What was amazing about the first three years of this show was that JD and the gang of interns actually progressed and grew together, both professionally and personally. However, there's bound to be mistakes in the continuity of the the series (with the rearranging of episode order). Here's a place to discuss why someone broke their leg one day and is fine a week later and nitpick all the medical shenanigans they get wrong.

Season 1, Episode 3: the storyline in which J.D. believes he and Elliot need to kiss in 48 hours or else wind up as "just friends." When J.D. does his mad dash with 15 seconds left to reach Elliot, he passes a nursing station and then trips and falls as he passes 2 women. One of the 2 women was also just at the nurses station in a different outfit. Wow, she moves fast!

I'm watching the episode where Carla is trying to organize the staff picture. This may just be a Comedy Central glitch but during the first picture (the one the janitor sabotages) the Janitor is obviously there in his suit beside Carla. Then later on they use the same shot.

It's so completely random and kind of lazy so it's always mystified me.

Yeah I figured it was the same shot because I purposely looked for creator Bill Lawrence laying in the front row. Guess it was hard to wrangle all the cast, crew, and pets together two separate times. : )

Not sure if this is really a continuity goof, but JD is one of the first to tell Eillot that you "NEVER talk to a pitcher when he's throwing a perfect game that he has a perfect game going" in My Blind Date. But in later episodes JD is clueless about mainstream sports (see Barry Bonds for example) therefore, it would stand to reason that JD would fail to realize all significance of the fact that Dr. Cox would like all 27 ICU patients to survive the night (Perfect game in baseball, 27 opposition at-bats, 27 outs recorded), other than Cox is really dedicated to his work of course.

Never mind the fact that JD wouldn't know the baseball superstition of never telling a pitcher he has a perfect game going.

Maybe JD made a similar mistake and was corrected by Cox, so corrected Elliot using Cox's words and played it off like he knew that all the time. It's something I could totally see JD doing.

Season 6, Episode 12. My Fishbowl.

The door to Private Dancer's room. Look, it opens outwards! No, wait, it definitely opens inwards. Look, there everyone goes, opening it inwards. I must have imagined the whole...

Wait! Watch that fishbowl fly! The door opens outwards!

In fact...it's a completely different door, with a completely different frame!

Is it worrying that this annoys me so much?

You know what's always confused me? There's an episode (I think in the second season, where Elliot learns the sex of Jordan's baby when Jordan wanted it to be a surprise), where Cox says, "Look, Barbie" and Elliot says, "Yeah, that's not my name," and Cox says, "Okay...Dr. Reed. Hmm." The way he said it made me think that there would be a storyline about her last name, as if Elliot's dad had warned Cox to be nice to her or something...but nothing came of it. Did anyone else pick this up?

My interpretation of that moment was that Cox looked at her nametag right before he said her name, as if he honestly didn't know her name.

I thought so too. That's one of the things I love about Scrubs, the fact that we all know these characters, but many of them didn't know each other. They do this especially with Cox, "You're Turk?" "Reed?" Heh, always good.

There was also an ep with Carla. She was in a patients room and I think she's talking with Doctor Cox, but at one point the door is open, another point the door is closed, another point she is on the other side of the door and when they shoot back she has to leave the room. Then the direction the door opens seems to change? It was truly odd.

Especially considering for the past year and change he had been calling her Blondie Stick, and Barbie. Call someone by their nickname for too long, you just might forget their real name.

J.D. has mentioned a couple of times that he "got his girlfriend pregnant on their first date" when it was actually their second. Let me lay it out for you:

1st date - horses on the beach, J.D. gets testicular pains and Kim checks it out, they go back to J.D./Elliot's place and are about to kiss when Elliot bursts in and ruins the moment.

2nd date - J.D.'s half acre, when Kim comes over and they stare at the stars until they are "comfortable enough to make out." It is on this date that the "friendly fire" incident happens.

The episode ends with J.D. showing up at Kim's door saying "Two and half weeks is too long to wait for a third date!" and Kim responding "I'm pregnant."

So, writers, it was his SECOND date, not FIRST date. Pretty simple thing to keep straight.

I mentioned this in the episode thread. In the season finale, JD was talking about how he was having sex with a pregnant girl for the first time. Now, he got Kim pregnant on the second date, and we know he continued to date her until she moved away. Did they not have sex while they were dating? I find that hard to believe. So, he did have sex with a pregnant woman, just not one with a giant pregnant belly yet.

in My Coffee, he "sexed her into a coma, zoom zoom zoom"

she was pregnant then, wasnt she? And he sexed her in "My Best Friend's Baby's...." so forth.

I guess he meant "really" pregnant, like...bulging.

While watching our newly purchased season 5 dvd's last night, my boyfriend and I noticed that during most (if not all) of "My Jiggly Ball" Dr. Kelso is wearing Dr. Cox's white coat (complete with Dr. Cox's ID badge).

I think that was intentional. According to Wikipedia (not the most accurate of sources, I know, but it was the first place I could remember offhand where I read about this), it was made to show a sense of "seeing things through another's eyes" between Kelso and Cox in the episode, what with the conflict over the drug trial and all:

My own personal nitpick? It's at the beginning of a Season One episode (and for the life of me, I cannot remember which one right now), where JD tells Dr. Cox he believes their patient is suffering from Kuru, to which Dr. Cox replies that the only cases of Kuru in the world were in a cannibalistic New Guinea tribe and gives JD the "if you hear hoofbeats, think horses, not zebras" speech. Maybe it's the pre-med geek in me, but that always bothers me, because Kuru, while admittedly only found in a cannibalistic New Guinea tribe, was actually closely related to Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease (or Mad Cow Disease in humans), which is a plausible disease for someone in the Western world to have. So while I understand the concept behind the scene and Dr. Cox's speech, I feel like either he should have shown some concern that the patient may be suffering from a more common cousin of Kuru like CJD, or the writing staff could have picked an equally obscure disease that does not have any variants present in today's American society.

Was that the episode where the patient wound up with a diagnosis of Temporal Artoritis? If that's the case, I remember Cox saying "Of course it is." I was thinking that Cox knew all along what the diagnosis of the patient was, but was trying to get JD to answer the question for himself, and giving a little guidance in the right direction.

Yeah, I thought so too. I think the jacket switch would have been better if they did it in "My Life in Four Cameras" where they literally did kind of switch places. But I can see it.

I wonder if the jacket switch is explained in a deleted scene. Like Cox and Kelso deliberately swapped coats, but the scene was cut for time. Even if it didn't make the DVDs (did it? I haven't bought them yet), maybe the scene was shot or scripted anyway.
That's not the read I got off that line at all. I thought it was more of an "oh, yeah, that makes complete sense given the symptoms and maybe we should have thought of that sooner" reaction rather than a "good for you for figuring out what I already knew" reaction.

So I listened to the commentary for "My Long Goodbye", and that writer does not know anything about the show.

He says that in the scene with Jill Tracy was supposed to be Ben. First of all, Dr. Cox didn't kill Jill Tracy. At all. We already know how he felt about Ben, so I'll let that slide. The writer also continues on to "explain" the rabies storyline by saying it happened "way back in season 3". IT WAS LAST SEASON!

I know this is stupid, but during season 2, Jordan sleeps on the left hand side of the bed - for example My nightingale. In Season 3, she and Dr Cox have swapped sides for example My Best Friends Wedding. It just seems odd to me that they switched sides. My parents have slept on the same sides of the bed for the last 30 years, so I have no idea why this was changed.

In Season 5, Turk is puzzled as to how anyone could have fun hanging out at a bowling alley, but in "My Sex Buddy," he and Carla have a great time bowling w/ Elliot and JD.

Wasn't the bowling in "My Bed, Banter and Beyond"?

Despite what Ray Romano (has a bit in his routine where he says that you need to be carefull with that decision cause that is your side FOR LIFE!) and RL couples (as well as TV couples) seem to make you think, this is not something that is automatically set in stone and can never be changed.

Yes, yes it was. I always confuse the titles of those two episodes, even though "My Bed, Banter, and Beyond" was far superior.

I have three nits to pick. Nits One and Two are in the now-closed Scrubs NitPicks thread, so I am including parts of them here.

Nit #1: In the fourth episode "My Old Lady," Cox is able to speak fluent Spanish with Mrs. Guerra, Elliot's Lupus patient. Yet in S3's "My Porcelain God," he tells Carla to tell Hector, Kelso's Spanish-speaking gardener, that he can stay as long as he wants. It's expected for one to get rusty with language skills one doesn't regularly use, but how did Cox go from fluent to forgetting it all in the span of two years? He doesn't show any memory impairment in other areas...

Nit #2: In the second episode, "My Mentor," we find that Mrs. Turk the Elder is a Jehovah's Witness (JW). It is my understanding that JWs are not allowed to observe holidays that have pagan/non-Christian origins. Which is, well, most of them. (See this site for a summary of some prominent Western holidays.) Certainly the U.S. biggies of Thanksgiving and Christmas would be not be observed. Yet in ep #19 when JD is afraid to approach Mama Turk, she asks, "After all these years, are you still afraid of me?" He says, "Well, remember on Thanksgiving when I said your turkey was dry and you picked me up and shook me?"

Now, this could mean that Mrs. Turk is a recent convert, having embraced the JW faith after the shaking incident. But in S3's "My Brother, Where Art Thou?" Turk has this to say about the holidays:
So the senior Mrs. Turk is a JW who celebrates both Thanksgiving and Christmas.

urbanpreppie05 wrote in the closed thread:

Nit #3: Carla's and Turk's wedding. All of Carla's relatives attend: brother Marco and two unnamed sisters. Her mother and Aunt Marie have since died and her father ran off when she was little, so everyone is accounted for.

But the Turks?
Mama Turk was there, and it was established earlier that Turk's brother and first choice for the first man role (presumably Kevin, the D.L. Hughley character) couldn't make it. But what about Turk's unnamed sister, brother Jabari, father, and Aunt Leslie? Turk implies that he is not a kid of divorce, so perhaps Papa Turk died earlier, before the series started. But most people make at least an effort to include immediate family members in their weddings, and there seem to be a lot of Turks MIA. None of these people were even mentioned in the wedding episode. Given the supposed closeness of the Turk clan, this seems odd.

Anyone else want to try to fanwank these away?

*sigh* Usually I feed the nits to my avatar, but they don't have avatars on these forums.

ETA: If Jabari is giving DadTurk attitude for using the word "black," then DadTurk is not dead and still presumably married to Mama Turk. My bad. That still leaves him unexplainedly in the wind for the wedding, though.

Oh boy, fanwanking! I do it just for the challenge. I don't expect anyone to actually buy these:

1. The Jehovah's Witness thing. Admittedly I know nothing about Jehovah's Witnesses, so all I have to go on is that link, anyone feel free to correct me. Turk's Mom is, but his dad isn't. So he (and his children) are the ones officially celebrating Thanksgiving. But while she is (from the link "Respectfully refraining... we do not object to others celebrating such holidays nor try to hinder them") Mama Turk is still present, at least enough to yell at his sister for yelling at their grandmother.

2. The wedding. I guess family members not included in jokes were just not given speaking roles. Mama Turk seemed to appear mostly to lay the smack down on Marco for being a sangano, and Carla's sisters for the eyebrow debacle. Otherwise, the episode was about Carla and Turk, not about their family. To cast & pay them extra would be a waste of money/viewer's time as they weren't relevant. We are left to assume the rest of their families are around.

Okay, but how about the fact that in the episode where Turk asks JD to be his best man, JD hears a message from Kevin Turk saying the business trip was cancelled and he could still be the best man? So, JD tells Turk that there could be 2 instead of 1. Why wasn't Kevin right behind, or in front of, JD at the altar in the Wedding episode, instead of the Todd? Surely he wasn't "in the bathroom" right at the moment when they thought the ceremony would start.

Ah, the worst error is in the episode (one of them) where Elliot and Sean are at Sea World standing in front of the dolphins, whales, whatever. And she gets splashed. It is SO obvious that she is already wet before the water even gets close to her. Watch it and you will see. I'll have to look up the episode name.

Turk's family is all over the map when it comes to religion, isn't it? He's Catholic, his mom is a Jehovah's witness, and his brother's apparently in the Nation of Islam. My guess would be that the Turks are mostly Catholic but Mama Turk and Jabari-formerly-Bob found other faiths and converted.

I have a question about Elliot. When did she go from being a woman who was adamantly NOT a fan of children and was offended when anyone suggested she go into OB/GYN, to someone whose uterus glowed like ET's heart when she sensed that a baby was born? I wondered if she changed her mind about babies because she was excited about Carla being pregnant, but I can't see Dr. "Babies Aren't My Thing" Reid having such a huge turnaround that she makes Keith wear diapers sometimes.

There was that moment at the end of "My Own Personal Jesus" where, after she denied liking babies (as per Kelso), she was all, "Awww, look at the baby!" by the end. And then in "My Best Moment," she bonded with the kid of the guy who was in surgery. But I'm with you on the question, she seemed to do the extremest 180 I have ever seen.

I considered that "Aww, look at the baby" moment, but she went right back to not really liking kids. I assumed she got a little sentimental in the moment because she cared about that patient. Still, I prefer that explanation than the idea that she had a turnaround inspired by the blandest child actor in the world in "My Best Moment." I really dislike that the only female doctor of the main characters described her best moment in medicine as looking after some kid, rather than something actually having to do with medicine.

Color me embarrassed...I Never thought of it this way...although it would explain the trips to Grandma's on Dec. 26th...:-)

I think the thing is, with Elliot, that she's probably a little jealous of Carla starting a family. And that she's probably feeling the bioloical clock a bit. I'm one of those people who just really doesn't like kids, but I have felt that urge to have one lately, probably because I'm getting closer to 30, and a lot of my friends are starting families. It's definitely possible to not be a big kid person and still want one of your own. Hell, even Carla went through that in My Way Home.

It always bugged me that Jordan found out she was pregnant when Carla was what, 7 or 8 months along in her own pregnancy? But by the time Carla was suffering from post-partum, which I would assume was a few days or at most a few weeks after Izzy was born, Jordan was HUGELY pregnant.

When Carla was giving birth, I think Jordan was 4 months pregnant. So when Carla was having PPD, it is possible that Jordan was bigger. Plus, to fanwank here, during a second or more pregnancy, maybe you pop out more and that accounts for Jordan being fairly large.

Though Jordan's size was an issue of continuity, I don't think they had much control over it. Christa Miller was actually pregnant (her husband, Bill Lawrence is the show's creator), so Jordan's pregnany was written into the show, just like it was when she was pregnant in season 2. When Carla was giving birth to Izzie, Jordan said she was four months pregnant, but she looks larger than that, IMO (the orderly even thinks she's the one in labor). According to Zach Braff's blog, they began production for season 6 on August 14th and were filming the musical on September 20th, so it's likely that the episodes where Carla has Izzie and gets PPD were filmed before Christa gave birth in October, meaning that she was 7 or 8 months pregnant, and further along than her charcter was.