My Own Worst Enemy (Scrubs)

"My Own Worst Enemy"
Scrubs episode
Episode no. Season 7
Episode 1
Directed by Bill Lawrence
Written by Neil Goldman and Garrett Donovan
Featured music "Alive with the Glory of Love" by Say Anything
"Where We Gonna Go from Here?" by Mat Kearney
Production code 701
Original air date October 25, 2007
Guest actors

"My Own Worst Enemy" is the first episode of the seventh season of the American comedy-drama Scrubs. It originally aired on October 25, 2007, and was watched by 6.95 million viewers.[1]

Plot

After Elliot almost kisses J.D. in the on-call room she begins to question her engagement with Keith.

The episode then focuses upon epiphanies by the main characters - Elliot realizes she carried on a meaningless relationship due to her desire to be married; consequently, she calls off the wedding twice. J.D. realizes his tendency to sabotage himself and yearns to avoid it, but fails due to his disbelief of the Janitor having a girlfriend oddly enough named Lady. Meanwhile, Turk is challenged with choosing his semi-annual candy bar due to his diabetes. He too has an epiphany and decides to make a random selection.

Throughout the episode, Dr. Cox, Turk, and Dr. Kelso all pull together to diagnose a very charming patient, Joe Hutnik. Cox, upon telling Dr. Beardfacé that if he wanted to lose the nickname, all he had to do was shave his beard, realizes his initial diagnosis of lyme disease was correct, citing Occam's Razor (which J.D. references internally while holding a Razr cell phone): in this case, the patient's tick bite was not discovered because it was under his hair.

J.D consults Turk about Kim, as he feels he is only with Kim because she is pregnant. He realizes Turk was right and J.D. was only with Kim because she was pregnant and he felt because of the trauma of his parents divorcing he would stay with Kim even though he was not in love with her.

Continuity

Reception

Television Without Pity gave this episode a B rating, and questioned on the show's summary page whether the show was becoming a daytime soap due to the plot of the sixth season finale and this episode.[2] Travis Fickett of IGN complemented Scrubs '​ consistent quality and resolution of the previous episode's cliffhanger, and gave it an 8.4/10 ("Impressive") rating.[3]

References

  1. "Weekly Program Rankings" (Press release). ABC Medianet. October 30, 2007. Retrieved 2007-12-19.
  2. "Scrubs". Television Without Pity. 2007-10-26. Archived from the original on 2007-12-31. Retrieved 2008-01-14.
  3. ""My Own Worst Enemy" Review". Scrubs. IGN TV. 2007-10-26. Retrieved 2008-01-14.

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