This week’s Scrubs revival episode, “My Halloween” (written by Alan Yanaga), isn’t the first Scrubs Halloween episode. The original Scrubs did two of them: the first-season episode “My Bad” (the introduction of Jordan, as well as the first episode where someone other than J.D. spoke to the Janitor, who was originally supposed to be a figment of J.D.’s imagination, and that was why in the episodes that preceded “My Bad,” he spoke only to J.D.) and the second-season episode “My Big Brother.”

At the time of this writing, “My Halloween” hasn’t aired yet. I receive the latest Scrubs revival episode a bit later than Scrubs viewers who still watch linear TV do. We cord-cutters are unable to watch it until early Thursday 2am on Hulu.

However, I caught ABC’s promo for it on Instagram, even though I don’t have an IG account (and I’m glad I still don’t). My favorite thing about this episode, despite not watching it yet, is Turk dancing around as Bobby Brown in the “Every Little Step” video. On MTV, you couldn’t avoid that video in 1989. “Every Little Step” is a classic L.A. Reid and Babyface jam. I love the late ’80s/early ’90s L.A. and Babyface sound. (Speaking of Halloween, “On Our Own,” the theme from Ghostbusters II and the best song that was written for a Ghostbusters movie ever, is another Bobby Brown/L.A./Babyface classic.)

My least favorite thing about this episode is the addition of Stephanie Koenig (no relation to Walter Koenig, who was best known for playing Chekov in the Star Trek franchise and passed away earlier this week; pokoysya s mirom) to the cast. Koenig, who plays Cassie, Sacred Heart Hospital’s new administrator, did not come off well in Vulture writer E. Alex Jung’s 2024 investigative piece on the sexual misconduct allegations against English Teacher star/creator Brian Jordan Alvarez.

“I think if this were a Tim Allen comedy on ABC, the allegations wouldn’t have sunk it because that audience wouldn’t have cared,” wrote Pajiba’s Dustin Rowles when FX canceled English Teacher last year. “However, this is an FX series targeting an audience that takes allegations of that nature very seriously.”

I’m one of those folks who take those allegations seriously and noped out of English Teacher (even though it was a good series about high-school teachers) and almost every show where Alvarez and Koenig resurface. It bugs me that Alvarez is part of the voice cast of Dang!, Netflix’s Asian American adult animated sitcom.

Koenig was complicit in Alvarez’s behavior, and that’s just going to distract me during her scenes on Scrubs. In the meantime, enjoy this nearly two-minute Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald podcast clip of Zach Braff admitting to Donald Faison, Amanda Morrow, Layla Mohammadi, and Fake Doctors producer Joelle Monique that he never watched The Notebook, so Faison, who knows Nick Cassavetes, The Notebook’s director, from playing pick-up basketball with him, praises his b’ball buddy’s most popular directorial effort—I only know Cassavetes from when he played one of Castor Troy’s henchmen in Face/Off—and tells Braff to get in on that shit.

Braff shouldn’t be ashamed. He isn’t alone. I never watched The Notebook (or La La Land, which Braff and Faison said they’re fans of) either. Face/Off is my The Notebook. The “It’s like looking in a mirror, only not” scene between Travolta and Cage is my “Ryan Gosling kissing Rachel McAdams in the rain” moment.