on the plus side, she probably won't try asking for hypnosis again XD

"Oh great I'm being assisted by a magician"

"Anesthesiologists are doctors who keep patients alive while surgeons do things that would otherwise kill them."

If I am required to go under surgery I'm going to let the man or woman with 10+ years of studying and practice decide what is the safest and best medical procedure.

"Hypnosis works for weight loss, depression and mood" Yes Carla, completely comparable to a deep tissue invasive surgery like removing the appendix

Sacred Fart

"Mrs... Appendectomy? Now THAT ain't right."

One of my favorite exchanges in Scrubs history... Kelso: "When I say the name Turkleton, people laugh." Turk: "Maybe because that's not my name, sir."

Kelso having to lie about being an oil tycoon to get laid because being chief of medicine wasn’t enough is hilarious lol

You totally COULD publish a Case Report on this surgery. The hypnosis working until halfway through is FAR more interesting than it just not working. Many published Case Reports are basically "heh, this is weird, anyone else seen this? I wonder what happened here..." (an illness I had was published as a case report once, it was neat)

I'm about to ruin my career by plunging a knife into a completely conscious person. But you're absolutely right, lets focus on the lying. classic

Telling your spouse what they are *allowed* to believe is fucked up.

see the smart thing to do would be to use hypnosis to distract the patient from the needle.

"Start believing what I tell you to believe." Carla is a cultist?

This is one time Kelso's actually being a good boss

Not one of Carla's best episodes (what sane nurse would advocate this lunacy?) but definitely one of Kelso's. I love how tickled he is by 'Sacred Fart'.

"If she comes over here, my name is T-Bone!" Classic Kelso.

You mean Google isn't the same as four years of medical school and four more years of internship/residency?

Kelso: well at least you made it halfway through the surgery without anesthesia Cox: maybe they'll put it in "almost" magazine

There was dignity in the name Turkelton. Turk should've just rolled with it, and he'd have learned to love it.

"You're married now so start believing what i tell you to beleive" Its moments like that that make me dislike Carla smh

Kelso's acting from 1:20 forward is pure gold!

Do it. Dig. Do it. Dig. Do it. Dig.

I hate when people use that logic of "you have to trust/believe me" when it's not about not lying but about competence. Like, I wouldn't trust my best friend to perform surgery on me but trust a professional who's a complete stranger

Look Carla just because you two are married doesn't mean Turk has to believe/agree with everything you say.

Wow I just realized i took his expression "That's a rookie move, and ya hate to see it". I've been saying that for years haha.

Dr Cox reaction to the patient waking up is Gold 😂

On the plus side I bet that woman asked for anesthesia even for plucking her eyebrows from then on.

Carla's such a control freak in this one lol. That's what makes it hilarious but damn woman, he said he didn't want to do it! "START BELIEVING WHAT I TELL YOU TO BELIEVE" killed me

Sacred fart, thats hilarious.

Sure hypnosis may be a powerful tool, but none of the "qualities" Carla described involve sticking a knife in a patient and slicing them open. I can't even imagine what that would be like in real life

You know I heard of people who thought Carla was the worst character; I never really believed but here I can see it. Sure hypnosis can supposedly do good things ( the placebo affect is a wonderful thing) but as Turk said his carer could have been seriously negatively effected and the patent could have died. But she seemed more concerned with her man taking her side and she never seemed to acknowledge she was wrong.

''Blow it out your ass, bob'' hahahahhahahahhaa x'D

I feel like when Dr. Kelso got drunk at Turk's wedding and started calling him Turkleton. He got drunk forever since and became a lot less evil

"Hypnosis helped me quit smoking" I'M SORRY CARLA, WHAT???

1:24 you can see JD in the background laughing at the Sacred Fart joke.

4:15 Best part when she screams and Cox is there to laugh.

4:17 the look of I told you so from Dr. Cox.

Heartwarming moment when Kelso support Turk telling him he could publish some of the results🥰

4:17 pure happiness

Man, when I first saw this, the patient's eyes shooting open, it scared the hell out of me...

The exchanges between Turk and Carla you'd believe they were actually married

Dr Cox was pure comedic gold in this

The patient, Melissa, is Meredith Bishop, who played Annie Mack on "The Secret World of Alex Mack" way back in the day.

I love how Dr Cox put cotton wool in his ears during the surgery. Bracing himself for the inevitable scream.

I was so glad they didn't go the route of "hypnosis works" in this show because hypnosis is bullshit, good for relaxation and mediation maybe but not for much else

Carla was being unreasonable about this.

it's Cox's face that always gets me :'D

If I were Turk, the only way I would even consider hypnosis is after consulting experts to check effectiveness, the patient would have to be restrained so she can't thrash around if she wakes up, and I would insist on traditional anesthesia be at the ready in case the hypnosis failed.

I had my appendix out and I was still signing forms when my drugs kicked in lol

Dr Cox laugh kills me

who else saw jd in the background when kelso said sacred fart

A lot of the comments don't get that Bill Lawrence has a fucked up view of marriage, and it shows in so much of his work. Remember the guy's married to Christa Miller, and look at the characters he makes her play.

turk must be a great surgen

"Ohby noby!" 😂

The music choice in this series was ALWAYS on point.

Monty Python brought me here. I was just watching the sketch where a guy endlessly hears singing in his brain so he hires a psychiatrist who elects to slice him open with a bone saw. When they slice him open, they find he has three squatters living inside him and they wake up the patient so he’s conscious to file a restraining order against them so the doctor can remove them. The sketch reminded me of this clip so much I had to rewatch it.

Carla is so silly quite often

funny how starting season 3 then even more on season 4 i notice kelso was a lot more likable

2:40 John C McGinley’s widow’s peak is slightly askew and now I can’t unsee it…

Maybe they'll put it in Almost Magazine.

Lol at turk when he was about to say, "That's what I'm talking about Dr. Cox!" But then starts with Carla's thing LOOL

1:22 gotta love kelso lol

"I'm about to ruin my career. . .but let's make this about you," would have been a better line. We always think everything is about us. The light changes to red when we are late and we really feel the light, the world, the devil or God has it in for us. Hilarious

There is a reason why hypnosis was replaced when chemicals came along-it actually kept the patients asleep. And as for hypnosis means less blood, anesthesia is an injection-there is no blood! You also can't get medically certified for hypnosis because it's just about never used in surgery, only for psychological cases that don't involve scalpels. Plus, have you ever seen hypnosis at a kid's party? Sometimes the participant snaps out of it on his own. Imagine that during a surgery.

So she pressured him into almost ruining his career because of some pseudoscience she probably read from some random blog. Then I guarantee you when he lost his ability to practice medicine and had to take a low paying job, she would've still complained, and then left him. Carla is the one blemish on this nearly perfect show.

Carla was insufferable this episode

'small world. Scalple' lol

"We are married now, so start believing what I tell you to believe".... yea ok, let me just.... ah here are the divorce papers.

God dang, why does "Turkleton" still crack me up this much

It's Keane - Everybody's Changing. I just wanted to know and searched for some lyrics I could understand^^ watch?v=Ea7QxBHvJrM

according to the description, it's episode 503 (season 5 episode 3)

2:32 Kelso is gangsta af

“Surgeon cures patient from superstition” Hows that for a Headline, eh???

Goddamn Carla, and instead of apologizing she hugs him

The wife is crazy

Keane everybody changing.. I love that song

I mean to be fair. Dr. Cox did call it.

2:45 is genius

that would have ruined his career and the hospital's reputation

Guys I fucking love this show and ya need to chill out and not take it seriously. Turk loves Carla. Stop with the Carla hate. I liked her more than Elliot.

I have gotten over my fear of doctors, but now I have to worry about their spouses.

Turns out hypnosis wears off easier than anesthesia.

Turkultun 😂

That actually is quite amazing. I would read a paper on that surgery.

i love the song they play ^.^ (Everybody's Changing-Keane) they had it for the In Plain Sight commercial. Marshell looked awesome!!!

dr cox u re a fucking legend i luv u

It was extremely irresponsible for Carla to get Turk to go along with the Hypnosis idea. That patient could've potentially died.

I'd love to know what happened once she was conscious. They surely can't just shove everything back in place or rush through the surgery, so did they have an anesthesiologist on standby to knock her out?

Dr. Cox filling Turk's face with fear at 2:46 FTW!

Hypnosis is often used in pain management, but proobably not for this

I had a terrible reaction when i was put under when i was young for a tonsilectomy. Because of my pych issues i freaked out when i started dozing off. Still would have them use anesthesia, but that may just be the stories from my mom whose been an RN for 40 years telling me about the 10 of those spent in the OR.

I never go deep enough into trance for that.

“Turkleton” 🤣🤣🤣

*YOU CAN DO THIS YOU CAN DO THIS YOU CAN DO THIS!!!*

And then Turk got sued the very next day

I love this show to death, but it's on episodes like this that push an almost 'supernatural' or a super thematic storyline that it starts to lose the glue that keeps all the pieces together. The show does take a bunch of liberties with how reality is presented but it's almost always for the sake of comedy, usually an absurd slapstick scenario at JD's expense. The problem is that the core of the show, the relationship between the characters, is always incredibly realistic and perfectly believable; the characters are always true to each other and true to what their own beliefs are. When conflict arises between two characters, it always feels entirely natural because it stems from two opposing viewpoints that the characters embody and the show will then run through to the logical conclusion. The writers do a very good job of being invisible and letting the 'winner' of the conflict reach victory through means that are consistent with the rest of the show. The problem with episodes like this is that you can completely tell that the writers decided to back one character and introduce a topic that the writers have strong opinions about and then they use the characters and episode plot as a vehicle to deliver their perspective like a sermon. A character will suddenly be super vocal about a specific belief and, despite all odds, a scenario will arise that is custom tailored to prove them right; bonus points if the phrase 'Just take a leap of faith' is uttered. Another example of this bad writing is that Christmas special where Turk literally follows the star of Bethlehem to find the pregnant woman and happens to be just in time to deliver her baby. No one watched Scrubs for the overt Western Christian overtones or to learn about whatever topical psuedoscience is floating around, we all watched it because we wanted to see our favorite characters get into trouble and have their relationships develop a little bit more. This fundamental misunderstanding comes across to me as some bigwig guy putting a memo out that reads 'We need an episode about this subject that doesn't fit well with our show, but make it happen anways' that the writers had to figure out some way to shoehorn in, as opposed to a topic that the writers were personally invested in.

I love the cotton balls.

I love this show. Except the last two seasons.

Of course all that pain setting in all at once she would probably pass out