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Doctor Cox quotes from Scrubs

Played by Dutch Hofstetter · 154 quotes · page 6 of 11

Played by Dutch Hofstetter

Scrubs · 394 quotes

2nd most-quoted character in Scrubs: in 154 of its 394 quotes
Most scenes with: J.D. (55), Dr. Kelso (20), Dr. Elliot Reid (17)

Scenes with Doctor Cox 129

CDr. Cox

Listen to me, never stick any part of your hairless body in my life again. Trust me, there is nothing for you to gain from it, because even if you went on a cruise to the furthest parts of the ocean and rescued my salt-soaked body in time to pump the sea water out of my lungs and bring me back from the brink of death, I would still be disappointed that the first face I saw was yours.

Well, you wouldn't see my face because it would be buried in your chest giving you the hug you've been afraid to ask for your whole life!

You know, Dr Cox, you think that you have seen it all and done it all, but guess what? You haven’t done me. [Storms off.]

[Everyone turns to stare at Cox.]

CDr. Cox

Give her a second there, gang.

[Coming back.] That didn’t come out right.

CDr. Cox

Bob, I cannot believe you're going to turn this hospital into a money-making machine that coerces people into spending their hard-earned cash on expensive procedures they don't even need.

Why not? It sounds like something I'd do.

[Jack starts crying during a fight between Dr. Cox and Jordan]

Great, we made him cry. If we keep this up, we are gonna scar him for life!

CDr. Cox

I don't necessarily buy into all that New Age-y crap. I once saw my mom knock my dad unconscious with a frying pan. You know what I did? Kept right on going with my birthday party!

[Dr. Cox pushes the Janitor; the Janitor laughs.]

JJanitor

That was a mistake.

CDr. Cox

Why, because you're afraid you can't take me?

JJanitor

No, it's because of this. Boys!

[Four janitors show up and grab Dr. Cox.]

JJanitor

You know where to take 'im.

[The four men carry Dr. Cox away.]

CDr. Cox

Take me? Take me where? Maintenance? Maintenance? Oh, no- the Maintenance Brothers!

[Later]

Why is your mouth red?

CDr. Cox

Duct tape, two hours in a morgue drawer, don’t piss off the Janitor, end of story.

[Carla's wedding has gone disastrously wrong]

Ever since I was a little girl, I had this fairytale idea about the perfect wedding. And, oh yeah, I always ended up married.

CDr. Cox

Marriage is overrated. Jordan and I aren't married, and we're getting along great.

Per, is making out with a stranger cheating?

CDr. Cox

Technically, not if it's under 10 seconds, dear.

Eh, not worth it!

It's J.D.'s last week of residency]

[to Dr. Cox] C'mon, man, it's our last week together! The J.D. and Cox train is pulling into the station! You must have a metaphor you want to use. Hit me with it.

CDr. Cox

I suppose I could riff on a list of things I care as little about as our last week together. Let me see. Low-carb diets. Michael Moore. The Republican National Convention. Kabbalah and all Kabbalah-related products. Hi-def TV. Wireless hotspots. The Bush daughters. The O.C. The U.N. Getting Punk'd. Danny Gans. The Latin Grammys. The real Grammys. Jeff, that Wiggle who sleeps too darn much. The Yankees' payroll. All the red states. All the blue states. Every hybrid car. Every talk show host. Everything on the planet. Everything in the solar system. Everything-everything-everything-everything that exists, past, present and future, in all discovered and undiscovered dimensions. Oh... and Hugh Jackman! [leaves]

Hugh Jackman is Wolverine! How dare he!

CDr. Cox

Newbie, do you want me to give my "things I don't care about" speech again? Because I've updated it to include all white guys who add -izzle to anything.

I agrizzle, my nizzle.

[Dr. Cox has just made Elliot Chief Resident, passing J.D. over; J.D. does not take the news well.]

CDr. Cox

Newbie, how you doing?

[voiceover] OK, keep it together. It's "be a man" time. [out loud, barely holding together] No, it's fine. You did what you had to do! You went with your gut. Elliot's a great doctor. I do have three questions, though. [hysterically] Why do you hate me when I show you nothing but love?! Who's going to tell my mom?! And what the hell am I supposed to do with ten thousand "John Dorian, Chief Resident" business cards?! [Falls to his knees, throwing business cards everywhere]

CDr. Cox

Relax, Scarlet, you're chief resident too.

Uh, what now?

CDr. Cox

Well, I figure with her being ridiculously book-smart to the point where she has almost no interpersonal skills, and you being warm and cuddly as an un-potty trained labradoodle, and about as useful in high-stress medical situations as an un-potty trained labradoodle, together, the two of you make one barely passable doctor...-slash-labradoodle.

So wait, why didn't you just say that in the first place?

CDr. Cox

What, and miss your hall-of-fame hissy? Not on your life.

MCMolly Clock

I think, as a psychiatrist, I should be there when Ms. Myers' bandages get removed. I mean, the accident was traumatic enough, but with reconstructive facial surgey on top of that? In my professional opinion: yikes!

CDr. Cox

Well, if you are coming in, I might just go ahead and phone up my pool man and my architect so we populate the room with just as many useless people as possible.

MCMolly Clock

Great! My mom's in town, should I call her?

[Dr. Cox makes a face and walks off]

[laughing] That was good.

[J.D. is asking people at the hospital if they've ever unintentionally killed a patient]

Remember my first year, Mr. Quinn?

Mrs. Kahn, my second year.

DDoug

Mr. Studabaker, forty minutes into my first day.

I've been a doctor for thirty years. What do you think?

DDoug

On my third day there was Mr. Kirschner.

Jenny Roth about eight weeks ago. It was really tough, because she was hot.

DDoug

Then later that third day... [his beeper goes off] Oh boy, that can't be good.

CDr. Cox

No, newbie, I've not killed. But I happen to be, as always, the exception that proves the rule. So right about now you gotta be asking yourself: do you think you're that good?

CDr. Cox

Let's break down the kid's support system, shall we? He's got me, an emotionally crippled narcissist, and he's got you, an emotionally crippled narcissist who is soaking in a tub of what by now has to be mostly your own urine.

I believe the ratio has shifted that way, yes.

CDr. Cox

And I have got to believe that the two of us, together—together, Dan—we can make it at least half-way to one legitimate adult.

Perry, no one's pure evil! I mean, yeah, some people have a hard outer shell, but inside, everybody has a creamy center.

CDr. Cox

There are plenty of people here on this particular planet who are hard on the outside and hard on the inside.

So they'd have more of a nougaty center?

CDr. Cox

Lady, people aren't chocolates. D'you know what they are mostly? Bastards. Bastard-coated bastards with a bastard filling. But I don't find them half as annoying as I find naive bubble-headed optimists who walk around vomiting sunshine.

[Rubs his stomach] I'm touching your creamy center!

[She leaves; J.D. enters the hallway behind Dr. Cox]

CDr. Cox

Oh, I am... so very angry... that I'm going to find someone to kill...just to prove her wrong.

[Dr. Cox starts looking around; J.D. turns around and flees]

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