March 6, 2026

Scrubs 10x03 My Rom-Com

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Johnny Mac recaps “My Romcom,” Scrubs Season 10 Episode 3 (aired March 4, 2026), noting ratings and renewal are unknown but expecting a pickup due to buzz. The episode centers on divorced JD and Elliot fighting over discharging a patient, with JD now in a Dr. Kelso-like role; a directing choice keeps them visually separated until they reconnect in a conversation about rebuilding their friendship. Subplots include Turk working with surgical interns, Elliot dealing with an IT guy who shuts down hospital systems, an “Up”-lookalike ex-husband search, and scenes with an annoying new HR lady; Carla appears, and Joel Kim Booster’s character is absent.

John also shares production details on recreating the hospital set in Vancouver, a 3D entra

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Caloroga Shock Media Scrub, Season seven, Episode three, My rom

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Com Original air date March fourth, twenty twenty six. Hi,

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I'm a Johnny Mack and we are already a third

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of the way through the Scrubs revival as I record

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this Friday afternoon. The ratings for this episode are not

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out yet, nor has the show been officially renewed. I

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will be stunned if this doesn't get another pickup. Everything

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screams that this is what passes for a hit in

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twenty twenty six. You know, people don't watch network TV,

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and this one has buzz, and the people that work

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on the show seem nice to work with, and you

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want to be in the Bill Lawrence business. And the

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premiere did pretty well. I'd be shocked if this doesn't

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come back. In my rom Com, we saw j D

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and Elliott fighting at work again. Elliott believed that JD

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had it in for her. They are divorced. Now we

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see JD in the doctor kel. She wants to keep

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a patient. JD is like it's time to discharge her.

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The patient didn't want treatment. There's no reason to be

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in the hospital. We got a business here to run.

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Elliott does not appreciate any of that. It's just so

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weird to see JD in the Kelso role, but it

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makes sense now. One thing to keep an eye on

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in this episode. I saw on the Reddit somebody thought

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that perhaps, possibly maybe that JD and Elliott film their

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scenes separately, because you would only see one of them

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in the camera shot as they talk to each other,

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but I disagreed. I was paying a lot of attention

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to the episode. I had seen that Reddit post before

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I put the episode on, and I was looking out

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for it, and at the beginning I was like, oh, yeah,

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that does look a little funky. But what I realized

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was it's a directorial choice, I think because j D

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and Elliott are not together, so in camera they are

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not together. Now, as the episode goes on, the two

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have a nice conversation. JD tells Elliott he'd like to

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find their core friendship and connection again and it was

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just going to take time. And in the scene JD

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walks into Elliott's frame and now they are side by side.

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They are visually together again, So I think the director

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made a choice there. It's subtle. There's also a b

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plot involving Churk and the surgical Internsamara, the one that's

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not confident, and Dashauna, who I think is fantastic and

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my favorite of the new bunch. The actress is doing

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a great job. The role seems a little more fleshed out.

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She's got great chemistry with Turk. We get to spend

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some time with some of the newer characters. Ellieed goes

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and hits up the IT guy, who is a bit

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of a character. He shuts down the hospital's electronics systems,

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which is fascinating because that's the same plot happening in

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the pit. So I just find it interesting that the

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pit and the scrubs are aligned on their plot lines.

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It guy, we learned plays Dungeon and Dragons on Sunday

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with Turk. So Turk has this whole life outside JD.

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Now twenty years later, there's another another uplot about finding

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the sick patient's ex husband and how he looks like

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the main character from the movie Up. They have some

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fun with that. We get some scenes out of new

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annoying HR Lady Carla does appear in this episode special

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guest Judy Rayis. I noticed in the credits. I don't

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think we saw Joel Kim Booster's character at all, so

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that's interesting. Show Runner Assim Batra explained the deal with

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JD and Elliott to tv line. She explains, if you

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go back and look at the first run of Scrubs,

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they always had a tricky relationship, and it's just real

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statistically in terms of marriages, we don't know what we're

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gonna do with the two of them, and that's exciting. Again,

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that suggests a season two. It gives us a lots

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of right to we get to see dating episodes again,

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we get to see them have a journey together again.

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Of okay, if it's not gonna be this, how do

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we still keep loving our relationship? Watra notes, if we

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had JD acting the way he was in his twenties

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would probably drive a lot of people crazy. He's not there.

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He's a grown up, and we don't really want to

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see a guy controlling what his ex is doing. That's

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kind of an old thing. As for making him get

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along now, Botra says, when you're in a space of

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always being contentious, the comedy gets tamped down. We wanted

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them to be in a good space so they can

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have those fun light moments. Do we find out what

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led to the divorce spoiler not this season. Bocher says,

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if we have more episodes in a later season, we

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can unpack that in a way of like, well, what

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was the origin of this? And I think that will

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be interesting for me. This episode was another winner. Now,

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about ten minutes in, I was like, Oh, this one's

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not that funny, but I'm glad Scrubs is back, and

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I like spending time with these characters. But then there

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were a couple really JD fantasy moments involving wrestling. You

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could tell there's a little more budget for that stuff

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this time around. The times we saw the wrestling ring

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were hilarious. There were a couple one liners here and there.

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They got to chuckle out of me. So maybe the

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beginning of the episodes is not that funny, but in

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the end I was like, oh, I'm glad Scrubs is back.

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One of the listeners sent this to me. Thank you listener.

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You know who you are. And now when I get emails,

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a lot of people just prefer to stay anonymous, So

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thank you listener who sent me this article explaining how

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they rebuilt the hospital. The original show's production designer Cabot

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McCullen is not back. The new guy is Roger Fires,

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and some fans are noticing some of the set looks different.

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That's because they couldn't use the original location. I think

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that building was torn down. However, they've done updated versions

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of the hallways, operating rooms, and even the gift shop.

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I feel like at some point it looks like the

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background is CGI can't really tell. Sometimes the back looks

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a little funky. We're told when Zach Braff came to

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see the new set for the first time, he was

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speechless for three minutes, looking at us like I can't

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believe you guys did this. If the audience at home

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as the same reaction, I think that's successful. The original

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pilot for Original Scrubs was shot at the fully operational

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Women and Children's Hospital in Valley Village. Once the series

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got picked up, they filmed it at North Hollywood Medical

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Center in the San Fernando Valley, a real hospital that

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had been shut down. Seasons one through eight took place there.

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They also had rooms for makeup, wardrobe, editing, swedes, sound studios,

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and more, and instead of trailers, the cast was given

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old hospital rooms. That's fun. For season nine production moved

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to Culver Studios. But there is no season nine anymore.

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What are you talking about? There are eight seasons and

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then we call this one season ten. Season nine never happened.

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It's been d cannoned. Back in the old days, they

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had to put up a huge sign that said this

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is not a working hospital. Don't come here for emergency care.

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North Hollywood Medical Center was torn down to twenty eleven. Uh,

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I was right what I said earlier and is now

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luxury apartments. So for the revival, a set was built

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to mimic the original. The new set is in Vancouver.

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The only exception is the entrance to the hospital that

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was not built. It was created using an optical illusion.

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Fires recreated the entrance using a three D photo of

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the original entrance that has quote reverse perspective that tricks

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the eyes. I don't think in the new series we've

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gone to the bar yet. Maybe I'm forgetful. In the

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new series, the bar is called Lloyd's Junction. It is

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canonically the same bar that they hung out in olden times.

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The original bar never had a name, but apparently all

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along possibly it's been called Lloyd's Junction. Anyway, the new

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name is a tribute to Sam Lloyd, the actor who

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played Ted Lawyer. Sam passed away a couple years, so

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a nice way to honor Sam Lloyd over at Lloyd's Junction.

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And that is your Scrubs Season ten, episode three recap.

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I'm so happy the show was back back in the

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morning with a normal episode