Scrubs Guest Stars: Season Four

Season four of the fan favorite medical sitcom Scrubs featured some notable guests stars, which was a very common tradition on the television show. As with me previous articles in this series, I will be giving you the skinny on four of the standout guest stars during the fourth season of Scrubs.

Let me start this article off with one of the hottest recurring characters ever featured on Scrubs. Heather Graham played the role of Dr. Molly Clock, an attending psychiatrist who made her character debut in the season four premier. Turk also agrees with my analysis of Heather Graham's looks by calling Molly the second hottest employee at Sacred Heart Hospital, second only to Nurse Tisdale. A strong, confident, and highly optimistic woman, Dr. Clock becomes Dr. Elliot Reid's mentor for about half of Scrubs' season four. Heather Joan Graham, the actress, was born in this author's backyard, right up the road in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She actually started her career in front of the camera in 1986 as a contestant during teen week on NBC's game show Scrabble. Her first credit acting role came one year later in the movie Student Exchange. She has since gone on to do many movies, both hits and flops alike. Heather Graham has also brought some memorable film characters to life. One of these characters is Felicity Shagwell in the Mike Myers movie Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me. Besides Scrubs, Graham has done other television projects with guest spots in shows like Sex and the City and the highly underrated classic Arrested Development. She even had her own ABC series for a very short time, cancelled after the first airing, called Emily's Reasons Why Not. Even you geeks out there have something to thank Heather Graham for since she did the voice work for the EverQuest 2 character Antonia Bayle.

Next let's refer to what I have been told is the true hottest guest star ever on Scrubs, at least from my female friends out there. Colin Farrell played an Irishman who lives life non-stop. Billy Callahan assaulted a man during a bar brawl, but then waits around Sacred Heart Hospital until his victim is healed. I know this may sound like a headline out of Colin Farrell's real life, but trust me when I say that is actually his character during the fourth season of Scrubs. Colin Farrell's star year would have to be 2003. That is the year Farrell starred in three high profile movies (S.W.A.T., Daredevil, and The Recruit). This is also the year People magazine named him one of America's '50 Most Beautiful People' and Company Magazine gave him sixth place in their 'World's Sexiest Man' article.

Murray Marks was the son the son of a patient who needed a transplant from his son. He eventually discovers that he was adopted, but still agrees to the organ transplant. The really cute thing about this season four guest star from Scrubs is that Murray Marks was played by Matthew Perry and Murray marks father was played by... His real life father, John Bennett Perry. Matthew Perry, arguably one of the best physical comedians working today, was thrown into fame and fortune by starring as Chandler Bing on a little known sitcom called Friends. Television lightning did not strike twice for Matthew Perry though. After amazing critical acclaim, his second series Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip was wrongfully canceled due to poor ratings. Perry has done numerous films that have done fairly well though, so I wouldn't start feeling sorry for him just yet.

Finally we come to the American Idol runner-up Clay Aiken. In one episode of the fourth season of Scrubs, Dr. Cox has to try to find a way to fix Sacred Heart Hospital's budget without firing any of the staff. Unfortunately, Dr. Cox fails and has to fire a cafeteria worker named Kenny. This was one of the only television appearances made by Clay Aiken that was not an interview, performance, or guest spot as himself. He actually had to be somebody else for once. I kind of wonder how he liked it since I'm not sure I would want to be him for once.