Elliot Reid
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Dr. Elliot Reid is a fictional character
played by Sarah Chalke
in the American comedy-drama
Scrubs
. She has appeared in every episode during the first eight seasons except two Season 8 episodes, "My Last Words
" and "My Lawyer's in Love".
Sarah Chalke was a regular cast member for the first eight seasons, and appeared in four episodes of season nine. Elliot was a close friend and a frequent love interest to series protagonist John "J.D." Dorian (Zach Braff
) for the first eight seasons, and in season 9 was his wife. Her character is portrayed with multiple neuroses
and cripplingly low self-esteem. She is also close to Carla Espinosa
(Judy Reyes
) and Christopher Turk
(Donald Faison
), the series' other chief characters.
and Markie Post
), and is of German descent. Her father is Chief of Medicine at St. Augustines, a private hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut
. She grew up privileged but love-starved; she once attributed her many neuroses to the way she was treated by her parents. Her mother is a cold, self-absorbed alcoholic, and her father attempts to interfere with her career, eventually cutting her off financially after he tries to push her into specializing in gynaecology
, a career path she refuses. Elliot also has several brothers who are also doctors, but are never portrayed on the show.
In the episode "My Lucky Charm
" we get to know that she grew up in an apple orchard where she learned to fight due to all the apple thieves. That part of her past explains her sexual role playing with Keith and J.D.
, where she was in the sorority Omega Beta Gamma (a fictional sorority, first appearing in season 2; ΩΒΓ stands for the first three letters in OB-GYN) with best friend Melody O'Harra (Keri Russell
). She also played tambourine
in a Christian rock
band in college.
At Sacred Heart, Elliot begins as an intern and later becomes a resident after a gruelling, year-long internship. She serves as Co-Chief Resident with J.D. during season 4. At the end of that season, she briefly leaves to take on an endocrinology
fellowship, which ends five days later after her research partner finds the cure to osteogenesis imperfecta
, the disease they are researching. After a brief spell at a free clinic
, she returns to Sacred Heart and becomes a senior attending physician. At the end of the episode "My Coffee", she accepts an offer to go into private practice, allowing her to receive double the pay, still work at Sacred Heart, and never have to deal with superiors Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley
) or Dr. Kelso
(Ken Jenkins
) again. In "My Full Moon", she ponders her future career after struggling to deliver the bad news to a patient diagnosed with HIV, and tells Turk that if she was lucky enough to get married and had enough money to not have to work, she would "walk out of this place [the hospital] and never look back".
", she asks an overweight woman "When's the baby due?", and accidentally insults Turk's Jehovah's Witness mother by describing people of that faith as "crazed, annoying busybodies"). According to J.D. and various patients, her bedside manner is cold and mechanical, although in more recent seasons she's been shown to bond with several patients. Her bedside manner (or lack thereof) is part of the reason that Dr. Cox decides to split the role of Chief Resident between her and the more sensitive J.D. (saying the two of them together would make "one barely passable doctor/Labradoodle
").
Elliot has frequently been shown telling "inspirational stories" to both fellow staff and patients that invariably end with someone killing themselves, to the extent that by "My Happy Place" it has become the expected result of any story she begins. In the episode "My Fishbowl", she admits she attempted suicide
as a teenager.
In Season 3, Elliot undergoes a noticeable transformation; she begins dressing and grooming herself in a more sexually provocative manner, and adopts a somewhat more assertive and self-assured personality. This was the result of a directive from NBC
's marketing department, which wanted the show to have a sexier female star to offer the network's coveted young male demographic. A short feature on the Season 3 DVD
set entitled "The New Elliot" explains the reasons for the makeover, and the response it engendered from Chalke and the show's writers.
Chalke, speaking about her character, has stated how much Elliot has changed throughout the run of Scrubs. She has stated that at the start of the series, Elliot is a competitive and independent person until she realizes that she needs the help and support of her co-workers. Talking about Elliot's transformation in the episode "My Own American Girl", Chalke stated that the transformation didn't really help Elliot's life and that Elliot is still "on a never ending journey to find respect [in season four] and now she's a lot more confident and together."
In an interview, Sarah Chalke said that Bill Lawrence wanted to avoid a "will they or won't they" get together plot for the series, instead opting for a running gag where they hook up once a year and "have everything blow up in [their] faces and not work out".
In the season 1 episode "My Drug Buddy", they start a relationship but break up in the following episode. They repair their friendship, but it is later revealed that they still have feelings for each other and they begin sleeping together again in "My Monster". They arrange to sleep together as "sex buddies" without romantic involvement, but this ends after only a few days, with J.D. having realized that he has deep feelings for her. In Season 3, J.D. again realizes his feelings for her as she rekindles her past relationship with her old boyfriend Sean, but later in the season J.D. and Elliot sleep together again. Although Elliot initially decides to stay with Sean, she later leaves him to be with J.D. However, this relationship ends when J.D. breaks up with Elliot after realizing that he doesn't love her. In Season 4, following Elliot's brief fling with J.D.'s brother Dan (Tom Cavanagh
), they once again repair their friendship and then move in together in Season 5.
J.D. and Elliot also have a very close friendship, built on their shared experiences as residents at the hospital, similarities in their personalities and the knowledge of each other's quirks and issues. In the episode "My Cold Shower", J.D. realizes that he may still have feelings for Elliot; in the season finale "My Point of No Return
", J.D. and Elliot lean in for a kiss after a night of discussing their doubts about their respective relationships. However, in "My Own Worst Enemy
", the Season 7 opener, Elliot realizes she is making a mistake and pulls away, asserting that the almost-kiss had nothing to do with her feelings for J.D.
Later on in the season, there are some subtle hints that Elliot and J.D. may be getting closer, and possibly romantic. For instance, the episode "My Waste of Time" ends with J.D. and Elliot sitting in a cafe, commenting on how everyone thinks they're together, then playing with J.D.'s son Sam, as if they were a family. Also, in "My Bad Too
" Turk tells Carla (in unsubtitled Spanish
), "Those two will be getting back together in two weeks." In the season seven finale "My Princess
", Elliot and J.D. mutually agree that the almost-kiss, a point of tension between them, had nothing to do with their feelings and was merely a response to stress. However, at the end, Dr. Cox, who is telling the story says, "They decided that their almost kiss... meant nothing. Because in the end, they were both idiots.", perhaps suggesting that he thinks they are both stupid for not realising that they have feelings for each other. In "My Happy Place", Elliot and J.D. reevaluate their relationship after an unexpected comment from Dr. Kelso, admitting their lingering feelings for each other. However, it is only after Dr. Kelso tells them to do whatever makes them happy that they decide to give their relationship another chance. J.D. and Elliot are shown to officially be a couple again in "My Cookie Pants".
In the season 8 episode "My Cuz", J.D. leaves Sacred Heart to move closer to his son, Sam. Though she remains at Sacred Heart, Elliot moves in with him despite the long commute. Before J.D. leaves the hospital for good, he has a prolonged fantasy (which is implied to be a flashforward
), which shows that he and Elliot get married, and have at least one child together. By the start of Season 9, they are married and expecting their first child; taking place a year after the finale.
"), they vow to work harder on maintaining their relationship. Elliot serves as Carla's maid of honor. Carla acts as a support system when Elliot breaks off the relationship with Keith and begins a new one with J.D.
Cast and crew have commented that the development of Carla and Elliot's friendship is somewhat parallel to the development of that between the two actresses.
" when he tells Carla to give her a break. In "My Heavy Meddle", he convinces Elliot, who has just broken up with J.D., to mend their relationship for the sake of the group dynamic. Throughout the series, Turk watches out for Elliot, J.D. and Carla, and occasionally acts as a go-between. The flashforward scene at the end of "My Finale" shows all of them together as a big, happy family.
From the third season on, their relationship is one of mutual contempt, based mostly around trading quips and insults. Even so, Cox continues to give her personal and professional advice (albeit in the form of mockery), and in "My Déjà Vu, My Déjà Vu
", they admit that, while they don't like each other, they do respect each other.
(Scott Foley
). In season 2 she dates male nurse Paul Flowers (Rick Schroder
). In season 3 she meets again Sean Kelly
and starts a new relationship with him, but when J.D. reveals his feelings for her, she leaves Sean at once. Then it's J.D. that leaves Elliot, after realizing he has confused love with friendship. In season 4 she dates J.D.'s brother Dan (Tom Cavanagh
), and then a man named Jake (Josh Randall
). The two break up when Elliot realizes that Jake doesn't really know her. In season 6, Elliot gets engaged to fellow Sacred Heart doctor Keith Dudemeister (Travis Schuldt
) but breaks it off when she realizes that she does not truly love him.
", much to J.D.'s chagrin. Eventually, however, they begin a romantic relationship, and, after navigating a rough patch, they declare their love for each other. Keith proposes to Elliot at the end of "My Turf War," and she says yes in the following episode. Elliot soon realizes that she does not truly love him (even nearly cheating on him with J.D.), however, and cancels the wedding in "My Own Worst Enemy
". Keith despises her for the rest of the season; they finally bury the hatchet in the season 8 episode "My Jerks
", when she apologizes for hurting him.
She cheated on him in the episode "My Fishbowl" when she and Private Brian Dancer kissed before he left the hospital. However, this was most likely a pity kiss as Private Dancer had attempted suicide earlier in the episode.
) in the Season 1 episode "My Way or the Highway", when he is a patient of hers. Knowing that he has the many of the same insecurities as her, Elliot is instantly attracted to him and eventually asks him out. Their relationship ends in "My Sacrificial Clam", however, when Elliot finds herself unable to juggle a relationship with the stresses of her internship.
Elliot meets Sean again at the beginning of Season 3, when he is with another girl. They begin dating again (much to J.D.'s consternation). Although their relationship is strong, Sean attempts to end it in "My Lucky Night" when he has to move to New Zealand
for six months, because he does not believe in long distance relationships, but Elliot convinces him that they can make it work. However, in "His Story II", Elliot comes to believe during Sean's absence that J.D. loves her more and sleeps with him, only to immediately realize the depth of Sean's commitment when he returns from New Zealand, and goes back to him. J.D. initially agrees to remain silent, but when Sean and Elliot begin planning to move in, J.D. tells Elliot how he feels, prompting her to leave Sean for an ultimately doomed relationship with J.D. After breaking up with her in "My Self-Examination", J.D. finds and tries to convince a depressed Sean to take Elliot back in "My Best Friend's Wedding". However, even though Sean arrives at Turk and Carla's wedding to discuss their relationship with Elliot, they do not get back together, to the disappointment of J.D., who was trying to repair their relationship, and in turn, repair his relationship with Elliot. Elliot tells J.D. that "...if Sean and I were meant to be together, I never would have gone home with you that night and sabotaged everything I ever had with him."
Sean appears again in the season 8 episode "My Cuz", in a relationship with Kim Briggs (Elizabeth Banks
), the mother of J.D.'s child, Sam. It's revealed that they were introduced by Elliot before she and J.D. had gotten back together, irritating J.D., who still harbored a dislike for Sean.
Fictional character
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played by Sarah Chalke
Sarah Chalke
Sarah Chalke is a Canadian-American actress known for portraying Dr. Elliot Reid on the NBC/ABC comedy Scrubs, "Second Becky" Conner Healy on Roseanne, and Stella Zinman in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother...
in the American comedy-drama
Comedy-drama
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Scrubs
Scrubs (TV series)
Scrubs is an American medical comedy-drama television series created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of the fictional Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced screenplay, slapstick, and surreal vignettes...
. She has appeared in every episode during the first eight seasons except two Season 8 episodes, "My Last Words
My Last Words
"My Last Words" is the 152nd episode of the television series Scrubs, and the second of its eighth season. The episode first aired on January 6, 2009 on ABC, following the show's departure from NBC. It immediately followed "My Jerks", the first episode of the 8th season. The episode was written by...
" and "My Lawyer's in Love".
Sarah Chalke was a regular cast member for the first eight seasons, and appeared in four episodes of season nine. Elliot was a close friend and a frequent love interest to series protagonist John "J.D." Dorian (Zach Braff
Zach Braff
Zachary Israel "Zach" Braff is an American actor, screenwriter, producer, comedian, and director. Braff first became known in 2001 for his role as Dr. John Dorian on the television series Scrubs, for which he was nominated for an Emmy Award and three Golden Globe Awards.In 2004, Braff made his...
) for the first eight seasons, and in season 9 was his wife. Her character is portrayed with multiple neuroses
Neurosis
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and cripplingly low self-esteem. She is also close to Carla Espinosa
Carla Espinosa
Carla Espinosa, RN is a fictional character in the American comedy-drama Scrubs, portrayed by Judy Reyes.Carla has appeared in every episode during the first eight seasons except three Season 8 episodes, "My Happy Place", "My Cookie Pants" and "My Full Moon"...
(Judy Reyes
Judy Reyes
Judy Reyes is an American actress of Dominican heritage. She is best known for her portrayal of nurse Carla Espinosa on the TV comedy Scrubs.-Early life:...
) and Christopher Turk
Christopher Turk
Christopher Duncan Turk, M.D., is a fictional character played by Donald Faison on the American comedy-drama Scrubs. Turk has appeared in every episode except three Season 8 episodes, "My Saving Grace", "My New Role" and "My Lawyer's in Love". Donald Faison is the only original cast member,...
(Donald Faison
Donald Faison
Donald Adeosun Faison is an American actor, comedian, and voice actor best known for his role as Dr. Chris Turk in the ABC comedy-drama Scrubs and as Murray in the film Clueless and the subsequent television series of the same name.Faison has also co-starred in the films Remember the Titans ,...
), the series' other chief characters.
Family history
She is the daughter of Simon and Lily Reid (Lane DaviesLane Davies
-Personal life:Davies was born in Dalton, Georgia, the son of Emily and Bill Davies. He has three brothers. He graduated from Middle Tennessee State University with cum laude honors for his degree in speech and theater. Currently, he resides in Georgia with his family...
and Markie Post
Markie Post
Marjorie Armstrong "Markie" Post is an American actress, best known for her roles as bail bondswoman Terri Michaels in The Fall Guy on ABC from 1982 to 1985, as public defender Christine Sullivan on the NBC sitcom Night Court from 1985 to 1992, and as Georgie Anne Lahti Hartman on the CBS sitcom...
), and is of German descent. Her father is Chief of Medicine at St. Augustines, a private hospital in Greenwich, Connecticut
Greenwich, Connecticut
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. She grew up privileged but love-starved; she once attributed her many neuroses to the way she was treated by her parents. Her mother is a cold, self-absorbed alcoholic, and her father attempts to interfere with her career, eventually cutting her off financially after he tries to push her into specializing in gynaecology
Gynaecology
Gynaecology or gynecology is the medical practice dealing with the health of the female reproductive system . Literally, outside medicine, it means "the science of women"...
, a career path she refuses. Elliot also has several brothers who are also doctors, but are never portrayed on the show.
In the episode "My Lucky Charm
My Lucky Charm (Scrubs)
"My Lucky Charm" is the 14th episode of season four and the 82nd episode overall of the American sitcom Scrubs. It originally aired on January 25, 2005 on NBC. The episode is dedicated to Teddy Ebersol, the son of Dick Ebersol.-Plot:...
" we get to know that she grew up in an apple orchard where she learned to fight due to all the apple thieves. That part of her past explains her sexual role playing with Keith and J.D.
Career
Elliot was valedictorian of high school and attended Brown UniversityBrown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
, where she was in the sorority Omega Beta Gamma (a fictional sorority, first appearing in season 2; ΩΒΓ stands for the first three letters in OB-GYN) with best friend Melody O'Harra (Keri Russell
Keri Russell
Keri Lynn Russell is an American actress and dancer. After appearing in a number of made-for-television films and series during the mid-1990s, she came to fame for portraying the title role of Felicity Porter on the series Felicity, which ran from 1998 to 2002, and for which she won a Golden Globe...
). She also played tambourine
Tambourine
The tambourine or marine is a musical instrument of the percussion family consisting of a frame, often of wood or plastic, with pairs of small metal jingles, called "zils". Classically the term tambourine denotes an instrument with a drumhead, though some variants may not have a head at all....
in a Christian rock
Christian rock
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band in college.
At Sacred Heart, Elliot begins as an intern and later becomes a resident after a gruelling, year-long internship. She serves as Co-Chief Resident with J.D. during season 4. At the end of that season, she briefly leaves to take on an endocrinology
Endocrinology
Endocrinology is a branch of biology and medicine dealing with the endocrine system, its diseases, and its specific secretions called hormones, the integration of developmental events such as proliferation, growth, and differentiation and the coordination of...
fellowship, which ends five days later after her research partner finds the cure to osteogenesis imperfecta
Osteogenesis imperfecta
Osteogenesis imperfecta is a genetic bone disorder. People with OI are born with defective connective tissue, or without the ability to make it, usually because of a deficiency of Type-I collagen...
, the disease they are researching. After a brief spell at a free clinic
Free clinic
A free clinic is a medical facility offering community healthcare on a free or very low-cost basis in countries with marginal or no universal health care. Care is generally provided in these clinics to persons who have lower or limited income and no health insurance, including persons who are not...
, she returns to Sacred Heart and becomes a senior attending physician. At the end of the episode "My Coffee", she accepts an offer to go into private practice, allowing her to receive double the pay, still work at Sacred Heart, and never have to deal with superiors Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley
John C. McGinley
John Christopher McGinley is an American actor, most notable for his roles as Perry Cox in Scrubs, Bob Slydell in Office Space, Sergeant Red O'Neill in Oliver Stone's Platoon and Marv in Stone's Wall Street. He has also written and produced for television and film...
) or Dr. Kelso
Bob Kelso
Robert "Bob" Kelso, M.D. , is a fictional character played by Ken Jenkins in the American comedy-drama Scrubs....
(Ken Jenkins
Ken Jenkins
Ken Jenkins is an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Bob Kelso, the Chief of Medicine on the American comedy Scrubs....
) again. In "My Full Moon", she ponders her future career after struggling to deliver the bad news to a patient diagnosed with HIV, and tells Turk that if she was lucky enough to get married and had enough money to not have to work, she would "walk out of this place [the hospital] and never look back".
Peculiarities
When first introduced, Elliot is portrayed as socially awkward and hyper-competitive, but her personality was modified slightly by the second episode, and according to Chalke, her character was shown totally lacking "social skills".. She became a chatterbox who puts her foot in her mouth at every conceivable opportunity (in "My MentorMy Mentor
"My Mentor" is the second episode of the American situation comedy Scrubs. It originally aired on October 4, 2001 on NBC.-Plot:Elliot gets on Carla's bad side after telling Dr. Kelso about one of Carla's mistakes. Elliot gets defensive with J.D. when he suspects Elliot started it, and J.D. reflects...
", she asks an overweight woman "When's the baby due?", and accidentally insults Turk's Jehovah's Witness mother by describing people of that faith as "crazed, annoying busybodies"). According to J.D. and various patients, her bedside manner is cold and mechanical, although in more recent seasons she's been shown to bond with several patients. Her bedside manner (or lack thereof) is part of the reason that Dr. Cox decides to split the role of Chief Resident between her and the more sensitive J.D. (saying the two of them together would make "one barely passable doctor/Labradoodle
Labradoodle
A Labradoodle is a crossbred dog created by crossing the Labrador Retriever and the Standard or Miniature Poodle.-History:The first known use of the term "Labradoodle" was by Sir Donald Campbell to describe his Labrador/Poodle cross dog in his 1955 book, "Into the Water Barrier"...
").
Elliot has frequently been shown telling "inspirational stories" to both fellow staff and patients that invariably end with someone killing themselves, to the extent that by "My Happy Place" it has become the expected result of any story she begins. In the episode "My Fishbowl", she admits she attempted suicide
Suicide
Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death. Suicide is often committed out of despair or attributed to some underlying mental disorder, such as depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, alcoholism, or drug abuse...
as a teenager.
In Season 3, Elliot undergoes a noticeable transformation; she begins dressing and grooming herself in a more sexually provocative manner, and adopts a somewhat more assertive and self-assured personality. This was the result of a directive from NBC
NBC
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's marketing department, which wanted the show to have a sexier female star to offer the network's coveted young male demographic. A short feature on the Season 3 DVD
DVD
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set entitled "The New Elliot" explains the reasons for the makeover, and the response it engendered from Chalke and the show's writers.
Chalke, speaking about her character, has stated how much Elliot has changed throughout the run of Scrubs. She has stated that at the start of the series, Elliot is a competitive and independent person until she realizes that she needs the help and support of her co-workers. Talking about Elliot's transformation in the episode "My Own American Girl", Chalke stated that the transformation didn't really help Elliot's life and that Elliot is still "on a never ending journey to find respect [in season four] and now she's a lot more confident and together."
J.D.
J.D. and Elliot have a complex relationship; they are close friends, and often grapple with their romantic feelings for each other.In an interview, Sarah Chalke said that Bill Lawrence wanted to avoid a "will they or won't they" get together plot for the series, instead opting for a running gag where they hook up once a year and "have everything blow up in [their] faces and not work out".
In the season 1 episode "My Drug Buddy", they start a relationship but break up in the following episode. They repair their friendship, but it is later revealed that they still have feelings for each other and they begin sleeping together again in "My Monster". They arrange to sleep together as "sex buddies" without romantic involvement, but this ends after only a few days, with J.D. having realized that he has deep feelings for her. In Season 3, J.D. again realizes his feelings for her as she rekindles her past relationship with her old boyfriend Sean, but later in the season J.D. and Elliot sleep together again. Although Elliot initially decides to stay with Sean, she later leaves him to be with J.D. However, this relationship ends when J.D. breaks up with Elliot after realizing that he doesn't love her. In Season 4, following Elliot's brief fling with J.D.'s brother Dan (Tom Cavanagh
Tom Cavanagh
Thomas "Tom" Cavanagh is a Canadian actor.-Early life:Cavanagh was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He is of Irish descent and was raised in a large Roman Catholic family. Cavanagh moved with his family to Winneba, a small city in Ghana, when he was seven years old. In his teens, the family moved to...
), they once again repair their friendship and then move in together in Season 5.
J.D. and Elliot also have a very close friendship, built on their shared experiences as residents at the hospital, similarities in their personalities and the knowledge of each other's quirks and issues. In the episode "My Cold Shower", J.D. realizes that he may still have feelings for Elliot; in the season finale "My Point of No Return
My Point of No Return
"My Point of No Return" is the 22nd and final episode of season six and the 139th episode of the American sitcom Scrubs. It aired on May 17, 2007 on NBC. It is part two of the two-part season finale, preceded by "My Rabbit".-Plot:...
", J.D. and Elliot lean in for a kiss after a night of discussing their doubts about their respective relationships. However, in "My Own Worst Enemy
My Own Worst Enemy (Scrubs)
"My Own Worst Enemy" is the first episode of the seventh season of the American comedy-drama Scrubs. It originally aired on October 25, 2007, and was watched by 6.95 million viewers.- Plot :After Elliot almost kisses J.D...
", the Season 7 opener, Elliot realizes she is making a mistake and pulls away, asserting that the almost-kiss had nothing to do with her feelings for J.D.
Later on in the season, there are some subtle hints that Elliot and J.D. may be getting closer, and possibly romantic. For instance, the episode "My Waste of Time" ends with J.D. and Elliot sitting in a cafe, commenting on how everyone thinks they're together, then playing with J.D.'s son Sam, as if they were a family. Also, in "My Bad Too
My Bad Too
"My Bad Too" is the seventh episode of season seven and the 146th episode of the American sitcom Scrubs. It aired on April 10, 2008, as the first episode to air after the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike.-Plot:...
" Turk tells Carla (in unsubtitled Spanish
Spanish language
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), "Those two will be getting back together in two weeks." In the season seven finale "My Princess
My Princess
"My Princess" is the season seven finale and the 150th episode of the American sitcom Scrubs. It was broadcast on May 8, 2008 on NBC. Although produced as episode 9, the episode was rearranged to be the season finale due to the season being cut short because of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of...
", Elliot and J.D. mutually agree that the almost-kiss, a point of tension between them, had nothing to do with their feelings and was merely a response to stress. However, at the end, Dr. Cox, who is telling the story says, "They decided that their almost kiss... meant nothing. Because in the end, they were both idiots.", perhaps suggesting that he thinks they are both stupid for not realising that they have feelings for each other. In "My Happy Place", Elliot and J.D. reevaluate their relationship after an unexpected comment from Dr. Kelso, admitting their lingering feelings for each other. However, it is only after Dr. Kelso tells them to do whatever makes them happy that they decide to give their relationship another chance. J.D. and Elliot are shown to officially be a couple again in "My Cookie Pants".
In the season 8 episode "My Cuz", J.D. leaves Sacred Heart to move closer to his son, Sam. Though she remains at Sacred Heart, Elliot moves in with him despite the long commute. Before J.D. leaves the hospital for good, he has a prolonged fantasy (which is implied to be a flashforward
Flashforward
A flashforward is an interjected scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point of the story in literature, film, television and other media. Flashforwards are often used to represent events expected, projected, or imagined to occur in the future...
), which shows that he and Elliot get married, and have at least one child together. By the start of Season 9, they are married and expecting their first child; taking place a year after the finale.
Carla
Elliot and Carla initially clash over their duties at the hospital and because of Elliot's somewhat condescending attitude, but they gradually become close friends. Carla becomes a source of personal and professional advice for Elliot; for her part, Carla reveals before her wedding (in "My Best Friend's Wedding") that she feels closer to Elliot than to her own sisters. After Carla's marriage, the two begin to drift apart, but when they realize it ("My Lucky CharmMy Lucky Charm
My Lucky Charm 情来运转 is a 25 episode Chinese drama shown on MediaCorp Channel 8 in Singapore and was telecast in 3 January 2005. The show stars Huang Biren, Chew Chor Meng, Chen Hanwei, Jeanette Aw, Michelle Chong, Cavin Soh, Jesseca Liu and Allan Wu....
"), they vow to work harder on maintaining their relationship. Elliot serves as Carla's maid of honor. Carla acts as a support system when Elliot breaks off the relationship with Keith and begins a new one with J.D.
Cast and crew have commented that the development of Carla and Elliot's friendship is somewhat parallel to the development of that between the two actresses.
Turk
Despite clashing initially, Elliot and Turk grow to be close friends, a relationship begun in "My MentorMy Mentor
"My Mentor" is the second episode of the American situation comedy Scrubs. It originally aired on October 4, 2001 on NBC.-Plot:Elliot gets on Carla's bad side after telling Dr. Kelso about one of Carla's mistakes. Elliot gets defensive with J.D. when he suspects Elliot started it, and J.D. reflects...
" when he tells Carla to give her a break. In "My Heavy Meddle", he convinces Elliot, who has just broken up with J.D., to mend their relationship for the sake of the group dynamic. Throughout the series, Turk watches out for Elliot, J.D. and Carla, and occasionally acts as a go-between. The flashforward scene at the end of "My Finale" shows all of them together as a big, happy family.
Dr. Cox
In the show's first season, Elliot is alternately terrified of and eager to please Dr. Perry Cox, Sacred Heart's acerbic Chief Attending Physician (later Residency Director and Chief of Medicine). Cox responds by constantly berating her, a trend that would continue throughout the series. He has occasionally shown signs of support, however; in "My Blind Date", he relies on her as a replacement "go-to guy" when J.D. is busy, and in "My Dream Job", he defends her from Kelso's verbal abuse by punching him.From the third season on, their relationship is one of mutual contempt, based mostly around trading quips and insults. Even so, Cox continues to give her personal and professional advice (albeit in the form of mockery), and in "My Déjà Vu, My Déjà Vu
My Déjà vu, My Déjà vu
"My Déjà Vu, My Déjà Vu" is the 22nd episode of the fifth season of Scrubs. It first aired May 9, 2006 and is the 115th episode of the series.-Déjà Vu:...
", they admit that, while they don't like each other, they do respect each other.
Molly Clock
Molly Clock (Heather Graham) is Elliot's close friend and mentor during the fourth season; in "Her Story", Elliot sees her as a role model, even after Molly makes some questionable choices. Molly moves to Milwaukee in "My Last Chance", and tells J.D. to ask Elliot's permission for the two of them (Molly and J.D.) to sleep together; Elliot uses the situation to get even with J.D. for J.D getting "uneven" because he kissed Molly. Later on down the line, J.D. had a near relationship with Molly—but then left to further his relationship with Kylie.Romantic relationships
In season 1 she dates her former patient Sean KellySean Kelly
Sean Kelly may refer to:* Sean Kelly , Professor of philosophy at Harvard University* Sean Kelly , Irish professional road bicycle racer...
(Scott Foley
Scott Foley
Scott Kellerman Foley is an American actor. He is known for roles in television shows such as The Unit and Felicity, and in films such as Scream 3...
). In season 2 she dates male nurse Paul Flowers (Rick Schroder
Rick Schroder
Richard Bartlett "Rick" Schroder, Jr. is an American actor and film director.He debuted in the 1979 hit film The Champ, going on to become a child star on the sitcom Silver Spoons...
). In season 3 she meets again Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly
Sean Kelly may refer to:* Sean Kelly , Professor of philosophy at Harvard University* Sean Kelly , Irish professional road bicycle racer...
and starts a new relationship with him, but when J.D. reveals his feelings for her, she leaves Sean at once. Then it's J.D. that leaves Elliot, after realizing he has confused love with friendship. In season 4 she dates J.D.'s brother Dan (Tom Cavanagh
Tom Cavanagh
Thomas "Tom" Cavanagh is a Canadian actor.-Early life:Cavanagh was born in Ottawa, Ontario. He is of Irish descent and was raised in a large Roman Catholic family. Cavanagh moved with his family to Winneba, a small city in Ghana, when he was seven years old. In his teens, the family moved to...
), and then a man named Jake (Josh Randall
Josh Randall
Josh Randall is an American television actor. He is best known for his role as Dr. Mike Burton in the NBC sitcom Ed and the recurring guest role of Jake in Scrubs in 2005. He was married to Claire Rankin on 10 September 2000....
). The two break up when Elliot realizes that Jake doesn't really know her. In season 6, Elliot gets engaged to fellow Sacred Heart doctor Keith Dudemeister (Travis Schuldt
Travis Schuldt
Travis Schuldt is an American actor. He originated the role of Ethan Winthrop on the NBC soap opera Passions from 1999 to 2002, and played a recurring role of Keith Dudemeister in the sitcom Scrubs from 2006-2008.-Career:...
) but breaks it off when she realizes that she does not truly love him.
Keith Dudemeister
Elliot starts a sex-only relationship with intern Keith Dudemeister in "My Buddy's BootyMy Buddy's Booty
"My Buddy's Booty" is the 11th episode of season five and 104th episode of the American situation comedy Scrubs. It originally aired on February 28, 2006 on NBC.-Summary:...
", much to J.D.'s chagrin. Eventually, however, they begin a romantic relationship, and, after navigating a rough patch, they declare their love for each other. Keith proposes to Elliot at the end of "My Turf War," and she says yes in the following episode. Elliot soon realizes that she does not truly love him (even nearly cheating on him with J.D.), however, and cancels the wedding in "My Own Worst Enemy
My Own Worst Enemy (Scrubs)
"My Own Worst Enemy" is the first episode of the seventh season of the American comedy-drama Scrubs. It originally aired on October 25, 2007, and was watched by 6.95 million viewers.- Plot :After Elliot almost kisses J.D...
". Keith despises her for the rest of the season; they finally bury the hatchet in the season 8 episode "My Jerks
My Jerks
"My Jerks" is the 151st episode and television season premiere of the eighth season of the ABC Studios television series Scrubs. The episode first aired on January 6, 2009 on the American Broadcasting Company, following the show's departure from NBC. It was immediately followed by the second...
", when she apologizes for hurting him.
She cheated on him in the episode "My Fishbowl" when she and Private Brian Dancer kissed before he left the hospital. However, this was most likely a pity kiss as Private Dancer had attempted suicide earlier in the episode.
Sean Kelly
Elliot meets Sean (Scott FoleyScott Foley
Scott Kellerman Foley is an American actor. He is known for roles in television shows such as The Unit and Felicity, and in films such as Scream 3...
) in the Season 1 episode "My Way or the Highway", when he is a patient of hers. Knowing that he has the many of the same insecurities as her, Elliot is instantly attracted to him and eventually asks him out. Their relationship ends in "My Sacrificial Clam", however, when Elliot finds herself unable to juggle a relationship with the stresses of her internship.
Elliot meets Sean again at the beginning of Season 3, when he is with another girl. They begin dating again (much to J.D.'s consternation). Although their relationship is strong, Sean attempts to end it in "My Lucky Night" when he has to move to New Zealand
New Zealand
New Zealand is an island country in the south-western Pacific Ocean comprising two main landmasses and numerous smaller islands. The country is situated some east of Australia across the Tasman Sea, and roughly south of the Pacific island nations of New Caledonia, Fiji, and Tonga...
for six months, because he does not believe in long distance relationships, but Elliot convinces him that they can make it work. However, in "His Story II", Elliot comes to believe during Sean's absence that J.D. loves her more and sleeps with him, only to immediately realize the depth of Sean's commitment when he returns from New Zealand, and goes back to him. J.D. initially agrees to remain silent, but when Sean and Elliot begin planning to move in, J.D. tells Elliot how he feels, prompting her to leave Sean for an ultimately doomed relationship with J.D. After breaking up with her in "My Self-Examination", J.D. finds and tries to convince a depressed Sean to take Elliot back in "My Best Friend's Wedding". However, even though Sean arrives at Turk and Carla's wedding to discuss their relationship with Elliot, they do not get back together, to the disappointment of J.D., who was trying to repair their relationship, and in turn, repair his relationship with Elliot. Elliot tells J.D. that "...if Sean and I were meant to be together, I never would have gone home with you that night and sabotaged everything I ever had with him."
Sean appears again in the season 8 episode "My Cuz", in a relationship with Kim Briggs (Elizabeth Banks
Elizabeth Banks
Elizabeth Maresal Mitchell , known professionally as Elizabeth Banks, is an American actress. Banks had her film debut in the low-budget independent film Surrender Dorothy...
), the mother of J.D.'s child, Sam. It's revealed that they were introduced by Elliot before she and J.D. had gotten back together, irritating J.D., who still harbored a dislike for Sean.