An Episode that Made Me Miss the WGA Strike

While Scrubs has a tendency to be uneven in quality--particularly over the last two seasons, I honestly never thought I'd say I saw an episode I didn't like. A few I was disappointed with, a few I was "meh" about. But flat-out bad? Nahhh, not those guys.

Boy, was I wrong. Just finished "My Princess," the 7th season finale/NBC finale. Wow. Wow. Wow. Was that a stinker! If you haven't seen it yet, watch it up until the first joke about The Todd (00:45 on my timer) and then stop it--delete it from your DVR, close your hulu.com window, etc. Because that's the end of the comedy on that one.

The supposed 'homage' to The Princess Bride contained one real reference to the movie other than most of the story being framed as a bedtime story Dr. Cox was telling Jack. Other than that, it was more of a fairy tale homage. Oh, and a totally pointless one, too.

NBC, for reasons unknown (conspiracy theories about NBC trying to kill audience good will for the show before it's move to ABC abound), aired this out of sequence--so Kelso shows up as Chief of Medicine very early on, which made me (and, from what I read online, several others) think I was watching a re-run instead of a new episode. The time references to JD and Elliot's most recent 'bout of almost getting back together were also out of sequence and contradictory.

In short, this thing was a giant mess. I'm now more than ever looking forward to the ABC episodes, because this show shouldn't go out this way, it deserves so much more.

It was a fairly funny The Todd joke, tho.