When a show goes on for as long as Scrubs did, it’s almost impossible not to run into some slight inconsistencies here and there. So many small character details are revealed in throwaway jokes that it’s tough to keep track of everything, which is a problem compounded by the fact that the show has multiple writers.
Regardless, it seems the writers of Scrubs have an interesting policy of putting jokes before continuity, and while this may annoy those who are sticklers for detail, it ultimately benefits the show’s minute-to-minute enjoyability. Just for fun, however, these are ten character inconsistencies in the show that you probably never noticed.
10 Ted’s Hair
As well as being Sacred Heart’s resident lawyer, the unfortunate Ted Buckland also moonlights as the hospital’s punching bag – with pretty much everybody taking a shot at him at one time or another. Of all the insults thrown Ted’s way however, his baldness is one of the more frequent targets.
As if this isn’t bad enough, Ted even states that he lost his hair all the way back in high school, making it apparent his life has been this miserable for quite some time. However, a flashback to Ted’s first day at Sacred Heart in season seven shows Ted with a full – and pretty well maintained – head of hair as he washes Dr. Kelso’s car.
9 JD Is Too Picky
In the fifth season episode “Her Story II”, JD’s new girlfriend Julie begins to grate on him due to her habit of saying ‘that’s so funny’, rather than actually laughing. Hoping to help JD overcome his own neuroses, Turk talks about how JD has a long history of breaking up with women for the most trivial reasons, citing the likes of ‘Heidi Horseface’, ‘Rumple Fugly’ and ‘Minnie McSkinny’ as examples.
The exact opposite is stated in “My Clean Break” however, when it’s brought up that JD has never broken up with a girl before, making a huge deal out of cutting things off with Danni despite their incompatibility – even celebrating when the deed is finally done.
8 Turk Hates Hugs
Given the legendary bromance between Turk and JD in Scrubs, it’s strange to think back to the show’s earlier seasons, in which Turk is portrayed as a much more emotionally closed-off character. In fact, Turk outright refuses to hug others – including JD – at various points in the show, even developing an involuntary knee-jerk response of flipping people who attempt to do so.
Still, a switch appears to be randomly flipped at some point in the show, with Turk becoming one of its most touchy-feely characters. While you might justify this as simple character development, that doesn’t explain the season three episode “My Own American Girl,” in which Turk hugs a fellow basketball player after JD’s trash-talking gets out of hand.
7 JD Is Terrible At Sports
It’s something of a running gag in Scrubs that JD is awful at sports, completely lacking the physical strength, knowledge, or coordination to partake in such activities.
While the character trait is completely in line with JD’s personality, it’s also contradicted in the episode “My Jiggly Ball” when JD reveals he was a gymnast in high school – a sport that requires a tremendous amount of strength and coordination. Funnily enough, while Dr. Cox frequently insults JD for his lack of manliness or physical ability, JD also wants to hide his past as a gymnast from Cox out of fear of ridicule.
6 Elliot And JD’s First Meeting
While it’s easy to gloss over minor character inconsistencies in Scrubs – with the writers prioritizing jokes over strict continuity – something as concrete as when two characters met should generally be adhered to, especially when we’ve seen it happen on screen.
In the show’s pilot episode, we clearly see JD and Turk meet Elliot for the first time, but in later seasons of the show, Turk mentions that he remembers JD telling him about the first time he met Elliot.
5 Ted’s First Girlfriend
The saddest, loneliest character in all of Scrubs, poor Ted Buckland finally hits his stride in the show’s eighth season, when he finally lands himself a girlfriend in the form of Gooch – a cute ukulele player who sings for the hospital’s pediatric patients.
While it’s repeatedly stated that Gooch is Ted’s first-ever girlfriend, this directly contradicts what we already know about Ted’s past love life. Not only does Ted get a high school girlfriend by posing as her dad to rent a car – due to his baldness, of course – but he even had a wife in earlier seasons of the show, who left him for his much shorter, toupee-wearing brother.
4 JD Doesn’t Like Beer
JD’s lack of masculinity makes him a frequent target of ridicule in Scrubs, with everyone from Dr. Cox to his own closest friends Turk and Carla making fun of him for this. This running gag is consistently reinforced throughout the show by JD ordering stereotypically ‘girly’ drinks like appletinis, as well as voicing his dislike for beer.
Occasionally, however, JD can be seen happily throwing back a cold one, celebrating a fresh pitcher of beer at the bar, and even using the stuff to make his special ‘party’ ice cubes.
3 Everyone Daydreams
With Scrubs’ elaborate fantasies serving as one of the show’s unique selling points, it makes sense that JD – the show’s resident daydreamer – is the show’s focal character.
Many characters have noted JD’s odd tendency to drift off for extended periods of time, however, and act as though it’s an incredibly strange quirk unique to JD. In episodes that shift perspective to the other characters though, they’re also shown to have equally vivid fantasies – doing the exact same thing they label JD as 'weird' for.
2 Turk’s Brother Is His Co-Best Man
When Carla finally accepts Turk’s proposal in Scrubs’ second season, JD naturally assumes he’ll be Turk’s best man. While Turk does initially choose him however, JD soon finds out that he asked his brother first, who couldn’t make the wedding – and has now discovered he can attend after all.
This devastates JD, but he eventually agrees to be Turk’s co-best man alongside his brother. Once the wedding rolls around however, Turk’s brother is nowhere to be seen, making the entire plotline seem pointless in retrospect.
1 How JD And Turk Met
Once again offering two different versions of how its central characters met, Scrubs unintentionally paints two separate pictures of how Turk and JD’s legendary bromance began.
While one flashback shows a young, confident Turk with a full head of hair introduce himself to JD – with JD naturally being a huge dungeons and dragons nerd – another shows them meeting at a different point as they move into their dorm room, with Turk commenting on how nerdy JD was at the time.
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