Scrubs

Sacred Heart Hospital is named after the school which Christa Miller, the wife of writer Bill Lawrence, attended.
 

To make the show the producers rented and refurbished a closed hospital - North Hollywood Medical Centre in California’s San Fernando Valley. The lower and upper floors of the hospital are used as other sets and production offices.
 

At the beginning of the second season, a longer intro was introduced that included all of the characters in the show, and not just the doctors. It was quickly scrapped when NBC decided to extend the length of the episodes in an attempt to win more viewers.
 

In the Spanish dubbed version of the show, the nurse Carla Espinosa speaks with her mother in Italian.
 

Ted's "Band" is in fact, "The Blanks" a group the actor formed with his friends at college.

Former members of "Spin City" often appear as guest stars. Cast members have included Michael J. Fox, Heather Locklear, Barry Bostwick, Richard Kind, Alan Ruck, Alexander Chaplin, and Michael Boatman. "Scrubs" creator Bill Lawrence was also the creator of Spin City, while producer Randall Winston was also an associate producer for Spin City.
 

Every episode title begins with the word "My..." with notable exceptions of the episodes entitled "His Story", "His Story II", "Her Story", "Her Story II", "His Story III" and ''His Story IV'', These episodes each contained narration from a character other than JD. There is also "Their Story" in which we hear the thoughts of all the main and several of the supporting characters.
 

Dr. Cox's first name is Percival, but he goes by Perry.
 

The show has many connections to the acronym TCW. Donald Faison starred in Remember The Titans whose high school was TCW. JD later dates a girl whose is called TCW (Tasty Coma Wife) and then is shown in the episode My No Good Reason as being from a school with the initials TCW.
 

All the plaques on that wall are for the pets of the cast & crew of "Scrubs".
 

Through the first season, the cast and crew, were so sure that the series would be cancelled before the end of the initial run, that a plot twist was created for use when they'd have a forced series finale. This plot twist noted the fact that the Janitor, Neil Flynn's character, never directly spoke nor was spoken to by any other character than J.D. Therefore, the Janitor would be a complete figment of J.D.'s imagination.
 

Bill Lawrence and a few of the writers jokingly claim that Neil Flynn, who plays the Janitor, has never actually spoken a line from any script – to the extent that a script from the fourth season reportedly even contained "Whatever Neil says".
 

The couple that makes the bungee jump for Zach Braff and Sarah Chalke in the second season met on the set for the first day. They married soon after.
 

Creator Bill Lawrence has said in interviews that he wanted "Scrubs" to be almost like a live-action "Simpsons," not only in the style of humour but also with the numerous high-profile guests and a fairly large cast of recurring characters.
 

The show's medical advisors include Dr. Jonathan Dorian, Dr. Jon Turk, and Dr. Dolly Klock, obviously serving as the basis for the names of Zach Braff, Donald Faison and Heather Graham's characters.

The show's staff and cast are allowed to bring their dogs to work, and they all stay on the third floor.
 

Each episode contains some form of the phrase "And there it is" in its dialogue, usually when the moral or theme of that episode is revealed.
 

Several characters, including Colonel Doctor, Snoop Dogg Intern, and Dr. Beardface started as extras and were referred to by these names by the cast and crew who did not know their real names, but were later written into episodes with speaking roles.
 

Dr. Cox's trademark nose rub before crossing his arms is a reference to Robert Redford in the 1973 classic film “The Sting”, who used it as a sign for "It's OK" or "Go Ahead." John C. McGinley added it himself as a tribute to the film.
 

J.D.'s social security number is 987-65-4320, and his P.I.N is 3674.
 

The yellow and blue wristband Dr Cox wears, is in support of the National Down Syndrome Society's "Buddy Walk" as he has a son in real life with the condition
 

The only girls names Dr. Cox has used more than once are Lily, Ginger, Shirley, Gidget, Marcia, Gloria, Janice, Betsy, Carol, Toto and Nancy. Also Brittany, which JD points out to Dr. Cox, who responds with "Today I'm going with famous pop-stars."
 

Dr. Cox's (John C. McGinley) trademark of calling J.D. by girl's names is what McGinley does in real life to his good friend and neighbour John Cusack.
 

Producer Bill Lawrence once said that if the Janitor's real name was ever revealed, it would be in the last ever episode. Some people claim that in the Season 5 episode “My Buddy's Booty” one of the janitors friends can clearly be heard saying "Nice one, Tom", thus naming the janitor. UPDATED: Thanks to ShaneKorn who posted here correcting this, revealing that but this is actually a misconception: The man actually says " Nice, you tell him!" Nice one!