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Rewatching "Scrubs"
Posted on 12/20/23 at 9:39 am
Posted on 12/20/23 at 9:39 am
I swear, I've probably seen every episode (save maybe the final season) several times and it still remains funny and powerful.
An absurdist comedy that still goes hard on the emotional beats and yet still makes it work somehow.
While the later episode with Brendan Frasier, and the one where Cox loses his patients, are probably the two most powerful for me, my wife and I got to the one where Molly Shannon plays an ambulance driver that Cox has to ride shotgun with.
**Spoilers**
During the episode Shannon is picture-perfect playing the "annoying person who never seems to shut-up", all the way to the point where Cox is given a baseball card they found in the ambulance after it's wrecked, and all the clues she gave about her son click. Walking back in to find her crying, he asks about her son and she reveals he died in an accident (the only info we're given about what happened to him) and the reason she became a paramedic was that, despite not being able to save her son, she found them "amazing".
In about 20-30 seconds of screen time they turn a stereotypically annoying "never shuts up" character into a deeply sympathetic person who it becomes clear that she talks is because she's desperate to fill the void of losing her child.
This freakin' show man. The guest stars, the about face moments, the absurd comedic moments one second and deeply emotional moments the next. All while providing plenty of sexy moments too...
An absurdist comedy that still goes hard on the emotional beats and yet still makes it work somehow.
While the later episode with Brendan Frasier, and the one where Cox loses his patients, are probably the two most powerful for me, my wife and I got to the one where Molly Shannon plays an ambulance driver that Cox has to ride shotgun with.
**Spoilers**
During the episode Shannon is picture-perfect playing the "annoying person who never seems to shut-up", all the way to the point where Cox is given a baseball card they found in the ambulance after it's wrecked, and all the clues she gave about her son click. Walking back in to find her crying, he asks about her son and she reveals he died in an accident (the only info we're given about what happened to him) and the reason she became a paramedic was that, despite not being able to save her son, she found them "amazing".
In about 20-30 seconds of screen time they turn a stereotypically annoying "never shuts up" character into a deeply sympathetic person who it becomes clear that she talks is because she's desperate to fill the void of losing her child.
This freakin' show man. The guest stars, the about face moments, the absurd comedic moments one second and deeply emotional moments the next. All while providing plenty of sexy moments too...
Posted on 12/20/23 at 9:59 am to skrayper
I've seen Scrubs probably 10 times and it still makes me laugh out loud.
Posted on 12/20/23 at 10:35 am to skrayper
currently rewatching it as well. still makes me laugh. dr cox is the best
Posted on 12/20/23 at 10:36 am to LSUDonMCO
Doctor Cox is one of the Goats of TV Shows.
Posted on 12/20/23 at 10:54 am to Thracken13
I was always partial to my boy Bob
Posted on 12/20/23 at 10:54 am to skrayper
My favorite show
Does such a good job of transitioning between comedy and drama
Also one of the most medically accurate shows out there, especially in regards to how medicine in a hospital works
Does such a good job of transitioning between comedy and drama
Also one of the most medically accurate shows out there, especially in regards to how medicine in a hospital works
Posted on 12/20/23 at 10:56 am to skrayper
Turk: You think my name is Turk Turkleton?
Bob Kelso: And Mrs Turkleton! The Turkletons!
Bob Kelso: And Mrs Turkleton! The Turkletons!
Posted on 12/20/23 at 10:56 am to metallica81788
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Also one of the most medically accurate shows out there, especially in regards to how medicine in a hospital works
To this day I find it amusing that Scrubs was WAY more accurate than House, Grey's Anatomy, and all those other medical dramas.
Posted on 12/20/23 at 11:06 am to skrayper
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To this day I find it amusing that Scrubs was WAY more accurate than House, Grey's Anatomy, and all those other medical dramas.
I love that Bill used actual people to help with this to make sure it was accurate, and not just the medical stuff, but the life of interns and such.
Posted on 12/20/23 at 11:08 am to skrayper
The wife and I did a rewatch last year. It still holds up exceedingly well.
Posted on 12/20/23 at 11:19 am to skrayper
I absolutely love this show one of my all time favorites so hopefully I don’t get too much hate for this…
A lot of the characters really became caricatures of themselves in later seasons, JD being the best example.
The best example is JD and sports. In the first season JD tries to go to a Bulls game with Turk, talks sports a little, explains to Elliot what a “perfect game” is etc… Later seasons he is completely ignorant towards sports in a comical way and his goofiness is WAY overplayed.
Same with the janitor, Kelso, Turk, etc…. All of their quirks get way overplayed in later seasons and then they ground them occasionally in more serious episodes
A lot of the characters really became caricatures of themselves in later seasons, JD being the best example.
The best example is JD and sports. In the first season JD tries to go to a Bulls game with Turk, talks sports a little, explains to Elliot what a “perfect game” is etc… Later seasons he is completely ignorant towards sports in a comical way and his goofiness is WAY overplayed.
Same with the janitor, Kelso, Turk, etc…. All of their quirks get way overplayed in later seasons and then they ground them occasionally in more serious episodes
Posted on 12/20/23 at 11:24 am to skrayper
The Brendan Fraser episodes where he's Jordan's brother Ben are some of the best television going.
Posted on 12/20/23 at 11:25 am to Tiger1242
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janitor
I have read where all of his lines were improvised. He is a classic example of a character who was supposed to be a one-off role in the pilot and crushed it so hard they had to keep him in the show.
Posted on 12/20/23 at 11:36 am to DMagic
LOL I use that all the time because of Bob
Posted on 12/20/23 at 11:38 am to SouthEasternKaiju
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“That’s so funny!”
Posted on 12/20/23 at 12:00 pm to VoxDawg
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I have read where all of his lines were improvised. He is a classic example of a character who was supposed to be a one-off role in the pilot and crushed it so hard they had to keep him in the show.
Yea on the podcast they said Neil Flynn was so hilarious and good at improving whenever his part was up the script would just say “Neil does something funny”
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