Scrubs

Scrubs or Toubib gold not Toubib is a Sitcom American created by Bill Lawrence and diffused since the October 2nd 2001 on the network NBC. Scrubs means the blouses in English. In France, the series is diffused since the April 13rd 2002 on TPS Cinéstar, on Paris Première, in multilingual version, and since the June 30th 2006 on M6. In French-speaking Switzerland, it is diffused since the June 6th 2004 by TSR in bi-channel and since the February 14th 2004 in French-speaking Belgium on Plug TV. The turning of the 7ère and ultimate season is currently disturbed by the strike of the scenario writers with Hollywood which lasts since November 5th, 2007, where only 12 of the 18 episodes envisaged were turned.

Synopsis

Scrubs makes us discover the hospital through the eyes of John Dorian, alias “JD” (called Bizut or Joséphine), young recently graduate doctor at the commencement of the series, just like his joint tenant, the surgeon Chris Turk (called Ganhdi or turkelton). They are accompanied in their first steps by their colleagues Elliot Reid (called Barbie), brilliant young woman but neurotic, and by Carla Espinosa, nurse with the sturdy character which does not leave indifferent Turk.

JD is quickly a mentor in the person of Dr. Perry Cox, whose perpetual bad mood and the Dépendance with work dissimulate the incapacity to manage its personal life; this one is the principal rampart of the patients and the interns against the cynicism of the director of the Sacré-coeur ( Sacred Heart ), the mielleux one and tyrannical Dr. Robert “Bob” Kelso.

Distribution

Main characters

Supporting characters

  • Robert Maschio (VF: German Pascal) : Todd “Todd” Quinlan, interns in Chirurgie then surgeon
  • Aloma Wright (VF: Catherine Artigala) : Laverne Roberts, nurse
  • Johnny Kastl (VF: Emmanuel Beckermann) : Doug Murphy, interns in Médecine
  • Michael Hobert: Lonnie, interns in Médecine
  • Sam Lloyd (VF: Denis Boileau) : Theodore “Ted” Buckland, lawyer of the hospital
  • Christa Miller (VF: Brigitte Aubry) : Jordan Sullivan, ex-wife of Perry Cox
  • Charles Chun: Dr. Wen, surgeon
  • Frank Encarnacao: Dr. Mickhead, general medicine
  • Travis Schuldt: Keith, interns in Médecine

Guest star S

The series accommodates regularly Guest star S, such as:
  • R. Lee Ermey: Father of the male domestic help (episode 1-19)
  • John Ritter: Sam Dorian, the father of JD (episode 4-06 is dedicated to him following its death) (episodes 1-19 and 2-09)
  • Brendan Fraser (VF: Guillaume Orsat) : Ben Sullivan, brother of Jordan and friend of Perry Cox (episodes 1-22, 1-23 and 3-14)
  • Tom Cavanagh (VF: Serge Faliu) : DaN Dorian, the big brother of JD (episodes 2-06, 3-05, 4-06, 4-07 and 5-18)
  • Heather Locklear: Julie, representing of a pharmaceutical company (episodes 2-07 and 2-08)
  • Richard Kind: Harvey Corman, patient hypochondriac (episodes 2-12, 3-20, 4-09 and 4-10)
  • Tared Reid: Danny Sullivan, sister of Jordan (episodes 3-06, 3-07, 3-08, 3-10, 3-11, 3-14, 3-19, 3-20, 3-21, 3-22 and 4-16)
  • Michael J. Fox: Dr. Kevin Casey, medical celebrity and friend of study of Perry Cox (episodes 3-12 and 3-13)
  • Heather Graham: Molly Clock, psychiatrist with the Sacred Heart (episodes 4-01 to 4-08 and 4-19)
  • Julianna Margulies: Neena Broderick, Lawyer specialized in medicine (episodes 4-09 and 4-10)
  • Matthew Perry: Murray Marks, wire of a patient (episodes 4-11)
  • Colin Farrell: Billy, friend of a patient (episodes 4-15)
  • Mandy Moore: Julie Quinn (episodes 5-09 and 5-10)
  • Keri Russell: Melody O' Harra (episodes 6-18 and 6-19)
  • Paul Adelstein (the role of Paul Kellerman in Prison Station-wagon plays): Dr. Stone (episodes 5-21)
and much of others…

Comments on the characters

  • Dr. Perry Cox tyrannizes the interns but is opposed to Kelso while making pass the heart before the money. JD is its victim but also her favorite intern. Dr. Cox with a rather disordered life. It jealous Turk because it is in love with the Carla nurse. He loves and hates his ex-wife who is one of the rare people insensitive with her threats and her insults. Dr. Cox launches out besides very often in interminable monologs during which he insults the person who is opposite him and does not cease recalling to which point the things which surround it the indifferent one. Dr. Cox is in fact a good man who refuses to show his sensitivity and always tries to escape happiness. Its behavior is summarized very well in the relation which it maintains with JD, for which it shows only contempt whereas it could not do without him.

Rewards and nominations

Rewards

The series received several rewards.

Nominations

  • Emmy Awards 2006 : Better series of comedy
  • Producers Guild off America Awards 2006: Better team of executive producers for a comedy
  • Golden Globes 2006: Better actor in a series of comedy for Zach Braff
  • Television Critics Association Awards 2006: Better series of comedy
  • Emmy Awards 2005: Better series of comedy
  • Emmy Awards 2005: Better actor in a series of comedy for Zach Braff
  • Producers Guild off America Awards 2005: Better team of executive producers for a comedy
  • Golden Globes 2005: Better actor in a series of comedy for Zach Braff
  • Emmy Awards 2004: Better scenario of a series of comedy
  • Emmy Awards 2003: Better casting for a series of comedy
  • Emmy Awards 2002: Better casting for a series of comedy
  • Television Critics Association Awards 2002: Better series of comedy
  • Television Critics Association Awards 2002: Better service in a series of comedy for John C. McGinley

Episodes

See also: Scrubs: list episodes

Comments

With the wire of the episodes, Scrubs develops a single mixture of daftness and sensitivity. The character of Janitor, the man of maintenance which treats JD as scapegoat without reason, is typical humor of the series.

Turned in a true abandoned hospital and without recorded laughter, the sitcom also evokes more serious subjects like the report/ratio with died and the disease, the relations doctor-patient, or the difficulties of making a success of of face its career and its private life.

To note that Bill Lawrence is also the creator of the series Spin City . Various actors of the series appear besides in Scrubs in a recurring way, such Michael J. Fox, Alan Ruck, Richard Kind, Heather Locklear, Michael Boatman and Alexander Chaplin.

Originality

The series follows the personal life and professional of these characters working to the hospital of the Sacred Heart (Sacred Heart Hospital), a CHU located in an unspecified city of the South-west of the United States. The series puts in scene a narration at the first nobody, extremely talkative characters, secondary intrigues which intersect, of the cascades, and the surrealist scenes which represent the daydreams of the characters. These comic aspects are compensated by poignant scenes dealing with the difficulties for the doctors of managing the death and the problems of their personal life. This combination of comic and dramatic elements distinguishes it from other series, such as Urgences .

Contrary to the majority of the sitcoms, Scrubs is carried out with only one camera (rather than two cameras in field-reverse shot). There is no recorded laughter which generally punctuates the televised comedies. The series is structured around several intrigues on the same topic, connected by the Voice-over of the main character and narrator John “J.D.” Dorian. At the end of each episode, J.D. summarizes the morals or the topic of the history, in a succession of plans which generally shows how that affects each character.

The series is also famous for the frequent presence of guest stars, in particular of Acteur S of cinema who generally do not appear in televised series. For example, the Irish actor Colin Farrell appears in the episode 14, season 4 (in the role of: Billy Callahan).

Music

Sometimes the music takes an important place in Scrubs. In season 6, an episode musical My , is entirely devoted to the music. In this episode, a patient, after a fall does not intend the people to speak but to sing. Major the part of the episode is filmed from its point of view. Thus all the actors sing in the episode.

Colin Hay in the episode My Overkill sings the song of the same name. One also finds it in the B.O of the film Garden State, whose Zach Braff holds the main role.

The series has even its own choral society: the quartet of Ted made up of employees of the administration of the hospital appears in the first season and fact of the regular appearances in songs has cappella often ridiculous in their context.

The song I' m No Superman of Lazlo Bane is used as credits with the series.

All the titles of the songs present in the Scrubs series are findable on this site: Music from Scrubs

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