Can a brother get a Mozeltov?

In the opening episode, JD is on vacation leaving Turk without his heterosexual man crush. Turk and Carla are having another baby. This is nice and all, but you really can’t get too excited about it. There has been almost zero impact from the various kids already populating the show.

With JD missing, Elliot spends much of her time wishing he was there. Its sweet but slightly unbelievable considering the on again status of their relationship. In spite of that, Elliot and Kelso (whose ability to hang around the hospital is titanic) get misty eyed over a woman passing away. The patient had been lamenting the death of her husband of fifty years and Kelso believes it was from a broken heart. With Kelso’s guidance Elliot appears to realize the specialness of her re-found relationship with JD. I hope this episode can finally cement the JD and Elliot relationship. It would be far too painful (and eye roll inducing) to go through another breakup.

An elderly coma patient is going to die imminently. Sunny, the super positive intern, takes an interest. The coma patient’s sister is trying to make it from overseas to be able to say goodbye to her brother and Sunny is intent on keeping him alive until then. At first Carla doesn’t help, but after a tongue lashing and then an apology (gasp) from Dr Cox, she returns to her nurturing ways. We get reminded of Carla’s place as mother hen in the show’s structure. She may be the only character who is almost completely likable.

In the evening’s second Scrubs episode, we get a break from Dr. Cox’s and his anxieties over his new role as the hospital’s grand puba. The intermingling plots however seems so desperate and distant that it feels like the writer’s put it together with a book of Madlibs.

Elliot continues to attempt to dole out bleach blonde wisdom to her interns. The mean one (I have yet to learn all their names) is regularly invited out with the other newbies but she refuses. She’d rather stay and work than hang out with the ever happy fellow intern Sunny. Elliot insists that she get a life and start socializing before the hospital’s demands crush her. As usual, a patient’s illness somehow gives them the slightly lame opportunity for revelation and learning.

The writers enjoying deploying the uncomfortable “bro-mance” between JD and Turk whenever they can. Fans got a double helping tonight. The two are planning sacred Heart’s annual sketch show and have set up a variety of insult humor jokes that look likely to fall flat. Most do, but the performance is highlighted by the fully expected “look how gay they are” joke about JD and Turk. Yes, its guy love all over again.

We continue to get a steady diet of Scrubs’ interns. I’m beginning to wonder if there’s a hope that Scrubs can continue without a few key cast members. It certainly can’t be to promote the god awful webisodes that ABC has been throwing up on their website. I can see loosing Zach Braff to his nonexistent film career if negotiations with ABC aren’t fruitful. The way ABC is moving Scrubs around and the double-header style of programming may kill the show either way.