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Scrubs new season
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4 Jan 2006 09:46:27 -0800
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I thought Scrubs was an excellent show during its first season. But
soon after it lost its momentum and declined. I thought this season's
double episode was tolerable.
Zombie Elvis...
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Except for the first sentence I couldn't disagree more with what
you've written here. With the exception of Arrested Development, I've
found Scrubs to be one of the move consistently funny shows on
television.
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It takes a very special comedy to get away with outlandish stuff. Will
and Grace can do it and be funny, yet "Good Morning Miami", by the same
producers, miserably failed.
Zombie Elvis...
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Again, I can't disagree more. Will and Grace hasn't been funny IMHO
since its first season.
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Scrubs doesn't do so well with outlandish stuff, especially when it
suddenly switches to something serious.
I certainly hope the appearance of VP Neil Hackett was a one-time
stunt. He's irritating enough on Phil OTF. Keep him there. (And
please bring back Debbie Berwick, Pim is utterly lost without her and
it shows).
I think Scrubs needs to move gradually beyond the hospital. Basically
Zombie Elvis...
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George Costanza on Cheers: "Enough with the bar already. People do
meet in places besides a bar. How about a rec room?"
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the characters are still as they were as new interns when the show
premiered, they haven't shown any kind of personal growth. The basic
premise of the show is personal growth, so they need to grow in
Zombie Elvis...
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Actually, the show is about professional, not personal growth. It's
appeal is in seeing how the doctors grow as professionals while
refusing to move on from their youthful immaturity. The "grown up"
hancock4...
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But we don't see that. Their professional behavior is immature,
sometimes even more so than in the past. JD and company walk around
with clipboards and Cox corrects their errors, just like in the
beginning.
The most recent episode had Elliot working in a clinic. They've done
similar stuff before.
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characters are all unsympathetic villains who've been beaten down by
life -- Dr. Kelso, Ted, and The Janitor (who has actually regressed
and become less mature even as he's become more likeable). When we
first meet J.D. in season one, his mentor is an emotionally crippled
narcissist who has barely grown as a person from his teen years even
as he's grown into a relatively successful doctor. One of the funniest
episodes of first season dealt with J.D. not wanting Turk to operate
on him because he knows him -- and knows how immature he is -- so
well. It's precisely this dichotomy which makes the show so funny.
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plotlines, not just in title only. In other words, so they're
attending physicians now, give them a medical office and let them make
fun of a broader range of issues beyond the hospital setting as an
example. Scrubs is like a show about young people that keeps the
Zombie Elvis...
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Actually, J.D. and Elliot both got a shared office last year -- there
are only so many tiny post-it joke they can make. I suppose you really
want them to have a private practice but that would make it a
completely different show.
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characters in eighth grade year after year. 90210 got ridiculous with
Zombie Elvis...
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Not really, every character on Scrubs has been promoted every year.
J.D. is an attending physician who deals with interns now and we see
him doing just that.
hancock4...
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Everyone has been promoted "on paper". But in terms of what we viewers
see on the screen, nothing has changed in the dynamics.
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its crew as seniors in high school when they obviously were so much
older and experienced that than. (Veronica Mars is more daring,
starting her out as a junior, so next year she'll have to move on
beyond high school.)
The issues with Eliot need to be more consistent. They've established
she's flaky. They have to come up with something better than she's too
shy to ask for supplies so she steals them from her old job. (Ok, I
admit I know of people who went to a new job but were so scared about
it they constantly came back to the old one.) They need to make
Eliot's flakiness more consistent and in line with her superior
intelligence and stop repeating old gags.
Taylor...
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I think now that they aren't interns, the show's just not the same. I
liked it better when they were interns. Perhaps it was always meant to
be just a 4-year-run show.
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Zombie Elvis...
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How is Elliot's flakiness inconsistent? I was actually bothered by the
fact that she got fired from her job. It feels like a reset button so
she can return to Sacred Heart and puts her on an arc similar to the
one in season two where her father cut her off and she lost her
apartment.
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