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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: Charles James appears to be an amalgamation of ''Cheers'' co-creators James Burrows and Glen and Les Charles.
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* ClumsyCopyrightCensorship: The episode originally ended over the theme from ''Series/{{Cheers}}'', "Where Everybody Knows Your Name", but subsequent broadcasts and the DVD have removed the song for copyright reasons.
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* AuthorTract: The episode is a love letter to sitcoms and how important it is for people to have something that can pick their spirits up after a long, hard day at work. It's especially loving to the shows of show creator Creator/BillLawrence's childhood.
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* CallBack: Elliot's ability to speak German returns as she does a Shakespearean monologue for the talent show.
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* SitcomArchNemesis: Dialed up and lampshaded between JD and the Janitor during the ImagineSpot.
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* StylisticSuck: As soon as the show shifts to JD's ImagineSpot, the colors all get brighter and the costumes shift (except for JD's scrubs). The patient's gown is now covered in cartoon animals and Elliot is wearing a [[BridgeBunnies bridge bunny outfit]] that shows off her bra and cleavage. Other nurses are also in that sort of outfit. One extra is even standing around in nothing but his boxers.
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* StylisticSuck: As soon as the show shifts to JD's ImagineSpot, the colors all get brighter and the costumes shift (except for JD's scrubs). The patient's gown is now covered in cartoon animals cowboys and horses and Elliot is wearing a [[BridgeBunnies bridge bunny outfit]] that shows off her bra and cleavage. Other nurses are also in that sort of outfit. One extra is even standing around in nothing but his boxers.
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* StylisticSuck: As soon as the show shifts to JD's ImagineSpot, the colors all get brighter and the costumes shift (except for JD's scrubs). The patient's gown is now covered in cartoon animals and Elliot is wearing a [[BridgeBunnies bridge bunny outfit]] that shows off her bra and cleavage.
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* StylisticSuck: As soon as the show shifts to JD's ImagineSpot, the colors all get brighter and the costumes shift (except for JD's scrubs). The patient's gown is now covered in cartoon animals and Elliot is wearing a [[BridgeBunnies bridge bunny outfit]] that shows off her bra and cleavage.
cleavage. Other nurses are also in that sort of outfit. One extra is even standing around in nothing but his boxers.
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* StylisticSuck: As soon as the show shifts to JD's ImagineSpot, the colors all get brighter and the costumes shift (except for JD's scrubs). The patient's gown is now covered in cartoon animals and Elliot is wearing a [[BridgeBunnies bridge bunny outfit]] that shows off her bra and cleavage.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Cox challenges Kelso on the budget cuts and Kelso challenges him to find a way to make things work without firing someone. Cox then spends the day going through all the paperwork, only to conclude that "Crap. I have to fire someone.".
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Cox challenges Kelso on the budget cuts and Kelso challenges him to find a way to make things work without firing someone. Cox then spends the day going through all the paperwork, only to conclude that "Crap. I have to fire someone.". Cox will later replace Kelso as Chief of Medicine and do this job full time.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: JD admits Charles James because he used to write for ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. Turns out he's actually seriously ill, and actually ends up dying because, even though they caught the illness, it had proceeded too far for them to save him.
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* RightForTheWrongReasons: JD admits Charles James because he used to write for ''Series/{{Cheers}}''. Turns out he's actually seriously ill, ill with lung cancer, and actually ends up dying because, even though they caught the illness, it had proceeded too far for them to save him.
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* {{Foreshadowing}}: Cox challenges Kelso on the budget cuts and Kelso challenges him to find a way to make things work without firing someone. Cox then spends the day going through all the paperwork, only to conclude that "Crap. I have to fire someone.".
* ImagineSpot: The show outdoes itself this time, with an extended imagination sequence involving a stereotypical sitcom plot to save the hospital thanks to a contest that has a ludicrously large cash reward. It ends with the employee getting fired and the sitcom writer dying.
* LysistrataGambit: Subverted. "If you don't do what she wants, I'll stop having sex with you and start ''making love'' to you."
* ImagineSpot: The show outdoes itself this time, with an extended imagination sequence involving a stereotypical sitcom plot to save the hospital thanks to a contest that has a ludicrously large cash reward. It ends with the employee getting fired and the sitcom writer dying.
* LysistrataGambit: Subverted. "If you don't do what she wants, I'll stop having sex with you and start ''making love'' to you."
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* SkewedPriorities: Jordan threatens to be tender and loving with Cox, he takes it as a serious threat.
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You've gone soft.
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You've gone soft.\\
'''Jordan:''' Okay, now it's just getting spooky.
'''Jordan:''' Okay, now it's just getting spooky.
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The discovery that his latest patient is a comedy writer tips J.D. into a sitcom fantasy, complete with the dreaded laugh track. Turk and Carla worry that the romance has left their marriage. Cox volunteers to trim $26,000 from the hospital budget to avoid Kelso firing a cafeteria worker.
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The discovery that his latest patient is a comedy writer tips J.D. into a sitcom fantasy, complete with the dreaded laugh track. Turk and Carla worry that the romance has left their marriage. Cox volunteers to trim $26,000 from the hospital budget to avoid Kelso firing a cafeteria worker.worker.
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: JD turns on the TV only to see a report of an E. Coli outbreak.
* OhCrap: When JD turns on the news, he, Carla, and Turk all groan because they know they're going to be ''swamped'' by people thinking they're victims of the E. Coli outbreak.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: JD admits Charles James because he's a
* RuleOfThree: Carla asks Cox three questions about him not standing up to Kelso about the bathroom thing. Each time, Jordan turns it into a joke about what she said to him after sex.
-->Are you just gonna roll over like that?\\
Where's the outrage? The anger? The hate?\\
You've gone soft.
* SeriousBusiness: Turk and JD take late 70s/early 80s sitcoms very seriously. He even admits a patient because he's a writer for Cheers.
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* CoincidentalBroadcast: JD turns on the TV only to see a report of an E. Coli outbreak.
* OhCrap: When JD turns on the news, he, Carla, and Turk all groan because they know they're going to be ''swamped'' by people thinking they're victims of the E. Coli outbreak.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: JD admits Charles James because he's a
* RuleOfThree: Carla asks Cox three questions about him not standing up to Kelso about the bathroom thing. Each time, Jordan turns it into a joke about what she said to him after sex.
-->Are you just gonna roll over like that?\\
Where's the outrage? The anger? The hate?\\
You've gone soft.
* SeriousBusiness: Turk and JD take late 70s/early 80s sitcoms very seriously. He even admits a patient because he's a writer for Cheers.
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The discovery that his latest patient is a comedy writer tips J.D. into a sitcom fantasy, complete with the dreaded laugh track. Turk and Carla worry that the romance has left their marriage. Cox volunteers to trim $26,000 from the hospital budget to avoid Kelso firing a cafeteria worker.
