March 19, 2026

Scrubs 10x05 My Angel

Show Notes
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Johnny Mac recaps Scrubs Season 10, Episode 5, “My Angel” (air date March 18, 2026), saying he liked it despite it not being the funniest and praising the emotional beats and newer characters. JD tries dating again and hits it off with Lily, a harp-playing volunteer, after Turk warns him not to date employees and later gives the green light; on a date at Lloyd’s Tavern, Lily proposes sex, but a pizza box triggers a flashback to Season 1 Episode 15 with Elliott, revealing JD isn’t over her, and Turk picks him up per “bro code.” Elliott’s subplot involves securing a liver for a patient; the organ arrives via a good-looking pilot, and Elliott walks off with him as JD sees and looks sad. Johnny also cites Sarah Chalke on Michael Rosenbaum’s podcast describing the rebuilt set as identical and surreal, and notes Zach Braff denied rumors he’s dating an AI chatbot.

00:36 Why I Loved This Episode
01:05 JD Meets Lily
01:59 Date Night Goes Sideways
02:35 Pizza Box Flashback
03:27 Elliot’s Hospital Storyline
04:06 Sarah Chalke Set Memories
05:20 Zach Braff AI Rumor

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Callaroga Shark Media Scrub, Season ten, episode five, My Angel

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Original air day, March eighteenth, twenty twenty six. Hi, I'm

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Johnny Mack and I was freaking out because I couldn't

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find the session that I use for the Scrubs episodes.

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I use the same template every week. You know, it's

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got the music that you hear fading behind my voice

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there and it makes my life a littleisia. And I

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couldn't find it. And the reason I couldn't find it

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is I have now discovered this session is called Scubs.

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That's why I wasn't coming up in search. I liked

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this episode a lot. It was the first of the

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reboots that my wife and I watched separately. She was

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doing something earlier and gave me the go ahead to

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go watch it. She texted me around ten o'clock and

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was like, was Scrubs good? Yes, it was good. I

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was very enthusiastic about this one. Not the funniest episode

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of all time, but I really like the character beats

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and even the newer characters. They're you know, they're finding

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their own the are figuring out what this version of

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Scrubs is still not renewed, What is going on there.

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All right, Here's what happens. JD is ready to start

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dating again. Turk is telling him to get back out there,

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and JD runs into Lily, who plays Harp in the lobby.

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They hit it off. The chemistry's booming. JD wants to

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go for it, and Turk's like, yo, time out. You're

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the chief of medicine. You can't date employees. Good advice

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from Turk. Plus, we all know that Doctor Park played

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by Joelkim Booster, whose character is back this week. I

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like that character. It's kind of poor man's Doctor Cox.

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He speaks to the interns the same way Cox did,

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but he also wants to take down JD because JD

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has the job that Doctor Park wants. So he's a

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good antagonist. And I'd like Joel Kim Booster since I

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saw him. I think it was twenty fifteen in New

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Phases in Montreal, so I like Joel Anyway, Turk's like,

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you can't go there. The two have a little bit

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of chemistry. Turk's saying no, no, no, But then Turk

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finds out she's a volunteer and there's no rules against

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dating a volunteer, so he calls JD up and gives

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JD the green light. JD and lil are at a

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date at Lloyd's Tevern. Now, I don't know if it's

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actually been called Lloyd's Tavern on screen yet. I know

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in the articles and the interviews the creators told us

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that they named it Lloyd's Tavern, But has that actually

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been said? Maybe I missed it. JD orders an apple teeny.

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Lily tells JD the deal. We're having one drink and

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then we're having sex. They go back to her place

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and we find out that I'll describe it the way

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did you watch How I Make Your Mother? Barney talked

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about the hot crazy scale. We find out that Lily

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is above the line. Lily throws JD onto her bed

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and asks him a choker. JD's like, it's a little nun,

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It's not really my thing. He looks to the side

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of the bed and he sees a pizza box, and

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that triggers a flashback. And this is the creator's nailing

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this understanding what this show is understanding the characters. The

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pizza box triggers a flashback to season one episode fifteen,

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My Bed, Banter and Beyond, and in season one episode fifteen,

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JD and Elliott are in bed eating pizza. It becomes

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clear JD's not ready to date again. He's not over Elliot.

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The voiceover tells us I was lying here beneath this

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beautiful woman, and I actually felt nothing. Next we see

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him riding shotgun in a car. He says, sorry about this.

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It's just the last time he was with somebody, and

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we met something and I after a divorce, and now

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guys are supposed to go out and hook up like crazy,

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but I think I need a little time. We find

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out the person he's apologizing to isn't Lily, it's Turk,

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who picked him up. As bros, do code of the guys.

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If your buddy calls you and goes I need a ride,

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don't ask questions, just do it. Meanwhile, Elliott had her

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own plot. There's a patient who needs a new liver.

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Elliott's trying to help her with that. We get into

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the medicine part of the show. In the end, the

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new liver arrives delivered by an organ transplant pilot of

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some sort, and he happens to be a good looking fellow,

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and we see that Elliott thinks he's good looking and

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they walk off together, and who happens to be coming

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down the hall at that moment, JD, and he sees

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Elliott being into another dude, and we see that JD

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looks sad, just a wonderful All the emotional beats really

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good in this episode. As Elliott walks down the hall

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with the pilot, we hear JD's Now, only the heart

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knows when it's ready to let someone in again, But

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sometimes the heart just needs a little more time to heal.

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Sarah Chalk was on Michael Rosenbaum's podcast Fun Fact. Michael

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Rosenbaum was my intern. Now I haven't seen Michael since

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he was my intern, but we have a mutual friend

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and Michael claims to remember me. I don't know. He

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was Mike the Intern. But here's the thing I always

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remember about Mike the Intern. He was always going to

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go to Hollywood. He would talk about it when I

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was like, hey, can you make copies of Today's rundown.

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He was on a mission to go to Hollywood and

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become an actor, and he did it. So I respect

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Mike the Intern aka Michael Rosenbaum, whose guest was Sarah Chalk,

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who plays Elliot on Scrubs. She talked about the new

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set and said it was quite surreal stepping onto the set,

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first of all, stepping onto a set where you spent

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your entire twenties and then you're stepping on twenty five

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years later. I can't quite explain what that felt like,

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especially since we shot in this abandoned hospital in the

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valley and that got torn down and now they've rebuilt

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the sets, and we knew that was happening, but we

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kind of thought, ah, it'd be pretty accurate, like maybe

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there'd be sixty seventy percent like sets were, and they

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were exactly the same, like to a t, everything was identical.

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It felt like this weird kind of time warp because

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it's the same character, the same people on the exact

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same set in the writing, and I had kind of

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thought it was going to take him ant a step

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back into it. What was weird was how natural it felt.

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It's part of your cells, it's part of your bones,

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that's the inside of you. Podcast often to grab that

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one and then this really doesn't have anything to do

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with Scrubs, but I couldn't get it into the regular podcast.

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During the week, it's been a pretty busy week, So

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why don't I do it here? Zach Braff has denied

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he's in a relationship with an AI. Yeah, exactly. This

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keeps coming up, and Zach now took to Instagram to

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deny that he is in a relationship with an AI,

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specifically an AI chatbot, which Zach Braf is not involved with.

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Apparently it turned up on one of these gossip websites.

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Zach said, I had no idea until tonight because I'm

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not on TikTok that these folks were the origin of this.

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I felt like now is a good time to be

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kind of the people. You would think that would make

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it go away. But the denial of a romantic involvement

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with an AI chatbot has been covered by Cosmopolitan, The Cut, BuzzFeed, People,

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Just Jared, Entertainment Weekly, Page six, The Independent, The Rap,

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USA Today, The Sun, Hello Magazine, Metro, The New York

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Daily News, dek Stero, The Daily Mirror, Vulture, Gizmoto, and

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Daily Comedy News. So to be clear, Zach Braff is

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not dating an AI chatbot. Scrubs episode five, I liked

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it a lot back in the morning with a normal

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episode