Tonight's season opener of "Scrubs" feels like the beginning of the end of itself. It's sort of funny. Watch and comment by yourself.
November 30, 2006 (Press Release) --
It has that hospital odor of something ancient decaying. If you touch it, don't smell your finger.
The main problem: "Scrubs" has a bunch of babies and pregnant women in it all of a sudden. What is it -- trying to jump the shark? To paraphrase comedian David Cross, I don't hate babies. There's just no natural place for them in a madcap comedy show.
There are sexytime bonus pregnancies from Carla, Jordan and J.D.'s lovah, Kimberly. Their bellies drag down the fun-loving joke-a-thon of fastly edited visual humor and verbal absurdities. ("I punched a whale. Right in the face.")
To its ever-silly credit, "Scrubs" still is pretty good because it treats even motherhood as the target of crass punch lines. It starts with Jordan (Christa Miller) griping at Perry for not doing enough daddy stuff with their existing kid while she's knocked up. She offers him a trade:
"You occasionally lift a finger helping with Jack, and I'm going to try to keep from hating the unborn baby in my belly that's made my ass so big I can't fit the whole thing on a toilet when I pee 800 times a day."
That joke is a little tortured and teased out, but it works because Miller, like everyone in the cast, is a comedy pro.
Another strength also remains -- all the quirky twists. This week, several cast members portray their usual characters but also portray their patients. J.D. (Zach Braff) has to tell a woman she has cancer. She's played by him.
But, oh, the baby stuff. J.D. gets news he's going to be a daddy, so he goes around the hospital worrying about it? Yuck.
Since last season, "Scrubs" fans got news Braff plans to leave his role as central narrator to act in and direct movies. (His "Garden State" is a little classic.) And he thinks NBC will kill it at the end of season six, anyway.
NBC could go on without "Scrubs," since "30 Rock" has taken its place as the network's best comedy. For instance, tonight's "30 Rock" doesn't have a single unfunny scene. "Scrubs" has two or three laughs.
Not bad, but not what it usually is.
If "Scrubs" dies, TV viewers will have two still-great, frenetic comedies to fall back on, "Family Guy" and "South Park." Coincidentally, both those shows have funny babies in them. But in "Family Guy," the baby has tried to destroy the world, and on "South Park," the baby has had sex with his teacher. "Scrubs" will have to aim way lower to top that.
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POSTED BY DOUG ELFMAN
The main problem: "Scrubs" has a bunch of babies and pregnant women in it all of a sudden. What is it -- trying to jump the shark? To paraphrase comedian David Cross, I don't hate babies. There's just no natural place for them in a madcap comedy show.
There are sexytime bonus pregnancies from Carla, Jordan and J.D.'s lovah, Kimberly. Their bellies drag down the fun-loving joke-a-thon of fastly edited visual humor and verbal absurdities. ("I punched a whale. Right in the face.")
To its ever-silly credit, "Scrubs" still is pretty good because it treats even motherhood as the target of crass punch lines. It starts with Jordan (Christa Miller) griping at Perry for not doing enough daddy stuff with their existing kid while she's knocked up. She offers him a trade:
"You occasionally lift a finger helping with Jack, and I'm going to try to keep from hating the unborn baby in my belly that's made my ass so big I can't fit the whole thing on a toilet when I pee 800 times a day."
That joke is a little tortured and teased out, but it works because Miller, like everyone in the cast, is a comedy pro.
Another strength also remains -- all the quirky twists. This week, several cast members portray their usual characters but also portray their patients. J.D. (Zach Braff) has to tell a woman she has cancer. She's played by him.
But, oh, the baby stuff. J.D. gets news he's going to be a daddy, so he goes around the hospital worrying about it? Yuck.
Since last season, "Scrubs" fans got news Braff plans to leave his role as central narrator to act in and direct movies. (His "Garden State" is a little classic.) And he thinks NBC will kill it at the end of season six, anyway.
NBC could go on without "Scrubs," since "30 Rock" has taken its place as the network's best comedy. For instance, tonight's "30 Rock" doesn't have a single unfunny scene. "Scrubs" has two or three laughs.
Not bad, but not what it usually is.
If "Scrubs" dies, TV viewers will have two still-great, frenetic comedies to fall back on, "Family Guy" and "South Park." Coincidentally, both those shows have funny babies in them. But in "Family Guy," the baby has tried to destroy the world, and on "South Park," the baby has had sex with his teacher. "Scrubs" will have to aim way lower to top that.
Source: http://www.msn.com
POSTED BY DOUG ELFMAN
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