Robert Maschio plays the Todd on Scrubs. I exchanged emails with him some time back and just received an advance heads-up about this week.
Rob wrote:
**a long awaited, very funny episode of scrubs featuring the Todd on Tuesday, April 25th at 9pm entitled My Lunch (Episode 5.21 for fans aboard)…enjoy.
Rob**
Looks like the Todd has not been so honest about his “conquest” around the hospital. Maybe he’s gay?
Just for the curious, here is the original exchange I had with Rob.
I wrote:
**Robert,
My wife and love “the Todd” on Scrubs, but we have a question. Isn’t it difficult having to report to the set for what is usually only a few lines? Does it interfere with other acting jobs?
I guess that’s two questions, but they are related. Thanks for your time.**
He wrote back:
hey brian,
**thanks for the email…and the answers to your questions are: yes and yes. Do you have a part time job for me to pass the time and make some money…mow the lawn, repaint a garage door, baby sit the kids in the evening so you and the Mrs. can take in a movie…of course my fee might be a bit high, but as you see from the show, I commit 100% to everything I do…take care.
Rob Maschio**
We had another exchange later, but it was rather pointless.
Anyway, everyone watch this week!
I never miss it. And “The Todd” seems like a pretty cool guy in real life. I think he is a friend of creator Bill Lawrence and that’s how he got the gig in the first place.
I don’t want to start something huge at the Straight Dope, but it was on his official site. I read a message on the Board at IMDB.com. They mentioned he sometimes responds to emails and I tried.
NBC has been promoting this ep as a pretty serious one. I’m sure it’s laced with its usual amount of humor, but maybe the subject matter will be pretty heavy. The Todd comes out? Perhaps. They’ve hinted at it before in the show. I just can’t see any episode centered around The Todd being very serious.
They’ve had ‘serious’ episodes before. I always liked them; they start out as usual an d then subtly hit you.
I think “My Old Lady” from season one was one of the first. JD, Turk and Elliot all had patients that died - the gist of the story was that only one of them would die, and it ended up with all three of them dying. It was very bittersweet.
One of my favorite episodes.
I have to agree about the “My Old Lady” episode. J.D. talks about the fact that 33% of intensive care patients die there. I’ll admit that they totally had me guessing which person would die(Turk’s, Eliots, or J.D’s) and blew me away when he narrates:
So, they say that one out of every three patients admitted to this place will die here. But, some days the odds are worse than that.
Great episode. Great show.
P.S. My wife and I feel that if the Todd turns out to be gay…it weakens the fun of his character. I hate to say it, but he’s mostly fun as an unrealisticly sexist and stupid pig.
Scrubs is one of the few shows that can pull off the "very special episode"s. I think it’s because every episode of Scrubs is a “very special episode” in some way or another.
I don’t know if the whole episode was “very special”, but one of my favorite “very special” moments was the woman who died and said she hoped it was like a musical when she died…and then it was.
I was thinking…bi. Or tri. Depends on whether or not he’d date Rowdy or Janitor’s Squirrel Army.
Good episode. The last five minutes had me a bit tearful (not a hard thing to do for me, since I cry at the drop of a hat now), and I’d really like to see some Emmy nominations out of this season.
Apparantly it’s all up in the air about whether or not this is the final season. From Zach Braff’s blog the cast and crew themselves aren’t sure. So it looks like they’re gearing up for something big in the last few episodes.
haven’t watched it yet (its on tape tho) but I doubt the character or actor will leave. maybe the actor is taking a hiatus to do a movie so the character will go into rehab for a few episodes. But if this is 5.21 the season’s almost over anyway, and on ER they had Carter “totally lose it” and go into rehab 2 or 3 episodes before the end and come back healthier (in the long run) the next season
What a great episode. The scene at lunch when Cox is comforting JD reminds me why I really like the Cox character despite the fact that he sometimes gets a bit cartoonish.
At his core, he is an incredible doctor who cares about one thing: saving lives. Sure, he teases JD, but when it was about JD’s ability to do hos job, the bullshit went right out the window and the friend/mentor was there for him.
I don’t think these are really “Very Special Episodes”, I just think this is a really great drama that happens to be hilarious.