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Posted: **Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:42 am**

From here.

It's the final season. Also, the Elliot-JD relationship will be resolved.

I find it interesting that they're ending the show because when NBC was undecided on bringing the show back just a few months ago, ABC made it known that they would pick up Scrubs in a heartbeat.

Anyway, the best bit comes from the last paragraph:

Despite critical acclaim, the Thursday shows have not always done well in the ratings. When asked about plans to boost those numbers, Lawrence noted "you can either make the show that you've been making all along and hope that the people that like it stick with it, or claim that the Nielsens are fraudulent, which they are..."

True fucking story. With the new ratings systems out there where they can actually tell what you watch, if you tivoed it, how many times you watched it, etc. I think the days of the book need to die now.

I wonder how many good shows were killed because of those books?

Posted: **Wed Jul 18, 2007 10:31 am**

I'm surprised one of the major networks hasn't already offered to give away free DVRs in exchange for letting them send viewing data back to a central server. 'Course that wouldn't work for me, I've got my own DVR ... hmmmm ...

Got it! They can broadcast a coded information signal buired in each program and commercial, and a little box that goes inline in your A/V cabling between your DVR and your TV collects those signals and sends the data back. They could track what shows you watch when as well as which commercials you watched and which ones you skipped. And which ones you watched more than once, if any.

Maybe commercials will start to get better and actually be worth watching, if they start tracking that sort of data.

Posted: **Wed Jul 18, 2007 11:10 am**

The AP just had a story out about how people with DVRs and TiVo will fast forward through commercials, except movie commercials. Those they watch over and over. Shockingly, the most watched over and over were ones that you wouldn't expect.

Posted: **Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:14 pm**

I have software that removes all commercials, so I dont see them 'cept on live sporting events.

As for Scrubs. "you can either make the show that you've been making all along and hope that the people that like it stick with it"... Have you watched your own show after season 3? It needs to die.

Posted: **Wed Jul 18, 2007 8:47 pm**

As for Scrubs. "you can either make the show that you've been making all along and hope that the people that like it stick with it"... Have you watched your own show after season 3? It needs to die.

A fair point. You can see the network's hands all over the series after Season 2.

Posted: **Thu Dec 10, 2009 7:49 pm**

Season 9 is an abortion. 1 chuckle total in the first two episodes. Longest workout evar.

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2009 8:39 am**

I got behind and didn't watch last season. Haven't even tried this season.

Better Off Ted, which comes on after Scrubs, is a great show. Give that a try.

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:08 am**

Leisher wrote:I got behind and didn't watch last season. Haven't even tried this season.

Better Off Ted, which comes on after Scrubs, is a great show. Give that a try.

Scrubs sucked last year too.

I'll give that a shot, I need something to make the workouts go by.

Posted: **Fri Dec 11, 2009 10:23 am**

You should dig up Season 1 (and whatever they term the episode that aired in the summer).

It was a great season and will help you establish who's who.

Posted: **Sat Dec 12, 2009 2:20 pm**

Watching a repeat, don't know what season, and an x-ray tech guy has a Serious Sam tshirt on.

It was the "Serious Bomb."

Posted: **Thu Jan 14, 2010 7:59 am**

Better Off Ted is pretty good. I'm about 9 episodes into S1. I'm glad that got rid of the screeching.

JD's character has finally left Scrubs. And, while the show isn't nearly as good as S1-3, it's about 100x better without him.

Posted: **Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:45 am**

I've been re-watching all the Scrubs, an episode a night when I feel like it prior to bed, and I'm up to Season 6.

I can honestly say that I still believe the first two seasons of Scrubs were some of the best TV ever. The next two seasons were strong, but I think season 5 is where it jumps the shark. I'm still watching because once Kim came into the picture I started missing a lot of Scrubs due to life, and their move to ABC. I'm curious to see if it actually did get better without JD.

On a side note, I find it interesting that he left the show to do movies, and he did Garden State, which wasn't bad, but he hasn't done much since.

Meanwhile, I've seen Turk in a few things. B movies, sure, but he's working. Haven't seen Dr. Cox, Elliot, or Carla anywhere, but I know Cox has always been a character actor, so he'll get work if he wants it. Ted showed up on as episode of Cougar Town as Ted. Haven't seen The Todd anywhere. Oh, and Janitor has another hit show on ABC, "The Middle".

Update: I was closing Zach's imdb page (I research my posts!), and saw that Sarah Chalke is getting a big arc on Cougar Town.

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Posted: **Mon Sep 12, 2011 10:49 am**

Even when he leaves, he... just... keeps... coming... back.

The best later episodes are the ones where he never shows up, but even still, they aren't great.

Agreed on the early seasons.

Posted: **Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:37 am**

TheCatt wrote:Season 9 is an abortion. 1 chuckle total in the first two episodes. Longest workout evar.

Seriously. I'd like to see what happened there when the show became about "Med School."

I just finished watching all 9 seasons on Netflix. I am going to have to hit the wikipedia page to see what happened. I get the feeling that Elliot and JD's actors didn't like each other since they were only in 2 scenes together the entire (short) season. Even when they were supposedly having a conversation together, you saw the camera going back and forth between them... there weren't many shots showing them actually together in the same room at the same time.

Also, what's the deal with Cox's actor hating Hugh Jackman? I wonder if that's an inside joke.

Posted: **Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:52 am**

I just finished watching all 9 seasons on Netflix. I am going to have to hit the wikipedia page to see what happened. I get the feeling that Elliot and JD's actors didn't like each other since they were only in 2 scenes together the entire (short) season. Even when they were supposedly having a conversation together, you saw the camera going back and forth between them... there weren't many shots showing them actually together in the same room at the same time.

I can assure you that is very much incorrect.

JD and Turk were real life roommates prior to the show and during at least the show's first season or two. They're best friends.

Turk routinely shows up in JD's indy films to this day.

Posted: **Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:10 pm**

No, I didn't mean JD and Turk, I meant JD and Elliot. In season 9, to my memory, they had exactly 2 scenes in which they were actually in the same room together. I wondered if there was actor tension.

Posted: **Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:31 pm**

Huh. Elliot from Scrubs is also Beth from Rick & Morty.

Weird.

Posted: **Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:36 pm**

TPRJones wrote:Huh. Elliot from Scrubs is also Beth from Rick & Morty.

Weird.

HOLY SHIT.

That's awesome.

Posted: **Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:36 pm**

Wikipedia did not mentin any actor tension. So I dunno.

Season 9 was weirdumb.

Posted: **Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:49 pm**

As of January 2015, Sarah and Zach were playing ticks on the interwebs by pretending to be a couple, so no tension.

I did just read that she was preggers in Season 9, so that might have something to do with things.