My Night to Remember

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.

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.

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

Yes it is a clip show, but it's done in a Scrubs, tongue in cheek way. JD even talks about 'killing a couple of minutes. It shows us all parts of Scrubs' themes, happy, sad, funny ones that make you cry. It also has a great soundtrack that helps change emotions. Songs from Joshua Radin and The Fray give an ordinary clip show a very 'Scrubs' feel. Although the clips from old episodes are put there randomly, it shows us how the characters have grown. The clips don't help the story line and were put in random, but they give the episode classic Scrubs humor. Overall, people shouldn't take it seriously and have a bit of fun watching it.

I thought it was not the best re-cap episode I've every seen (though my viewing partner handed me a tissue in anticipation of the Brendan Fraser moment...*sigh*). It was nice to see Cox outside of the incessantly brittle "Coxism State" he is in these days, if only for brief moments. I also enjoyed trying to place the episodes included by the length of the character's hair (or height, in case of JD) and the youthfulness of the earliest episodes. I can also see how Zach might be well on the way to a very Chevy Chase/or is that Matthew Perry? prat-fall induced chemical slide (already acknowledged on Conan). A little side note, the song (now stuck in my head) from the janitor-induced dance montage was "Diner" by Martin Sexton.