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Scrubs Season 5 Episodes
Season 5 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 2006 - 2006
Episode 1
My Intern's Eyes
Tue, Jan 3, 200624 mins
Life has changed. J.D. is now an attending and has new interns to guide, but still lives in his old apartment, hiding from Carla. Elliot tries to project a confident image at her new job. Turk's trying to get Carla pregnant. Or is he?
Episode 2
My Rite of Passage
Tue, Jan 3, 200624 mins
Elliot has an annoying new colleague. Cox needs a break from Jordan and orders her to find friends at work. Carla gets the impression that Elliot is ashamed of her "old" colleagues. J.D. realizes his interns find his jokes unfunny.
Episode 3
My Day at the Races
Tue, Jan 10, 200624 mins
Carla's still the only one who knows Elliot's fellowship was canceled. J.D. is turning 30 and gets the urge to achieve something. Turk is fighting for an attending's spot. Elliot wants Jake to open up but isn't prepared to handle it.
Episode 4
My Jiggly Ball
Tue, Jan 10, 200624 mins
J.D. has to introduce Kelso at an awards banquet--a job made more difficult when he rejects a patient for a drug trial in favor of a richer patient. Meanwhile, the guys want to try to get Elliot's job back.
Episode 5
My New God
Tue, Jan 17, 200624 mins
Dr. Cox's sister arrives at the hospital. She's a born-again Christian who wants him to participate in his son's baptism. Perry, of course, wants nothing to do with it, and her for that matter.
Episode 6
My Missed Perception
Tue, Jan 17, 200624 mins
J.D. mistakes an elderly woman's happiness as her wish to stop treatment for a fatal illness. Turk and Elliot struggle to find the cause of a patient's body pain and Carla tries to organize the annual group photo.
Episode 7
My Way Home
Tue, Jan 24, 200624 mins
Turk needs a heart from a patient in order to be the first resident to assist performing an in-house heart transplant. Carla needs courage to have a child with Turk even though she can't stand babies. Elliot needs the brains to handle speaking in a medical seminar.
Episode 8
My Big Bird
Tue, Jan 24, 200624 mins
J.D., Turk, Elliot and Carla are accused of neglect and must face an interrogation by Cox and Kelso, when a patient unexpectedly dies during their watch.
Episode 9
My Half-Acre
Tue, Feb 7, 200624 mins
When a potential new girlfriend enters J.D.'s life, Elliot offers J.D. relationship advice and tries to help break his bad habit of ruining romantic moments by uttering really inappropriate things. Meanwhile, Jordan and Carla each have problems with Dr. Cox, and Turk joins the hospital air band.
Episode 10
Her Story II
Tue, Feb 7, 200624 mins
When Carla begins to feel old, she drags her friends to a college club and decides to take a fertility test, among other things. And while all of J.D.'s friends love Julie, they begin to worry that J.D. is going to ruin the relationship after he begins saying his thoughts aloud.
Episode 11
My Buddy's Booty
Tue, Feb 28, 200624 mins
The Sacred Heart staffers each try different ways to take their minds off the fact that a favorite patient, Mrs. Wilk, has to undergo an extremely risky procedure. J.D. and Elliot try to get lucky in love, or maybe just find themselves booty calls.
Episode 12
My Cabbage
Tue, Feb 28, 200624 mins
J.D.'s dislike for and resentment towards intern Keith increases to the point where J.D. tries to get him dismissed from Sacred Heart, but the plan backfires. Elsewhere, Elliot and Turk misplace their patient's deathbed statement to his children.
Episode 13
My Five Stages
Tue, Mar 7, 200624 mins
Grief counseling is offered to Mrs. Wilk, whose condition has worsened considerably. As she comes to accept her fate with help from a quirky therapist, J.D. and Dr. Cox surprisingly turn to each other for support as they face losing their favorite patient.
Episode 14
My Own Personal Hell
Tue, Mar 14, 200624 mins
Dr. Cox is named the best doctor in the area in a leading publication. He lines up the hospital staff and requires them to acknowledge this. Dr. Cox subsequently struggles to treat an unnervingly rude and haughty patient who is a friend of Dr. Kelso's.
Episode 15
My Extra Mile
Tue, Mar 21, 200624 mins
When Dr. Cox scoffs at reading lines with a patient preparing for a play, J.D. urges his fellow doctors to do special, unconventional things for their patients. But when J.D. scores a date with a hot babe who loves his hair, he's not sure he can shave his head for a woman undergoing chemo.
Episode 16
My Bright Idea
Tue, Mar 28, 200624 mins
Turk finds out before Carla does that she's finally pregnant. After J.D. persuades Turk to take advantage of her not knowing so they can pull off the "greatest surprise", their plan backfires when she mentions to Turk whenever she gets pregnant *she* wants to be the one to tell everyone. Hilarity (as always) ensues.
Episode 17
My Chopped Liver
Tue, Apr 4, 200624 mins
When J.D. rearranges his schedule to allow himself more time with Turk, Turk secretly resents hanging out with J.D. because it interferes with his own "Turk Time." Meanwhile, Cox and Jordan go on a double date with Elliot and Keith, and Carla covers for Kelso.
Episode 18
My New Suit
Tue, Apr 11, 200624 mins
J.D.'s brother Dan pays a surprise visit, during which he's disappointed to learn that Elliot isn't into him like J.D. had suggested. Elsewhere, Turk slips up when he confides to J.D. the top secret baby names Carla has chosen.
Episode 19
His Story III
Tue, Apr 18, 200624 mins
The hospital is seen from the perspective of The Janitor, who's out to prove he can make a difference after getting rid of J.D. for the day. Also, Turk sees his "blackness" called into question by Dr. Cox, and Elliot's intern's mistakes begin to frustrate her.
Episode 20
My Lunch
Tue, Apr 25, 200624 mins
J.D. accidentally runs into Dr. Cox in a store, who both then run into annoying former suicidal patient Jill Tracy. Meanwhile Elliot and Carla do a little investigating and find out that Todd hasn't actually slept with anyone in the hospital - they jump to conclusions about his sexuality.
Episode 21
My Fallen Idol
Tue, May 2, 200624 mins
Dr. Cox, full of guilt over the deaths of several patients he treated, shows up to work drunk and is forced to take a leave of absence, and everyone but J.D. is quick to rally around Dr. Cox in his time of need.
Episode 22
My Déjà Vu, My Déjà Vu
Tue, May 9, 200624 mins
Elliot works to rebuild Dr. Cox's confidence when he returns to Sacred Heart. Meanwhile, Turk pays for being insensitive to Carla during her pregnancy, and J.D. has feelings of deja vu.
Episode 23
My Urologist
Tue, May 16, 200624 mins
J.D. challenges a urologist's assessment on a consult for a patient who might need a risky surgical procedure, feeling that she's playing it safe professionally and personally, since he also starts to fall for her. Along the same lines, Elliot considers breaking up with her boyfriend/intern Keith.
Episode 24
My Transition
Tue, May 16, 200624 mins
Smitten, J.D. tries to plan a perfect date with Kim on their night off, but Elliot gets in the way. Meanwhile, Dr. Cox and Jordan celebrate a milestone in their young son's life. Later, baby fever sweeps the hospital as the staff tries to pick a name for Turk and Carla's expected baby, but no one could guess who at Sacred Heart has to sweat out a pregnancy next.