I knew the first Zach Braff-free episode of this new version of Scrubs was going to be a bit of a bumpy ride, but I didn’t think things would be this bad.
It’s not just that the episode was lacking in funny. The established characters were mostly written wrong, exhibiting characteristics we’ve never really seen before. And the med students — except for Drew — were so broadly written that they could have been played by anybody.
No wonder why this episode was buried on New Year’s Day.
First of all: Elliot. Was that the same person we left at Sacred Heart last year? Granted, she was a much more confident doctor and person at the end of season eight than she was at the beginning of the series. But I didn’t recognize this Elliot. She was almost cocky, a characteristic even season eight Elliot never had.
Could she have developed it after getting married to J.D. and getting pregnant? Maybe. But it felt like the writers had another doctor in the original draft and just decided to make the doctor into Elliot. Really, Lucy could have been marveling at any doctor who seemingly “had it all,” then called that doctor a “munch” when the doctor left her with her patient. The way it was written, we didn’t really see much of what made Elliot such a compelling character all these years. And, if all Bill Lawrence could afford was a couple of full episodes with Sarah Chakle, he and his crew pretty much wasted an opportunity.
On to Turk. Jeez, the guy’s got to sack up. He worked for an entire year without J.D. You’d think he’d be used to it. He never seemed to be the needy half of the couple, so having him essentially whine and pout throughout this entire episode was a little off-putting. We like Turk because he’s a cocky bastard, comfortable enough in his own skin to be able to dance to “Poison” and feel fine about it. Whiny Turk is not a fun Turk. Maybe palling around with Denise will give him back his mojo.
Oh, and Denise. Didn’t she kind of not like Turk? Or was she just disdainful of the whole weird thing he had with J.D.? Now all of a sudden she’s liking him? Seems convenient that Turk is turning to her to find people like the Korean Helen Hunt and steal birthday cake from too-chipper employees.
And why would Cox conspire with a med student, even if the med student was his designated #1, to get another med student to do all the scut work? Is that really something Cox would even bother with? Cole is barely worth his time, much less the effort to tell him about some fake ranking system.
Finally, Lucy. Dull as usual. Nothing about her character makes me want to follow her as she moves on in her medical career. And screw-ups like mixing the bachelorette photos for the class slides didn’t give me any more reason to sympathize with her.
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It’s J.D.’s last day of teaching and the students all submitted their teacher evaluations. Even though J.D. is the top-rated teacher, he gets one bad evaluation. He’s determined to find out who it is and teams up with Turk as the interractial Hardy boys and they discover a path of clues that lead them to Dr. Kelso’s shag pad. Damn, a dead end. Dr. Cox eventually reveals it’s him that wrote the evaluation, he has one last thing to teach J.D. He does not need other people’s approval and doesn’t need to keep babying the students. It’s medical school, not kindergarten.
Meanwhile, Lucy is unable to draw blood from anyone except J.D. He agrees to let her use him during her exam when she proves unable to draw from Cole. To let Lucy grow and after Cox’s speech, J.D. doesn’t show up to her test and she draws blood successful from Cox.
Oh and Sunny is back and wants to double date with Denise and Drew. Drew says no and Denise quickly pretends like she didn’t want to either. Cox convinces her she’s losing the power in the relationship so she makes him go and ditches him during the date. She explains to him they’re in a relationship because she said so.
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Honestly, one wouldn’t expect Scrubs
creator Bill Lawrence to reveal plenty about the new season of his hit show. But from several of his interviews, we manage to unearth snippets and spoilers regarding this re-imagined ABC series we all know and love.
Since the show premiered this month, we’ve been expecting a lot because the season 8 finale really set the standard high. We didn’t think Scrubs [Med School] would live up to the original, but the fans are still giving it a chance. And with what Lawrence has divulged, we can see why.
We all know that Scrubs [Med School] doesn’t really feature Sacred Heart Hospital, and Bill Lawrence explains the move to Culver Studios. “We built a brand-new set, but the idea is that they ran out of money because of the economy, so there’s doors that go to nowhere and half-finished operating rooms and stuff.”
“The main set we built, besides the new hospital, is a huge auditorium lecture hall where John McGinley lectures the new students,” Lawrence announced on an interview with NJ.com. “And he starts out saying he thinks of them all as tiny assassins who wander around the hospital killing people. And it’s really funny.”
We’ve already met some of the new interns, from narrator Lucy (Kerry Bishe) to the egoistic Cole (Dave Franco). But one person who’s gotten some attention is Drew (Michael Mosley), being Dr. Cox’s #1 and Denise’s (Eliza Coupe) special someone. Lawrence told Spoiler TV that the couple won’t be the next J.D. and Elliot, but instead: “Think Turk and Carla,” he said.
Moreover, we all know how Turk (Donald Faison) and Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) heavily feature in Scrubs [Med School] as regular characters. Zach Braff’s in for six episodes, but what about the rest?
“Ken Jenkins, we ended up using him a lot, so he’s on the show pretty regularly,” Lawrence told TV Guide. “Sarah Chalke makes a lot more appearances than people are writing about. She’s in a bunch more episodes.”
Speaking of episodes, here’s the list for this season, with some spoilers about the plots for each. There’s a total of 13.
9.01 – “Our First Day of School”
Official Description: Set one year after the finale of Season 8; J.D., Turk, Cox, Kelso and intern Denise return to Sacred Heart to teach med school while new med students Lucy, Drew and Cole are put through the wringer on their first day of school
9.02 – “Our Drunk Friend”
Official Description: Lucy learns a hard lesson about what it takes to be a doctor. Meanwhile J.D. and Turk spot a potential love connection between Denise and the new med student Drew, as they play matchmakers with a little bit of help from Dr. Kelso
9.03 – “Our Role Models”
Official Description: J.D. and Drew learn a tough lesson in mentoring when Dr. Cox and Lucy show them that sometimes the student is the teacher
9.04 – “Our Histories”
Official Description: J.D. and Turk show up in costume at a med student’s party. Meanwhile, Kelso bids a fond farewell to Ted and Gooch.
9.05 – “Our Mysteries”
Official Description: J.D. still clamors for Dr. Turk’s approval as he approaches his final day of teaching at Sacred Heart, Lucy searches within herself for the courage to perform a basic medical procedure on a real human, and Denise and Drew make things official.
- Sunny Dey (Sonal Shah), a medical resident from season 8, will be appearing on this episode as a guest star
9.06 – “Our New Girl-Bro”
Official Description: While Turk struggles to find a replacement best friend, Elliott offers some sound advice and guidance to an over-worked and exhausted Lucy.
9.07 – “Our Couples”
Official Description: Lucy finds couplings, dysfunctional or not, throughout the hospital.
- Spoiler TV reports a casting call for Trang, “an intelligent med student who is part of Lucy and Drew’s study group” and a possibly recurring character.
9.08 – “Our White Coats”
Official Description: Before receiving their white coats, the med students of Winston University must figure out why they want to be doctors, and Denise gets a little relationship help from Elliot.
9.09 – “Our Stuff Gets Real”
Official Description: The reality of having a baby begins to settle in for both J.D. and Elliot while Lucy struggles with the reality of operating on people.
- Spoiler TV reports that a casting call has been made for a “bickering Jewish couple” who are “both patients at the hospital and terminal.”
9.10 – “Our True Lies”
Official Description: A case of guilty conscience plagues the med school when a student cheats on an exam and Dr. Cox takes it out on the entire class. Meanwhile, Denise makes a startling admission of her own.
- With another casting call from Spoiler TV, we may get to see a 75-year-old version of Lucy in another daydream.
- There’s also going to be a character named Nicole, 25 years old and is “a stunningly beautiful lipstick lesbian who is in the hospital to be treated for complications from ulcerative colitis.”
9.11 – “Our Dear Leaders”
Official Description: Lucy takes her new assignment as hell week “team leader” a bit too seriously, and Dr. Turk feels threatened when an internationally renowned surgeon pays a visit.
- Spoiler TV reports a casting call for someone to play Lucy’s date – at least 5’10″ in height – in her high-school prom, to appear in a flashback.
9.12 – “Our Driving Issues”
- No episode description released
- Spoiler TV reports two casting calls. The first is for Frank, who is in his “early 20s, a skinny, creepy med student who is partnered up with Lucy.” Another is for Ming, a hot Vietnamese in her early 20s, who will be “an escort who accompanies Dr. Kelso to the hospital.”
9.13 – “Our Thanks”
- No episode description released
- Spoiler TV reports two casting calls. One for “a good-looking, cool med student” named Cole. Another for a character named Eric Coleman, “35, Caucasian. The son of Lucy’s cadaver, Ben. He resents his father and never had a good relationship with him. He has come to claim his body and bury him.”
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Watch a sneak peek of Scrubs Season 9 Episode 5 “Our Mysteries” which airs Tuesday, December 22 9:00-9:30p.m., ET on the ABC Television Network.
Synopsis: Scrubs Season 9 Episode 5 “Our Mysteries” – J.D. still clamors for Dr. Turk’s approval as he approaches his final day of teaching at Sacred Heart, Lucy searches within herself for the courage to perform a basic medical procedure on a real human, and Denise and Drew make things official, on “Scrubs,” TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22 (9:00-9:30p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.
“Scrubs” stars Zach Braff as J.D., Donald Faison as Chris Turk, John C. McGinley as Dr. Perry Cox, Eliza Coupe as Denise, Kerry Bishe as Lucy, Michael Mosley as Drew and Dave Franco as Cole.
Guest starring are Sonal Shah as Sunny, Ken Jenkins as Dr. Kelso and Matthew Moy as Trang. Other guest cast TBD.
The episode was written by Steven Cragg & Brian Bradley and directed by Michael Spiller.
DR. COX MAKES THE FATAL ERROR OF ASSIGNING LUCY AS HIS “HELL WEEK” LEADER, ON ABC’S “SCRUBS“
“Our Dear Leaders” — Lucy takes her new assignment as hell week “team leader” a bit too seriously, and Dr. Turk feels threatened when an internationally renowned surgeon pays a visit, on “Scrubs,” TUESDAY, JANUARY 12 (9:00-9:30p.m., ET), on the ABC Television Network.
“Scrubs” stars Zach Braff as J.D., Donald Faison as Chris Turk, John C. McGinley as Dr. Perry Cox, Eliza Coupe as Denise, Kerry Bishe as Lucy, Michael Mosley as Drew and Dave Franco as Cole.
Guest starring is Reno Wilson as Russell.
The episode was written by Corey Nickerson and Kevin Etten and directed by Peter Lauer.
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It was good to see an episode that had a bit more of a balance between the old and the new. Yes, we concentrated a lot on the J.D./Turk “Bro-a-Palooza” and Ted’s departure from Sacred Heart. But we also got a fair amount of the students working together.
Do Lucy and Cole still need a little bit more of a personality infusion? Sure. But it’s hard to keep up comedically with characters who have been developed over the last eight years. This episode gives me hope that eventually they’re going to be able to stand on their own.
As others have mentioned, we need to see more of Turk away from J.D. We know he can stand on his own as a character, but if he’s going to be one of the significant cast members after Zach Braff leaves in two episodes, we’re going to need to see how he reacts to Cox, the students, Denise, etc. We’ve barely seen him interact with any of them without J.D. around.
Because of the Bro-a-Palooza, there wasn’t one scene where Donald Faison was separate from Braff. And despite how funny the story was — Turk the black cowboy and J.D. the Indian in chaps doing Brazillian fight dancing was priceless — it did Donald Faison’s character a disservice.
I will say one thing, though: Cox making the two of them realize that they’re getting old was a nice breath of fresh air. “Stop wearing ironic t-shirts and just let it happen.” Yes, Bill Lawrence seems to be mining similar territory in Cougar Town, but that’s probably because he’s feeling his forties hit him upside the head. I’m only 38, and I can relate to all of it. But it’s a good reminder to Turk and especially J.D. that their characters need to move forward, not stay in the past.
Ted and Gooch are so friggin’ adorable together, aren’t they? It was nice to see Ted stand up to Kelso and demand more from him than a drunken, clammy good-bye, even if the clammy one was Ted. And it was good to see Kelso finally give him one. After all the abuse Kelso gave and Ted took, it was heartening to know that Bobbo appreciated the guy.
Sam Lloyd doesn’t get enough credit for creating a well-defined character like Ted in his short bursts of screen time, and it was good to see him get a proper send-off. Which of the state songs did you like the best? My choice is Wyoming.
Ok, med students: Nicky Whelan looks like she’s become the fourth new regular, as she’s actually getting major plot time, and a name – Maya. It’ll be fun to see the writers play off her Aussie accent and her way too hot to be a med student physique. Good to see that Cole got some more personality quirks (can’t touch bread) and a teeny tiny bit of heart (he came back to talk to the dying patient played by Paul Dooley). Lucy has a weird habit of pulling on the front of her scrub top; is that Kerry Bishé’s quirk or one she gave the high-strung Lucy? And we didn’t see a lot of Drew, but we saw enough to know he used to eat from dumpsters and is still sleeping with Denise.
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