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It is 10 in the morning and Before watching this episode I just want to note that the wedding seems like the perfect way to end a really good season and wrap things up.

Elliot is still furious with J.D., understandable. She waxed off someone’s entire eyebrow…ouch! Did they really shave the girl’s eyebrow off for the part? It looks awfully convincing.

The day that either J.D. or Turk got married, they’d have to play one last game of tennis ball golf in the parking lot, the groom has to catty naked. I have to say…Donald Faison is fit! Those scrubs definitely do not do him justice.

Turk thought it was okay to show up a little late for the wedding, oh no. Yeah he just got kicked by Elliot.
J.D. to Turk: “Dude you’re dealing with a nervous bride, a woman I scorned and two sisters with three eyebrows” HAHA!

Why is Dr. Miller still on this show? Ugh.

Ted’s a cappella (I definitely spelled that wrong) band! Until now I have only read about them but now I can see the real thing! They were singing Hava Nagila in a church.

Haha! Someone calls for J.D. and he responds “Holla”. One of those little lines that just strikes me hilarious.

Carla’s brother taught The Todd a “spanish pick up line” but it’s really “I have herpes…for you!” oh my god that is hysterical! Especially because it’s happening to The Todd.

J.D. asks Elliot how he can make things right, she says “Go back three days and keep me from throwing away my life for you”, ouch. Oh the motivational music! J.D. may make things right.

The Todd is wearing a sleeveless shirt under his suit jacket, haha of course.

Danni is making out with everyone, including Ted. That’s just sad. Not surprising, but still sad.

Sean, due to his break up, looks like a either a complete hobo or a laid off young Santa Claus…either way it’s not a good look. J.D. told him to win Elliot back at the wedding, how sweet.

Oh my god! Turk was too late and didn’t make the wedding. I definitely didn’t see that coming. There’s still a reception though? Awkward.

Elliot’s hair isn’t pin straight for once and looks really nice. Sorry, girl moment.

Janitor popped out of nowhere at the reception, happens to work there on the weekends. I’ve grown to love him, wouldn’t be the same if he wasn’t in this episode.

Elliot told Sean the real reason why she broke up with him, because she thought J.D. was the one. Not exactly comforting words to tell someone who is trying to win you back, but I guess honesty is important.

Dr. Cox and Carla had the sweetest moment! He cheered her up about not actually getting married, it was sort of father-daughterly. Dr. Cox has gotten so soft!

Elliot doesn’t get back together with Sean? Does she really love J.D.? I’m not so sure if they’re problems will be resolved by the end of this season…

So even though Carla and Turk’s wedding was sabotaged, they still managed to work through it and love each other at the end of the day. Yeah that seems like them. They’re dancing to Eight Days a Week by the Beatles?! Awesome!

Everyone from Sacred Heart Hospital is dancing together. Really nice way to end things. JANITOR IS WEARING A SUIT!

The patient Carla went with Turk to check up on happens to be a priest. They got to get married after all.

I still think it’s amazing that The Beatles ended the season, that was perfect.

I rate this episode a 4. It wasn’t emotionally draining but it was an awesome season finale. Pretty much every character was there and they even left some suspense between J.D. and Elliot for the next season.

Before watching this show I wasn’t sure what to expect. I knew I would laugh and that it’d be pretty random but I didn’t know that I would grow to love and connect to all of the characters, even The Todd of whom I got used to hating. I chose Scrubs, a comedy-drama titled presumably because that’s what they wear when working in the hospital, because I had heard the hype about House but wanted to watch something funny. I figured I’d get the best of both worlds, I couldn’t have been more right. Some may think that they wouldn’t like the show because they have no desire to see what happens within a hospital but aside from the interesting aspects of what it’s like to be a doctor, Bill Lawrence finds a way to hook you into their personal lives as well. All of the conflicts as I have expressed before are relevant to everyday life, without commentary on specific events happening in the world.

I’m impressed with how well the show was received even though the characters are shown in the same settings episode after episode. It consists of the hospital, and their various apartments. You would think that this gets boring after a while and I can understand that, there are so many shows where the setting is constantly changing, but for me I found it comforting that you almost know every area of the hospital as if you’ve been there before.

The soundtrack of the shows were really great because they fit into the moments so well. At times, they provoke more emotion than what’s actually happening. It also clues you in to what’s about to happen, since it’s a comedy it really strikes you when you hear the serious music. The theme song “I’m No Superman” by Lazlo Bane has become one of my favorite songs, partly because I’ve heard it a million times recently but also because I always just liked it. I think how I even noticed Scrubs existed is because I heard the song first and looked up to see what it was. Most likely have mentioned this before, but this song as the shows anthem is sort of ironic. We depend on doctors to be like superman and save all of us, but the lyrics, and the show, reminds us that doctors are people…not superhuman aliens from the planet Krypton.

My favorite episode, and I guess the moment I “fell in love with” the show, was when I watched My Catalyst with Michael J. Fox as the O.C.D. Dr. Kevin Casey. I grew attached to it because it was the first really touching episode of Scrubs. If I had to recommend one episode for a friend to watch though I’d definitely choose My Porcelain God. It was just as good as My Catalyst but in a humorous rather than dramatic way, and humor is more Scrubs’ style.

My favorite character? I love them all, but I suppose I most relate to Elliot. She’s such a girl and over time grew confidence in herself but still is just fun spirited and passionate about her job. These are things that I see in myself and find easy to relate to.

There are many reoccurring themes in Scrubs such as the constant fantasies, the narrations you can depend on, the meaningful endings, J.D’s ongoing rivalry with Janitor and mixed up relationship with Elliot, Dr. Cox’s seemingly endless rants, and so much more. These aspects of the show are what makes it brilliant though. You are able to not follow the show then see it sometime later and still be reminded and get the feeling of why you love it so much without being that lost. It reminds me a lot of Seinfeld that way.

Of course there were elements that I didn’t like about the show. They mostly stem from sexual jokes that I felt were just odd, creepy, or over the line. Also some of the representation of women which ties into the sexual aspect. For example how The Todd views women as completely sexual objects, Danni liking getting knocked unconscious during sex, and Dr. Miller pretending not to use her good looks to manipulate people in the hospital.

Nevertheless, It was a really enjoyable show which made for a really enjoyable project!

Figured I’d leave you with this…

Why must J.D. always ruin a beautiful moment?! The music is going, Turk just revealed the true vow that he spent all day trying to express to Carla, Dr. Cox and Jordan agreed that fighting oddly is what brings them together and then “Elliot, I don’t love you”. He then proceeds to be thrown over the table as a result. It was almost a sweet ending until J.D. opened his mouth. Definitely not an ending I was expecting but it was known that he’d have to tell Elliot eventually.

The funniest part of the episode is when Dr. Cox and the Janitor square off. Dr. Cox is looking for a fight because he can’t fight with Jordan, and the Janitor is in a bad mood so he only needs an excuse. I thought this was actually a good pair up but of course with help of the entire maintenance crew, Janitor won. The best line is when Carla asks Dr. Cox what happened to him because his mouth is red and he replies “Duct-taped two hours in a morgue drawer; don’t piss off the Janitor; end of story.”.

What I find comforting about Scrubs is that the situations and conflicts within the show I feel are timeless. They’re things that everyone can understand, has gone through their self, or eventually will experience. It doesn’t really pertain to the specific time period that the show was aired, which was April of 2004. Around this time I believe Bush spoke out about the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners and Michael Jackson was indicted for child molestation. Never a joke about the war or Michael. I must say I prefer it that way, so many other shows make it their business to joke on whatever is going on at that moment, Scrubs doesn’t need to.

I’d rate this episode a 3. My ratings now are judged slightly different as I had expressed in a previous post. A 3 in the episodes now is different from a 3 in the previous ones. After seeing the full potential of where they can take an episode I probably rated the other episodes too high, but I suppose they deserved them in their own right for the time being. This episode was funny but sort of repeated the ideas expressed in the last one, J.D. not loving Elliot, Turk and Carla getting ready for their wedding. These things are necessary to repeat since the season is coming to a close but it still makes the episode average. I feel as if the season reached its climax when Ben died and is now coming full circle. I am excited for the finale!

I didn’t think it was going to happen but Elliot really pulled through. J.D. surprisingly grew a pair after Sean had a talk with him and told Elliot one of the sweetest things ever; “If I had the choice of hanging out with anyone in the entire world or sitting at home with you eating pizza watching a crappy T.V. show, I’d choose you every time.”. AW! That was the sweetest. Definitely my favorite scene of this episode.

It was after this moment that J.D. became a man when Elliot came through for him and breaks up with Sean. Once J.D. was told that he had her though, he screams in his head “oh no I don’t want her!” I didn’t know whether I wanted to laugh or slap him. Obviously him not wanting her after making such a big deal, claiming her to be his love, is absolutely ludicrous but its also exactly what everyone does.The appeal is definitely the strongest when it is something out of reach, just an idea of what could be. I think people freak out when it’s actually there’s, or lose interest because they’re more intrigued by the chase than the catch.

Right after this scene is a cool film technique. The door slides closed between them and on one side you see J.D. and on the other side you see Elliot’s face in the middle of the heart in the Sacred Heart symbol.

Dr. Cox comes through as well, more and more throughout these later episodes you really get to know him as a caring person. The entire episode he is doing everything he can to prevent this patient from getting a full body scan, presumably because he wants to win a bet against doctor Kelso. At the end though you realize it becomes more than just the bet, he willingly loses the bet in front of the patient. The patient doesn’t get the body scan. When Dr. Cox loses and Dr. Kelso even gives his wise remark, Cox doesn’t retaliate have a rant or a rave. He is surprisingly serene.

The one character on the show that in this episode made me realize I feel bad for them more than The Todd or Dr. Miller is Danni. This girl is beautiful but willingly chose to be with J.D. even though he treated her terrible. She would go to say something and J.D. would cut her off and say “Nobody cares” and she wouldn’t even defend herself. I hated this part. She also liked to be abused during sex. I saw her scenes as sad more than humorous and did not approve of their relationship at all, it didn’t make either of them a better person, it worsened them.

The song at the end is awesome, it’s Finger Eleven’s “One Thing” and just fit so well with everything going on in the show. The ending may be why I choose to give it a rating of a 4. Up until the end I’d say it was an average episode but like usual Bill Lawrence finds a way to wrap things up in those last moment and leave the audience thinking “wow that was a really good one”.

After a really good concert, with slight sleep deprivation I curled into bed late at night to watch the final episodes of a really good season. This episode was much better compared to when I first started watching, but still wasn’t as good as the last few that I’ve recently seen which would lead me to give it a 3 rating.

What I liked is that even though the plot essentially remained the same, the characters developed a great deal. J.D. for the first time I’ve seen actually spoke out about what was on his mind and asked Elliot what she was doing to him. Elliot replied that even though her sleeping with him the night before didn’t mean nothing, she needed J.D. to be a friend to her. In the end, when Sean asks J.D. if anything happened between him and Elliot, J.D. chooses to be that friend to Elliot and tells him no. I had grown a liking to Elliot over the season but I must say I was disappointed in her. She cheated on her boyfriend and got away with it, and at the same time hurt a really great guy and an even better friend. You’d have to be really deserving to get away with that.

On the other hand one of the sweeter stories was with Dr. Cox. He had thought that he grew a crush for Dr. Miller but in the end chose Jordan. I of course would agree that he made the absolute right choice.

Carla and Turk were exaggeratedly linked together. Turk had his arm around her in every seen and they even ate soup at the same time, the same way together. They became as J.D. described “one of those couples” that think they know everything because they’re doing so well together. Was this annoying? Yes, but it got the point across.

My favorite part is when J.D. kisses Danni and imagines her dressed up as a cigarette and that’s what he’s actually kissing. It struck me funny because I just pictured Tara Reid getting dressed up in that ridiculous costume for a seen that lasted not even a minute. It’s really true though, if someone takes a pull from a cigarette and then kisses someone, especially a non smoker, you are therefore making out with an ashtray.

My least favorite part is when Danni and J.D. are having sex and he slaps her hard and she says she likes it. I know it was meant to be funny but I never like to see men hit women, especially when physical violence is on the same level as sexual pleasure. I found their relationship to be interesting though. They both admitted that they weren’t that crazy about each other but they’d rather stay together than be alone. I wonder if it’s like this with many couples? I’d hope not but it definitely seems like it. I know it has to be the case with those couples that walk together looking completely miserable yet stay with each other.

The Polyphonic Spree also guest appeared on the show. They are completely crazy to me but they have a french horn player which is awesome. I play the french horn.

Another thing that I find interesting on the show is the character of Jordan. She is played by Christa Miller, the wife of the creator of Scrubs, Bill Lawrence. I wonder if it’s hard watching her do romantic scenes with John C. McGinley. One quote that I found interesting was in an interview they did for About.com, Lawrence states; “She busted my chops and said I had to write an episode that our kids could watch. I don’t know if you know, but apparently my sitcom is filth, according to my wife.”. She doesn’t even deny it.

Interview:=> http://movies.about.com/od/interviewswithactors/a/andromeda51208_2.htm