10 Greatest Minor Scrubs Characters

10. Dr. Jeffrey Steadman

Played By – Matt Winston, Appearances – 5 (My First Day, My Two Dads, My Old Man, My Lucky Night, My Finale)

Appearing for the first time in the pilot, Dr. Steadman initially seemed to be being set up as a recurring character, having been established as J.D. and Elliot’s resident and as a perennial suck-up to Dr. Kelso, depicted in fantasy sequences as humping his leg like an overenthusiastic dog or having all of his speech replaced with the words ‘I’m A Tool’.

Actor Matt Winston would only go on to make three more appearances before popping up again six years later in the finale, but in each of these he managed to leave a lasting impression with the ludicrous depths of his sycophancy, such as exclaiming that Dr. Kelso’s penis was ‘like a baguette’.

Everybody has worked with somebody like Dr. Steadman during their career, inside a hospital or not. Given the contempt that is held for such brownnosers when their actions result in preferential treatment or other workplace perks, it was hugely satisfying to see Steadman get some sort of comeuppance in most of his appearances, whether from taking a golf ball to the face from J.D. or being denied a promotion Kelso had shoehorned him for by the manoeuvring of Dr. Cox and Jordan.