"My Butterfly" is the 62nd episode of the American comedy-drama Scrubs. It originally aired as Episode 16 of Season 3 on March 16, 2004. 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.
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 ...
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"My Butterfly" is the 62nd episode of the American comedy-drama Scrubs. It originally aired as Episode 16 of Season 3 on March 16, 2004. 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.
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.
John Ritter who played JD's father in My Old Man and My Lucky Day, was a famous victim of an aortic dissection,...
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