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(S06E13) If I had to sum up this week's episode of Scrubs in one word it would be 'jokey'. I know there was a common thread running through the show which was, in one word, 'trust', but it just didn't seem that it held a lot of substance. In the end it was just the glue attaching a constant barrage of jokes.
Now, before you point you finger at the flat screen and scream 'Of course they're jokes. It's a freaking comedy!' there have been plenty of episodes where the thread actually produced a nice story that wove around the show. A story where some of the humor would come from the situations rather than just from the jokes. Feh, what do I know? Maybe I'm looking too much into the episode. It just seemed to be more of a sitcom this week rather than a comedy. Am I off here, folks?
Anyway, despite all of what I said above, this was a pretty funny episode.
What I really liked was the interaction between Elliot and Dr. Cox. Since she entered private practice Dr. Reid has become more comfortable with herself and it showed during her scenes with Perry this week. The best part occurred when Elliot one-upped Dr. Cox during one of the standard walk-and-talks the show features (you would think it was an Aaron Sorkin production with all of the walk-and-talks.). After getting tripped up (literally) by Cox, Elliot gets him back by distracting him so he doesn't see he is going to walk into a wall. As Carla says afterwards, 'Niiiiccceee!'.
But, even though she's doing that stuff to Perry she still remains a bit naive when it comes to human nature. Case is point is when she discovers that a drug counselor she's working with is Sam Thompson, a man who tricked her into giving him drugs years before. Elliot believes that Sam has turned a page in his life and is now sober. Cox thinks he knows better and believes that Thompson is still doing drugs. It turns out he is, but Cox doesn't tell Elliot about it because, as he puts it, she'll eventually become cynical like everyone else does at Sacred Heart. So, why not enjoy herself now before the world comes crashing down on her.
By the way, Cox's rant on Grey's Anatomy was funny and ironic. Here he is complaining that everything gets summed up nicely at the end of Grey's by an annoying voice-over person who's very vague at times. Hm, sounds like the ending of another medical show on another network that happens to air at the same time as Grey's, doesn't it? Yet, that other show (it's Scrubs you knuckleheads!) had the annoying voice-over ending first. So Grey's just stole it from them. How rude!
The other stories this episode didn't impress me that much. Particularly the whole 'Rowdy or Steven' dead stuffed-dog plot. This just seemed like something the producers put together to give Carla and Janitor something to do. The plot involving Kelso's friend without health insurance (who was the patient in real life? I can't put my finger on the name.) seemed to be the main focus for the beginning of the show, but got sidetracked down the line.
That storyline did bring about one very funny fantasy sequence. Well, actually two, because it was a fantasy sequence within a fantasy sequence -- perhaps a first for Scrubs. It took place when Turk and J.D. were telling their patient that modern medicine would allow her to keep her infected foot. Turk mentions that, had it been several years ago, the technology would not be available. Backwards in time 500 years, and we see Turk sawing off the patient's foot, lamenting that the technology would not have been available a few years ago to accomplish this task. Backwards in time to the pre-historic age where Turk and J.D. club the patient to death. Then, for some reason, J.D. clubs Turk. After that came the funniest moment of the episode . . . J.D.'s sad piano music comes on and he performs an inner monologue in caveman speak. I don't know why, but I just cracked up at that.
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