This week’s episodes of Scrubs had a few problematic areas, but were overall pretty good ones. The problems lay in the humor of the second episode especially being overly crass at times. The inappropriate comedy isn’t my cup of tea, though the episodes did provide some good clean humor as well as interesting storylines to help offset it.
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This week’s episodes were terrific, but curiously absent from the cast was Dr. Chris Turk. I know that this year is definitely a year of change for the show, as they make their way toward the season finale, and perhaps the passing of the torch to a team of new Doctors for a possible ninth season (fingers crossed). Anyway, let’s get to brass tacks.
Scrubs' My ABC's airs at 9/8 central tonight on ABC
In the episode, J.D. learns the hard way that not even Elmo and his friends from Sesame Street can teach the gift of compassion to those who don’t care to learn. The episode will feature appearances by Elmo, Grover, Oscar the Grouch and others. So be sure to tune in to ABC on January 27th at 9:00/8:00c to see a the Muppets invade Sacred Heart Hospital.
This week, two more episodes aired, and it looks like that’s going to be the trend, as the schedule calls for two episodes a week over the next two weeks as well. ABC is being awesome to us Scrubs fans. I’m not sure what the final count of episodes is going to be for this season, but I hope that the ratings are great enough that the series is picked up for a ninth season. We should know by May.
This weeks episodes continued the storyline featuring Courteney Cox as the Chief of Medicine at Sacred Heart Hospital.
Two episodes aired last night, and it looks like this will be the trend for the next couple of weeks, at the very least. It was a definite return to form for the show, as the super quirky scenarios of the last couple of years were indeed jettisoned to bring back some of what made the show great to begin with.
Kicking things off with the first return episode, here’s the summary from ABC:
One of my favorite TV shows, is Scrubs. I got into the show at the start of the fourth season, and immediately worked on getting caught up with this show that I discovered at what was almost the middle of it’s entire run. At least that’s what NBC would have had. But ABC owned the show.
It was a strange dynamic. ABC produced the show, NBC aired it, all because NBC took a shot on it seven years ago and it became a hit.
Here’s the fourth segment in our series of the Best of Scrubs. When a mother and her child are both at risk at the time of childbirth, a father makes the tough decision to try and save both lives. Another patient has been in and out of the hospital for months, while waiting for a heart transplant. What happens when everything seems to go right? Do the results really even each other out?
This is a clip that I spent some time editing together using three portions from the episode to make the story make sense. The cutting should be pretty fluid, though. I hope that you enjoy this clip.
“Waiting For My Real Life To Begin” by Colin Hay, performed by Jill Tracy with the Scrubs cast.
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Here’s the third segment in our series of the Best of Scrubs. This time, it deals with test results that could effect the life of someone you really care about.
Giving someone news that could forever change their lives can be a scary thing. On the one hand, it could be for the positive, and that would be the ideal situation. But on the other hand, it could be earth shattering news that devastates them. This episode deals with Dr. Dorian finding out some news, and hoping that a mistake was made.
Jordan’s brother Ben (Brendan Fraser) comes into the hospital after piercing his hand with a nail-gun; however Dr. Cox and J.D. later become worried when his hand will not stop bleeding. J.D. therefore decides to wait before informing Ben of his positive blood test result, and asks the lab to check the result. They do so over a montage accompanied by “Hold on Hope” by Guided by Voices
For this second in our series of the Best of Scrubs, I’ve picked a moment that deals with the stress of working in an environment where you win some and lose some, but if you don’t learn to manage it, it can get the best of you.
Stress is something that can come with any job, and recognizing that is important. It is something that, if you don’t deal with it in a healthy way, it is possible that it can drag you down.
During rounds, J.D. is doing exceptionally well. However, there is one other intern who is equally as good at being a doctor as him – Nick Murdoch. Nick has a patient, Peter, who keeps getting worse. Nurse Roberts keeps him updated on Peter’s status. Meanwhile, Turk gets frightened that he could make a mistake in surgery and kill someone. After Elliot asks Carla if Turk was alright, Carla gets upset that Turk doesn’t talk to her about his problems. Dr. Cox eventually gives both Turk and Carla advice on how the stress of how the hospital can make people not want to talk about their problems.
I’m going to start a series where I pick out what I feel are the best episodes of the tv show Scrubs. For those that don’t know the show, even though it includes things that are very fantastic and imaginative, it is considered to be one of the most emotionally accurate medical shows on TV today. True to the emotional roller coaster that medical professionals handle and deal with, working at the hospital.
Scrubs is definitely one of my favorite shows, and, although it has it’s share of immorality, it is the moral episodes are the ones that give the show it’s heart and soul.
This is a clip from the fourth episode of the first season, My Old Lady. This episode’s writer won a 2002 Humanitas Prize for this episode.
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