quote:Originally posted by Lightning Lad: Or currently at $50.00 for the first four seasons on eBay, if you trust the seller.
100% feedback rating, but their first listing as a seller. I'll watch the auction.
If I don't try bidding, I'll probably end up using the BestBuy card my sister gave me last X-Mas to order the first couple online.
From: Up a Gumtree | Registered: Jul 2003
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Man, it's such a crime that Scrubs isn't the big megahit comedy of its time! I mean, really, it's so much better and funnier than Friends Seinfeld, or anything else seen on television the past decade and a half or so!
Scrubs is a hoot. I like it that the stories balance inane comedy with serious points about relationships. It often leaves me thinking as well as laughing (hard to do at the same time).
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From: The Stasis Zone | Registered: Jul 2003
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Seriously, though, I have many LOL (you know, actually "laughing out loud") moments in EVERY EPISODE of Scrubs! Friends and Seinfeld have had many that barely elicited a SMILE from me!
Scrubs does serious well, but never forgets the funny--NEVER! Man, what a great show!
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From: The Underbelly of Society | Registered: Jul 2003
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I've never gotten the overall "joke" of "Seinfeld". It's sort of like David Letterman, who tries to be too smart to be funny. "Friends" took me more than 10 years to warm up to. At times, the characters are smarmy, selfish, and spoiled; other times, there is a genuine sense of warm friendship that comes through.
Most sitcoms get old after awhile, and this is also true for "Scrubs". There's a point where watching Dr. Cox abuse J.D. becomes boring, because I've seen it so many times before, or where Elliot is too much of a basketcase, or where Turk and Carla have yet another bump in their relationship to overcome. Ho hum.
But what keeps drawing me back are those flashes of insight that J.D. learns and imparts to the audience. In one episode, he does "the right thing" by persuading the hospital to operate on a patient whose lawyer daughter threatens to sue if anything goes wrong. Turk does "the wrong thing" by ordering a hypochondriac patient to stay away from him. As a result, Turk gets sued while J.D. ends up in bed with the lawyer. (Who says doing the right thing has no rewards! )
What makes this work for me is that J.D. had no idea if the lawyer was only pretending to be nice to him (she said she was using him when she acted vulnerable, then she said she wasn't) -- but he had to act on his conscience and take a risk. Turk was only thinking of himself and put his own wishes above the patients' needs. This is almost a grade-school version of morality, but wait -- the story isn't quite resolved.
As the episode ends, J.D. chooses to be with the lawyer instead of returning Turk's anguished call. He puts his desire for sex above friendship, so he acts just as selfishly as Turk did. (I didn't see part two of this episode.)
The characters are complex, and the relationships aren't easily resolved. But J.D. and the rest do struggle to do the right thing, and their very human attempts are often hilarious.
-------------------- The Semi-Great Gildersleeve - writing, super-heroes, and this 'n' that
From: The Stasis Zone | Registered: Jul 2003
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quote:Originally posted by Lard Lad: But the main thing to me is that Scrubs is actually FUNNY!!!!
Agreed, but the analytically retentive side of my personality insists on figuring out why it's funny.
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From: The Stasis Zone | Registered: Jul 2003
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I was a big fan for years but the last few seasons I thought was a bit too silly. Still love it though.
From: Tampa | Registered: Mar 2004
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I dunno, I like that they do serious stuff, too. Like JD's girlfriend getting pregnant and Laverne... you know. And JD's learning curve and sort of growing up to embrace his inner-nerd and things like that keep the characters endeared to me.
I love Scrubs. I'll be sad when it (most likely) ends after this season. Especially since very few series finales have ever truly left me with a fulfilled feeling...
-------------------- Abin: You know what to do with a Cali sandwich? No but neither do Cobie and CJ! CJ: Yeah, we do. She's smiling, isn't she?
Context... who needs it?
From: Sunny Cali-- er, Planet Earth? | Registered: Jun 2005
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The seventh and yes, final season starts in three weeks, Thursday the 25th.
Yes. Cali, Kim being preggers=more or less serious.
But JD having to explain not actually "doing the deed" to Carla, Turk and Elliot= more 's than I could count, especially with JD's battlefield and "friendly fire" analogies...
-------------------- "Anytime a good book like this is cancelled, I hope another Teen Titan is murdered." --Cobalt
"Anytime an awesome book like S6 is cancelled, I hope EVERY Titan is murdered." --Me
From: Up a Gumtree | Registered: Jul 2003
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I went with this BIN auction on eBay--Seasons 1-6 @$28.60 including shipping and insurance w/ free DC. The seller has 100% positive feedback on over 20,000 sales, so I feel pretty confident. It ships on the release date for Season 6, 10/30/07.
-------------------- "Anytime a good book like this is cancelled, I hope another Teen Titan is murdered." --Cobalt
"Anytime an awesome book like S6 is cancelled, I hope EVERY Titan is murdered." --Me
From: Up a Gumtree | Registered: Jul 2003
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I'll watch the auction. 
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's than I could count, especially with JD's battlefield and "friendly fire" analogies... ![[LOL]](graemlins/lol.gif)
