Oh Elliot. Such girl, perfect booty
To this day Scrubs still is the show with most hot girls I’ve watched.
Scrubs though. My favourite TV show and my first source of information for sex-related topics during my teenage years as we didn’t really have a pc until later and sex was, and still is, regarded as taboo to my Catholic parents.
I’m thankful this show exists.
For a long time I absolutely hated Zach Braff because he had an uncanny ability to have love interests that matched mine.
Sarah Chalke, Mandy Moore, Heather Graham, Elizabeth Banks, Tara Reid - basically a conveyor belt of women I was in love with as a teen.
I still remember all the specific scenes i would pause on my ipod video in my early teenage years when i was doing… Research
Elliot was hot!! I had a huge crush on her. I was always like “JD! You dumass!”. I think this is a typical method to get viewers emotionally invested. Like Joey and Dawson in Dawson’s creek. Probably a ton of these examples.
+1 to the Elliot crush club
Time to watch Rick and Morty!
perfect booty
You mean ole mole butt?
Scrubs was the king of making up nicknames for their characters
Man those were the days! I loved scrubs! I remeber the episode where JD tells a joke about a moth going to a closed office but forgets the punchline. He proceeds to tell a story of the moth going about it’s day for like 5 mins and then remebers the punchline… Because the light was on. Kinda had to be there but man that had me cry laughing.
The accidental shaggy dog joke. He made it so much better by being both upbeat and awkward.
I brought my mother once to hospital with a bad stomach. Slipped a punch line from scrubs. The female doctor countered it within the same second perfectly from the show, a assistant behind us added the next line and I finished the roundabout. My mother looked around us, understood the joke but not where it came from - she hated Scrubs deeply from her heart - and we all told it Scrubs was just the thing.
What’s the line cmon
Watching Scrubs is like coming home.
I like to troll nurses by saying things like “It’s like that one episode of Scrubs!” 😈
And you wouldn’t be far of since scrubs is one the medically most correct Shows out there.
BORBIE
“German is such a beautiful language”
This is still not Barbie.
This is what you put on Barbie: 🍖 (you cook meat with it, because barbecue)
A Barbie is what you throw the shrimp on.
I wanted to use a barbecue emoji, little did I know it never existed in the first place.
Barbie was stolen from a German toy manufacturer.
bought
The couple that will later found Mattel, were on a vacation on Germany when they saw a doll (forgot the name ). At home they literally copied it and it became a huge success, selling worldwide. The CEO of the German toy company didn’t know about it until he saw it being sold on a toy shop. The company was dying, partially due to the barbie doll and so they sold the company to mattel. Watched a vid about it like two days ago.
that was a scum move yeah. but I don’t know if it counts as stealing it … also the German doll was a doll from an adult comic strip in a newspaper, it wasn’t particularly for children
don’t know if counts as stealing it.
Why wouldn’t it ?
We talking legally or morally? Because legally, if the toy wasn’t registered, trademarked, w/e in the US then they did nothing legally wrong.
It’s definitely a dick move to just copy someone’s product and sell it as your own though.
because they were different markets ? and different products for different target demographics? idk
Am not sure but it was a doll made for kids by a toy manufacturer they copied not an adult kink thing or something. Sot it’s the same product, same demographic.
Ricks daughter is Barbie?
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Second Becky
And she’s the daughter of the smartest man in the universe!
Bitchslap Barbie from Connecticut.
Honestly, it didn’t age well at all.
Really? Dang, that’s a bummer. I haven’t rewatched it since it originally aired but at the time I thought it was superb.
How so? I remember really liking the older seasons
Sexism, homophobia, transphobia all very present and in no way addressed. It was very much a child of the times. Crazy how far we’ve come in such a short time.
You can write jokes about those topics without being those things you know? Sometimes the transphobic writing points out the absurdity of holding such a position.
Exactly. Most good comedy uses that at least occasionally. Look at Always Sunny!
For them to not age well because of sexism/etc, it would have to not be comedically poking those topics.
Oh my god… Shut all the way up.
Its one of those shows that’s better remembered than rewatched though
What has two thumbs and doesn’t give a crap what you think?
Lol, link gives an error right now but I have the image in my head so it’s okay :)
Not true at all. I’m rewatching now and it’s as good as ever!
Yeah, the best unique humour of any show (that I have seen), and it still works today.
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This only happens if you slip into Season 9 in my mind.
Well a lot of the humour is really transphobic or sexist and I definitely remember at least one racist joke. There is definitely a lot of good jokes and it’s a funny show, but then something like that comes out of left field and it just kills the mood for me.
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that was the norm for early 2000s western culture,
Which is why I think it’s better remembered than rewatched.
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The problem is when you take something out of its time and see every portrayed character as stereotype - you will kill all humor in the end. Imaginge some todays series in 10 years. There will always be some further developed people who adapted their own human being to whats morally acceptable in given time.
Ask people who are “affected” by the humor and if they are offended. Or make jokes about growing grass.
I watched it for the first time recently and it was good but… Nowhere near as amazing as the internet led me to believe it would be. JD and Elliot’s relationship in particular was infuriating and I hated any episodes that were about it. They turned each other into horrible people.
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To me they felt more like the generic will-they-or-won’t-they pairing that a lot of sitcoms felt the need to include and constantly inject with drama, rather than an intentional exploration of a toxic relationship. I honestly preferred them a lot more as friends and felt like their characters had a lot more chemistry together when their relationship was platonic. I was hoping during the stretch of time when they finally broke up for real after being on and off again for a while, and JD didn’t have feelings for her anymore supposedly, that things would stay that way. But no, they get back together again eventually. Maybe I’m biased because I’m not generally interested in romance, but I didn’t mind the relationship between Dr. Cox and Jordan, or Turk and Carla. It was just JD and Elliot that I disliked. It was honestly my least favourite part of the show.
I’m in complete agreement, the relationship between JD and Elliot was awful. It felt like JD was in a permanent state of puppy love while ignoring a mountain of red flags. The writing always seemed to demand a winner for their disagreements too. There was never any compromise, just one of them deciding to take blame and say sorry while the other accepts the apology. Elliot always seemed to be the winner, even when she was objectively way in the wrong. The worst example I can think of is when
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Elliot cheated on her boyfriend with JD. I think she believed their relationship was over but it wasn’t? JD wants to tell so they will break up. Elliot doesn’t want him to so they can keep dating. They never bother to think about the boyfriend’s feelings. JD “does the nice thing” and doesn’t tell so Elliot can continue her relationship built on a lie. Whole episode felt sleazy.
Funny enough, Elliot sort of became a heel character for me, I enjoyed it when she got knocked down a peg. From what I understand she’s a lot of people’s least favorite.
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Oh that boyfriend thing was INFURIATING. It honestly lowered my opinion of her character by a lot. And iirc I think that was the boyfriend that was such a good match for her, like he understood her neurotic hangups and was good at reading her and communicating with her, I think it was that guy at least, but I could be getting them mixed up. I remember thinking she should have stayed with that guy who was so understanding of her issues. It’s been a few months since I watched so my memory is a bit spotty on whether that was the same guy or not. But yeah, I honestly almost dropped the show after that episode it pissed me off so much. And it bothered me how when JD was obsessed with her he would lose all his empathy that he would display in other episodes that weren’t focused on their relationship and just become a sex obsessed idiot who was desperate to get into her pants.
Oh and don’t even get me started on when he finally got together with her and then realized right after that he didn’t actually love her, he just wanted something he couldn’t have, so once he had it he didn’t want it any more. My God did that piss me off. If the writers were so dead set on fucking up Elliot’s relationship to get her back with JD the least they could do was fucking commit to it! That really soured my opinion of his character as well. They both came across as just, the worst people ever. It honestly made later episodes when JD was suddenly a good empathetic guy again a bit harder to accept for a while. I mean Elliot was always a bit self absorbed so while it made me like her less, it didn’t necessarily go against her character or ruin the believability of what the writers were going for with her (part of her character development was her growing out of her sheltered suppressed sheltered rich girl personality and becoming a more well rounded person. The writing didn’t always succeed at writing those types of stories for her but the intent at least still came across, so her being a bad person sometimes wasn’t necessarily out of character, even if I had hoped she was at least better than that), but JD’s entire shtick from the start was being lovable goofball with hidden depths who may make mistakes but ultimately wants to do the right thing. So if he would do something as awful as trying to sabotage the relationship of someone who was supposedly his friend, and then decide he doesn’t even want to be with her after all that, then it becomes a bit harder to believe that he actually cares about his patients, who are basically strangers, when he would act like such a sociopath towards someone he actually knows and supposedly should care about.
Idk, that whole thing just really poisoned a significant portion of the show for a while for me. Any episodes that were focused on romantic relationships or drama between the characters without actually being related to hospital life were probably my least favourite, even the more tolerable ones. The show was at its best when it was actually about the premise of them being in a hospital and how the characters engaged with it rather than devolving into generic interpersonal conflict that you could find in any other sitcom. There were a few exceptions, I know I usually enjoyed the episodes centering on JD and Cox’s relationship even if it was outside of the context of the hospital, but those were rare compared to the Romance drama related ones. I could not care less about JD’s dating life with or without Elliot, it was always insufferable whenever that was the focus.
To be clear, I DO like Scrubs and think it’s a good show overall, but I don’t think it’s the perfect show the internet treats it as. It has lots of flaws. There was lots of good stuff in it, but some bad stuff too, and when it was at its worst it felt like that dragged it down quite a bit for me. It could have been a lot better, if they’d focused more on that good stuff.
It didn’t help that when I watched it with my roommate it was our sitcom replacement for Schitt’s Creek which we’d just finished watching, and Schitt’s Creek was so good from start to finish and avoided so many of those annoying pitfalls that other sitcoms tend to have, or deconstructed them in an interesting way. Couples actually, gasp, communicated! Imagine that. Even the one technically on again off again relationship in that show (if it can be called that) was done well and in a way that worked really well for the characters’ development and didn’t feel like it was just drama for the sake of drama, when they split up it made sense why and felt like an important step for the main character in the relationship, and when they got back together again it felt natural because they’d developed so much as characters by that point and were different people than they had been the first time. So coming from that to scrubs which had a lot of my least favourite romance tropes, particularly with JD and Elliot was a bit jarring lol. Turk and Carla were done well, but they couldn’t make up for the other two and their dumpster fire.
This turned into a bit of a rant unintentionally lol, I guess I’m still a bit salty over that part of the show. I swear I do still like the show, I just wish it had lived up to the hype.
I rewatch it like every 2 years or so and it holds up and is really good.
It’s my ToP 3 show of all time with Community and IASIP.
What version? Because I’m worried on a rewatch that the problems with the soundtrack are gonna really detract from the experience.
THe high seas aren’t affected by the licensing squabbles of scrubs
So… that means there’s a version out there with the original broadcast soundtrack intact?
yep, sure is. at least I hope so because I deleted my old version ,
yep just checked it, it’s still up, but it’s a private tracker so not the easiest access.
I never fully understood the appeal, but i have some good memories watching it with a group. I rewatched some the other day and it was really gucking bad. I guess if you find bad slapstick funny or seeing people run in these fast forward sequences, then it’s pretty good.
