After hearing people talk about this, I am not going to even attempt to watch it. I feel the "series" finale last season was perfect and thats the way I want to remember it ending. I suppose I could just view this as an entirely different show, but I still don't think that would work for me.

12/10/2009 4:29:35 PM

I just watched the first episode of season 9 and had a few questions.
I never really kept up with the show and don't even think I saw much of season 8. Last thing I remember Braff had gotten Banks pregnant.
How is it that Braff is now with the main blonde from the original series (who is pregnant)?
Did Banks get an abortion or just take care of the kid herself?
She was in the first episode and pregnant; is she or Carla going to be in this season much?
Is Braff leaving after 6 episodes?

12/13/2009 3:59:16 PM

JD & Kim had the baby, but only after Kim said she miscarried but was lying and JD and Turk found out at a medical conference. JD & Kim tried to get back together but as she was giving birth he drove her crazy and didn't say he loved her. Kim moved about an hour away and JD gets to have his son from time to time.

JD & Elliot got together and basically became a normal couple and apparently about a year has passed between the end of the original Scrubs and the start of Scrubs, Med School.

I don't think Carla is going to be in the season at all. Elliot will have some appearances for the first 6 episodes, after that her and JD are not set to appear in any other Scrubs episodes.

12/13/2009 6:38:43 PM

Thanks

12/13/2009 6:53:22 PM

Currently, in the 9PM Tuesday slot, there's nothing for me to really watch, so I'll stick with it. The episodes have gotten better, but too much of the comedy still revolves around JD and Turk. So for me, the real interesting part will be whether they can at least keep the comedy the same with JD.

Even if they can't, I will probably still watch, as I don't have anything else to watch during that slot.

Currently, the inner dialog and script is about 50% JD and 50% Lucy. The inner dialog is about the same as well. However, the flashbacks/daydreaming are still mainly contained to just JD, and the flashbacks/daydreaming is where Scrubs got a good bit of comedy from.

How that will work with Lucy remains to be seen.

12/16/2009 7:05:48 AM

the thing about JD's character is that with all the goofiness he was still able to turn serious on a dime and spout out some monologue that was quite thoughtful and serious.

I just can't see that happening with Lucy. She's is all of JD's annoying goofy side with none of the other.

12/16/2009 8:18:01 AM

Looks like they are going to be burning the remaining episodes off by the end of next month, and then probably canceling it.

12/21/2009 10:28:06 AM

same with Better Off Ted

12/21/2009 10:35:27 AM

^cancelling Better off Ted? NOOOOOOOO


As far as Scrubs, I just can't see myself continuing to watch this especially after Zach Braff leaves. Lucy is an annoying idiot and if she's going to be the main character its game over.

And no Carla, Eliot, or Janitor? Why am I even watching this now?

12/21/2009 11:22:00 AM

new episode tonight. these are the final half dozen or so, so might as well tune in.

12/22/2009 11:20:26 AM

i'm loving james franco's bro

12/22/2009 11:32:39 AM

how can you stand that kid? is voice is annoying, and only exceeded by how annoying his script is.


UGH

12/22/2009 1:33:04 PM

i think him being obnoxious is kind of funny

12/22/2009 1:37:27 PM

need moar australian

12/22/2009 1:56:51 PM

Quote :

"Looks like they are going to be burning the remaining episodes off by the end of next month, and then probably canceling it."

I don't know. They've had it planned out since the beginning to do only 12 episodes (IIRC) through January. Remember, this show is in the same time slot that V originally started in. And they've planned since before V even aired its first episode for the show to do only 4 episodes in November and then finish up beginning in March of 2010. In that slot, Scrubs was to take up half of it. I'm sure after Scrubs finishes its run, they will either show re-runs through February or do one of those shitty reality TV shows for a month as a "special."

12/22/2009 5:34:36 PM

a new episode premiered friday night and two more will air tuesday night. They've been entertaining.

1/3/2010 6:34:30 PM

entertaining? eh.... i don't know.
The new girl cannot carry the load of the lead character. I'll stop watching soon if she remains the main lead and narrator.

1/3/2010 8:05:51 PM

well, there's only like 6 eps left so not a big deal to watch it through

1/4/2010 8:44:04 AM

Lucy is meh, but I like Denise

1/5/2010 5:28:15 AM

Cole has to be the most annoying character ever written into the show. I've given this season a try, but I can't watch it without wanting to punch that kid in the face.

I miss Ted

1/5/2010 11:05:00 AM

Is this show officially done after these 6 episodes? Given how it's been so far, I'm not sure I really care.

1/5/2010 11:15:35 AM

lucy is neurotic enough that i like her

1/5/2010 11:38:37 AM

Quote :

"Question: Will ABC order the back-nine episodes of Scrubs? I’m loving the new direction, and I don’t want the show to end on an unresolved note in episode 13. —Rion Ausiello: I’m afraid I’ve only got bad news here. No back-nine, and no closure in episode 13. “It’s just a routine episode,” says an insider of what could turn out to be the show’s series finale. “There’s no special moment or anything.”"

[Edited on January 7, 2010 at 8:00 AM. Reason : b]

1/7/2010 8:00:06 AM

It sucks a good show like that is going out in a shitty way... but really, they should have never even brought it back after last season... Oh well.

I hope the other shows I like don't do this too. It kind of ruins it IMO (you listening How I Met Your Mother and The Office?)

1/7/2010 9:25:41 AM

i hope the actress who plays Denise finds another role soon as i like looking at her

1/7/2010 9:26:32 AM

i watched two episodes and they were not that bad at all

they guy from the high life commercials is hilarious and the relationship between turk and dr cox is always funny and competitive

looks like they are going to try and make di franco's brother less annoying

1/7/2010 11:14:00 AM

james franco != ani difranco

1/7/2010 11:47:41 AM

why did i think that di franco

dunno

1/7/2010 12:14:27 PM

watching 'our white coats' now. though very different now i think it's a really cute show and i'm slightly sad it won't continue

1/7/2010 12:43:01 PM

I MISS JANITOR

1/7/2010 2:45:23 PM

Welp, that's it. Tuesday night's episode ends the short Scrubs Med School series. There are two episodes that have not aired and may air in random spots during april or may, but that has been undecided. As for now Scrubs is over, perhaps this time for good.

And ya know what, i'll say it..i was actually starting to like the new show. The last two full episodes without JD or Elliot were suprisingly funny. It's too bad.



Alan Sepinwall...

Quote :

"Of last night's episode, one of my Twitter followers wrote, "I think that was the 6th time I watched a new scrubs thinking it would be the last ever." I don't know if the number could actually be that high (it was only the last couple of NBC seasons where the show began to seem like it was living on borrowed time), but I understand the larger feeling. "Scrubs" has been close to ending for what feels like forever, and this isn't even automatically the ending. As Bill Lawrence said at press tour, ABC might air the two episodes left in the can on Wednesdays (if they do, my guess would be during the rerun-heavy March/April period). And because ABC owns the show and therefore (unlike the situation with "Better Off Ted") makes money off the DVDs and other back-end items, there's still a chance (however tiny) that we could see another season. But since I don't really believe in the renewal scenario, and since Bill told me that the last episode in the can won't be a real finale-style episode like we got last year, I can treat "Our Dear Leaders" as the end of the line, and anything that airs afterwards as a bonus. And in that context, the episode summed up the strengths and weaknesses of "Scrubs Med School." On the plus side, it made the Cox/Drew parallels even more explicit with Perry's plan to make Drew realize being a leader is a good thing, it had more fun with Denise (as played by a sore-throated Eliza Coupe) learning to accept that she has emotions other than hatred, it gave James Franco's Brother Dave Franco more funny bits of business in the margins (along with similar stuff from The Todd), and it let Donald Faison dance, however briefly. (And on a night when I randomly put on WGN long enough for them to show a "Scrubs" promo featuring Turk's greatest dance ever!) But the Turk story overall gave us a character who, like JD in the season's earlier episodes, should have grown up more by now. As we saw with last week's lesbian patient story (and as Myles McNutt also observed in his review), in trying to force all the stories to work around a parallel theme, it feels like they've had to regress Turk too much to make his plots match those of the med students. And Lucy's insanity was only funny to a point. When Lawrence told me back in the summer that the new main character/narrator would be a woman, he called it a "dynamic shift." But Lucy is so tonally similar to JD that the shift never felt that dynamic. In retrospect, I wonder what a Drew-narrated version of this season would have been like. We probably would have had to ditch the fantasy sequences, but we actually haven't had that many from Lucy, and that's an aspect of the show that hasn't been essential for a long time. Back in the summer, Lawrence said: "It very well may suck. But don't say it sucks until you see it. And my pledge is that if it sucks, it's not going to suck in a fizzly way. It's going to suck in a giant, 'Oh my god' kind of way, because we're really swinging for the fences and trying to do some big stuff. In the end (if this is the end), this new incarnation of "Scrubs" only occasionally sucked in an "Oh my god" way, and usually when JD was on screen. But there were enough interesting moments, and good discoveries (Franco, Michael Mosley), that I'm glad they gave it a shot. And if ABC somehow decides to keep "Scrubs" as The Show That Won't Die, then it sounds like (and, based on these more recent episode, seems like) Lawrence and company have a better idea of how to make this version of the show work going forward. "

[Edited on January 28, 2010 at 4:56 PM. Reason : add]

1/28/2010 4:52:59 PM

I actually kind of liked the new show. It was weird not watching it with all the original people in it, but it was starting to actually click recently. I kind of wish they'd just left it if they isn't going to be some big concluding episode. Last year's finale was perfect, sucks this isn't going to go on much farther. I loved seeing the new people, but getting to see the older ones from time to time. It sucks that Carla and the Janitor couldn't have made an appearance.

1/31/2010 2:59:57 PM

Fenway again with your shitty posts. The new show is terrible and I mean terrible.

2/3/2010 5:50:05 AM

Not that I'm going to watch it, but they are giving it a go tonight and next weds with two new episodes to decide it's fate.

3/10/2010 4:08:01 PM

I will be DVR'ing these...and watching at some point.

3/10/2010 4:55:53 PM

i actually enjoyed the last two episodes. First time all season I thought that i could get into this and would miss it if it was gone.

ah well

3/18/2010 12:43:33 AM

I can't read old people clocks.

3/18/2010 7:44:41 AM

http://sepinwall.blogspot.com/2010/03/scrubs-our-thanks-our-final-finale.html

Don't always agree with him, but I viewed this Scrubs as more of a Season 1 than a Season 9.

3/18/2010 10:03:07 AM