My Butterfly
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| Episode no. | Season 3 Episode 16 |
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| Directed by | Henry Chan | ||
| Written by | Justin Spitzer | ||
| Production code | 312 | ||
| Original air date | March 16, 2004 | ||
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Martin Klebba as Randall Winston |
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"My Butterfly" is the 16th episode of season three and the 62nd episode overall of the American comedy-drama Scrubs. It originally aired on March 16, 2004 on NBC.
The premise of the episode is an example of the butterfly effect, wherein a minor, seemingly innocuous change can drastically alter a chain of events.
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A butterfly landing on a woman's chest sets off a chain of events. This results in Elliot not finding a girl's lost stuffed animal, Carla forgetting Turk's lucky do-rag, and a patient's aortic dissection not being discovered until the last minute. After the patient's death, J.D. thinks about how things may have turned out if the butterfly had landed on a nearby man instead of the woman. In this parallel situation, things seem to be better, as the do-rag and the stuffed animal are found. Also, Dr. Cox and J.D. catch the aortic dissection early. However, the patient still dies in surgery.
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John Ritter, who played J.D.'s father in "My Old Man" and "My Lucky Day", was a famous victim of an aortic dissection, having died seven months prior to the airing of this episode.
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