I'm catching repeats in syndication of SCRUBS and they are showing Season 9. What a misguided effort: jettisoning the majority of the cast, resetting it in a brand new hospital adjacent to a medical school and having the doctors both practice medicine AND teach. It lost a lot of its absurdist zaniness (fantasy sequences, oddball characters). It even replaced the majority of the new interns introduced in season 8 (Sonal Shah as Dr. Sonja "Sunny" Dey, Todd Bosley as Dr. Howard "Howie" Gelder, Lee Thompson Young as Derek Hill, and a pre-fame Aziz Ansari as Dr. Ed Dhandapani) and replaced them with a bunch of vanilla replacements (with Dave Franco the only notable standout). I think this might actually be the ultimate example of "jumping the shark".
Scrubs: Season 9
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 8, 2018 10:37 AM |
Agreed. It was a terrible idea. They should have ended it on a better note.
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | January 8, 2018 6:36 AM |
Dave Franco was the only reason to watch season 9
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | January 8, 2018 6:52 AM |
I agree Dave Franco made it worth watching.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | January 8, 2018 8:13 AM |
The show had ended. They did a series finale at the end of season 8. Season 9 was a Hail Mary to keep the show going for the crew. I think the show might have even been canceled and the network brought it back. A strike was on the horizon so they tried to hand it off to a new cast. Didn't work. But again the end of season 8 is the finale.
| by Anonymous | reply 4 | January 8, 2018 10:37 AM |