Oliver Willis

15 Responses to “Do You Watch Scrubs?”

1. 1 JayTea
   Apr 2nd, 2006 at 5:04 am

   I’m going to follow your example on illegal immigration policy: I agree with you, but you’re right for all the wrong reasons. I watch it for the UN-relatable elements: the surrealism, the fantasy sequences, and the utterly UNrealistic characters and situations. I recall a whole line of speculation that the janitor wasn’t real, but merely a figment of JD’s imagination, because for the longest time nobody believed JD’s tales of persecution AND no one else seemed to interact with the janitor, much like Calvin and Hobbes.

   Toss in the sheer hotness of two former stars of ABC sitcoms I followed (Christa Miller from The Drew Carey Show and Sarah Chalke from Roseanne) with Judy Reyes and the show becomes irresistable. But NOT for any reason you cite.

   J.

2. 2 nursepam
   Apr 2nd, 2006 at 9:04 am

   I LOVE Scrubs. It’s one of the very best sitcoms on television right now.

3. 3 cypher
   Apr 2nd, 2006 at 9:04 am

   “It is just funny from start to finish and not in that sort of dumb canned sitcom laughter kind of way, but in that  it s silly but I can relate to that feeling sort of way.”

   Not Scrubs, but My Name is Earl.

4. 4 Oliver Willis
   Apr 2nd, 2006 at 11:04 am

   I love Earl too.

5. 5 Todd B.
   Apr 2nd, 2006 at 11:04 am

   I’d be hard pressed not to agree.

   Earl, The Office, and Scrubs are just about the only comedies worth watching on television at the moment.

6. 6 Frank_D
   Apr 2nd, 2006 at 11:04 am

   “My Name is Earl” Now you’re talking!…

   If I had enough hair, I’d want hair done like Crabman’s

   Scrubs lost it’s “something different” feel IMHO a few years back

7. 7 SaveFarris
   Apr 2nd, 2006 at 1:04 pm

   Now that Arrested Development is dead, Scrubs is the best comedy left standing.

   How can you not love The Todd?

8. 8 Heraldblog
   Apr 2nd, 2006 at 6:04 pm

   Scrubs is too good for TV.

9. 9 ArC
   Apr 3rd, 2006 at 3:04 am

   Earl is my current (active) favourite. Last year, and until they cancelled it, Arrested Development was my favourite just ahead of Scrubs. Scrubs is great but AD was just operating at a higher level throughout the show.

10. 10 bryan
    Apr 3rd, 2006 at 4:04 am

    I like Earl and Scrubs too. Which version of “The Office” do you like? The emphasis in the US version is different, but still quite funny. I don’t know if either “Peep Show” or Catherine Tate will make it over from the UK: the first is a really slow burner, the novelty of which is the filming angles, the latter is a sketch show, but it’s the granny, the school child and the camp guy she plays which make it very very funny. One of the men from Peepshow is in BBC3’s “The Smoking Room”, which is very much like “The Royle Family”, in that the action takes place in one room (mostly). The Smoking Room is probably available online on the BBC website.

11. 11 DanielS
    Apr 3rd, 2006 at 10:04 am

    I disagree with the ads saying this season is its best season - I think the first two were better - but that being said - it’s one of few shows that literally make me laugh out loud.

    I like ‘Earl” but I rarely laugh out loud. True with “The Office” - but I am much more interested in what’s going to happen with the characters…

    My wife and I tried to wacth “Arrested Development” three or four times, but we never really “got it”…

12. 12 Todd B.
    Apr 3rd, 2006 at 1:04 pm

    When NBC announced that an American version of the Office was on the way, I was a little sceptical, considering how they did Coupling in, but I decided to give it a try.

    The first series was still pretty funny, even if they were essentially just Americanizing the British scripts, but the second series has been hilarious!

    I’m still hoping, and I know I’ll probably regret saying this should it actually happen, for an American take on Father Ted - I had heard rumours of a pilot featuring Steve Martin, but it seems like nothing really came of that. It’d be interesting to see if the US could pull it off, or if it would have the same fate of Book of Daniel.

    @DanielS:
    Arrested Development is a tough show to get in to in the middle of a season - my bet would be to rent the DVD’s on Netflix, when you have a weekend to spare. It really is a clever and hilarious show.

13. 13 qkslvr_wolf
    Apr 3rd, 2006 at 2:04 pm

    Scrubs is freaking awesome…

    I think my favorite thing about it (besides the rolling on the floor funniness), is that it always seems to leave you with question. Not a “ya’see timmy”, where it dictates what the right moral decision or action would be, but something to think about it. In a pleasent, non-forcing sort of way. Apparently, I need to update my netflix and get arrested development and the office.

14. 14 bryan
    Apr 3rd, 2006 at 4:04 pm

    If you have ever seen the British version of ‘coupling’, I think it’s worth mentioning that Sarah Alexander, the blonde, had a 3 month fling with a 72-YEAR OLD GUY a couple of years back. Therefore, with her not being that fussy, there’s some hope for me!

15. 15 Elayne Riggs
    Apr 6th, 2006 at 11:04 am

    Love Scrubs, tape Scrubs, subscribe to Zach Braff’s blog, the whole works.

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