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This half-hour comedy focuses on the bizarre experiences of fresh-faced medical intern John "J.D." Dorian (Zach Braff) as he embarks on his healing career in a surreal hospital crammed full of unpredictable staffers and patients – where humor and tragedy can merge paths at any time.

Joining the rumpled... more »

This half-hour comedy focuses on the bizarre experiences of fresh-faced medical intern John "J.D." Dorian (Zach Braff) as he embarks on his healing career in a surreal hospital crammed full of unpredictable staffers and patients – where humor and tragedy can merge paths at any time.

Joining the rumpled J.D. in his exhilarating brave new world are his college buddy, Chris Turk (Donald Faison, "Clueless"), an intern with a more elite surgical group, and J.D.'s fellow medical intern, the beautiful and driven Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke, "Roseanne"). Keeping the new interns on their toes are: The fatherly chief of medicine, Dr. Bob Kelso (Ken Jenkins); the abrasive, worldly Dr. Perry Cox (John McGinley), and the caring but slightly jaded nurse Carla Espinosa (Judy Reyes). The hospital janitor (Neil Flynn) also never seems to miss an opportunity to harass his target.

Scrubs is filmed in a real-life hospital. It's the North Hollywood Medical Center, which has gone under severe reconstruction to fit all the equipment and represent Sacred Heart Hospital. Interesting trivia: Sacred Heart was the name of the school that Christa Miller worked; in one episode Zach Braff accidentally calls the Janitor Neil Flynn, which is the actor's real life name.

The Opening Theme Song:
"Superman" performed by Lazlo Bane

NBC Broadcast History:
October 2001 - May 2002 --- Tuesdays, 9:30pm
September 2002 - October 2003 --- Thursdays, 8:30pm
November 2003 - January 2004 --- Thursdays, 9:30pm
January 2004 - May 2004 --- Tuesdays, 9:30pm
June 2004 - August 2004 --- Thursdays, 9:30pm
August 2004 - December 2004 --- Tuesdays, 9:30pm
January 2005 - May 2005 --- Tuesdays, 9:00pm
January 2006 - March 2006 --- Tuesdays, 9:00pm & 9:30pm
March 2006 - May 2006 --- Tuesdays, 9:00pm
November 2006 - April 2007 --- Thursdays, 9:00pm
April 2007 - May 2007 --- Thursdays, 9:30pm
October 2007 - April 2007 --- Thursdays, 9:30pm
April 2007 - May 2008 --- Thursdays, 8:30pm

The show then moved to ABC for the 2009 television season.

ABC Broadcast History:
January 2009 - February 2009 --- Tuesdays, 9:00pm and 9:30pm
March 2009 - May 2009 --- Wednesdays, 8:00pmless «

• General Q&A Thread... ask anything!

  Well, I'm more of a watcher than a participator in the Scrubs forum, but one thing I've noticed is that a lot of the thread...more »

  Well, I'm more of a watcher than a participator in the Scrubs forum, but one thing I've noticed is that a lot of the threads being started are short questions which could be answered in a few posts, and don't really need an entire thread. So, feel free to let this drop off the page if the idea doesn't appeal to you guys, but I give you the General Q&A Thread, for all questions Scrubs or TV.com related, big or small! Feel free to post here and see if everyone can help you out. Enjoy =D xx FAQ BORROWED FROM AND WRITTEN BY SUGAH66 =) Slightly edited, to be relevant to this forum. Answers to Frequently Asked Questions: 1) How do I increase my level? TV.com is all about contribution. If you want to increase your level, you need to contribute to the site. This includes posting in the forums, posting blogs, reviewing shows/episodes/people, and submitting quotes/trivia/recaps. Every time you make a post, a review, or a submission, you get points toward your level. 2) How do I post a picture? You must be a level three to put pictures in both your signature and a post. Once you are a level three, find the URL of the picture you want to post (the URL is the web address, which you can find by right-clicking the picture and going to "properties"), and enclose it with the image tags. Like so: http://sampleurl.com If you want to post one of your own pictures, I recommend getting a photobucket account. Once you upload the picture, they will give you the URL, the tag, and the image codes. Then you can just copy and paste. FYI: You must also be a level 3 to post active (clickable) links. Until you are a level three, it just posts the URL. 3) How big can signatures be? Your signature, according to this site's TOS, can be no bigger than 200x550 px (if it is a picture). That is 200 pixels high and 550 pixels wide. Anything larger than that will be deleted by the site's moderators. If your signature is just text, it can be no longer than 12 lines. 4) How do I change my user icon? Up by your username in the corner, click "prefs". On the page that automatically pops up, go down to "current icon" and click the list arrow where it says "select icon set". Go to town! Remember to save your changes when you're done! As of January 12, 2007, you can also use your own icons! Just enter the URL of the icon you wish to use in the box provided. You can still select from the tv.com stock icons if you wish. Icons that you use from your own collection must be no larger than 80x80 px. 5) What the heck does "canon" mean? When something in a show is "canon", it is fact. It can be backed up with evidence from the show. 6) Where can I find a particular song from a particular episode? Check out the Scrubs section on Tunefind . 7) What is considered a "spoiler"? And where can I post spoilers? These aren't considered spoilers: 1) Promos from the website 2) TVGuide Episode Sypnoses. 3) Episode sypnopses from tv.com and imdb.com 4) Cast lists from imdb.com 5) EDITED episode sypnopses from thefutoncritic.com. These are spoilers: 1) Promotional stills and pictures from the episode 2) Sides, scripts, plot giveaways 3) Basically anything that's NOT in what is mentioned above. You can post links to things, so long as you mention that there are spoilers in the link. Promo stills should not be posted until the day of the episode. If you want to post the pic, post a link to it. Remember that if the word "spoilers" is not in the thread title, you need to give warning when you post them. This can be done by putting WARNING: SPOILERS and then several lines between the warning and the spoilers, then putting END SPOILERS. Or, you can white the spoilers out, so that you have to highlight to read it. That way, if you don't want to know, you don't have to read it. Also, once an episode has aired in the US and Canada, it is no longer considered a spoiler. 8) What is a "ship"? "Ship" is short for "relationship". This is two people on a television show whom you want to end up together. If you are a fan of that couple, you ship that couple. 9) What is TPTB? TPTB stands for The Powers That Be. This includes all writers, producers, directors... Basically anyone involved with decision making for the show.   less «

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• Series Finale. Official Discussion Thread 8.18-19: My Finale (Spoilers)

  TV. Grid: J.D. wonders if his final day at Sacred Heart will live up to his fantasy; Elliot seems to want to take her rel...more »

  TV. Grid: J.D. wonders if his final day at Sacred Heart will live up to his fantasy; Elliot seems to want to take her relationship with J.D. to the next level. ABC official Press Release: J.D. plans to say goodbye to Sacred Heart, but will his final day stand up to his fantasy of scoring a hug from Dr. Cox or learning the Janitor's real name? Meanwhile, when random furnishings from Elliot's apartment turn up in J.D.'s place, it becomes clear that she finally plans to take their relationship to a whole new level, on the season finale of "Scrubs," TV. Guide: J.D. bids Sacred Heart farewell in the eighth-season finale. His agenda before he goes includes getting a hug from Dr. Cox and learning the Janitor's name. Meanwhile, Elliot slowly moves her belongings into J.D.'s new place, signaling a change in their relationship. Here we go. If any episode ever desereved a thread a few days early, it is going to be the series finale. I can't believe this moment is here. Scrubs was such a huge part of my life, it is just unbelievable. Here is the end though. less «

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• OFFICIAL THREAD: What Will Season 9 Be Like

  Answer i dont think it will be as good as the other seasons cause the chnge say whatever you like

  Answer i dont think it will be as good as the other seasons cause the chnge say whatever you like less «

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  10 Perfect

  the main character is jd he is a real daydreamer he is the narrator hide « show »

  The show's narrator and main character is John "J.D." Dorian (Zach Braff), a young attending physician, who begins the series as a staff intern. He develops a close friendship with fellow intern and later private practice physician Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke); their relationship becomes romantic on several occasions. Elliot is driven by a neurotic desire to prove her abilities to her family (in which all of the males are doctors), her peers, and herself. J.D.'s best friend is Dr. Christopher Turk (Donald Faison), a surgical attending physician becoming the new Chief of Surgery in season eight. Turk roomed with J.D. at university at the College of William and Mary and medical school, and the two have an extremely close relationship, which is described in season 6 as "Guy Love". During the course of the series, Turk marries Carla Espinosa (Judy Reyes), the hospital's head nurse, who acts like a mother figure to interns, often hiding their mistakes from their attending doctor. [6]
  
  Two other characters play senior roles in the hospital. Dr. Percival Ulysses "Perry" Cox (John C. McGinley) was the senior attending physician at Sacred Heart and the hospital's Residency Director before becoming the new Chief of Medicine in season eight. J.D. considers Cox his mentor despite the fact that Cox routinely criticizes and belittles him. Cox frequently suggests that this harsh treatment is intended as conditioning for the rigors of hospital life. Ken Jenkins plays Dr. Bob Kelso, Sacred Heart's Chief of Medicine until the end of the seventh season when he is forced to step down from residency when the board finds out about his age, but with the help from his colleagues the decision is reversed. Having had time to think, Kelso decides to retire instead of accepting the reinstatement to Chief. Kelso is cold, heartless and cruel, driven primarily by the hospital's bottom line rather than the well-being of patients. However, it is occasionally suggested that he has a softer side, and that his cruelty is a means of coping with the years of hard decisions, as well as being a Vietnam vet in one of the episodes. he has been forced to make, stating that when he became Chief of Medicine he thought he'd be "the man". Instead he very quickly realized that the harsh decisions made him unpopular, but he had to continue his "evil" facade to keep the hospital running smoothly.
  
  The hospital custodian is known as "Janitor" played by Neil Flynn. An incident in the pilot episode establishes an adversarial relationship between him and J.D., which persists throughout the series. This tends to take the form of the Janitor pulling mean-spirited pranks on J.D

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  onetreehillrcks Added Jun 9, 2009 All my reviews
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  9.5 Superb

  Hilariously fun to watch, lol! hide « show »

  Hilariously fun to watch anytime, I watch it most times it comes on, and laugh all the way through it. Comedy with romance is funny as, I loved each of the characters, and thier personalities. Each episode I laugh even more! Its pretty funny how its in a hospital and all this crazy stuff is happening all around it. A great show that hopefully will never get old! Awesome show, and... what more can I say... ??? Lol, ok... Overall... Great show, great people, great comedy, love it so much, love the comedy, and yeah! awesomeness forever! x x x

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  ChocolateMilk81 Added Jun 7, 2009 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  AN Amazing show. My Finale - one of the most perfect endings (atleast 2nd to Friends Finale) hide « show »

  An amazing show, the mix of emotional stakes and comedy is what most sucessful comedies are based on. Scrubs has, for some reason, always been underated, and I think My Finale showed everyone what the show was capable of. Even though it is the end for JD, I'd still watch season 9. The stories, the comedy, each character learning something about life from their patients is what made this show enjoyable to watch. The JD and Elliot, on and off relationship, was going too far though. So many shows have tried it and it is completely unecessary (only "Friends" did it well). I happy that they are back together but they should stay like that, get married and have kids (basically Jd's final fantasy)

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  Winkerbie1 Added May 23, 2009 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  What I love about Scrubs is that it is really deep, in a superficial sort of way. Way to entertain! hide « show »

  The characters in Scrubs are all kind of crazy, and many of the conflicts seem superficial and unimportant, at the first sight. But they are not! What I really love about Scrubs is that it makes me laugh through the entire episode, while at the same time it actually makes me think. I relate to all the characters, and their conflicts. But what makes Scrubs, Scrubs, is not life at the hospital, the crazy patients or the weird doctors. It is J.D. Doctor Dorian is the shows main character and narrator. And he is completely adorable. He over-thinks almost everything, manages to make everything into a fantasy about musicals and he is just very clumsy and good-hearted. He provides warmth for the show. He IS the show. In a way, Scrubs is indescribable. You should all see for yourselves! Be amazed. Be scrubed.

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  MiraMars Added May 18, 2009 All my reviews
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  10 Perfect

  The perfect end to a perfect show hide « show »

  With the strange goings on around JD (Zach Braff) everyday even he seems normal in his own worlds in his head adn over the years we have grown to love his character more than most other characters in a sitcom.
  
  Ofcourse he is also backed up with a great supporting cast also with Dr Perry Ullysees Cox and his best pal Chris Turk the mix just seema right. Even when things seemed to be going bad for Scrubs in the mist of the writers strike during season 7 they managed to pound out good episodes due to the high level of comedy but the great balance of emotion on show, this is emphasised with the arrival of season 8.
  
  Ofcourse when season 8 came to a close there were rumblings of the potantial of season 9 but in my eyes the way season 8 finished was the perfect send off, it had a little whiff of the Friends finale but was allot more satisfying as loose ends were wrapped up and new questions were posed.
  
  To me Scrubs has surpassed Friends and Will and Grace in comedy level due to the fact it is that good

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  johnohull Added May 16, 2009 All my reviews