"Scrubs" My Fishbowl (2007)

User Rating:

8.3/10   

Director:

Chris Koch

Writers:

Bill Lawrence (creator)
Kevin Biegel (written by)

TV Series:

"Scrubs" (2001)

Original Air Date:

8 March 2007 (Season 6, Episode 12)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama

Plot:

Private Dancer is being released out of the hospital but when he founds out he can't join the army anymore he tries to commit suicide.

Plot Keywords:

Suicide | Humor | Flashback | Hospital | Drunkeness

US TV Schedule:

Thur. July 23	7:00 PM	COMEDY	My Fishbowl	#6.12
Sat. Aug. 1	11:00 PM	WGNAMER	My Fishbowl	#6.12

Cast

Zach Braff	...	Dr. John 'J.D.' Dorian
Sarah Chalke	...	Dr. Elliot Reid
Donald Faison	...	Dr. Christopher Turk
Neil Flynn	...	The Janitor
Ken Jenkins	...	Dr. Bob Kelso
John C. McGinley	...	Dr. Perry Cox
Judy Reyes	...	Nurse Carla Espinosa
Sam Lloyd	...	Ted Buckland
Robert Maschio	...	Dr. Todd Quinlan
Michael Weston	...	Private Brian Dancer
Aloma Wright	...	Nurse Laverne Roberts
Bob Bencomo	...	Colonel Doctor
Frank Encarnacao	...	Dr. Mickhead (as Frank Cameron)
Manley Henry	...	Snoop Dogg Intern
Geoff Stevenson	...	Dr. Beardface

Runtime:

24 min (excluding commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Company:

Touchstone Television

Trivia:

JD flashes back to when he and Turk were in college. In several shots there are posters indicating the College of William and Mary (W&M with trademark feathers and Tribe, which is the William and Mary mascot). Creator Bill Lawrence went to William & Mary, so he made Turk & JD alumni as well.

Goofs:

Factual errors: Private Dancer's name tape is on the wrong side of his DCU. It also contains his rank (E-1) rather than just his last name. The abbreviation used for his rank is also incorrect (Pvt is used by the Marine Corp, the Army uses PV1)

Quotes:

The Janitor: [after the goldfish talks to him] Thats not real.

Movie Connections:

References RoboCop (1987)

Soundtrack:

Half a World Away

Scrubs falling apart?

As a follow up to the flash back we were treated to another awful episode. I am a die hard scrubs fan, and that is what is making this season so painful. The season had some high points, but this episode underscored that they are just grasping at straws. The episode seemed slapped together. There was absolutely no cohesion to the story, the janitor story-line was about 8 minutes too long out of probably about 9. The jokes were weak, the Stacy storyline was very overdone. It was very much just 5 minutes of material stretched out to cover the 21 or 22 minutes of time they had to fill. Scrubs has gone from one of the best comedies on TV to just a brand they are trying to squeeze the last few dollars out of, viewers be d***ed.

Just terrible, Scrubs needs to pull back together or just call it what it is and wrap the show up.