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Scrubs

It’s time for the annual Scrubs rumor mill. Unlike the past few years when the rumor was this was the last year for the best damn show on television, this time Bill Lawrence, producer extraordinaire, is teasing that ABC has been responsive to a revolving cast to keep the show going.

I like that idea. The cast is fantastic, but the show has thrived when given the ability to plug in guest stars (Heather Locklear, Heather Graham, Brendan Fraser, and even Tara Reid did a great job on the show in multi-episode arcs). I think that given the level of writing talent on the show, a fresh cast isn’t going to be the same jolt that it would be on some other shows.

Hopefully, ABC won’t pull the crap that NBC did with the show. I’m not sure that the show made it a full season without changing time slots at least once, if not more times.

I’m hopeful for the season. While the “finale” with The Princess Bride motif was a little disappointing (and frustruating as NBC showed the episodes out of order) the rest of the past two seasons has been on par with the first couple of seasons of the show. Scrubs is one of the few shows that I can watch over and over and over again and not get tired with it.

Though, I did have to laugh at this exchange:

“We cried a little when Bill said he’d bring young people in,” original cast member Sarah Chalke said.

“These guys are like, we’re the young actors.” Lawrence said. “So I told them, why don’t you take a gander at the opening credits and see how young you guys all look?”

Confirmed Braff: “You think he’s kidding, but he really did that.”

Watching the early shows on one of the 58 channels that syndicate it you can really tell how they’ve grown up in the last 8 years (I guess I have as well being the same age). Especially Sarah Chalke, she looks a lot younger in the early episodes.

Even if it’s for one more year, a year with Scrubs is better than a year without.

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© 2008 Kirk Walsh.