My Fishbowl

"My Fishbowl"
Scrubs episode
Episode no.	Season 6 Episode 12
Directed by	Chris Koch
Written by	Kevin Biegel
Production code	611
Original air date	March 8, 2007
Guest stars
Michael Weston as Private Brian Dancer
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"My Fishbowl" is the 129th episode of the American situation comedy Scrubs. It aired as episode 12 of season 6 on March 8, 2007.

Plot

The day has come for Private Brian Dancer to be released from Sacred Heart, but after a touching string of goodbyes with the staff, they find him unconscious. Finding a letter from the army informing him that his injuries are too severe to return to service, Elliot surmises that his sudden fit of illness was in fact a suicide attempt, and they want to convince Brian to confess to them that it wasn't an accidental overdose so they can keep him in the hospital. However, he reveals that he has overheard them all whispering while he pretended to be unconscious, and says he sees no reason why he should be honest with them when they are lying to each other.

This sparks a series of confessions from Carla, Turk and Elliot, with Carla admitting that she switched several pictures of Dr. Cox for more unflattering ones as a joke, and we see a revival of the issue touched on in 6.03 ("My Coffee"), that J.D. found Turk in bed with his college girlfriend, saying that they had a water balloon fight and huddled under the covers, with Turk finally admitting that he was lying. Finally, in a revelation that shocked her friends, Elliot admits that when she was 16 she attempted suicide by walking into a lake and trying to drown herself.

While everyone is in the room, the Janitor waits outside the room for J.D., holding a fish and fishbowl that J.D. received from another patient, waiting to harass him for "assuming [his] job is so unimportant" that he'd have time to hold that fish for J.D. He soon realizes the fish can talk, and appears to be the reincarnation of Dr. Kelso's squad leader in Vietnam. However, he is probably hallucinating, due to him 'losing a lot of blood fighting a hobo' for some pecan pie. The fishbowl is accidentally smashed when J.D. exits the room and knocks the bowl, currently resting on the floor, into a wall.

Finally, Dr. Cox convinces Brian that even if he has nothing left to live for without his career, he owes it to the staff of Sacred Heart to keep trying, and allows him to be discharged after making him promise to talk to a psychotherapist. However, Brian is not going to visit a psychotherapist and drops a note with contacts of the one which Dr. Cox gave him before. Elliot catches him before he can leave to return the note and compares her suicide attempt to his. When he rejects this comparison, Elliot confesses that she was an "awkward, lonely outcast" as a child and that she still struggles with low self-esteem. Then Elliot convinces him to go and see a psychotherapist while telling Brian that she finds him attractive and promising to consider him if she's ever single in the future. They share a kiss, and Brian leaves the hospital.

Cast

• Snoop Dogg Intern makes a return, although now he's Snoop Dogg Resident. His first speaking appearance was in Season 3, Episode 13: "My Porcelain God".

Featured music

• "On & Poppin'" by Young MC
• "Half a World Away" by R.E.M.

External links

• "My Fishbowl" at the Internet Movie Database
• "My Fishbowl" at TV.com