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"My Best Laid Plans" is the 87th episode of the American sitcom Scrubs. It originally aired on March 1, 2005.

Plot

J.D. starts getting impatient with Kylie after she keeps refusing to become intimate with him. Dr. Molly Clock makes a return from Milwaukee and J.D. suddenly has his eyes on her. Turk and Carla run into relationship trouble when she discovers that Turk is finding time to talk to his college ex girlfriend behind her back. When she confronts him about this, Turk claims she is just making "mountains out of molehills", a tendency she's had in the past.

Janitor brags to Dr. Cox, saying that his future includes him and "blonde doctor" Elliot ending up together. Dr. Cox doubts that the Janitor would ever be able to hook up with Elliot, and challenges him by placing a wager. Dr. Cox pits his Porsche up against Janitor's van, with the winner receiving the loser's vehicle. Janitor agrees to the deal and converses with his new "brain trust", looking for ways to land a date with Elliot. Ted suggests getting in with the best friend, who in this case, would be Molly, but it doesn't go as planned.

Janitor finds Elliot and tells her about the wager, and Elliot is more than willing to fake a relationship with him so Dr. Cox will lose his Porsche. Dr. Cox discovers Elliot in the Janitor's arms and holds up to his end of the deal, but the Janitor lies to Elliot, saying that Dr. Cox won't believe it until they go on a date.

J.D. blows off a date with Kylie to go out with Molly, Elliot, and Carla, hoping to score big with his longtime crush. Since Elliot must leave to go on her date with the Janitor, J.D. ends up convincing Carla to leave with her so she can reconcile with Turk, but mostly so he can be alone with Molly. After J.D. gets a few drinks in his system, he works up the courage to kiss Molly. They soon after leave for J.D.'s apartment where they start getting undressed, but we find out that it was all a dream, leading back to the point where he was about to kiss her. In reality, he ends up turning her down, and leaving her at the bar.

Janitor returns with Elliot to the hospital where Dr. Cox asks them how the Porsche was, which reveals the Janitor's lie that he had it all along, and that his relationship with Elliot was an act, which means Dr. Cox wins the bet. Elliot becomes disappointed that she was lied to like that, but the Janitor shows a bit of remorse by saying that she's the only one around that treats him like a real person. Elliot admits that she actually had a good time and walks away.

J.D. rushes to Kylie's apartment, realizing that she's the one he wanted all along. She tells J.D. that she's actually ready to have sex. After quickly getting undressed, J.D. drunkenly tells her that it was fate, and that he was with a girl he could have had sex with, but ended up denying it. However this backfires, revealing that this was the reason he blew Kylie off in the first place. Kylie gets upset and tells him to go, leaving J.D. with no one.

Turk is excited to tell Carla that he has cut of all ties with his ex. Carla is curious how he did it so quickly, and Turk tells her that he just told her that he was married, which greatly upsets Carla (as it supposedly shows how non-important marriage and commitment is to him). She storms out of the room, telling Turk "It's no big deal. Because if you're lucky, maybe you won't be married for much longer."

Trivia

• The scene in which Dr. Cox surrenders the keys of his Porsche to the janitor is a parody of the climax in the movie Blade Runner.

• In this episode, Ted remarks that he lost his hair in eighth grade, but in a previous episode he says when he began working at the hospital he had hair.

• The Janitor learns Elliot's name in this episode, though he still calls her "blonde doctor" in later episodes.

Featured music

• "Closer" by Joshua Radin
• "Waiting For Your Letter" by Cary Brothers
• "Can't Go Back" by Keren DeBerg
• "Rosanna" by Toto

See also

• Scrubs (TV series)
• List of Scrubs episodes

• Scrubs episodes