One of my favorite comedies, Scrubs, is starting it's seventh and final season tonight on NBC. According to doctor friends and families, this show represents life in a hospital better than any of its competitors.
What has been interesting is the risks the show has in many areas:
- Audience: Despite the format of the show being a flowing comedy inside an empty hospital (a la The Bernie Mac Show), one episode was filmed in front of a live studio audience.
- Singing and dancing: One full episode was a quite hilarious musical, entitled "My Musical".
- More singing and dancing: Many episodes include copious amounts of singing and dancing, including Turk (Donald Faison)'s full Poison rendition.
- Occasionally extravagant stunts: In one episode "My Way Home", J.D. (Zach Braff) drives his scooter into a patch of cement filled with water, and then supposedly pops up from another patch of cement 10 feet away, exclaiming, "Where was I?" The stunt cost reportedly around $70,000 to execute.
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