As the title suggests, "My Lawyer's In Love" is mostly a Ted-centric episode. It's also an episode that is good enough that any recap I do won't do it justice, you just need to see it for yourself.
A lot of the time, when Scrubs characters grow and develop it's done in an awkward, obvious "this is me growing and developing" sort of way. In "My Lawyer's In Love," Ted gets the chance to break out of his snivelling, spineless crushed-spirit-of-a-mamma's-boy role, and it's all for a girl. The girl is new character, Stephanie Gooch (yeah, Gooch), whose role in the hospital is to sing songs to sick kids, accompanied with her ukulele. That's her in the picture at the top of the page, and she's every bit as adorable as you imagine she might be as a ukulele-toting, awkward human being, who could actually feel attraction for our resident sad-sack lawyer. She bring out the best and the worst in Ted, as he is initially unable to speak to her, putting him in an even worse place than his years of abuse at the hands of Dr. Kelso.
On equal standing (on the scale of awesomeness) is the truce between JD and the Janitor, as they temporarily team up in order to help Ted get the girl. One scene especially is one of the funniest things Scrubs has ever done.
While all of these shenanigans are going on, Dr. Cox continues to struggle to balance the duties of his new position with his old responsibilities, as well as his family. Everything falls apart when he simultaneously misses the deadlines for 1) making the nurse's schedule 2) helping a patient with Down Syndrome, who is scared about his upcoming biopsy and 3) picking up his son from work. As friends reach out, each with their own idea about which responsibilities Cox should let slide, Jordan end sup being the one whose insight proves the most true to Cox's own motivations. She ultimately saves the day, acknowledging, and respecting Perry's personality, while supporting him by picking up the slack.
With his supportive non-wife standing behind him, Cox knows that it will all be worth it, as long as he can get home to read to his son. When, after a streamlined, successful day, he bursts into Jack's room, storybook in hand, it breaks our hearts to see that he's arrived just too late.
"My Laywer's In Love" shows that you don't have to force emotion or sweetness. Ted and Stephanie's romance has that Juno kind of awkward sweetness. And more than anything, you just yearn for Dr. Cox to get it all together. "My Lawyer's In Love" is a well-rounded, but hilarious episode that is easily one of the season's (if not the series') best.
Rating: 3.75 stars
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