Sarah Chalke
[SPOILER ALERT: Do not read this article if you don't want to know how Scrubs will change this season.]
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Zach Braff by Mitch Haaseth/ABC
Zach Braff will be leaving Scrubs at the end of this season. "Not by his choice," joked executive producer Bill Lawrence. That's the big, though perhaps not-too-surprising news to come out of ABC's panel Wednesday.As a result, the jocular conversation, led by head jester Lawrence, steered toward envisioning a post-J.D. Sacred Heart world. "Isn't Turk without J.D. a bit like Joanie without Chachi?" one snarky reporter asked. "It's like Chachi without Joanie actually," corrected Donald Faison (Turk himself!). Lawrence admitted that he had always pitched Scrubs as ER as a comedy, with a revolving cast of characters that would allow for new blood from time to time. The show has already introduced us to a new set of younger interns. "We cried when [Lawrence] said he was bringing in younger actors," said Sarah Chalke. To which the always-complimentary Lawrence shot back: "Why don't you take a gander at the opening credits [which date from the show's first season] and see how young you use...
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Zach Braff by John Shearer/WireImage.com
Zach Braff, whose Scrubs someday (...possibly) might wrap up its final season, is in talks to direct and executive-produce Saint of Circumstance, a drama pilot for Fox. Per the Reporter, The Office's David Denman would front the series as a man in a midlife crisis who quits his office job to instead toil as a night-shift paramedic. The pilot, penned by Braff's brother Adam, would shoot once the you-know-what has ended.
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And this is the Scrubs weve seen a little too much of of lategood enough to watch but only intermittently or fitfully funny and perhaps not quite seemlessly mixing the frequent tragedy of medical life with the various sorts of comedy offered upA recap can be pretty quick on this episode since the A B and C plotlines are pretty thin in outline Elliot faces an ethical dilemma when she learns that one of her private-practice patients dying of ALS has landed in the hospital in a suicide attempt Elliot is unsure as to whether to make the authorities and her patients home-healthcare nurse aware of this or to allow the patient to die on her own terms JD suggests she should tell for no better reason than that Elliot tends to let such things get under her skin by episodes end Elliot has decided to keep her patients secret having accidentally let the dying woman know how more effectively to drug herself to death Meanwhile JD having discovered how insanely compe
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Now this was the Scrubs weve come to expectsharp goofy but grounded humane Very funny even when painlessly lecturingJD hangs out at the nurses station with Turkand with his infant son Turk invites JD to play basketball which JD declines pointing out that his son is strapped to his chestTurk suggests that he simply wont pass the ball to JD and JD notes that that would be just like a typical game for them JD also has a brief fantasy about being able to breastfeed his boy one among several large-breasted lactating male cast members a tapped-out JD allows Kelso to feed the child JD had apparently used most of his own milk in winning a squirting duel with Turk who then sprays Kelso and JD in a sneak attack Turk is brought up short by Carla who notes that Turk could be spending time with their daughter Izzy Meanwhile interns are being detailed to follow at a close distance a resident known for his short temper Hooch a character
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Well like a baseball or beisbol team sometimes a great series needs a rebuilding season My Identity Crisis still wasnt up to the heights of most previous years of Scrubs but it was the funniest episode of the season so far and it will doWe begin with a dream sequence Carla Judy Reyes is making out with her husband Turk Donald Faison in a hospital bed at Sacred Heart Turk pulls out a restraint and binds her wrist to the bedframe but the prospect of kinky fun is dampened by the sudden appearance of JD Zach Braff and then Elliot Sarah Chalke who are there to murder Carla allowing Turk and JD to pal around endlessly and Elliot to steal and raise Carlas daughter Izzi What turns out to be the most disturbing aspect of the nightmare for Carla however when she awakens is that its the first dream she remembers having in English rather than in Spanish Meanwhile Cox John C McGinley is informed by his partner Jordan Christa Miller too absent of late
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Well despite JD Zach Braff finally being told by nearly everyone he knows that he needs to grow up and Coxs useful if revenge-driven demand that Elliot recognize that she is starving herself dangerously this was the frothiest episode of the season so far And yet while pleasant it also managed to be the least funny even given that it was paced like the most like typical Scrubs episodes of past seasonsAs part of NBCs Green Week stunt the episode begins with a discussion between hospital lawyer Ted Sam Lloyd sadly underused this season till this episode and the Janitor over Teds relative eco-friendliness versus the Janitors tendency to leave his van running all day so that its air-conditioned for his drive home Ted shows the Janitor Al Gores augmented-lecture documentary An Inconvenient Truth and the latter is inspired to ask Kelso if he can become the ecology officer for the hospital Assured that it will cost Sacred Heart no money Kelso agrees just to ge
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Another pretty solid episode still not Scrubs at its comic best and still at least as much about the serious subtexts of the series as about the blackouts and fantasy sequencesKim Elizabeth Banks is about to give birth and JD Zach Braff is ready for everything except for openly admitting to Kim that he doesnt love her Meanwhile Cox John C McGinley looks for someone competent to give his infant daughter a shot unwilling to give it to her himself for fear that shell associate him with pain Carla Judy Reyes cant do itsince shes enraged at Turk Donald Faison for his stubborn insistence on playing a console video game to its conclusion or at least for his obliviousness to her need as great as his to be something other than a parent sometimes and to a much lesser extent to his obliviousness to her ability to play the game better than either her husband or the Janitor Neil Flynn Even Kelso Ken Jenkins proves his worth as a parent while drun
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At last the best sitcom on television is back alas for its final short seasonSynopsis Picking up with the season finales emotional cliff-hanger JD Zach Braff] and Elliot Sarah Chalke are about to kiss JD speculates that they are both afraid to commit even to this but after seeing Elliot close her eyes he readies himself only to discover that Elliot is about to call them both to their senses or at least to get them both to wonder why they keep pulling themselves and each other out of serious relations Elliot decides she cant marry Keith Travis Schuldt and tells him so only days before the wedding he doesnt take it so well After a week of insulting Elliot at every opportunity Keith arranges to pick up his stuff at her apartment with the proviso that shell not be there she cant abide his hostility though and shows up hoping to make things at least civil between them Instead they become impulsively romantic leading to Elliot breaking up with h
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Gabriel Aubry and Halle Berry by Mark Von Holden/WireImage.com
Halle Berry, confirming that she is pregnant with model beau Gabriel Aubrey's baby, told Tuesday's Access Hollywood, "Gabriel and I are beyond excited" to create what may be the prettiest child in existence.... Tobey Maguire married babymama Jennifer Meyer on Monday in Hawaii, says the AP.... Kate Hudson's attempts to reach out to Owen Wilson have been blocked by her former flame's family, leaving her "very frustrated," a source tells the New York Daily News.... Guess she's a Mac person. Drew Barrymore and Justin Long "made out in a corner table" at Las Vegas' Jet Nightclub on Sunday, says the News. Not to be shown up, Zach Braff was spied by the Post "making out all over the place" in Hawaii with Shiri Appleby.... Shaquille O'Neal has filed for divorce from his wife of five years, Shaunie, says People.
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