Scrubs just isn’t that good. It was ok to have onas background TV while getting baked, but its not the sort of thing you’d rewatch because you loved it so much the first time round. I totally understand why gen z hasn’t heard of it.
Strongly disagree. Scrubs is one of my two favorite shows. It’s a brilliant example of dramedy. Showrunner Bill Lawrence is a master of the genre.
But obviously this is a matter of opinion.
I get a similar feeling from the office (both versions). Just a feeling of contempt for all the characters and disinterest towards the plot.
I can understand disliking The Office much more readily than I can disliking Scrubs.
Is that like a baseball thing?
Who has 2 thumbs and doesnt give a crap? This Gen Z boy :3
This Moment when you first think about programming, because of scrub (or was it Scrum, idk I have no idea what this is, since I have never used it) and get confused as hell.
Scrum is a way of working on projects as a team with a defined set of meetings and procedures. All companies I’ve worked at so far were claiming they use it but none of them actually did.
Scrubs on the other hand was THE Sitcom while I was a teenager. One of my best friends was annoying everyone with citing stuff from it all the fucking time.
But they already tried to extend it with “Scrubs meets school” and the reception was horrible so I’m a bit confused that they want to give it another try…
where do you think you are right now?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHlf08yTPiU starts playing
And that’s why they reboot it
Yep, a built in marketing base of old farts telling young uns how good it is before it even exists.
Right there with you, after what they did with the season that doesn’t exist (season 9, I refuse to acknowledge it) I don’t trust them with this property. The whole appeal of the show was JD and Turk’s growth, and of course the Cox rants. Also what’s the point without Ted.
Thanks for reminding me about Sam Lloyd :/
Yeah, sorry.
Scrapping Ted would be the best decision they could make
Hard disagree, but it’s a moot point now, the actor died a few years ago.
S9 was fine, it was just a different show
Wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.
Eliza Coupe is great; I don’t see the problem
A show can have a fine cast and still not be good. I just personally didn’t like that season, it’s fine if others did, I just wanted to break out some Dr. Cox.
Elder millenials that don’t care about this generational fuckery represent!
(oh crap I used elder millenial unironically am I part of the problem AHHHH!)
I thought they were calling us late-model Gen Xers now. Or Oregon trail Generation.
(only barely tangential to your point but) I mean, I also played the Oregon Trail and I’m definitely a younger millennial.
I’m not gonna gatekeep, but was it on a floppy drive? We played it in school on 5.24” floppies.
I recently played a Floppotron video for my 7 year old and he was skeptical that computers sounded like that when games loaded.
We didn’t even get into the 14.4 modem sounds it took to see a webpage.
Edit: Oops I meant 5.25”, but TIL apparently actually 5.1”. Fun fact I learned back in college, is that CDRs fit into 5.25” floppies if you cut a slit and remove the disc.
We played it in school on 5.24” floppies.
Tech around that time depended a lot on what was affordable. Like I had 5¼ floppies at home but school had Apple IIGS with 3.5" drives that we used for Oregon Trail.
Also wikipedia is telling me that 5.25 floppies were actually 130 mm, which would be 5.1". I guess “five and a quarter” rolls of the tongue better so they rounded up.
Ah; you have a fair point, there. I’ve never used a 5.24". I actually didn’t know it was released on those.
I recently played a Floppotron video for my 7 year old and he was skeptical that computers sounded like that when games loaded.
Haha; I know I’m biased since, as a developer and someone interested in computers, I’m also more aware (even if I’ve never used) of older tech. but it is incredible just how much things have changed.
bobo kelso!!
…Meanwhile a whole class of 12 yr olds today even know what Brooklyn 99 and community is…
Brooklyn 99 is very recent though, isn’t it? Is it still on the air?
Never heard of it until now. I assume this refers to the “2001-2010 American medical comedy-drama” show.
For the record I more or less fit into the late millennial generation.
What do you define as late millennial? Because as someone born toward the tail end of the millennials I feel like while I didn’t personally watch it on tv I heard about it a ton and then as an adult I did a binge watch of it
I mean born into the mid-90s. I was a child - early teenager when this aired.
Yeah that makes sense, the biggest crowd that watched it was probably the Millennials born 1981-1992. By the time I started watching it, I was in high school & it was wrapping up. But some of my cousins were in college when it came out.
I never liked this sitcom and prefer the British “Green Wing” instead.
Never seen it but now you’ve peaked my curiosity! I grew up on scrubs so I don’t really have much of a reference point for other shows. Although I’ve heard “The Pitt” is good.
“piqued” 👍
This is the correct answer
Scrubs was a special show. Some times woke and some times a product if it’s times. Meaning gay jokes cause guys hug. Super fun and then they hit you with that real real. Sorry Dr Kelso is so mean because he needs to keep this big ship running. It doesn’t work out good all the time but he tries.I liked the later seasons when Dr Cox was in charge and when he went through his alcohol problems. I even like the last season. It was different but it was still a good show.
Came here to say something similar. I always have mixed feelings on Scrubs for similar reasons to you. I genuinely can’t go back and rewatch most episodes because they are incredibly dated or insensitive in many respects. The good parts are still good, the great parts are still great, but the bad parts feel really bad IMO, and it really kills a lot of rewatch potential for me, despite having loved watching seasons 1-5 when it was originally airing. It was one of my favorite shows for years.
I can definitely watch older stuff and understand it’s a product of its time, but Scrubs in particular has me cringing by 5 minutes into the episode; I can’t get through the rest of the episode most of the time. I end up skipping around to watch the scenes I know I like. I ain’t got time to sit around watchin’ The Todd harass people or Kelso make his usual “wife bad” jokes.
What a soundtrack, though. One of the better soundtracks of any show I’ve watched.
I’ve (slowly) been rewatching it and there’s definitely moments where I’m wincing at some stuff. But what I find most painful is just how much I kind of hate J.D. He’s such an asshole so often! I brought this up to my husband, who loves the show, and he said that watching JD grow as a person was the point, but I don’t know, I feel like you’re supposed to be rooting for him more often than not. The parts that focus on him trying to be a better doctor–sure. Absolutely. Best parts. But so much of the early seasons are mired in his attempts at relationships and those are the worst parts of him.
they way they did that Australian dude’s song
or the air guitar band
I liked the ukulele songs for all the fifty states
“where do you think we are?”
Probably one of my all time favorites moments in television.
In case you want the sad: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/F4dE4_CeavY
I’m okay with a generation not instinctively crowd-funding a Zach Braff project.
I’m out of the loop. What’s up with Zach Braff?
I don’t remember specifics but when Kickstarter was in its infancy Zach Braff had a couple kickstarters for his movies. They weren’t themselves offensive. It’s just that using a crowdfunding platform which, at the time at least, were mostly for people who had zero access to capital when you’re a multimillionaire with Hollywood connections to capital is a bit gauche.
I feel the same about companies like Anker’s audio branch Soundcore using Kickstarter to prefund/advertise their new tech - safe to say their ‘projects’ are funded about 20,000%
A product so nice you pay for it twice!
I threw in $100 for a Zach Braff movie. I got to be an extra (they fed us ribs for lunch), 2 t-shirts, then got 2 tickets for a sneak preview with free drinks and popcorn, and a q&a with Zach and Donald Faison…worth every penny, unlike the poor saps that have $1 million to solar freakin roadways.
Genuinely, neat. I wonder how that all financially played out. It was probably mostly a tax deduction. (not that it was bad, but just to point at how the rich have faaaaaar more financial tools to motivate people than those who would ACTUALLY benefit from having access to such things)
During the q&a someone asked about it. His first movie, Garden State basically got bankrolled by some rich dentist that he knew… He said the normal way of financing movies lets a bunch of rich people get to take control of the script, who you cast, what scenes make it in… Basically everything.
He wanted to retain the control he had first time around to make his next movie, so he crowd funded it… And seeing how many movies get made by talented people that end up being garbage because money men think they know everything and fuck it up… Seemed reasonable 😏
Well maybe they know it as a buster.
Much of it doesn’t hold up anymore, so it might be a wise idea. It prolly won’t work, tho.
Scrubs pioneered the Fortnite default dance.
yeah. beyond that, Fortnite ripped off the dance and denied Turk any royalties on it. I think the courts said something like “you can’t copyright a few dance moves!”
