Scrubs: Season 5 Premiere
By: Mark Runyon | Category: Show Review | 01/06/06 | 12:21 PM
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Summary: Scrubs is officially off to a decent start. I think its fate still remains a huge question mark, but the true fans will love to watch Braff, Faison, Chalke and the crew attempt to top their own unbridled wackiness.
All the Scrubs fanatics can quit their hyperventilating to catch a collective sigh of relief. After a painfully long hiatus, Zach Braff and company are back, and they're zanier than ever. Quit your cackling. It is possible I say. For instance, how many hub caps would one have to loose off their mental jalopy to have J.D. and Turk come together to play a multi-ethnic Siamese doctor? What about Eliot becoming known to her prestigious fellowship colleagues as the bank farter. And why does Bambi have a driving sock peeking out the top of his pants? See, I rest my case. It seems the Emmy winning comedy, who felt like he was taking cousin Edna to the prom due to NBC's horrible neglect in its fall scheduling, is giving the collective finger to just about anyone who is gullible enough to turn around and look. They are going to be as crazy as they want to be, and if it means cancellation, well bring it on sister. The docs of Sacred Heart don't have time to pussy foot around with those sensitive souls who might get offended or who watch J.D. trip for the four hundredth time and still don't get it. |
So starting a full season order in January means that you've got a lot of episodes to burn. For the foreseeable future, Scrubs will be doubling up in the 9 o'clock time slot on Tuesdays until it's gets this double vision bitch slapped out of its system. So Tuesday's season five premiere covered "My Intern's Eyes" and "My Rite of Passage."
 | | | Scrubs - Season 5 Premiere | | Starring: Zach Braff, Donald Faison, Sarah Chalke, Judy Reyes, John McGinley, Ken Jenkins and Neil Flynn |
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It's a sad day at Sacred Heart because newbie is all grown up now. He's crossed the line to sit at the big boy table as an attending and gets assigned his own flock of interns to laugh at his jokes. Turk (Donald Faison) has seen fit to grow a caterpillar above his lip in the off-season so its only appropriate that Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) gets to tag him with the pretension goatee award. Carla (Judy Reyes) has gone start raving baby crazy and is charting ovulation cycles while ditching the pill. Eliot (Sarah Chalke) has indeed left Sacred Heart for her fellowship at swanky crosstown hospital, yet we see more of her now than when she worked here. Too petrified to speak to her co-workers and taunted by the coffee robot, Eliot fricks her way through her first days, retreating back to her blankie for the warmth of its security. J.D. is in housing limbo since moving out of 'the Turks,' and Turk smuggles his best buddy back into the apartment courtesy of a backpack and one of the best contortionist tricks I've seen. Janitor (Neil Flynn) has been given the hands off by J.D. on pestering him in front of his impressionable interns so Janitor is forced to get crafty. He creates an army of life sized J.D. cutouts. They stir up a lot of trouble while covering the grounds at Sacred Heart like a garden gnome on his madien world voyage. To welcome him into his new position as an attending, Dr. Cox assigns J.D. five man cards, and vows to pull one away each time J.D.'s feminine side sashays to the surface. Man, those cards went faster than a Michael Jackson bolting to play with...I mean...in the balls at Chucky Cheese.
Episode 2, "My Rite of Passage," was a huge yawner. We had J.D. telling God-awful jokes that the interns were getting all slap happy over. He was forced to confront them over their courtesy laughter. Jordon gets played by the resident con man, which strangely gives her the warm fuzzies inside. Carla embarrasses Eliot by whipping out Eliot's need for Beano at the ATM, securing her the coveted nickname of bank farter among her new colleagues. Luckily, the pain didn't endure for long as Eliot gets her fellowship pulled. This is a rather convenient way to weave her back into the staff at Sacred Heart if you ask me.
"My Intern's Eyes" was classic Scrubs. From J.D. taking up that womanly right of passage, popping 'the pill,' to the daydream sequence of people getting capped in a horse hospital, the cast was having ridiculous fun. It's like their sillies built-up over the summer, just splattering all over the episode. So much so that "My Rite of Passage" felt like it was on life support. We need to get the laugh distribution right here in the weeks ahead.
So Scrubs is officially off to a decent start. I think its fate still remains a huge question mark, but the true fans will love to watch Braff, Faison, Chalke and the crew attempt to top their own unbridled wackiness. It's a tall order, but these doctors have the comedic chops to make it happen. If that weren't enough reason to tune in, we have a whole host of fun guest stars on deck including Braff's girlfriend Mandy Moore and Arrested Development's Jason Bateman. I will leave you with this delicate shred of wisdom that J.D. bestowed upon an intern. "Breasts are healthy or unhealthy, never bangin' double Ds." I believe Scrubs may lead us into a new age of enlightenment.
Original Airdate: January 4, Tuesday 9 E/P
Season 5, Episode 1 "My Intern's Eyes"
Season 5, Episode 2 "My Rite of Passage"
Catch the wackiness of Scrubs every Tuesday night at 9.
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