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Caloroga Shark Media. Scrubs, Season ten, episode seven, My Best Friend’s Barbecue. Original air date April first, at twenty twenty six. Hello, I’m Johnny Mac. I loved this episode.
No sorry, the recap is out a little late. With the Easter weekend and the family was over. We didn’t get to this until Sunday night, and on Monday we play Comedy Survivor, so I don’t want to put out three episodes in one day. So here you go. Season ten, episode seven, My Best Friend’s Barbecue.
While JD is upset not to be invited to Turk and Carla’s annual barbecue, JD takes the opportunity to nurture whose friendship with Carla.
Meanwhile, Turk teaches the surgical interns how to deliver bad news.
This one gave me all the feels. With one asterisk, You’ve got great JD and Churk. We really see how important to the dynamic the Carla character is. Judy rays to the ensemble. Hopefully this show gets picked up.
We’ll talk about that and she’ll be in hopefully all the episodes of season two. But boy, when she’s back, you realize what a huge part of the ensemble. She is. Let’s deep dive on the plot a little bit. JD is talking about doctor face and how sometimes you have to give bad news to patients.
That’s one of the themes of the episode. He explains how his doctor face has gotten better over the years and nothing can rattle him until he learns he’s not invited to Turk’s barbecue. Apparently he’s been going to Turk’s barbecue every year. This year, he’s not invited. JD asks why, and Churk tells him that Carla wants to invite Elliott and Elliott’s new boyfriend, Captain Wes over this year.
JD asks best friend Turk to fight for him. Churk says he’s not strong enough because Carla is going through menopause. One of the themes throughout the episode is how warm Carla is and how she’s always trying to cool off. I can’t tell you why I found that really really funny. Let’s just leave it there.
Move on, John, that’s right, Elliott tells Carla. She and Wes are excited about the barbecue. He’s bringing something called Pilot’s Booty. West explains that’s first class warmnuts mixed with coach pretzels. Carla gets at a quick jokes that says you can just bring ice, which cracked me up.
My wife missed the joke and I was like, that was really good. Now we have a subplot with a patient who is drinking a lot of ranch dressing that really goes nowhere. The other plot is Turk telling Deshauna she has to tell the Garcia family that their loved one has passed away. She says, I’m not good at this, and Turk says, and this is one of the clutch moments of the episode. You’re just like me.
And we see a couple of times Turk reflecting about his cocky younger self and that is something I do all the time, but for years been self aware that boy, you were a punk ass kid in your twenties when you first got in a radio and over years, although I knew it at the time, when is it serious? I could be an a hole. I used to say to my office mate, I hate this person who sits here with you every day. The series brought out the worst in me, so I was relating to everything Turk was giving. Here.
The younger cast, they all have their various adventures, all the little subplots are fine, but I want to stick with the senior cast. Carla gets mad she finds out that JD has cut back her patient load. Turk goes to see Carla, asks how she’s doing. Carla says, your wife is dead and some agent incompetent witch has taken her place. The job was always hard, but it was fun.
Now it’s just hard. I can’t keep up. Turk says, finally, You’ve always been smarter than me and stronger than me, but you always at my back. Now I get to be there for you. JD pops up out of nowhere and says you two will always have each other, but I might die alone.
Carla says, you’re still not coming to the barbecue. This all wraps up at the end. Carla’s telling JD. If I keep inviting into things so you can be comfortable, you’re never going to grow. She says, I can read your doctor’s face.
You’re scared, and if I keep caddling you, you’ll never be able to move on from Eliot, and we get some reflection back to the days of when he was bamby. She mentions, I was here on your first day and it just really really is awesome. So we’ll take the break here, we’ll come back, we’ll talk a little more Scrubs. The episode got a three point zero four million viewers, which sounds like a lot for a modern television but in the time slot it finished third. Chicago Med won the half hour Survivor was second.
However, in the eighteen to forty nine demo, which is where the money is, Chicago Med drops down and it was Survivor then Scrubs. I do think at three million viewers they will renew this thing. I’m kind of surprised they haven’t yet. I thought it was the best episode of new Scrubs yet, very funny, very touching. The character beats were all on point except one.
The newer characters are all fine, Like when they come on, they’re just fine. You’re not like, oh I get rid of these people. They’re fine. I do think the show doesn’t know what to do with Elliott. The Scrubs has always been focused on JD except for the d Ken and I season nine, but the Elliott character seems like she’s just kind of out there on her own show.
You know, she’s got the boyfriend now, but as one of the big three they’re gonna have to figure out how Elliott fits into all of this. I don’t think her arc is working yet. We see what I mentioned this in the beginning, what an important player Judy rays as Carla is, and again the nice emotional callbacks to when JD was Bambi. And as I was watching it after the episode, because I’m a big sap, I said to my wife, how weird is it that twenty five years have gone by and here we are back to an empty house because the kids are home for the weekend, and then they left, we put on Scrubs. Here we are twenty five years later, it’s just the two of us again, and we’re watching the same show.
Screen Ran wrote, There’s never been any doubt in Scrubs that Carla is a badass nurse, and no one knows it more than she does. However, in season ten we see here slowly losing that confidence. It becomes clear in Scrub season ten, episode seven that Carla still struggles with one of the same challenges as in the original series. She wants to be everyone else’s rock, but isn’t quite willing to accept help herself, just as JD learned to look to Carla for help back in the day. Carla learns in this Scrubs episode that it’s okay to let Bambi help her out.
While JD looked to doctor Cox as a Carlo was his true guiding force in the hospital. Over the years, the relationship shifted, and both JD and Carla found they could be themselves around each other in ways they couldn’t even with Turk or Elliot. It’s relief that the Scrub’s revival has recaptured this dynamic after all these years, and it’s especially impressive since Judy Rays isn’t a primary cast member on the new series. Scrub Season ten, episode seven, my favorite of the new season. If you are enjoying this, stay the heck off Scrubs read it.
Some maniac posted something in the headline I’m not even gonna dance with the Devil. I’m just gonna tell you. I saw a headline. I was like, come on, dude, there was no reason to put that in the headline. We have a word.
It’s called spoiler. What are you doing? So? We have two episodes left in season ten and again, ABC, what are we doing here? Let me do one last quick here?
Maybe they picked it up as I’m recording. Quick Google of Scrubs Nope, not yet has a record this on Monday morning. I need more of this. It’s really good and it’s just it’s hitting a warm spot in my life than nostals are point. I feel like these people are from and their characters and their back and if they can get another season and work some more people into the ensemble, we’re back into the ensemble.
I think it’d be great and the new characters are fine, and boy, please keep this thing going. I like Scrubs. See you in the morning.