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Watch The SCRUBS Musical Tonight!!
I am – Hercules!!
A note from my longtime pal, Kevin Biegel, once a prolific AICN contributor and now a staff writer for NBC’s “Scrubs”:
Herc,
Would it be too big a hassle to run a reminder that this Thursday is the Scrubs musical? I wouldn't bug you except it's really damn good and it's already getting some really nice press. See?
Four star review from David Bianculli …
And then there's this real nice one.
Here's some predictions:
Number of talk backs that reference the Buffy The Vampire Slayer musical: 26
Number of talk backs that reference the Buffy The Vampire Slayer musical in a manner akin to "OMG, it was sooooo much better than the Scrubs' musical": 26
Number of talk backs that refer to the Scrubs' musical as "way too gay": 12
Number of talk backs that refer to me as "way too gay": 26
Number of talk backs that refer to the Scrubs' musical as a nice nod to classic Gilbert and Sullivan / Rogers and Hammerstein / Les Mis big Broadway-style musical theater and not another RENT-style musical riff: 0
Number of people who think I'm a snob for typing that last one: everyone in the universe
Oh and if you wanna have some funny inside shit for fans, write that Sam Lloyd, who plays Ted the Lawyer, decided that he would dance in the big choreographed numbers like he didn't know why he was dancing and he couldn't stop himself. He looks pretty funny in the background of most scenes.
Now i sleep!
Peace,
Kevin
Thursday Night, 9:00 PM, NBC, after The Office
I know … I should go,
But I follow you like a man possessed.
There's a traitor here beneath my breast,
And it hurts me more than you've ever guessed.
If my heart could beat it would break my chest.
But I can see you're unimpressed.
So leave me be,
And let me rest in peace! Let me get some sleep!
Let me take my love and bury it in a hole six foot deep!
I can lay my body down but I can't find my sweet release!
Let me rest in peace!
Why won't you let me rest in peace??
Once More With Feeling: The Book!!
Major season sets winging furiously toward you:
Batman Beyond 3.x * Justice League Unlimited 2.x * Moonlighting 5.x * NewsRadio 5.x * Northern Exposure 6.x * The Rockford Files 3.x * The Shield 5.x * South Park 9.x *Twin Peaks 2.x * The Venture Bros. 2.x
Would it be too big a hassle to run a reminder that this Thursday is the Scrubs musical? I wouldn't bug you except it's really damn good and it's already getting some really nice press. See?
Four star review from David Bianculli …
And then there's this real nice one.
Here's some predictions:
Number of talk backs that reference the Buffy The Vampire Slayer musical: 26
Number of talk backs that reference the Buffy The Vampire Slayer musical in a manner akin to "OMG, it was sooooo much better than the Scrubs' musical": 26
Number of talk backs that refer to the Scrubs' musical as "way too gay": 12
Number of talk backs that refer to me as "way too gay": 26
Number of talk backs that refer to the Scrubs' musical as a nice nod to classic Gilbert and Sullivan / Rogers and Hammerstein / Les Mis big Broadway-style musical theater and not another RENT-style musical riff: 0
Number of people who think I'm a snob for typing that last one: everyone in the universe
Oh and if you wanna have some funny inside shit for fans, write that Sam Lloyd, who plays Ted the Lawyer, decided that he would dance in the big choreographed numbers like he didn't know why he was dancing and he couldn't stop himself. He looks pretty funny in the background of most scenes.
Now i sleep!
Peace,
Kevin
Thursday Night, 9:00 PM, NBC, after The Office
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I'm sure that the musical is great...but every episode is! :)
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Started watching it on Comedy Central. Something different. Great cast. Yeah. I like Scrubs.
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I love it!
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It's funnier and smarter than all 'The Office's' in the world and not even Dr House beats Dr Cox!
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This vanishes and now reappears minus the original talkbacks?
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It's been re-edited to take out anything that might be construed as negative due to talkback reaction. And any negative talkbacks have been replaced with over-the-top Scrubs love-fest ones. I guess he's a mate, so it makes sense to do a quick censor job for him. There was probably no need. Like I said in the other post that had it's talkback deleted - we love Scrubs.
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...did I mention that musical episodes in shows have been DONE TO DEATH? It's true. They have.
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For the musical episode. I am going to be sad to see this show go.
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...just kidding. Sethela's getting taped today.
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Apparently if you don't proclaim absolute love for this episode you get deleted. And the extent of my own deleted post, I dared say something along the lines of "Meh, it's just another 'quirky musical ep', might be fun, might not, either way I'll wait and watch it when I watch the rest of this season, on dvd". Clearly deletion was totally warranted. What a joke.
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before you cry conspiracy, let Herc explain. maybe he edited something in the copy, and it required a new post for some reason, with a new talkback.why would you ever try to delete TB posts? all you egoists are just going to come back and type what you did before, and scream bloody murder, as you all have predictably done.I'll wait to see what Herc says in the morning...
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Stop with the conspiracy theories, people. I've seen such insulting, negative comments about movies and shows the AICNers love that I can't see them removing a post cuz it says "I hate Scrubs." There was another Scrubs talkback here with a lot of negative comments.
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You know, Herc's "pal" Kevin is way to gay, just like half of the Scrubs musical! My Lord, does he really think it could even compare to something as vastly better as Buffy's "Once More With Feeling"? He is such a snob!! Honestly, the gall of the man, pretending to understand the direction these talkbacks will take...
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The story is exactly the same as it was, with the same intro, same end and same amazon hotlinks and pics, but whatever. And you know what, if I'd been acting like a dick and my post got deleted, fair play, I wouldn't complain, but I wasn't, I just wasn't uber-praiseful, despite being a Scrubs fan (I wasn't rallying against it either, I was just, I guess you could say, somewhat underwhelmed), and yet I still got deleted, and that's just plain low. I'm not losing any sleep over it, I just think it's kinda pathetic to rig public/fan response like that so it's clearly weighted to the side that is desired. But hey, again, not my site, so, whatever.
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The bit about all of the songs in the Buffy musical being the same. And something else that could have been construed as negative towards Buffy that would have riled Buffy fans up. That was my point - it was clear very quickly that it would have the crazed Whedon fans (something I still can't quite understand) up in arms. Personally, I didn't see the need. Scrubs is immensely popular (and with good reason) and poking the ants nest that are Whedon fans could have been quite entertaining. All that aside - as I had said in the deleted talkback, musical episodes are so done that they had far outlived their usefulness long before there even was a Buffy. I guess the Chicago Hope one was pretty good way back when. I do love Scrubs but I fear this will go into the same bin as the 'sitcom' episode.
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...didn't notice any changes myself, but hey, if I'm wrong I'm wrong. Done now anyway regardless, so yeah, time to move on whatever.
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...alternatively it's "done now regardless, so yeah, it's time to move on anyway."Man, wish someone would have deleted *that* post...
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and double entendres than you can shake a KY coated rubber gloved fist at.
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Don't you think?
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Just saying.
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Ok, I am done.
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Oh wait, there is Jamie Presley. Damn, they are both smokin' hot.
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Why is there a Twin Peaks ad?
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on a VH1 show and, swear to God, throw a goofy long hair wig on him and Dr Cox is the spitting image of Weird Al. My daughter thought they were the same person. I told her to regulate her med dosage...but it was scary close.
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I know there's a lot of fondness for Scrubs, but for whatever reason, the over-the-top nature of it now just really makes me cringe (previous seasons this wasn't as bad). And Herc, I love Buffy as much as anyone, but typing those stanzas from "Rest in Peace" is a little overkill.
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This should be fun. Anyone been to one of those Buffy sing-a-longs? I just went to one last friday. what a blast.
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i demand more scrubs. Genius!
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Dr Elliot Reid... I'd like to double HER entendre... grrroooowwwrrrr
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The Stapler
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has been terrible. season 5 started out much the same way, but redeemed itself after a couple of episodes. This season however... I'm considering giving up on it. I'm guess tonights episode will be the final nail in the coffin
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Didn't any of you see the JD/Turk duet that was on the NBC site and youtube weeks ago? Fucking genious. Sure, musical episodes have been done, but done right they can be way funny. Look at Southpark, the movie is way funnier than the show, and the songs are the best part. If any show could hit a home run with a musical episode, it's Scrubs.
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I have ADD
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same category as Rodgers and Hammerstein! Les Mis is closer to Rent than to its predecessors! He didn't even spell 'Rodgers' right!
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you said Overkill! for Scrubs fans, that's a hilarious freudian slip. there is a great episode called Overkill.chrth, welcome back, how is the kiddo? we missed you in the Heroes discussion, even though we didn't have an actual episode to dissect, we had about 200 posts just from Herc's advance screening and cryptic post.
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and I hope Braff can sing better (or at least ham it up better) than Gellar. We all know Turkelton can sing! Be funny to see if Cox does a Hugh Jackman "Boy from OZ" routine ;)
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Is that the word? Incubating? But he's doing it well, whatever it is.
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I'm going to watch the Scrubs musical because 1. Grey's Anatomy will be repeated friday and 2. I'm going to get the OC's last season on DVD. I've never liked that show but the last season has just been really good to me. I love that Autumn Reiser. She is soooooo HOT! I don't miss Marissa Barton.
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Infinitely better than the Buffy musical. Instead of 30% of the songs being good, we got at least 80% if not higher.
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"Guy Love" was the best song of the ep.
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I was just coming to post that. It was quite impressive and exceeded even the Buffy musical.
Now as Dr. Cox might say to Herc: NowlistenBuffy,don'tgetyourbraidsinto atwistbecauseatyournextcomicbookconvention youmighthavetoconsiderthatthewriter ofashowpopularwith12yearoldgirlslike yourselfcouldn'tcompetewithwritersfromaBroadwaymusical.But, puhLEEZifyoumustinsisttocompareourmusicaltothatothershowthanpleasedosointheprivacyofyourdollhouseandnotinpublic. -
and i don't normally watch the show. I always like it when i do, but i have this weird condition where i have to start any tv series from the beginning and catch up before i watch it live. I guess Scrubs is next on my list.
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I'm a big fan of Scrubs. I also like the occasional broadway musical - Avenue Q, Rent, The Producers, Cabaret - all great. That episode was really, really painful. I'm glad to hear some people enjoyed it, I guess. But it was pathetic. Sad since I'm a big fan of the show. But it was painful.
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Instead of comparing it to Buffy, which is drama, we should compare it to South Park, which was typically much better than this. If you think of this as just any other show, it was much better than anything we see on any other network. But since we expect so much more from Scrubs it was sort of a let down. Les Mis it's not, they tried, but it wasn't nearly as good as many of the South Park songs. Plus the ADR was lousy.
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room, ruining what would otherwise be a good night of NBC comedy. How is this gayer than any other episode of this horrid show?
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don't worry they'll make Bad Boys III pretty soon for all those with your uber-manly taste...moron...I thought it was pretty fun. and is it me,or did that chick look WAY hotter at the end in the bandage? she should cut her hair short for sure. I still like the normal show better, cos I'm not into musicals, but it was fun. carla sure can sing!
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I thought the song writing was very well tied-in to the overall arc of the show's characters. Sometimes the characters on Scrubs seem so much like real people with real problems. It's very strange for a show that is completely unreal.
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The song and dance number that was a nod to Grease had me giggling. Probably a little unfair to compare it to OMWF though. BtVS had a pretty huge reveal that Buffy was not in a hell dimension and in heaven at peace which moved the season forward - not to mention THE kiss between Spuffy. Scrubs was a nice self contained eppy that had a basis of reality; it was a singing aneurysm, not a spell! -
Really?.. Oh and Sarah Chalke if you're reading this (and why wouldn't you be??? honestly?!) will you marry my best mate just so I can look at you whenever I felt like it and not feel those "GOD I would fuck her til she dropped a dress size" feelings I get.. if you married my best mate, you'd be out of bounds... can you just take the hit for the team! PUHHHLLLLLLLease Barbie!.
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Yep, that shit was nicely put together and fit right in the Scrubs universe. Nice fucking work.
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New catchphrase!!!
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I agree they had a better hit/miss ratio than Buffy (though Buffy had to write twice as much material). And, the songs got BETTER as the episode progressed, not worse. I'm clicking the old "Keep Until I Delete" button on that way. (And yes, I'm a published songwriter and do have degrees in Music Composition and Theory, so, like, there, and stuff.)
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He thought, and it was so true.
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DO NOT DEBATE ME!!!
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Just curious, was it something like JD saying, "You know, sometimes life seems so much like a big broadway musical..."
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It was because of the woman's anevrism. Notice how they would only sing when she was around. Bill Lawrence, the show's creator, said that they did a little research and found a case of a woman that heard music because of an anevrism. But of course they over did for the sake of entertainment, since it is a comedy. I for one really liked it and I apreciate the fact that they went all out for this one by hiring professional musical writers. The lyrics and the choreography were amazing and didn't feel out of place at all. And "Guy Love" should definitely be released as a single. :)
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The rest, just awful.
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I was literally cringing when most of them sang. The quartet dudes were great though, and the Carla/Turk little dance was fun.
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Except for the fact it was musical, this was structured very similar to a normal Scrubs episode. To those who said it didn't add anything, not true. First off Elliot has a house now, and where is JD going to end up now that she kicked him out? Also, Carla and Turk have a nanny now. Granted the songs took longer than normal dialog, but some things did happen. Also, Scrubs has taken a page from Seinfeld and is increasing the self-referential items. Just off the top of my head, of course Carla is Dominican, but they went over alot of her backstory in the song. Also, the janitor's solo went back to the very first episode when JD said there was a penny in the door track. Pinch off a clue!
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I've enjoyed 30 Rock but last night's was the funniest I have seen so far. I really enjoyed the Scrubs musical - it was a fun episode. "Guy Love" was good but I think the best was the pooh song. And thanks to The Office, today I have "Rockin' Robin" stuck in my head.
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What really kills me is how much music they crammed in...I think I counted NINE songs in a 22 minute episode. Way more ambitious than I would have ever expected. And I totally agree that they should realease some or all of the songs on iTunes.
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And great. I was ready for some cringe worthy events but found myself cheering it after 5 minutes. Totally brilliant, and as minderbinder says, they nailed almost everything. What a great show.
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