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So What The Heck Is SCRUBS About'!
Hey, everyone. "Moriarty" here with some Rumblings From The Lab.
Here is a TV review from a man who calls himself Chachi.
Make of that what you will.
Hey, Moriarty...
Well, at least there's one hope for the fall, and it's called SCRUBS. I had
a not-so-great quality screener from an talent agency, but the show overcame
even the crappy VHS tape. It's a single camera (not sitcom) show that was
created by Bill Lawrence, one of the guys who did Spin City. The SCRUBS
pilot is about an emergency room intern named J.D. on his first day of work.
I guess you could say its setting is basically early ER with the high speed
comedic tone of ALLY McBEAL (when that show was kinda good in the early
days), with a bit of MASH (comedy & tragedy). Zach Braff (who was in the
indie movie The Broken Hearts Club and one of the Woody Allen flicks) plays
JD, and he has it all on his shoulders very successfully. He can go from
drama to pratfalls without missing a beat, and he has the energy and pathos
that a TV star needs to make you care about watching every week. The other
great thing is John C. McGinley, who has been playing high intensity assholes
for years (SWAT leader in Seven, head of FBI in Point Break), and he nearly
steals the show from everyone because, as well allowing McGinley to do his
usual funny jerk self, the writers have given him some dramatic moments which
play really nicely in contrast. The rest of the cast is really good too,
including Sarah Chalk (Roseanne) and Donald Faison (Clueless).
The show mostly happens from JD's perspective (with dead-on hysterical dream
sequence cutaways) about who to trust, who to have a crush on, and whether or
not he can actually be a doctor. Now that Noah Wylie has moved out of the
young doctor role into old mentor on ER, I think there's a space on TV for
the learning curves of being a doctor, except this time it's really funny.
It seems like the bite of the humor is toned down a half-step from what it
could be to be TV-safe (except for a few moments like when JD imagines
himself as a horny sitcom Dad), but it's still miles above everything else.
We'll see if they go the MASH way (with more drama, because this cast can
act) or if they just stick to the funny... either way, it's the best hope for
Must-See TV. There's potential for something great that would almost fit in
better on the HBO schedule than the Must-See TV schedule, and that's the best
compliment I can give it.
It's no Buffy or West Wing yet, but neither were they when they started...
hopefully they'll give a good show a chance...
Looking for my Joanie,
-Chachi
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well, this has got be interested. NBC's advertised it like a wacky sitcom version of ER, something i was completely dreading. but this may be more along the lines of 'ed' than 'the single guy.'
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that this show looks mildly amusing. you have a good point about buffy and west wing, btw. i'll give it a shot. it'll probably make me nervous as hell to get shots or anything.
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I saw this derivative abomination of a pilot.The laughs are completely missing from this "comedy". Zack Braff may be the most vacant and boring actor on network tv.he was at least watchable in "Broken Hearts Club". John C. Mcginley and donald faison and sara chalke are all amiable,but they just have such g-d awful material. The half hour felt longer then any mini-series ever. It was trite and boring. I would rather watch "The Secret Diary of Desmond Pfeiffer" and "Tucker" marathons. "Scrubs" was my least favorite pilot and hopefully the first to get the ax.
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what a bad plant. I haven't seen a plant that bad since "Little Shop of Horrors". Go back and read it again. You'll laugh your ass off. The show actually is supposed to be pretty funny, though. hey, maybe i'm the plant :)
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Aug 24, 2001 10:17:26 PM CDT
It's about all the guys TLC slept with for crack money before th
by darthsnoogans
Sorry, just read the bit about the theme music for "Enterprise". I felt I had to lash out.
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Aug 24, 2001 10:21:22 PM CDT
Now, if they would only put TED McGinley in it, that would be a
by darthsnoogans
Although it would probably get cancelled after three episodes. Good ol' Ted seems to have that effect on TV shows. Why he didn't win an Academy Award for "Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation" I'll never know.
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From PLATOON"S O'NIELL to OFFICE SPACE'S Bob Slidell, John C McGinley is my favorite actor. does that make me wierd
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I cannot recommend Scrubs highly enough. I think it is a shame that the first series has not been released on DVD yet. If you want 22 minutes of belly laughs, chuckles and tears then this is the show to watch.
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