Their Story

"Their Story" is the 134th episode of the American situation comedy Scrubs. It was aired as episode 17 of season 6 on April 19, 2007.

Plot

This episode is the first to include three narrators: Ted, The Todd, and Jordan.

Ted is caught in the middle of a standoff between Dr. Kelso and the nursing staff, who demand a cost-of-living raise. When Kelso refuses, saying that the nurses would never strike because they care about the patients, the nurses initiate a slowdown of work. Kelso tells Ted that he will eventually give the nurses their raise; at the expense of firing three of them. Ted tries to urge the nursing staff to stop the slowdown, but to no avail. Eventually, Ted gives the nurses some leverage: he anonymously gives them an invoice for needles that reveals that Sacred Heart has been receiving $50,000 worth of needles for $50 each month. The nurses blackmail Dr. Kelso, and he gives them their raise without firing anyone. Ted has a fantasy of having great hair, making out with two women, and accidentally causing his mother's death.

The Todd has a new profession, plastic surgery. One of The Todd's patients is a 16-year-old girl getting breast implants, and Turk takes moral offense to this. He takes it up with Todd's department head, who tells Turk to buzz off. He also tells Todd that he will ruin Turk's career if he interferes any more. Todd tries to get Turk to stop his crusade to stop the surgery, but to no avail. Eventually, Todd finds someone that convinces Turk to allow the surgery: the 16-year-old girl herself. Todd has a fantasy of his son wearing a Speedo (in which this dream features a cameo audio of the sad music last heard in My Old Friend's New Friend.)

Jordan decides to meddle in Elliot's relationship with Keith Dudemeister. She convinces Elliot to play mind games with Keith, but when Keith tells her that he just wishes the mind games would stop, Jordan feels guilty for once. She decides to talk to Elliot and tells her the best way to get the relationship back on track: ignore what she says. Jordan has a fantasy of herself as a wacky talk show host.

In the end, the three narrators admit that they all have parts to play and narration, instead of returning to J.D., moves to a whole crowd of minor characters in the coffee shop. Speakers that can be heard in the final scene are Lloyd, the delivery guy (trying to remember where he parked his truck), Dr. Green, the head of cosmetic surgery (thinking about bees), Dr. Mickhead (thinking "that nurse is hot"), Snoop Dogg Resident (wishing someone would call him by his real name, Ronald), and Colonel Doctor (thinking about his beard). The latter is cut off in some versions.

Production details

• In Jordan's fantasy, the little girl she's dancing with is actually the real life daughter of Christa Miller (Jordan) and Bill Lawrence, Charlotte Sarah. Bill Lawrence also appears in this episode as an extra when Jordan tells Dr. Mickhead that she hopes he gets cancer. Lawrence can be heard over the crowd to say "They were mean, apparently."
• This is the first time that we see Ted's mother in person (we can see a picture of her in Ted's office). It is an actual picture of Sam Lloyd's mother. This is covered in the DVD extras from an earlier season.
• When Turk protests the breast implants, the back of J.D. is visible for the first shot, although he is talking to the Todd.

Censorship

• When shown in the United Kingdom before the watershed, Ted's description of how he could kill himself and Dr Kelso is completely removed, as is the line "Suck it, bitch! I will murder you!" when Ted celebrates in his head.

• Ted's line "Suck it, bitch!" is muted in the episode's airing on Comedy Central^{[citation needed]}.

Featured music

• "The Stripper" by David Rose
• "Now That We Found Love" by Heavy D & The Boyz
• "Forever Lost" by The Magic Numbers

External links

• "Their Story" at the Internet Movie Database
• "Their Story" at TV.com