Scrubs - humor, entertainment, and longjevity
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Topic: Scrubs - humor, entertainment, and longjevity
Posted By: Icarium
Subject: Scrubs - humor, entertainment, and longjevity
Date Posted: July 15 2012 at 08:32
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i have always been fan/admirer of comidy, i like to spend time to find innovative humor, groups, series or tv-programs that i feal have pushed the envelopeof humor forward, there are a couple of series, comedic groups, and tv-series we can say have pushed the bounderies of comedy further, widend the language of humor, freshend the format of pressentation, revitalised a field that have beceme stale, bland, outright boring becouse ideas have been played to death, some series, (or persons) groups, and tv-shows i find stands out more, you have Monthy Pyhton of course, (both as series, program, as personalitys within python, and other fields of media), SNL, and many of the late night talk shows (Carson), more recently one can say Top Gear is revolutionary (from its restart in 2000 with Clarkson, May and Hammond in the presentation roles), have done more for a information program television vice then one would think would be possible, in a tv program about automatic viochels (im gonna make a thead about that also where i am focusing on Top Gear) Scrubs is to me the most boundery braking sit-com series, humor show since Seinfeld and Friends, it is funny, it is serious, it is drama, it is good yeah sometimes even great acting, full of engaging characters,they have managed to create more then two seasons of steaming energy of humor and fun, the most vital part of Scrubs is its bold absurdist humor, its fantastic camera shooting/clipping, and moving between real situations and flashbacks, and back to reality, on a whim, it never feals rushed or unnatural it is just totaly, totaly, totaly absurdist, it is so strange, yet funny, (you arer often thinking for yorself) "how did they think of that", "ahh it is so it works", "i never ever ever have thought about it that way before", filled 'wiith hillarious wtf moments, and a couple of lols, and roflmaos, the series is just facinating, you don't need to laugh 24/7 at the show, without being exieted about just notice it all work like a fine tuned clock dialoges, flashbacks, facial expressions, intrigues, how the theme of the episode is played through elegantly, film technicaly and story telling vice, Scrubs is fantastic, the writings are clever, the dialoges are clever, fast, natural (with a blink in the eye), sensitive, honest, true. You do feal agrivated at Bob Kelso when JD is arguing at Kelso, or would like to punsh the genitor, or Cox, but stil feal their sensitieve parts also, when Cox is having his turmoils with Jordan (who is hot), or Genitors absurd background life (nobody knows his real name), Todds overly sexist behaviour, all the other wierd doctors, all the charaters are great, the guest actors do wonderfull, Michaell J Fox vissit was really funny and brilliant pulled of, Tara Reid also had a good guest role, it is just a good show, I would say Scrubs humor is the most revolutionary humor in a sitcom this decade, it is less anoying then Malcholm in the Middle who is a logical comparison, but Scrubs pull it of better, IMO, so i would vote yes Scrubs humor is revolutinary YES -------------  
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Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: July 15 2012 at 08:52
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I love the show. I never thought of it as particularly revolutionary, but now that I think of it, there really hasn't been another show like it before. I'll vote yes. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Bj-1
Date Posted: July 15 2012 at 09:04
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Check out Green Wing, similar but zanier. Scrubs is a really funny show though and far better than most other popular sitcoms. I rank it just up there with my british favorites, Black Books and Blackadder. ------------- RIO/AVANT/ZEUHL - The best thing you can get with yer pants on! |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 15 2012 at 09:19
i will sheck out Green Wing and Black Books 
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Posted By: infocat
Date Posted: July 15 2012 at 10:53
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I hate, hate, hate this show! It's so smug and smirky and thinks it's clever. I'm generally a huge fan of single-cam comedies with no laugh track. But I'm no fan of Scrubs. (Of course I hate it so much that I've seen mostly just 'snippits' and very few full episodes. But...) ------------- -- Frank Swarbrick Belief is not Truth. |
Posted By: Icarium
Date Posted: July 15 2012 at 11:02
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a good show is a show that devides the masses, it is not strange, both Monty Python and Scrubs have thier devoted fans and distracters, extreme humor can go both ways for different folks, it can click and it can backfire, daring humor is daring, and for some shows it works for others it dont but it seems Scrubs have hitted more on-spots then off spots popularity vice, and the humor is well reported to be one of the finest of modern sit-com -------------
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Posted By: The Bearded Bard
Date Posted: July 15 2012 at 11:06
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Although I find the show quite entertaining, I didn't think it was very funny. It just didn't make me laugh very often.
Revolutionary? I would say no. It's too much of an Ally McBeal clone to be considered as such IMO. They may have taken the comedy (the daydreams and such) a couple of steps further, but I don't feel they broke any new grounds regarding humor content. And the delivery wasn't that good either IMO. Too much overplaying for my taste.
That said, you might have a point regarding the filming and storytelling, Chris, but I'm by no means an expert in that area, so I wouldn't know if it was revolutionary or not. -------------  
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Posted By: Horizons
Date Posted: July 15 2012 at 11:22
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infocat wrote:Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: July 15 2012 at 11:32
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I can see Audun's comparison to Ally McBeal, same "flavor" of show I suppose, but Scrubs is more ridiculous and less soapy. There are plenty of WTF? moments, which I like. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: manofmystery
Date Posted: July 15 2012 at 11:37
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Was a fan of the show though I don't find it particularly revolutionary.
I will say this about it, though:
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Posted By: Slartibartfast
Date Posted: July 15 2012 at 11:53
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I tuned into Scrubs a few times. It never clicked with me.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: July 15 2012 at 11:58
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Posted By: zappaholic
Date Posted: July 15 2012 at 13:22
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