1x01 My First Day - Scrubs Episode Guide

Scrubs

- Episode 01x01

Episode: 01x01 (pilot)
Title: My First Day
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 535G
First Aired: Oct. 02, 2001

Season 1 » Episode #01 - My First Day

Summary: The first day for the new interns at Sacred Heart is today, which means that J.D., Turk and Elliot now have to start practicing what they have learned in medical shool. They soon realise being a doctor was not really how they imagined it...

Who appeared in this episode?

Dr. Jeffrey Steadman	played by Matt Winston
Boy	played by Timmy Deters
Billy	played by Jake Fritz
Mrs. Pratt	played by Mary Gillis
Pizza Guy	played by Michael Hobert
Nurse Kearney	played by Lynne Maclean
Mr. Burski	played by Ted Rogers (III)
Old Woman	played by Shannon Welles

Episode Quotes

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

MISC: In some scenes there are pieces of hair/thread visible on the camera, mainly on the bottom of the screen.
CONT: Cox wheels a "dead lady" around and her glasses continually disappear and reappear between shots.
CHAR: Dr. Kelso tells JD to keep a female patient on dialysis, and not put her on the transplant list, because she doesn't have insurance. In the U.S., all patients who have kidney failure and are on dialysis are eligible for Medicare, which also pays for a kidney transplant.

TRIVIA

The fantasy scene that JD has about him and Elliot was filmed on the set of "My Wife and Kids" (2001).
Turk uses the electrical defibrillation paddles to "shock" an apparently unconscious patient, who immediately wakes up screaming in pain, apparently not having been unconscious at all. That patient was played by Vinko Bogataj, the Slovenian ski jumper whose disastrously unsuccessful ski jump attempt was made famous in the opening title sequence of ABC's television sport news show "ABC's Wide World of Sports" (1961).
While 'Scrubs'' "regular episodes" are shot at the former North Hollywood Medical Center, The Pilot episode was filmed in another hospital in Glendale, California which, incidentally, has since been torn down. Some of the scenes in this episode had to be reshot in North Hollywood, though, making the continuity of this episode somewhat difficult for the crew.
The guy on the scanner that JD is doctoring as Turk comes clean about really being scared all the time is the same actor who plays Lonnie (Michael Hobert).