# Scrubs 1/18 **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 19, 2007, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542 "2007-01-19T02:09:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 8:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/21 "2007-01-19T20:44:17Z")
[QUOTE=silenus] What about David Fury? No love for The Mustard Man? 😃 [/QUOTE] he wasn’t essential to the story - but he does have a lovely voice. if you’re going to count minor characters, the demons and the boy toy in “Going Through The Motions” were also good singers ---
**Author:** ![AngelicGemma](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/439d5e/32.png) [@AngelicGemma](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AngelicGemma)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/22 "2007-01-19T21:08:02Z")
Okay, it got a bit better thanks to a few good songs. But overall a ‘meh’ episode. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [January 19, 2007, 10:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/23 "2007-01-19T22:48:55Z")
[QUOTE=AngelicGemma] I’m 3 minutes in and God forgive me for saying this about Scrubs, but I hope it gets better. [/QUOTE] Coincidentally, that’s about how far I got before I changed the channel. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/24 "2007-01-20T02:53:18Z")
I think I shall watch it again and see if I can match up all the parodies All Comes Down to Poo - ?Avenue Q? Domincan Tango - Tango Maureen from Rent medical malady song - We Go Together from Grease Cox’s Patter Song - any G&S production all the recitatifs - Evita? (how’d I do so far?) but Guy Love has me completely stumped - that’s way a second viewing is required ---
**Author:** ![SurrenderDorothy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/surrenderdorothy/32/1221_2.png) [@SurrenderDorothy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SurrenderDorothy)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/25 "2007-01-20T04:06:05Z")
I really didn’t expect to like it. I thought it was a dumb idea and entirely too gimmicky But I thought it was pretty fun. And then my dad came down and I watched it again (he hates all the cop shows I have TiVoed and I despise South Park and all his other shows. Scrubs is the only thing we can agree on) and I liked it even better the second time around. The songs are catchy. I still have the “you’re going to be okay” song in my head (although I should probably make sure to catch myself before I start absentmindedly singing, “everything comes down to poo”…) I thought “guy love” went on too long. ---
**Author:** ![Sad\_and\_Deranged](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@Sad\_and\_Deranged](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sad_and_Deranged)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 4:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/26 "2007-01-20T04:30:27Z")
I normally love Scrubs, enough to declare it my favorite show and make everyone I know watch it, but this episode was very weak. I understand the brilliance they’re trying to produce, the songs were great parodies, but something about the episode just wasn’t cohesive. It didn’t feel like “Scrubs” at all. Not to say I didn’t enjoy it, just not at the level I usually do. ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/27 "2007-01-20T05:20:56Z")
Like virtually all Scrubs episodes, it was excellent. Sorry, but if you didn’t whistle “Everything Comes Down To Poo” at least once after the show, you don’t have a soul. ---
**Author:** ![Merijeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@Merijeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Merijeek)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/28 "2007-01-20T17:16:15Z")
[QUOTE=RickJay] Like virtually all Scrubs episodes, it was excellent. Sorry, but if you didn’t whistle “Everything Comes Down To Poo” at least once after the show, you don’t have a soul. [/QUOTE] Well, at least I got $20 for mine. What’s yours done for you? -Joe ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/29 "2007-01-20T17:26:05Z")
My wife and I loved it, but we wouldn’t want a CD of it like the Buffy musical. I wish they’d given them an hour episode for this one to flesh it out more, but I love the Scrubs gang and I think they did a great job. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 5:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/30 "2007-01-20T17:52:41Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] all the recitatifs - Evita? [/QUOTE] Was this the one that ended the first half (right before the commercial?) That one reminded me of Les Mis’s “One Day More” but I think there was also an Evita parody in the second act. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/31 "2007-01-20T19:15:21Z")
[QUOTE=Shoeless] I was generally surprised at how well most of the cast sang. I certainly didn’t expect it from, say, the Janitor or Bob Kelso – although there was that one episode where Eliot had a copy of Bob Kelso’s blues tape, and he didn’t sound too bad there either. [/QUOTE] Kelso has played guitar on the show once or twice before as well. I’m guessing he dabbles a bit in blues guitar on the side. ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2007, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/32 "2007-01-20T19:46:23Z")
We liked it. I thought Guy Love was kind of like the romantic ballads that become top 40 hits from Disney movies. Too bad the appendix joke was spoiled in a commercial. But my greatest delight came when I read this thread and realized the patient was played by the gal who plays Uma on [Oobi](http://www.noggin.com/shows/oobi.php). For some reason, I find that hilarious. ---
**Author:** ![Frostillicus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Frostillicus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frostillicus)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/33 "2007-01-21T03:22:41Z")
[QUOTE=Joey P] Kelso has played guitar on the show once or twice before as well. I’m guessing he dabbles a bit in blues guitar on the side. [/QUOTE] “You’re breaking my Tuscaloosa heart.” – Bob Kelso. ---
**Author:** ![Dubious\_Weasle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b782af/32.png) [@Dubious\_Weasle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dubious_Weasle)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2007, 4:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/34 "2007-01-21T04:05:53Z")
[QUOTE=Eyebrows 0f Doom] Was this the one that ended the first half (right before the commercial?) That one reminded me of Les Mis’s “One Day More” but I think there was also an Evita parody in the second act. [/QUOTE] Ditto. Definitely got a heavy “One day More” vibe. All in all a great episode. Most shows of the sort do a musical episode eventually but I think Scrubs pulled it off better than most. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/35 "2007-01-22T00:27:40Z")
[QUOTE=Dubious Weasle] Ditto. Definitely got a heavy “One day More” vibe. All in all a great episode. Most shows of the sort do a musical episode eventually but I think Scrubs pulled it off better than most. [/QUOTE] This is the second time they’ve done it, isn’t it. I don’t remember the songs from the other one, but there was something about a Surgeon and a Doctor and I believe at least some of the songs where done like West Side Story. Though I may be mixing a few episodes together. ---
**Author:** ![anyrose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@anyrose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/anyrose)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 12:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/36 "2007-01-22T00:34:24Z")
[QUOTE=Joey P] This is the second time they’ve done it, isn’t it. I don’t remember the songs from the other one, but there was something about a Surgeon and a Doctor and I believe at least some of the songs where done like West Side Story. Though I may be mixing a few episodes together. [/QUOTE] That was one song, in an ep somewhere in the first season IIRC - possibly the second, not a whole episode of singing. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/37 "2007-01-22T02:11:13Z")
[QUOTE=anyrose] That was one song, in an ep somewhere in the first season IIRC - possibly the second, not a whole episode of singing. [/QUOTE] It was the first season. The network sold it as a musical episode, but it was barely that at all. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2007, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542/38 "2007-01-22T02:43:24Z")
Another vote for “great episode”. Just watched it for a 2nd time. (Laughed too often the first time that I didn’t get all of it.) I basically hate musicals. Most anything that makes fun of such a trite format is going to be good. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/scrubs-1-18/388542.md?page=1)