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"My Jerks" is the 151st episode and television season premiere of the eighth season of the ABC Studios television series Scrubs. The episode first aired on January 6, 2009 on the American Broadcasting Company, following the show's departure from NBC. It was immediately followed by the second episode of the season. The episode was written by Angela Nissel and directed by Michael Spiller who also has a small cameo appearance.
Plot
Dr. Maddox (Courteney Cox) joins Sacred Heart as new chief of medicine. J.D. struggles to manage new interns, finding them incompetent, arrogant and rude. While Dr Cox attempts to decide whether or not Dr Maddox is a jerk, she fires Janitor for tripping J.D. Carla helps Elliot put her ego in check by getting her to apologize to Keith for breaking his heart. Dr Cox finds out that Dr Maddox is a 'jerk' when she confesses to giving unnecessary tests to a rich patient in order to charge his insurance more. J.D. struggles with the new interns, whose poor performance is made worse by a variety of attitude problems.
Production
Promotion
Lawrence has stated that since switching to ABC, he and Scrubs has received a better level of promotion. This includes the introduction of webisodes of Scrubs on ABC.com and commercial promotion. ABC also released the first five minutes of the episode "My Jerks" prematurely to promote the shows debut on the network.
Cultural references
- In the episode's opening scene, J.D. approaches The Janitor and points at his "watch" and says "Huh, that's new." J.D.'s finger is seen pointing directly at the ABC bug, in a reference to Scrubs' move from NBC to ABC.
- In the sequence that plays during the ending credits, J.D. mentions that Dr. Shalhoub wins everything during medical awards season, which is a jab at the number of awards won by the TV Show 'Monk', in which Tony Shalhoub stars. Turk's comment that "the Nielsens certainly beg to differ" is a parallel to the show's performance with the Nielsen ratings.
References
- ^ "Scrubs (1/6-1)". ABC Medianet. December 22, 2008. Retrieved January 01, 2009.
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