Speaker 1: Caalarocashock Media. Hey bonus episode. I'm Johnny Mack and this
Speaker 1: is a recap of Scrubs Season ten, episode one, my return.
Speaker 1: Original air date February twenty fifth, twenty twenty six. I
Speaker 1: just needed to get on Mike today. Sometimes I just
Speaker 1: do a show for me, and this is one of those. Boy,
Speaker 1: am I happy? I watched that show last night, and
Speaker 1: I was so happy that Scrubs landed properly. So many
Speaker 1: things that I love, specifically Star Trek, have gotten ruined
Speaker 1: in modern times, and that Scrubs came back and felt
Speaker 1: like Scrubs and made me laugh and gave me the feels.
Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, so fantastic. So if you haven't watched yet,
Speaker 1: bail out of this episode because we're gonna break it
Speaker 1: down as a recap here seen by seeing him doing
Speaker 1: this from a combination of memory and AI, and I'm
Speaker 1: hoping the AI isn't hallucinating spoilers. We open up with
Speaker 1: a cold open. It's a prestige medical drama fake out,
Speaker 1: perhaps kind of sort of like the Pit. The coloring
Speaker 1: is a little different. It's blue, gray, handhaild cameras, tight lens,
Speaker 1: no music, a Gurney slams through the er doors. Doctors
Speaker 1: are speaking in clipped jargon, BP crashing and get me
Speaker 1: a line, and we see JD in the center of
Speaker 1: the frame. He's calm focused, completely different body language from
Speaker 1: classic JD. It's like we're in the pit, except it's JD.
Speaker 1: And then cut suddenly we're in a luxury apartment. JD
Speaker 1: is in concierge medicine. He's checking a rich guy's pulse.
Speaker 1: The guy asked if kombucha counts us water onto the
Speaker 1: title sequence. It's a lot like the original. The music
Speaker 1: is back, we see the new interns, and then last
Speaker 1: is JD, who doesn't hang up at X ray puts
Speaker 1: it on some sort of electronic skinner thing. Creator Bill
Speaker 1: Lawrence spoke with Deadline. He said the new season is
Speaker 1: conceived as if the original series ended with season eight. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're just gonna hand wave there is no season nine.
Speaker 1: Don't ask any questions. It just want we meet up
Speaker 1: with the old folks. Turk is stuck in a rut,
Speaker 1: Doctor Cox is doing his tough love thing. But you know,
Speaker 1: times change in these kids today, there's a new annoying
Speaker 1: hr rep played by Vanessa buyer, who I think is
Speaker 1: gonna get old real fast if they don't modify that character.
Speaker 1: Elliott is there. She heads the simulation lab now out
Speaker 1: to the parking lot for the first scene. It's the
Speaker 1: same physical geography as the pilot episode, but JD is
Speaker 1: walking slower. Nobody recognize him. We check in with Carla.
Speaker 1: She's at the nurses station. She appears to be some
Speaker 1: sort of boss. Now he runs into Turk in the hallway.
Speaker 1: They scream like children, JD Churk and they decide to
Speaker 1: do the eagle thing. That's where JD jumps on Turk's back.
Speaker 1: They make a couple steps, they collapse in a heat.
Speaker 1: Turk has a bad back. Now we're all fifty years old.
Speaker 1: He's excited to see JD. And then the big reveal spoilers.
Speaker 1: We run into Elliott. We find out that they are divorced.
Speaker 1: We find out that she ended it. Bill Lawrence talked
Speaker 1: about the divorce. He said, here's the scoop. The eighth
Speaker 1: year of Scrubs ends with just once, I'd like to
Speaker 1: believe my dreams came true. We all felt that way
Speaker 1: to be dark about the world. But even though I'm
Speaker 1: very grateful about how my life is gone. Not everything
Speaker 1: works out the way you want to work it out
Speaker 1: of a huge believer in writing what you know and
Speaker 1: what you see. Our show runner is someone that when
Speaker 1: I left Scrubs was married and having a young child
Speaker 1: and now is a single parent co raising that child
Speaker 1: with somebody. That doesn't mean it's acrimonious, and that doesn't
Speaker 1: mean that it's his own journey. I'm sure you have
Speaker 1: that same experience. Some people in your lives work out,
Speaker 1: some don't. Bill said, I was really resistant at first,
Speaker 1: and the one things these guys all drove home to me,
Speaker 1: They're like, if you watch the nine thousand episodes of Scrubs,
Speaker 1: you would say Turk and Carla are gonna make it,
Speaker 1: and then you would say, I don't think j D
Speaker 1: and Elliott have had more than an episode and a
Speaker 1: half that they seem like a functioning couple. So it's
Speaker 1: a good storytelling device. Doesn't mean their story's over, but
Speaker 1: it's certainly something that adults have to navigate all the time.
Speaker 1: Zach braftag Danny said, what JDC's projected on the sheet
Speaker 1: at the end of season eight again ignore season nine,
Speaker 1: is what he hopes and dreams will happen, but that
Speaker 1: doesn't necessarily come true, especially when you're fifty years old.
Speaker 1: Things that you want to happen happen. Some marriages fail,
Speaker 1: some don't. You have the contrast with Turk and Carl
Speaker 1: where they're as happily married as ever, compared to us
Speaker 1: who are learning how to copare it and eventually work together.
Speaker 1: So I think that was a good way of showing
Speaker 1: a wide array of how marriages can turn out in midlife.
Speaker 1: On to meet the new characters. Now, I kind of
Speaker 1: like the new characters. I mean, I'm not in love
Speaker 1: with them, but I didn't hate them, which for me
Speaker 1: says a lot. I was ready to not like them.
Speaker 1: I think Star Trek has done a lot of damage
Speaker 1: to my brain. But they're all fine. And one of
Speaker 1: the things I'm really enjoying about the show, and I
Speaker 1: said to my wife as we watched it, it puts
Speaker 1: the characters twenty five years later or twenty years later,
Speaker 1: you know we've all changed. One thing you learn as
Speaker 1: you get older is you can't put the band back together.
Speaker 1: You can maybe get together for dinner every now and
Speaker 1: then for one night, but you just can't put the
Speaker 1: genie back in the bottle. People change things move on anyway.
Speaker 1: We meet the interns and then in walks my personal hero,
Speaker 1: doctor Cox. He's older, his voice isn't as strong as
Speaker 1: it was. I don't know if that is how McGinley
Speaker 1: sounds now or if that was a choice it did.
Speaker 1: Keep noticing it. JD thinks he can't call me nuby
Speaker 1: and doctor Cox now calls him, which got a chuckle
Speaker 1: out of me a few times. As viewers, we can
Speaker 1: tell that doctor Cox is setting up JD for success.
Speaker 1: He kind of manipulates JD into watching over the terrans
Speaker 1: for a couple of minutes. There's a thing with a patient.
Speaker 1: We see JD come in, takes over. He's very confident,
Speaker 1: he's a veteran doctor. And then the big twist at
Speaker 1: the end of the episode, it's Cox and JD. Cox
Speaker 1: gets very serious. This is John McGinley dropping the guff
Speaker 1: doctor Cox character. He invites JD to come back. JD
Speaker 1: mentions as he's excited to work with doctor Cox. Doctor
Speaker 1: Cox says, you're not going to be working with me.
Speaker 1: You're going to replace me, and he offers JD the
Speaker 1: job of chief of Medicine. Now it might brain I
Speaker 1: don't know how that works. Like in the Chief of Medicine,
Speaker 1: it's not the monarchy just to point the next guy.
Speaker 1: But maybe we're gonna learn that Jordan is still on
Speaker 1: the board. Anyway, doesn't matter, it moves the plot along.
Speaker 1: JD accepts he is now the Chief of Medicine, so
Speaker 1: he is now in the role that doctor Kelso was
Speaker 1: in twenty five years ago and Doctor Cox was in
Speaker 1: towards the end of the original series. Doctor Cox seems
Speaker 1: kind of worn down by these kids today and he
Speaker 1: says a line, I'm tired. I'll talk about that in
Speaker 1: the second half. What that might mean. Doctor Cox says,
Speaker 1: I feel like this particular time has passed me by.
Speaker 1: Let me take a quick break and I'll talk a
Speaker 1: little bit about John C. Mcginley's Doctor Cox. Now, unfortunately
Speaker 1: McGinley is only in two more episodes. He's not in
Speaker 1: episode two, so it seems like he really is not
Speaker 1: in the show all that much. I thought they were
Speaker 1: just going to do the dynamic where he was JD's boss,
Speaker 1: but it seems like they're going for something else. And
Speaker 1: as I read the interviews spoilers, it seems like there
Speaker 1: might be something with doctor Cox's health now. Deadline asked McGinley.
Speaker 1: Is doctor Cox a relic? How does his character fit
Speaker 1: into today's world. McGinley said, I think people who understand
Speaker 1: fatigue and being exhausted will understand doctor Cox's dilemma. I
Speaker 1: think he accomplished everything he set out to accomplish, and
Speaker 1: he's ready to move on. Bill Lauren said, the showrunner
Speaker 1: when they came to me with their idea was it'd
Speaker 1: be cool to see these students teachers now, and to
Speaker 1: do that, you need somebody to take doctor Cox's role.
Speaker 1: Then to do that, it was really important to see
Speaker 1: JD maybe entered a little bit of cush your life,
Speaker 1: because when you work at a teaching hospital, you're there
Speaker 1: because you're being of service. There's no other side to it.
Speaker 1: But even then we knew that meant in the opening
Speaker 1: of the show, JD had a step onto the mantle
Speaker 1: of you need to be there for these kids. What
Speaker 1: I was to you, Lawrence says, Doctor Cox is a
Speaker 1: huge character on the show. He comes back at the
Speaker 1: end of the year and will continue on next year.
Speaker 1: Now that's interesting is Lawrence telling us that this show
Speaker 1: has secretly been picked up for season two. I've been
Speaker 1: assuming that they would do one of those day one.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, the ratings were so big that it's
Speaker 1: immediately coming back. So it looks like Bill Lawrence knows
Speaker 1: that this will be back, which is great now possible
Speaker 1: major spoiler here. McGinley said, I'll come back to the
Speaker 1: hospital in a profoundly different capacity. Deadline said, I hope
Speaker 1: doctor Cox is not dying. McGinley said, we all die. Nellie, yikes,
Speaker 1: can you imagine. Don't do that to me. Don't just
Speaker 1: don't do that to me. I can't handle that. Zach,
Speaker 1: how do you feel about JD being the new Doctor Cox?
Speaker 1: Zach brav said, I think one of the things you
Speaker 1: see in the pilot is that JD hasn't been a
Speaker 1: teacher in years, but you can see how good he
Speaker 1: is at it, how much you miss is it. Whereas
Speaker 1: Cox is such a tough love kind of teacher that
Speaker 1: doesn't really work, and as we learn from researching, isn't
Speaker 1: not really in a loud anymore, and he sort of
Speaker 1: burned out. He's like a dinosaur. And then he clocks
Speaker 1: JD helping the interns and being able to actually speak
Speaker 1: to them and liking him, and that's when he goes,
Speaker 1: this should be you doing this. I'm too old. The
Speaker 1: line is they need someone to do for them what
Speaker 1: I did for you, and I think that's one of
Speaker 1: the main themes of the first season. Plenty more to unpack.
Speaker 1: I'll do another one of these tomorrow, but Johnny Mack
Speaker 1: is thrilled that Scrubs is back. If you haven't checked
Speaker 1: it out, please do make sure you set the DVR.
Speaker 1: This is technically season one according to YouTube TV, so
Speaker 1: if you go to record Scrubs, make sure you're not
Speaker 1: recording old Scrubs and you record the new one. But
Speaker 1: great to have the show back. So happy. I know
Speaker 1: I'm rambling today, but I'm so excited about this again.
Speaker 1: We'll do another one of these tomorrow, back in the
Speaker 1: morning with a normal episode by