Speaker 1: Callarogashock Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with another bonus episode.
Speaker 1: This is a recap of Scrubs season ten, episode two,
Speaker 1: my second first day original air date, February twenty fifth,
Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. It's been two days since the Scrubs
Speaker 1: revival and I am still thinking about it all the time.
Speaker 1: I wrote about it on my substack today link in
Speaker 1: the notes. It's free, you can read it. I just
Speaker 1: I'm in love with this show. I almost rewatched episodes
Speaker 1: one and two again last night, and I'm like, yeah,
Speaker 1: let me wait a couple days, and I wound up
Speaker 1: just watching wherever I am in my season five rewatch.
Speaker 1: But boy, I can't stop thinking about this show. All right,
Speaker 1: let's do a recap, a mix of my memory and
Speaker 1: the AI. Hopefully the AI is not hallucinating now in
Speaker 1: this episode. No John c. McGinley, No Judy Rayis. We're
Speaker 1: gonna have to get used to that. That not all
Speaker 1: the regulars around all the time. Plenty of articles about it.
Speaker 1: We've learned at mcginley's in three of the nine episodes.
Speaker 1: I'm not sure how many Judy Rayis is in as Carla.
Speaker 1: But the crux of this show is the Big Three
Speaker 1: and the New Kids. So in the new episode we
Speaker 1: get a little dynamic of Churk versus Elliott with JD
Speaker 1: having to make a decision. The decision is about are
Speaker 1: we're going to get a new surgical robot which is
Speaker 1: super cool or some new simulation thing that I still
Speaker 1: don't understand what we were trying to get. JD as
Speaker 1: chief of Medicine in the old doctor Kelso role, he
Speaker 1: has to decide. We also get a lot of Joel
Speaker 1: Kim Booster's Doctor Park. I didn't talk about him yesterday,
Speaker 1: but doctor Park is jealous that JD has gotten the
Speaker 1: big job and is kind of in the janitor antagonist
Speaker 1: role on the new show. And we also get into
Speaker 1: the first plots with the New Kids. Asher is one
Speaker 1: of the young doctors. He has a patient, Stanley, who's
Speaker 1: on heart medication. However, Stanley hasn't been taking his medication
Speaker 1: because medical bills. JD encourages Asher to get on the
Speaker 1: phone with the insurance company. Interesting to me, I've mentioned
Speaker 1: this before before the pit my wife said Scrubs was
Speaker 1: the most realistic medical show. So during this episode, when
Speaker 1: Asher calls the insurance company and he's on hold for
Speaker 1: like hours. My wife said that is the worst that
Speaker 1: she's done this serious. Creator Bill Lawrence kind of agrees
Speaker 1: with my wife. He said, I'm going to give Scrubs
Speaker 1: a pat on the back until the pit. It's my
Speaker 1: favorite show. I love it. My wife and I've been
Speaker 1: doing promo for it essentially. But you can type on
Speaker 1: the internet what's the most realistic portrayal of medicine on television?
Speaker 1: Scrubs was number one for the last fifteen years, So
Speaker 1: my wife is on point. Laurence says, I'll tell you
Speaker 1: why our medical cases were real. The reason we did
Speaker 1: the show initially was because my buddy JD, the real
Speaker 1: JD s said, I rarely kick open a door, and
Speaker 1: Neil stat and all the medical shows at the time
Speaker 1: were like, there's a bomb in his chest, we need
Speaker 1: two blood stat He's gonna die. Real life. JD said,
Speaker 1: the real stuff was using gallows humor to get through
Speaker 1: the day and trying not to get torn up emotionally
Speaker 1: with the stuff you're dealing with. The real JD. Back
Speaker 1: in the days when he was an intern, if you
Speaker 1: got paid to a code and you're the first intern there,
Speaker 1: you had to run it, and on his first day
Speaker 1: of work, you got page two code and he hid
Speaker 1: in the closet. We put that in the pilot of Scrubs,
Speaker 1: and that felt very familiar to the medical community, the
Speaker 1: fear of treating someone. Laurence says. This year, there's a
Speaker 1: story that was taking from one of the doctor's residencies
Speaker 1: of a family that didn't want to come into the
Speaker 1: r and stayed out in the parking lot, hoping it
Speaker 1: would get better because they knew that once they got
Speaker 1: into the er, whatever savings they had would be decimated,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately someone passed away in the parking lot. That's
Speaker 1: just a true Lifted story. As for the main dilemma,
Speaker 1: Turk is getting excited about he surgical robot. His department
Speaker 1: is getting Turk and the team starts celebrating. Elliott shows
Speaker 1: up and she's mad because it looks like JD has
Speaker 1: picked Turk over Elliott. She says, this isn't just about
Speaker 1: the robot, it's about the divorce. She feels like Turk
Speaker 1: took sides in the divorce and has been avoiding her.
Speaker 1: That leads to a nice scene between those two who
Speaker 1: really weren't paired up all that much. In the original series,
Speaker 1: and we see that they are indeed friends. JD has
Speaker 1: to make the call, are we getting the robot or
Speaker 1: are we getting whatever Elliott wants. He did pick what
Speaker 1: Turk wants and the reasoning, much like doctor Kelso, it's
Speaker 1: better for the business of the hospital. We all become
Speaker 1: what we hate, right, We'll come back. And there's more
Speaker 1: from the Bill Lawrence interview in Deadline. He talked about
Speaker 1: why to bring Scrubs back now. Deadline has a very
Speaker 1: good interview with Serious creator Bill Lawrence, very interesting. They
Speaker 1: were curious why to bring the showback. Deadline says, not
Speaker 1: all shows age well. Bill said, yeah, time's change. I'm
Speaker 1: not afraid of this because people that whine about, oh,
Speaker 1: it's hard to do comedy now, I think you have
Speaker 1: to evolve with the zeitgeist of the time. I think
Speaker 1: that's one of the things that makes comedy fun. I
Speaker 1: think funny always wins, and if you're going to be dangerous,
Speaker 1: you got to be careful and make sure it's funny.
Speaker 1: There was some I think it was in episode two,
Speaker 1: some fantastic the Todd moments, and as I've been saying
Speaker 1: since I got on the Scrubs, kick a week ago. Yeah,
Speaker 1: have to understand what the Todd is. I've said this
Speaker 1: twenty five years ago. We weren't like, Hey, that guy
Speaker 1: at the Todd he's really cool. I like the way
Speaker 1: he harasses all the female staffers. We knew what it was,
Speaker 1: but it can still be funny. They're all basically that's
Speaker 1: what she he said jokes. He's a cartoon character. It's
Speaker 1: fun Bill Lauren said, the one thing that held up
Speaker 1: from the original Scrubs is the humanity and the feeling
Speaker 1: that all these people in the teaching hospital were doing
Speaker 1: it because they were trying to be of service. The
Speaker 1: one thing that was canon was the medical advisors all said,
Speaker 1: you can't make fun of the patients, and you have
Speaker 1: to show people that are actually sacrificing their lives to
Speaker 1: try and do good. But yeah, the comedy winds up
Speaker 1: with the actual show. In real life, interns and residents
Speaker 1: aren't nearly as abused and treated the way they were
Speaker 1: back in those times. Doesn't mean they aren't still stressed out,
Speaker 1: and doesn't mean that they don't still burn out, but
Speaker 1: times have changed in the medical world. Donald Faison talked
Speaker 1: about Turk's storyline. We've seen at times a moody Turk
Speaker 1: In the new series, Donald Faison said, Turk is stuck.
Speaker 1: Before it was great to be stuck with your best
Speaker 1: friend because you guys could play after work and do
Speaker 1: so many great things. But his best friend's gone and
Speaker 1: he's stuck still. How does he combat that? How do
Speaker 1: you combat doing the same stuff over and over again
Speaker 1: and losing patients? Sometimes there's a win, sometimes there isn't,
Speaker 1: and you don't have anyone to share it with, someone
Speaker 1: to laugh about it with. It breaks him down. Even
Speaker 1: though he holds a brave face for the hospital, his
Speaker 1: wife and kids. It breaks him down. Nian doesn't want
Speaker 1: to talk about it. JD shows up and acts like
Speaker 1: everything's normal again. It's like, no, no, no, no, we
Speaker 1: got history, bro. We got to fix first before all
Speaker 1: that happens. Faison said, I studied that scene for about
Speaker 1: a month and a half because I really wanted it
Speaker 1: to work. Bill Lawrence ads one of the few things
Speaker 1: that people loved about the early shows is a portrayal
Speaker 1: of a very non toxic, emotionally open male friendship, and
Speaker 1: a lot of that involved the joyful, childish exuberance of
Speaker 1: Turk and JD and fantasies and a voiceover monologue. The
Speaker 1: thing that convinced us we could still do it is
Speaker 1: Zach MacDonald's Super Bowl commercials or their podcast. You can
Speaker 1: see their friendship as authentic. They still behave like they're
Speaker 1: twelve years old when they're together, and you can still
Speaker 1: be the people that are patriarchs of their families and
Speaker 1: directing movies and running businesses and stuff. So we were like,
Speaker 1: what a cool thing to hold onto from the old show.
Speaker 1: Faison said, in real life we are man children. But
Speaker 1: let's be honest, I do have to prevent my kids.
Speaker 1: Scrubs season ten loving it. If you haven't watched it,
Speaker 1: check it out on the DVRs and on Hulu. It's
Speaker 1: a separate series. They have it posted as season one.
Speaker 1: We're all calling it season ten, but for whatever legal reasons,
Speaker 1: behind the scenes writes and all that, it is Scrubs
Speaker 1: season one. Set your DVRs appropriately all right, back in
Speaker 1: the morning, Pete Holmes, it's in the can. It exists
Speaker 1: forty minutes with Pete Holmes. He was fantastic. It's one
Speaker 1: of my favorite episodes I've ever done. I hope you
Speaker 1: enjoy it as much as I do. Catch you here tomorrow.