# Did I just see Elliot masturbating on Scrubs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 15, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189 "2007-05-15T15:37:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/1 "2007-05-15T15:37:17Z")
I mean, surely not. It’s network TV. Right? 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. It’s two against two. Who’s seen this episode? What is the explanation? -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Lightnin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lightnin/32/180_2.png) [@Lightnin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lightnin)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/2 "2007-05-15T15:38:02Z")
I remember that episode, and yep- that’s what you saw. ---
**Author:** ![Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ecccb3/32.png) [@Skald\_the\_Rhymer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skald_the_Rhymer)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/3 "2007-05-15T15:43:10Z")
[QUOTE=Lightnin’] I remember that episode, and yep- that’s what you saw. [/QUOTE] 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. ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 3:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/4 "2007-05-15T15:48:58Z")
I confess I’m really suprised that this aired. I don’t mind, I’m just suprised. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![h.sapiens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e0b2c6/32.png) [@h.sapiens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/h.sapiens)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/5 "2007-05-15T15:51:58Z")
I seem to remember Jaime on “Mad About You” resorting to the same technique once, and that was years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/6 "2007-05-15T15:53:03Z")
It was also used in the movie, _Four Brothers_. (Just FYI for anyone interested.) ETA: Just saying that it’s apparently a common gag. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/7 "2007-05-15T16:48:38Z")
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 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![fusoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 4:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/8 "2007-05-15T16:54:57Z")
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!” ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/9 "2007-05-15T16:58:02Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] It was also used in the movie, _Four Brothers_. (Just FYI for anyone interested.) ETA: Just saying that it’s apparently a common gag. [/QUOTE] also makes an appeatrance in the 1988 John Candy opus _Great Outdoors_ Connie Ripley: Why don’t you go find yourself a spin cycle! ---
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/10 "2007-05-15T17:27:40Z")
[QUOTE=fusoya] Anyway, my point is, masturbation jokes have made it to primetime TV. [/QUOTE] No kidding, but what I was expressing suprise about was the actual _portrayal_ of the act on network primetime TV. -FrL- ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 5:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/11 "2007-05-15T17:30:42Z")
I guess the question remaining for the Male dopers is: Does it work? ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/12 "2007-05-15T17:34:18Z")
[QUOTE=Unintentionally Blank] I guess the question remaining for the Male dopers is: Does it work? [/QUOTE] _Male_ dopers? ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/13 "2007-05-15T17:35:02Z")
[QUOTE=fusoya] Anyway, my point is, masturbation jokes have made it to primetime TV. [/QUOTE] I remember the first time I heard “Damn” on TV. I think it was Archie Bunker. God I’m old. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/14 "2007-05-15T17:36:55Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] _Male_ dopers? [/QUOTE] Perhaps Unintentionally Blank doesn’t realise that the character Elliot is a girl. ---
**Author:** ![Avarie537](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@Avarie537](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Avarie537)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/15 "2007-05-15T17:38:00Z")
[QUOTE=garygnu] _Male_ dopers? [/QUOTE] I can only assume that he’s not familiar with the show … ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/16 "2007-05-15T17:47:18Z")
I suspect **UB** ’s intention was “the question for the female Dopers, _on behalf of the male Dopers_, is…” ---
**Author:** ![garygnu](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/garygnu/32/2924_2.png) [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/17 "2007-05-15T17:54:58Z")
[QUOTE=Avarie537] I can only assume that he’s not familiar with the show … [/QUOTE] I thought that, but I have this fear of being whooshed… ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/18 "2007-05-15T17:57:51Z")
[QUOTE=fusoya] 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!” [/QUOTE] 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…”. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/19 "2007-05-15T17:58:03Z")
I remember the scene well, and yes, I think she was finding a whole new reason to enjoy doing her laundry. Dunno if it actually has that effect on the ladies IRL, though. ---
**Author:** ![Antinor01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecae2f/32.png) [@Antinor01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Antinor01)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2007, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189/20 "2007-05-15T18:08:20Z")
[QUOTE=Revtim] 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…”. [/QUOTE] My favorite line was when Roseanne asked DJ what he was going upstairs to do and he replied “Dad told me not to talk about it.” Gotta love Dan’s parenting style. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-just-see-elliot-masturbating-on-scrubs/404189.md?page=2)