Feb. 22, 2026

Scrubs Reboot Revival Returns: Cast, New Interns, Season 9 Debate, and What to Expect

Scrubs Reboot Revival Returns: Cast, New Interns, Season 9 Debate, and What to Expect
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Johnny Mac delivers comedy news focused on the Scrubs revival premiering Wednesday at 8:00 PM on ABC (with Hulu next day).

He shares personal enthusiasm for the original series and summarizes details from interviews with Zach Braff and Donald Faison: the revival mixes a young, diverse writers’ room with original writers, and centers on JD and Turk reconnecting at Sacred Heart as medicine and a new generation of interns have evolved while their friendship endures.

Returning cast includes Zach Braff (JD), Donald Faison (Turk), Sarah Chalke (Elliot), Judy Reyes (Carla), John C. McGinley (Dr. Cox), and the Todd!.

Not all characters will appear in every episode due to scheduling.

Ken Jenkins (Dr. Kelso, 85) and Neil Flynn (the Janitor) are not in season one yet, with Braff saying it may depend on a potential second season.

New cast additions include Vanessa Bayer as a wellness/HR figure with a thick file on the Todd, Joel Kim Booster as attending Dr. Eric Park, and interns named Serena, Asher, Blake, Amara, and Deana; additional intern descriptions include Amara (sheltered, homeschooled), Dashana (confident, written like a young Turk), and Tosh (an Instagram-famous influencer doctor).

The episode notes Sam Lloyd’s death (Ted) and that the show will pay tribute by naming a new hangout ‘Lloyd’s Tavern,’ with plans for a tribute episode possibly in season one or season two. M

ac discusses the controversy around season nine (the ‘Med School’ era) and Braff’s preference to frame the new project as a ‘revival’ rather than a reboot, citing Bill Lawrence’s view that season nine should have had a different title.

Spoilers .....




.....nclude JD returning as a concierge doctor because a patient is admitted to Sacred Heart, Turk as chief of surgery, Elliot as a high-up attending, and Dr. Cox adapting his teaching style to modern wellness rules and workplace norms. The script also revisits contemporary and later reviews of Scrubs, notes criticism about outdated portrayals of women and characters like the Todd, and highlights memorable episodes such as ‘My Screw Up,’ ‘My Last Words,’ ‘My Old Lady,’ ‘My Fallen Idol,’ and the season eight finale originally intended as the series finale.

00:00 Scrubs Revival Is Here: Johnny’s Hype & Personal Connection
00:43 What We Know So Far: Premise, Returning Cast & Who Might Be Missing
03:03 New Faces at Sacred Heart + Honoring Sam Lloyd (Ted)
04:07 The Season 9 Problem: Reboot vs Revival (and the ‘Med School’ Debate)
05:27 How the Revival Finally Happened: Podcast, Ads, and Scheduling the Reunion
06:07 Spoiler Zone: First Look Clips & Where Everyone Is Now
07:48 Modern Hospital, Modern Rules: Dr. Cox vs HR, Wellness, and New Interns
09:23 Why Scrubs Worked: Early Reviews, What Aged Poorly, and Best Episodes
13:11 Final Thoughts + When to Watch (ABC/Hulu)

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Callaroga Shark Media. Hey there, I'm Johnny Mack with your

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daily comedy news. This Wednesday, Scrubs, the reboot Scrubs is back.

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I am so excited. This is one of my favorite

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shows of all time. I'm married to a physician and

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she always found this to be the most realistic medical

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show until the Pit came along. You gotta watch the

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Pit with her. Her eyes are just like she's studying

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everything going on in that show. But she was a

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resident when Jad and Turk were residents, so this really

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related to her and to me. You know, I would

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watch the show and I'd be like, oh, yeah, I

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know that guy that you work with. That's kind of

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doctor Kelso. So Scrubs is back on Wednesday. Zach Braff

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told people there's a very young writer's staff along with

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some of the brilliant original writers on Scrubs, and I

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think this young, very diverse group of writers will help

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us crack the case. Donald Faison said, a lot of

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the story still holds up. You're still following your favorite doctors,

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your heroes. To some people, regardless of what's happened from

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season one through nine, the core story is still there

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and people want to say that we'll have to talk

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about season nine at some point in today's episode. In

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the reboot, we see John J. D. Dorian and Christopher

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Chirk back in their scrubs for the first time in years,

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as they discover that while medicine and a new generation

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of insurance has evolved, their romance as stood the test

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of time. Characters new and old navigate the waters of

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Sacred Heart with laughter, heart and some surprises along the way.

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Zach Braff is back as JD. Donald Faison as Turk,

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Sarah Chalk back as doctor Elliott Reid, Judy Reyes Yep,

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she's back as Carla, and most importantly to me, John C.

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McGinley is doctor Cox. Even the Todd is back. Did

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you know the Todd's full name is doctor Todd Quinlan.

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I don't think I knew that. Now. The bad news

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Zach Braff told people not everyone will be in all

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episodes because of quote unquote scheduling. Yeah, like Judy Rays

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is on that thing with what's her name? D from

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Philadelphia boy, the always sunny and Philadelphia people pictured the actress.

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As soon as her face showed up in my brain picture,

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I thought bird. Her name is Cayln Olsen. Took me

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a minute there. I want to say Susan Olsen, but

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you know, Susan Olsen is Susan Olsen is Cindy Brady,

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who's sixty one years old. By the way, just in

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case she didn't think any of us are getting any older,

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I digress. Missing from the cast is Doctor Kelso. Actor

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Ken Jenkins is eighty five years old, so both in

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terms of the actor Andy character, really would make sense

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to have Doctor Kelso around. The janitor played by Neil

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Flynn is also not in this one. Zach Braff is

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not ruling out bringing them back. He said, the true

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answer is if we're blessed to have a second season,

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you will absolutely And the real answer for season one

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is we're not fully sure yet. Episodes eight to nine

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of the nine episode order we're still being written. When

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Zach did this interview in January, but he told Esquire,

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do we have the bandwidth in the first nine to

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get to it all in surface a story that would

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be worthy of Ken and Neil that might come up

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at this point. I could tell you the answer, but

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most definitely, if we're lucky enough to get a season two,

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that's something we want to do. Now there are new characters,

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and this is where I'm wondering. I can't get a

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handle on this. Is this the JD. Turk Elliott Show

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or are they like kind of sort of in it

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and we're following all these new people around. Vanessa Bear

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and Joel Kim Booster are notable additions to the cast.

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Vanessa plays Sibby, who runs a wellness program for faculty

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and staff at Sacred Heart Hospital. Joel Kim Booster plays

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doctor Eric park and attending at Sacred Heart. There are

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also a bunch of interns. The character names are Serena,

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Asher Blake Amara, and Dashauna. One character who won't be

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back is Ted Bucklan. Actor Sam Lloyd passed away at

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age fifty six in twenty twenty after being diagnosed with cancer.

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Faison said they do pay tribute to Sam. There'll be

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a new bar that we all go to when we

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named it Lloyd's Tavern after actor Sam Lloyd. That was

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the production designer's idea, which I thought was beautiful. So

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there's a not to Sam. We love Sam, we miss him.

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It's hard to do the show without him. He was

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an iconic member of the squad. Plan he's most definitely

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to have an episode that is tribute to him. Again,

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I'm not sure we'll be able to do that in

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this first nine or that'll be in season two. So

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we have to talk about the issue with season nine

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of the original if you watched it back then, they

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had kind of wrapped things up, but then they brought

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it back. But when they brought it back, Sacred Heart

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had been knocked down, and they were at this new

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hospital that was a teaching hospital, and it was just

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kind of wonky. Esquire asked Zach Braff, you're not calling

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this a reboot or sequel, You're going with revival. Zach said,

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there's a distinction revival of meaning you're bringing back the

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original people in the original vibe of the show, whereas

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a reboot would be sort of rethinking it. Esquire said,

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the reboot is what they tried with season nine that

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was mostly new characters but only lasted thirteen episodes. Zach said, yeah.

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Bill Lawrence has said that he wishes that had a

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different title. Was meant to be a sort of a

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spin off. Really, he always said he wishes he had

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called it Scrubs mid School. It was supposed to be

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taking some of the characters and moving them to a

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new location. I think that would have made everything clear

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for the fans. For years now, there's been this feeling

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like Season nine doesn't really count, and I get people's

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feelings about that. I think it would have been all

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a bit easier if they'd called it a reboot slash

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spin off. Fazon said, I feel like you can call

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it an elseworld or a multiverse type situation. I like

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to look at season nine as a multiverse story, like

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a different universe. So I guess Sacred Heart has been

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un knocked down, or I guess we'll retcon that. Whoever

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said that was joking when they said it. Don't ask questions,

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move along, just in enjoy scrubs. Zach Braff said, what

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happened when we did the rewatch podcast Fake Doctor's Real Friends.

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People saw how similar our friendship really is to JD

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and Turk. The podcast became really popular. Then we started

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doing the T mobile ads, which were again not only

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versions of ourselves but also nod to the character. It

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was that one two punch that finally made ABC Hulu

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interested in doing a revival. We're all so close, so

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it's like, do you want to get together with all

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these people you love with great scripts and all laugh again.

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To us, it was an no brainer. There were so

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many things to figure out, getting people on the same counter,

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working out Bill's deal because he's under a Warner Brothers contract.

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That took literally years. I thought we might do a

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little mini series kind of thing, like Psych Is Done.

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I never imagined it was going to be like, Nope,

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you're back at eight o'clock prime time on ABC with

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Hulu the next day. That's shocked all of us. We'll

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get a little more spoiler ye here, So if you

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don't want to be spoiled for the new season, skip ahead. There.

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He was my mentor. At least he couldn't call me

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Nuby anymore. What can I do for you? There? Oldly,

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I'm back, baby? Do you know who those people are? You?

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Maybe try a different approach, maybe a little bit more

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like doctor Cox. Listen up, newbies, Ruh Hilly, superstart there, Scooter,

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leave Bambi alone. It's good to be back. Why are

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you standing like that? I don't know. I felt heroic.

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Here's where everyone is as we come back to Sacred

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Heart Hospital, Zach Braf says, jd is working as a

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concierge doctor, and he has to come back because even

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though he lives about an hour away, one of his

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patients has been admitted to Sacred Heart. He and Turk

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are still great friends. Because of their lives and their schedules,

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they don't see each other that much. That loss to

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the deterioration of the friendship has hurt both of them.

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Turk is a big family, but neither one of them

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really is the community or the friendship that they had

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the series, and they really long for it. So when

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JD comes back for his patient and is reconnected with

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doctor Cox, Carlo, the Todd, Turk and Iliot and all

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these people, there's this domino effect of everybody experiencing what

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it's like to all be back together again and then

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has an impact on all of them. Now that's interesting

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freezing there that it implies that he hasn't seen Elliott

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in a while, so are they no longer together? Fason said,

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a lot of the questions about Turk and JD's relationship,

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I think the relationship between Turk and Carla is still

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very interesting. The fans want to know about that. They

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want to know about JD and Elliot it's a different time.

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Is the todd still appropriate? You know what I mean? Well,

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it's definitely not appropriate. But can he survive in this world?

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Morris spoilers Turk is chief of surgery. Elliott is a

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high up attending physician. We were kids when we made

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the original show. When Donald and I started, we were

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twenty five and hour fifty as Doctor Cox mellowed out

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and Zach says he's coping with the fact that he

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can't teach in the same way nowadays. He can't talk

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to interns like Doctor Cox used to talk to us.

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We've been educated that they get breaks and they have

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a wellness systems in place in their not allowed to

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work the hours they used to work. It's a part

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of doctor Cox's story has had to be this amazing

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teacher he was without being able to call people names

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and without being the tough love guy that he was.

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Oh you softies. My inner Doctor Cox is like, what

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is this crap? Stop being soft on people. Tough enough

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Millennials and gen Z and Alpha's gen X for the wind.

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Doctor Cox is really wrestling with how to operate in

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this system. We learned that the Vanessa Bearer character handles

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HR complaints. She's got a very thick file on the

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todd and she also looks out as they do in

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real hospitals, to make sure the interns aren't being worked

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to death. New characters, Braff tells us the surgical interns,

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or Almara, who's had a very sheltered life. She's very innocent,

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super smart, but had a homeschooled existence. Dashauna is very confident.

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She's written as if Turk was a young woman, very cocky,

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very close with her father. He was her biggest champion.

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Faizon said, the way Turk looks at his interns is

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I got to teach these guys. They have to be

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prepared because at the end, when I'm done with this,

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these two are going to be the ones that will

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continue my legacy here. And then there's the Instagram famous

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wanna be. That character is Tosh, who's not only a

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skilled doctor, but an influencer. There's a handful of these

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people in the real world. They go through the intern

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process and commented on social media, a lot of med

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students and interns want to follow their experience. It isn't

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something that's overdone. My inner doctor Cox is coming out.

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She's not only on her phone and posting. But it's

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an element of her character that, while going through her training,

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is also actively posting. October two, two thousand and one,

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Howard Rosenberg in The La Times reviewed Scrubs. Howard wrote,

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Scrubs ranges from silliness to wonderful silliness. As Primetime's first

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medical comedy that generates big laughs. Was mister Rosenberg unfamiliar

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with a show called Mash I Digress. Although the humor

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begins broadly, it grows on you as you adjust to

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its rhythms, and ultimately you hear yourself laughing out loud.

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This is easily NBC's best news series. It's a nice moment.

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It's also one of those distinctive comedies in which everything meshes.

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Entertainment Weekly October sixteenth, that same year wrote Scrubs as

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a TV rarity, a new sitcom with an original look,

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point of view, and the merciful absence of a familiar

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star attempting a comeback. Scrubs is er as a comedy

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mash in peace time with newbie interns. Good description. Our

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hero is JD. Dorian played by Zach Braff, who looks

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like this is great, a youthful cross between Ray Romano

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and Ed's Tom Cavanaugh, which is fascinating because later in

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the series they cast Tom Cavanaugh as j D's brother.

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In the show's most original move, Scrubs One True good

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Man is also its loosest canon. John C McGinley is

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giving a career making performance as the flinty, sarcastic Doctor Cox,

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an experienced doctor who is on the surface everything we

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fear In a healer, we might come into contact with

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a bully with cold eyes, a short temper, and a

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black sense of humor. But just as mashes Hawkeye, Peers

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made jaundice puns about jaundice because war inspired cynicism as

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a defense mechanism, Doctor Cox staves off j D's petrified

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stairs with a suck it up attitude. J D and

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Elliott desperately want doctor Cox to mentor them, and Cox

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resist the role. From twenty eighteen, Jimmie Sargent on Medium wondered,

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it's been ten years since the original series of Scrubs aired.

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Does Scrubs hold up? In twenty eighteen, we're told the

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show has an outdated view on women, especially in the

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first season. In one episode, we see doctor Kelso slapping

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women's butts and being leary towards them. Yeah, that was

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the joke. He had an outdated view on women. That

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was the joke twenty five years ago. There's not a

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more perfect example than the tod. A misogynistic surgeon who

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was constantly making inappropriate gestures and comments toward his colleagues

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was something they tried to address in later series, but

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he never got past the creepy none of this is new, now,

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what are you talking about? That was the whole point

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of the characters. This aspect of the show is not

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aged well. Scrubs is ten years old and is a

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product of its time. That's not to say it should

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get a pass. It shouldn't, and it's important that the

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shortcomings are highlighted. The latter seasons failed in comparison, as

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JD became annoying and mean. It's not the fault of

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the showrunners and writers. All TV can become stale, and

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the show had already said so much of that point.

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I agree. I've been doing a rewatch. I think the

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first season is the best. In the middle of like

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season four now, when they really started getting to the relationships.

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I like the show and it was just simple screwball comedy,

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So I disagree with that review on Medium totally. Some

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of the episodes you may recall some of the better

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episodes My screw Up Season three, episode fourteen. That's the

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one with Brendan Fraser. He's doctor Cox's good friend. And

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then spoilers you had twenty years. We get to live

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in denial right along with doctor Cox. Then the reveal

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hits Ben has been dead. The entire episode, Cox has

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been grieving My Last Words. Season eight, episode two, JD

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and Turk spend time with a dying man who doesn't

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want to be alone. That's the entire episode, people talking about, fear, regret,

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and the end. One of my favorites, My Old Lady

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Season one, episode four, JD, Turk, and Elliott deal with

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patients who are dying in very different ways. One accepts it,

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one resistant, and one surprises everybody. Season five, episode twenty one,

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My Fallen Idle. Doctor Cox messes up and JD realizes

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his hero is here. And then there's of course My Finale.

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The final episode of season eight meant to be the

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series finale. It's JD's last day at Sacred Heart. He's

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walking the halls, imagining the future of saying goodbye. But

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now everybody's back Scrubs. I hope this is good. I'm

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a big fan of the show Scrubs, ABC, Wednesday, eight

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pm East and West. Looking forward to it. And that

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is your comedy news for today. Back tomorrow with a

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normal episode in the morning, and then Comedy Survivor at noon.

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Easter meets you back here then