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* ActorAllusion:
** Dr. Maddox, played by Courteney Cox, makes fun of Dr. Perry Cox's last name.
** It is revealed that The Janitor was in ''Film/TheFugitive''. Neil Flynn, who plays The Janitor, really did play that role.
** A very dark one - you know that episode where Hooch threatens to run somebody over? Guess which [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phill_Lewis actor]] actually had fatally run someone over in the early nineties. Go on. Guess.
** In "My Last Chance", JD is watching SixteenCandles (starring Molly Ringwald) with Dr. Molly Clock and internally exclaims "God bless Mollys everywhere!". That particular episode featured an ambulance driver played by Molly Shannon.
** In "My Last Words", Turk tells a patient about how he used to be a football safety in college. Guess where the character played by Donald Faison, who played Turk, ends up playing in the movie ''RememberTheTitans''? He starts out on offence but is moved to safety.
** In "My Unicorn" JD finds a patient's son that has a problem with his name that "makes him sound like a old man." Did I mention he's played by Mathew Perry who also played [[{{Friends}} a character with a name that "makes him sound like a girl"]]
** In Season 9, Lucy mentions that Dr. Cox used to be roommates with Michael Bolton. Dr. Cox shoots back that he [[{{OfficeSpace}} hates Michael Bolton]].
* ChannelHop: Moved to ABC in the 8th Season. Interestingly enough, the show was ABC produced anyway but aired on NBC. This was because the show pre-dated a change in what incentives each network looked for in a show. In 2001, it was more common for networks to buy shows from each other's production companies (though usually only after the network that technically produced it passed. This is true in the case of ''Scrubs'': ABC originally declined to air the show), because the only way to profit off a show was through the network charging for commercial time (how much they charged was based on ratings), and an eventual syndication deal, through which the production company and the broadcast network would split the profits. By the mid-00's, broadcast ratings were down across the board (meaning networks couldn't charge as much for ads), but the DVD and online markets were rising. Only production companies made money from the DVD and online download sales. This was the tipping point at which networks started to ''only'' broadcast shows made by their own production companies, because then if the show didn't have great ratings but had a strong cult audience who would buy the DVD's, the parent company of both the network and the production company would still profit.
** Dr. Maddox, played by Courteney Cox, makes fun of Dr. Perry Cox's last name.
** It is revealed that The Janitor was in ''Film/TheFugitive''. Neil Flynn, who plays The Janitor, really did play that role.
** A very dark one - you know that episode where Hooch threatens to run somebody over? Guess which [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phill_Lewis actor]] actually had fatally run someone over in the early nineties. Go on. Guess.
** In "My Last Chance", JD is watching SixteenCandles (starring Molly Ringwald) with Dr. Molly Clock and internally exclaims "God bless Mollys everywhere!". That particular episode featured an ambulance driver played by Molly Shannon.
** In "My Last Words", Turk tells a patient about how he used to be a football safety in college. Guess where the character played by Donald Faison, who played Turk, ends up playing in the movie ''RememberTheTitans''? He starts out on offence but is moved to safety.
** In "My Unicorn" JD finds a patient's son that has a problem with his name that "makes him sound like a old man." Did I mention he's played by Mathew Perry who also played [[{{Friends}} a character with a name that "makes him sound like a girl"]]
** In Season 9, Lucy mentions that Dr. Cox used to be roommates with Michael Bolton. Dr. Cox shoots back that he [[{{OfficeSpace}} hates Michael Bolton]].
* ChannelHop: Moved to ABC in the 8th Season. Interestingly enough, the show was ABC produced anyway but aired on NBC. This was because the show pre-dated a change in what incentives each network looked for in a show. In 2001, it was more common for networks to buy shows from each other's production companies (though usually only after the network that technically produced it passed. This is true in the case of ''Scrubs'': ABC originally declined to air the show), because the only way to profit off a show was through the network charging for commercial time (how much they charged was based on ratings), and an eventual syndication deal, through which the production company and the broadcast network would split the profits. By the mid-00's, broadcast ratings were down across the board (meaning networks couldn't charge as much for ads), but the DVD and online markets were rising. Only production companies made money from the DVD and online download sales. This was the tipping point at which networks started to ''only'' broadcast shows made by their own production companies, because then if the show didn't have great ratings but had a strong cult audience who would buy the DVD's, the parent company of both the network and the production company would still profit.
* DirectedByCastMember: Zach Braff directed 7 episodes during the show's run, including the 100th episode. He also played a major role in the music used for the show; one of the biggest strengths of the show.
** A lesser known example: Michael [=McDonald=] of ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' fame guest starred as a patient in 3 episodes before directing 6 episodes in the later seasons, some of which he acted in. This eventually led to him being hired as a consulting producer, staff writer, frequent director and sometimes actor on [[Series/CougarTown Bill Lawrence's next comedy series]].
* ExecutiveMeddling: After Masi Oka joined the cast of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', and ''Scrubs'' moved to ABC, Oka was point-blank told by NBC execs that if he continued to make guest appearances on the show, [[DisproportionateRetribution he would be fired from "Heroes".]] Despite the fact that they allowed many of their other actors to continue making guest appearances on other shows, even on other competing networks. Obviously, this was NBC just being petty over the show [[ChannelHop switching to ABC]], despite NBC's own [[ScrewedByTheNetwork treatment of the series.]]
** A lesser known example: Michael [=McDonald=] of ''Series/{{MADtv}}'' fame guest starred as a patient in 3 episodes before directing 6 episodes in the later seasons, some of which he acted in. This eventually led to him being hired as a consulting producer, staff writer, frequent director and sometimes actor on [[Series/CougarTown Bill Lawrence's next comedy series]].
* ExecutiveMeddling: After Masi Oka joined the cast of ''Series/{{Heroes}}'', and ''Scrubs'' moved to ABC, Oka was point-blank told by NBC execs that if he continued to make guest appearances on the show, [[DisproportionateRetribution he would be fired from "Heroes".]] Despite the fact that they allowed many of their other actors to continue making guest appearances on other shows, even on other competing networks. Obviously, this was NBC just being petty over the show [[ChannelHop switching to ABC]], despite NBC's own [[ScrewedByTheNetwork treatment of the series.]]
** The same actor who plays Cameron in ''Film/FerrisBuellersDayOff'', Alan Ruck, plays a similar role in season 2, episode 9.
* RealitySubtext: In the episode "My Catalyst", MichaelJFox plays a doctor with OCD - a neurological disorder that all-but usurps control of the body from the active portions of the head - played by a man diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, which accomplishes the same thing in a vastly different way. In an interview after that episode aired, Fox stated that he allowed his frustration with Parkinson's to help inform the character of Dr. Casey.
* RetroactiveRecognition: After [[AzizAnsari Ed]] got fired he moved to Pawnee to became an administrative assistant in the ParksAndRecreation department.
* RealitySubtext: In the episode "My Catalyst", MichaelJFox plays a doctor with OCD - a neurological disorder that all-but usurps control of the body from the active portions of the head - played by a man diagnosed with Parkinson's Disease, which accomplishes the same thing in a vastly different way. In an interview after that episode aired, Fox stated that he allowed his frustration with Parkinson's to help inform the character of Dr. Casey.
* RetroactiveRecognition: After [[AzizAnsari Ed]] got fired he moved to Pawnee to became an administrative assistant in the ParksAndRecreation department.
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* RetroactiveRecognition: ScienceMarchesOn - Dr. Townshend's episode hinges on his use of an old treatment instead of the much safer modern alternative. As Dr. Kelso tells him, even the newest doctor's education is obsolete within five years.
* ThrowItIn: After[[AzizAnsari Ed]] got fired he moved to Pawnee to became an administrative assistant in realising Neil Flynn was a great improv comedian, the ParksAndRecreation department.writers began to write most of the Janitor scenes with the simple direction "Neil says something".
** The Outtakes definitely attest to the fact that often the crew had ''no'' idea what he was going to say in any given take.
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** The Outtakes definitely attest to the fact that often the crew had ''no'' idea what he was going to say in any given take.
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** During one of the later seasons, there were conversations had about bringing Series/ArrestedDevelopment analrapist Tobias Funke on as Sacred Heart's in-house shrink. It ended up being too complicated to work out a deal with all the parties involved.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[VeronicaMars [[Series/VeronicaMars Don Lamb]] could have ended up as JD.
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** After leaving Sacred Heart, Hooch becomes a [[TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody hotel manager]] and must deal with a couple of HotelHellion twins.
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** If the series hadn't been renewed for the second season, the Janitor would've been revealed to be just a figment of J.D.'s imagination in the finale.
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** If Had the series hadn't been renewed for cancelled at the second season, end of Season 1, the Janitor was going to be revealed as a figment of JD's imagination. (This was foreshadowed by the Janitor only interacting directly with JD and being seen by him... barring a few rare moments.) This intention was continued early into Season 2, but Neil Flynn's insistence that he get to act with the other cast members (and consequentially be given more to do) reversed it.
** Neil Flynn was contracted to return in Season 9 as a cast member, but only if he didn't find a regular role somewhere else. Had ''TheMiddle'' not been picked up, Flynn would've beenrevealed to be just a figment of J.D.'s imagination regular in the finale.final season.
** Neil Flynn was contracted to return in Season 9 as a cast member, but only if he didn't find a regular role somewhere else. Had ''TheMiddle'' not been picked up, Flynn would've been
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** Apparently [[ArrestedDevelopment Michael Bluth]] went off and became a garbageman, and now raises Ostriches.
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** Jordan used to [[Series/DrewCareyShow Hang around with some wacky people in Cleveland]]
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** Pretty much the entire cast of ''SpinCity'' appears at one point or another. Not surprising, since Bill Lawrence created both shows.
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** Apparently [[ArrestedDevelopment Michael Bluth]] went off and became a garbageman, and now raises Ostriches.
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Turk used to play [[RememberTheTitans football]] and was a [[SabrinaTheTeenageWitch male Witch]].
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Turk used to play [[RememberTheTitans football]] and was a [[SabrinaTheTeenageWitch [[Series/SabrinaTheTeenageWitch male Witch]].
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* CreatorCouple: Series creator Bill Lawrence and acress Christa Miller (Jordan Sullivan); the wedding video Dr. Cox watches in ''My Bad'' (Jordan's first appearance) is actually Bill and Christina's, which is why only Christina can be seen.
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* CreatorCouple: Series creator Bill Lawrence and acress actress Christa Miller (Jordan Sullivan); the wedding video Dr. Cox watches in ''My Bad'' (Jordan's first appearance) is actually Bill and Christina's, Christa's, which is why only Christina Christa can be seen.
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* CreatorCouple: Series creator Bill Lawrence and acress Christina Christa Miller (Jordan Sullivan); the wedding video Dr. Cox watches in ''My Bad'' (Jordan's first appearance) is actually Bill and Christina's, which is why only Christina can be seen.
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** Katie the intern used to be a [[DragonAge dwarf who wanted to study magical theory at the Circle Tower]].
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*** Let's not forget [[TheOtherDarrin the other]] [[{{Roseanne}} Becky.]]
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** One of the many patients was both [[TheSocialNetwork Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss]]
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* RomanceOnTheSet: The stunt actors for JD and Elliot met for the very first time filming the bungee jumping scene in the second season. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming They later got married.]]
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** One of the stunt guys (the one who Turk [[ItMakesSenseInContext defibrillated by accident]] in the first episode) was apparently the "agony of defeat" guy from WideWorldOfSports.
* RomanceOnTheSet: The stunt actors for JD and Elliot met for the very first time filming the bungee jumping scene in the second season. [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming They later got married.]]
* RomanceOnTheSet: The stunt actors for JD and Elliot met for the very first time filming the bungee jumping scene in the second season.
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* CreatorCouple: Series creator Bill Lawrence and acress Christina Miller (Jordan Sullivan); the wedding video Dr. Cox watches in ''My Bad'' (Jordan's first appearance) is actually Bill and Christina's, which is why only Christina can be seen.
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** Elliot is a [[HowIMetYourMother laser tattoo removal surgeon, and nearly married an architect.]]
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* TropeNamer: For InsultToRocks.
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** If the series hadn't been renewed for the second season, the Janitor would've been revealed to be just a figment of J.D.'s imagination in the finale.
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* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[VeronicaMars Don Lamb]] could have ended up as JD.JD.
** Neil Flynn auditioned for Dr. Cox originally.
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** Elliot is a [[HowIMetYourMother laser tattoo removal surgeon, and nearly married an architect.]]
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* RomanceOnTheSet: The stunt actors for JD and Elliot met for the very first time filming the bungee jumping scene in the second season. [[CrowningMomentOfHearwarming [[CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming They later got married.]]
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* HeyItsThatGuy: Turk used to play [[RememberTheTitans football.]]
** Doctor Cox used to work in an [[OfficeSpace office.]]
** JD used to hang around with TheBabySittersClub.
** [[TheAlmightyJanitor The Janitor]] wasn't always a [[TheFugitive janitor]]
*** Even {{Lampshaded}} in one episode when JD happens to be watching TheFugitive.
* RomanceOnTheSet: The stunt actors for JD and Elliot met for the very first time filming the bungee jumping scene in the second season. [[CrowningMomentOfHearwarming They later got married.]]
** The cast and crew even helped with the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFwL6iFDk9Q proposal.]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[VeronicaMars Don Lamb]] could have ended up as JD.
** Doctor Cox used to work in an [[OfficeSpace office.]]
** JD used to hang around with TheBabySittersClub.
** [[TheAlmightyJanitor The Janitor]] wasn't always a [[TheFugitive janitor]]
*** Even {{Lampshaded}} in one episode when JD happens to be watching TheFugitive.
* RomanceOnTheSet: The stunt actors for JD and Elliot met for the very first time filming the bungee jumping scene in the second season. [[CrowningMomentOfHearwarming They later got married.]]
** The cast and crew even helped with the [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFwL6iFDk9Q proposal.]]
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[VeronicaMars Don Lamb]] could have ended up as JD.
