But flipping through the channels, I caught a glimpse of Elliot sitting on the corner of a shaking washing machine, looking like… well… looking very passionately happy.
Then she fell off the washing machine at the same time that Zach Braff’s voice ended some phrase with the word “balance.” Haha.
Anyway, I mean, did I just see what it looked like I saw?
Points supporting the view that I did:
-The look on her face, and her body language
-The vibrational, pubic-ly focussed aspect of the scene.
Points supporting the view that I didn’t:
-It’s network TV
-Seems like that would bruise pretty bad.
I don’t think it was QUITE masturbation, but it was close enough. Earlier in the episode, Carla and Turk had been upset about her first-ever failure to achieve orgasm while in bed with him; when Carla told Eliot about this, Eliot replied that she had never had a single orgasm (despite the fact that she tends to use sex as an ice breaker). Carla then recommended the washing-machine route as an…ah…frozen pussy breaker.
It’s network primetime tv yeah but you see a lot worse. Just on Scrubs alone there’s a good bit of cleavage, sexual innuendo…one time Turk had a very vivid and naughty dream about Eliot that was shown. People are always tearing eachother’s clothes off and stuff.
So a fully-clothed Eliot making a happy face on a dryer? No big deal. And of course they deal with it in true Scrubs fashion by having her fall off said dryer at the end
not that I’ve ever watched a full episode of Scrubs, but last year there was the following line on the Simpsons, when Homer was going to confession:
I’ve masturbated 50,000 times, and plan to do it 50,000 times in the future.
that line caught me off guard more than any other point in the history of the show, with the possible exception of Ned Flanders saying “hey Homer, BITCHIN bike!”
Anyway, my point is, masturbation jokes have made it to primetime TV. Come to think of it, there was an entire episode of Roseanne back in the 80s about DJ masturbating too much. I still remember Roseanne yelling to him in his room to “come down for dinner, and WASH YOUR HANDS!”
That episode had, IMHO, one the funniest lines ever in the history of comedy. The parents were contemplating whether the boy was masturbating, and Roseanne said something like “Are you sure? He’s so young.” and then Dan said “Maybe he’s gifted…”.
