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After getting extremely bored of the current new releases on my streaming services I decided to give Scrubs a try 20 years after it first aired and up till last week I'd never seen a minute of this show Well I'm late to the party and boy am I glad I finally found it I'm already through 2 & a bit seasons and I'm still roaring with laughter at the cartoonish nature and over the top clips on the smallest of points

If your looking for a light brain free tv show that's legitimately funny from start to finish that's 25ish minutes an episode so it's not a massive chunk of your day (unless like me you let them run through and 4 hours vanishes when you've got 40 minutes for lunch break whoops)

Fingers crossed this great old show keeps at the early levels

It's nice to see a show on these days that can actually make me laugh and doesn't use a truck load of toilet humour. The flashes to an inner world in Newbies mind are always fascinating and sometimes funny. Dr Cox is SO funny as is the Janitor. But what really strengthened my love for this show was the episode 'My Philosophy'. It was the first time in ages a TV show made me cry. I LOVE that ending. Great acting, humorous and a lesson learned at the end of each episode is icing on the cake. This is definately not your average show.

I've watched through this show so many countless times. And every time it's great, it makes laugh and feel the emotions of the characters. This shows deals great with the characters and their jobs. It shows how hard it is being a doctor and a death of a patient effects them. Such as season 1 episode 4 and season 8 episode 2. Episodes that show our characters connecting to their patients. But Scrubs can also give us over the top Hilarious moments. Like JD's day dreams and the stuff Turk and JD get into. All in all this show is not your typical comedy/drama show. It's a great deep series that offers so much.

The show's clever, the dialogue smart, the characters engaging and the the occasional veering into the absurd and outrageous provides a refreshing break from TV fare that is generally tepid at best these days.

Yes, the characters may not all be nice and some may be nasty throughout the show, such as Tara Reid's cameo as J.D.'s slutty girlfriend. But they're always interesting, and the show's constantly funny. The love-hate relationship between Dr. Cox and Jordan is a pleasure to watch and keeping the J.D.-Elliot love/relationship off-kilter is a smart move on the writers' part.

At a time when American TV audiences seem enraptured by garbage, such as "Survivor," "The Bachelor" and "Who Wants to Marry a Gold-Digging Slut/Hunk on a Deserted Island While Answering Questions With 19,000 Chances to Telephone Relatives and Friends for the Answers," NBC's "Scrubs" provides a breath of fresh air.

It is the best sitcom on TV today and I only hope that NBC does right by this show and promotes it as much as it did the over-hyped "Friends." Because "Scrubs" deserves all the promotion so that it can stick around for a long time.

Addendum: The current season of "Scrubs" - where NBC runs two new episodes every Tuesday - is particularly good.

This show gets absolutely no respect from its network and the show's creators, I think, believe this might very well be the last season. So they're pulling out all the stops and the lunacy is inspired, inventive and unquestionably funny.

The remarkable thing about this show is that is so deftly balances wacky, wild humor - the non sequitur fantasy sequences are hilarious - with surprisingly moving and quiet moments.

Zach Braff, Sarah Chalke, Donald Faison and Judy Reyes have a wonderful sense of comic timing. And even though the series revolves around Braff's character, J.D., the show, I believe, belongs to John C. McGinley as Dr. Cox.

His riffs are howlers and, yet, McGinley always finds the humanity in his character and the situations. And Dr. Cox's relationship with his wife, Jordan (Christa Miller, who is superb), is one of the series' highlights.

I only wish the DVDs of the series would come out much sooner. "Scrubs" is one of the best sitcoms ever on TV and its 2006 season provides ample proof of that.

I always thought that Scrubs is a great TV show, not only for the great acting and the funny scripts, but also for showing what working in a hospital is really like. Every doctor will say that "life is not like ER", and scrubs didn't take the whole heroic position and the action-drama scenes, that frankly, is much less common in hospitals than an old man with diarrhea, reflux, colitis or other not so very "photographic" diseases.

the first season was great, and the second season opening was AMAZING, but i felt that during the second season the show became a little "routinic". Season 3, not only bringing new excitement to the show, included some unforgettable moments. Chapter 14, "My Screw Up", is one of the finest moments in TV in the last couple of years. Chapter 16, dealing with "what ifs" was also terrificly done.

Taking you from a wild laughter, through a smile, a breath taking moment, empathy, sadness, and even tears (in that specific episode mentioned), Scrubs is one of the best shows running nowadays...

Just the best series ever, watched it multiple times and I still love it

I thank Bill Lawrence with all my heart and soul for creating "Scrubs." Never before have I become so invested in characters that I actually cry when something happens to them. Well, not since Buffy, at least...

Anyway, Scrubs is a unique blend of in-your-face, slapstick, outrageous humour and tear-jerking, brilliantly acted drama. In the space of 5 seconds, the show can go from laughing your a** off to getting goosebumps from how moving it is.

Take for instance episode 12 of the 3rd season, "My Screwup." Don't worry, no spoilers, but in my opinion, this is the best episode of Scrubs (next to "My Lunch") just because of how absolutely hilarious it is for the majority, but at the end, all of a sudden, with one of the best cuts of all time, you, or at least I, suddenly find tears welling up in my eyes as realisation kicks in.

I recommend this show to everyone, and am constantly outraged how this show never wins an Emmy, they should have picked one up for every brilliant season this show brings out. It is without a doubt, the very best television show there has ever been. Here endeth the rant.

In a sea of hospital (melo)dramas that take themselves too seriously, even though their quality is questionable, Bill Lawrence created something different, a hilarious sitcom that takes the best of both genres, placing the "Friends" type of sitcom in a hospital setting. "Scrubs" is a sitcom, with all the features of sitcoms, but it is much more than that.

In addition to the features common to all series of this type, the "Scrubs" team made an effort to think out of the box and bring many innovations and elements atypical of a sitcom to the genre. The most common are inner monologues, which help us get to know and understand the characters much better. Next are slapstick gags, which often go to extremes, so the series has to use stuntmen. And as our protagonist is prone to daydreaming fantasies, many episodes also have surreal scenes, which often require special effects.

The series was not filmed in the studio, but they rented the entire abandoned hospital and the whole team practically lived in it. Over the years they became a kind of big family, and that is felt in the series and makes it more convincing and natural.

The main character of "Scrubs" is Dr. John Dorian (Zach Braff), a young doctor, immature and confused, with a strong emotional side and even more prominent bad luck, especially in love. He is counterbalanced by his best friend and roommate from college, surgeon Christopher Turk (Donald Faison), a sports guy, confident but emotionally closed. Their bromance is the backbone of the series and is one of the best I've seen on television.

Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke) is a spoiled daddy's princess, who meets real life for the first time in the hospital and, with many professional and love turbulences, finally grows into a doctor and a woman worthy of respect. On several occasions, she gets into affairs with Dorian, which regularly ends badly.

Nurse Carla Espinoza (Judy Reyes) is Eliot's friend and Turk's fiancée. She is bossy and compulsive gossip of "Sacred Heart" hospital.

Dr. Perry Cox, played by the fantastic John C. McGinley ("Platoon", "Stan Against Evil") is a top doctor, arrogant, narcissistic, and extremely entertaining inexhaustible source of sarcastic remarks, Dorian's unofficial mentor, who steals every scene in which he appears.

Jordan (Christa Miller) is his ex-wife (actually the wife of Bill Lawrence, the creator of the series), strong, determined, uncompromising, with a tongue so sharp that she is the only character in the series who is able to steal a scene from Cox. Their love/hate relationship is deeper and stronger than all the other romances in the series.

Neil Flynn plays Janitor who, along with the tireless polishing of hospital floors, always finds time to haunt and stress interns. Along with Cox, Janitor is probably the funniest character in the series.

Sam Lloyd plays a hospital lawyer with an inferiority complex, always on the verge of suicide, except when he practices with his acapella group in hospital elevators.

The head of the hospital, Dr. Bob Kelso, played by Ken Jenkins, is only interested in profit and that no one bothers him. He treats his wife like a dog, his dog like a wife, he is in love with his old-timer and with his mean and/or cold-blooded remarks is a kind of the main villain.

Turk's colleague, surgeon Todd (Robert Maschio), is a sexually burdened latent gay man, obsessed with high-fives, to which he constantly invents new varieties, while trying to crawl under every skirt he sees and pours outrageous jokes.

In addition to the main four, which consists of Dorian, Turk, Elliot, and Carla, and permanent supporting characters, of which I mentioned the most impressive, through "Scrubs" parades a considerable number of guest characters, some only for an episode or two, while others stay longer or occasionally return to the series. Neither of these characters lags behind in their characterization and performance, and some are played by quite famous names, such as Elizabeth Banks, Tara Reid, Heather Graham, Heather Locklear, Michael J. Fox, David Copperfield, Ryan Reynolds, Dick Van Dyke, Matthew Perry, Colin Farrell, Christopher Meloni, and others.

The characterization of all, even the most secondary characters, is fantastic and after a few episodes you get the impression that you know them personally, and after a few seasons, they seem like family. They are very diverse and cover all types of characters, often brought to caricature. Which brings us to humor.

The series is very intelligent and witty written, and uses all kinds of humor, from naive childish, romantic, and friendly, through slapstick and comedy of the situation, to mean irony and sarcasm, and even quite morbid black humor. I can't remember exactly when political correctness became the basic and most powerful principle of modern television and destroyed everything it touched, completely killing the spirit of healthy humor, but there is no trace of that here. Moreover, I noticed a couple of moments that make fun of PC trends.

Although the series lasted the entire first decade of the new millennium, they did not run out of inspiration and themes. They couldn't when they don't hesitate to ruthlessly and shamelessly make fun of all the topics that come to their mind, even those that most of the similar series avoid at any cost. Although I can't think of any really similar ones, except maybe "Ally McBeal".

"Scrubs" skillfully combines all genres into a kind of sitcom, new, original, and refreshing, and it does it very well, which is confirmed by the duration of nine seasons. I started probably about two hundred series, finished maybe fifty, and very few even partially rewatched. I'm watching "Scrubs" for the third time in its entirety.

10/10.

I just finished re-watching the penultimate (some, including myself, might call it "final") season of Scrubs. I was worried going into it that it wouldn't stand up - Scrubs was a show that I deeply enjoyed around my late teens/early twenties when it was on TV a fair amount and I bought all the DVDs as was my wont. It was a social glue with my new housemates at university and we eagerly swapped discs (people don't do that now) and binged whole seasons (people still do that assuredly).

Scrubs was such a fundamental part of that period of my life that it's hard to unstick it from there and clearly see the problematic elements - much like eager Friends fans do (it's definitely much better than Friends). What made it special was its unusual single camera format, its constant surreal asides, its likable cast and its occasionally surprisingly unvarnished views about the realities of American healthcare and what it means psychologically to work for them. The series is rooted, after all, in the travails of a real medical intern and despite the trashy romances and tired earnest indie tropes there is a palpable sense of character growth here that is largely unmatched in any other mainstream American sitcom. As a teenager I lapped up the romantic tangles and heartbreak - the stinging existential lessons and whiplash tonal shifts between silliness and melancholy. They seem hokey now but at the time it felt wildly fresh and deeply absorbing.

The principal issues with it are, of course, ones of representation. The most shocking examples compared to a show that would get made now is the already old-fashioned bleakly divided gender stereotypes, the heinously conspicuous lack of any LGBT characters of note (apart from, arguably, The Todd) and the largely unhealthy entitled nature of J.D.'s relationships. I always thought that Turk and Carla's pairing felt rather bafflingly perfunctory as well but the long game is strong with them and they are portrayed in far more depth afterwards. The bruised old fashioned machismo of the great John C. McGinley shines out to me as probably one of the more remarkably rounded roles in the show and it's fascinating that the older I get the more clearly I see him.

Watching it again all these years later, where the messy unpleasantness of the final (some, including myself, might call it "non-existent") season is long past, it was strangely like meeting a younger version of myself. Not perfect, with a lot to learn, but strangely reassuring. That in these virustimes Faison & Braff have chosen to do a "deep dive" podcast going through each episode is a testament to the deep affection that the cast still have for it which puts Scrubs in an even more endearing light.

9 season doesn't exist! 9 season doesn't exist! 9 season doesn't exist!

The first few season are extremely funny, good humour, good plot lines and fun to watch. I have introduced a few people to Scrubs and they have all enjoyed it.

Then something happened around season 5. I don't know if the writers changed or the producers wanted to go in a new direction but it lost that special spark that it had in the first 3 or 4 seasons. The humour because more forced and didn't seem as natural which really took away from the show.

Watch the show from the beginning and you'll enjoy it, but stop after season four because it just goes downhill after that.

Seasons 1 - 5 were outstanding. Quirky, zany, irreverent, unpredictable, unconventional and very very funny with first class performances on a consistent basis from the principles in the cast. The cameo appearances were unexpected and highly entertaining with many stars enthusiastically embracing a change from their comfort zones. And the music accompaniment was spot on too. Then came season 6 and it all went pear shaped. The introduction of new characters and poor development of existing characters was uniformly disastrous. The change of form is terribly disappointing and only underlines the thought that this previously peerless show should have quit when it was ahead. A guaranteed 10 stars rating has therefore been reduced to 5 and only on the strength of the first 5 series.

If you haven't seen scrubs, start now and thank me later!

OK, reading the Summary, you may think that this comment will be negative towards Scrubs. Well, sorry to disappoint, but its not. I love Scrubs. From J.D.'s neuroses, to Elliots insecurities, all the way to Jordan's ice woman exterior and Ted's suicidal tendencies. Scrubs has made television worth watching since 2001.

So, the show itself is not a disappointment. Its when you enter the real world. You see, I myself am a First Year Resident. And my god, life is dull. Sily of me, i know, but i went in, hoping everything will be exactly like Scrubs shows me its gonna be. i expected a Dr. Cox like person, always angry at something but a damn good doctor. i expected Dr Kelso, more worried about money than his patients. i expected a Nurse Espinosa, a caring, feisty mother figure. And i got none of these. NONE. of course, a lot of the show is realistic enough. the different situations that they face are situations that i deal with almost every day. as n example, its fine. But, you cant help feeling, after watching all 4 series of scrubs, that somethings missing. which is why scrubs is the best.

Not only does it show real life medical exploits, but it manages to shroud them in a way that viewers can still relate to, but thats not entirely the hard, naked truth. its ingenious. from watching the series, you get all the little bits, rounds, treating a patient, researching what may be wrong with him/her/it, but all that stuff which manages to look fun really are mundane. so, i get the boring stuff out the way at work, then go home, watch scrubs on DVD, and thats my release. Scrubs is like my life, but a more twisted, conceptual version. and that is why, scrubs is the best. Its very much like the episode with the Comedy Script writer. you come back home from a hard days work of treating people, and scrubs is your release.

Flicking around the Roku channels and I was able to start watching these from the pilot episode. This has to be one of the best sitcoms ever on television. The chemistry with all of the actors is definitely off the hook. Now that we know the actors it's a bit hard to imagine anyone else playing any of them. The bond between Zack and Turk is on par with Richie and Fonzie. And the janitor character really adds to the comedy, can't imagine the janitor not being in the series. Highly recommended

I was very surprised to like this comedy. I am one who does not like American humour but I love this. It reminds me of a TV 'Dramedy' we have over in the UK called teachers. The characters are consistent throughout the three seasons that I have viewed and very enjoyable. To be honest, I didn't get on with it at first but given time, I'm glad I gave it an extra chance to prove itself.

The soundtrack through the series is well chosen, the tunes really do fit in with the story of what is actually happening and there are some episodes that have a serious undertone which many of us could learn from.

I love the use of actually getting inside the characters minds (day dreams etc.) which gives it that extra dimension of comedy and stretches the limits of creativity, there is just so much that can be done with that idea.

Some lovely guest star appearances and topped off by supporting characters that stay loyal to the show rounds this up as a great US Comedy which I (i can't believe it myself) adore.

Never before and never after Scrubs has there been a show this funny, this sad, this surreal and the same time very real as this one. It's a masterpiece of television with some of the best written characters, some of the best episodes of any TV show you will ever watch and a soundtrack that is sublime.

If you haven't watched Scrubs, watch it. And if you have, watch it again.

Not to much I can say but one of the greatest shows ever to hit the television.

Not seen it? Do it... Do not die without seeing Scrubs.

"Scrubs" is the most under-rated sitcom in my eyes, it is one of my favourite shows ever; it has so much more depth, emotion and fleshed out characters. Much more than some popular sitcoms ("The Big Bang Theory").

The comedy is fantastic! J. D, the lead (played by Zach Braff) is hysterical, and the show's unique style of comedy in which we see inside the main character's head, ( we see his thoughts and fantasies) is really well done, also J. D. narrates every episode (apart from the his/her/their stories and season 9), The funniest character is The Janitor (Played by Neil Flynn), and what they do with him in season 7 is great.

Even though "Scrubs" is for the most part a comedy, the use of drama is amazing some of the best examples of this are the episodes "My Screwup", "My Lunch" and "My Philosophy" just to name a few.

The only negative is that show dips in Season 7, Season 8 and Season 9, season 9 especially, because the show was suppose to end in season 8 but, ABC wanted to keep it going and the result was "Scrubs: Med School" long story short ...it is rotten.

Overall, 7/10.

I've only recently started watching "Scrubs". It was one of those shows that countless people had told me was phenomenal. Unfortunately, given the fact that NBC kept moving it around, I never had the time or motivation to get into it.

Then Comedy Central started showing it 10 times a week.

I watched some of the later season episodes and immediately became addicted. I was tentative about the show as a whole, though, as I didn't know how the earlier seasons would be. Don't get me wrong, I'm a die hard "Seinfeld" fan but let's be honest; it took a good 3 or 4 seasons for the writing and acting on that show to really gel (in my humble opinion, anyhow).

I was pleasantly surprised to find out that this was not the case with "Scrubs". The pilot was fantastic as has been every episode that followed.

I have never seen a show that was able to blend slapstick humor with genuine sincerity so well. All of the characters are wonderful - kudos especially to John C. McGinley as Dr. Cox who delivers brilliantly, both, side-splitting humor and tremendous dramatic acting that will leave a lump in anyone's throat at times. And as I started watching episode after episode and season after season, I really started to appreciate how strong the ongoing storyline is.

If you've never seen the show and you've read this far, I sincerely implore you to watch it. Pick up Season 1 on DVD and watch it from the very beginning. It legitimately upsets me that "Scrubs" never really took off (and that I didn't find out about it until recently). Though 6 seasons is a solid run, I fear this one may be the last. And if you heed my advice and watch the pilot, a few weeks later after you've bought all of the DVDs and caught up on the show, you'll feel the same way.

As I first watched "Scrubs" i was hooked after the 2nd episode, this show is great, good humour, charming characters and no "audience laughter" The setting is great, comedy inside a hospital, i don't think this has been there before scrubs. But what really amazed me is the way they try to use a believable story and the only scenes where something goes nuts are in JDs head. Also, they have great guest appearances (MJ Fox, Brendan Fraser) and great emotional episodes.

But everything who set scrubs apart for me as a great comedy kind of got lost with the beginning of season 5, the stories weren't that real anymore and the lines with JDs crazy fantasy and the real story seemed to blur. More and more scrubs became some kind of slapstick parody with just weird daydreams.

For me Season 1-4 are still great and I'll watch those DVDs a lot, but everything from S5 on is not worth a re-watch for me.

I was - initially - a fan of scrubs. Primarily this was because it was different but - as I predicted - you can't sell a TV show on "different" forever.

The show is supposed to be the journey of a young doctor "J.D / John Dorien" (played by Zach Braff) from his arrival at Sacred Heart hospital to some point further along his career and all (and I mean ALL) of his personal issues in between.

He is "accompanied" by 2 other inmates Elliot Reed (played by Sarah Chalke) as his on-off love interest and Chris Turk (Donald Faison) his "roomie" and best friend. Other notable cast members are J.D's immediate boss Perry Cox (played by John C McGinley), the chief of medicine Bob Kelso (played by Ken Jenkins), the janitor (played by Neil Flynn), the hospital lawyer (played by Sam Lloyd) and Chris Turks girlfriend / wife Nurse Carla Espinosa.

JD (Zach Braff) as the so-called "lead" is extremely annoying and just about the most whiny little oik you could ever come across. Lets put it this way, if by some dint of a miracle you found yourself working with someone like him (most people would have the sense to fire him within the first week), you would almost certainly find yourself using him as a punch bag; he is that annoying. He is a shallow, self-obsessed, neurotic, incompetent and mean individual who actually does little more than shift the focus quite fairly and quite rightly onto the people who carry the show: John C McGinley, Ken Jenkins, Sam Lloyd and Neil Flynn.

Dr Elliot Reed (Sarah Chalke) is every bit as self-obsessed and shallow but has the added annoyance of a high-pitched voice.

Dr Chris Turk (Donald Faison) who is an "African American" spends most of the so-far 6 series regurgitating the "my people have suffered because of...." rhetoric and it is not only boring but serves to actually make anyone who is at all interested in equality think "shut up and go away". Yes, we get it he feels put upon. Wake up and smell the coffee, the universe is a rough place.

Frankly, there isn't much positive to say about this show.

It fails as a serious hospital show because despite the number of doctors they have as consultants, what they have actually done is create a series that depicts a hospital as these doctors would LIKE it to be, not as it is. It is the least realistic of any medical series past or present because of this fact. It is NOT an accurate representation of life in a hospital at all. Perhaps a classic case of "too many cooks spoil the broth"? It fails as a comedy because there are only 2 truly funny people out of the cast of many. They are John C McGinley and Sam Lloyd. Their sequences are what kept me watching but even they get tedious after a while.

It fails as entertainment because the writers (of which there are many) seem to have the dreadful habit of wanting to "be our moral compass" and "teach us lessons" in a shallow, half serious and deeply flawed way. I mean, why pick a neurotic little wimp as a vehicle for moral guidance? The episodes covering abortion I found particularly distasteful and - for the record - if you're going to go into work one day, scrub the word entertainment from the agenda and substitute it with "issues" you lose your initiative, some of your audience and almost certainly any opportunity for humour.

It fails as a comedy because well it just isn't funny. It's childish, silly, goofy and certainly alternative in the same way that mud could be considered an alternative or coffee), but it isn't funny. It lacks any sort of sophistication or appeal to grown ups and this is strange because I believe it's the adult audience it's designed for. Perhaps the general intelligence level has dropped or perhaps the show is aimed at adult special needs individuals.

Not a bad start, but tapered off to become boring, annoying and not in the least bit entertaining. Shame really, could have been good if they sacked some of the doctors / consultants (would you trust the words of doctors who spend their careers trying to break into Hollywood instead of saving lives?) and actually concentrated on what was making it passable as a TV show.

According to the scrubs homepage, the writers and director have a "no *sshole in the studio" policy. THAT made me laugh. A phrase sprang to mind: "locking the stable door AFTER the horse has bolted...."

wont be buying the DVD's, not sorry to see that it's not on T.V anymore.