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Callaroga Shock Media. Scrubs, Season seven, Episode four, My Poker Phase. Original air date March eleventh, twenty twenty six. Hello, I’m Johnny Mack and can we cut to the chase. Of the four episodes we’ve seen so far, I think this one was the fourth best.
Not too many laughs. I think I went through act one without snickering at all. It’s good to hang out with the old friends again. But I didn’t see much comedy there until we got to a scene where we learned JD’s new roommate is Chewbacca. That might have been a fantasy sequence, but that got a bonafide laugh out of me and the wife, as did a couple flashbacks to Turk doing the Macarena with retro hair.
Those were funny, but most of the episode not too many laughs there. The plot, JD organizes a poker night with Turk to recapture old times.
Meanwhile, medical and surgical entrance compete and Elliott deals with a pat…
That patient played by Matt Rife. Did you notice that that was Matt Rife? It bothered some people on the Internet. Now, hopefully the AI isn’t hallucinating here. I asked it to generate a scene by scene summary and I’ll see if my memory still works.
So we open up with JD narrating about how doctors often hide but they’re really thinking that goes with the theme of poker Face, and we learned some things about some of our fellow cast members during the episode. Okay, JD suggests that they bring back Poker Night to recreate the bond they had earlier in their careers. Turk is all excited because Carlo is going to be out and the daughters are at softball, and Turk Scott four hours to himself, so he’s like, yeah, I’m in.
Meanwhile, the medical interns and the surgical interns are competing against…
At some point, JD and Turk get involved with that, but they kind of team up and teach the young ends how those two groups can get along. Elliott is treating a patient obsessed with social media. This is a guy that likes to work out a lot and post things online played by Matt Rife. Judy Reyes doesn’t appear in the episode. We do hear the voice of Carla.
She calls Turk and lets Turk know that she doesn’t have to work after all, and she’d love to hang out with him, and she flashes him, is what is implied. So Turk picks boobs over poker. That makes JD sad. Eventually, JD and Turk kind of have it out at that. JD is a little jealous that Turk’s got this family and he’s home alone, and Turk is like, man, I would kill for some alone time.
We got some new characters. There’s a new janitor who’s super friendly and really likes JD, and JD even jokes that he should learn the man’s name at some point, but he does not. I continue to like Turk’s apprentice. I don’t know her name, but every time she’s on the screen, I say to my wife, I really like her and I like her character. I should probably learn her name.
The social media in turn is named Tosh that has somehow stuck in my brain because of comedian Daniel Tosh. Some notes. I wrote down one thing bothering me the set. What’s with the blurry backgrounds? Like You’ll watch one scene and it looks like a JD and Elliot are standing in front of a green screen of fake hospital, and then the very next scene.
There’s clearly a practical desk set and half a hallway anyway, so I don’t know what’s going on there. I saw a couple of people in the Scrubs reddit mentioned the blurry backgrounds are a little annoying. Some people on the reddit or saying, so far in the new season, we’re not really connecting with the patients. In the original series, we would spend more time with the patients. I’m not sure that’s true.
It may have been true this week, or maybe Matt Riife just doesn’t have the gravitas to pull that off, but I think it’s a fair note. The hospital does seem a little underpopulated. Already mentioned no Judy rayis other than a voice cameo, and no John c McGinley. Now he will come back for two episodes. I’ve seen some spoilers and I won’t ruin it for you, but we will see doctor Cox again.
I was wondering about the Todd. Where’s the Todd? Wouldn’t the Tod be at poker night? That seems like exactly the kind of thing he would be all in on, right, And I’m also little worried where it’d be a little strong as a sitcom, but the Elliot character because j D and Turk have each other to play off of, but Elliott really only has JD to playoff. She doesn’t really have a relationship with Turk.
So Elliot right now is kind of on her own show. I know there are the three main leads, but it’s clearly the Zach Braff show. The universe revolves around JD. It always did. He’s the head narrator that we hear.
But I don’t think they figured out yet what to do with Elliott. In this episode, Elliott teams up with doctor Sam Tosh see I thought her first name was Tosh. Elliott quickly diagnoses the patient as having scurvy. Elliott is a little mean to Tosh, almost in a doctor Cox’s way, and starts calling Tosh doctor Selfie. However, it turns out the scurvy was brought on by a lesser known eating disorder called orthorexia.
Apparently, people with orthorexia become obsessed with eating what they determined to be the healthiest diet possible, and that’s what’s happening to Matt Rife there. If Tosh had listened to Elliott stopped using her phone all the time, they would have missed this diagnosis, so Elliott is forced to reevaluate her hard stance on how toash approaches her job. Elliott is also realizing, like we all do, getting a little older, and you know, you know what happens one day you don’t know how to program the microwave. We learned a little more about JD’s children. There is at least a son named Ollie.
Now during the original Scrubs, JD and Kim had a son, Sam in season seven, episode two that aired November one, two thousand and seven, So Sam would be almost twenty years old at this point, so Sam presumably in college. Somewhere in the premiere of season ten, we hear JD refer to kids, and in the now de canon I season nine, JD and Elliott had a child together. So some people have been wondering do they still have a kid together? Well, they do. There is a son named Ali.
JD mentions that he is Ali next weekend and that he has recently built his son a bunk bed. Let’s do some more math. Season nine of Scrubs a debut December one, two thousand and nine, so let’s place it in they had a child together so that child would be kind of fifteen sixteen, and I’m being generous with the math. So Ali’s got to be the youngest if he’s in a bunk bed. So is there another child, Well, the showrunner says no.
The current canon is JD has two sons, Sam with Kim and Ollie with Elliott. So perhaps the timeline of when the child of JD and Elliott, perhaps the timeline has shifted. I will quote Mystery Science Theater three thousand, who once wisely said, just repeat to yourself, it’s just a show. I should really just relax, don’t worry about it. Scrabs Jess.
It’s in episode four. Not bad, glad it was around. Not my favorite episode of all time, not hilarious, Not sure it’s one I’ll think about it other than Matt Rife appeared in it. But glad the show’s around, and looking forward to the return of Doctor Kok