What a strange episode of Scrubs we got this week. More than any of the other ones, this felt like one of this in-series setups for a spin-off, kind of like Private Practice did to spin out of Grey’s Anatomy. Or to kick it old school, how Empty Nest was set up in The Golden […]
Just one episode of Scrubs this week, and it feels right. The writers do such a good job of wrapping up their plotlines along a similar theme or common element, that it’s almost too much that we were getting those back-to-back installments. That and it was rushing us headlong to an early end for the […]
ABC is definitely keeping the costs down. Last week, Turk was nowhere to be found in either episode, and this week the first episode went down with no janitor and J.D. only heard over a cell phone. But Percival Ulysses was in da house! I liked the idea of Dr. Grumpy aka Denise hooking up […]
Tonight’s twofer thematically fit together, with both episodes focusing primarily on Dr. Perry Cox’s adjustment to being the new Chief of Medicine. It turns out it’s a helluva lot of work and it’s almost guaranteed to make you unpopular, as his new friend Dr. Kelso tells him. See, Dr. Kelso wasn’t so bad. He just […]
(Season 8, Episodes 5 & 6 – “My ABC’s” & “My Cookie Pants”) Fun Fact: Janitor’s grandpa apparently called him Janitor, too. In the first of our two-part Scrubs hour, we got to see J.D., Elliot and Perry all choose one of the new interns to mentor. J.D. hooked up with Denise/Jo, who’s the go-to […]
(Season 8, Episodes 3 & 4 – “My Saving Grace” & “My Happy Place” ) Dammit, they did it again. Another two solid episodes of Scrubs, and another week shaved off of the total run time of this season. Unfortunately, ABC currently has this entire 18 episode season scheduled in this back-to-back format, meaning that […]
