Rewatching "Scrubs"

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...