Speaker 1: Caloroga Shock Media Scrub, Season seven, Episode three, My rom
Speaker 1: Com Original air date March fourth, twenty twenty six. Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm a Johnny Mack and we are already a third
Speaker 1: of the way through the Scrubs revival as I record
Speaker 1: this Friday afternoon. The ratings for this episode are not
Speaker 1: out yet, nor has the show been officially renewed. I
Speaker 1: will be stunned if this doesn't get another pickup. Everything
Speaker 1: screams that this is what passes for a hit in
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. You know, people don't watch network TV,
Speaker 1: and this one has buzz, and the people that work
Speaker 1: on the show seem nice to work with, and you
Speaker 1: want to be in the Bill Lawrence business. And the
Speaker 1: premiere did pretty well. I'd be shocked if this doesn't
Speaker 1: come back. In my rom Com, we saw j D
Speaker 1: and Elliott fighting at work again. Elliott believed that JD
Speaker 1: had it in for her. They are divorced. Now we
Speaker 1: see JD in the doctor kel. She wants to keep
Speaker 1: a patient. JD is like it's time to discharge her.
Speaker 1: The patient didn't want treatment. There's no reason to be
Speaker 1: in the hospital. We got a business here to run.
Speaker 1: Elliott does not appreciate any of that. It's just so
Speaker 1: weird to see JD in the Kelso role, but it
Speaker 1: makes sense now. One thing to keep an eye on
Speaker 1: in this episode. I saw on the Reddit somebody thought
Speaker 1: that perhaps, possibly maybe that JD and Elliott film their
Speaker 1: scenes separately, because you would only see one of them
Speaker 1: in the camera shot as they talk to each other,
Speaker 1: but I disagreed. I was paying a lot of attention
Speaker 1: to the episode. I had seen that Reddit post before
Speaker 1: I put the episode on, and I was looking out
Speaker 1: for it, and at the beginning I was like, oh, yeah,
Speaker 1: that does look a little funky. But what I realized
Speaker 1: was it's a directorial choice, I think because j D
Speaker 1: and Elliott are not together, so in camera they are
Speaker 1: not together. Now, as the episode goes on, the two
Speaker 1: have a nice conversation. JD tells Elliott he'd like to
Speaker 1: find their core friendship and connection again and it was
Speaker 1: just going to take time. And in the scene JD
Speaker 1: walks into Elliott's frame and now they are side by side.
Speaker 1: They are visually together again, So I think the director
Speaker 1: made a choice there. It's subtle. There's also a b
Speaker 1: plot involving Churk and the surgical Internsamara, the one that's
Speaker 1: not confident, and Dashauna, who I think is fantastic and
Speaker 1: my favorite of the new bunch. The actress is doing
Speaker 1: a great job. The role seems a little more fleshed out.
Speaker 1: She's got great chemistry with Turk. We get to spend
Speaker 1: some time with some of the newer characters. Ellieed goes
Speaker 1: and hits up the IT guy, who is a bit
Speaker 1: of a character. He shuts down the hospital's electronics systems,
Speaker 1: which is fascinating because that's the same plot happening in
Speaker 1: the pit. So I just find it interesting that the
Speaker 1: pit and the scrubs are aligned on their plot lines.
Speaker 1: It guy, we learned plays Dungeon and Dragons on Sunday
Speaker 1: with Turk. So Turk has this whole life outside JD.
Speaker 1: Now twenty years later, there's another another uplot about finding
Speaker 1: the sick patient's ex husband and how he looks like
Speaker 1: the main character from the movie Up. They have some
Speaker 1: fun with that. We get some scenes out of new
Speaker 1: annoying HR Lady Carla does appear in this episode special
Speaker 1: guest Judy Rayis. I noticed in the credits. I don't
Speaker 1: think we saw Joel Kim Booster's character at all, so
Speaker 1: that's interesting. Show Runner Assim Batra explained the deal with
Speaker 1: JD and Elliott to tv line. She explains, if you
Speaker 1: go back and look at the first run of Scrubs,
Speaker 1: they always had a tricky relationship, and it's just real
Speaker 1: statistically in terms of marriages, we don't know what we're
Speaker 1: gonna do with the two of them, and that's exciting. Again,
Speaker 1: that suggests a season two. It gives us a lots
Speaker 1: of right to we get to see dating episodes again,
Speaker 1: we get to see them have a journey together again.
Speaker 1: Of okay, if it's not gonna be this, how do
Speaker 1: we still keep loving our relationship? Watra notes, if we
Speaker 1: had JD acting the way he was in his twenties
Speaker 1: would probably drive a lot of people crazy. He's not there.
Speaker 1: He's a grown up, and we don't really want to
Speaker 1: see a guy controlling what his ex is doing. That's
Speaker 1: kind of an old thing. As for making him get
Speaker 1: along now, Botra says, when you're in a space of
Speaker 1: always being contentious, the comedy gets tamped down. We wanted
Speaker 1: them to be in a good space so they can
Speaker 1: have those fun light moments. Do we find out what
Speaker 1: led to the divorce spoiler not this season. Bocher says,
Speaker 1: if we have more episodes in a later season, we
Speaker 1: can unpack that in a way of like, well, what
Speaker 1: was the origin of this? And I think that will
Speaker 1: be interesting for me. This episode was another winner. Now,
Speaker 1: about ten minutes in, I was like, Oh, this one's
Speaker 1: not that funny, but I'm glad Scrubs is back, and
Speaker 1: I like spending time with these characters. But then there
Speaker 1: were a couple really JD fantasy moments involving wrestling. You
Speaker 1: could tell there's a little more budget for that stuff
Speaker 1: this time around. The times we saw the wrestling ring
Speaker 1: were hilarious. There were a couple one liners here and there.
Speaker 1: They got to chuckle out of me. So maybe the
Speaker 1: beginning of the episodes is not that funny, but in
Speaker 1: the end I was like, oh, I'm glad Scrubs is back.
Speaker 1: One of the listeners sent this to me. Thank you listener.
Speaker 1: You know who you are. And now when I get emails,
Speaker 1: a lot of people just prefer to stay anonymous, So
Speaker 1: thank you listener who sent me this article explaining how
Speaker 1: they rebuilt the hospital. The original show's production designer Cabot
Speaker 1: McCullen is not back. The new guy is Roger Fires,
Speaker 1: and some fans are noticing some of the set looks different.
Speaker 1: That's because they couldn't use the original location. I think
Speaker 1: that building was torn down. However, they've done updated versions
Speaker 1: of the hallways, operating rooms, and even the gift shop.
Speaker 1: I feel like at some point it looks like the
Speaker 1: background is CGI can't really tell. Sometimes the back looks
Speaker 1: a little funky. We're told when Zach Braff came to
Speaker 1: see the new set for the first time, he was
Speaker 1: speechless for three minutes, looking at us like I can't
Speaker 1: believe you guys did this. If the audience at home
Speaker 1: as the same reaction, I think that's successful. The original
Speaker 1: pilot for Original Scrubs was shot at the fully operational
Speaker 1: Women and Children's Hospital in Valley Village. Once the series
Speaker 1: got picked up, they filmed it at North Hollywood Medical
Speaker 1: Center in the San Fernando Valley, a real hospital that
Speaker 1: had been shut down. Seasons one through eight took place there.
Speaker 1: They also had rooms for makeup, wardrobe, editing, swedes, sound studios,
Speaker 1: and more, and instead of trailers, the cast was given
Speaker 1: old hospital rooms. That's fun. For season nine production moved
Speaker 1: to Culver Studios. But there is no season nine anymore.
Speaker 1: What are you talking about? There are eight seasons and
Speaker 1: then we call this one season ten. Season nine never happened.
Speaker 1: It's been d cannoned. Back in the old days, they
Speaker 1: had to put up a huge sign that said this
Speaker 1: is not a working hospital. Don't come here for emergency care.
Speaker 1: North Hollywood Medical Center was torn down to twenty eleven. Uh,
Speaker 1: I was right what I said earlier and is now
Speaker 1: luxury apartments. So for the revival, a set was built
Speaker 1: to mimic the original. The new set is in Vancouver.
Speaker 1: The only exception is the entrance to the hospital that
Speaker 1: was not built. It was created using an optical illusion.
Speaker 1: Fires recreated the entrance using a three D photo of
Speaker 1: the original entrance that has quote reverse perspective that tricks
Speaker 1: the eyes. I don't think in the new series we've
Speaker 1: gone to the bar yet. Maybe I'm forgetful. In the
Speaker 1: new series, the bar is called Lloyd's Junction. It is
Speaker 1: canonically the same bar that they hung out in olden times.
Speaker 1: The original bar never had a name, but apparently all
Speaker 1: along possibly it's been called Lloyd's Junction. Anyway, the new
Speaker 1: name is a tribute to Sam Lloyd, the actor who
Speaker 1: played Ted Lawyer. Sam passed away a couple years, so
Speaker 1: a nice way to honor Sam Lloyd over at Lloyd's Junction.
Speaker 1: And that is your Scrubs Season ten, episode three recap.
Speaker 1: I'm so happy the show was back back in the
Speaker 1: morning with a normal episode