I don't know if I like where this new season's story arc is heading. With all the whispers of this being Braff's last season it definitely seems like they're setting up for it. I mean now we're going to go through probably several episodes of drama concerning whether or not JD will move to Washington..

12/20/2006 11:50:18 AM

^^ no, they are showing the episode from last season (the best IMO) "My Lunch". its the one when doctor cox loses all 3 of his transplant patients and then quits.

12/20/2006 1:35:29 PM

new episode tonight! thank god, the holiday season shows nothing but reruns of just about everything. i need something new

1/4/2007 6:42:15 PM

hahaha, starting out good

1/4/2007 9:06:11 PM

what is elliot's new job?

1/4/2007 9:14:00 PM

private practice

1/4/2007 9:14:23 PM

she accepted a private practice job. why she's still hanging around sacred heart i do not know. obviously the real reason is they didn't want to get rid of her character

1/4/2007 9:15:15 PM

is it common to have a private practice based out of a hosptial? (serious question)

1/4/2007 9:15:42 PM

private practice docs can still have admitting priviledges. my only thought is that she is there for when a patient from her practice has to go have something more serious done at the hospital and they want their own doctor

1/4/2007 10:16:39 PM

come to think of it wilson on house runs his practice out of the hospital

1/4/2007 10:17:57 PM

they explained why she was still gonna be around the hospital on the last show. can't remember the reason though.

1/4/2007 10:20:15 PM

I mega-loathe all of you

[Edited on January 4, 2007 at 11:26 PM. Reason : ^the private prac doc said she could work for him make twice as much & still work at the hospital]

1/4/2007 11:25:12 PM

gotta love the dane cook joke. quality.

1/4/2007 11:27:29 PM

it bothers me that JD acts like a selfish asshole

like before he was screwing up and making innocent mistakes and it was funny

but now he's just an asshole

only real complaint for this season

1/4/2007 11:29:42 PM

^^ yeah, and all the House (and other hospital drama) references.

[Edited on January 4, 2007 at 11:30 PM. Reason : .]

1/4/2007 11:29:55 PM

hes become a little smarmy recently, he was alwasy a bit dopey but its just not working like it used to

1/4/2007 11:32:01 PM

smarmy?

1/4/2007 11:45:56 PM

ENGLISH MOTHER FUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT!
http://www.m-w.com/dictionary/smarmy

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" : revealing or marked by a smug, ingratiating, or false earnestness"

1/5/2007 12:20:49 AM

just never heard the word smarmy before in my life. and frankly, i'm willing to bet i'm not the only one

[Edited on January 5, 2007 at 12:37 AM. Reason : .]

[Edited on January 5, 2007 at 12:37 AM. Reason : .]

1/5/2007 12:32:57 AM

yeah i've never heard the word smarmy before

1/5/2007 1:07:28 AM

i have, its not like its that obscure of a word

1/5/2007 1:46:35 AM

I used smarmy once while making a peanut butter-marshmellow sandwich.

Back to Scrubs...I do think JD's character has gotten a little off. However the new episode is def. one of the better ones of the new season.

1/5/2007 8:26:05 AM

I can vouch for the word smarmy.

1/5/2007 9:26:27 AM

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"is it common to have a private practice based out of a hosptial?"

i believe they are called hospitalists

1/5/2007 10:39:32 AM

maybe they are intentionally changing JD's character so that people won't see it as a big loss if or when he leaves the show at the end of the season

1/5/2007 1:13:27 PM

Best episode of the season by far. When JD is on the back of the Mercedes and runs back, that was classic.

1/5/2007 11:29:09 PM

I've been trying to pinpoint why this season seems different than all previous ones and I think, like has posted before, they seem to be distancing JD from being the focal point of the show. To me, one of the most fundamental elements of the show has been his relationship w/ Cox but they haven't progressed it at all this season. In addition, I always enjoyed his feuds w/ Janitor, who seems to have pursued other people to torment. Cox and Kelso rarely interact, which was very important early on. And, does JD still narrate the show? I haven't gone back through to check but it seems like it's just taking a fly-on-the-wall approach instead of how the story used to be told (through JD and ,occasionally, through the other main characters). Also, what was the point of Cox and JD having new kids? Turk and Carla made sense, Cox maybe (doesn't really add anything), but it's just really wierd for JD to be in this situation. I fear the show may be winding down, which is tough as it's been my favorite.

1/6/2007 12:29:46 PM

the video clip "Guy Love" from the upcoming musical episode is free on itunes this week

1/6/2007 2:15:06 PM

I miss everyone struggling to figure out who they are. I don't even recognize these characters, except for the Janitor. The Janitor is quality.

And girls are batshit crazy

1/11/2007 9:30:43 PM

wasn't a bad episode, but the storyline was a little weak.

1/11/2007 9:33:07 PM

musical episode tonight

1/18/2007 9:00:10 PM

i hate it when shows do musical episodes!

1/18/2007 9:04:36 PM

damn elliott looked fucking hot in that opening

1/18/2007 9:04:42 PM

^^ i love it

1/18/2007 9:13:42 PM

^^ that and the "bumper buddies" comment from JD have been the only really cool things about this episode

hahaha okay, and the turk/jd song

[Edited on January 18, 2007 at 9:22 PM. Reason : guy love]

1/18/2007 9:18:09 PM

ok, I haven't liked the episode until the carla/turk song, which was awesome

1/18/2007 9:26:09 PM

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"i quite possibly just witness the greatest thing to ever appear on television"

1/18/2007 9:31:51 PM

i usually cant stand musicals either, but damn if that episode wasnt perfect

1/18/2007 9:37:24 PM

meh, not so sure. it was ok - i could have used some more variety in the songs. There were too many ensemble broadway showtunes. The Turk & Carla one was great though.

i hate to be that guy who makes somewhat arbitrary comparisons to other similar but nonrelated topics.... but I can't see a TV musical without comparing it to Buffy's Once More With Feeling. That's the pinnacle of musical TV shows right there, and making comparisons, this Scrubs just didn't hold a candle to Once More. Granted, Buffy was an hour long show, which they extended to 52 minutes of air-time just for tihs episode (instead of the normal 42 for hour shows), so they had a lot more to work with. But it made much better use of its characters and their strengths and really got a huge variety of music and dance. Also, since Buffy is purely fanciful anyway, they had a lot more leeway in how/why people where singing and dancing, while Scrubs had to make sure the sick woman was in the area each time they broke into song.

And WTF - it wasn't in HD? that's bullshit - musicals are one of the formats that should be making the most out of widescreen formats (once again, see Buffy - that single episode of the entire 7 seasons was filmed in widescreen and shown letterboxed)

1/18/2007 10:27:46 PM

Id agree that OMWF was better, but I think it was mostly that it was longer...they wanted to do so much with this musical but only had 22 minutes to do it in...the ratio of song to not-song was way out of whack. Spread this episode over an hour and give it more dialogue scenes and its much better. That being said, "Everything Comes Down to Poo" and "Guy Love" were some great Scrubs moments .

^This show has always been SD, save for last seasons finale, which was an "experiment" according to the producers, and they didnt like the results (no idea why, but thats whats been said). The last 4 seasons of Buffy were shot wide, so it wasnt a big change other than deciding not to go 4:3 safe for the musical.

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"i hate it when shows do musical episodes! "

I only know of two shows that did this, and theyve already been mentioned? Who else?

1/18/2007 10:49:45 PM

the Simpsons have done several and although i'm a huge fan, i really loathe anytime they replay those episodes

1/18/2007 10:51:07 PM

^^ oh, yeah. now that i look back at last week's episode on DVR, it was in SD. I guess it just really stood out here, but my wife tells me I complain about that every week.

And on my dvd sets, buffy isn't in widescreen except for OMWF. Angel is, starting with season 2 (or 3?)


^ yeah, the Simpsons one's are usually pretty good. Or maybe i'm just thinking about the Monorail one, which was spectacular, of course. It helps that I was in The Music Man play as a kid, which the vast majority of people who continuously quote that episode don't realize it was a direct parody of.

[Edited on January 18, 2007 at 10:57 PM. Reason : .]

1/18/2007 10:55:18 PM

Ally McBeal did a musical episode. I used to watch the show (no homo) and lost interest halfway through.

1/18/2007 11:05:16 PM

don't forget the Drew Carey Show

1/18/2007 11:08:00 PM

Buffy.... huh huh... huh huh...

1/18/2007 11:36:03 PM

the songs were pretty weak until Dr. Cox's big song, then they got a little better, but as others have said, as far as musical episodes go, Buffy puts everything else to shame.

1/18/2007 11:41:26 PM

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"And on my dvd sets, buffy isn't in widescreen except for OMWF. Angel is, starting with season 2 (or 3?)"

They were shot wide, but they were framed for 4:3. I have the R2 DVD box and they are indeed anamorphic widescreen, but occasionally you see mics and what not you shouldnt see, but Im usually engrossed in the show enough to not notice. I have no idea if they ever aired wide in the US or not.

Did The Simpsons ever do a fullout musical? I thought they just did musical numbers on occasion, which is pretty much a staple of any animated show (Futurama, Family Guy, American Dad are all full of them), but never an episode that was mostly song and dance.

1/19/2007 4:22:50 AM

yeah they did, the mary poppins episode, the evita episode and the one where it was more of a clip show and they went back and reviewed all the songs they'd done on the show before. it was the episode where bart and homer rented that movie "paint the wagon red" with clint eastwood remember?

1/19/2007 7:43:39 AM

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"Buffy.... huh huh... huh huh..."

Shut up Doanny. You're out of your element!

1/19/2007 9:36:20 AM

eh - i thought it was ok. I did like the man love song, and the Dr. Cox song was pretty good, but I guess overall at the end of the night, I laughed more at the 30 Rock episode that came on afterwards

1/19/2007 10:21:43 AM