Spyke
oppy1984reply
lemdro.id

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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oppy1984reply
lemdro.id

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

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A show can have a fine cast and still not be good. I just personally didn't like that season, it's fine if others did, I just wanted to break out some Dr. Cox.

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Aniviareply
feddit.org

Scrapping Ted would be the best decision they could make

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Hard disagree, but it's a moot point now, the actor died a few years ago.

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anomnomreply
sh.itjust.works

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

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tomenzggreply
midwest.social

(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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anomnomreply
sh.itjust.works

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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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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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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lemmy.world

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

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lemmy.world

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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lemmy.world

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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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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Lyra_Lycanreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

I feel the same about companies like Anker's audio branch Soundcore using Kickstarter to prefund/advertise their new tech - safe to say their 'projects' are funded about 20,000%

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boonhetreply
sopuli.xyz

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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Hadn’t checked out the Apple shows yet but also didn’t know they were Bill Lawrence; that bumps them up the list some

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Carla has a scheduling conflict with another show, but I think they were trying to work something out.

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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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Sometimes the cash in works, Top Gun for example, and that is why they keep trying, ignoring all the times it doesn't work.

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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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fedia.io

Are they actually rebooting Scrubs again?

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PodPersonreply
lemmy.zip

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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No, that's season 9, also called the med school spin-off.

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Season 7 was during a writer's strike. Had fewer episodes in it.

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sopuli.xyz

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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Hasherm0nreply
lemmy.world

"where do you think we are?"

Probably one of my all time favorites moments in television.

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lemmy.radio

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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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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yeah. beyond that, Fortnite ripped off the dance and denied Turk any royalties on it. I think the courts said something like "you can't copyright a few dance moves!"

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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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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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Now the question is when you’re going to introduce them to 30 Rock. Are they ready for that level of jokes-per-minute? What about Community?

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0x0reply

Shameless (original version).
And Black adder, Allô Allô, House MD... c'mon, put some effort into it.

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MTK
lemmy.world

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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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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BussyCatreply
lemmy.world

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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I mean born into the mid-90s. I was a child - early teenager when this aired.

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zaphodreply
sopuli.xyz

Nah, it's all fakenews, nobody was born after 1999.

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BoredGamerreply
lemmy.world

Never seen it but now you've peaked my curiosity! I grew up on scrubs so I don't really have much of a reference point for other shows. Although I've heard "The Pitt" is good.

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lemmy.world

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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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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lemmy.world

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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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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Gal
lemmy.world

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

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Galreply
lemmy.world

Saw it on GoG and decided to give it a try. Shrimple as

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I assume it left a good impression if you're using SHODAN as an avatar, and that warms my heart.

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Yep, a built in marketing base of old farts telling young uns how good it is before it even exists.

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lemmy.world

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

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Brooklyn 99 is very recent though, isn't it? Is it still on the air?

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feddit.cl

The first couple seasons were nice (Why old people assume we, gen z won't know about shows, like now they gonna assume don't have ever watched Dr House????)

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It’s not an assumption. Lots of kids your age don’t know about our stuff and that’s fine! The same was true when we were kids.

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slrpnk.net

A large number of gen x and millennials seems to have grown up to have a "this is how the adults acted when I was a kid, so its only fair for me to shit on kids now", and its disgusting.

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S0ckreply
lemmy.world

When people don't know any better, we're all very much "monkey see monkey do".

A lot of us grew up with examples of the kinds of parents we don't want to be, not many of us grew up with good examples of the kind of parenting we would like to provide.

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…gen x were abandoned in playgrounds just for predators to take. And two generations before that parents were selling their kids to pay rent.

Which followed with generations of helicopter parents. So they tried something different.

I’ve seen kids grow up without being told they’re loved and then turn around and tell their own kids they are loved every day.

Ppl figure it out by experimenting.

Point is: if you’re trying, That is the best you can do. There is no manual.

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Yeah, I'm also a millenial who had shitty parents. There's too many of us who will gladly complain about our parents/teachers/coaches, but then get all pissy when you point out they're treating gen z like the boomers treated us.

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lemmy.world

I know what it is because my mom used to watch it. I thought it looked stupid. She also watched Reno 911 which looked way funnier.

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They didn't hate the janitor. The janitor hated the doctors, until JD managed to befriend him and find out why he hated the doctors.

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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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You're just jealous that we got a cooler name than your generation.

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I'm with the girl on this one. I barely remember that show. I hate shows like that. I didn't like St elsewhere. When it was on I was always elsewhere.

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chetradleyreply
lemmy.world

I got a different impression from Scrubs. To me it was a show mostly about doctors, and whenever it did talk about the healthcare industry, it was largely critical. It's been a while since I've seen it, but I remember they would frequently criticize the bullshit and red tape in the healthcare industry. I think there's even an episode in the first season where they commit insurance fraud to save a poor patient.

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Yeah, all that is true. I have no idea what the person you replied to is trying to say about it. It’s not even a little bit ambiguous with Scrubs.

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Yeah doctors largely want to help people... Scrubs did a great job of portraying the human side of doctors and how they get squeezed in the middle of wanting to provide the best care and the healthcare industry's desire to profit at all costs.

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Fair Fairyreply
thelemmy.club

I have a family working in health care, and they will bury you for money.

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That says a definitive bad thing about your family, and suggests bad things about some healthcare workers.

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lemmy.world

I think the insurance fraud episode is way later as the hospital director is played by Monica from friends. But maybe they did that twice and I just forgot?

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lemmy.zip

IIRC it was very early on - JD noticed a surgery scheduled for an empty bed and corrected it. Proud of himself he let Kelso know, only to find out later that Cox did it on purpose.

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lemmy.world

Oh I'm thinking of the woman who didn't have insurance but her dad did, so he pretended to have the same disease so he could hand her the medication she needed.

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This Moment when you first think about programming, because of scrub (or was it Scrum, idk I have no idea what this is, since I have never used it) and get confused as hell.

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Scrum is a way of working on projects as a team with a defined set of meetings and procedures. All companies I've worked at so far were claiming they use it but none of them actually did.

Scrubs on the other hand was THE Sitcom while I was a teenager. One of my best friends was annoying everyone with citing stuff from it all the fucking time.

But they already tried to extend it with "Scrubs meets school" and the reception was horrible so I'm a bit confused that they want to give it another try...

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Scrubs just isn't that good. It was ok to have onas background TV while getting baked, but its not the sort of thing you'd rewatch because you loved it so much the first time round. I totally understand why gen z hasn't heard of it.

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lemmy.world

Strongly disagree. Scrubs is one of my two favorite shows. It’s a brilliant example of dramedy. Showrunner Bill Lawrence is a master of the genre.

But obviously this is a matter of opinion.

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lemmy.world

I get a similar feeling from the office (both versions). Just a feeling of contempt for all the characters and disinterest towards the plot.

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I can understand disliking The Office much more readily than I can disliking Scrubs.

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