Speaker 1: Callaroga Shark Media. Scrubs, Season ten, episode seven, My Best
Speaker 1: Friend's Barbecue. Original air date April first, at twenty twenty six. Hello,
Speaker 1: I'm Johnny Mac. I loved this episode. No sorry, the
Speaker 1: recap is out a little late. With the Easter weekend
Speaker 1: and the family was over. We didn't get to this
Speaker 1: until Sunday night, and on Monday we play Comedy Survivor,
Speaker 1: so I don't want to put out three episodes in
Speaker 1: one day. So here you go. Season ten, episode seven,
Speaker 1: My Best Friend's Barbecue. While JD is upset not to
Speaker 1: be invited to Turk and Carla's annual barbecue, JD takes
Speaker 1: the opportunity to nurture whose friendship with Carla. Meanwhile, Turk
Speaker 1: teaches the surgical interns how to deliver bad news. This
Speaker 1: one gave me all the feels. With one asterisk, You've
Speaker 1: got great JD and Churk. We really see how important
Speaker 1: to the dynamic the Carla character is. Judy rays to
Speaker 1: the ensemble. Hopefully this show gets picked up. We'll talk
Speaker 1: about that and she'll be in hopefully all the episodes
Speaker 1: of season two. But boy, when she's back, you realize
Speaker 1: what a huge part of the ensemble. She is. Let's
Speaker 1: deep dive on the plot a little bit. JD is
Speaker 1: talking about doctor face and how sometimes you have to
Speaker 1: give bad news to patients. That's one of the themes of
Speaker 1: the episode. He explains how his doctor face has gotten
Speaker 1: better over the years and nothing can rattle him until
Speaker 1: he learns he's not invited to Turk's barbecue. Apparently he's
Speaker 1: been going to Turk's barbecue every year. This year, he's
Speaker 1: not invited. JD asks why, and Churk tells him that
Speaker 1: Carla wants to invite Elliott and Elliott's new boyfriend, Captain
Speaker 1: Wes over this year. JD asks best friend Turk to
Speaker 1: fight for him. Churk says he's not strong enough because
Speaker 1: Carla is going through menopause. One of the themes throughout
Speaker 1: the episode is how warm Carla is and how she's
Speaker 1: always trying to cool off. I can't tell you why
Speaker 1: I found that really really funny. Let's just leave it there.
Speaker 1: Move on, John, that's right, Elliott tells Carla. She and
Speaker 1: Wes are excited about the barbecue. He's bringing something called
Speaker 1: Pilot's Booty. West explains that's first class warmnuts mixed with
Speaker 1: coach pretzels. Carla gets at a quick jokes that says
Speaker 1: you can just bring ice, which cracked me up. My
Speaker 1: wife missed the joke and I was like, that was
Speaker 1: really good. Now we have a subplot with a patient
Speaker 1: who is drinking a lot of ranch dressing that really
Speaker 1: goes nowhere. The other plot is Turk telling Deshauna she
Speaker 1: has to tell the Garcia family that their loved one
Speaker 1: has passed away. She says, I'm not good at this,
Speaker 1: and Turk says, and this is one of the clutch
Speaker 1: moments of the episode. You're just like me. And we
Speaker 1: see a couple of times Turk reflecting about his cocky
Speaker 1: younger self and that is something I do all the time,
Speaker 1: but for years been self aware that boy, you were
Speaker 1: a punk ass kid in your twenties when you first
Speaker 1: got in a radio and over years, although I knew
Speaker 1: it at the time, when is it serious? I could
Speaker 1: be an a hole. I used to say to my
Speaker 1: office mate, I hate this person who sits here with
Speaker 1: you every day. The series brought out the worst in me,
Speaker 1: so I was relating to everything Turk was giving. Here.
Speaker 1: The younger cast, they all have their various adventures, all
Speaker 1: the little subplots are fine, but I want to stick
Speaker 1: with the senior cast. Carla gets mad she finds out
Speaker 1: that JD has cut back her patient load. Turk goes
Speaker 1: to see Carla, asks how she's doing. Carla says, your
Speaker 1: wife is dead and some agent incompetent witch has taken
Speaker 1: her place. The job was always hard, but it was fun.
Speaker 1: Now it's just hard. I can't keep up. Turk says, finally,
Speaker 1: You've always been smarter than me and stronger than me,
Speaker 1: but you always at my back. Now I get to
Speaker 1: be there for you. JD pops up out of nowhere
Speaker 1: and says you two will always have each other, but
Speaker 1: I might die alone. Carla says, you're still not coming
Speaker 1: to the barbecue. This all wraps up at the end.
Speaker 1: Carla's telling JD. If I keep inviting into things so
Speaker 1: you can be comfortable, you're never going to grow. She says,
Speaker 1: I can read your doctor's face. You're scared, and if
Speaker 1: I keep caddling you, you'll never be able to move
Speaker 1: on from Eliot, and we get some reflection back to
Speaker 1: the days of when he was bamby. She mentions, I
Speaker 1: was here on your first day and it just really
Speaker 1: really is awesome. So we'll take the break here, we'll
Speaker 1: come back, we'll talk a little more Scrubs. The episode
Speaker 1: got a three point zero four million viewers, which sounds
Speaker 1: like a lot for a modern television but in the
Speaker 1: time slot it finished third. Chicago Med won the half
Speaker 1: hour Survivor was second. However, in the eighteen to forty
Speaker 1: nine demo, which is where the money is, Chicago Med
Speaker 1: drops down and it was Survivor then Scrubs. I do
Speaker 1: think at three million viewers they will renew this thing.
Speaker 1: I'm kind of surprised they haven't yet. I thought it
Speaker 1: was the best episode of new Scrubs yet, very funny,
Speaker 1: very touching. The character beats were all on point except one.
Speaker 1: The newer characters are all fine, Like when they come on,
Speaker 1: they're just fine. You're not like, oh I get rid
Speaker 1: of these people. They're fine. I do think the show
Speaker 1: doesn't know what to do with Elliott. The Scrubs has
Speaker 1: always been focused on JD except for the d Ken
Speaker 1: and I season nine, but the Elliott character seems like
Speaker 1: she's just kind of out there on her own show.
Speaker 1: You know, she's got the boyfriend now, but as one
Speaker 1: of the big three they're gonna have to figure out
Speaker 1: how Elliott fits into all of this. I don't think
Speaker 1: her arc is working yet. We see what I mentioned
Speaker 1: this in the beginning, what an important player Judy rays
Speaker 1: as Carla is, and again the nice emotional callbacks to
Speaker 1: when JD was Bambi. And as I was watching it
Speaker 1: after the episode, because I'm a big sap, I said
Speaker 1: to my wife, how weird is it that twenty five
Speaker 1: years have gone by and here we are back to
Speaker 1: an empty house because the kids are home for the weekend,
Speaker 1: and then they left, we put on Scrubs. Here we
Speaker 1: are twenty five years later, it's just the two of
Speaker 1: us again, and we're watching the same show. Screen Ran wrote,
Speaker 1: There's never been any doubt in Scrubs that Carla is
Speaker 1: a badass nurse, and no one knows it more than
Speaker 1: she does. However, in season ten we see here slowly
Speaker 1: losing that confidence. It becomes clear in Scrub season ten,
Speaker 1: episode seven that Carla still struggles with one of the
Speaker 1: same challenges as in the original series. She wants to
Speaker 1: be everyone else's rock, but isn't quite willing to accept
Speaker 1: help herself, just as JD learned to look to Carla
Speaker 1: for help back in the day. Carla learns in this
Speaker 1: Scrubs episode that it's okay to let Bambi help her out.
Speaker 1: While JD looked to doctor Cox as a Carlo was
Speaker 1: his true guiding force in the hospital. Over the years,
Speaker 1: the relationship shifted, and both JD and Carla found they
Speaker 1: could be themselves around each other in ways they couldn't
Speaker 1: even with Turk or Elliot. It's relief that the Scrub's
Speaker 1: revival has recaptured this dynamic after all these years, and
Speaker 1: it's especially impressive since Judy Rays isn't a primary cast
Speaker 1: member on the new series. Scrub Season ten, episode seven,
Speaker 1: my favorite of the new season. If you are enjoying this,
Speaker 1: stay the heck off Scrubs read it. Some maniac posted
Speaker 1: something in the headline I'm not even gonna dance with
Speaker 1: the Devil. I'm just gonna tell you. I saw a headline.
Speaker 1: I was like, come on, dude, there was no reason
Speaker 1: to put that in the headline. We have a word.
Speaker 1: It's called spoiler. What are you doing? So? We have
Speaker 1: two episodes left in season ten and again, ABC, what
Speaker 1: are we doing here? Let me do one last quick here?
Speaker 1: Maybe they picked it up as I'm recording. Quick Google
Speaker 1: of Scrubs Nope, not yet has a record this on
Speaker 1: Monday morning. I need more of this. It's really good
Speaker 1: and it's just it's hitting a warm spot in my
Speaker 1: life than nostals are point. I feel like these people
Speaker 1: are from and their characters and their back and if
Speaker 1: they can get another season and work some more people
Speaker 1: into the ensemble, we're back into the ensemble. I think
Speaker 1: it'd be great and the new characters are fine, and boy,
Speaker 1: please keep this thing going. I like Scrubs. See you
Speaker 1: in the morning.