TV-Reviewed

“My Comedy Show” is one of those episodes that will probably be forgetful when I think about the history of Scrubs and it’s one of those episodes where the episode didn’t leave me with some kind of message from it.  Besides all of that though, it’s a funny episode, just not one that you’ll talk about years from now when you talk about how great Scrubs is.

J.D. and Turk are running the annual comedy show at the hospital again. Now I might be mistaken, but I don’t remember them talking about an annual comedy show before this episode, but I guess when you watch eight years of a show, you’ll have minor lapses in memory.  It’s always funny to see J.D and Turk do something together and I got a lot of laughs in watching them coordinate these comedy show meetings.

Scrubs Cast

The comedy show was funny also, which poked fun most of the doctors and we even got to see the overly touchy intern do some really good impressions. When it was time for Sunny and Denise to do their sketch on J.D. and Turk… let’s just say that it ended with the two of them kissing. The whole hospital thought it was really funny and it made Turk and J.D. calm down on their PDA… for a little bit. I have to say I’m surprised that J.D. and Turk’s bromance hasn’t really been made an issue before. I mean sure Carla, Elliot, and Dr. Cox are aware of it, but it never has seemed to be brought up by anyone out of that initial circle. It was kind interesting to see that the whole hospital sees what we also. One sketch though couldn’t stop the two for that long and soon they were back to their old ways.

We had a side story with Carla picking a hair off her boob with the janitor seeing it and then addressing it to Carla. Instead of admitting it, Carla decided to play it off like it never happened, driving the janitor into thinking that he dreamed the whole thing up. Usually something like this would be entertaining, but I found it hard to believe that The Janitor would fall for something like this. He’s been the master of pranks for eight years and to see him fall to something like this was sort of disappointing. It would have been nice to see the Janitor find some way to make Carla admit, but we actually saw him apologize to Carla for bringing it up.

The patient of the week ended up being Brianna, whose immune system shuts down every two weeks and he mom is overprotective about everything she does. Usually the patient of the week teaches us a lesson, but it was instead used to teach Denise a lesson about getting out of the hospital every once and a while. The patient wasn’t that interesting anyway, because we really don’t get a chance to know her. It was funny though as Elliot sort of panicked about being thought of as the same age as the mom.

This was a funny episode, just not an episode though that I could emotionally connect with personally. There were plenty of funny moments though, but I would like to hope that more episodes for the rest of the season won’t be as standalone as this episode was.

Rating: 7.0