TMC
12-27-2023, 01:03 AM
https://jacksonupperco.com/2023/12/26/the-best-scrubs-episode-of-season-nine/
This season shouldn’t exist. Or rather, this season shouldn’t exist as Scrubs. When ABC offered a 13-episode renewal at the last minute, creator Bill Lawrence — who’d already moved on to Cougar Town — wanted to call this effort Scrubs Med, à la Mayberry R.F.D. after Andy Griffith left The Andy Griffith Show. But the network sought full name recognition, making it so this year would be aired, syndicated, and now discussed as part of the original series. And this is a problem, for it’s engaging with the original’s brand but not its situation. And naturally, 13 episodes aren’t enough for this new Scrubs to seem as compelling as the previous… especially when there are so many reminders of what it used to be.
This season shouldn’t exist. Or rather, this season shouldn’t exist as Scrubs. When ABC offered a 13-episode renewal at the last minute, creator Bill Lawrence — who’d already moved on to Cougar Town — wanted to call this effort Scrubs Med, à la Mayberry R.F.D. after Andy Griffith left The Andy Griffith Show. But the network sought full name recognition, making it so this year would be aired, syndicated, and now discussed as part of the original series. And this is a problem, for it’s engaging with the original’s brand but not its situation. And naturally, 13 episodes aren’t enough for this new Scrubs to seem as compelling as the previous… especially when there are so many reminders of what it used to be.