My favorite scrubs fact is that none of the streaming platforms can get the rights to the indie music Zack Braff shoved into all the final scenes so they replaced them all with generic open source songs which really hurts the quality.
Only for the first four seasons. Rights agreements were different then.
You’ll also find most streaming sites turn the 4:3 into 16:9 by chopping off the top and bottom of the frame.
This is why I have the show on DVD.
I have a 14 year old who loves scrubs, Brooklyn 99 and the office. Im proud dad
Hi proud, I’m not your dad.
Now the question is when you’re going to introduce them to 30 Rock. Are they ready for that level of jokes-per-minute? What about Community?
Shameless (original version).
And Black adder, Allô Allô, House MD… c’mon, put some effort into it.
It isn’t a reboot it’s a sequel
…Meanwhile a whole class of 12 yr olds today even know what Brooklyn 99 and community is…
Brooklyn 99 is very recent though, isn’t it? Is it still on the air?
They will know now!
Scrubs just isn’t that good. It was ok to have onas background TV while getting baked, but its not the sort of thing you’d rewatch because you loved it so much the first time round. I totally understand why gen z hasn’t heard of it.
Strongly disagree. Scrubs is one of my two favorite shows. It’s a brilliant example of dramedy. Showrunner Bill Lawrence is a master of the genre.
But obviously this is a matter of opinion.
I get a similar feeling from the office (both versions). Just a feeling of contempt for all the characters and disinterest towards the plot.
I can understand disliking The Office much more readily than I can disliking Scrubs.
I’m with the girl on this one. I barely remember that show. I hate shows like that. I didn’t like St elsewhere. When it was on I was always elsewhere.
TV shows I never watch are anything glorifying the health care industry.
I got a different impression from Scrubs. To me it was a show mostly about doctors, and whenever it did talk about the healthcare industry, it was largely critical. It’s been a while since I’ve seen it, but I remember they would frequently criticize the bullshit and red tape in the healthcare industry. I think there’s even an episode in the first season where they commit insurance fraud to save a poor patient.
Yeah, all that is true. I have no idea what the person you replied to is trying to say about it. It’s not even a little bit ambiguous with Scrubs.
Yeah doctors largely want to help people… Scrubs did a great job of portraying the human side of doctors and how they get squeezed in the middle of wanting to provide the best care and the healthcare industry’s desire to profit at all costs.
I have a family working in health care, and they will bury you for money.
That says a definitive bad thing about your family, and suggests bad things about some healthcare workers.
I think the insurance fraud episode is way later as the hospital director is played by Monica from friends. But maybe they did that twice and I just forgot?
IIRC it was very early on - JD noticed a surgery scheduled for an empty bed and corrected it. Proud of himself he let Kelso know, only to find out later that Cox did it on purpose.
Oh I’m thinking of the woman who didn’t have insurance but her dad did, so he pretended to have the same disease so he could hand her the medication she needed.
Ha I forgot about that one!
Right there with you, after what they did with the season that doesn’t exist (season 9, I refuse to acknowledge it) I don’t trust them with this property. The whole appeal of the show was JD and Turk’s growth, and of course the Cox rants. Also what’s the point without Ted.
Thanks for reminding me about Sam Lloyd :/
Yeah, sorry.
S9 was fine, it was just a different show
Wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
Eliza Coupe is great; I don’t see the problem
A show can have a fine cast and still not be good. I just personally didn’t like that season, it’s fine if others did, I just wanted to break out some Dr. Cox.
Scrapping Ted would be the best decision they could make
Hard disagree, but it’s a moot point now, the actor died a few years ago.
Elder millenials that don’t care about this generational fuckery represent!
(oh crap I used elder millenial unironically am I part of the problem AHHHH!)
I thought they were calling us late-model Gen Xers now. Or Oregon trail Generation.
(only barely tangential to your point but) I mean, I also played the Oregon Trail and I’m definitely a younger millennial.
I’m not gonna gatekeep, but was it on a floppy drive? We played it in school on 5.24” floppies.
I recently played a Floppotron video for my 7 year old and he was skeptical that computers sounded like that when games loaded.
We didn’t even get into the 14.4 modem sounds it took to see a webpage.
Edit: Oops I meant 5.25”, but TIL apparently actually 5.1”. Fun fact I learned back in college, is that CDRs fit into 5.25” floppies if you cut a slit and remove the disc.
Ah; you have a fair point, there. I’ve never used a 5.24". I actually didn’t know it was released on those.
I recently played a Floppotron video for my 7 year old and he was skeptical that computers sounded like that when games loaded.
Haha; I know I’m biased since, as a developer and someone interested in computers, I’m also more aware (even if I’ve never used) of older tech. but it is incredible just how much things have changed.
We played it in school on 5.24” floppies.
Tech around that time depended a lot on what was affordable. Like I had 5¼ floppies at home but school had Apple IIGS with 3.5" drives that we used for Oregon Trail.
Also wikipedia is telling me that 5.25 floppies were actually 130 mm, which would be 5.1". I guess “five and a quarter” rolls of the tongue better so they rounded up.
bobo kelso!!
I’m okay with a generation not instinctively crowd-funding a Zach Braff project.
I’m out of the loop. What’s up with Zach Braff?
I don’t remember specifics but when Kickstarter was in its infancy Zach Braff had a couple kickstarters for his movies. They weren’t themselves offensive. It’s just that using a crowdfunding platform which, at the time at least, were mostly for people who had zero access to capital when you’re a multimillionaire with Hollywood connections to capital is a bit gauche.
I threw in $100 for a Zach Braff movie. I got to be an extra (they fed us ribs for lunch), 2 t-shirts, then got 2 tickets for a sneak preview with free drinks and popcorn, and a q&a with Zach and Donald Faison…worth every penny, unlike the poor saps that have $1 million to solar freakin roadways.
Genuinely, neat. I wonder how that all financially played out. It was probably mostly a tax deduction. (not that it was bad, but just to point at how the rich have faaaaaar more financial tools to motivate people than those who would ACTUALLY benefit from having access to such things)
During the q&a someone asked about it. His first movie, Garden State basically got bankrolled by some rich dentist that he knew… He said the normal way of financing movies lets a bunch of rich people get to take control of the script, who you cast, what scenes make it in… Basically everything.
He wanted to retain the control he had first time around to make his next movie, so he crowd funded it… And seeing how many movies get made by talented people that end up being garbage because money men think they know everything and fuck it up… Seemed reasonable 😏
I feel the same about companies like Anker’s audio branch Soundcore using Kickstarter to prefund/advertise their new tech - safe to say their ‘projects’ are funded about 20,000%
A product so nice you pay for it twice!
Hollywood constantly tryina cash in on nostalgia porn and it never works
No, it actually works VERY OFTEN. See: The financial success of the always garbage live action disney remakes.
If you’d have read Bill Lawrence’s interview on the subject, you’d know that’s this isn’t about money. And I’d trust the guy who created Ted Lasso and shrinking to do what it takes to make this worth watching.
And I’d trust the guy who created Ted Lasso and Shrinking to do what it takes to make the worth watching.
And Scrubs. The original show itself. He created it. He’s not some rando taking over.
But honestly, Bill Lawrence has single-handedly built up the comedydrama side of Apple TV+. Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Bad Monkey… All great shows. And I don’t even care about football normally.
I’ll take this one with a grain of salt instead of the usual salt mountain. It’s still a reboot. But it looks like they’re also getting at least some of the other cast members back too. Mostly I’m hoping for Cox and Kelso. Carla and Janitor are apparently semi-confirmed? And I think Jordan is more or less confirmed considering the actress is literally married to Bill Lawrence and actively takes part in his projects.
Hadn’t checked out the Apple shows yet but also didn’t know they were Bill Lawrence; that bumps them up the list some
He also co-created Spin City.
Exactly. That’s my point. He created these shows. And so many people have zero faith that he’d create a quality reboot.
Carla has a scheduling conflict with another show, but I think they were trying to work something out.
the only thing I have heard about Ted Lasso is that it is the most annoying show of the past 5 years
Well now you’ve also heard: I thought it an unapologetically heartfelt show, and I really enjoyed it despite expecting saccharine bullshit. It didn’t hold the quality all three seasons, but that’s not because it’s bad, but rather because the first season (and even the second,) is so good. I enjoyed it completely. But hey, it’s not for everyone.
No, that’s not all you heard about it and we both know it. You just like stirring the pot with edgy rhetoric.
you think thats edgy? ill show you edgy! I think JD from Scrubs is annoying!
Sometimes the cash in works, Top Gun for example, and that is why they keep trying, ignoring all the times it doesn’t work.
it never works on you and me maybe, but it seems like the normies eat that shit up
It makes me feel like I’m better than them. which I’m aware seems to be a character flaw, but not one I care about, I guess! enjoy your shitty fifth superhero movie reboot or whatever
Are they actually rebooting Scrubs again?
Yes. I think it will be horrible.
S7 was already horrible
If season 7 is the one where the hospital was turned into a school and they all came back - yep, it was awful. I couldn’t even stomach the full first episode before turning it off. Loved the rest of the show though.
No, that’s season 9, also called the med school spin-off.
Season 7 was during a writer’s strike. Had fewer episodes in it.
Scrubs was a special show. Some times woke and some times a product if it’s times. Meaning gay jokes cause guys hug. Super fun and then they hit you with that real real. Sorry Dr Kelso is so mean because he needs to keep this big ship running. It doesn’t work out good all the time but he tries.I liked the later seasons when Dr Cox was in charge and when he went through his alcohol problems. I even like the last season. It was different but it was still a good show.
“where do you think we are?”
Probably one of my all time favorites moments in television.
In case you want the sad: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/F4dE4_CeavY
Came here to say something similar. I always have mixed feelings on Scrubs for similar reasons to you. I genuinely can’t go back and rewatch most episodes because they are incredibly dated or insensitive in many respects. The good parts are still good, the great parts are still great, but the bad parts feel really bad IMO, and it really kills a lot of rewatch potential for me, despite having loved watching seasons 1-5 when it was originally airing. It was one of my favorite shows for years.
I can definitely watch older stuff and understand it’s a product of its time, but Scrubs in particular has me cringing by 5 minutes into the episode; I can’t get through the rest of the episode most of the time. I end up skipping around to watch the scenes I know I like. I ain’t got time to sit around watchin’ The Todd harass people or Kelso make his usual “wife bad” jokes.
What a soundtrack, though. One of the better soundtracks of any show I’ve watched.
I’ve (slowly) been rewatching it and there’s definitely moments where I’m wincing at some stuff. But what I find most painful is just how much I kind of hate J.D. He’s such an asshole so often! I brought this up to my husband, who loves the show, and he said that watching JD grow as a person was the point, but I don’t know, I feel like you’re supposed to be rooting for him more often than not. The parts that focus on him trying to be a better doctor–sure. Absolutely. Best parts. But so much of the early seasons are mired in his attempts at relationships and those are the worst parts of him.
they way they did that Australian dude’s song
or the air guitar band
I liked the ukulele songs for all the fifty states
where do you think you are right now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHlf08yTPiU starts playing
Scrubs pioneered the Fortnite default dance.
yeah. beyond that, Fortnite ripped off the dance and denied Turk any royalties on it. I think the courts said something like “you can’t copyright a few dance moves!”
