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-On Friday (Jan. 21), "Scrubs" will film in front of an audience, using multiple cameras, for the first time. Fans of the show needn't worry: It's not a radical overhaul dictated by NBC to improve ratings.
Instead, an extended fantasy by J.D. (Zach Braff), who's treating a patient who's a TV writer, will play out on the show as a traditional sitcom, complete with a live audience and laugh track.


-"When we first cast this, I told everyone that it was a show built on pace," Lawrence says. "So even if you have a joke in the middle of a speech, John McGinley, I want you to -- people are gonna process that joke, but I want you to get through that speech the way people talk, and haul ass.
"And now John has a monologue in the sitcom with like four laughs in it, and he's going to have to, overnight, learn the skill of getting a laugh, holding, then continuing on with the speech as if that's the way somebody talks."

 

[Dan]

Hey, I have no problem with mocking sitcoms and their laugh tracks. Sounds funny.

 

[AirBrian]

As long as it remains in satire of "traditional" sitcoms with laugh tracks, I have no problem with this.

One of my favorite things about the show is the fact that it does not use laugh tracks.

 

[ConfusingJazz]

God damn it, fake laugh tracks aren't funny. They never have been, never will be. I understand what they are trying to do, but everytime a show tries to do something like that, it makes me want to punch the writer.

 

[border]

This reminds me of that George Bush "sitcom" that the South Park guys did. It was supposed to be making fun of sitcom conventions, but since that was all they did it was just a conventional sitcom --- AWFUL.

I don't really care so much about this since it's just one episode.

 

[Trakball]

Scrubs, the garment!

 

[Dan]

This reminds me of that George Bush "sitcom" that the South Park guys did. It was supposed to be making fun of sitcom conventions, but since that was all they did it was just a conventional sitcom --- AWFUL.

I don't really care so much about this since it's just one episode.

For that matter, it doesn't sound like it's an entire episode either, just a longer-than-normal fantasy sequence of JD's. Or maybe it recurs a couple times in the episode, but the article certainly indicates that it's not for the whole show.

 

[Memles]

From what I read...

The initial act is in standard Scrubs style. JD meeds up with a patient who is a TV Writer, and the 2nd (And maybe 3rd as well) Acts are shot in front of a live audience of Scrubs fans who bought tickets for the taping at auction to support Tsunami relief.

I think it's a great concept because of how different Scrubs is. As the article itself says, Dr. Cox monologues like crazy, but now he'll have to pause for laughs, and work through lines differently. It's a neat experiment, and I think it will be neat.

 

[AirBrian]

From what I read...

The initial act is in standard Scrubs style. JD meeds up with a patient who is a TV Writer, and the 2nd (And maybe 3rd as well) Acts are shot in front of a live audience of Scrubs fans who bought tickets for the taping at auction to support Tsunami relief.

I think it's a great concept because of how different Scrubs is. As the article itself says, Dr. Cox monologues like crazy, but now he'll have to pause for laughs, and work through lines differently. It's a neat experiment, and I think it will be neat.

Wow, that's cool. Now I'm excited.