Speaker 1: Callaroga Shock Media. Scrub Season ten, episode eight, My Odds.
Original air date April eighth, twenty twenty six. Hello, I'm
a Johnny Mack and boy this when did you have
something in your eye there? Towards the end? This was
just a fantastic episode of Scrubs. Now for me, I
knew this was coming. Somebody had kind of spoiled this
in one of the articles as I put together the
podcast every day, and especially when I do the Scrubs research,
so I knew doctor Cox was in episodes eight and nine,
and I kind of knew why. I mean, the spoiler
said doctor Cox returns with a life threatening illness. Gee,
thanks spoiler. But sure enough, doctor Cox was back being
buddies with doctor Park because then I seen them together
and they were kind of doing the same thing again.
I don't know if they took lines that were originally
designed for Cox and gave them the Park cross the season,
but I like the doctor Park character. I hate the
hr lady that says that is not working. Just get
rid of her. The two people at the nurses desk,
they're fun. More of them. The new interns are fined,
but hr Lady just no, no, no, no, no, anyway,
doctor Cox. He's back at Sacred Heart Hospital. JD's pretty
excited that he's there. He wants to impress doctor Cox,
and then suddenly doctor Cox collapses. It turns out doctor
Cox has a condition known as microscopic polyanngitis aka MPa.
That is a serious autoimmune disease that causes the body
to attack its small blood vessels. In the case of
doctor Cox, it's already pushed doctor Cox into the start
of renal failure. The prognosis is not great. Both JD
and doctor Cox know it. Now. You don't think they're
gonna kill doctor Cox off next week, right, They're not? Like,
would they do that to us? And the show has
still not been renewed as I record this, I mean,
would they just end? Could you imagine if that's what
the plan here? Is all along that just like they
do nine seasons and out and doctor Cox dies next
week and we're all just like devastated. Let's talk about
one of the other plots. Doctor Tosh made a mistake
that was avoidable, her patient nearly died. Doctor Reed kind
of lays into her, is kind of mean to her,
and then doctor Tosh goes running to the HR Lady.
We get a nice scene with doctor Cox and doctor Reed,
and Cox says that he realizes he was a little
too harsh on Elliott. So a nice moment there between
those two characters. Plenty of nice stuff between doctor Cox
and JD. Doctor Cox asked JD if he'll pray together,
and then Cox praise for JD to get eaten alive
by the chair so that he doesn't have to listen
to JD. But in the end doctor Cox becomes quite
human it admits that he's scared Joe. Creator Bill Lawrence
told people, we really wanted to show that dynamic of
having to be a caretaker for a person that was
your caretaker for so many years. We kind of accomplished
it way back when we wanted to do a different
flavor of it, when doctor Kelso evolved out of the
role and he became less of a teacher and more
of a confidant. Today, doctor Cox, Bill Laurence says, JD
taking over as chief and the pilot set up the
new dynamic. What was really interesting is the only way
we thought we could suck JD back into that world
was for his mentor to essentially say, these young people
deserve exactly what you got, and I can't give it
to them anymore. The danger of that is going well,
we don't want to see that awesome relationship and that
awesome character a lot. So the end of the season
is doctor Cox's return as a patient. Bill Laurence says,
we will protect and explore that relationship moving forward. Wonder
what that means. At the end of the scene, doctor
Cox asked JD to promise that you'll keep me alive
for a very long time, because I don't want my
death to be the thing that makes you cynical. I
try to protect you from this with everything I had,
but I'm so scared. That's kind of when you might
have had some dust in your eye during that speech.
That was really good. JD and Sissy as a plan
that he guarantees is the best plan forward. But then
we hear the voiceover. Turke Itt asked me when I
stopped needing doctor Cox's approval, it was now because now
he needed me. John McGinley said, I thought it was
really brave of Bill Lawrence to explore exhaustion and fatigue
and burn out in a real way for a guy
who traded on alpha and being a lion seeing that
alpha line freaking exhausted and shost and the writers can
write that those kind of damage characters, writers can write richly.
That's a thrill for all actors to get on that page.
Zach Braff says, if you look back, it's what the
whole show is leading up to, the teacher handing over
the torch to the next generation. We'll take the break
here and we'll come back. We'll talk about what the
Scrubs gang said at pailey Fest. Over the weekend, Pailey
Fest had a Scrubs panel. On the panel Bill Lawrence,
current showrunner, Assim Batra, Zach Braff, Donald Faizon, Sarah Chalk,
Judy Reyis, John c McGinley, Christa Miller, and Neil Flynn
the janitor Huh. They got together with moderator Vanessa Bear,
who plays the horrible Sacred Heart HR manager Sibby Wilson,
the character that needs to go. They screened episode nine,
which airs tomorrow on ABC. I have a volleyball game
at seven thirty, so I should be home by eight
forty five, nine o'clock. I'll see if I can get
my wife to watch it tomorrow night. There are some spoilers.
I just got spoilered myself as I scre down here.
I won't nuke you, ow Kate, but vague we're told.
The episode drew an emotional response from the audience. At
the screening, Donald Faison talked about John mcginley's performance, saying
that his wife and kids got emotional watching one scene
in episode eight. All right, we've already talked about that.
That's not a spoiler, and he called it a testament
to mcginley's gifts as an actor. McGinley credited Bill Lawrence
for always writing Doctor Cox with layers, a character who
teaches with equal parts challenge and care. Judy Reyis said
stepping back into Carlo's world once she was on set
felt immediate and natural. Christa Miller minor spoiler here, but
she appears as Jordan, not shocking. They are married and
Doctor Cox's in the hospital. Christa Miller also married to
Bill Lawrence, so that is not shocking. She said she
hopes that Jordan had grown at least a little over
the years, and that getting back on set with Zach
Braff helped her find the character quickly. Neil Flynn discussed
whether or not the Janitor is real or a figment
of JD's imagination. Neil Flynn said there were too many
episodes where other characters interact with the Janitor, Although I
think in the early part of season one the design
was that the Janitor was only in JD's imagination, but
they moved away from that over time. The cast made
it clear they want to continue and that there were
more characters from the original run they want to bring back.
They gave a shout out to Ken Jenkins, who played
doctor Kelso. Bill Lawrence confirmed that Jenkins, now in his eighties,
is enthusiastic about returning. ABC has not yet announced if
Scrubs will be back, which is crazy. Bill Lawrence said
they went into the nine episode season wanting to prove
the show could work again. The reaction from audiences and
from the Pellyfest crowd suggests that it has. ABC is
crazy if they don't bring this thing back. Scrubs loved it. Interestingly,
my wife said that was not her favorite episode, which
was quite surprising to me. Maybe she likes the episodes
a little funnier. I don't know. I liked it a lot. Scrubs.
I'm happy it's around. I wanted to keep going, see
you guys in the morning.