My Long Goodbye

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“My Long Goodbye”
Scrubs episode
Episode no. Season 6
Episode 15
Written by Dave Tennant
Directed by Victor Nelli Jr.
Guest stars Keeshan Giles (Lester Roberts)
Michael Bullard (Man)
Nicole Sullivan (Jill Tracy)
Production no. 614
Original airdate April 5, 2007
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"My Long Goodbye" is the 132nd episode of the American situation comedy Scrubs. It aired as episode 15 of season 6.

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[edit] Plot

Nurse Laverne Roberts is still in a non-responsive coma due to injuries she sustained in a car accident the previous day. The staff and Laverne's family worry she will never wake up.

Eventually, some members of staff start saying goodbye to her, but Carla Espinosa tells everyone not to say goodbye, because she still hopes for Laverne to pull through. This strong sense of denial, coupled with being unable to accept Laverne will most likely die, causes her to see Laverne's disembodied spirit.

The whole staff is heart-broken when Laverne's latest CAT scans arrive: she's brain dead. Laverne's family decides to take her off life-support, and one-by-one the main characters say their own goodbyes to Laverne as she weakens. Carla, in the end, learns from Laverne's spirit that she must say goodbye to the people she cares for before she loses her chance, and says her own tearful goodbye to Laverne. As Carla walks out of the room and collapses in tears in Turk's arms, Laverne flatlines and her spirit passes away.

Meanwhile, Dr. Cox confides in J.D. that he doesn't want people to know of his daughter's birth because it will be associated with Laverne's death, but still tells Jordan that he has told others. Jordan becomes suspicious because no one has come to congratulate her other than J.D. Even when Laverne passes away, Jordan still does not get admirers, and in desperation she declares J.D. the child's godfather and agrees to name her baby Jennifer Dylan (J.D.).

Everyone except J.D. goes to the bar to suppress their grief and toast Laverne.

[edit] Production details

  • When Dr. Cox says he never saw a ghost follow him around, he sees the ghost of a pregnant Jill Tracy, who died in a fifth-season episode, "My Lunch". This is due to Brendan Fraser playing Ben Sullivan, his best friend and brother-in-law, being unavailable to appear in the episode. He had been visible to Dr. Cox throughout "My Screw Up". However, in "My Long Goodbye", the Jill Tracy ghost takes on a comic outlook, whilst in "My Screw Up" the revealing of Ben being a ghost isn't funny.
  • When the ghost of Jill tells Dr. Cox that she got pregnant in heaven, this is because the actress, Nicole Sullivan, was pregnant in real life.
  • Although this is the last appearance of Aloma Wright as Laverne Roberts, Wright returned in the Season 7 episode "My Hard Labor" as Nurse Shirley, whose similarities to Laverne go unnoticed by all except JD, although he doesn't make the connection between the two characters right away. Early reports stated that Aloma Wright would return as the "Anti-Laverne" (a single, alcoholic atheist) twin sister[1] were later denied.
  • Laverne's husband Lester and son are seen for the first time, for a very brief moment.
  • Jordan responds to the new name "Jennifer Dylan" in the same way as her response to the name "Jack": "Sure. What the hell?"

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[edit] References

  1. ^ Scrubs Actress Back from Dead, a June 15, 2007 article from Zap2it

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