Getting to Know the Characters of the TV Show Scrubs

Scrubs is one of the funniest TV shows that is still on the air and yet it is amazing that it has a following but something as inane as American Idol gets millions of viewers every week. While the storylines are great, what really makes Scrubs such a great show are the characters. Every character on Scrubs has their own personal issues which can be a problem considering that most of them are doctors and nurses of the fictional Sacred Heart Hospital. Considering their professions its scary to realize that most if not all of them are absolutely nuts, in their own little way.

Dr. John Michael "J.D." Dorian - Zach Braff

Scrubs revolves around J.D. and his frequent daydreaming as he makes his rounds at Sacred Heart. He is needy, clingy and wants something only when it's clear that he cannot have it. Scrubs started with J.D.'s first day on the job and we have watched him go from a scared intern to a good doctor but his personal life is still non-existent. Best friends with fellow Dr. Christopher Turk, he has had to watch his best buddy grow up, get married and have a child while he has been left behind. From day one J.D. has craved to have a closer relationship with Dr. Cox, a man he looks up to as a father figure. The only problem is that Cox hates everything and everyone, including Dorian.

Dr. Percival "Perry" Cox - John C. McGinley

Dr. Cox has been voted to most likely die from liver disease because of his for alcohol but he is still one of the best doctors at Sacred Heart. Cox says what he's thinking at any time or place and cares nothing of the repercussions. He knows that J.D. looks up to him and despises it; at least that's what he wants everyone to think. However, this unfeeling grouch loves to know that he's needed. As much as it annoys him to have them around, Dr. Cox is always there when needed. I almost forgot to mention that he frequently addresses J.D. by a girl's name. In one episode he decided that he would only call J.D. by the name of female singers such as Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera.

Dr. Christopher "Chris" Duncan Turk - Donald Faison

Turk is best friends with J.D. to the point that his wife Carla fears that someday they will run away together because they are too close. Turk is a sometimes cocky surgeon, when he's not dancing or singing down the hallways of the hospital. Turk has a habit of calling his Dominican wife Puerto Rican and even though he's now a husband and father, he still manages to find time to get into childish messes with best friend J.D. He also clashes with Dr. Cox from time to time.

Dr. Elliot Reid - Sarah Chalke

Easily one of the smartest people when it comes to book smarts, Elliot lets everything get to her and the first few years as an intern were rocky at best. After realizing that she was such a mess, even her friends didn't want her help, Elliot decided to get a makeup that included changing her entire life. Her parents are rich and cut off her funds after she refused to go into the field of medicine that they wanted her in. She moved on with her life and after dating J.D. on and off and having one disastrous relationship after another, she is finally engaged and ready to settle down with her new fiancée Keith, much to the dismay of J.D. who now wants her, now that he can no longer have her.

Nurse Carla Espinosa - Judy Reyes

Carla is married to Turk and after a shaky beginning she soon became best friends with Dr. Elliot Reid. Carla was a nurse much longer than her husband and friends were doctors and she helped push them in the right direction when they were lost. She has watched her friends bemoan their difficulties as interns and then doctors but as we discovered, Carla has the tougher job and yet she is more than willing to take on extra shifts just to help out her friends without them knowing about or appreciating it.

Dr. Robert "Bob" Kelso - Ken Jenkins

Bob Kelso runs the Sacred Heart Hospital with an iron heart. He makes tough decisions such as letting a poor patient die just to save a rich one without batting an eye and most of the interns and doctors are petrified of him. Everyone except Dr. Cox who hates the very ground he walks on. We learned that he has a wife who is in a wheelchair and a dog who he loves more than his wife Enid. Everyone at the hospital wonders how he can leave with a smile on his face when they can barely keep it together after losing a patient. Like Dr. Cox it turns out that Kelso does have a soft side and it although it pains him lose patients and make life and death decisions, he prefers his workers to think that he is nothing more than a mean old man.

The Janitor - Neil Flynn

It's been six years since the beginning of Scrubs and it seems that no one knows the name of the man known only as "The Janitor". What his coworkers do know about him, they wish they had never learned. Janitor likes to kill and stuff animals such as raccoons, he doesn't actually do much of any work, even though he's supposed to clean and sanitize the hospital and he seems to come to work everyday just to make life harder on J.D.