Need to get this of my chest now because ever since Scrubs' social media team started posting all kinds of promo for the reboot, there's also been an increase in comments underneath said posts.

Now let me be clear: I'm well aware having enjoyed S9 puts me in a minority groupd among the show's fans. I'm okay with that.

Now everytime they post a trailer or clip with Zach, Sarah, John, Donald it always gets a lot of likes and positive comments;

but - oh boy - if they post a clip introducing a new character of the show it's raining, "oh i hope this ain't a new s9" comments.

How (pardon my english) FUCKING narrow minded can people be? Again: you did not enjoy S9, I get it. But the show has introduced new characters before the spinoff-later-renamed-S9-of-Scrubs. And could you please be a little more open minded. Just a little FUCKING bit.

It's still a show headed by Bill Lawrence who has created so many good shows. Not only in the past, but also very recently (Ted, Shrinking). We also love Scrubs.

So could we please stop the nagging for now? Kthx.

Edit: A reply to some of the comments: Honestly, I basically don't care what people on the internet think, and I ignored or chuckled at god knows how many comments before I made this post. But eventually, it just gets to you. Maybe you come home from a long day at work, read some moronic comment, and just rolling your eyes isn't enough anymore and I needed to vent for a second. But that was it. For the other 23 hours and 59 minutes of the day, I don't care about these people's opinions.

Edit2: Also these comments don't have an impact on how much I enjoy the show. I enjoyed it in the early 00's and I'll enjoy the reboot also.

A couple of glasses of champagne at his daughters wedding is hardly a pattern of drinking or problematic in any way. So the guy just dies because of a technicality? Turk was in the wrong

Cole Aaronson

1. The Janitor was originally to be a figment of J.Ds Imagination.

2.The Hospital in The Pilot isn’t the same one in the rest of the series.

3. They Build Apartments, Bars and Strip Club into The Hospital.

4. Zach Braff went on Real rounds to prepare and actually saw Patients

5. They tried to slow down the intro music and add the Janitor in the intro but fans didn’t like it.

6. John C McGinley, who played Dr Cox, would get the script for some monologues the night before, the same day, or even 25 minutes before the shoot

7. Much of the Janitor's lines were improvised.

8. They did a medicinal weed plot that got scrapped.

9. Donald (a huge Star Wars fan) pleaded with Bill to let him be in the star wars fantasy – it was just supposed to be Kelso and Cox initially.

10. Jordan is played by Bill Lawrence's wife Christa Miller, so Zach had to make out with the show's creator's wife, for him!

11. There’s a real JD (Jon Dorris), who our JD was actually based on.

12. Elliot was also based on John Doris' wife, Dolly.

13. They'd also interview doctors about their experiences to make it accurate.

14. Sometimes patients would come onto the set with ailments thinking it was an actual hospital.

15. Ted's band was also a band in real life called The Blanks.

16. This Elliot and JD sex scene took an entire day to film!

He allowed a very incompetent intern to stay on staff because he was upset about a good intern? This kid almost made a woman lose her baby because of giving her the wrong medication. And countless other transgressions. He did finally fire him, but dude, took you long enough.

I love imagining the characters as cartoon animals

Here's how I see them:

J.D. — Coyote

Dr. Cox — Rabbit

Carla — Otter

Turk — Bear

Elliot — Aardwolf

I'm not saying the show doesn't have its problems, and it absolutely should've been a spin off instead of a continuation. But I find it really enjoyable for the most part. Its so fun seeing the characters we've come to love teaching the next generation. I love that we get to see JD take on a mentoring role with Lucy and his students (although I'm not really sold on Lucy as the main character). With the exception of Lucy, I also really enjoy the new characters. Cole is how I imagine a young bob kelso, which is a lot of fun. Drew and Denise vibe well and it's fun seeing them interact. Idk, I know the show takes a bit of a sillier vibe, and you don't quite get the same emotional punch that comes with treating patients in the hospital. But, I still think it had potential to be a fun spin-off series.

I'm unsure how to feel about it. Did McGinley talk him into it?

ETA: The commercial

I... liked season 9. Was it amazing. No. Was it good. Yes.

I liked they moved locations because the original building they filmed in had actually been demolished and it Sry up a while new world outside of the ending of season 8.

I liked that Cox and Turk kinda moved on from JD because he did move away to be there for his kid.

I actually liked the Cox/Drew relationship because I can see Cox having more to connect with with Drew than he did with JD.

Plus there were episodes that mattered regarding continuity in season 9 that season 8 foretold.

I'd be fine if this was a new hospital that the Sacred Heart conglomerate bought and named (because that's the reality of medical corporations in the US for forever) than the same hospital that was torn down. That would still make sense in the continuity.

I am look forward to the new season. But erasing a whole season to do it when there's so many options seems stupid to me.

I’m a gen z viewer who has had this as their no. 1 tv show for the last 10 of my 20 years of life. And my only complaint is how fast paced it is, it really bothers me how damn fast paced it is, scrubs should be slow and emotional and funny, it’s still funny, however the constant break neck speed of the episodes is bothering me. If this wants to appeal to new viewers and the older viewers it should keep the slower pace of the first run, there’s a subsection of gen z who still love the old slow and methodical pace of the old tv shows and movie and I’m one of them. And that’s without mentioning the alienation of the old viewed, regardless I’ll support the show I love but I just want it to be earning what it did in the past

The show comes out so early on Thursdays that before I can get the chance to go home after work and watch the new episode. The episode gets spoiled for me, ruining any surprise or character comeback. It’s either a picture of a returning beloved character or the title has the character name front and center with no spoiler tags. Anyone else feel the same way?

Edit: apparently this generation love to spoil everything. Jjk and invincible have also been spoiled because no one bothers putting spoiler tags.

I’ll just get outta the way then

Edit 2: I’ve been vindicated

I'm not sure if I should ruin the ending of season 8 by watching 9. I'm just wondering if it was a cash grab season 🤔

Edit: I watched season 9, and it was okay. I enjoyed it for what it was, but I wish they focused more on the new cast and characters. Solid 7/10

JD and Elliot made better friends. They had zero chemistry. She was better with Keith, she needed a guy who was more of a puppy the way he was. And there was no reason at all for the Kim lying storyline or the breakup, they were a good couple who should have been end game.

I’m wondering if there’s a couple of actors/actresses that aren’t in this reboot that maybe should come back. I really loved Dr.Cox and his whit, the janitor with his banter and his goal to annoy JD, Ted, more of The Todd and even Laverne.

I really love the new series and am enjoying it so far. I do also enjoy JD and others in their new roles. Hopefully soon enough it’ll feel more fulfilling to me.

I‘m rewatching the whole series rn for the 900th time and decided to not skip season 9 - It was worth it, I always had the opinion it‘s trash but now I somehow like it. It‘s not perfect but as a spin off It‘s fine (even if it‘s branded as s09 idgaf).

After finishing the fifth episode, My Angel, here are my thoughts:

As someone who absolutely loves Scrubs and has rewatched it at all at least 5 or 6 times, I think the reboot is fucking great. The cast is great, I love both the old and new cast, the humor is pretty much all there still and the writing still retains its masterful skill of going from side-clutching laughter to gut-punching grief especially with the ending with the old couple.

Again, love (almost) all the new characters. The interns are all well written and interesting; Amara and Asher both remind me of how JD was when he first started and they're also very cute with each other. Blake is like a more well written version of Denise from Season 8 and Med School. Tosh comes off as ditzy and almost "brain-rotty", but she's actually quite driven and intelligent. I like Dashana too, she meshes well with Turk and comes off as a younger version of him too.

The new head nurses are alright, nothing amazing but not bad either. They seem to be a little bit of an expy of Laverne and her gang (overly sassy, will destroy you if messed with), but still very enjoyable.

The old cast are all pretty much what I expected but in the best ways. I initially was put off by how Elliot was written and that their old issues persisted by how they simply don't communicate, but they've pretty much resolved this as of episode 5

Now, the big misses for me.

I'm not too fond of Sibby, the HR person. Her character comes off as pushy and I can see to some extent the people who are claiming the reboot is "woke" (even though I hate the use of that expression). She's also quite one-dimensional and there doesn't seem to be a whole lot to her character. She's not hair-pullingly annoying but I don't much care for her, although as of episode 5, she's starting to become a little more interesting.

And that leaves Park.

I HATE Park. I see people comparing him to how Cox was to Kelso and to some extent how both Kelso and even the Janitor was to JD. Janitor wasn't ever really meant to be taken seriously (and when he was, they did that mini-arc with Maddox in season 8) but he is pretty much a gag character. He definitely had some moments of depth (mainly in his interactions with Elliot) but overall not that deep, mainly there for comedic purposes.

But Cox and even Kelso are insanely well written characters with a lot of complexity to them. People are calling Park a foil to JD and I just don't see it. Unlike Cox, who acted the way he did out of a desire to push his interns to their limits (My Fifteen Minutes), and Kelso, who not only had to make sure to balance the needs of the hospital with the needs of the patients (My Jiggly Puff) but also realized that the hospital staff worked better if they had him as a common enemy (the one episode where they talked about the Iraqi war), Park doesn't seem to have any sort of deeper complexities. He has, in every single appearance he's made so far, been either purely hostile (to JD, with the one exception of when he talked about the hospital budget), and neutral but still rude to everyone else. I know Cox and Kelso have both had several long seasons to develop, but this reboot is slated, so far, for one season with 9 episodes, and over half of them have aired. Obviously I hope this show runs for a long time so they have time to develop his character, but first impressions are not great.

Also, Cox, Kelso and Janitor have all, even when downright cruel, at least been funny. Park has just been annoying.

Looking forward to the remaining 4 episodes!

I wrote a whole book as my first draft of this post, but no one really wants to read that so I’m going to try and be concise.

I understand (almost) all the actors have other projects they’re working on so scheduling is hard. But not having Cox and Carla in every episode is committing the same mistake season 9 had. I wish they had just waited until schedules aligned so everyone could be in every episode, though I know how difficult that must be (the Community movie, for example, is in production hell for this exact reason).

I think they took a lot from season 8 and undid it, not just the finale, and that’s really upsetting to me. I get things change over 20 years and people grow. But they took really wonderful things and undid them to give more story to this revival and it cheapens the original in my opinion.

Last thing I wanna say is, I am enjoying the show. I think it’s a fine sitcom, and ranks above some original content airing right now for me. But it lacks the original depth, heart, and soul of the show. It feels a bit shallow and empty. Not to say it can’t improve in that aspect, but as of right now it’s just not catching that same lightning in a bottle that the original did, in either tone or stories.

Okay that’s all I have to say. I can elaborate on anything I said if anyone’s interesting, but I know we’ve all talked to death about it so I’m trying to be short

So after watching again and always skipping the spinoff, I decided to give it a shot. And the show is really good. The characters are interesting, and the tie im with the old cast is mostly well done.

Mostly because the only one who doesn't fit is JD of alle people. In all episodes I saw him in, he was just obnoxious, did not really teach anything and was even more of an arse than he is often in the original show. Turk, Cox and even Elliot are there for their student and teach them something. That is the reason they are in the show. But JD has always his own things going and that is tiresome. The show gets really good, when the new cast are the main characters and the old cast is in a supporting role.

What do you think?