Underrated, offbeat comedy scrubs into 5th season
DO column from 3/3/06. Just wanna say, that weak ending is NOT mine.
Despite critical praise and several Emmy nominations, "Scrubs" has never been able to find an audience. Now in its fifth season, this offbeat comedy full of quirky characters, self-awareness and great musical references deserves another look.
J.D. Dorian (Zach Braff) is now an attending doctor at Sacred Heart Hospital, putting his intern days behind him. His best friend Turk (Donald Faison), a surgical resident, is trying to have a baby with his new wife, the bossy Nurse Carla Espinosa (Judy Reyes). Fellow attending doctor Elliot Reed (Sarah Chalke) is J.D.'s insecure ex-girlfriend and roommate, and their mentor Dr. Perry Cox (John C. McGinley) constantly delights in finding new ways to insult J.D.
Just as in animated programs, the characters' thoughts are acted out, though in "Scrubs" they are done as daydreams. Turk, afraid he isn't ready for fatherhood, fantasizes that he picks up the newborn baby in the hospital nursery and somehow knocks down all the other bassinets like dominoes. Carla encourages J.D. to booty call an intern by telling him it's been done since the beginning of time, and J.D. pictures himself as a caveman giving a cavewoman excuses for why he can't stick around in the morning.
The characters on the show are likeable because they are all flawed in honest, believable ways, such as J.D.'s incapability to hold onto a relationship. Elliot encourages him to not say every thought that pops into his head, because that's what ruined their relationship. The scene flashes back to the two of them in bed.
"Are you getting thicker?" J.D. asks Elliot. "You feel thicker."
The show also pokes fun at itself. Carla calls "Webster" a stupid sitcom, causing J.D. and Turk to gasp in horror.
"I mean, that's a sitcom," she says.
Elliott asks J.D. if they can just go home from the hospital, put on their pajamas and watch "Grey's Anatomy."
"Oh I do love that show," he says. "It's like they've been watching our lives and then just put it on TV."
In addition to the indie rock that made Braff's "Garden State" so popular, the show also weaves older music into episodes. The janitor decides to start an air band to compete for water park tickets at a local bar competition, and as tryouts are held, Turk blows the other members of the band away with his dead-on dancing and lip-syncing to "Poison" by Bell Biv Devoe.
All in all, the show is definitely worth a second glance, even if it has taken five years to open your eyes.
Despite critical praise and several Emmy nominations, "Scrubs" has never been able to find an audience. Now in its fifth season, this offbeat comedy full of quirky characters, self-awareness and great musical references deserves another look.
J.D. Dorian (Zach Braff) is now an attending doctor at Sacred Heart Hospital, putting his intern days behind him. His best friend Turk (Donald Faison), a surgical resident, is trying to have a baby with his new wife, the bossy Nurse Carla Espinosa (Judy Reyes). Fellow attending doctor Elliot Reed (Sarah Chalke) is J.D.'s insecure ex-girlfriend and roommate, and their mentor Dr. Perry Cox (John C. McGinley) constantly delights in finding new ways to insult J.D.
Just as in animated programs, the characters' thoughts are acted out, though in "Scrubs" they are done as daydreams. Turk, afraid he isn't ready for fatherhood, fantasizes that he picks up the newborn baby in the hospital nursery and somehow knocks down all the other bassinets like dominoes. Carla encourages J.D. to booty call an intern by telling him it's been done since the beginning of time, and J.D. pictures himself as a caveman giving a cavewoman excuses for why he can't stick around in the morning.
The characters on the show are likeable because they are all flawed in honest, believable ways, such as J.D.'s incapability to hold onto a relationship. Elliot encourages him to not say every thought that pops into his head, because that's what ruined their relationship. The scene flashes back to the two of them in bed.
"Are you getting thicker?" J.D. asks Elliot. "You feel thicker."
The show also pokes fun at itself. Carla calls "Webster" a stupid sitcom, causing J.D. and Turk to gasp in horror.
"I mean, that's a sitcom," she says.
Elliott asks J.D. if they can just go home from the hospital, put on their pajamas and watch "Grey's Anatomy."
"Oh I do love that show," he says. "It's like they've been watching our lives and then just put it on TV."
In addition to the indie rock that made Braff's "Garden State" so popular, the show also weaves older music into episodes. The janitor decides to start an air band to compete for water park tickets at a local bar competition, and as tryouts are held, Turk blows the other members of the band away with his dead-on dancing and lip-syncing to "Poison" by Bell Biv Devoe.
All in all, the show is definitely worth a second glance, even if it has taken five years to open your eyes.
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