Might not want to watch the sixth episode of the new season...

Per the Ausiello Report on TVGuide.com -

Scoop! Scrubs Stages a Musical!
Call it music therapy: For its upcoming sixth season, Scrubs is staging a full-blown musical episode. And get this: The powers-that-be have hired the brilliantly warped minds behind Broadway's Avenue Q to help them do it. Series creator Bill Lawrence got on the phone with me yesterday to preview the big event.

Ausiello: How'd this come about?
Bill Lawrence: We always wanted to do a musical on the show, because you see how we use music and dance and stuff already. We're a bunch of musical-theater nerds, and we all loved not only Team America: World Police and South Park, but especially what those guys did with Avenue Q, which was kind of a traditional Broadway musical that was really funny and edgy. We can obviously help with lyrics, but we needed somebody not only to write, like, incredibly well-produced, musical-quality numbers, but also [to make them] funny. And if you saw Avenue Q, their songs will fit in with us.

Ausiello: How does the cast feel about this?
Lawrence: The only one who's mad is Sarah Chalke, because aside from Sarah and my wife, Christa, everybody on the show can sing and dance, and have all done musicals in the past and stuff. Zach Braff is obviously a theater nerd. The surprising ones are that John C. McGinley and Neil Flynn can carry a tune. They're both good at this stuff, too. And Ken Jenkins [I actually saw] on Broadway when I was a kid.

Ausiello: Let's go back to Sarah. Why is she mad?
Lawrence: We told her she's not allowed to sing, and she's annoying us every day and saying we could do something funny in which she could sing badly and that would be the joke. I'm like, "Sarah, we'll see." I don't think she's going to be opening her mouth much.

Ausiello: You're not going to let her sing?
Lawrence: We'll find a way for her to do it. I can't leave her on the sidelines; she's too much of a gamer.

Ausiello: What can you tell me about the plot?
Lawrence: We found an actual medical case of a woman who had an aneurism and [started] seeing everything as a musical. In her head, anytime someone spoke to her, they were singing.

Ausiello: What episode is it?
Lawrence: It's the sixth episode. We start [shooting] in a month or so. They'll be rehearsals and recordings. It'll be a big pain in the ass that nobody but my family will watch.

I'm gonna preface this by saying I know I'm going to get flamed for saying this, but here goes...

After watching the first two seasons of Scrubs on DVD and watching the other seasons in real-time, I feel comfortable saying that the show has lost a step or two. When I watched Garden State I wasn't that impressed. I simply thought his character was just JD on lithium. His new movie, "The Last Kiss", simply looks like the same storyline in Scrubs as when he got Elliott and realized he didn't want her anymore...

Over the past seasons I've thought that JD has become as annoying and needy and clingy as Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City...and this is not a good thing. If his movie career pulls him away makes him less like SJP on that show, so be it.

If this is the end of Scrubs, it's been a fun run and I'll wish him luck in his future. As for now, though, his current body of work outside of Scrubs has not impressed me much.

If you the fan base of certain t.v. charcaters want them back DO NOT SUPPORT their movies! When their movie careers bomb they will be back on t.v.

You know, Scrubs has one of the most musically talented casts I've ever seen. I loved the Buffy musical episode and most of them couldn't sing for shit.

Scrubs writers+musical talent = gold. Can't wait!

Don't eat me, but character of JD annoys me a little, too, and mostly I am tired of his romantic stories with diff. girls. He has no chemistry with either of them, including very hot ones, yet writers keep showing me story after story of his romantic requests. ZB is good actor and I am not saying I want him off the show, but a little less JD would be a good thing for me and I most definitely would watch a show without him. On my list of reasons to watch Scrubs he's after ... well, basically everyone else.
Sadly I don't think creators would continue the show without him. Just like there wouldn't be SATC without Carrie, even though I sooo wished that some car would overrun her.

How can you be a cool new member...now come on... eat her !

His comments at the end of this interview make it seem like the demise of "Scrubs" has less to do with his own decisions, and more to do with studio politics...


Interview: Zach Braff
"The Last Kiss"
Posted: Thursday, August 24th 2006 1:01AM
Author: Paul Fischer
Location: Los Angeles, CA



31-year old Zach Braff is playing another dazed and confused character in The Last Kiss, but doesn't see him as the flip side of his even more confused character he played in Garden State. "I think he's different because he's got everything going for him," says Braff in a Los Angeles hotel room. "Andrew Largent [in Garden Stare] was pretty lost, depressed and medicated while this guy is in love, having a baby and has great friends. Then he gets this fear that this might be the last girl he kisses and I was attracted to it because it took a realistic look at it." Braff laughs slightly when the very single Braff can relate to this character's fears. "When you are 30 and buying baby carriages for your friends every other month, you can't help starting to examine your own desire to get married and have kids."

In this film, Braff has an affair with a much younger college student at a point where his deepest fears bear fruit in his mind, and playing a character with questionable morals, was a challenge for the actor. "You can't empathize with him and that's what drew me to it. I'm sick of protagonists in movies only having bad things happen to them due to negative outside forces and that's bullshit. We are all human, we do stupid things and we wake up the next day and wonder why we did them., so I was attracted to a protagonist whose own demise is caused by himself. I think the big revelation in the movie is him taking responsibility for his own actions, even at the cost of possibly losing the love of his life forever."

One wonders whether those same temptations exist for him every day, as his fame and celebrity increase. "They aren't believe it or not," Braff responds. "I don't really go to those places, I work so much and when I go out with my friends I am with my friends. I'm never really surrounded by girls who might sleep with me just because I'm famous. Even when you meet them you don't want to be with the girls who want to sleep with you just because you are famous, at least I don't." Braff says that being a celebrity has its downside. "The gossip is something you get used to. After the Jessica Simpson rumors they sent people to my parent's house and to my relative's stores. They found my brother's cell phone numbers and they stalked him, all because I sat next to Jessica Simpson, who I've met a couple times and spoke to her at a bar in the Hamptons, so they sent 10 people out to families' homes and that sucks."

As for Braff's own future with kids, the actor says he wants a family but is no hurry. "I'm single and not ready, but I don't know why. I think I'll know when I know but I'm not in a huge rush. I want to have kids and I believe in marriage. I wrote that line in the movie where I say I will marry her when she can name 3 couples who have lasted more than 3 years and all she could come up with were the ducks in the duck pond. It's hard for our generation to find success stories from older people because so few first marriages work out. Some people get it the second time and I do want to get married one day though." Braff fondly remembers his own first kiss. "It was a girl at theater camp when I was 13. We were on a bench and she was the aggressor. That is such a momentous occasion in someone's life when another person first slides their tongue in your mouth," Braff recalls, laughingly.

The actor's career is going faster than his love life, as he finally prepares to direct his much anticipated second feature admitting that there is pressure for the next film. "There is always pressure, but I'm going to do something that isn't anything like Garden State. So many people seemed to feel the movie spoke to them directly and that surprised me, but people have to know that I can't do that every time and make a pivotal life movie every time The next thing I will do will be completely different, Open Hearts, which is a Danish movie that I adapted. It's a really dark drama about a car accident and the way the accident affects all the people involved in it. I was going to do it this summer, but since I couldn't get my top people I'm waiting until next summer." As for the future of the T V show that kickstarted his career, Scrubs, ": I think this is the last year. Touchstone and NBC still hate each other and that doesn't bode well for a show that they both do."

If that's the case, what about ABC picking up the show?

I think that's what ABC wanted this past year. It seems apparent that NBC will pick the show up and use it as a midseason replacement instead of letting it escape to ABC. That apparently doesn't work for the Scrubs people.

My guess is that this is partly about the way NBC has treated the show (which I personally don't mind because I love the compact season) and partly about it being around the right time to put the show to bed.

Never seen Scrubs but... it's gotta suck to be on a show that has never lived up to its potential ratings wise. I know that fans love it, but seriously, if you're Braff, maybe you realize that the future isn't with this show. And while I certainly didn't spend an hour reading every post, sure there's Shelly Long, David Caruso, and lots of others, but how about Tom Hanks, Jim Carrey, and George Clooney?

I tend to agree, yet this past season they actually had a character he was actually great with done by none other than Mandy Moore. They had great chemistry and she fit in perfect on the show. Too bad they wasted her character by basically writing her out to where she won't be back.

Exactly. To them it is just a filler show to keep it away from the competitor which is bullshit. It could have easily been/anchored Thursday night "must-see" if they had gotten behind it from the beginning. Especially when you change nights and times and even start times almost every year.

Zach Braff was just on the Today Show on NBC and he said that there isn't any truth to the word going around that this is his last season of Scrubs. He said that it will be around for a long time, as long as they let it stay on the air, and he'll stick around for it.

Best news I've heard in a while. Good to hear.

wait, that can't be possible.. it said so on the internet!!

The tubes lied!!!