So for those of you who haven’t heard, there’s a whole new breed of Scrubs in town! Actually, it’s pretty much the same breed, minus a few actors who probably couldn’t be paid enough to stand to drag their feet through another season.
Luckily, Zach Braff’s back, though. Don’t worry!
00:00: Here it is! The new Scrubs! Less oldies, more youngies! More laffs per dollar for ABC!
00:50: Good, now I’ve seen Zach Braff kissing a pregnant woman’s stomach. Thank God that’s finally happened.
01:40: I bet those two young blond lady doctors are going to have a really interesting relationship for the remainder of the show, a sort of rivalry turning into a grudging respect and maybe even one day friendship. Or the other way around! I guess I can skip the rest of this season, since I’m obviously capable of imagining it myself.
03:03: Haha, Dr. Cox is so irascible! Can’t rasc that guy.
04:00: I like the 40-year-old medical student with the leather jacket and frosted tips the best. He’s like a Fonz for the Gaga generation.
06:30: “You smell like prison,” is a pretty funny line. Good non-sequitur, fellows. B+.
07:30: Jesus, this show has been on since I was 17? Really? That’s alarming.
08:00: “You’re still such an odd, little fruit,” is great too. Except for the obvious gay joke undertone. But it was said with such affection! Overall, 7.9 out of 10, Pitchfork-stylee.
10:00: Man, this sarcastic lady doctor is so sarcastic. It’s crazy how sarcastic she always is always.
11:05: Zach Braff’s face takes on an odd, Macy’s balloon-like quality from certain angles. I wonder if it’s just the lens they’re using.
11:50: God, I hate the cutaway scenes. Can we please as a culture just be done with wacky cutaway scenes? (That goes for 30 Rock too, for the record.) I’m sorry you’re bad at writing television shows, television writers, but that doesn’t mean I should have to suffer the consequences of your structural laziness. Throw in another non-sequitur if you have to.
14:30: Haha, mullet for the white guy, high top for the black guy! That’s how you know this is a flashback to the early 90s.
15:00: I kinda wish there were more commercials to review. I need my non-advertising wackiness mixed up with some advertising wackiness.
16:30: I dunno about this clearly show-central blond ladystudent. She’s too good looking to feel bad for.
18:00: Zach Braff looks funny chasing things! It brings out his clearly marketable puppy-like qualities.
19:30: The music in this show continues to be awful, but at least there was a Dikembe Mutombo reference just now. AND YES I HAD TO LOOK UP HOW TO SPELL THAT EVEN THOUGH IT’S BASICALLY PHONETIC.
21:00: I do like the guy who keeps saying “whore” as an all-purpose exclamation of frustration. Is he the same as the Fonz guy? I have a hard time telling these people and their frosted tips and perfect skin apart.
posted by bootybass
great review. I actually had the moment while at work on down time to flick over to hulu and saw scrubs. My first response was that “holy fuck, what degrading sex act did Zach Braff do to get scrubs renewed?”
The show might very easily fall flat and finally be done after this season. However, Wings stayed on n-1 years beyond where it was possibly amusing (where n was the number of years it was on) (although it did launch Tony Shalub, so it isn’t all bad).