Oh Elliot. Such girl, perfect booty
To this day Scrubs still is the show with most hot girls I've watched.
Scrubs though. My favourite TV show and my first source of information for sex-related topics during my teenage years as we didn't really have a pc until later and sex was, and still is, regarded as taboo to my Catholic parents.
I'm thankful this show exists.
Voted most accurate TV medical show!
Other than all the babes, but I'm not complaining.
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I worked in a pediatric hospital... attractive ladies were a dime a dozen. All batshit crazy though.
Not in my south. I had to switch pediatrics to follow my doctor, who left because one of the other doctors and an RN slept with a patient's father. And they were all previously married. Everyone who worked there was attractive and also crazy. The new clinic is still filled with hot people, but they don't sleep with patients' guardians. AFAIK lol
Jesus Christ, how horrible! Which hospital was it specifically so I can avoid them in the near future?
Yes I remember that. Also it happened more than once that patients seeking treatment stopped by thinking that previously dismissed hospital resumed operations 😂
Prior to House MD. Scrubs launched 2001 and House in 2004. House MD is arguably the most accurate medical show to exist, mainly because the majority of wacky medical mysteries came from actual doctors. It is still TV of course, but real stories can't be beat by Hollywood make believe.
mainly because the majority of wacky medical mysteries came from actual doctors
Same with Scrubs. What makes Scrubs a lot more accurate is most of the times doctors aren't dealing with crazy medical mysteries.
The application of cutting corners, but the actual science and interplay of symptoms is accurate.
That's what they are saying. Sure House is scientifically accurate as far as the symptoms and diseases.
Scrubs is far more accurate, because that's what practicing medicine in a hospital can be like, and they show how medicine is actually practiced, as opposed to House's "Superdoc" approach.
That's just turning the argument into "Do you want realistic medical science" or "realistic day to day operations of a hospital".
I'm not going to argue over surveys and personal opinion. I'm in it for the science of disease, not how a hospital functions.
A fair and valid point.
I like that these shows give us, the audience, the ability to see into a world which we may not already get a chance to do so on a regular basis, from different viewing angles, while still managing to keep the stories interesting in their own way.
I liked both shows. Each was great in their own merit.
The medical conditions might be more realistic in House, but the process and behavior of people certainly aren't.
It's similar with programming on TV. If you look at Mr. Robot, all the hacking methods and computer jargon are really accurate, down to KDE vs. GNOME rivalry, but the plot is total fantasy and nobody behaves as real programmers do. On the other hand, Silicon Valley is more like scrubs - the software is made up, it's a comedy, but the story and people are 100% realistic (except better dressed, since it's still Hollywood).
Nah, not really. House has 2 episodes where the writers invented diseases (only 2 on the entire run is very respectable though), but more than that, it's not realistic to have 4 docs working on one case all week. And the cases are very unrealistic in the sense that a lot are not mysteries. If you're an MD/DO, you can see some of the diagnoses coming a mile away while House and his team pretend it's a super rare thing. I particularly remember one of the Lyme disease episodes where I got the diagnosis almost immediately, and I was still on med school.
On the other hand, Scrubs gets the lifestyle of an intern right. Except there's a lot less sex in real life lol.
For a long time I absolutely hated Zach Braff because he had an uncanny ability to have love interests that matched mine.
Sarah Chalke, Mandy Moore, Heather Graham, Elizabeth Banks, Tara Reid - basically a conveyor belt of women I was in love with as a teen.
I still remember all the specific scenes i would pause on my ipod video in my early teenage years when i was doing... Research
Elliot was hot!! I had a huge crush on her. I was always like "JD! You dumass!". I think this is a typical method to get viewers emotionally invested. Like Joey and Dawson in Dawson's creek. Probably a ton of these examples.
I think that's one of the strengths of the show. They don't try and ram home every emotion or problem. It's a hospital. They deal with the worst of times.
Fuck me man, you pretty much made me tear up with that single line. Favorite/most memorable scene in the show for me!
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Just an amazing human being and actor. If you haven't seen The Whale, it's highly recommended.
It made me cry though. It's really sad.
Of course he is an amazing being and actor.
Have you seen the scrubs episodes where he played Cox's brother Cox's best friend Ben?
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I just watched the other night and was unreasonably angry at the end crying uncontrollably. Idk how to mark spoilers on here but the end just pissed me off. Phenomenal otherwise
Man those were the days! I loved scrubs! I remeber the episode where JD tells a joke about a moth going to a closed office but forgets the punchline. He proceeds to tell a story of the moth going about it's day for like 5 mins and then remebers the punchline... Because the light was on. Kinda had to be there but man that had me cry laughing.
The accidental shaggy dog joke. He made it so much better by being both upbeat and awkward.
I brought my mother once to hospital with a bad stomach. Slipped a punch line from scrubs. The female doctor countered it within the same second perfectly from the show, a assistant behind us added the next line and I finished the roundabout. My mother looked around us, understood the joke but not where it came from - she hated Scrubs deeply from her heart - and we all told it Scrubs was just the thing.
I'm surprised no one mentioned the REAL barbie:
This is still not Barbie.
This is what you put on Barbie: 🍖 (you cook meat with it, because barbecue)
The couple that will later found Mattel, were on a vacation on Germany when they saw a doll (forgot the name ). At home they literally copied it and it became a huge success, selling worldwide. The CEO of the German toy company didn't know about it until he saw it being sold on a toy shop. The company was dying, partially due to the barbie doll and so they sold the company to mattel. Watched a vid about it like two days ago.
that was a scum move yeah. but I don't know if it counts as stealing it .. also the German doll was a doll from an adult comic strip in a newspaper, it wasn't particularly for children
We talking legally or morally? Because legally, if the toy wasn't registered, trademarked, w/e in the US then they did nothing legally wrong.
It's definitely a dick move to just copy someone's product and sell it as your own though.
because they were different markets ? and different products for different target demographics? idk
Am not sure but it was a doll made for kids by a toy manufacturer they copied not an adult kink thing or something. Sot it's the same product, same demographic.
Really? Dang, that's a bummer. I haven't rewatched it since it originally aired but at the time I thought it was superb.
Sexism, homophobia, transphobia all very present and in no way addressed. It was very much a child of the times. Crazy how far we've come in such a short time.
You can write jokes about those topics without being those things you know? Sometimes the transphobic writing points out the absurdity of holding such a position.
Exactly. Most good comedy uses that at least occasionally. Look at Always Sunny!
For them to not age well because of sexism/etc, it would have to not be comedically poking those topics.
I think mostly it did but there are definitely things in it that we don't, and shouldn't, do any more. But I'm an old dude and I've seen a lot of mostly good change over time. Scrubs is just at one of the mileposts, and some of the boundaries it pushed helped us get here.
Yeah, the best unique humour of any show (that I have seen), and it still works today.
Well a lot of the humour is really transphobic or sexist and I definitely remember at least one racist joke. There is definitely a lot of good jokes and it's a funny show, but then something like that comes out of left field and it just kills the mood for me.
There are instances of some gay panic moments, especially in the earliest seasons when that was the norm for early 2000s western culture, but to suggest "a lot" of the humour is of this nature is just plain false.
that was the norm for early 2000s western culture,
Which is why I think it's better remembered than rewatched.
I don't think we watched the same show. No transphobic crap in that show, and the rest of it is JOKES, grow up.
The problem is when you take something out of its time and see every portrayed character as stereotype - you will kill all humor in the end. Imaginge some todays series in 10 years. There will always be some further developed people who adapted their own human being to whats morally acceptable in given time.
Ask people who are "affected" by the humor and if they are offended. Or make jokes about growing grass.
I watched it for the first time recently and it was good but... Nowhere near as amazing as the internet led me to believe it would be. JD and Elliot's relationship in particular was infuriating and I hated any episodes that were about it. They turned each other into horrible people.
To me they felt more like the generic will-they-or-won't-they pairing that a lot of sitcoms felt the need to include and constantly inject with drama, rather than an intentional exploration of a toxic relationship. I honestly preferred them a lot more as friends and felt like their characters had a lot more chemistry together when their relationship was platonic. I was hoping during the stretch of time when they finally broke up for real after being on and off again for a while, and JD didn't have feelings for her anymore supposedly, that things would stay that way. But no, they get back together again eventually. Maybe I'm biased because I'm not generally interested in romance, but I didn't mind the relationship between Dr. Cox and Jordan, or Turk and Carla. It was just JD and Elliot that I disliked. It was honestly my least favourite part of the show.
I'm in complete agreement, the relationship between JD and Elliot was awful. It felt like JD was in a permanent state of puppy love while ignoring a mountain of red flags. The writing always seemed to demand a winner for their disagreements too. There was never any compromise, just one of them deciding to take blame and say sorry while the other accepts the apology. Elliot always seemed to be the winner, even when she was objectively way in the wrong. The worst example I can think of is when ::: spoiler spoiler Elliot cheated on her boyfriend with JD. I think she believed their relationship was over but it wasn't? JD wants to tell so they will break up. Elliot doesn't want him to so they can keep dating. They never bother to think about the boyfriend's feelings. JD "does the nice thing" and doesn't tell so Elliot can continue her relationship built on a lie. Whole episode felt sleazy. :::
Funny enough, Elliot sort of became a heel character for me, I enjoyed it when she got knocked down a peg. From what I understand she's a lot of people's least favorite.
Idk how to spoiler tag so, uh, scrubs spoiler warning:
Oh that boyfriend thing was INFURIATING. It honestly lowered my opinion of her character by a lot. And iirc I think that was the boyfriend that was such a good match for her, like he understood her neurotic hangups and was good at reading her and communicating with her, I think it was that guy at least, but I could be getting them mixed up. I remember thinking she should have stayed with that guy who was so understanding of her issues. It's been a few months since I watched so my memory is a bit spotty on whether that was the same guy or not. But yeah, I honestly almost dropped the show after that episode it pissed me off so much. And it bothered me how when JD was obsessed with her he would lose all his empathy that he would display in other episodes that weren't focused on their relationship and just become a sex obsessed idiot who was desperate to get into her pants.
Oh and don't even get me started on when he finally got together with her and then realized right after that he didn't actually love her, he just wanted something he couldn't have, so once he had it he didn't want it any more. My God did that piss me off. If the writers were so dead set on fucking up Elliot's relationship to get her back with JD the least they could do was fucking commit to it! That really soured my opinion of his character as well. They both came across as just, the worst people ever. It honestly made later episodes when JD was suddenly a good empathetic guy again a bit harder to accept for a while. I mean Elliot was always a bit self absorbed so while it made me like her less, it didn't necessarily go against her character or ruin the believability of what the writers were going for with her (part of her character development was her growing out of her sheltered suppressed sheltered rich girl personality and becoming a more well rounded person. The writing didn't always succeed at writing those types of stories for her but the intent at least still came across, so her being a bad person sometimes wasn't necessarily out of character, even if I had hoped she was at least better than that), but JD's entire shtick from the start was being lovable goofball with hidden depths who may make mistakes but ultimately wants to do the right thing. So if he would do something as awful as trying to sabotage the relationship of someone who was supposedly his friend, and then decide he doesn't even want to be with her after all that, then it becomes a bit harder to believe that he actually cares about his patients, who are basically strangers, when he would act like such a sociopath towards someone he actually knows and supposedly should care about.
Idk, that whole thing just really poisoned a significant portion of the show for a while for me. Any episodes that were focused on romantic relationships or drama between the characters without actually being related to hospital life were probably my least favourite, even the more tolerable ones. The show was at its best when it was actually about the premise of them being in a hospital and how the characters engaged with it rather than devolving into generic interpersonal conflict that you could find in any other sitcom. There were a few exceptions, I know I usually enjoyed the episodes centering on JD and Cox's relationship even if it was outside of the context of the hospital, but those were rare compared to the Romance drama related ones. I could not care less about JD's dating life with or without Elliot, it was always insufferable whenever that was the focus.
To be clear, I DO like Scrubs and think it's a good show overall, but I don't think it's the perfect show the internet treats it as. It has lots of flaws. There was lots of good stuff in it, but some bad stuff too, and when it was at its worst it felt like that dragged it down quite a bit for me. It could have been a lot better, if they'd focused more on that good stuff.
It didn't help that when I watched it with my roommate it was our sitcom replacement for Schitt's Creek which we'd just finished watching, and Schitt's Creek was so good from start to finish and avoided so many of those annoying pitfalls that other sitcoms tend to have, or deconstructed them in an interesting way. Couples actually, gasp, communicated! Imagine that. Even the one technically on again off again relationship in that show (if it can be called that) was done well and in a way that worked really well for the characters' development and didn't feel like it was just drama for the sake of drama, when they split up it made sense why and felt like an important step for the main character in the relationship, and when they got back together again it felt natural because they'd developed so much as characters by that point and were different people than they had been the first time. So coming from that to scrubs which had a lot of my least favourite romance tropes, particularly with JD and Elliot was a bit jarring lol. Turk and Carla were done well, but they couldn't make up for the other two and their dumpster fire.
This turned into a bit of a rant unintentionally lol, I guess I'm still a bit salty over that part of the show. I swear I do still like the show, I just wish it had lived up to the hype.
I rewatch it like every 2 years or so and it holds up and is really good.
It's my ToP 3 show of all time with Community and IASIP.
What version? Because I'm worried on a rewatch that the problems with the soundtrack are gonna really detract from the experience.
So... that means there's a version out there with the original broadcast soundtrack intact?
yep, sure is. at least I hope so because I deleted my old version ,
yep just checked it, it's still up, but it's a private tracker so not the easiest access.
I never fully understood the appeal, but i have some good memories watching it with a group. I rewatched some the other day and it was really gucking bad. I guess if you find bad slapstick funny or seeing people run in these fast forward sequences, then it's pretty good.