My Night to Remember

Yes, although it was a bit poor to put a clip show in mid series, people need to think - "Where's Jordan been the past few episodes?" She was pregnant in real life and seeing as her husband produces the show, If my wide had given birth I wouldn't be in the mood for creating a new episode when I've just had a new baby - so before you ditch the show - some people do have lives you know!!

I was also wondering what happened to Cox's hair, but if you notice - his hair is all grown back in the next episode, so they probably created this clip show before the season in planning for the fact they would be busy with the birth.

I think season 6 hasn't been as well received as the other seasons, but I think they've done it very well - they're all moving forward and the show itself is maturing and the story arcs are getting good!

Scrubs Rules!

Vess

There are no spoilers in this review. There's nothing to spoil.

No plot, nothing; most clip shows at least try to tie the clips into the plot by some tenuous stretch, but this didn't even do that. Clips, three lines to lead into the next interminable sequence of dull clips... OK, so perhaps they were short on production time, but they'd have been better off skipping this episode entirely. What a waste of time.

I'm not sure how this got made, in fact. Scrubs is usually much better at subverting tropes, but somehow this got through....

Thank heavens they were back on form by the next episode.

When 'My Deja Vu, My Deja Vu' aired last season, I was pleased. Scrubs, I thought, is doing something clever and unique in regards to the clip-show concept. Instead of replaying footage, they're replaying jokes in a self-aware manner, and I really enjoyed it.

I found it really unfortunate that I was wrong. One season later, they succumbed to that which almost all sitcoms inevitably do, the clip show...and it looked like it was put together by the work-experience kid. Dr Cox's shaved head shows just how lazy the editors were in putting it together, as it doesn't appear again until 'My Long Goodbye' some 4 episodes later. I can't imagine that a wig is too much effort when it comes to maintaining the continuity of what was once a well-constructed sitcom. Who knows why it was slotted there, it just seemed lazy and out of place, reminding me (largely) of episodes that have aired within the past year.

Three second clips jammed together with background music is a DVD extra for a (very) rainy day, not an episode of prime-time television.

Yes, it's a clip show... Yes, it's a bit lame... And yes, it's not what one would of expected from Scrubs...

However, let's think about this shall we.

Clip shows are put together because the creators do not have the time to write a brand new episode. There are a few negative reviews on here from so called "fans" getting on their high horse and ranting that they are disappointed that Scubs has gone down this road of "laziness"... they've sold out... become like all the other inferior shows... The Simpson's did it first... blah blah blah...

Do those same fans think an episode as brilliantly original as My Musical is put together in the same time period as a regular episode...? My guess is that the regular weekly filming schedule had to be preceded by a week of rehearsal with the choreographers... hence the need to put something together quickly to fill the gap...

I'll put up with the downside of a clips show if the upside is a My Musical...

I mean, come on. People will be happier if you air a static image for 90 minutes that just says "I'm shamefully unimaginative."

The only way to make a clip show that isn't utter trash is to use the same cinematic style, but with all new clips. That's it. Stop trying. Doesn't work. No.