"My Own Personal Jesus" is the eleventh episode of the American sitcom 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...

. It originally aired on December 11, 2001 on NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

.

Plot

It's Christmas

Christmas

Christmas or Christmas Day is an annual holiday generally celebrated on December 25 by billions of people around the world. It is a Christian feast that commemorates the birth of Jesus Christ, liturgically closing the Advent season and initiating the season of Christmastide, which lasts twelve days...

 at Sacred Heart. While working in the free clinic, Elliot

Elliot Reid

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"....

 treats a pregnant teenaged girl named Meredith Fox. Dr. Kelso believes this will be good practice for Elliot, since he believes she, like so many female physicians, will end up in family practice, pediatrics

Pediatrics

Pediatrics or paediatrics is the branch of medicine that deals with the medical care of infants, children, and adolescents. A medical practitioner who specializes in this area is known as a pediatrician or paediatrician...

 or obstetrics and gynaecology

Obstetrics and gynaecology

Obstetrics and gynaecology are the two surgical–medical specialties dealing with the female reproductive organs in their pregnant and non-pregnant state, respectively, and as such are often combined to form a single medical specialty and postgraduate training programme...

. However, Elliot is extremely awkward and uncomfortable dealing with Meredith, and by the time Elliot finds out she needs to deliver

Childbirth

Childbirth is the culmination of a human pregnancy or gestation period with the birth of one or more newborn infants from a woman's uterus...

 immediately, Meredith has left the hospital. Elliot goes to the hospital on her day off to look for her, but has no success.

Dr. Cox

Dr. Cox

Percival "Perry" Ulysses Cox, M.D. , is a fictional character played by John C. McGinley on the American television comedy-drama Scrubs....

 makes J.D.

John Dorian

John Michael "J.D." Dorian, M.D. is a fictional character on the American comedy-drama Scrubs, played by Zach Braff. He is the narrator and main character of the series. He provides voice-over to the series which fills the roles of his internal thoughts and an overall narration in the show, often...

 tape the birth of his friends' baby, but J.D. messes up and the pregnancy does not record. To avoid ridicule from Jordan, Dr. Cox switches the tape with a recording of the birth of another baby, but she is not fooled.

Despite the holiday season, Turk, who is religious, is the only person in the hospital full of Christmas spirit. However, after spending Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve

Christmas Eve refers to the evening or entire day preceding Christmas Day, a widely celebrated festival commemorating the birth of Jesus of Nazareth that takes place on December 25...

 on call, his faith in God is shaken. While sitting in thought up on the hospital roof, he notices the star on top of the tree and realizes Elliot's patient, Meredith, must be there. He arrives just in time to deliver the baby. This incident, which he believes is a miracle

Miracle

A miracle often denotes an event attributed to divine intervention. Alternatively, it may be an event attributed to a miracle worker, saint, or religious leader. A miracle is sometimes thought of as a perceptible interruption of the laws of nature. Others suggest that a god may work with the laws...

, rekindles his faith.

This episode also marks the first appearance of the oft-mentioned Nurse Tisdale, who male characters often describe as the hottest woman in the hospital.

Featured music

• "Moving in Stereo
  Moving in Stereo
  "Moving in Stereo" is a song originally recorded by the American rock band The Cars, featuring lead vocals by Benjamin Orr. It appeared on their self-titled debut album released in 1978...
  
  " by The Cars
  The Cars
  The Cars are an American rock band that emerged from the early New Wave music scene in the late 1970s. The band consisted of lead singer and rhythm guitarist Ric Ocasek, lead singer and bassist Benjamin Orr, guitarist Elliot Easton, keyboardist Greg Hawkes and drummer David Robinson...
  
  
• "Rock Around the Clock
  Rock Around the Clock
  "Rock Around the Clock" is a 12-bar-blues-based song written by Max C. Freedman and James E. Myers in 1952. The best-known and most successful rendition was recorded by Bill Haley and His Comets in 1954...
  
  " by Bill Haley and His Comets
• a parody of "The Twelve Days of Christmas
  The Twelve Days of Christmas (song)
  "The Twelve Days of Christmas" is an English Christmas carol that enumerates a series of increasingly grand gifts given on each of the twelve days of Christmas. Although first published in England in 1780, textual evidence may indicate the song is French in origin...
  
  "
• "Sinnerman" by Nina Simone
  Nina Simone
  Eunice Kathleen Waymon , better known by her stage name Nina Simone , was an American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist widely associated with jazz music...
  
  
• "Deck the Halls" arranged by Jan Stevens