15 Best Scrubs Episodes
3. My Screwup (Season 3, Episode 14)
"Where do you think we are?"
A recognised classic, My Screwup features the show's most surprising and iconic plot twist. At the hospital, Dr Cox is visited by Jordan's brother and his best friend Ben, and though the visit starts off well, Cox day starts to go downhill after a patient dies on JD's watch. Cox, annoyed and unwilling to let anyone else die, stays at the hospital for hours at a time, with Ben in tow.
In the end, though, the rug is pulled from under both Cox and the audience when it's revealed Ben is the person who died on JD's watch, and Cox has been imagining him because he cannot bring himself to accept his death. It's a cruel and out-of-the-blue twist, sold by powerful performances from John C. McGinley, Zach Braff and Brendan Fraser.
Many episodes of Scrubs will stay with you long after the credits have rolled, but few as effectively as My Screwup.