So… with my copious amounts of free time between getting home from work and bedtime, all of about an hour or two each day, I’ve been SLOWLY working my way through the show ‘Scrubs’.
Have you ever watched this show? For some reason I never got into it during its first run and I’ve been ridiculed by countless friends who consider it one of the best Sitcoms of the 2000s. Well… now that I’ve FINALLY watched the first season and now working my way through the second, I have to agree with my friends. It’s really great.
From a theatrical standpoint, I love how the show is narrated from the perspective of J.D. (Zack Braff), which leans itself to both hilarious absurdism and heartfelt realism… the two, sometimes playing hand in hand surprising the audience… at least surprising me. Sometimes there will be a really nice tender moment between the characters and I’ll be waiting for the joke… the “Just kidding, this was just a dream sequence,” but then, nothing will happen. The writers will just let the tender moment play out for real which makes it even more powerful.
Good show.
Now, of course, my sense of humor TOTALLY lends itself to the adsurbism. My favorite reoccurring bits are how Jimmie Walker from ‘Good Times!’ always appears in J.D.’s daydreams AND how the hospitals lawyer is in a barbershop quartet that only performs TV theme song (which somehow accent the episodes theme perfectly).
But you know? Seeing Jimmie Walker got me thinking. Whatever happened to Rerun from ‘What’s Happening!!’? I LOVED Rerun!
Well… unfortunately, he passed away back in 2003. We’ll miss you buddy! Keep on dancing!
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