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i ordered a ds audio player from japan, which adds these awesome little extras to my ds:
*it .. ta da, plays mp3's. it doesn't have ipod clarity, but i don't need that, i just need someone to get me through the day when work is driving me crazy and i need to wind down. it also ..
*plays movie clips. or whole movies, i suppose, it depends on how big you're willing to go with your memory card. now the quality isn't excellent, but still. totally worth it. today on my break at work i watched the hundredth episode of scrubs. how's that for winding down?
and i realized, as i watched, how excellent a show scrubs is. and how everyone should watch it. and i thought of my co-workers, mike and derek, who talk a big game about arrested development and have never watched scrubs. and i came up with this:
five reasons why everyone, anyone should watch scrubs.
1. its hilarious. why else would you watch a comedy? the show has remained consistently funny in one way or another for its entire tenure. the characters grow, and remain enjoyable. honestly, there has never been a show on tv that has made me laugh so loudly, and as frequently, as scrubs has.
2. it's serious. and it can come out of no where and still smack you across the face.
a few seasons ago dr. cox lost his best friend (and jordan's brother, guest star brendan frasier) to leukemia. the episode lead you to believe you were the following the path of another patients death, a patient (i hate to say it, but really) we weren't invested in. dr. cox can't forgive jd for the death of said patient, and since the trust is gone, takes over all of jd's cases. ben (brendan frasier) proceeds to follow dr. cox around for the entire episode, attempting to convince dr. cox to forgive jd. he's only human, and he did everything he could to help. it's only at the end of the episode do we realize that the patient that died was in fact ben, and dr. cox just couldn't let go.
the first time i saw it, my mouth fell open. i may just be daft, but i was so completely wrapped up in the storyline as it was i just didn't see this one coming.
and how often are you surprised with television these days?
3. it's honest. in many ways. i love the way jd is constantly drifting off in his head, because despite how crazy it gets in there, i think its an honest reaction. in the split second it takes for someone to tell me the opening line of a story, i have the picture mapped out in my mind. its realistic, everyone does it. jd is just a little more .. colorful, than i think i am.
4. the music. more than one or two or ten songs have become quick favorites after hearing them on scrubs, and i don't know if i should thank bill lawrence or just thank zach braff for bringing his influence. the team behind the show also has an uncanny knack for directly tying the song into the situation. (which is, of course, the point of a music track, but they still manage to do it differently. )
for example: check out the first episode of season two. colin hay makes a hilarious and interesting guest appearance as the theme song and the dead guy all in one.
plus, jd shares my eclectic music taste in one or two journey songs and toto's "africa".
5. running jokes, and they're still funny five years later. dr. cox calling jd a girl's name. the janitor trying to smooth things over with jd, just to screw him in the end. jd's unwavering gullibility that he falls for it every time. turk and jd's chronic peter pan syndrome. jordan proving again and again that she's "dead inside", carla's motherly instinct almighty bossiness , laverne's constant gossip. dr. kelso. old, cynical dr. kelso.
honorable mention: the janitor. he's my favorite character. you'll have to watch it to understand why, but once you do, you get it.
if my five reasons have not instilled within you a deep desire to at least check out a few episodes, then you're as dead inside as jordan. (and now you'll have to watch just to see how dead jordan is inside. ha. tricked you.)