# Doogie Kameāloha, M.D. - new Disney reboot **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [September 14, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648 "2021-09-14T14:12:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/1 "2021-09-14T14:12:12Z")
I posted about this on my Facebook and on Twitter, and it sank like a stone both places. So I’m trying here. Disney has decided to reboot Doogie Howser, M.D., gender swapped and moved to Hawaii with a diverse cast. The first episode is pretty much the same as the pilot of the original, with some scenes repeated line by line. I thought it was a perfectly nice show, though I’ll probably not keep watching since I’m in no way the target audience. But that’s not why I’m posting ! Get this: In one scene we see the protagonist interrupt her driving test to do some doctoring to an injured man, copying a scene from the original exactly! But then minutes later we learn that in this new show the show **Doogie Howser, M.D.** exists! The protagonist’s first name is Lahela. Her colleagues call her Doogie because she’s a child prodigy doctor like Neil Patrick Harris’ character. But her life is the same show! ( **Envision “Mind blown” GIF with Barney from HIMYM here.** ) ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/2 "2021-09-14T14:16:14Z")
> [@naita](#): > > But then minutes later we learn that in this new show the show **Doogie Howser, M.D.** exists! The protagonist’s first name is Lahela. Her colleagues call her Doogie because she’s a child prodigy doctor like Neil Patrick Harris’ character. I like that! I suspect that at some point actor NPH will show up. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/3 "2021-09-14T15:22:50Z")
I saw a promo for this show over the weekend, and another somewhere with a Black reboot of “The Wonder Years” \*, and yet another animated Star Trek series. I guess Hollywood really has run out of ideas! \* Didn’t we do this already with “Everybody Hates Chris”? ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/4 "2021-09-14T15:33:51Z")
Already do what? ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/5 "2021-09-14T15:38:31Z")
I assume the implication is that _Everybody Hates Chris_ was already a black reboot of _The_ _Wonder Years._ ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/6 "2021-09-14T15:46:05Z")
[![](http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/03/mind-blown.gif) ](http://www.reactiongifs.com/r/2013/03/mind-blown.gif) ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 3:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/7 "2021-09-14T15:49:46Z")
> [@naita](#): > > I posted about this on my Facebook and on Twitter, and it sank like a stone both places. So I’m trying here. > > Disney has decided to reboot Doogie Howser, M.D., gender swapped and moved to Hawaii with a diverse cast. The first episode is pretty much the same as the pilot of the original, with some scenes repeated line by line. I thought it was a perfectly nice show, though I’ll probably not keep watching since I’m in no way the target audience. But that’s not why I’m posting ! > > Get this: In one scene we see the protagonist interrupt her driving test to do some doctoring to an injured man, copying a scene from the original exactly! But then minutes later we learn that in this new show the show **Doogie Howser, M.D.** exists! The protagonist’s first name is Lahela. Her colleagues call her Doogie because she’s a child prodigy doctor like Neil Patrick Harris’ character. But her life is the same show! > > ( **Envision “Mind blown” GIF with Barney from HIMYM here.** ) It’s all in Tommy Westphall’s imagination! ---
**Author:** ![flurb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/51bf81/32.png) [@flurb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flurb)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/8 "2021-09-14T15:54:20Z")
> [@Icarus](#): > > I suspect that at some point actor NPH will show up. It’d be hilarious if he was the same “real NPH” that showed up in _Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle._ Probably not Disney Channel appropriate, which would make it even more hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/9 "2021-09-14T17:38:27Z")
> [@Telemark](#): > > I assume the implication is that _Everybody Hates Chris_ was already a black reboot of _The_ _Wonder Years._ Yes… that was my point. An adult narrator relating stories of his childhood. Did we need to do that again? (The new Wonder Years apparently has Don Cheadle as the narrator.) On the other hand, I’d probably watch a Wonder Years reboot before yet another “fat white schlub with hot wife” sitcom. ---
**Author:** ![ISiddiqui](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/97f17d/32.png) [@ISiddiqui](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ISiddiqui)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/10 "2021-09-14T19:15:01Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Yes… that was my point. An adult narrator relating stories of his childhood. Did we need to do that again? (The new Wonder Years apparently has Don Cheadle as the narrator.) It’s not like this new Wonder Years is only the 2nd version of this sort of show. Fresh of the Boat (well, the first season at least), the Goldbergs, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Dewey\_Finn](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dewey_finn/32/4222_2.png) [@Dewey\_Finn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dewey_Finn)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2021, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/11 "2021-09-14T19:21:02Z")
The film version of To Kill a Mockingbird is narrated by the adult Scout and I’m sure there are earlier examples in literature. ---
**Author:** ![epbrown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@epbrown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/epbrown)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/12 "2021-09-15T00:23:44Z")
Sounds like a twist on the trope where people in zombie movies have never heard of zombies. Does she type the moral of the episode into her computer journal at the end of every ep? ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/13 "2021-09-15T00:49:53Z")
Heck, wasn’t there a child-prodigy doctor in Apollonius of Tyre? ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/14 "2021-09-15T05:19:48Z")
Just now started watching this and about 8 minutes in I notice–no laugh track. Is that usual now for Disney comedies? ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/15 "2021-09-15T06:19:43Z")
> [@naita](#): > > But then minutes later we learn that in this new show the show **Doogie Howser, M.D.** exists! The protagonist’s first name is Lahela. Her colleagues call her Doogie because she’s a child prodigy doctor like Neil Patrick Harris’ character. But her life is the same show! In _Avengers: Endgame_, Tony Stark nicknames Thor “Lebowski”. Which raises the question; when Stark watched _The Big Lebowski_ did he wonder why Obadiah Stane looked so much like the actor in the movie? ---
**Author:** ![gdave](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gdave/32/3683_2.png) [@gdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gdave)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 11:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/16 "2021-09-15T11:55:50Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Just now started watching this and about 8 minutes in I notice–no laugh track. Is that usual now for Disney comedies? From the trailer, the show seems pitched as more of a naturalistic dramady than the sort of single camera sitcom that would typically have a laugh track. _The Mighty Ducks: Game Changers_, _Big Shot_, and _Turner & Hooch_ are all pitched that way, and none has a laugh track. _Diary of a Future President_ looks like it might be more of an old-school sitcom, but I haven’t watched that one, so I don’t know if it has a laugh track. Over the last couple of decades, it seems to me like the traditional single camera sitcom with a laugh track has become less common, and more naturalistic comedies and dramadies, where a laugh track would be intrusive, have become more common. I think we’re long past the point where studio executives insisted that Aaron Sorkin’s _Sports Night_ had to have a laugh track because _all_ half-hour comedies had to have a laugh track. ---
**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/17 "2021-09-15T13:42:43Z")
> [@epbrown](#): > > Sounds like a twist on the trope where people in zombie movies have never heard of zombies. > > Does she type the moral of the episode into her computer journal at the end of every ep? Nah, she records a short video. Whether it was a diary or an instatok post wasn’t obvious from the first episode. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/18 "2021-09-15T14:22:54Z")
> [@Little\_Nemo](#): > > In _Avengers: Endgame_ , Tony Stark nicknames Thor “Lebowski”. > > Which raises the question; when Stark watched _The Big Lebowski_ did he wonder why Obadiah Stane looked so much like the actor in the movie? It’s the [Last Action Hero Rule](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107362/mediaviewer/rm1603368960/). In that universe Lebowski wasn’t played by Jeff Bridges. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 3:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/19 "2021-09-15T15:01:08Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > From the trailer, the show seems pitched as more of a naturalistic dramady than the sort of single camera sitcom that would typically have a laugh track. It did have more serious tones after the 8 minute point where I posted. The show has an odd tone–the serious parts are at the level of a prime-time medical drama and the humor is at the level of a Disney-Nickelodeon tween comedy. (At the point I noticed the absence of a laugh track and posted, the Doctor Daughter and her Boss Doctor Mother were compairing their viral-video style dance moves in a hospital hallway–the lack of canned laughter screamed out.) On the one hand you have patients dying (telegraphed from a thousand miles away) but on the other hand you have, for example, a father who is a doofus surfer-dude type who quit his day job to start a food truck that sells shaved ice and flowers. And Doogie’s best friend is a sitcom-level Kimmy Gibler type, crushing on her stereotyped clueless older brother. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2021, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648/20 "2021-09-15T15:18:29Z")
> [@gdave](#): > > Over the last couple of decades, it seems to me like the traditional single camera sitcom with a laugh track has become less common, and more naturalistic comedies and dramadies, where a laugh track would be intrusive, have become more common. I think we’re long past the point where studio executives insisted that Aaron Sorkin’s _Sports Night_ had to have a laugh track because _all_ half-hour comedies had to have a laugh track. I really only see laugh track sitcoms on ABC and CBS nowadays. I can’t think of any direct-to-streaming shows that use one. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doogie-kamealoha-m-d-new-disney-reboot/950648.md?page=2)