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[aparisi2274]

Its on.

Frequent Updates after the episode ends

 

[aparisi2274]

LOL.

Those white chicks just schooled turk on how to rap.

 

[Dan]

Those white chicks just schooled turk on how to rap.

That was downright hilarious. I about died. Hahahaha.

 

[Matt]

Wow, this episode. rock even more the normal so far.

JD: “You have inoperable stomach cancer.”
Parrot: “Liver disease! Liver disease!”
JD: “If only, Chancy, if only.”

lol, love the Being There reference.

 

[Memles]

Enjoyable episode on the whole...interesting to basically see her inner thoughts for a change.

Oh...and the Smurf thing rocks. Pure and simple.

 

[aparisi2274]

Did she just say

"Suck on his dick"

When she couldnt come up with anything to say to Dr. Kelso

 

[Dan]

Did she just say

"Suck on his dick"

When she couldnt come up with anything to say to Dr. Kelso

"Suck on a stick"

 

[aparisi2274]

"Suck on a stick"

Thanks. I knew she didnt say what I thought.

 

[Dreamfixx]

JD gets no respect! :lol

 

[Dan]

"I had a threesome. And not the cool kind."

The Todd's great.

I love all the random old pop culture references, like the Smurfs and Wonder Woman, or Eddie Murphy's "Raw" suit from earlier in the season.

 

[Paradox]

great episode

 

[AirBrian]

"I had a threesome. And not the cool kind."

The Todd's great.

:lol :lol

Great episode this week.

 

[Socreges]

I just want to:

I really miss when the show was more balanced between broad comedy and that certain introspective sentimentality. Now it's pretty much entirely broad comedy. And as I've said before, the episodes don't feel like they have any real consequence any more. When they end the characters haven't really changed at all, and often the show claims the characters have changed, but then there's no evidence of that in the following show. It seems like it changed a lot in the third season. I just don't care about the characters as much as I used to, and I think it's because they go too much for the joke and less for real development.

YES. My take:

The strengths of Scrubs' beginning (the first two seasons, I suppose) was that the characters were either reacting to each other or their new environment. With so many avenues exhausted, they've all settled into a predictable rut. Plus, the storylines seem so insignificant, though old themes weren't necessarily any more important. I think this is because the show has taken on more of a slapstick-comedy feel and has trouble transitioning to deeper moments.

I still enjoy the show, but I'm disappointed so far.

 

[Dan]

The strengths of Scrubs' beginning (the first two seasons, I suppose) was that the characters were either reacting to each other or their new environment. With so many avenues exhausted, they've all settled into a predictable rut. Plus, the storylines seem so insignificant, though old themes weren't necessarily any more important. I think this is because the show has taken on more of a slapstick-comedy feel and has trouble transitioning to deeper moments.

I still enjoy the show, but I'm disappointed so far.

Yeah, I think I first took notice of this whole thing at the end of the third season when JD was going back and forth about whether he loved Elliot or not. It was just so ridiculous. I was thinking about this whole thing a little more, and I think I decent way of describing it is that the characters have become caricatures of their original selves. Everything about them is generally exaggerated.

And while I think Heather Graham's character provides some laughs, she steals time that could be spent developing the core cast. I guess it started happening with Tara Reid's character. Any recurring guest has to be developed at least somewhat in order to prove useful, but back when the show primarily had oneshot guests that was much less of an issue. On that same note, unless I'm mistaken, we haven't really gotten to know any of the patients this season. They're solely plot devices now. There's no time to do anything with them. I'm not going to sit here and say that change a show's focus or emphasis is necessarily bad, but I think these are some of the things that made the show special early on.

I still think there are more avenues for the show, but they're being wasted. You've still got JD and Elliot's relationship, it just needs to be treated somewhat serious. Give it some weight, make it matter. Plus, the pair have new positions within the hospital yet their functioning relationship with Dr Cox and Dr Kelso really hasn't changed, and they're not doing much to really develop their relations with the new residents. I think a subplot that could have potential is having Elliot or JD start pushing towards the whole tough love thing with their residents, just like Dr Cox. Develop it over a season or so, and how they deal with distancing themselves from their own feelings from when they were residents. You know, they know how it felt but after a couple years, they also know they truly learned. How do they deal with knowing not giving the residents what they may want and instead giving them what they need. It doesn't have to be all melodramatic or anything, but they managed a good balance in the first two seasons.

I don't know... just some crazy and random thoughts from me.

 

[Socreges]

Yeah, I was tempted to call them caricatures, but it hasn't gotten quite that bad yet. For the most part, the humour has just gotten uncharacteristic and sillier. Whereas with other once-great sitcoms, like Seinfeld and Friends, the writers definitely began exploiting the eccentricities of characters to the extreme. Monica, for instance, became much more neurotic in the last few seasons than she ever had been. Creativity seems to expire at some point and comedy falls back on the single most promiment dimension of each character - again and again.

 

[DMczaf]

"Frick on a stick with a brick!" :lol

 

[AniHawk]

This was the funniest episode all season (actually, the funniest one I've seen in quite a while, but I still love the show).

"I hope we're going to a happy place." :lol