Running final season--seasons?--of Scrubs thread

Why? Wouldn't it be better that we see them sooner? Or are you looking out for the best interest of the show again?

You really need to stop that.

 

Smart move by ABC since the show is already in syndication.

I read somewhere that Chalke will be used sparingly in the final season, I'm assuming since she'll be on HIMYM.

 

http://www.tvsquad.com/2008/05/22/bill-lawrence-of-scrubs-the-tv-squad-interview/

I thought this interview will Bill Lawrence might interest fellow Scrubs fans. It has some spoilers about next season in it, so read at your own risk. It also talks about the issues with NBC and why the Princess Bride episode became the NBC finale.

 

How about the article they link to in the first couple of paragraphs talking about a ninth season of Scrubs with no ZB or Bill Lawrence, and the new interns becoming the center of the show, making it sort of a "Scrubs: The Next Generation"? I kinda thought that was a bombshell.

 

That'd have a lot in common with Saved By The Bell: The New Class. Mainly, I wouldn't watch that, either.

 

I've always liked Scrubs, but they are highly overestimating its popularity if they think they can have a spinoff or any level of success without Braff, Faison and Chalke.

Hell, the show was barely renewed in each of the last three seasons and if I'm not mistaken only came back midseason twice. If they can milk another year out of it, they're lucky since it's in syndication when the show is most profitable.

I'm glad it's coming back for another season, but anything without the main three characters would be a colossal mistake.

 

I'd watch a weekly show about Dr. Cox and the Janitor watching TV if it was half as funny as the first three seasons of Scrubs.

 

While watching OU-OSU, I saw a commercial for Scrubs. It's coming back on January 6 at 9 PM.

"Nobody die!"

Awesome.

 

I heard about that earlier this week. I'm stoked.

 

I bought the Season 7 DVDs a couple weeks ago, and I've watched them all at least twice -- not including the first runs -- and just finished listening to the second disc's commentaries.

Here are a few notes:

I think I had this conversation with BYH or HB after it aired: While Kelso's reflecting his past on the hospital bench, the names on the plaques behind him are the cast's dogs, who have died. JoJo is one of them.

My Princess, the fairytale or "fable" episode, which is what the writers call it, obviously, was shown on out sequence -- even on the DVD. It's the ninth episode of the season (709), but shown 11th. This was done, solely, because had the show been canceled, they wanted to go out on this way. Rather than build on the JD-Elliot story line -- which I'll get to -- they'd rather have some closure. That's why Kelso is still in the episode. Kelso's departure is the 10th episode, and if you guys remember, he makes an appearance in the 11th -- he's laughing when Carla calls him about a hospital matter.

JD and Elliot get closer together in a pair of episodes -- most notably in the hospital cafeteria, when Carla and Turk are talking in Spanish about them in the seventh episode and during the last scheduled episode, where they're playing with Sam (JD's kid) at Coffee Bucks, and the camera fades out.

The writers planned on this being the last season, so they wanted to progress Elliot and JD's relationship -- but wouldn't say how far they'd go, for obvious reasons. So when the strike hit and they got word they'd be moving to ABC for another 18-episode season, they decided to hold off on it a bit. When the new season starts, on Jan. 6, they'll pick up with that storyline, though they'll "take a step back" from it so not rush through it.

Legal Custodians was actually pitched by its writer as a real show -- somewhat. The writer who birthed it -- I can't remember his name, and no one would know it anyway -- was pushing for it from its conception. In addition to the intro -- "I'm a lawyer. I'm a janitor. Together, we adopted a cute, little kid. We're Legal Custodians." -- he wrote a scene for the make-believe show and asked Bill Lawrence to push it. Likely, that's as far as it goes -- no matter if JD will watch it or not.

 

FWIW, the pilot airs Tuesday night at 11 (EDT) on WGN.

 

And Comedy Central has started to run Season 7 episodes. I watched two starting at noon -- after I finished watching a pair of commentaries.