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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