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Summary: One of the med students cheats on a test, so Dr. Cox punishes the entire class. Elsewhere, Denise makes a surprising admission
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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.
So, if this is what the new Scrubs is going to look like going forward, then I can understand why ABC is burning off the episodes.
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it seems like this is the last we’re going to see of the Scrubs: Med School gang, unless the show gets yet another last-minute reprieve. So it’s tough for me to get too attached to this new set of characters.
But that may be a good thing. If what we saw last night was any indication of how things are going to be once the med students are carrying the show, it’s in trouble.
Yet again, we get an episode whose laughs came more heavily from J.D. and his neediness than from anything that was going on with the med students. Sure, it was good for Cox to give J.D. yet another lesson in maturity before “Dr. D” ended his teaching job. But I thought it was a lesson J.D. had learned already, especially when he’s on his way to having his second child. It all seemed like an excuse to have J.D. show really emotional slide shows to the students and to have he and Turk get to the bottom of the “bad evaluation” mystery as the interracial Hardy Boys.
Lucy’s desire to get J.D. to help her pass her blood drawing test was nice, but it didn’t feel much different than Elliot not remembering how to put in breathing tubes from one of the early seasons. Yes, a new class of students are going to have the same problems, but it’s not like we needed to see another unsure and skittish student. It’s probably the reason why Lucy so far hasn’t been the right person to depend on for the show’s narration. There’s just not enough fun going on in her head to make us interested in what she’s thinking.
If the show had gone narration-free, and just paused for flashback-style fantasies from all the cast (which is what we see now to an extent), the show might have worked a lot better. For instance, it would have allowed us to explore what’s going on with Drew and Denise more, and see Cox play off both of them. I like this budding relationship — as we saw, Denise determined that it was so when she neglected to clean out Drew’s wallet after sex — and I like seeing Cox’s brand of misanthropy make the other two look like Dr. Sunny (whose return was fun to see, by the way. Even her clothes are happy).
A Cox/Drew/Denise focus would make for a bit of a negative vibe at first, but as we saw over the years with Cox, discovering his optimistic sides always makes for satisfying episodes. I’d say lose Lucy and Cole, concentrate on the misanthropes, and you might have a worthy spin-off.
More fun stuff:
- Kelso’s love nest dorm room was pretty scary. Though it didn’t look much different from previous love nests of his that we’ve seen. Cole’s “can you be my grandpa?” was probably the best line Dave Franco has uttered to this point.
- I forgot… did we meet Keyshawn last year? Some of last year’s intern-centric episodes are hard to remember, so I’m not sure if we already knew about the Sunny/Keyshawn pairing or not.
- Good to hear Denise acknowledge her “fatty phase” of last year and admit she’s past it. It was a fun part of Intern Denise’s character, but Resident Denise, Who Might Have to Carry the Show needed to be a bit more normal.
- Cox’s description of Sunny is pretty accurate: “A wicker basket of adorable kittens sliding down a shimmering rainbow.”
- Cox in a ponytail must have been a sight to see. If Jordan did one thing right in their relationship (besides giving birth to both their kids), making him cut that off was probably it.
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“Our Histories” — J.D. and Turk show up in costume at a med student’s party. Meanwhile, Kelso bids a fond farewell to Ted and Gooch, on “Scrubs,” TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15 (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 Ken Jenkins as Dr. Kelso, Sam Lloyd as Ted, Kate Micucci as Gooch, Windell D. Middlebrooks as Captain Duncook, Steven Cragg as Lt. Underhill, Nicky Whelan as Maya and Paul Dooley as Paul. Other guest cast TBD.
The episode was written by Corey Nickerson and directed by Ken Whittingham.
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Early in “Our Role Models” JD tells Lucy he’s preparing her to get by in med school after he leaves very soon, just as “Scrubs” will have to survive once Zach Braff finishes up the second half of his six-episode commitment. But watching that scene, and most of this laugh-light episode, I once again felt like the show, if not Lucy, would be much better off if JD were gone already.
I think there’s potential there with the new characters, Drew in particular. But so long as Braff is around, we have to spend so much time on tired JD jokes that no one else is getting a chance to really establish him or herself as a source of humor. Even Turk is still largely being defined by his relationship to JD, and as I watched him yelling at the incompetent suck-up, I wished we were getting more of that and less of Turk rolling his eyes at JD’s misunderstanding of sports(*).
(*) Though I can’t hate too much on a scene in which Turk admits he cries at the end of “Rudy,” can I?
With Lucy feeling too much like a female JD, and with Cole still a fairly two-dimensional character, it’s weird to see the show being carried by three characters (Cox, Denise and Drew) who are sarcastic misanthropes, but they’re also the three best-defined, funniest characters we have right now. (John C. McGinley’s weary delivery of “No Candy Perry!” was the episode’s one big laugh for me.) It feels like the writers are aware of the sarcasm build-up and are trying to compensate by softening Denise, as two of the three episodes so far have been about her opening her heart a little to other people. I think that’ll work in small doses, but I don’t want to lose the essence of the great character Eliza Coupe and the writers created last year. The solution isn’t to change Denise too much, but to do a better job with Lucy and Cole, Aussie Supermodel Doc and maybe even Ugly Don Cheadle. (Though I suspect he’s going to be a Snoop Dogg Attending or Colonel Doctor-esque extra who rarely, if ever, speaks.)
I still enjoyed the first two episodes enough that I don’t regret the show having come back. Again, even if the show were awful all season, it still wouldn’t take away from what I loved of the series, any more than the last couple of NBC seasons did. But these episodes are making me retroactively dislike JD a little. He was a great character for a long time, but if he’s not going to grow up and/or work more in support of the newbies, I’d rather he not be here. I guess we’ll find out after three more episodes if a completely JD-less “Scrubs Med School” works. Right now, though, the show’s not quite there.
What did everybody else think?
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Scrubs Season 9 Episode 2 – Our Drunk Friend
Here is where we see glimpses of what Scrubs: Med School could be. Lucy gets too involved with a case. Denise opens up — well, at least as much as she can open up — to Drew. Cole being Cole. Cox overseeing everything with his lit-on-fire rantings.
But they’re just glimpses. As in the premiere, the more memorable stuff was from the old crew and how they interacted with each other. The most troubling part of that was J.D., or, more accurately, the Two J.D.s.
On the one hand, we have the mature, kind, and professorial J.D., the one who is mentoring Lucy and imparting all the wisdom he’s learned over the last eight years. And we have the jaded and grizzled veteran J.D., who knew that Lucy’s alcoholic patient Alan wasn’t going to get himself any help. If that’s the J.D. we’re going to get in the six episodes Zach Braff is in, I’ll take it.
But, mixed in is the silly and needy J.D., the one that seems to appear and disappear depending on the season. Last year, he was mostly gone, but this year he seems to be back with a vengeance. He tries to take Cox’s “#1″ sign away from Drew; he conducts class from a tree and is afraid of getting back down. He coos at Turk like he’s Denzel Washington in The Great Debaters. He thinks to himself that he looks “dynamite” in a cloak. It’s a J.D. that’s always funny, but this version of him needs to be dialed back a bit so the other characters can shine.
I’m really enjoying Michael Mosley as Drew. Because he’s older than the rest of the students, his character has some backstory to explore. I mean, who doesn’t want to know about his bald black guy phase (was it like a Turk/J.D. bromance or something not as innocent?).
Drew’s budding “relationship” with Denise has also been fun. Eliza Coupe was the only one of last year’s young crop to show that her character can have depth, and the glimpse we saw tonight leads me to believe she’ll be a lot more than the scary Gremlin that Turk described her to be. As long as she continues to have that hard shell, though, I’ll be happy. I mean, who doesn’t like to see a hot girl say she’s “losing wood?”
I’m still not sure what to think about Dave Franco as Cole or Kerry Bishé as Lucy. Cole’s just a caricature right now, notwithstanding his mom issues (don’t care how hot she is, it’s not OK to have a “wingmom” to help you pick up girls). Lucy is supposed to be the emotional center of the show, and at times it looks like Bishé has the comedic and acting skills to pull it off. But in other scenes… well… she just seems like “generic blonde skittish girl.” I guess we’ll find out as time goes on.
More fun stuff:
- Cox still calls J.D. “newbie.”
- I hope the Aussie student is still around in subsequent episodes, and not just because Cox calls her “centerfold.”
- It seems very Coxian to make Drew send a pic of himself wearing the sign every ten minutes. Even when he’s in the shower. How does he keep his phone dry?
- “Hopefully he’s gonna die someplace else, like in a yard or somebody’s shed.” – Cox on Alan the drunk patient.
- Denise to Cole: “I don’t know what orlando-based boy band rejected you, but you do what I tell you.”
- What’s with the rash of Gremlins jokes lately? White Collar had one, and I think I’ve heard references to the movie elsewhere. Did the Blu-ray of it come out recently?
- Some Todd goodness in this episode: “Naive five!”
- Loved Lucy’s fantasy of her story being a Lifetime movie, with Antonio Sabado Jr. — her “safely ethnic dreamboat” — as Alan the drunk. Nice wig on J.D. in that one.
- Is it confusing to you that we are in both J.D.’s and Lucy’s head? Lawrence has asserted, despite some questions from the network, that the audience is smart enough to keep track. I think he’s right; it hasn’t been distracting at all.
- Kelso is great as the womanizer. I hope he does hit Cole’s mom “like a big rig with no brakes.”
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