J.D., Dr. Cox, and Turk are back from the original cast; we get to see Elliot in a nice scene in the beginning and we do get an update on a couple of other characters by the end of the episode. Hopefully we’ll see more characters from the past later on in the season. Sacred Heart has now been turned into a medical school on a University. Denise is also back as a student advisor and it’s nice to have her back also.

The biggest clue that this won’t be the same Scrubs that we remember is when we hear J.D.’s thoughts and as he walks past Lucy, the newest student, it immediately switches to her. Actually, I’m not sure if Bill Lawrence purposely did it, but J.D.’s inner monologues were definitely short in this episode and also seemed to be interrupted throughout this episode. Lucy is the main focus out of all the students and she’s interesting; like a younger more innocent version of J.D. She does come off as being slightly annoying a little, but there’s other characters that round her off like Cole, the jerk whose dad owns the school, or guy who melted down the first time he went through Med School and is now hooking up with Denise. All these characters are different and they all sort of balance each other out, very much like the original cast did in the first eight seasons.

This episode served as an introduction and it was very easy to get sucked into this world again. Things are different, but the comedy style is very much still the same.  The world and the characters are the same, but there is a slight bit of maturity added to them. This episode was a good introduction and I look forward to seeing what’s to come in further episodes.

My biggest worry with this season of Scrubs is whether we’ll basically just be seeing a rehash of past episodes, like the same life lessons with different characters. For newcomers this won’t be such a big deal, but for fans of the show, it’s going to feel a bit repetitive. I’m hoping that Bill Lawrence can continue to make this show feel new while still making it familiar; so far though Scrubs has started off on a good foot.

Rating: 8.0

We start the episode off at the beginning of J.D.’s last day and it’s only right since the very first episode started off from the very beginning of J.D’s first day. What I liked about this episode is that for the most part it was just like every good episode of Scrubs in that J.D. still had to work and the world didn’t just stop, because the star of the show was leaving. I actually liked the case of J.D. treating a mom with Huntington disease and then him having to tell the son that he too could have it. I’ll admit this storyline was kind of ripped off from House, and to be honest, it wasn’t done as well simply because we didn’t have enough time to connect with the patients, but you really can’t go wrong when you deal with Huntington’s disease.

Zach Braff as Dr. John ‘J.D.’ Dorian

The best part was seeing everyone react to J.D. leaving, and for the most part it was lackluster. We had a great sendoff from Carla, several goodbyes from Turk, and we didn’t get a goodbye from Elliot because she had been sneakily moving things into his apartment anyway. We even got a good send off from Jordan and the Janitor. The Janitor was hilarious in his pursuit of trying to get J.D. to admit that it was him who put the penny in the door and even better when J.D. admitted and then the Janitor admitted that he had saw the whole thing. It’s funny to think that if J.D. would have just admitted that he put the penny there that the Janitor would have just left him alone. It was also great to learn that the Janitor’s real name was Glenn Matthews and then hear someone else call him by a totally different name.

I think what I was most interested was to see how Dr. Cox would react and he reacted in the typical way most of the episode pretending like he didn’t care that J.D. was leaving at all. It was also pretty cool that J.D. made him a book with all his rants in there and makes you wonder exactly where he found the time to do it. It took all episode, but with some good thinking from J.D. and some great acting by Sunny we finally got a declaration of love and trust from Dr. Cox, in one of the better speeches.

I loved the ending also that had J.D. fantasizing about his future and it was a great future to think about. It felt so real that one has to wonder if we’re supposed to assume that this is their future. I guess we’ll have to. The part where we got to see some of the characters from over the seasons was cool too, even though I would have loved to see Tara Reid and Brendan Fraser who I thought were sone of the most defining guests on the show.

It was definitely one of the best finales that I’ve seen. I think I’ll miss the characters and the relationships that they share with each other, because I think these actors and their characters have some of the best charisma of any show on television. Scrubs might have not had the ratings of a classic show like say Friends or Cheers, but I personally think its better than both of those shows and should go down as one of the best shows on TV. While the show will be undergoing a change next season, I’m looking forward to see what Bill Lawrence will do with the Scrubs legacy for next season.

Scrubs is one of the best shows and it’s been really great to not only be able to write and review it for so many seasons, but to be a fan of the show. It was a great finale and it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what I’m giving this episode.

Rating: 10

Not only is J.D. moving, but it’s not that far into this episode that he ends up with a new job at Kim’s hospital. I think what was surprising from me and a lot of long-time friends of the show are that J.D. actually making decisions fairly quickly, not even thinking about the outcome that this would have on his relationship with Turk. This is actually a good thing because it means he actually has his priorities in order and is acting like more of an adult then he ever has in this whole series.  It’s a catch-22 because it’s great to see J.D. grow, but as he grows, we start to see all the good things that are going to be slipping away.

The biggest relationship affected by J.D. moving out was obviously going to be Turk and J.D.’s. At first it didn’t seem like it would be a big deal, but slowly we start to see them disagreeing. First with J.D. mocking Turk’s use of the word stat and then Turk using his Chief of Surgery title to override J.D.’s diagnoses.  I don’t believe in the history of the show other than once that we’ve seen these too fight and it was still a mild fight, because it was figured out by the end of the episode.

The Janitor took J.D.’s leaving pretty hard as well in his own way. J.D. leaving prompted him to try and stop everybody else from changing, even going as far to try to stop Ted from moving in with Gooch, who we got to hear sing another one of her goofy, but lovable songs. It was a silent cheer from me to see Ted move ahead with moving in with Gooch despite Janitor forbidding it.

John C. McGinley as Dr. Perry Cox

I think out of everyone it was Dr. Cox who took it the worst though. I think we know Dr. Cox well enough to know that every emotion he shows isn’t really the emotion he is portraying inside, so while doing a back flip to celebrate J.D’s leaving is funny, I think we all knew that Dr. Cox seemed to be giving Denise a hard time. But to be honest, it didn’t seem like it was more than usual. The only thing that was inconsistent was the fact that he said he liked her before and then seemed to hate her after. So it slowly started to be revealed that Dr. Cox doesn’t believe in helping the interns anymore, because he’s afraid that they’ll just run off like J.D. is doing. John C. McGinley really is perfect for this role and he does a great job playing this emotionless, but emotional character.

I know this episode seems like it was sad, but it was quite funny also. There were plenty of the great Scrubs jokes that we’re used to. The only non-funny segment I have to say is Todd and his association with that new couple. I guess Todd will never change, but his lack of growing up really does affect the show a little. At this point of the show’s run, I think that these Todd segments are really unneeded.

The ending of this episode was probably the saddest moment, as we see that J.D. and Turk’s close relationship is definitely not going to be like it was. J.D. now has a kid and a new job somewhere else and Turk has a wife and two kids. It’s very sad, but rewarding to see how this relationship is ending up and I can’t wait to see how this finale will go to end it all.

There’s only one more episode left until the end of the season/series? I’m not sure how you would describe this since the show is going to continue as Scrubs next season, but I’ll just say that there is only one more episode left until the Scrubs that we know and love is over.  I’m eagerly awaiting the finale, but have a little sadness, because I bet you there will be tears, sadness, but a lot of laughter. This was a very good episode and now it’s on to the finale.

Rating: 9.7

We should probably start off with the revelation that Elliot’s ex Sean is now dating J.D.’s ex Kim. This was an interesting revelation, but also a bit weird since we haven’t seen Sean in a couple of seasons. It’s actually a bit weird to see him come back out of nowhere. I did like the animosity from both J.D. and Sean who both picked up from where they last left off. Since they’re not doomed to see each other for the rest of their lives, it was funny watching the pair try to work out their differences. The girls seemed to have an easy time with everything with Elliot and Kim bonding how they each thought about killing each other and then talking about which guy was better in bed.

The men took a bit of time to hash out their problems and I was thankful that even by the end of the episode, there was still a little animosity between the two because it would have been a bit unbelievable if they were just best friends at the end of this episode. They did seem to bond on the fact that they were weiner cousins (It’s when two people have sex with the same girl at the same time or not). It was funny how the whole handshake thing seemed to catch on around the hospital and I thought it was also mean to have beardy doctor and another be cousins over Nurse Roberts.

Donald Faison as Dr. Christopher Turk

We also had Turk trying to get the Chief of Surgeon position. This was one of those unnecessary plotlines because I think we knew instantly that Turk would get the job since there’s really nobody else who could possibly deserve it over him. It also didn’t make much sense to me why Dr. Cox didn’t want to give him the job when the two seemed to be talking a couple of episodes ago. The two have never had the best relationship, but it seemed silly that Dr. Cox would act like this. It was also predictable that Carla, who looked beautiful, would interfere.

I did like Kelso checking himself in and doing his own diagnoses. It really showed just how lonely he possibly is. For a minute I thought that he might be pondering suicide though of some sort because really Kelso hasn’t had anyone since he retired. I would like to see a resolution to Kelso’s situation before the end of the season because I don’t want to end this show thinking that Kelso continued to hang out at the hospital.

I thought the biggest revelation was J.D. feeling like he’s missing out on Sam’s life. We have to admit J.D. does the best he can being split apart from the mother of his child, but it was heartfelt to see him still feeling left out and wanting to be the best father he can be. It’s a side of J.D. that we’re really not used to seeing and just another sign of how far he’s come along and grown. If this is for real, this is going to have big repercussions on the whole cast. Will Elliot move with him and what will Turk do when his best friend is thirty minutes away?

Everything is moving along so fast and it feels like we’re getting so close to a finale where all the characters are going to break off on their own. Every episode is starting to get more sad as I start to realize that this show is coming towards an end.  This was a better episode then the previous episode and the first episode that’s showing signs that these characters have went as far as they can go.

Rating: 8.0

This episode starts us off where the last one left off with three of our couples in relationship trouble. Elliot is mad because J.D. won’t declare his love in grand fashion, Turk is mad at Carla for leaving him in the pool naked, and surprisingly Jordan is mad at Dr. Cox for wasting a whole day and Dr. Cox is trying to get Jordan to just admit that she likes spending time with him.  Out of all the couples I thought Dr. Cox and Jordan’s was the one that felt like a problem that has been there since the first season and it was a good thing that the writers decided to  bring this issue up before the end of the season.

I thought it was great to hear Jordan finally admit that she likes spending time with Cox and that she loves them.  It moves the couple from a couple forced to be together, because of a child to a couple that really loves each other, but I’m sure we’ll hear more of those lovable insults before the end of the season.

Sarah Chalke as Elliot Reid

At first I thought Elliot was being a bit crazy, but maybe she isn’t. She had a good point when she mentions how it’s no problem for him to say he loves Turk, but when it comes to her, he’s nonchalant about it. This is a toughie because ultimately no woman could come in between Turk and J.D., but it looks like Elliot just may be that girl. J.D.’s “I love you” speech might be one of the most unorthodox speeches I’ve seen, but it worked and suited the character nicely. Hearing J.D. say he loves Elliot more than Turk means something to the Scrubs audience and even though it sounds stupid, we know that J.D. is in love; plus how can a girl not fall in love with a man who gives you their Brady Bunch tiki necklace.

It was funny how we felt bad for Turk last episode, but somehow Carla totally turned it around to make Turk look like the bad guy. I started to feel bad for Carla who actually does do a lot, taking care of the kids, working, and cooking, and sexing up her man every night.  It was still nice to see them resolve things when Carla walks out in a great looking bathing suit.

The wedding with the Janitor was weird just like anything the Janitor does, but it was nice to see him move on also. It was a bit of a cop-out to play around with not telling us Janitor’s real name, but I’ll buy it; I almost wish his real name was Janitor, so we didn’t have to keep thinking about what his real name actually is.

This episode moved these relationships into forever territory; meaning that I think this episode makes us believe that these relationships will last forever (even though we never doubted Turk and Carla). I think this episode put these relationships in permanent territory and I think this will probably be the last bit of drama that we’ll see relationship wise with these couples.

I can’t say that have Bob Kelso on the episode really amounted to anything and to tell you the truth, I am starting to get a little tired of him just hanging out.  I believe that this is the writers’ way of saying that Kelso’s story time on the episode really is over though. This totally wouldn’t work on any other show and it barely worked on this episode.

This was a good episode with little to not like. It’s just another one of those episodes where you realize that this really is the last season of the Scrubs that we know and love. I’m eagerly waiting for the rest of the season to figure out how they plan to close this season out with these last episodes coming up.

Rating: 7.8

We start the episode off with Elliot and J.D. celebrating the seven year anniversary of when they kissed. Of course J.D. has forgotten (wouldn’t you after the time gap in between) and he goes off and ends up stealing a random toothbrush from the gift shop.  This ends up being handled very well with Elliot talking about how he didn’t have to buy a gift. Up until the end of this episode, I’ve loved the way the writers have handled this relationship the second time around. There’s no real worrying that Elliot will freak out or that J.D. will do something dumb. Everything just seems normal and easy which is the way it should be after all these years. Things do get a little interesting though when Elliot tells J.D. that she loves him, but when J.D. says the same thing, she tells him to hold off until the perfect moment. Through the whole episode we have J.D. trying to tell Elliot why he loves her, but getting cut off every time.

Then we have the couple of Carla and Turk who are having relationship problems of their own – only Carla doesn’t seem to realize it. This is another couple where the writers have done a great job, because they have gradually and unnoticeably turned Carla and Turk into an old married couple. It’s been fairly unnoticeable until now that Carla and Turk’s sex life has gone down the drain, but with their jobs, the kid, and the kid on the way, it makes perfect sense. The couples along with Dr. Cox and Jordan all travel to the Bahamas to see the Janitor marry Lady. They arrive unexpectedly because the Janitor gives them late notice so they could purposely not make it.

Neil Flynn as The Janitor

The trip only seems to make things work and magnify the troubles present in these relationships. Carla can’t seem to stop talking on the phone and seeing how Izzie is doing, Elliot who is malnourished is obsessing over when and how J.D. will say he loves her, which ultimately ends with him saying how she needs to stop acting crazy and her walking out, and then Jordan throws Dr. Cox’s laptop into the ocean.

I would say that Jordan and Dr. Cox will probably get over their hump like always, because it felt portrayed more as a joke then anything, but Carla and Turk definitely have some work to do. It’s amazing to see where this couple started off seven years ago and to see them as this old married couple whose sex life has gone down the drain. The whole Elliot and J.D. situation was kind of confusing, but maybe Elliot has a good explanation for why she’s acting so crazy about this “I love you” situation.

This episode sounds like it was a downer, but there were a lot of funny moments in this episode, especially with the tiki statues that J.D. purchased from Barry Williams himself. We got a hilarious cameo from Barry Williams and some jokes with the tiki statues, which by the end of the episode might be bad luck for Turk and J.D.  The last couple of episodes have really brought back the bromance jokes too, which work well in this episode also. I don’t know if any two men can be as close as J.D. and Turk are and get away with it on television. I’m sure Zach Braff and Donald Faison were happy to show off their new bodies which have really gotten in shape since the first season.

I liked this episode and I’m sure if it had been put together like it was supposed to with the next episode that it would have made a greater one episode, but since it’s separated, I have to grade it by itself. This was a very good episode though alone and I’m eagerly anticipating what’s going to happen with these relationships next episode.

Rating: 7.8

This week saw the inclusion of a new surgical intern named Derek played by Lee Thompson Young. Most of the episode is narrated by him, but he doesn’t actually speak until then which is something that you won’t notice until the very end of the episode. Right off the bat I have to say that he gave off an unlikable presence. It’s one thing to be straight forward with people, but sometimes it just seemed like he was in a bad mood.  It doesn’t end being that bad, because it’s a character that we don’t and really never have had on this show, unless you want to count Denise who is a little different on in my opinion.

Apparently since Dr. Cox became chief, J.D. has been the person that’s had to go ask them for things that are needed around the hospital making him the local celebrity around the hospital. Turk seemed okay with this, but we slowly start to see that he’s a little bothered by this. One of the funniest moments came when Carla remarks that today if she and Turk had sex that Turk wouldn’t be the only one thinking about J.D. It’s comments like that, that make Scrubs so funny and just the idea of Turk thinking about J.D. is funny, but seemingly normal to anyone who watches Scrubs.

Donald Faison as Dr. Christopher Turk

J.D. did get another prank played on him by the Janitor this episode, which was a lot better than the prank that Carla did the last episode which had the Janitor tricking J.D. into thinking that he had been hypnotized and J.D. trying to find the word that sets him off.  We also saw the Janitor bring out his motor operated cart, which came at the right time, just before it was about to his an old lady in a wheelchair. Sunny, Howie and Katie end up getting tormented for touching his cart. At first the janitor punishes Howie and Katie the normal way which is rigging the elevator which strangely leads to the two making out, but it seemed like Sunny was going to get away scott-free, which is fine, because it would horrible to watch something bad happen to her. The fact that nothing was happening to her was starting to make her not so happy, until the end when we find out that making Sunny think she was weak and having her be obsessed about it was all part of his plan.

The Janitor’s tricks always work really well because the characters that he plays them on can be believed that they would fall for them. There has always been an imaginary rule of certain people who can’t really be pranked by the Janitor which includes, but is not limited to: Dr. Cox, Dr.Kelso, and Carla (Turk possibly too). It works really well with J.D. due to the fact that J.D. is such a child in the mind to a degree.

Elliot and Denise had a patient this week, but disagreed about the diagnoses. When Denise convinces Elliot to run a test, it ends up negative and patient is upset about the scar left on her face. I have to say the scar wasn’t that horrible, but pairing Elliot and Denise up was a good match for some reason.  I like when the residents are paired up with the interns, because on a normal episode without the interns, the residents look like normal people with problems, but when we seem paired with an intern, it shows just how much they’ve grown from the first season and now they’re passing it on to the next generation.

I think the ending was interesting though when Derek decides to speak his mind to everyone including to Dr. Cox, while his speech wasn’t very good. It was great to see him come in the next day and instead of people being mad at him he got the respect for speaking his mind.

I thought this episode was much better than last episode, which really seemed sort of like a throwaway episode when it comes to Scrubs. This episode focused more on the interns and Derek which isn’t a bad thing. The interns are really starting to grow on me and it would be nice if at least a few of them would be included for next season.

Rating: 7.7

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

It’s a bit odd lately that we’re not seeing the whole regular cast on the same episodes a little often this season. It feels like the writers are maybe getting us prepared for next season when we might possibly not have any. This episode had Turk and Elliot working the late shift and giving their interns what seems like simple tasks, but they turn out to be pretty hard.

The cocky new surgeon Lee figures out that he’s not as perfect as it seems when he messes up on draining fluid and ends up collapsing the patients lung. It was nice for the audience to see Lee make a mistake because up until now he’s come off as just a cocky surgeon. It was also a treat to see him and Denise hook up and I wonder if this relationship will continue.

Zach Braff as J.D.

Sunny had to make her patient fart, which was kind of dumb. Howie had a cool patient who thought that everyone was an imposter and wouldn’t tell the truth about what he digested. We got an appearance from Todd who was getting mad over the fact that people were doing high-fives without him and that was kind of amusing also.

The most interesting case was Elliot dealing with a former anorexic patient who was nine pounds lighter. The problem was that the patient kept telling Elliot that she had been eating, so it wasn’t Anorexia. Elliot soon discovers that the patient has cancer. I thought this was kind of cool, because in the past Elliot has been really naive when it comes to believing patients and it just goes to show that Elliot has changed and is a bit of a skeptic when it comes to believing patients.

I don’t think I’ve ever rated an episode without J.D. high, because he’s simply missed when he’s not on the show. This episode wasn’t boring, but it didn’t move any plotlines along or break new ground. It’s simply just a normal episode and when we’re so close to the end, I don’t think that these normal episodes cut it. It’s a nice episode to watch if you have nothing to do, but don’t lose sleep over trying to watch it.

Rating: 6.0

This episode was proof that if Scrubs goes on for another season without Zach Braff that it could very well be watch able, but it will seriously lack everything that makes Scrubs unique. The story in this episode was scattered everywhere and it wasn’t that engaging, but what did save this episode was the good dialogue.

See, this show needs me.

Elliot is seen most of this episode talking to J.D. on the cell phone which lead to a funny prank in the beginning of the episode and the end where J.D. tells Elliot to put her cell phone in Dr. Cox’s pocket. The whole J.D. and Dr. Cox relationship never gets old for some reason. Another funny moment had Turk telling J.D. that he and Carla were going have another baby only for J.D. not to be that excited about it, but not realizing that he was on speaker phone when he said it.

Yeah, so Turk and Carla are having a baby; this one kind of came out of nowhere and I loved how the show didn’t treat it like a big event. Actually everyone in the hospital didn’t get too excited, which disappointed Turk and he ends up telling people that it’s his first child, and unfortunately lying to Ted’s new girlfriend Stephanie, who apparently has a bit of a mean streak.

We also had more of Denise and her obsession with fat guys. Denise is starting to become a character that I like having around. It’s a bit weird how she now eats with Elliot and even Dr. Kelso (who likes her) when she wasn’t the most liked Dr. around last episode, but she’s fun to have around.

This was one of those decent episodes, but will probably not be memorable. There weren’t any storylines that were that engaging; sure Carla not caring about comatose patients shows how the doctors have changed since the first season of the show, but it didn’t feel like that big of a deal.

So this episode definitely lacked Zach Braff being in the episode, but it wasn’t total trash; let’s just make sure that we get J.D. back next episode.

Rating: 7.2