Do You Want More 'Scrubs?' Because This Is How You Get More 'Scrubs'

By Andrew Sanford | TV | August 7, 2024 |

By Andrew Sanford | TV | August 7, 2024 |

Emotional whiplash is a hell of a thing. You’re watching a show, laughing, having a good time with zany antics, and then boom, you’re hit with a death or message or melodramatic music sting that whips you back into your chair. It’s not that you’re out of the show, it’s just that your state of emotion changed so quickly and thoroughly that it can be hard to recover. It can be both exhausting and invigorating, and Scrubs cornered the market.

Scrubs was a comedy show about the staff at a hospital. We get tangled up in the characters’s lives and big personalities. We laugh at their fun and sometimes contentious relationships. Some create theories around whether or not one antagonistic character is actually a figment of someone’s imagination. The show had everything going for it! That included emotional whiplash so severe that it felt like riding a comedy/drama rollercoaster.

An episode of Scrubs could contain a silly plotline involving an air guitar band and then end with a patient suddenly dying or a cast member getting in a serious car accident. While the shift could be jarring, it helped with the authenticity. Things can go wrong in a hospital at the drop of a hat. It made for engrossing television, and it looks like it may do so again.

Scrubs’s creator, Bill Lawrence, has not slowed down since the show ended. He has had many hit shows under his belt since then, including Ted Lasso and Cougar Town. He also worked on the short-lived Rush Hour TV show. it can’t all be hits, but the man stays working. He’s also been hanging out with the cast from Scrubs recently (when Zach Braff and Donald Faison aren’t busy dancing for that sweet T-Mobile money). The time with his old friends has seemingly convinced him to bring back the beloved show.

Lawrence is currently doing press for his 637th(?) new show, Bad Monkey. When asked about a Scrubs reboot, he had an encouraging answer. “You know, I’m really candid about it. We’re definitely going to do it, just because we’ve all been enjoying hanging out,” Lawrence explained to LADbible. “Look, there’s no huge drive because everybody’s successful, and I think the show was on for like, 72 years, but the on the other hand, medical people over here right now are very heroic to me.”

He makes a great point. Medical workers were forced into terrible positions during the first COVID outbreak and things haven’t exactly slowed down since then. While I don’t need a Scrubs episode about COVID, I wouldn’t mind a new-looking medical comedy that can bring the drama as well. Lawrence feels the same. Not only does he want to get the format right, he wants to look to the future. “I don’t want to do it as a movie, but I’m definitely open to doing a couple more years of that show. It would not only be fun to see where the characters I used to love are now, but also to see what a young doctor nowadays looks like, as far as the kids coming in behind them, you know.”

There is no concrete development with the show as of yet. Lawrence feels enthusiastic, though. “I think we’ll figure it out in the next six months or so what we want to do. I’m just busy too, man, in a great way,” the creator explained. With that kind of healthy attitude, I’ll be happy whether or not he does it. If he doesn’t, it means he couldn’t crack it. That’s okay. If he does, it means he wanted to, and I will welcome the emotional whiplash.