SCRUBS: 8.01 “My Jerks”
SCRUBS: 8.02 “My Last Words”
Before you read, please note that if you didn’t watch the two episodes of Scrubs last night, you can watch them tonight on ABC at 8:00. No, I don’t know why. I think it’s to confuse people trying to memorize the new mid-season schedule.
Anyway, I’ve decided to combine my posts for the two episodes of Scrubs for three reasons. The first is because I watched them together. The second is because I don’t think I have enough to say about both to write separate substantial posts. The third is because I’m on my lunch break and I don’t have time.
So there.
I bet a lot of you thought Courteney Cox was going to kill the show. But I enjoyed her appearances on the show. I don’t know how likely it would be that they’d have her as chief of medicine since she seems young, but I thought she did the job well enough and is just similar enough and just different enough from Kelso that I like her.
That being said, I felt the first episode started off slow. Well, not slow exactly, but I just didn’t feel like it started off like a premiere episode would. It seemed to take a good while for it to build to our normal Scrubs humor. It seemed like a mid-season show. And maybe it was. Maybe it was planned for mid-seventh season, and it just never aired because of the strike. I don’t know. But something seemed amiss.
But at least everyone was in it. And it was nice seeing the gang. I already hate the new interns, so please, Scrubs, do not make a ninth season with just those people. Please keep it with our regulars.
I don’t remember much with the episode, except the tired talk and Elliot’s talk with Keith (both kinda downers). But then there was Sad Sack Ted, which was surprisingly funny. Oh, and did anyone notice they fired the Janitor? Uhh…
Meanwhile, the second episode was fantastic. I think it’s right up there with the best episodes ever. It definitely made you feel. It definitely got to a lot of things that the show has touched on for seasons on end. In fact, it reminded me of the episode where JD and crew watch a woman die, and she describes her Heaven as a caberet, and in the end, you see her standing there singing. It just…worked.
I missed a lot of main characters in that episode, but it still resonated. I still hated the interns–ok, the one that starts trends kinda grows on you, but that blonde is terrible (and her eyebrows don’t match her hair…and her nose is too big)–but I feel like JD and Turk really came back to what we’ve seen them be before. With their weird songs and bro-ness.
Anyway, I really liked that one. I have hope for the new season, but I’m wondering what others thought. So share. Comment away.
[Oh, and I must say I'm enjoying the adlibs at the end. Especially at the end of the first episode. How meta. Loved it.]
I liked the second one a lot more too, even though it was pretty sad. The ad-libs were great too, I hope they bring back the real Janitor.
Did they show two episodes just because it was the premier, or is that something that will happen more often?