Honestly, it didn’t age well at all.
Sexism, homophobia, transphobia all very present and in no way addressed. It was very much a child of the times. Crazy how far we’ve come in such a short time.
You can write jokes about those topics without being those things you know? Sometimes the transphobic writing points out the absurdity of holding such a position.
Its one of those shows that’s better remembered than rewatched though
I rewatch it like every 2 years or so and it holds up and is really good.
It’s my ToP 3 show of all time with Community and IASIP.
What version? Because I’m worried on a rewatch that the problems with the soundtrack are gonna really detract from the experience.
I watched it for the first time recently and it was good but… Nowhere near as amazing as the internet led me to believe it would be. JD and Elliot’s relationship in particular was infuriating and I hated any episodes that were about it. They turned each other into horrible people.
To me they felt more like the generic will-they-or-won’t-they pairing that a lot of sitcoms felt the need to include and constantly inject with drama, rather than an intentional exploration of a toxic relationship. I honestly preferred them a lot more as friends and felt like their characters had a lot more chemistry together when their relationship was platonic. I was hoping during the stretch of time when they finally broke up for real after being on and off again for a while, and JD didn’t have feelings for her anymore supposedly, that things would stay that way. But no, they get back together again eventually. Maybe I’m biased because I’m not generally interested in romance, but I didn’t mind the relationship between Dr. Cox and Jordan, or Turk and Carla. It was just JD and Elliot that I disliked. It was honestly my least favourite part of the show.
Well a lot of the humour is really transphobic or sexist and I definitely remember at least one racist joke. There is definitely a lot of good jokes and it’s a funny show, but then something like that comes out of left field and it just kills the mood for me.
The problem is when you take something out of its time and see every portrayed character as stereotype - you will kill all humor in the end. Imaginge some todays series in 10 years. There will always be some further developed people who adapted their own human being to whats morally acceptable in given time.
Ask people who are “affected” by the humor and if they are offended. Or make jokes about growing grass.
Yeah, the best unique humour of any show (that I have seen), and it still works today.
Oh Elliot. Such girl, perfect booty
To this day Scrubs still is the show with most hot girls I’ve watched.
Scrubs though. My favourite TV show and my first source of information for sex-related topics during my teenage years as we didn’t really have a pc until later and sex was, and still is, regarded as taboo to my Catholic parents.
I’m thankful this show exists.
Elliot was hot!! I had a huge crush on her. I was always like “JD! You dumass!”. I think this is a typical method to get viewers emotionally invested. Like Joey and Dawson in Dawson’s creek. Probably a ton of these examples.
Voted most accurate TV medical show!
Other than all the babes, but I’m not complaining.
Prior to House MD. Scrubs launched 2001 and House in 2004. House MD is arguably the most accurate medical show to exist, mainly because the majority of wacky medical mysteries came from actual doctors. It is still TV of course, but real stories can’t be beat by Hollywood make believe.
Nah, not really. House has 2 episodes where the writers invented diseases (only 2 on the entire run is very respectable though), but more than that, it’s not realistic to have 4 docs working on one case all week. And the cases are very unrealistic in the sense that a lot are not mysteries. If you’re an MD/DO, you can see some of the diagnoses coming a mile away while House and his team pretend it’s a super rare thing. I particularly remember one of the Lyme disease episodes where I got the diagnosis almost immediately, and I was still on med school.
On the other hand, Scrubs gets the lifestyle of an intern right. Except there’s a lot less sex in real life lol.
The medical conditions might be more realistic in House, but the process and behavior of people certainly aren’t.
It’s similar with programming on TV. If you look at Mr. Robot, all the hacking methods and computer jargon are really accurate, down to KDE vs. GNOME rivalry, but the plot is total fantasy and nobody behaves as real programmers do. On the other hand, Silicon Valley is more like scrubs - the software is made up, it’s a comedy, but the story and people are 100% realistic (except better dressed, since it’s still Hollywood).
I worked in a pediatric hospital… attractive ladies were a dime a dozen. All batshit crazy though.
This is still not Barbie.
This is what you put on Barbie: 🍖 (you cook meat with it, because barbecue)
Very cute girls on that show, and funny. Really liked scrubs.
