Yay babies!

That’s the message sent to us by Scrubs tonight. If there’s one solution to all of life’s problems it’s babies. Just a shame that the entire episode became a throwaway as a result. And me, I just feel foolish for looking forward so much to this season.

So Carla is finally having her baby! Panic sets in as Turk is upstaged by Elliot at the “being ready” thing and we get a few laughs as a result. Turk tries to webcast the birth for Carla’s sisters and ends up broadcasting her pooter for the whole hospital to see…. that kind of stuff.

Meanwhile JD and Kim are weighing whether to keep the baby or to abort it. Nurse Roberts gets to introduce the best part of tonight’s episode by introducing her little Jesus statue to follow JD around, just in case abortion gets the upperhand. Played by Julian Acosta, Jesus is the only bright light in an otherwise eh-pisode.

Dr. Cox’s son continues to get too much screentime insulting people and blabbing about his mother’s abortion. Maybe in the writer’s room this was endearing or witty, onscreen it’s just tedious and boring.

Elliot decides to help out Turk and gives him the chance to play the hero by bringing ice chips for Carla but he ends up getting his hand stuck in the ice machine and misses his chance. We cut to Carla being wheeled in for a c-section which is glossed over as if it weren’t major surgery and then flash forward to hearing the umbilical cord is wrapped around the kid’s neck which too is sped past so quickly it makes you wonder why they even mentioned it at all.

The episode ends with an ‘aw gosh this feels so great‘ moment of everyone gathered around smiling and clapping. JD and Kim decide to keep the baby and embrace. I throw up and put on my Tivo’d episodes of Family Ties to cut the sugar with some cheese.