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- Another episode where Cox makes Syl cry. This was VERY HEAVILY recommended by you guys. So who am I to say no! I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did even if it was a tear-jerker. "My Screw Up" is the fourteenth episode of Scrubs' third season. Ben Sullivan returns but it is discovered that he hasn't had follow-up visits to check up on his cancer for the past two years. It is Jack Cox's first birthday party and J.D. is upset when he finds out his former girlfriend Danni Sullivan, Jordan Sullivan's sister will be attending. Turk and Carla argue over the removal of Turk's mole.
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Have you seen Brenden Fraiser, would you still?
find out the origins of the name Espinosa, it always good for a laugh.
I know this video's, like, over a year old, but _please_ tell me you have learned who Bob Saget was, in the time since this video released.
I kept my last name for my daughter.
It’s important for people to care ❤
Ben was hiding his symptoms from the family, and only came back to say goodbye. It was good for the writers to not include those additional Leukaemia symptoms because it would have ruined the ending and been untrue to the character.
I wonder why reading this hurt
I feel like I would do the same, I wouldn't want people that haven't seen me in a long time, if ever, to mourn me before I even pass.
This can actually be rather accurate. Those in the Medical field know, fully well, that those on the brink of death suddenly have the most amount of energy they're ever had in order to finish their purpose, before passing away. Ben mustered what he had left of all his energy, his life, and thrust it forward to cover for his eventual passing. And since we don't really have too much prior history on Ben, we have no idea if the coloring - he has - is his natural color.
It's especially prevalent in Long Term Care Clients. One day, they're tired all the time, the next they're incredibly energetic and they're seeing their people, their loved ones, and then the day after that, they're gone. Some slowly pass away while others will just go in the blink of an eye.
@@Seluecus1 not true because doctors don't believe in religion they believed them bulshit science so what purpose would that be?
I actually think he had a heart attack, or possibly a seizure, not necessarily the leukemia.
"Where do you think we are" is such a hard line but delivered so beautifully.
Zach did a great job delivering it.
He has better dramatic chops than people give him credit for. He's great in Garden State.
that line has stuck with me forever, sometimes we try to hide from the things in life we don't like and people really can convince themselves that their reality isn't true. ~
Every time I hear that line it makes my blood run cold.
I've seen this episode a hundred times, and it made me cry just now. Holy moly...
To me it's also how the line illustrates that JD knows that Cox is fantasizing, something JD is intimately familiar with, and he often using it as a coping mechanism as well. He doesn't ask him what the hell is he talking about, but instead pulls him out of the fantasy gently because he's aware of what is going on, and that Cox's mind is elsewhere.
"As a rule of thumb, I don't generally don't attend parties where the guest of honor has no idea what's going on" That line never really hit me till just now. Such a great misdirect and addition to a phenomenal episode.
So many bits like that
You still got that camera?
Till the day I die
Brandon even rubs his collar to indicate the camera has gone.
There were a couple of others but the tears stop me remembering. Such a beautiful episode
Where you think we are?
@@oz_jones The way JD said that was just heartbreaking
@@quarantinethis8981 I never really realized that bit about the camera before.
I am so dense apparently, that a number of years after the episode *the creator of the show* had to point out the thing about the camera to me. Maybe it was on Twitter... Honestly I forget. It was really hard to locate the fans of scrubs because I wasn't on Reddit. I found the fans of everything else.
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What other show should you watch? I'm going to assume that they hit you with every good episode of Scrubs. And I'm also going to mention that somehow I missed my fallen idol and I forgot my lunch. These episodes aired in the spring and my brain just starts to mush in the spring. So there I was watching my deja vu and wondering what Dr Cox was coming back from. And I got one of them but I didn't get the other and then later on I looked at my DVR again and realized I missed one. I had to call my brother and tell him oops!
The other day we were talking about whether anybody from Mad TV became famous and I said What about that girl in my lunch? I think I saw her somewhere else Oh right I saw her on scrubs. Sorry for the lack of punctuation
Other series. Season 1 of Code Black is good. And then there is a great episode that is not in season 1, where Dr Guthrie, I think that's his name, has surgery. I wish I could remember the episode title. It might be Latin or at least pointed. I just need to go look it up. I always want people to watch more than just the pilot of something but you kind of have to watch the pilot before you watch the good episodes.
By the way Scrubs had one of the best finales I have ever watched. And I mean season 8 not 9. As we all know that season 9 was a different show.
There is quite a bit of foreshadowing in the episode:
- Ben says he'll carry the camera until the day he dies, and after Perry comes back from his errands, Ben doesn't have his camera anymore.
- When Perry says that he doesn't attend parties where the guest of honor doesn't know what's going on... It works for a one-year-old's birthday party, but also for a funeral.
- Carla saying it's been an emotional couple of days (although this also applies to her problem with Turk).
- Talking about acceptance (the last stage of the 5 stages of grief).
NOTE: We also see denial (Perry ''talking'' to Ben and JD also mentions denial right after he mentions that he died) and anger (Perry blaming JD for his death).
- This isn't so much foreshadowing, but when JD says ''HE died'', he never directly mentions the older patient.
- Also, after Perry comes back from his errands, only he directly interacts with Ben. Ben will speak, but nobody other than Perry actually responds to what he says.
Right up to the reveal too.
"You can't stop me from getting drunk."
Although unrelated to the situation, you also see bargaining portrayed. Turk asks Carla to take his name in exchange to remove the mole, then offers money to the doctor for saying the mole is inoperable. None of his offers are actually serious, and both are made to avoid a situation he doesn't want to happen.
@@bouboulroz I think this could be relatable to the overall theme of the episode. Even if it's not in direction of Ben and Cox.
Also when Cox takes all of JD's patients he is treating the old guy that was implied to have died
@@random3x70 o wow. I thought he was standing there while the patient had died but the machine is still beeping
When you rewatch this episode you notice when Ben dies. When J.D. says "20 minutes after you left HE went into cardiac arrest", he is talking about Ben. You can also tell this by the fact that Ben is no longer carrying his camera around after this. As he says in the beginning of the episode, he will carry around that camera "til the day he dies" ♥♥
You also notice no one interacts with him except Cox after that scene!
@btamamura yes exactly, he gets way too mad for it being about a random patient
The point is not just that shocking twist. The point is to highlight the stages of grief.
One thing that I wanted to know is how he went to healthy looking "may have leuchemia" to cardiac arrest in the time dr cox made an errand?
The expression on JD's face, too. He's gone pale and can't meet Dr Cox's eye.
Dr. Cox is built up to be this rock wall of a character. Everything that happens in that hospital, and he's always standing strong. Then you get an episode focusing on him like this one, and you see all the cracks in that wall. You see he's holding himself together by the skin of his teeth and is being held up by the people around him.
He's easily the best character in this show. Not saying the others are bad, but that he's just that exceptional.
Hands down my favorite character on the show.
The Blanks are a great band and it's awesome they were incorporated in the show. Sam Lloyd (Ted) had a great voice and was a hilarious actor. Unfortunately, he was diagnosed with a brain tumor which led to his death early last year. RIP Sam Lloyd.
And he just had a kid, too.
Omg! I had no idea 😢
The "He was dead all along" twist has been done to death (pun not intended), but Scrubs did it so masterfully that the tears come automatically
'Where do you think we are?' the most devastating line in Scrubs, and it gets me every time I watch it.
Brilliant reaction, loving your videos to Scrubs. Thanks eh. Cheers.
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I dunno. “Yeah, you’re right” from My Lunch takes it for me
@@JayHar215 to me it's the line just before that: "He wasn't about to die, was he, Newbie? Could have waited another month for a kidney."
@@JayHar215 Bruh, dont do me like that :D Thats THE most devastating scene + "How To Save A Life" playing in the background...TEARS q.q
@@BrianLufia I cant listen to that song anymore without seeing that scene replay in my head
It is one of the best ‘wham lines’ out there
I agree about Dr. Cox, I think it's because his character plays the archetypal "alpha male who had a rough childhood and hides his emotions behind an abrasive humor" so well, that the few times that you DO get to see into his inner world and he lets a little emotion out, you know that for him to show a little, he's tearing himself up on the inside, so all it takes is a couple of tears and it hits ya hard and breaks your ❤
One of those episodes that reminded you Scrubs was not another sitcom, it was a rare instance of masterful acting, directing, casting, writing, all the elements that go into great film, operating at a consistently high level for years
Did you know that the creator/writer of Scrubs was also the creator of Ted Lasso. Bill Lawrence. His stuff is awesome
Remember, Scrubs has a nonlinear story. Cox's experience with his brother in law isn't concurrent with what's actually happening. Just short of an outright hallucination. Brilliant portrayal of loss, albeit devastating. Equally brilliant is how it helps establish Cox's humanity. Loving your channel by the way, thanks for taking the time.
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Jds old patient who dies is actually Ben. If you look closely after Ben dies he doesn’t carry the camera any more. Earlier he said, ill carry it till the day i die.
@@rav3style Right. Rather the point. It was all about Perry traversing the model of grief with his perception of Ben by his side; thus illustrating that denial and acceptance don't follow a prescribed path.
@@rav3style If you look close, the next time we see JD with a patient, he's over the bed of the old guy who was 'supposed' to have died.
@MsAliciaRe furthermore they don't go through the stages linearly for instance moving from anger to bargaining doesn't mean you won't be stopping back into anger before you hit acceptance eventually.
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There's a bit of foreshadowing that happens if you know to look for it.
At the beginning of the episode, Dr. Cox asks Ben, "are you still carrying that camera around with you?" and Ben replies, "Til the day I die". Later, after Dr. Cox comes back from his errands, Ben no longer has the camera.
The perfect episode of foreshadowing. They sell it so good.
No one interacts with Ben anymore but for some reason you don't realize that.
@@TheLibermania Yeah exactly, I heard in an interview them say this was their take on the Sixth Sense type of story
Also the old patient that dies is actually Ben.
He also wears the same clothes in the two or so days since his first appearance.
First time I watched it I noticed the missing camera and my thought was it was a continuity error, that was until the ending
Very important thing to note about this episode is exactly when Ben died, as we know for at least half the episode he was alive we other characters like JD reacting to him. Note that when JD receives the code on his pager the patients name is never specified and when he tells Dr. Cox he went into cardiac arrest he again never states the patients name even though we know that patients name is Mr. Taylor. That's because Ben died while under JD's care, which is why Perry ended up outwardly blaming JD when he was really blaming himself for not being there at the end. It's also very important to note that not once does JD complain about taking the blame even though he knew it wasn't his fault, because he knew Dr. Cox was grieving but we can see he was hurt because he later says "Thank you, I needed to hear that" after Perry apologises to him.
You'll also notice that after the code, and when Dr Cox comes back, Ben doesn't have his camera anymore and his first comment is, "the kid told you he had too many patients"
He wore his camera till he died like he said.
The part that always confused me was not knowing when Cox was imagining Ben and when everyone else couldn’t see him, then it hit me, when Cox asked Ben when he was gonna stop using the camera and he said “when I’m dead” so anytime we don’t see him with his camera he’s only in cox’s head. Mind blowing.
I think you can just go ahead and assume that everyone can see him until after JD tells Dr. Cox he died, and then only Dr. Cox can see him.
@@erinngeyougladididntsaybanana “Confused” = past tense
“Then it hit me” = now aware
Debatably the best and most tear jerking episode. This is such a masterpiece
It's a good contender, but has a lot of competition. Especially the rabies transplant patients one
@@PenneySounds my lunch
Don’t forget the episode no good reason with Laverne
100% the best episode in the series
@@joshuadempsey5281 My Old Lady hurt in the first season-and when Ben finds out he has leukaemia
I love stories with this concept. There's an anime that released around 10 years ago called Magnitude 8.0 about two siblinglings trying to get home after a massive earthquake strikes Japan, leaving them stranded. The two siblings make it home, but suddenly, the older sister cannot find her little brother. It was at that moment she finally remembered, (half way through the series) her brother passed away from heat stroke. She couldn't deal with the trauma so she hallucinated him from that point on until she finally made it home and her mind could finally deal with the grief.
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“As a rule of thumb, I don’t attend parties where the guest of honour has no idea what’s going on.”
RE 10:23 Remember when "Brad" Fraser said he would do the kooky crazy thing with the camera, "till the day he died?"
Check how many scenes he is in without a camera. Sorry for the gut punch.
I like it when Brendan Fraser says that too.
Dr Cox has those memorable moments where he show his caring side, but Dr Kelso’s moments are even fewer and farther between… and all the more moving. He’s of course mean and heartless, but he also knows he has to be the bad guy and make some very hard decisions in order to get the hospital going because of the healthcare system they operate in, and that takes its toll on him ; Ken Jenkins always delivers those moments flawlessly.
Kelso is probably the MOST caring because he has to be the bad guy. He has to decide between bad and worse and he has had to watch people die, even just see those lost causes. If he didn't act the way he did, I'd imagine he'd never leave his house because 'godDAMNIT! I've lost my idealism long ago, you've beaten happiness out of my LIFE! ARE YOU NOT FUCKING SATISFIED!?' would imediately ring out.
"Who is Bob Saget?"
Bob Saget is an actor/comedian who played the dad (Danny Tanner) on Full House in the 80s/90s, and then also was the first host of America's Funniest Home Videos. In later years he has gotten a little bit of a cult following b/c on TV he played a very wholesome father figure but his standup comedy routines are known for being VERY, um, well, we'll go with "rude", and so it's very different from his TV image
He also does the voice for an older Ted Mosby on How I Met Your Mother
There are outtakes from Full House where they're all swearing at each other, it's so strange.
He's also a great "PG" curse that a specific breed of white midwestern males like to use. XD
Unfortunately, Bob Saget died this month.
Wow dude u don’t know who is Brandon Frasier
U make me feel old 😂😂
When JD informs Cox that the heart patient died it was him telling him that Brendan's character died. It takes a few watches to get it but after that no one sees Brendan's character except Dr. Cox. It's a very well written episode in a well written show.
"Still running around with your camera?"
"Until the day I die."
Last time he runs around with a camera
This episode always breaks me. Also, the thing on the plastic surgeon's desk is colloquially known as a chicken cutlet. It goes into the bra to give more volume. It can also be used to show someone how they will look with implants.
Whoops!
Nah chicken cutlet is when you're having sex on the beach, the guys dick slips into the sand but he just puts it back in LOL
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You’ve reviewed some of my favorite episodes of Scrubs, and I agree - when Dr. Cox cries, I cry. Every time.
Irregular heartbeat guy was just a red herring so we would think he was the patient that died, and not suspect that Ben died. Watching it through a second time, it’s more understandable why Cox is so upset at JD about the death. It seems crazy he’d react like that over a random patient dying, but totally in character for him when you know his best friend died. Brendan Fraser did a great job selling it too - after Ben died, the only person who ever interacts with him is Cox, and Ben’s camera is completely missing from that point on. But he makes it seem so natural that you don’t even really notice until you think about it. At least I didn’t notice until rewatching.
I’ve watched this episode of Scrubs more times than I can count…still haven’t made it through the episode without crying. It just kills me every time!
Every time. Every f-ing time. That "where do you think we are" scene hits like a truck.
You said you've seen it before so it came all rushing back to you, but before that moment it was like watching someone run towards an oncoming train with that ending. God that ending tore me into tiny pieces the first time I saw it. RIP Sam Lloyd as well. 💜
Its still interesting that the "comedy show" about physicians and nurses has more deaths per episode than all the drama series in hospitals.
Have you ever watched Greys Anatomy? 🤣🤣🤣
Especially any episode Doug shows up
Regarding the replaceable thing - that's true in many industries, and the best piece of advice I heard about that is:
*_If you're not replaceable, you're also not promotable_*
honestly "for the man that has nothing to hide... but still wants to" has been one of my go to lines for virtually all situations even if not applicable
I think you missed the implication that Dr. Cox's brother didn't die of leukemia, but had a heart attack. At 10:11 JD comes in to tell him he died, and the audience assumes it's about the old man with the heart condition, but it's JD telling him about his brother. As soon as his brother no longer has his camera is when he is a hallucination brought on by denial by Dr. Cox, which is this scene.
Ben was not Cox's brother, he was his brother in law and best friend.
Think about how leukaemia is a cancer of the blood. What does the heart do? It pumps blood. His bro-in-law had relapsed but chose to forego chemo. Therefore, his heart was being inundated with abnormal blood cells.
This episode seriously gets me every time😢. Also I think the reason Dr Cox emotional moments hit the most is because is typically the strong one who rarely shows moments of being vulnerable and he is established as JD’s mentor. So basically seeing him vulnerable is the equivalent of your dad or father figure being vulnerable. We don’t expect it so it hits harder
Such a well done episode, the foreshadowing is great and you don't see it first time through. Breaks my heart seeing poor Ted as well, RIP buddy.
It’s between this one and the one where Dr. Cox loses everyone on the ward as the most heartbreaking episodes
and Laverne
Everyone dying because of the contaminated organ transplants is an absolutely wrenching episode.
@@RhysChellew yeah thats the one where Cox loses everyone and they play The Fray
A lot of the symptoms were in another episode. In the beginning, Cox asked if Brendan’s character saw a doctor. He hadn’t. Some of the subtleties were written do well.Like first seeing Ben with his camera at the start. He says he will be taking pictures until he dies. Later, when Cox comes back from running errands, he doesn’t have the camera. Brendan’s character died during that time while J. D. was running tests. Cox then buried himself into the work. Note Carla says he has worked 60 hours straight. Brendan’s character even says Cox is having a mental breakdown. See what they did? This show is goofy, but had some of the best writing.
25:18 The look on your face... I remember watching this episode for the first time (although you say later in the episode that you'd seen it before but just didn't remember). Just broke me. What a gut punch. Even when I re-watch it, it gets me all teary-eyed. Watching my kids watch it for the first time was heart-wrenching. This show did comedy so well, but it absolutely killed when it came to emotional episodes. Holds up well to re-watching, too, 'cause it's interesting to catch all the little hints they gave after he died - no one else interacts with him; he doesn't carry his camera anymore; etc. Just all around excellent story telling.
This is quickly becoming my favorite medical react channel. I really enjoy your insight and you seem to be very empathetic which I really appreciate. If I could offer any constructive criticism, I would appreciate more medical insight in the episodes. For example, I assumed the cardiac arrest was reasonable because he had just been ignoring treatment for the past 2 years. I didn't realize it would manifest physically until you mentioned it at the end. I may be alone in my lack of medical knowledge but I would just appreciate more medical trivia through out the episode.
With regards to more reactions please more scrubs. I love that show so much. With that aside, Code Black is another great medical drama based on the LA county hospital's ER, often touted as the birthplace of the US ER medical program and is one of the busiest level 1 traumas in the US. A lot of the first season is pulled directly from the documentary(the cases that is, and the doc is amazing for that matter)
Matt that was such a wonderful comment to read and awesome feedback. I will do more! And when my channel makes enough I’m going to get an animator to do little educational snippets!
@@DrSyl that would be awesome!! I really do look forward to seeing this channel grow!! I’m excited to see what it will become 💕
You'll notice that the title of MOST episodes start with "My ____" (My Lunch, My Screw Up, etc.) - that's b/c they are narrated by J.D., however there are a FEW episodes which are narrated by the other characters:
s2e15: His Story (Dr. Cox), s3e18: His Story 2 (Turk), s4e5: Her Story (Elliot), s5e10: Her Story 2 (Carla), s5e19: His Story 3 (Janitor), s6e7: His Story 4 (Kelso), s6e17: Their Story (Ted, Todd, Jordan)
WOAHH nice - i didn't realise that!
@@DrSyl All of the "His/Her/Their" episodes are fantastic, but of those, my personal favs are the Dr. Cox one and the Dr. Kelso one, b/c you get to hear their inner monologues and get a sense of how much they DO care about everyone around them, even if they don't always show it, so good! lol
Great... Now I want kfc
In case you missed it, there was no patient with heart problems, it was actually Ben who died. That's why Dr. Cox came down on JD so hard. Also there is clear indication that Ben was dead, aside from when JD said the patient died, because no one ever addresses Ben directly again, only Dr Cox.
There was an old patient. He was present when Ben was still alive, but he was there as a red herring.
@@Lady-Seashell-Bikini right and cox says ‘trust me he’s not going to die in the next 30 minutes’. It’s a 30 min TV show. It is subtle.
One of the greatest red herrings ever written tbh. And perfectly executed as well. This episode had so many points of quality in the writing and acting, it hits me every time.
But I would add that the older patient of JD's did have heart problems, he was there to make you think it was the old man JD was worrying about who died (and never reappeared in the episode in contrast to Ben continuing to appear). It all just made you think throughout the episode they were struggling with the death of the older man instead of Ben. Lots of nuanced details like that thoughout the episode.
theres one key moment in this episode that almost everyone misses at first
Dr Cox: ya still doing that "guy brings his camera everywhere" thing?
Ben: till the day i die
and whats Ben missing after the cardiac arrest scene?
The other subtle hint is when Jd mentions he doesn’t know about the older guys irregular heartbeat. And Cox says ‘trust me he’s not going to die in the next 30 minutes’. Super subtle.
So the person who coded after Dr Cox left for 20 minutes was actually Ben and not the old guy right?
exactly!!!
Yeah they put the old guy in there just to throw you off and set up the "sixth sense" type sub plot
Yup. After the coding scene, jd is tending to the old guy when Cox comes in and blames him for the death
watching this i realized after the news of ben early in the episode he never has his camera again "until the day i die" good foreshadowing
The mother of my child passed away from heart failure on the 29th of November. It was sudden and no one saw it coming... This episode hits me harder now because of that fact. Make sure the people around you know how much you care, everyone. Don't be left regretting the things you didn't get to say.
Only after someone pointed it out to me did I notice but after Cox gets the news about the patient who went into cardiac arrest that when Ben shows up to bother him, he doesnt have his camera.
"Youre going to carry that thing around forever?"
"Until the day I die"
I first saw this ep eons ago, but I remember thinking something was up when, after JD announced the death of his patient( which we were all meant to think was that old dude), we actually see JD attending to the old man for a brief second in the scene where Cox is dismissing him.
my last name is one of the oldest on record dating back to 10 B.C. and i am quite proud of having it and being apart all the history associated with it.
I can't believe people already exist that don't know who Bob Saget is. He was the main character in Full House and was the biggest supporter of the Olsen Twin's career. He also hosted America's Funniest Videos, which was a HUGE event in every American home throughout the 90's. He was so clean cut and family friendly that it became shocking and hilarious to hear him cuss years later. Bob Saget was an integral part of every millennial's childhood.
Well not everyones from America so... 🤷🏻♀️
I know what happens and i still tear up everytime they revel it
This episode always breaks my soul. It evokes the most intense feelings of regret and loss… and many years later, it still breaks me just like it did the first time I watched it years ago.
Btw agreed with what you said about the symptoms of a blood ca, but also i think we were seeing the episode in Dr Cox’s perspective -- which delicately hinted “denial” with loss.
Even providers may be in denial esp when dealing with a very sick loved one.
Dr Cox didn’t want to accept how sick Ben was - esp considering he wasn’t seeking treatment for such a diagnosis.
Denial is the first stage of grief, after all…
In Mexico, a very macho country, women keep their last names. Kids, their first last name comes from their father, and their second last name from their mother. The second last name from both mother and father gets lost.
Example:
Juan Pérez Ortega + Maria Hernández Salcedo = Luis Pérez Hernández
27:34 sure we don’t get any closure on the old patient, but we were never really meant to.
He was just the red herring.
The person they want us to think died through, and the fact that Brendan Fraser, his character shows up right afterwards, is the biggest think it’s the old man who died and not him.
And no joke, no matter how many times I see this episode, the line:
“Where do you think we are?” always gets the tears going.
I've worked in U.S. emergency medicine for 29 years, and I just realized that I use ECG and EKG completely interchangeably. I probably use both versions, roughly 50% of the time. :)
I only just discovered your channel yesterday, but I'm already a fan.
one of the best things about scrubs is it's use of the soundtrack to drive him the emotional moments. it's got arguably the best soundtrack in television history
This episode hit me in the gut so hard. "...until day I die." This line is such a foreshadowing. Only the second time I watched the episode, I realized that Ben has no longer his camera, after the point J.D. delivers the cardiac arrest message to Cox.
The brilliant thing is the use of Ben's Camera... He said that he will be with that camera till the day he died... And when Ben's hallucination shows up, he is not with his camera beacuse he was already dead... Great fore shadowing... :D
I think this is one of the best episodes of any series ever! It still brings tears to eyes even now! Absolutely amazing work by all involved.
🧡 i had definitely seen that scrubs episode a couple years ago, but i completely forgot how it ended. if i remember correctly it's one of those things where if you watch it a second time you realize that after a certain point no one but doctor cox is reacting to brandon frazier's character anymore
I literally said out loud BRENDAN FRASER 10x during this legendary episode! Also fully agree on how Doctor Cox hits home the hardest, forgot how great this show was.
We call it both on the emergency medicine side, it just depends in the states where you got your training. I’m a retired Firefighter/Paramedic the college I received my degree from and certs each instructor called it differently ECG or EKG. We had an instructor who called the blood pressure set up by the actual name
Sphygmomanometer 😂 She was finally told by the EMS dean to stop as it was a test coverage question but not needed everyday!
Bob Saget passed away in January 2022 he was on Full House. The joke refers to when he was the host of Americas Funniest Videos(AFV original host).
❤ 💔 I’m bawling my eyes out 😭 Leukaemia took my beloved brother, and cancer very recently took my precious mum. I must be strong to honour them both, but it’s so terribly hard!
I watch Scrubs in it's entirety once a year. Dr. Cox has all the best (worst) heartbreaking moments.
I've seen this scene so many times but it still is a wallop. Lost my friend few years ago to cystic fibrosis. I don't know why losing a friend just hit so much harder than I thought. One of the funniest people with the best sense of humour. He planned his funeral and had L'arena (From “Kill Bill Vol. 2”) playing while his coffin left the church.
No other comedy show has ever been able to crush you emotionally like Scrubs was able to.
M*A*S*H would like a word.
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We lose him we lose our sex appeal. He has hair!
😂 Oh Ted. Poor sod 🤣
*He's the only one with hair
My favorite moment is when JD puts his hand on Dr Cox's shoulder, and Cox didn't belittle or reject him. Going on how Cox normally treats JD, it's a subtle way of conveying just how hard Ben's death has hit him - no girls names, no acidic put downs, no emotional walls. Just raw grief and the acceptance of a friend offering comfort.
Bob Saget was the original host of America's Funniest Home Videos. He was most recently known for doing the "older Ted" voiceover for the series How I Met Your Mother, narrating the show.
❤❤It's true, when Cox breaks it's the hardest, and when he gives some genuine praise or acknowledgement, it's emotional on the other side of the spectrum. Dude just brings the tears.
I really like that you educate on medicine and and also comment on the story too
It’s so sad on the second watch, knowing Dr Cox is aware that Ben is the part of him that knows he needs to accept it. He was such a good friend he is literally telling him how to move on from his own death. Dr Cox was aware he was walking to Ben’s funeral, and Ben was there with him the whole way telling him it was okay.
Side note, I love these reviews. A lot of doctors who review medical dramas don’t quite get that while in real life, the focus is on the patients rather than the doctors, that isn’t the point on shows. Dr Syl here seems to know that these dramas hold the spotlight up to the doctors and their lives instead, and focus on their feelings over 100% medical accuracy. Love!
Dr Cox is the one that make me cry the most as well. Because he is the one that in the show is most emotionally closed off. So when he is sad you know it is bad. Not that he do not care but he don't like to show it. When he does it is really heartbreaking.
I think Dr. Syl looks at Dr. Cox the same way JD does.
If you re-watch this episode you will see a lot of clues as to what is going to happen. In the scene where Ben is sitting on a table doing the puppet thing with Eliot there is a sign in the background that says, "Pay Attention". I think there is a video out there that points out all the clues.
Fun fact - Brendan Frasier's camera is the symbolism - The second he appears without the camera is when he's died
2:47 Robert Lane Saget (May 17, 1956 - January 9, 2022) was an American stand-up comedian, actor, director, and television host. He portrayed Danny Tanner on the sitcom Full House (1987-1995) and its sequel Fuller House (2016-2020). Saget was the original host of America's Funniest Home Videos (1989-1997), and the voice of narrator Ted Mosby on the sitcom How I Met Your Mother (2005-2014). He was also known for his adult-oriented stand-up comedy,[1] and his 2014 album That's What I'm Talkin' About was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album.[2]
I did notice on my recent watch how it doesn't really medically make sense that Ben would be fine and then go into cardiac arrest in 20 minutes. But for an episode of a TV show, it's brilliant writing and I understand why they avoided it to not give away the twist.
"I'll carry this camera until the day I die"... Every scene with "Ben" aka Brendan Fraser in it after Cox came back, Ben didn't have his camera.
I remember this episode. I remember these losses in my life. Dr Cox even though he's a fictional character was so fortunate to have people around him.
So, my thing about mistakes and blame... I feel like there are implications with the word 'blame' that make things worse, rather than better. To me, it's a word that can only be used negatively, it's a thing people instinctively want to avoid, and that has it's own set of negative consequences (ranging from finger pointing to shift it all the way to straight up criminal activity like falsifying records).
Blame feels like an end point ("it was Jim's fault, we sack him, you sue him"), when responsibility for a mistake is something that should lead to learning on an individual and institutional level.
❤❤ XD i know couples who merged names on comedic purpose. So i went to school with a girl whos last name was "head" and she married a guy whos last name was "fish" and now shes called Misses Fish-head.
Another one of my friends is called dumler - he married a girl with the last name dumb - no that aint a joke shes german different association. so they decided to go with dumb & dumler. you gotta have humor
Wouldn't it be Head-Fish?
I have watched this episode so many times and just noticed the “pay attention” sign in the background at 18:44.
and that ladies and gentle is why Scrubs is probably one of the best written shows
episodes like this are the reason that mash and scrubs stand together in a league of their own, on the top of the pantheon of usa comedies.
Dr Cox was always my fav too. I think John McGingley does an amazing acting exercise trough the whole series. Interesting facts about his role are, for example, that he created things for his character like his nose touch gimmick, calling JD girl names (he did that with his RL best friend in high school) or his characteristic whistle. The show's runner loved so much those things that they let him do it for the whole series. Also something interesting fact is that McGinley has a son with Down syndrome. He once told that his son condition helped him to connect more personally with the medical world. I feel he's an amazing actor who deserved more important roles in his career.
This episode was the most sad of the serie , Cox played so well and the twist time was perfect. I loved this serie.
It's hard to tell if Ben was ever there or just died very early into the episode. He said he'd be taking pictures "til the day he died" and you stopped seeing him with the camera early into the episode. He may not actually have been there at all, but the "party for Jack" was always the planning of Ben's funeral and the "party planning " was Cox's form of denial .
I'm pretty sure you can see him go through each stage of grief in some way throughout the episode, too.
This is the first time I've watched this episode explicitly paying attention to how the interactions with Ben are handled throughout and it's done masterfully.
I'll never not get goosebumps just like it was the first time. Great episode
Doctor Cox most likely makes everyone cry the most - it's because he always has it together. It's the same for anyone who never breaks down, when they do break down it's such a shock that it breaks everyone else along with them
You see the moment the feels hit him when he puts his palm on his chin
This episode always gets me, and the more you watch it the more you pick up on things like early on when they ask “you still have that old camera?” And he responds “till the day I die “ and you notice he loses the camera after JD breaks the need to Cox and you see Brandan in the background. It’s the small things…
❤️❤️❤️❤️ Thank you Dr Syl! I'm an American studying medicine in Australia, and it's always super helpful to hear your insights.
If you're looking for something else to watch, I'd recommend Hospital Playlist. It's a Korean show with quite lengthy episodes so the full episode format probably wouldn't work, but I've found that it's very realistic in the way it portrays medicine (after the first episode anyway). Not sure if it would make great reaction content, but may be something worth checking out for your own enjoyment. Again, thank you so much for your videos!
Thank you for sticking with scrubs
I think the reason why this episode is such a tear breaker is first of all Brendan Fraser playing Ben. He's just such a likable guy, he was the perfect choice.
But secondly, John McGinley's performance as the grieving friend is outstanding. Two classy actors, no wonder they left an impression even decades later
This episode with Winter playing... I just, it gets me every single time.
This episode followed me around for a long time. Such a well written episode.
I have always thought that when Ben returns to the hospital we are seeing him as Dr Cox wants him to be not as he actually is. Even before he dies, I think we are seeing an idealized version of him from Dr Cox's perspective. My guess is that he actually came in with some of the symptoms you describe, and then coded when JD was running those tests on him. That's my theory anyway
Another medical react channel pointed out that with leukaemia there can be damage to the heart even if you’ve gone into remission, so in Ben’s case his heart’s been a ticking time bomb the whole time he’s been travelling the world and it happened to fail while doing the tests
The first time I saw this episode I broke ... Seeing this one man who is never really effected by emotions finally let himself cry, man I blubbered like a baby 😅
when the twist hits, and the viewer realizes who really died... then they have to go back and rewatch the scenes with Brendan Fraser and notice how nobody actually reacts to him. The closest being when Sarah Chalke looks behind her while Brendan is doing hand puppetry to mimic her, but she is only looking at where Dr. Cox is looking. It is a masterfully done episode to hide that from the viewer until the end.
❤ Funerals are hard. No barriers, no distractions, and a social expectation to introspection and emotion.
My mother's was about a month ago, and it was the silent contemplation during the music that got me.
I think the reason that Dr Cox's grief is so sad here is first off, John G's amazing acting, but also Dr Cox's prickly, curmudgeonly attitude is nowhere to be seen around Ben. He genuinely loves the guy and is happy around him, and seeing him robbed of one of his few emotional outlets is hard - we've seen how lonely Dr Cox is.
That and Dr Cox is everyone's dad.