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[–] 106 points 1 year ago (14 children)
  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Right there with you, after what they did with the season that doesn't exist (season 9, I refuse to acknowledge it) I don't trust them with this property. The whole appeal of the show was JD and Turk's growth, and of course the Cox rants. Also what's the point without Ted.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    S9 was fine, it was just a different show

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong wrong wrong wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong.

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  • [+] 12 points 1 year ago (5 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    I thought they were calling us late-model Gen Xers now. Or Oregon trail Generation.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    (only barely tangential to your point but) I mean, I also played the Oregon Trail and I'm definitely a younger millennial.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

    I’m not gonna gatekeep, but was it on a floppy drive? We played it in school on 5.24” floppies.

    I recently played a Floppotron video for my 7 year old and he was skeptical that computers sounded like that when games loaded.

    We didn’t even get into the 14.4 modem sounds it took to see a webpage.

    Edit: Oops I meant 5.25”, but TIL apparently actually 5.1”. Fun fact I learned back in college, is that CDRs fit into 5.25” floppies if you cut a slit and remove the disc.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    We played it in school on 5.24” floppies.

    Tech around that time depended a lot on what was affordable. Like I had 5¼ floppies at home but school had Apple IIGS with 3.5" drives that we used for Oregon Trail.

    Also wikipedia is telling me that 5.25 floppies were actually 130 mm, which would be 5.1". I guess "five and a quarter" rolls of the tongue better so they rounded up.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    Ah; you have a fair point, there. I've never used a 5.24". I actually didn't know it was released on those.

    I recently played a Floppotron video for my 7 year old and he was skeptical that computers sounded like that when games loaded.

    Haha; I know I'm biased since, as a developer and someone interested in computers, I'm also more aware (even if I've never used) of older tech. but it is incredible just how much things have changed.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (13 children)

    Hollywood constantly tryina cash in on nostalgia porn and it never works

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  • [–] 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    And I'd trust the guy who created Ted Lasso and Shrinking to do what it takes to make the worth watching.

    And Scrubs. The original show itself. He created it. He's not some rando taking over.

    But honestly, Bill Lawrence has single-handedly built up the comedydrama side of Apple TV+. Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Bad Monkey... All great shows. And I don't even care about football normally.

    I'll take this one with a grain of salt instead of the usual salt mountain. It's still a reboot. But it looks like they're also getting at least some of the other cast members back too. Mostly I'm hoping for Cox and Kelso. Carla and Janitor are apparently semi-confirmed? And I think Jordan is more or less confirmed considering the actress is literally married to Bill Lawrence and actively takes part in his projects.

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  • [+] -11 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago*

    Well now you've also heard: I thought it an unapologetically heartfelt show, and I really enjoyed it despite expecting saccharine bullshit. It didn't hold the quality all three seasons, but that's not because it's bad, but rather because the first season (and even the second,) is so good. I enjoyed it completely. But hey, it's not for everyone.

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  • it never works on you and me maybe, but it seems like the normies eat that shit up

    It makes me feel like I'm better than them. which I'm aware seems to be a character flaw, but not one I care about, I guess! enjoy your shitty fifth superhero movie reboot or whatever

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    [–] 35 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    Are they actually rebooting Scrubs again?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Yes. I think it will be horrible.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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    If season 7 is the one where the hospital was turned into a school and they all came back - yep, it was awful. I couldn’t even stomach the full first episode before turning it off. Loved the rest of the show though.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My favorite scrubs fact is that none of the streaming platforms can get the rights to the indie music Zack Braff shoved into all the final scenes so they replaced them all with generic open source songs which really hurts the quality.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Only for the first four seasons. Rights agreements were different then.

    You’ll also find most streaming sites turn the 4:3 into 16:9 by chopping off the top and bottom of the frame.

    This is why I have the show on DVD.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    A scrub is a guy that can't get no love

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    Scrubs was a special show. Some times woke and some times a product if it's times. Meaning gay jokes cause guys hug. Super fun and then they hit you with that real real. Sorry Dr Kelso is so mean because he needs to keep this big ship running. It doesn't work out good all the time but he tries.

    I liked the later seasons when Dr Cox was in charge and when he went through his alcohol problems. I even like the last season. It was different but it was still a good show.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Came here to say something similar. I always have mixed feelings on Scrubs for similar reasons to you. I genuinely can't go back and rewatch most episodes because they are incredibly dated or insensitive in many respects. The good parts are still good, the great parts are still great, but the bad parts feel really bad IMO, and it really kills a lot of rewatch potential for me, despite having loved watching seasons 1-5 when it was originally airing. It was one of my favorite shows for years.

    I can definitely watch older stuff and understand it's a product of its time, but Scrubs in particular has me cringing by 5 minutes into the episode; I can't get through the rest of the episode most of the time. I end up skipping around to watch the scenes I know I like. I ain't got time to sit around watchin' The Todd harass people or Kelso make his usual "wife bad" jokes.

    What a soundtrack, though. One of the better soundtracks of any show I've watched.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I've (slowly) been rewatching it and there's definitely moments where I'm wincing at some stuff. But what I find most painful is just how much I kind of hate J.D. He's such an asshole so often! I brought this up to my husband, who loves the show, and he said that watching JD grow as a person was the point, but I don't know, I feel like you're supposed to be rooting for him more often than not. The parts that focus on him trying to be a better doctor--sure. Absolutely. Best parts. But so much of the early seasons are mired in his attempts at relationships and those are the worst parts of him.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    Never heard of it until now. I assume this refers to the "2001-2010 American medical comedy-drama" show.

    For the record I more or less fit into the late millennial generation.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago

    Yeah that makes sense, the biggest crowd that watched it was probably the Millennials born 1981-1992. By the time I started watching it, I was in high school & it was wrapping up. But some of my cousins were in college when it came out.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    What do you define as late millennial? Because as someone born toward the tail end of the millennials I feel like while I didn’t personally watch it on tv I heard about it a ton and then as an adult I did a binge watch of it

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago

    where do you think you are right now?

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    "OMG, young people exist!?!?!?"

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  • [–] 55 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    I'm okay with a generation not instinctively crowd-funding a Zach Braff project.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'm out of the loop. What's up with Zach Braff?

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    I don’t remember specifics but when Kickstarter was in its infancy Zach Braff had a couple kickstarters for his movies. They weren’t themselves offensive. It’s just that using a crowdfunding platform which, at the time at least, were mostly for people who had zero access to capital when you’re a multimillionaire with Hollywood connections to capital is a bit gauche.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I threw in $100 for a Zach Braff movie. I got to be an extra (they fed us ribs for lunch), 2 t-shirts, then got 2 tickets for a sneak preview with free drinks and popcorn, and a q&a with Zach and Donald Faison...worth every penny, unlike the poor saps that have $1 million to solar freakin roadways.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago

    During the q&a someone asked about it. His first movie, Garden State basically got bankrolled by some rich dentist that he knew... He said the normal way of financing movies lets a bunch of rich people get to take control of the script, who you cast, what scenes make it in... Basically everything.

    He wanted to retain the control he had first time around to make his next movie, so he crowd funded it... And seeing how many movies get made by talented people that end up being garbage because money men think they know everything and fuck it up... Seemed reasonable 😏

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I was like "awesome! It was so funny and would be great to see a modern version of it!" And the I found out that it is a canonical continuation of the story and immediately got disappointed.

    Hollywood, listen. When something old was really good and you want to make more money off of it, take the idea that made it good and stop reviving the dead just to be surprised that it sucks.

    A new scrubs with a completely different set of people and story with just the key idea there would actually be awesome. Just remember how well the last season was accepted 😒

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    I wish I had the fond memories for this show that others do. My sibling wanted to get into medicine and would binge medical shows at home all the time. This was the first one. A few episodes is fine. But having this run 8 hours a day non-stop just made me hate this show. It’s way too formulaic to binge like that.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    I don’t think there are many shows I can take more than 4 episodes at one time. I remember visiting my cousin, and when I was leaving we watched Arrested Development until it was time to go to the airport. I found it funny and was enjoying it, but by hour 3 I was done and have never been able to get into it since.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I have a 14 year old who loves scrubs, Brooklyn 99 and the office. Im proud dad

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    As one of those Gen Z-ers, this tracks. Never heard of 'Scrubs'

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Looks like you've heard of System Shock though. Curious.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago*

    Well maybe they know it as a buster.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And that’s why they reboot it

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Is that like a baseball thing?

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    It isn't a reboot it's a sequel

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Man, I hope it's good. Scrubs is my favorite non-scifi show. I want to buy the whole thing on bluray/dvd but right now I can't find the whole thing. Some people, when you say "Eagle," think the bird. Some people think "USA". I think about Turk and JD.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I wish they would do an HD release of the show. NBC only ordered it as an SD show for most of the series, because that was the era of the transition and only some shows were ordered for HD and budgeted to use the HD production equipment. The Director of Photography shot the whole thing on 16mm film, though, and framed everything so there was a 16x9 safe shot in case they ever went back to upgrade it for syndication or home release. “All” it would take is re-scanning the original film into HD and taking the edit list from the original version and applying it to the same timecode.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    They will know now!

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I never liked this sitcom and prefer the British "Green Wing" instead.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    …Meanwhile a whole class of 12 yr olds today even know what Brooklyn 99 and community is…

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Much of it doesn't hold up anymore, so it might be a wise idea. It prolly won't work, tho.

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