Speaker 1: Callaroga Shock Media. Scrubs, Season seven, Episode four, My Poker Phase.
Speaker 1: Original air date March eleventh, twenty twenty six. Hello, I'm
Speaker 1: Johnny Mack and can we cut to the chase. Of
Speaker 1: the four episodes we've seen so far, I think this
Speaker 1: one was the fourth best. Not too many laughs. I
Speaker 1: think I went through act one without snickering at all.
Speaker 1: It's good to hang out with the old friends again.
Speaker 1: But I didn't see much comedy there until we got
Speaker 1: to a scene where we learned JD's new roommate is Chewbacca.
Speaker 1: That might have been a fantasy sequence, but that got
Speaker 1: a bonafide laugh out of me and the wife, as
Speaker 1: did a couple flashbacks to Turk doing the Macarena with
Speaker 1: retro hair. Those were funny, but most of the episode
Speaker 1: not too many laughs there. The plot, JD organizes a
Speaker 1: poker night with Turk to recapture old times. Meanwhile, medical
Speaker 1: and surgical entrance compete and Elliott deals with a patient
Speaker 1: obsessed with social media. That patient played by Matt Rife.
Speaker 1: Did you notice that that was Matt Rife? It bothered
Speaker 1: some people on the Internet. Now, hopefully the AI isn't
Speaker 1: hallucinating here. I asked it to generate a scene by
Speaker 1: scene summary and I'll see if my memory still works.
Speaker 1: So we open up with JD narrating about how doctors
Speaker 1: often hide but they're really thinking that goes with the
Speaker 1: theme of poker Face, and we learned some things about
Speaker 1: some of our fellow cast members during the episode. Okay,
Speaker 1: JD suggests that they bring back Poker Night to recreate
Speaker 1: the bond they had earlier in their careers. Turk is
Speaker 1: all excited because Carlo is going to be out and
Speaker 1: the daughters are at softball, and Turk Scott four hours
Speaker 1: to himself, so he's like, yeah, I'm in. Meanwhile, the
Speaker 1: medical interns and the surgical interns are competing against each
Speaker 1: other around the hospital. At some point, JD and Turk
Speaker 1: get involved with that, but they kind of team up
Speaker 1: and teach the young ends how those two groups can
Speaker 1: get along. Elliott is treating a patient obsessed with social media.
Speaker 1: This is a guy that likes to work out a
Speaker 1: lot and post things online played by Matt Rife. Judy
Speaker 1: Reyes doesn't appear in the episode. We do hear the
Speaker 1: voice of Carla. She calls Turk and lets Turk know
Speaker 1: that she doesn't have to work after all, and she'd
Speaker 1: love to hang out with him, and she flashes him,
Speaker 1: is what is implied. So Turk picks boobs over poker.
Speaker 1: That makes JD sad. Eventually, JD and Turk kind of
Speaker 1: have it out at that. JD is a little jealous
Speaker 1: that Turk's got this family and he's home alone, and
Speaker 1: Turk is like, man, I would kill for some alone time.
Speaker 1: We got some new characters. There's a new janitor who's
Speaker 1: super friendly and really likes JD, and JD even jokes
Speaker 1: that he should learn the man's name at some point,
Speaker 1: but he does not. I continue to like Turk's apprentice.
Speaker 1: I don't know her name, but every time she's on
Speaker 1: the screen, I say to my wife, I really like
Speaker 1: her and I like her character. I should probably learn
Speaker 1: her name. The social media in turn is named Tosh
Speaker 1: that has somehow stuck in my brain because of comedian
Speaker 1: Daniel Tosh. Some notes. I wrote down one thing bothering
Speaker 1: me the set. What's with the blurry backgrounds? Like You'll
Speaker 1: watch one scene and it looks like a JD and
Speaker 1: Elliot are standing in front of a green screen of
Speaker 1: fake hospital, and then the very next scene. There's clearly
Speaker 1: a practical desk set and half a hallway anyway, so
Speaker 1: I don't know what's going on there. I saw a
Speaker 1: couple of people in the Scrubs reddit mentioned the blurry
Speaker 1: backgrounds are a little annoying. Some people on the reddit
Speaker 1: or saying, so far in the new season, we're not
Speaker 1: really connecting with the patients. In the original series, we
Speaker 1: would spend more time with the patients. I'm not sure
Speaker 1: that's true. It may have been true this week, or
Speaker 1: maybe Matt Riife just doesn't have the gravitas to pull
Speaker 1: that off, but I think it's a fair note. The
Speaker 1: hospital does seem a little underpopulated. Already mentioned no Judy
Speaker 1: rayis other than a voice cameo, and no John c McGinley.
Speaker 1: Now he will come back for two episodes. I've seen
Speaker 1: some spoilers and I won't ruin it for you, but
Speaker 1: we will see doctor Cox again. I was wondering about
Speaker 1: the Todd. Where's the Todd? Wouldn't the Tod be at
Speaker 1: poker night? That seems like exactly the kind of thing
Speaker 1: he would be all in on, right, And I'm also
Speaker 1: little worried where it'd be a little strong as a sitcom,
Speaker 1: but the Elliot character because j D and Turk have
Speaker 1: each other to play off of, but Elliott really only
Speaker 1: has JD to playoff. She doesn't really have a relationship
Speaker 1: with Turk. So Elliot right now is kind of on
Speaker 1: her own show. I know there are the three main leads,
Speaker 1: but it's clearly the Zach Braff show. The universe revolves
Speaker 1: around JD. It always did. He's the head narrator that
Speaker 1: we hear. But I don't think they figured out yet
Speaker 1: what to do with Elliott. In this episode, Elliott teams
Speaker 1: up with doctor Sam Tosh see I thought her first
Speaker 1: name was Tosh. Elliott quickly diagnoses the patient as having scurvy.
Speaker 1: Elliott is a little mean to Tosh, almost in a
Speaker 1: doctor Cox's way, and starts calling Tosh doctor Selfie. However,
Speaker 1: it turns out the scurvy was brought on by a
Speaker 1: lesser known eating disorder called orthorexia. Apparently, people with orthorexia
Speaker 1: become obsessed with eating what they determined to be the
Speaker 1: healthiest diet possible, and that's what's happening to Matt Rife there.
Speaker 1: If Tosh had listened to Elliott stopped using her phone
Speaker 1: all the time, they would have missed this diagnosis, so
Speaker 1: Elliott is forced to reevaluate her hard stance on how
Speaker 1: toash approaches her job. Elliott is also realizing, like we
Speaker 1: all do, getting a little older, and you know, you
Speaker 1: know what happens one day you don't know how to
Speaker 1: program the microwave. We learned a little more about JD's children.
Speaker 1: There is at least a son named Ollie. Now during
Speaker 1: the original Scrubs, JD and Kim had a son, Sam
Speaker 1: in season seven, episode two that aired November one, two
Speaker 1: thousand and seven, So Sam would be almost twenty years
Speaker 1: old at this point, so Sam presumably in college. Somewhere
Speaker 1: in the premiere of season ten, we hear JD refer
Speaker 1: to kids, and in the now de canon I season nine,
Speaker 1: JD and Elliott had a child together. So some people
Speaker 1: have been wondering do they still have a kid together? Well,
Speaker 1: they do. There is a son named Ali. JD mentions
Speaker 1: that he is Ali next weekend and that he has
Speaker 1: recently built his son a bunk bed. Let's do some
Speaker 1: more math. Season nine of Scrubs a debut December one,
Speaker 1: two thousand and nine, so let's place it in they
Speaker 1: had a child together so that child would be kind
Speaker 1: of fifteen sixteen, and I'm being generous with the math.
Speaker 1: So Ali's got to be the youngest if he's in
Speaker 1: a bunk bed. So is there another child, Well, the
Speaker 1: showrunner says no. The current canon is JD has two sons,
Speaker 1: Sam with Kim and Ollie with Elliott. So perhaps the
Speaker 1: timeline of when the child of JD and Elliott, perhaps
Speaker 1: the timeline has shifted. I will quote Mystery Science Theater
Speaker 1: three thousand, who once wisely said, just repeat to yourself,
Speaker 1: it's just a show. I should really just relax, don't
Speaker 1: worry about it. Scrabs Jess. It's in episode four. Not bad,
Speaker 1: glad it was around. Not my favorite episode of all time,
Speaker 1: not hilarious, Not sure it's one I'll think about it
Speaker 1: other than Matt Rife appeared in it. But glad the
Speaker 1: show's around, and looking forward to the return of Doctor
Speaker 1: Kok