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Caloroga Shock Media Scrub, Season seven, Episode three, My rom Com Original air date March fourth, twenty twenty six. Hi, I’m a Johnny Mack and we are already a third of the way through the Scrubs revival as I record this Friday afternoon. The ratings for this episode are not out yet, nor has the show been officially renewed. I will be stunned if this doesn’t get another pickup. Everything screams that this is what passes for a hit in twenty twenty six.
You know, people don’t watch network TV, and this one has buzz, and the people that work on the show seem nice to work with, and you want to be in the Bill Lawrence business. And the premiere did pretty well. I’d be shocked if this doesn’t come back. In my rom Com, we saw j D and Elliott fighting at work again. Elliott believed that JD had it in for her.
They are divorced. Now we see JD in the doctor kel. She wants to keep a patient. JD is like it’s time to discharge her. The patient didn’t want treatment.
There’s no reason to be in the hospital. We got a business here to run. Elliott does not appreciate any of that. It’s just so weird to see JD in the Kelso role, but it makes sense now. One thing to keep an eye on in this episode.
I saw on the Reddit somebody thought that perhaps, possibly maybe that JD and Elliott film their scenes separately, because you would only see one of them in the camera shot as they talk to each other, but I disagreed. I was paying a lot of attention to the episode. I had seen that Reddit post before I put the episode on, and I was looking out for it, and at the beginning I was like, oh, yeah, that does look a little funky. But what I realized was it’s a directorial choice, I think because j D and Elliott are not together, so in camera they are not together. Now, as the episode goes on, the two have a nice conversation.
JD tells Elliott he’d like to find their core friendship and connection again and it was just going to take time. And in the scene JD walks into Elliott’s frame and now they are side by side. They are visually together again, So I think the director made a choice there. It’s subtle. There’s also a b plot involving Churk and the surgical Internsamara, the one that’s not confident, and Dashauna, who I think is fantastic and my favorite of the new bunch.
The actress is doing a great job. The role seems a little more fleshed out. She’s got great chemistry with Turk. We get to spend some time with some of the newer characters. Ellieed goes and hits up the IT guy, who is a bit of a character.
He shuts down the hospital’s electronics systems, which is fascinating because that’s the same plot happening in the pit. So I just find it interesting that the pit and the scrubs are aligned on their plot lines. It guy, we learned plays Dungeon and Dragons on Sunday with Turk. So Turk has this whole life outside JD. Now twenty years later, there’s another another uplot about finding the sick patient’s ex husband and how he looks like the main character from the movie Up.
They have some fun with that. We get some scenes out of new annoying HR Lady Carla does appear in this episode special guest Judy Rayis. I noticed in the credits. I don’t think we saw Joel Kim Booster’s character at all, so that’s interesting. Show Runner Assim Batra explained the deal with JD and Elliott to tv line.
She explains, if you go back and look at the first run of Scrubs, they always had a tricky relationship, and it’s just real statistically in terms of marriages, we don’t know what we’re gonna do with the two of them, and that’s exciting. Again, that suggests a season two. It gives us a lots of right to we get to see dating episodes again, we get to see them have a journey together again. Of okay, if it’s not gonna be this, how do we still keep loving our relationship? Watra notes, if we had JD acting the way he was in his twenties would probably drive a lot of people crazy.
He’s not there. He’s a grown up, and we don’t really want to see a guy controlling what his ex is doing. That’s kind of an old thing. As for making him get along now, Botra says, when you’re in a space of always being contentious, the comedy gets tamped down. We wanted them to be in a good space so they can have those fun light moments.
Do we find out what led to the divorce spoiler not this season. Bocher says, if we have more episodes in a later season, we can unpack that in a way of like, well, what was the origin of this? And I think that will be interesting for me. This episode was another winner. Now, about ten minutes in, I was like, Oh, this one’s not that funny, but I’m glad Scrubs is back, and I like spending time with these characters.
But then there were a couple really JD fantasy moments involving wrestling. You could tell there’s a little more budget for that stuff this time around. The times we saw the wrestling ring were hilarious. There were a couple one liners here and there. They got to chuckle out of me.
So maybe the beginning of the episodes is not that funny, but in the end I was like, oh, I’m glad Scrubs is back. One of the listeners sent this to me. Thank you listener. You know who you are.
And now when I get emails, a lot of people just prefer to stay anonymous, So …
The original show’s production designer Cabot McCullen is not back. The new guy is Roger Fires, and some fans are noticing some of the set looks different. That’s because they couldn’t use the original location. I think that building was torn down. However, they’ve done updated versions of the hallways, operating rooms, and even the gift shop.
I feel like at some point it looks like the background is CGI can’t really tell. Sometimes the back looks a little funky. We’re told when Zach Braff came to see the new set for the first time, he was speechless for three minutes, looking at us like I can’t believe you guys did this. If the audience at home as the same reaction, I think that’s successful. The original pilot for Original Scrubs was shot at the fully operational Women and Children’s Hospital in Valley Village.
Once the series got picked up, they filmed it at North Hollywood Medical Center in the San Fernando Valley, a real hospital that had been shut down. Seasons one through eight took place there. They also had rooms for makeup, wardrobe, editing, swedes, sound studios, and more, and instead of trailers, the cast was given old hospital rooms. That’s fun. For season nine production moved to Culver Studios.
But there is no season nine anymore. What are you talking about? There are eight seasons and then we call this one season ten. Season nine never happened. It’s been d cannoned.
Back in the old days, they had to put up a huge sign that said this is not a working hospital. Don’t come here for emergency care. North Hollywood Medical Center was torn down to twenty eleven. Uh, I was right what I said earlier and is now luxury apartments. So for the revival, a set was built to mimic the original.
The new set is in Vancouver. The only exception is the entrance to the hospital that was not built. It was created using an optical illusion. Fires recreated the entrance using a three D photo of the original entrance that has quote reverse perspective that tricks the eyes. I don’t think in the new series we’ve gone to the bar yet.
Maybe I’m forgetful. In the new series, the bar is called Lloyd’s Junction. It is canonically the same bar that they hung out in olden times. The original bar never had a name, but apparently all along possibly it’s been called Lloyd’s Junction. Anyway, the new name is a tribute to Sam Lloyd, the actor who played Ted Lawyer.
Sam passed away a couple years, so a nice way to honor Sam Lloyd over at Lloyd’s Junction. And that is your Scrubs Season ten, episode three recap. I’m so happy the show was back back in the morning with a normal episode