Review of Scrubs

Not funny anymore.

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Scrubs used to be the most brilliant comedy series available in its first 5 years. Every episode had a wonderful tale, some hilarious inventions such as new phrases, or highlighting things certain people do that make you laugh because you agree and know someone just like it etc.

Then it started to become formulated. JD has far to many stupid outrageous thoughts, Turk and JD are always childish and naughty, Turk acts black, and Carla acts like the mum/Spaniard/straight one. These 3 alone would be enough but then you have Eliot who now cant seem to be in a scene without some anecdote, they used to be superb but now they just make me feel uncomfortable, as do Dr Cox's rants. You just want both of them to find a new gimmick and never look back. The Janitor and Ted are still funny as ever, but the writers are abusing this humor by making them wacky or absurd.
Even the episodes seem to follow the exact same template, new predicament/happening, trouble adjusting/fixing then resolution and moral of the story. Every time, in every episode this happens. It just needs to stop!
Sadly, they were going to stop it at season 7, but the American network executives decided to sell it and make a season 8 on another channel! So low and behold the show continues. I feel out of the yearn to finish the story i must watch along, but this is fast becoming like Smallville for me, there is only so much i can take before i stop watching because its become tripe.

That being said, if you are reading this as someone who wants to know wether to bother watching Scrubs, then i would say YES, DEFINITELY purely because the first 5 seasons are absolutely hilarious. The writing in these years just seems clever and witty. The formula is there, but it is used properly as a conduit for their brilliant tale. Its only when they start creating episodes in a "paint by numbers" style filling in the blanks as they go along that things start trailing. But by then you would be on season 6 so you would of had a fill of great tv anyway!

I wouldnt say this is the funniest comedy America has given us, i was a big fan of Friends, and you cant really say that was less of a success as it ran for 10 years and was still very funny at the end. Scrubs however feels more like an upbeat soap opera to me now, i watch it because i want to know about the characters lives, but i found tonight for example i laughed about 3 times in a half hour episode. I guess they raised the bar to high and lost it. Roll on Americas next top Sitcom!

7/10

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Added by RB6K 4 months ago on 25 April 2008 05:37