Scrubs Season 7’s second episode, Zach Braff’s J.D. and Elizabeth Banks’ Kim welcomed the birth of their son, Sam. Viewers got to see the infant a handful of times that season and in Season 8, but it was also mentioned in the latest episode of the Scrubs revival to air on the 2026 TV schedule that he and Sarah Chalke’s Elliot had a son together. While that by itself isn’t a surprise, it does create a continuity issue with Season 9, and now showrunner Aseem Batra has clarfified what’s going on with J.D. and Elliot’s son, Ollie.
In “My Poker Face,” which can be streamed now with a Hulu subscription, J.D. mentions to Elliot, now he ex-wife, how he recently built a bunk bed for Ollie ahead of getting him the next weekend. However, Elliot was pregnant in Scrubs Season 9’s first episode, which aired towards the end of 2009. So why would J.D. be building a bunk bed for a child who’s now roughly 16 at this point? Well, Batra told TVLine that the revival is disegading that moment from Season 9, meaning that Ollie was born many years after J.D. left Sacred Heart in the Season 8 finale.
