My Own Worst Enemy

"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 to 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

• Carla tells Elliot and J.D. not to obsess over their own hypocrisies because it is human nature to want what's best for others even if one has difficulty following their own advice. She also says that she doesn't want to repeat this advice "two weeks from now." Two episodes later, in "My Inconvenient Truth", Carla repeats the same rant to Elliot and the Janitor.
• Turk mentions that the only girl who was good for J.D was "Mole Butt". He is referring to Elliot, whom he previously addressed with this nickname in "Her Story II" when mentioning J.D's previous girlfriends.
• Turk can now grow a full head of hair, whereas in previous seasons he is said to be balding and only grow hair in patches.(For instance in My Way Home).
• At the beginning of the episode the words "Veer felt at" and "Peace Sam" are sighted on the locker behind J.D. "Peace Sam" can also be seen in the episode "My Screw Up".
• The Janitor's girlfriend Lady is played by Kit Pongetti, who previously appeared as Dr. Mitchell in the season 2 episode "My Philosophy".
• The discovery of a tick bite under a patient's hair was used as a plot device two weeks later in "Ugly", an episode of House.

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 a 8.4/10 ("Impressive") rating.^[3]

Featured music

• "Alive with the Glory of Love" by Say Anything
• "Where We Gonna Go from Here?" by Mat Kearney

References

External links

• "My Own Worst Enemy" at the Internet Movie Database
• "My Own Worst Enemy" at TV.com