Everyone keeps saying Scrubs ...
Question: Everyone keeps saying
Scrubs is a mistreated show. Doesn't NBC deserve a little credit for keeping it on the air for a sixth year?
Scrubs couldn't hold much of the audience when it got a shot after
Friends, but NBC has stuck with it anyway and has given the writers a good amount of freedom. I love the show and am thrilled to see it live on, but I'm a little sick of TV critics saying how mistreated it is when it's gotten well over 100 episodes, and when other networks would have given up on it by now. Poor little
Scrubs. If that is being mistreated, what do you call the treatment given to shows canceled after one season, or worse, a handful of episodes? How about giving some credit where it is due?
Answer: All valid points, but still, for NBC to bench
Scrubs for half a season two years in a row seems like killing it with kindness. Especially at a time when the show has finally crossed the Emmy threshold with nominations for best comedy series, and this fall it would pair up so nicely with
Tina Fey's
30 Rock. (Much better, in fact, than the overly broad
John Lithgow-
Jeffrey Tambor buddy comedy
Twenty Good Years, which will be lucky to make it past 20 bad episodes.) So pardon us while we lament the months and months without new
Scrubs episodes, while hoping that NBC decides against airing them back-to-back again in the mid-season. That isn't healthy for any show, no matter how good it is. It is true, though, that it's something of a miracle for it to have run this long, given the way things are going for underrated gems of this caliber.
