Scrubs: My Musical Review

We are now officially about three maybe four days away from Scrubs coming back on the air with new episodes. Which does mean that I wanted to produce a tie in review however with there being so many great episodes of the show that all blended together the shows signature blend of comedy and drama really well I think that i've found the perfect episode as it's one that has some really good jokes , some really good drama and some really good songs in it that are still bein viewed by the millions on Youtube to this day and so then join me as I review the episode that sees the characters make a big song and dance over a patient with the episode in question being called simply just "My Musical" enjoy.

The plot of this episode when a patient is brought to the hospital hearing everyone in her world singing the staff have to find out what's wrong with her. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good as while yes granted this episodes plot isn't the strongest Scrubs plot out there as there are better episodes that have stronger plots to them this is due to the fact the episode had to fit in ten songs in the space of a regular episode of the show and therefor of course the plot is going to come across as being all the more weaker as a result of it and in all fairness this episodes plot really didn't need to be that strong in the first place as it only needed to explain why the characters are now all of sudden singing and dancing and it did that in a way that felt true to the spirit of the show whilst also still very much being a Scrubs episode however it still would have been nice if the episode did take a break from a squeezing in a a song every few minuets and gave some time to it's plot as the plot of this episode is left feeling as more of an afterthought to the episodes songs when they two of them should have been working in tandem together with one supporting the other and yet this is something that doesn't happen due to the fact that the plot of this episode doesn't really get alot of focus with the plot of this episode being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Starring in this episode is Zach Braff as Dr. John 'J.D.' Dorian , Sarah Chalke as Dr. Elliot Reid and Donald Faison as Dr. Christopher Turk. Also starring in this episode is Neil Flynn as The Janitor , Ken Jenkins as Dr. Bob Kelso , John C. McGinley as Dr. Perry Cox , Judy Reyes as Nurse Carla Espinosa , Stephanie D'Abruzzo as Patti Miller , Johnny Kastl as Doug , Sam Lloyd as Ted Buckland , Robert Maschio as Dr. Todd Quinlan , Philip McNiven as Roy , George Miserlis as Crispin , Paul F. Perry as Randall , Aloma Wright as Nurse Roberts and Mike Schwartz as Lloyd.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With this being something that's not really all that surprising as the shows was six seasons into it's mammoth nine season run at this point in time and therefor of course the acting in the episode is going to be top notch as all of the episodes barring the guest actors of course would have had alot of time to really get to know there characters and therefor they would know what kind of performance would best suit there respective character in any given scene with this being something that does come through in this episode as all of the actors truly do act there socks off in this episode with the best actor in this episode being Stephanie D'Abruzzo as Patti Miller as she has to step into this show and right away not only get the tone of the show but also get her character and get where her character is coming from and still sing some really good songs all the while she's got be funny as this is a comedy show afterall and still turn in a good performance and a lesser actor would have buckled under all of that but instead of buckling she thrived with her being the emotional core of the episode and while her performance won't cause people to break into tears like what Brendan Fraser did in his third episode on the show but she does do a really good job of making this character and this situation seem both believable and yet at the same time utterly heartbreaking as well with the acting that's in this very episode really being helped by the fact that the script for this episode is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's inn this very episode.

Character wise this episode does treat it's characters really well as all of the series regular characters do feel very in character. With this being something that does make alot of sense as the makers of this episode would of course know these characters inside out and therefor it would be easy for them to have these character be written in character but at the same time tho there seemed to be a focus on getting alot of the characters that we all know and love in the show in this one episode regardless on if it makes sense for them to be there or not as none of the doctors would be hanging around in the hospitals parking area just to great this one patient and neither would they be hanging around the hospitals main entrance due to the fact that they would be bust saving lives and performing operations on people and yet both of these things are things that happen in the episode and it just doesn't make sense both from a storytelling perspective and a character perspective but in saying this tho this episode is meant to be alot more goofy and fun and therefor the episode can get away with having the characters doing these things that they wouldn't normally do as it doesn't play that big of a role in the series overall arc with characters like J.D. and Turk for example not only getting more musical numbers but also more screen time when compared to characters like The Janitor for example who only gets to appear in other people's songs and has exactly zero lines of spoken dialog all throughout the episode this is despite the fact that he is consistently the funniest character in the show and yet in this episode they just have him appear in songs which yes does lead to some funny lines from him but they also feel like a huge disservice to his character.

Speaking of the episodes songs they were all written by Jeff Marx , Robert Lopez , this episodes writer Debra Fordham , Paul Perry and Doug Besterman. With all of the episodes songs being some really good corny songs that you could imagine being songs used in a broadway show with one of the things that helped to make this episodes songs be all the good being the fact that they got the guys who wrote the songs for Avenue Q to help write the songs for this episode which was something that they didn't have to do as the makers of this episode could have just written the songs themselves and called it a day but it's the fact that they went that extra mile which does show you that they put alot more thought and effort into the episodes songs then what was really necessary to do so and yet by doing so they give all of the episodes almost a broadway type of feel to them with songs like "Guy Love" and "When The Truth Comes Out" even being inspired by musicals as whole with "Guy Love" being inspired by huge bombastic love songs like the songs in "Jekyll & Hyde" and "When The Truth Comes Out" being inspired by both "Do You Hear the People Sing?" and "One Day More" both from Les Misérables with it even being hard to say just what the best song in the episode is as the song does have something for everyone as if you want a more dramatic song then there's "Friends Forever/What's Going to Happen" or if you want something that's more tongue in cheek and really lighthearted then there's "The Rant Song" with all of this films songs being oddly really well sung which for alot of this episodes was something that was really unexpected as while alot of us knew that Sam Lloyd was a good singer nobody knew that Zach Braff was a good singer and he kills it in this episode as he is a shockingly good singer.

What was something that was quite shocking to notice was the fact that the episode does commit to the idea of it only being when the characters are around this one patient that they start singing. As whenever this patient is nowhere to be seen there just talking as they normally would do and yet whenever she enters the frame even if it's just for a few seconds they start to sing which is a really subtle detail to include and yet it's one that is quite easy to miss alot of the time due to us the audience being so wrapped in the rest of the episode and yet it's something that does make this episode stand out from other musical themed episodes as while other shows that did musical episodes like Buffy and Xena for example can get away with having there characters singing and dancing for no reason as they could always blame it on the villain of the weak and it would work just as fine Scrubs isn't that kind of a show and therefor they have to do something that no other show would do when there tackling a musical episode that being to work out why the characters are singing in scenes when they would normally be talking and they do that in a great way just by having Patti Miller appear in the scene sometimes as a key person in the scene like she is in "The Rant Song" or sometimes it just as someone that's in the background like in "Gonna Miss You, Carla" yet that is such a commitment to the episode as it shows that the makers of this episode aren't treating there audience like there dumb and are instead treating them like there smart as the audience would pick up on the fact that the character that's meant to be seeing and hearing the characters singing isn't there and while yes there is one scene that does kind of go against that as they do a reprise on "Gonna Miss You, Carla" during the "When The Truth Comes Out" song but even then you could argue that the character was just outside the store room anyway and it would therefor still count.

If there's one thing that this show is known for it's for having these big dramatic moments come out of nowhere. With it being revealed in the ending of act 1 that the reason that Pattie can hear singing in her head is due to the fact that she has a gigantic aneurysm in her temporal lobe something which could cause her to die at any minuet with all of this being revealed during a song that could be considered a cheery song and yet it's that kind of emotional gut punch that the show is famous for with it being something that does work really well with the both the context of the episode and the song that it appears in as "When The Truth Comes Out" is all about certain characters trying to find a way to tell the truth about certain things to other characters with it being in that song where we find out just how serious that Patti's illness is and while yes granted the episode could have been better by having that emotional gut punch be done better as the episode is alot of focused on the characters personal lives then in giving us a truly emotional moment as when this show gives us a truly emotional moment it is something that does work really well as that's when the show truly puts in alot of thought and effort into it's emotional moments and yet here in this episode it felt like that the emotional moment in this episode wasn't given the grandeur that it needed as this is something that should have had the audience in floods of tears and yet it's not something works all that well with that also being because of the fact that the episode doesn't spend much of it's second act focusing on thar plot with it spending more time of the doctors own personal lives.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly twenty three minuets and forty two seconds. Which is pretty much the exact grand total running time for the rest of this show and it's episodes as well with this episode having more then enough plot there to really cover that amount of running time in the first place and yet this episode doesn't use it's running time all that wisely as the episode doesn't take the time to fully develop it's plot which is kind of understandable given the number of songs that the episode does gave to fit in and still tell a good plot and while it could be argued that the episodes songs are used to develop the episodes which is something that would be a fair point to make as alot of the episodes plot is advanced through the songs there's nothing in the episodes songs that develop the episodes plot with the same thing also being true for the episodes as while the show is usually really good with giving it's characters character development alot of the time it happens over the course of several episodes which is why the characters aren't given much in the way of character development which is fine for the shows main characters due to the fact that they've had several episodes and seasons to get there character development but for the episodes guest characters it's not a good thing as they really should have gotten some character development heck we don't even find out Patti's first name in the episode with that being mentioned in the episodes credits an yet as the episode is alot more focused on giving us a song every few minuets which is fine for a feature film but not not a show that's just over twenty three minuets they leave us with guest characters that aren't that memorable or well developed for that matter but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to to tho.

So now then as this is a comedy that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual comedy that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. With alot of the episodes comedy coming across in there songs as opposed to the shows more usual way of doing it's comedy as there are no dream sequences in this episode and The Janitor doesn't tell a wacky and funny story both of which are stables of the show and are usually great sources of comedy something would have been perfectly in keeping with the rest of this episodes more wacky and out there tone but it is also something that would have clashed with the episodes songs as well therefor having the more comedic moments happen in the episodes songs is something that does make alot of sense with the best joke in the whole entire episode being the song "Guy Love" as it's two guy best friends singing a love ballad about how much that they love each other which these days wouldn't be seen as being funny but back in 2006 it is something that would be considered a really funny joke and heck it's even a running joke in the show that the two of them act more like a married couple an actually married couples do with the rest of the episodes songs being filled to the brim with other funny moments with the best example of this being "The Rant Song" where Dr. Co goes on one his usual funny rants only now it's in a song done in the style of Gilbert and Sullivan which is a really good idea and it's one that works for this episode with this episode having alot of really funny jokes in it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall this episode is just so good and while it's not as good as other more well known episodes of this show are this episode still does a really good job of balancing the episodes humor with these more dramatic moments and here hoping that the new season of the show manages to do the exact same thing as that is how you make Scrubs be as good as it could possibly be in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly an 8 out of 10 from me.

Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and a well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from Amazon . Co . Uk , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them really being really better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images really are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.