Writer:	Mark Stegemann
Director:	Marc Buckland
Star:	John C. McGinley (Dr. Percival "Perry" Cox),  Judy Reyes (Nurse Carla Espinosa),  Ken Jenkins (Dr. Robert "Bob" Kelso),  Zach Braff (Dr. John Michael "J.D." Dorian),  Sarah Chalke (Dr. Elliot Reid),  Donald Faison (Dr. Christopher "Chris" Duncan Turk)
Recurring Role:	Johnny Kastl (Dr. Doug Murphy),  Aloma Wright (Nurse Laverne Roberts),  Sam Lloyd (Ted Buckland),  Neil Flynn (Janitor)
Guest Star:	Michael McDonald (Mike Davis),  Elizabeth Bogush (Alex)

Title Explanation: "My Blind Date" refers to J.D. asking out the patient, though he has never seen her before. (edit) The shorter MRI technician who throws up his hands is Charles Papert, the show's camera and Steadicam operator. (edit)

J.D.'s narration: You see, the ICU is where the most critical cases get turfed. So many patients die here, you start to think of death as another co-worker, looking over your shoulder with the same annoying demands as everyone else you work with.
(In J.D.'s imagination)
Death: (In a scary voice) Dr. Dorian. (In a gentle voice) Listen, I know you're busy, but my daughter's selling cookies.
J.D.: Put me down for two boxes of those mint thingies.
Death: She's in second place in her troop. Of course, if that girl who's in first keeps doing as well as she's doing, we're just gonna take her. (Starts laughing) (edit) J.D.: Wait! Stop the machine!
Alex: What the hell are you doing!?
J.D.: Will you go out with me?
Alex: If I say no, will you still let me out of this thing?
J.D.: It's iffy. (edit) Turk: I've been doing a lot of thinking, and, you know...we're past that whole new, exciting relationship phase, and...all that's left is us. Baby, I gotta tell you: You drive me crazy. All right? You take my french fries; you-you boss me around in front of my friends-
Carla: You said strong women turn you on! (edit) Turk: Hey, Carla. Carla... Wait! Where're you going?
Carla: I'm gonna go crash at my place tonight, like you said!
Turk: You wanna know what's wrong? That's what's wrong: (mimicks her) "I'm gonna go stay at my place like you said."
Carla: God, you're so sexy right now. (edit) Elliot: I just don't know what to do about Dr. Cox!
J.D.: What the hell is going on, here?
Elliot: It's like, I say one thing, he says the other. I seriously can't take it anymore.
J.D.: Fine, why don't you just quit, become a lesbian, and hook up with some hot model?
Elliot: What does that have to do with anything?
J.D.: I don't know...I just thought it'd be hot. (edit)

Dr. Cox likes his coffee with sugar and no cream. (edit) In this episode Dr. Cox doesn't call J.D. any Dog Name. (edit) J.D.'s Girl Names: Ginger (edit) When Dr. Cox leaves Elliot in the deceased patient's room, if you watch carefully, you can see the board behind him in which the patients first initials are standing out forming BPR MALIBU. (edit) When J.D. and Turk are talking in the doctors' lounge, Turk's hands change position after a camera shift. First he's holding a box of handkerchiefs by its sides, but later his hands are on top of it. (edit)

Girl Scouts
When death appears as an annoying co-worker in this episode, he asks J.D. to buy some cookies for his daughter's troop. This is an allusion to Girl Scouts and the cookies they sell to raise money for their troop. J.D. also says he wants some of "those mint thingies". This is an allusion to a type of Girl Scout cookies called Thin Mints. (edit) ER:
J.D.: Did you know that Goose is the guy from ER?

ER is a popular NBC medical drama set primarily in an emergency room. Created by novelist Michael Crichton and set primarily in the fictional County General Hospital in Chicago, Illinois, the show was first aired in September 19th, 1994, and is currently in its 12th season. (edit) Discworld:
Death acting strangely (almost humanlike) because of a blond-haired daughter may be a reference to the character Death of the Discworld novel series by Terry Pratchett set on the Discworld, a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants which are in turn standing on the back of a giant turtle, the Great A'Tuin. (edit) The Silence of the Lambs:
Dr. Cox: It puts the lotion on its skin.

The quote is a reference to the movie The Silence of the Lambs, a 1991 Academy Award-winning film based on the novel by Thomas Harris. The film tells tells the story of Clarice Starling, a young FBI trainee, who is sent to see the imprisoned Lecter in order to ask his expert advice on catching a serial killer given the name Buffalo Bill, who is abducting women and skinning them. (edit) Top Gun:
J.D.: I'm your wingman, Maverick!

Maverick is the navy codename of Tom Cruise's character in the 1986 movie Top Gun, which tells the story of a young naval aviator who aspires to be a top fighter pilot in a prestigious naval school which trains the top 1% of all Naval Aviators. (edit)