Just What the Doctor Ordered

Be still our sacred hearts! ABC has resuscitated [scrubs]. After endlessly shuffling the show around since it first began airing in 2001, NBC officially pulled the plug last spring. Fortunately, ABC picked the show up, and tonight two all-new episodes aired.

[photo via]

"My Jerks"
Most of our favorite main characters are back. Missing: Dr. Kelso, The Todd, and (new) Laverne. Bonus: We meet three new promising characters: cougar Dr. Maddox (Courtney Cox aka Monica on Friends), who will play the new Chief of Medicine for a four-episode arc, and interns Ed (Human Giant's Aziz Ansari) and the cold-hearted Denise (Eliza Coupe). The episode, written by Angela Nissel, author of the hilarious must-read The Broke Diaries, is full of the surreal moments and ridiculous humor that make [scrubs] a cult hit.

[photo of Aziz Ansari from when I met him in 2007 at Sasquatch Festival]

"My Last Words"
If you looked up the words "dramedy" and "bromance" in the dictionary, you would find this episode. J. D. and Turk ponder the afterlife -- their version of heaven includes a milkshake pool and a cloud of lesbians -- as they sacrifice steak niiiiiight to comfort a dying man (Glynn Turman, the Colonel on A Different World).


Shout out to the [scrubs] club that celebrated the new season with appletinis because they make us feel fancy.