Scrubs is an American comedy-drama created in 2001 by Bill Lawrence and produced currently by ABC Studios. The show follows the lives of several employees of Sacred Heart, a teaching hospital. It features fast-paced dialogue, slapstick, and surreal vignettes presented mostly as the daydreams of the central character, Dr. John “J.D.” Dorian, played by Zach Braff.
Alongside Braff, the first eight seasons of the show starred Sarah Chalke, Donald Faison, John C McGinley, Judy Reyes, Ken Jenkins and Neil Flynn. In the ninth season, only Braff, Faison and McGinley are listed as regular cast members, while the rest, with the exception of Reyes, have made guest appearances. Braff himself has left the show after the first six episodes. The ninth season also sees many new cast members introduced and shifts the show’s setting from a hospital to medical school. Eliza Coupe, Michael Mosley, Dave Franco and Kerry Bishé became series regulars, with Bishé becoming the show’s new narrator.
A complete script is written for each episode of Scrubs; however, actors are given opportunities to improvise their lines during the shooting process. The series has repeatedly featured guest appearances by film actors not generally seen on episodic television, such as Colin Farrell, Heather Graham, and Brendan Fraser.
Scrubs premiered on October 2, 2001 on NBC. During the seventh season, NBC announced that it would not renew the show. Shortly after the seventh season finale, ABC announced that it had bought the rights to the show and on January 6, 2009, the eighth season of Scrubs premiered on ABC. The eighth season finale aired on May 6, 2009. The ninth season, which premiered on December 1, 2009 on ABC, features several new cast members and takes place at a new location.
The show’s title is a play on surgical scrubs and a term for a low-ranking or insignificant person (at the beginning of the show, most of the main characters were medical interns, one of the lowest ranks in the medical hierarchy).
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