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* CharacterPerceptionEvolution: J.D. has undergone significant reevaluation since the show ended, for a variety of reasons. As cultural perceptions of geeks and nerds have gradually shifted over the years, there's come to be greater awareness that men with nerdy interests (and those with superficially "[[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide feminine]]" tendencies) can be just as guilty of toxic masculinity as stereotypical "Alpha Males", meaning that modern viewers are a lot less likely to see the character as a sympathetic underdog by default. Partly due to this, fans are now much more willing to acknowledge his negative traits, particularly concerning his attitudes towards women. Considering the many morally questionable things that he did over the course of the show's run (case in point, any of what he pulled during seasons 3 and 4 [[labelnote:Spoilers]]In season 3 J.D sleeps with Elliot when she's still dating Sean, then when Elliot commits to Sean again J.D. starts dating and sleeping with Danni again despite admitting that he hates her (five episodes after her brother died no less), then convinces Elliot to dump Sean for him only to immediately realize he's not in love with her and dumps her an episode. Then in season 4, he guilt trips Elliot about sleeping with his brother Dan, even though he's not really mad, just to get off the hook about breaking her heart, then in the very next episode tries to ask Elliot permission to have a one-night stand with Elliot's then best friend Molly, then two episodes later is sleeping with a malpractice lawyer who is suing Turk and is so cowardly about her that he has Jordan end things with for him. Then latter in the same season almost breaks his Hippocratic Oath (which would permanently end his career as a doctor) so he could date a girl named Kylie, then when he starts dating Kylie anyway, he (over the course of four episodes) lies to about saving a bum's life to seem more impressive, repeatedly tries to sleep with her even though she says she's not ready, lies about having slept with her to Turk, and finally blows her off to hang out with Molly when she's back in town to see if there is still a spark there then ditches Molly to go back to Kylie only to stupidly blurt out that he was with Molly which leads to them breaking up (to recap, he almost ruined his cheer forever for a girl he ended breaking up with a literal month later). He also kissed Carla during that season, though at least he and Carla were both drunk during that and immediately regretted it when they both sobered up.[[/labelnote]] or abusing his authority to torment Keith out of jealousy over his relationship with Elliot ), he's now widely seen as a well-meaning but deeply flawed anti-hero who occasionally [[BitchInSheepsClothing uses his timid personality to get away with treating other people horribly]]. Although plenty of people still find him entertaining to watch, he's a far cry from the universally loved hero that he once was.
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*** Specifically his abuse of Ted, is it just for kicks, or is Kelso actually trying to get Ted to quit his job as a lawyer, that he sucks at and is unhappy with, so he might find a better place for himself in the world i.e. as a musician? Certain episodes can point in either direction but post retirment Kelso does display some actual care for Ted after all.
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Hippocratic, not hypocritical
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* CharacterPerceptionEvolution: J.D. has undergone significant reevaluation since the show ended, for a variety of reasons. As cultural perceptions of geeks and nerds have gradually shifted over the years, there's come to be greater awareness that men with nerdy interests (and those with superficially "[[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide feminine]]" tendencies) can be just as guilty of toxic masculinity as stereotypical "Alpha Males", meaning that modern viewers are a lot less likely to see the character as a sympathetic underdog by default. Partly due to this, fans are now much more willing to acknowledge his negative traits, particularly concerning his attitudes towards women. Considering the many morally questionable things that he did over the course of the show's run (case in point, any of what he pulled during seasons 3 and 4 [[labelnote:Spoilers]]In season 3 J.D sleeps with Elliot when she's still dating Sean, then when Elliot commits to Sean again J.D. starts dating and sleeping with Danni again despite admitting that he hates her (five episodes after her brother died no less), then convinces Elliot to dump Sean for him only to immediately realize he's not in love with her and dumps her an episode. Then in season 4, he guilt trips Elliot about sleeping with his brother Dan, even though he's not really mad, just to get off the hook about breaking her heart, then in the very next episode tries to ask Elliot permission to have a one-night stand with Elliot's then best friend Molly, then two episodes later is sleeping with a malpractice lawyer who is suing Turk and is so cowardly about her that he has Jordan end things with for him. Then latter in the same season almost breaks his hypocritical oath (which would permanently end his career as a doctor) so he could date a girl named Kylie, then when he starts dating Kylie anyway, he (over the course of four episodes) lies to about saving a bum's life to seem more impressive, repeatedly tries to sleep with her even though she says she's not ready, lies about having slept with her to Turk, and finally blows her off to hang out with Molly when she's back in town to see if there is still a spark there then ditches Molly to go back to Kylie only to stupidly blurt out that he was with Molly which leads to them breaking up (to recap, he almost ruined his cheer forever for a girl he ended breaking up with a literal month later). He also kissed Carla during that season, though at least he and Carla were both drunk during that and immediately regretted it when they both sobered up.[[/labelnote]] or abusing his authority to torment Keith out of jealousy over his relationship with Elliot ), he's now widely seen as a well-meaning but deeply flawed anti-hero who occasionally [[BitchInSheepsClothing uses his timid personality to get away with treating other people horribly]]. Although plenty of people still find him entertaining to watch, he's a far cry from the universally loved hero that he once was.
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* CharacterPerceptionEvolution: J.D. has undergone significant reevaluation since the show ended, for a variety of reasons. As cultural perceptions of geeks and nerds have gradually shifted over the years, there's come to be greater awareness that men with nerdy interests (and those with superficially "[[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide feminine]]" tendencies) can be just as guilty of toxic masculinity as stereotypical "Alpha Males", meaning that modern viewers are a lot less likely to see the character as a sympathetic underdog by default. Partly due to this, fans are now much more willing to acknowledge his negative traits, particularly concerning his attitudes towards women. Considering the many morally questionable things that he did over the course of the show's run (case in point, any of what he pulled during seasons 3 and 4 [[labelnote:Spoilers]]In season 3 J.D sleeps with Elliot when she's still dating Sean, then when Elliot commits to Sean again J.D. starts dating and sleeping with Danni again despite admitting that he hates her (five episodes after her brother died no less), then convinces Elliot to dump Sean for him only to immediately realize he's not in love with her and dumps her an episode. Then in season 4, he guilt trips Elliot about sleeping with his brother Dan, even though he's not really mad, just to get off the hook about breaking her heart, then in the very next episode tries to ask Elliot permission to have a one-night stand with Elliot's then best friend Molly, then two episodes later is sleeping with a malpractice lawyer who is suing Turk and is so cowardly about her that he has Jordan end things with for him. Then latter in the same season almost breaks his hypocritical oath Hippocratic Oath (which would permanently end his career as a doctor) so he could date a girl named Kylie, then when he starts dating Kylie anyway, he (over the course of four episodes) lies to about saving a bum's life to seem more impressive, repeatedly tries to sleep with her even though she says she's not ready, lies about having slept with her to Turk, and finally blows her off to hang out with Molly when she's back in town to see if there is still a spark there then ditches Molly to go back to Kylie only to stupidly blurt out that he was with Molly which leads to them breaking up (to recap, he almost ruined his cheer forever for a girl he ended breaking up with a literal month later). He also kissed Carla during that season, though at least he and Carla were both drunk during that and immediately regretted it when they both sobered up.[[/labelnote]] or abusing his authority to torment Keith out of jealousy over his relationship with Elliot ), he's now widely seen as a well-meaning but deeply flawed anti-hero who occasionally [[BitchInSheepsClothing uses his timid personality to get away with treating other people horribly]]. Although plenty of people still find him entertaining to watch, he's a far cry from the universally loved hero that he once was.
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** In "My Unicorn", guest star Creator/MatthewPerry plays Murray, who at one point complains that his father gave him an "old man's name". He demonstrates this by randomly yelling out "Murray!" after which all the doors in the hallway open, and old men step out from their rooms to ask "What?". This gag is done again seconds later, followed by J.D. clarifying "The youngest Murray!", at which point most of the old men return to their rooms aside from Perry's character and an old man saying that he's 68 years old (followed by Perry's character stating that he's only 34, making the old man grumpily return to his room). This scene feels more morbid after Perry's death in 2023 at the age of 54, never being able to match the age of the "youngest" Murray from this scene...
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* AluminumChristmasTrees: There were a lot of complaints about the episode "My Lunch" where [[spoiler:a patient dies and has her organs transplanted into other patients, but it turns out she died from rabies and the transplants get it too]] and how this was unrealistic. But this was actually based [[http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/07/01/rabies.organ.transplant/index.html on a real case]] from 2004. While there have also been more than a dozen other reported cases of [[spoiler:rabies being transplanted with organs, including the infection of multiple recipients from a single donor]], the real complaint was [[spoiler:that one donor would be a match for three patients in the same hospital.]]
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** There were a lot of complaints about the episode "My Lunch" where [[spoiler:a patient dies and has her organs transplanted into other patients, but it turns out she died from rabies and the transplants get it too]] and how this was unrealistic. But this was actually based [[http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/07/01/rabies.organ.transplant/index.html on a real case]] from 2004. While there have also been more than a dozen other reported cases of [[spoiler:rabies being transplanted with organs, including the infection of multiple recipients from a single donor]], the real complaint was [[spoiler:that one donor would be a match for three patients in the same hospital.]]]]
** In one episode the Janitor invents the seemingly-insane "knife-wrench"... which is something that actually exists, though the real-life ones tend to feature a folding blade to help keep the user from stabbing himself like the Janitor does.
** There were a lot of complaints about the episode "My Lunch" where [[spoiler:a patient dies and has her organs transplanted into other patients, but it turns out she died from rabies and the transplants get it too]] and how this was unrealistic. But this was actually based [[http://www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/07/01/rabies.organ.transplant/index.html on a real case]] from 2004. While there have also been more than a dozen other reported cases of [[spoiler:rabies being transplanted with organs, including the infection of multiple recipients from a single donor]], the real complaint was [[spoiler:that one donor would be a match for three patients in the same hospital.
** In one episode the Janitor invents the seemingly-insane "knife-wrench"... which is something that actually exists, though the real-life ones tend to feature a folding blade to help keep the user from stabbing himself like the Janitor does.
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The Kim thing was not only a terrible example, but was extremely misleading.
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* CharacterPerceptionEvolution: J.D. has undergone significant reevaluation since the show ended, for a variety of reasons. As cultural perceptions of geeks and nerds have gradually shifted over the years, there's come to be greater awareness that men with nerdy interests (and those with superficially "[[InTouchWithHisFeminineSide feminine]]" tendencies) can be just as guilty of toxic masculinity as stereotypical "Alpha Males", meaning that modern viewers are a lot less likely to see the character as a sympathetic underdog by default. Partly due to this, fans are now much more willing to acknowledge his negative traits, particularly concerning his attitudes towards women. Considering the many morally questionable things that he did over the course of the show's run (e.g. (case in point, any of what he pulled during seasons 3 and 4 [[labelnote:Spoilers]]In season 3 J.D sleeps with Elliot when she's still dating Sean, then when Elliot commits to Sean again J.D. starts dating and sleeping with Danni again despite admitting that he hates her (five episodes after her brother died no less), then convinces Elliot to dump Sean for him only to immediately realize he's not in love with her and dumps her an episode. Then in season 4, he guilt trips Elliot about sleeping with his brother Dan, even though he's not really mad, just to get off the hook about breaking her heart, then in the very next episode tries to ask Elliot permission to have a one-night stand with Elliot's then best friend Molly, then two episodes later is sleeping with a malpractice lawyer who is suing Turk and is so cowardly about her that he has Jordan end things with for him. Then latter in the same season almost breaks his hypocritical oath (which would permanently end his career as a doctor) so he could date a girl named Kylie, then when he starts dating Kylie anyway, he (over the course of four episodes) lies to about saving a bum's life to seem more impressive, repeatedly tries to sleep with her even though she says she's not ready, lies about having slept with her to Turk, and finally blows her off to hang out with Molly when she's back in town to see if there is still a spark there then ditches Molly to go back to Kylie only to stupidly blurt out that he was with Molly which leads to them breaking up (to recap, he almost ruined his cheer forever for a girl he ended breaking up with a literal month later). He also kissed Carla during that season, though at least he and Carla were both drunk during that and immediately regretted it when they both sobered up.[[/labelnote]] or abusing his authority to torment Keith out of jealousy over his relationship with Elliot, knowingly sleeping with Elliot while she and Sean were dating, and telling the mother of his child that he didn't love her while she was giving birth), ), he's now widely seen as a well-meaning but deeply flawed anti-hero who occasionally [[BitchInSheepsClothing uses his timid personality to get away with treating other people horribly]]. Although plenty of people still find him entertaining to watch, he's a far cry from the universally loved hero that he once was.
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** In "My Unicorn" the Aesop is supposed to be about Murray Marks learning to forgive his father and that whats truly important is the fact Gregory Mark deeply loves his son. Yet apparently not so much that he won't freely admit to having once stolen Murray's college girlfriend and took her to the Bahamas. We're supposed to forget he's a Jerkass who ''still'' hasn't apologised for how he treated Murray. It's Murray who apologises in the end.
** In an early episode when J.D. surpasses Carla in medical knowledge, she later decides to tell off Dr Cox for giving J.D. trouble instead of letting him handle his own problems. This of course leads Dr. Cox to heap even more abuse on J.D. J.D. lashes out at her for giving him advice (in a rather condescending manner while calling him Bambi) during a procedure. He apologizes, but that is not enough for Carla as she later rants at him about not being respected enough and how J.D. looked down on her. So the lesson is to not look down on your subordinates. Yet Carla showed less respect by interfering in his business and telling him what to do.
** In another episode after J.D. finds out about Kim's miscarriage and he is depressed. He learns from Carla, Elliot, and Turk to stop being a burden to them after he "has driven them crazy for six years". This coming from people who drag J.D. into 80% of their relationship problems (Carla and Turk) and has helped Elliot since day one.
** ''My Perspective'' is supposed to be about J.D. learning how to not force his own problems on other people and he needs to work on them him and seeing things from their perspective. Fair enough, the problem is is that when you look back on the show, you realize that J.D.'s friends are the ones who actually force their problems on him, like Turk forcing him to get in the middle of his fight with Carla to try and get her to come home, despite J.D.'s protests. Not only that, but it comes across as hollow because J.D. is now homeless because he couldn't keep Elliot's apartment and he just broke up with his girlfriend who he believes has miscarried their child. And he's now gotten a condition where he passes out when he poops, which could have led to serious injury if he had hit his head on something. He shouldn't be alone during this.
** The two-parter of "My Malpractice Decision" and "My Female Trouble" has two contradicting morals with the same patient Turk treated. The patient wasn't satisfied with the quality of his surgery, and thus started harassing Turk every chance he got to treat him again. This culminates in Turk filing a restraining order, and then the patient suing him for malpractice. The moral of the episode is about karma, and in Turk's case, the narration treats what he did as bad, and the lawsuit is his LaserGuidedKarma. Come the next episode, the moral is about the strength of a woman. However, in Carla's case, she ends up threatening the same patient that sued Turk with violence to stop the lawsuit, and gets her way. Carla is praised as strong and independent for ''threatening a patient with violence'', while Turk's lawsuit is treated as a punishment he deserved, even though he never went so far as to threaten the man.
** In "My Unicorn" the Aesop is supposed to be about Murray Marks learning to forgive his father and that whats truly important is the fact Gregory Mark deeply loves his son. Yet apparently not so much that he won't freely admit to having once stolen Murray's college girlfriend and took her to the Bahamas. We're supposed to forget he's a Jerkass who ''still'' hasn't apologised for how he treated Murray. It's Murray who apologises in the end.
** In an early episode when J.D. surpasses Carla in medical knowledge, she later decides to tell off Dr Cox for giving J.D. trouble instead of letting him handle his own problems. This of course leads Dr. Cox to heap even more abuse on J.D. J.D. lashes out at her for giving him advice (in a rather condescending manner while calling him Bambi) during a procedure. He apologizes, but that is not enough for Carla as she later rants at him about not being respected enough and how J.D. looked down on her. So the lesson is to not look down on your subordinates. Yet Carla showed less respect by interfering in his business and telling him what to do.
** In another episode after J.D. finds out about Kim's miscarriage and he is depressed. He learns from Carla, Elliot, and Turk to stop being a burden to them after he "has driven them crazy for six years". This coming from people who drag J.D. into 80% of their relationship problems (Carla and Turk) and has helped Elliot since day one.
** ''My Perspective'' is supposed to be about J.D. learning how to not force his own problems on other people and he needs to work on them him and seeing things from their perspective. Fair enough, the problem is is that when you look back on the show, you realize that J.D.'s friends are the ones who actually force their problems on him, like Turk forcing him to get in the middle of his fight with Carla to try and get her to come home, despite J.D.'s protests. Not only that, but it comes across as hollow because J.D. is now homeless because he couldn't keep Elliot's apartment and he just broke up with his girlfriend who he believes has miscarried their child. And he's now gotten a condition where he passes out when he poops, which could have led to serious injury if he had hit his head on something. He shouldn't be alone during this.
** The two-parter of "My Malpractice Decision" and "My Female Trouble" has two contradicting morals with the same patient Turk treated. The patient wasn't satisfied with the quality of his surgery, and thus started harassing Turk every chance he got to treat him again. This culminates in Turk filing a restraining order, and then the patient suing him for malpractice. The moral of the episode is about karma, and in Turk's case, the narration treats what he did as bad, and the lawsuit is his LaserGuidedKarma. Come the next episode, the moral is about the strength of a woman. However, in Carla's case, she ends up threatening the same patient that sued Turk with violence to stop the lawsuit, and gets her way. Carla is praised as strong and independent for ''threatening a patient with violence'', while Turk's lawsuit is treated as a punishment he deserved, even though he never went so far as to threaten the man.
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** Spence, J.D's and Turk's college friend, is Film/{{Deadpool}}.
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*** In "My Own Personal Hell" Elliot gets extremely upset with J.D. when he doesn't defend her against Dr. Cox when he refuses to let her then boyfriend Keith off one of his shifts despite Elliot having switched his shifts earlier. Later, to make up for it, J.D. comes to Elliot's rescue when the other interns threaten to make a formal complaint to Dr. Kelso about Elliot's preferential treatment of Keith when she gives him a case all the interns wanted. The problem is, regardless of whether or not J.D. hates Keith or not and regardless of Keith being the best intern or not, Elliot clearly is giving him preferential treatment and expects the other interns to just suck it up because she is their boss. Cox and Kelso have every right to shut her down and quite frankly, even if he's not doing it for the right reasons, J.D. is under no obligation to help her just because their friends.
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** The senile racist who needs to be reminded who he hates and why.
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** The show would often make fun of Grey's Anatomy, which is funny as Donald Faison would later appear in a crossover Cigna commercial alongside Patrick Dempsey.
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** Even before then, [=McGinley=] had battled Superman, in a fashion -- he went up against Creator/DeanCain (who played Superman in ''Series/LoisAndClark'') in a CelebrityEdition of ''Series/AmericanGladiators'' years prior to ''Scrubs''.
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** The "My Way Home" episode parodied ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' and was directed by Zach Braff, come 2013 and Braff co-stars in ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful''.
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** The "My Way Home" episode parodied ''Film/TheWizardOfOz'' and was directed by Zach Braff, come Braff. Come 2013 and Braff co-stars in ''Film/OzTheGreatAndPowerful''.
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** The end of "My Finale" involves J.D. wondering about his future and imagining such possibilities as he and Elliot getting married and having a child, his son and Izzy as adults getting engaged, and Cox giving him a sincere hug. As he leaves Sacred Heart, he's optimistic that these moments could actually happen (unlike the zany stuff he usually fantasizes about). By the start of Season 9, J.D. and Elliot are shown to have gotten married, and she's expecting.
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** The In "My First Day", after helping Elliot during rounds, J.D. has a fantasy where he is married to Elliot with a kid and the end of "My Finale" involves J.D. wondering about his future and imagining such possibilities as he and Elliot getting married and having a child, his son and Izzy as adults getting engaged, and Cox giving him a sincere hug. As he leaves Sacred Heart, he's optimistic that these moments could actually happen (unlike the zany stuff he usually fantasizes about). By the start of Season 9, J.D. and Elliot are shown to have gotten married, and she's expecting.
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* {{Squick}}: In "My Cake", when J.D.'s father dies, his brother Dan spends most of the episode in the bathtub wallowing in his own misery. Dan spends so long in there that, by the time Dr. Cox goes to rally him to get J.D. out of his funk, Cox and Dan agree that there is a higher percentage of Dan's piss then water in the tub.
** Also, when J.D. asks Dan for a beer in the same episode, pulls three beers out of the tub water and sips all three before handing the third one to J.D. who rightfully tosses it into the toilet. Bones squick points for the first two beers Dan sipped being mostly bathwater and backwash respectively.
** Also, when J.D. asks Dan for a beer in the same episode, pulls three beers out of the tub water and sips all three before handing the third one to J.D. who rightfully tosses it into the toilet. Bones squick points for the first two beers Dan sipped being mostly bathwater and backwash respectively.
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*** For that matter, in "My Therapeutic Month" when Carla is complaining that Elliot and Keith aren't taking her advice, she tells them they are like every other couple. When they get defensive, they say their love is special and Carla bluntly tells them it isn't. Unfortunately for Keith, she was right.
