Scrubs - The Complete First Season
by Adam Bernstein, Craig Zisk, Elodie Keene, Jeff Melman, Lawrence Trilling
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Actor: Donald Faison, John C. McGinley, Ken Jenkins, Sarah Chalke, Zach BraffDirector: Adam Bernstein, Craig Zisk, Elodie Keene, Jeff Melman, Lawrence Trilling
Brand: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 558 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-05-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Product features:
- Condition: New
- Format: DVD
- Box set; Closed-captioned; Color; DVD; NTSC
Movie Reviews of Scrubs - The Complete First Season
Movie Review: An undiscovered jewel, Scrubs is the Rodney Dangerfield of sitcoms
Summary: 5 Stars
"Scrubs" and "Homicide: Life on the Streets" have a lot in common - they are/were high quality shows of their genre that were never given the respect or attention they deserved and were both moved around and ultimately stuck in time slots that would cause them to remain undiscovered by the average viewer. I myself did not discover this series until it showed up in syndication several months ago. "Scrubs" came into existence after Bill Lawrence visited some old college friends who were now doctors. Listening to stories about the crazy things that went on during their internships, Lawrence was inspired to create a comedy about young interns learning the ropes of their profession in a hospital environment. Since Lawrence used to work on "Spin City", most of that show's cast members have guested on Scrubs over the years.
J.D. - John Dorian - is an insecure, geeky, constantly self-analyzing medical intern and the central character of the show. Everything is narrated by and seen through him. This includes a series of fantasy scenes that occur in almost every episode that amount to the musings and daydreams of J.D.'s overactive imagination.
Dr. Cox is the sometime mentor and sometime tormentor of J.D. Cox is a brilliant doctor and really likes hearing it from anyone who'll tell him. Dr. Cox routinely rants at and/or belittles J.D., though his apparently rough treatment of J.D. is intended as conditioning for the rigors and horrors of hospital life, as well as an outlet for Cox's frustration in his personal life. Much credit has to go to the writers, of course, who consistently give John McGinley (Cox) the best rants you'll find outside of Dennis Miller Live, but they wouldn't be half as funny if not delivered with the perfect intonation and scathing sarcasm by a man who seems like the word "snark" was literally invented to describe him. These days, the phrase "he was born to play that part" gets tossed around a lot, so much so that it's lost a lot of its meaning, but believe me when I say, truthfully, that John McGinley was born to play Dr. Perry Cox.
Dr. Cox does occasionally offer up words of wisdom to J.D., though. For example, Cox tells J.D. that the ICU is full of old people that would be more than glad to leave this planet, but will likely go on living for years and years. However, he points out, J.D.'s current ICU patient is just young enough to die, since it is Dr. Cox's observation that "God hates doctors".
Remarkably, the relationship between Elliot, an attractive and well-off fellow intern, and J.D. takes off and then crashes all in one mid-season episode during the first year, but manages to not turn into the "Sam & Diane Show" like Cheers did where eventually the see-sawing relationship took over the show and got so old that there was nothing else to do with it. Also, Carla and Turk are almost instantaneously a couple, but that plays out well too. Their relationship becomes a badly needed bulwark of stability in what is a parade of dysfunctional relationships, even the dysfunctional ones that seem to work. For example, Dr. Cox divorces his wife, and from that point forward their relationship seems to work as well as any relationship involving those two. Dr. Kelso, the evil chief of medicine, has been married for years, but he and his wife live completely separate lives. Instead, the love of Dr. Kelso's life is his dog Baxter.
The janitor, as J.D.'s foil throughout the series, is a great touch of originality - who would think of making a janitor a regular on a comedy that revolves around a hospital? The janitor has an air of mystery about him though. You get the feeling he is a Renaissance man who has decided to retire from the world and hide behind his mop. Especially since he speaks Spanish, Korean and Italian as well as English, being also able to pull off, convincingly, at least 3 different accents and types of English speech.
Through all this there is the friendship of Turk and J.D. that has lasted since college. They are roommates while they are completing their internships and residencies, and share each other's goofy sense of humor. Turk and J.D. own a stuffed Golden Retriever named Rowdy which they treat like a live dog, giving him baths, and speaking to him as if he can answer back. However, Turk is in a surgical residency, while J.D. is a medical resident. This is often shown as a humorous rivalry in which the two groups are made to look like rival gangs in West Side Story or like rival cliques in high school in which the surgery interns are the cool kids and the medical interns are the geeks.
My personal vote for best episode of the first season is "My Old Lady" (MOL). There were other close contenders, but this one really stands out. MOL has that spot-on balance of comedy and drama that I love about the show -- early on, J.D.'s voiceover informs us that one out of every three patients admitted to the hospital will die there, then we follow he, Elliot, and Turk as each strives not to be the one to lose theirs. The format allows for equal focus on all three, gives us a great understanding of their individual issues, and ultimately shows just how well the actors were grasping their characters so early on. Very funny in places, intensely emotional in others, and making excellent use of background music, MOL illustrates the Scrubs formula perfectly.
Summary of Scrubs - The Complete First Season
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