you rascal, I can't help but notice you like making jokes. What the, what the devil were you saying earlier about your coffee?

Dr Cox:...and Ted is the hospital sad sac.
Ted:I am?
Dr Cox: yes
Ted: aawwwwwwww.

[edit] Trivia

Snoop Dogg Intern makes a return, although now he's Snoop Dogg Resident. His first and last speaking appearance was in Season 3, Episode 13: "My Porcelain God".
In this episode Dr. Cox passes by most of the minor characters and notes what comic relief they provide on the show (including himself)

Spoilers end here.