Zach Braff: Voice of our Generation

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dr cox is the main reason scrubs doesn't suck.

his wife also.

― the original hauntology blogging crew (Enrique), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:00 (seventeen years ago) link

T/S: Not-quite-central characters who completely steal the show: Dr. Cox vs. GOB Bluth vs. Mr. Burns vs. Manuel vs. Bishop Brennan vs. Quagmire.....

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:06 (seventeen years ago) link

oh and how could I forget ALAN JOHNSON from Peep Show

― You've Got Scourage On Your Breath (Haberdager), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:07 (seventeen years ago) link

scrubs is dire. i can't even bear to watch the ads.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:19 (seventeen years ago) link

I'm probably going to develop a brain tumor 15 minutes into the airing of the musical episode

― A B C (sparklecock), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:31 (seventeen years ago) link

This is why we don't talk any more, lauren.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:32 (seventeen years ago) link

you are dead to me.

― lauren (laurenp), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:35 (seventeen years ago) link

cue voiceover...I always knew that watching a silly and occasionally maudlin tv show about working in a hospital would show me who my real friends were...

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:45 (seventeen years ago) link

*applause*

― CharlieNo4 (Charlie), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:52 (seventeen years ago) link

but Scrubs has no laugh track!

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I pattern myself on Dr. Cox

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

I don't think I've caught any recent Scrubs episodes, but I can imagine how it might have gotten kinda tired by now. The first few years are definitely funny, though, and not just in the way that anything featuring Donald Faison is inherently awesome.

(I did see 30 Rock last night, though, and it's just getting more and more ridiculously great -- the Maureen Dowd joke was the funniest thing I've seen on TV in ages.)

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 12 January 2007 17:59 (seventeen years ago) link

but Scrubs has no laugh track!
http://www.tv.com/scrubs/my-life-in-four-cameras/episode/397534/summary.html

― roc u like a § (ex machina), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

That episode was great.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:01 (seventeen years ago) link

the Maureen Dowd joke was the funniest thing I've seen on TV in ages

That was the moment I knew I was again witnessing greatness. And it was about 30 seconds into the episode.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:02 (seventeen years ago) link

(I did see 30 Rock last night, though, and it's just getting more and more ridiculously great -- the Maureen Dowd joke was the funniest thing I've seen on TV in ages.)

That was funny, but I have to admit I loved this part more:

"Do you like Phil Collins?"
"...I have two ears and a heart, don't I?"

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:03 (seventeen years ago) link

“I’m in sweat pants every day. I don’t play the game at all.”

― ‘•’u (gear), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:12 (seventeen years ago) link

Seriously, fuck Braff. Let's talk about a good show.

I didn't like the Tina Fey plot as much as the Tracy Morgan plot. I mean, it was fine, but the show is best when both plots are great. Like the one where Jack wants to act and Tracy can't read. That one is pure gold.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:17 (seventeen years ago) link

And the callbacks are getting better, too. Like, Maureen Dowd is funnier because he also dated Condi. And Phil Collins is funnier because Tracy apparently has unexpected taste in music. "I know Pat Benetar rarely plays live! Scalp the damn tickets!"

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:24 (seventeen years ago) link

Wait a cotton-pickin' minute here...MANDY MOORE!?!

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:29 (seventeen years ago) link

Did I see Eugene Mirmin at the 30 Rock writers table for like a second last night?

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 12 January 2007 18:51 (seventeen years ago) link

Jesus Christ, begone indie fuxxors! "Scrubs" is awesome!

― The Android Cat (Dan Perry), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:09 (seventeen years ago) link

nuh uh.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:23 (seventeen years ago) link

if 30 rock ends up canceled, fine. if 30 rock doesn't get an emmy, fine. but there will be hell to pay if Alec Baldwin isn't up there accepting the Best Comedy Actor emmy.

― tony conrad schnitzler (sanskrit), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:30 (seventeen years ago) link

i watched an old episode of scrubs this morning and laughed out loud at least 4 times. still, im convinced king of queens is comedic genius.

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Friday, 12 January 2007 19:49 (seventeen years ago) link

oh kate, you and my stepmom!

― ai lien (kold_krush), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:20 (seventeen years ago) link

hate zach braff all you want cuz the shins got popular w/lame-o's and shit but fuck me if he's not an awesome comic actor AND:

Scrubs is more consistently funny than Arrested Development ever was.

*TRUTH ATTACK!*

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:28 (seventeen years ago) link

*OPINION ATTACK!*

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:30 (seventeen years ago) link

still, im convinced king of queens is comedic genius.

Scrubs is more consistently funny than Arrested Development ever was.

who are you people

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Scrubs is frickin' awesome. Scrubs kicks ass. My only point of contention is that Arrested Development quantifiably kicks more ass.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:31 (seventeen years ago) link

my opinions are truth.

actually, they're prolly about even, but arrested is as overrated as scrubs is underrated, so i'd call it a good solid draw.

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:32 (seventeen years ago) link

king of queens blows though jordan, i'm not stumping for that chub

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:33 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't wait for this 30 rock to come out on DVD. Sounds awesome.

― Fleischhutliebe! like a warm, furry meatloaf (Fluffy Bear Hearts Rainbows), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

Theory: people who hate Scrubs are secretly afraid that there's rather too much of the Zach Braffs about them?

― === temporary username === (Mark C), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:34 (seventeen years ago) link

TRUTH PARRY

Scrubs is OK (tho the 1 ep I saw this season was baaaaaaaad)
Dr. Cox is awesome
AD is great
30 Rock is godhead

― David R. (popshots75`), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link

you guys are WRONG. if they got rid of the chick KofQ would be almost perfect

― sunny successor agrees: gay dad always trumps slutty mom (katharine), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link

What about "Campus Ladies"? I'm kind of in love with this show.

It's on Oxygen. I don't know if men will find it amusing. This week, the ladies take 'shrooms. It's going to be a delight.

― molly mummenschanz (mollyd), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Campus Ladies is pretty funny, I never know when it's on though. I give my parents crap for watching K o' Q every day in syndication but honestly it's not bad for what it is. Even ignoring Braff everyone on Scrubs overacts horribly. AD is overrated but still great. Alec Baldwin is basically the best dude. These are my opinions as an American

― A B C (sparklecock), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Haha the best dude out of all dudes, yes.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 12 January 2007 20:59 (seventeen years ago) link

After 30 Rock and the Departed I have a huge crush on Alec Baldwin, which is deeply worrying.

― N.i.c.o.l.e (Ex Leon), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:00 (seventeen years ago) link

No, it's not. That's no crush of shame. I have a crush on Alec Baldwin, in a strictly man way.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:04 (seventeen years ago) link

According to Jim is the greatest show of the last 20 years.

j/k ; P

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:06 (seventeen years ago) link

TS: http://tammybruce.com/archives/fatalec.jpg

vs.

http://www.stationave.com/lectures/alec-baldwin01%5B1%5D.jpg

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:08 (seventeen years ago) link

I think I like him better now. He used to be so handsome it was a little creepy.

― there to preserve disorder (kenan), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:09 (seventeen years ago) link

The image doesn't work but lol @ "fatalec.jpg"

― A B C (sparklecock), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:34 (seventeen years ago) link

is baldwin a vulcan?

― max (maxreax), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:48 (seventeen years ago) link

OK I am about to sound like a lame-ass getting specific about this, but: Scrubs is both funny AND CUTE, kinda. I'm not gonna hate on the parts where the cuteness works. Some of the humor can be a little bit self-satisfied in its wacky preciousness, but even in those cases it does it with a kind of devil-may-care confidence that keeps it working. This show and That 70s Show started up in similar time-frames, if I remember right, and they seem kinda similar on that front -- the way they kinda toss plausibility and set the whole thing within the characters' own imaginary world? (See also how on both shows half the humor stems from characters playing ridiculous games/pranks with one another, as if they're just bored.) Scrubs's dramatic moments tend to be awfully lame, no doubt, and the rigid three-act structure is as laughable as that of Sex and the City, and exactly the same --

1.
- voice-over introduces episode's thematic topic ("in a hospital you depend on your coworkers" / "in New York we like men and shoes")
- scenes establish each character's activities

2.
- conflicts arise in each storyline
- voice-over points out thematic questions uniting them all ("sometimes you realize your friends aren't there for you ... or your relationship isn't as strong as you thought" / "I couldn't help but wonder ... were men the new shoes?")

3.
- conflicts resolve
- voice-over unites all resolutions under one banner ("maybe the person you least expect is looking out for you ... or maybe you realize your girlfriend cares about you more than you thought" / "but it was summer in New York, and I had some fabulous shoes")

-- which, as above, is lame, but if you're the sort of person who can enjoy watching a Sex and the City episode and betting on whether Carrie will say "I couldn't help but wonder," "I had to ask," or "OTHER," then you can probably forgive the rigid blocks in there and just wait for Donald Faison to be awesome again.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:57 (seventeen years ago) link

how do I shot voice-overs

― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

that 70s show is really underrated. that cast had a real good chemistry i thought. for trad sitcoms nowadays, i'm a sucker for two and a half men and how i met yr mother.

― M@tt He1geson: Sassy and I Don't Care Who Knows It (Matt Helgeson), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:59 (seventeen years ago) link

the acting on that 70's show was really good. this is really obvious when you watch something terrible like "according to jim" or "the war at home" or something equally awful. how I met your mother is great, except for the pretty canadian girl, although her acting might be properly attributed to her character's canadian-ness

― kyle (akmonday), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:01 (seventeen years ago) link

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