Yes, this totally counts as a Musical Monday. My Musical is found in season 6, episode 6 in case you want to know.
Anyone in my family can tell you how obsessed my brother and I are with Scrubs. I mean, I have seen every single episode so many times, a large majority of them I could say the line before the characters. And seeing as my schedule doesn’t allow for me to watch a full length musical, this will simply have to suffice. Besides… it is SCRUBS. How could it NOT be awesome?
Now, let us get on with the show.
PLOT: For this episode the only important things to know are 1) JD’s pregnant girlfriend moved away and 2) Carla quit her job as a nurse to stay home with her new baby but now wants to go back to work. JD and Elliot are in a park and a random lady passes out. When she regains consciousness everyone is singing. And dancing.
CHARACTERS: Seeing as this is a cast you see on a weekly basis, let’s start with the guest characters. First, the woman (Stephanie D’Abruzzo) starring as the patient is absolutely fantastic. For any avid Broadway lovers out there, you may recognize her as Kate Monster from Ave. Q. She defiantly doesn’t disappoint. Now as for the regular cast, how can you not love any of them? From the borderline completely psycho janitor to the sad sap Ted the range of characters are utterly fantastic.
MUSIC: The songs in this episode are pure Scrubs genius. I think my favorite is definitely “Guy Love”, sung by the most romantic bromance in television history. I still break out the line “That’s why our matching bracelets say Turk and JD” in pure JD voice at the most random moments. I’d say my second favorite song is “Friends Forever / What’s Going to Happen” because (at least the first part) sounds like something straight out of Grease, only you know, all doctory and stuff. I love how they worked in the most random medical stuff into that song. Also, does anyone else notice Bob Kelso do the whole imaginary piano playing when the song shifted into a more serious tone? It cracks me up every single time. I guess my least favorite song is “Everything Comes Down to Poo” because, well, it is just gross. Although it wouldn’t be Scrubs without the gross humor, so I suffer through it.
I can’t say the rest of the songs are bad; I loved them all and know the words to all of them (except “The Rant Song” but I’m getting there). I really do wish that Ted’s band and/or Laverne could have had a solo, instead of a joint song, however considering the time issues (30 min) they had to combine and cut and whatnot. I still love how it turned out.
OVERALL THOUGHTS: I really, really, really, REALLY love Scrubs so of course I think this episode is amaazing. If you just like Scrubs, or don’t like it (the horror!) or have never even seen it before you may not be as into this episode as I am, but it is still a nice break from the usual routine. The good thing is you don’t really have to see any episodes before or after it (just read the plot description above and you should be good) so if you wanted to watch this episode in particular, you don’t have to sit through six seasons and five episodes just to see it. Although you should. This show rocks.