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Raisingdad2004 · 05-01-2006, 01:14 PM

Hopefully the reviewer of Season 3 will see this and try add info to the review.

Which order are the episodes in?

My Dirty Secret was originally scheduled to be broadcast on October 16th, but NBC feared audience loss to the baseball play-offs on FOX, and therefore at the last minute filled their schedule for that night with reruns.
While Friends and Will & Grace caught up to themselves the following week, Scrubs' "My Dirty Secret" was mysteriously skipped over. Many theories for this abound, the most popular of which is that the episode contained too much sexual content.
MOPNT's speculation is less juicy but slightly more logical: Pushing Scrubs' schedule back a week would have bumped some ratings-grabbing guest stars right out of Sweeps. As "My Dirty Secret" didn't have any major guests, the network probably figured they could air it at any time.
When the episode did finally air, on Thursday, December 11 (bumping "My Rule of Thumb", which finally aired in January), it was edited and also renumbered to conform chronologically. Depending on which version you're seeing it's either episode 3.03 or 3.09 (which, of course, also renumbers episodes originally listed 3.04-3.09).

As explained above, shuffling "My Dirty Secret" from being Episode 3 to Episode 9 created some problems. Along the same vein, the Michael J. Fox episodes ("My Catalyst" and "My Porcelain God") were moved up to air in February Sweeps, shuffling the order of some of the episodes around them. This caused some minor continuity issues, most noticeably with Randall, who was fully installed as janitor ("My Catalyst") before he announced his new position a few episodes later ("My Butterfly").

Chelsea · 05-07-2006, 01:02 AM

My Dirty Secret is 9th

05-01-2006, 01:14 PM	#1
Raisingdad2004 Member Forum Regular Join Date: May 05, 2004 Posts: 715	Question for the reviewer Hopefully the reviewer of Season 3 will see this and try add info to the review. Which order are the episodes in? My Dirty Secret was originally scheduled to be broadcast on October 16th, but NBC feared audience loss to the baseball play-offs on FOX, and therefore at the last minute filled their schedule for that night with reruns. While Friends and Will & Grace caught up to themselves the following week, Scrubs' "My Dirty Secret" was mysteriously skipped over. Many theories for this abound, the most popular of which is that the episode contained too much sexual content. MOPNT's speculation is less juicy but slightly more logical: Pushing Scrubs' schedule back a week would have bumped some ratings-grabbing guest stars right out of Sweeps. As "My Dirty Secret" didn't have any major guests, the network probably figured they could air it at any time. When the episode did finally air, on Thursday, December 11 (bumping "My Rule of Thumb", which finally aired in January), it was edited and also renumbered to conform chronologically. Depending on which version you're seeing it's either episode 3.03 or 3.09 (which, of course, also renumbers episodes originally listed 3.04-3.09). As explained above, shuffling "My Dirty Secret" from being Episode 3 to Episode 9 created some problems. Along the same vein, the Michael J. Fox episodes ("My Catalyst" and "My Porcelain God") were moved up to air in February Sweeps, shuffling the order of some of the episodes around them. This caused some minor continuity issues, most noticeably with Randall, who was fully installed as janitor ("My Catalyst") before he announced his new position a few episodes later ("My Butterfly").
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05-07-2006, 01:02 AM	#2
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