This week’s new Scrubs episode, “My Best Friend’s Birthday,” was written by Max Searle and directed by a newcomer to Scrubs, Pete Chatmon.
I recognize Chatmon’s name from a bunch of episodes of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia and CBS’s Ghosts. One of the Sunny episodes he directed was “A Woman’s Right to Chop,” the episode that tried to squeeze as many abortion jokes as it could into a storyline about the uproar over a new hair salon near Paddy’s Pub. Chatmon also directed one of my favorite Ghosts episodes, the one from last season where Flower—who was a law student before she experienced a Reverend Jim-like transformation into a hippie and joined a cult that brainwashed her—temporarily becomes smart again.
At the time of this writing, I haven’t watched “My Best Friend’s Birthday” yet. I can’t watch the new Scrubs episodes until they arrive on Hulu. Earlier this week, I stumbled into an interesting discussion on the Scrubs subreddit: Viewership for the Season 2 premiere was low, and many Scrubs fans over there blamed it on ABC not marketing the new season enough.
I didn’t need ABC to tell me that the new season of Scrubs is here. I found out about the new season via the Television subreddit. I’m worried that this will be the final season of the Scrubs revival. I like Scrubs a hell of a lot more than Glee, which is apparently coming back to TV.
The only things I can say about Glee are that I enjoyed Community’s takedown of Glee way more than the only two Glee episodes I saw (the pilot and the one that aired after the Super Bowl) and that people have the memory of goldfish. It’s as if Ryan Murphy grabbed that Men in Black memory eraser and made all of America forget that the set of Glee, which was the opposite of both the set of the original Scrubs and its famous “No Assholes” policy, was more toxic than Melvin Junko.