Elliot has an annoying new colleague. Cox needs a break from Jordan and orders her to find friends at work. Carla gets the impression that Elliot is ashamed of her "old" colleagues. J.D. realizes his interns find his jokes unfunny.
- Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other: Cox spends the episode insisting that Turk not tell Jordan about Sam the drug addict and let her get scammed. He's not being mean, he's putting her through the same rite of passage that he and Elliot have already gone through... and every other person at Sacred Heart. They open up and accept her as one of the team.
- Status Quo Is God: The episode ends with JD asking his interns to start pretending to find his jokes funny again, otherwise the show might have been forced to change his behavior.
