"My Own Worst Enemy" is the first episode of the seventh season of the

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''. It originally aired on October 25, 2007 on

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, and was watched by 6.95 million viewers.

Plot

After

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almost kisses J.D. in the on-call room, she begins to question her engagement with Keith. The episode then focuses on epiphanies by the main characters. Elliot realizes she carried on a meaningless relationship due to her desire to be married; consequently, she calls off the wedding twice. J.D. realizes his tendency to sabotage himself and yearns to avoid it, but fails when he refuses to believe that the

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has a girlfriend named

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. Meanwhile, Turk is challenged with choosing the semi-annual candy bar he is allowed to eat because of his

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. He, too, has an epiphany and decides to make a random selection. Throughout the episode,

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, Turk, and Dr. Kelso pull together to diagnose a very charming patient, Joe Hutnik. Cox, upon telling Dr. Beardfacé that if he wants to lose the nickname "Beardface", he has to shave his beard, realizes that his initial diagnosis of

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was correct, citing

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(which J.D. references internally while holding a

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cell phone). In this case, the patient's

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bite was not discovered because it was under his hair. J.D. consults Turk about Kim, because he feels he's only with her because she is pregnant with his child. He realizes that's true—but because of the trauma of his parents divorcing, he will stay with Kim even though he's not in love with her.

Continuity

* Carla tells Elliot and J.D. not to obsess over their own hypocrisies because it is human nature to want what's best for others even if you have difficulty following your own advice. She also says that she doesn't want to have to repeat this advice "two weeks from now". Two episodes later, in "

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", she repeats the same rant to Elliot and the Janitor. * Turk mentions that the only girl who was good for J.D. was "Mole Butt". He is referring to Elliot, whom he previously addressed with this nickname in "

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" when mentioning J.D's previous girlfriends. * Turk can now grow a full head of hair, whereas in previous seasons (for instance, in " My Way Home") he was said to be balding and only able to grow hair in patches. * At the beginning of the episode, the words "Veer felt at" and "Peace Sam" are seen on the locker behind J.D. "Peace Sam" can also be seen in the episode "

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". * The Janitor's girlfriend Lady is played by

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, who previously appeared as Dr. Mitchell in the season two episode "My Philosophy". *The discovery of a tick bite under a patient's hair was used as a plot device two weeks later in " Ugly", an episode of ''

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''.

Reception

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gave this episode a B rating, and questioned whether the show was becoming a daytime soap due to the plot of the sixth season finale and this episode. Travis Fickett of

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complimented ''Scrubs'' consistent quality and resolution of the previous episode's cliffhanger, and gave it an 8.4/10 ("Impressive") rating.

References

External links

* {{Scrubs Scrubs (season 7) episodes 2007 American television episodes