WTF happened with the Scrubs “series” finale?
Jed | May 10, 2008
So I’m a huge fan of Scrubs. I haven’t missed an episode since it first aired in 2001. Last year when Zach Braff announced he wouldn’t be doing Scrubs anymore, I was pretty bummed, but then he changed his mind and agreed to a 7th season. So I’ve been watching and enjoying this season like a good little fanboy. Then suddenly 2 weeks ago NBC announced the “series finale” would be this past Thursday. I couldn’t believe it - I had to watch it twice to make sure they really had said series finale. It was also weird because aside from that one mention at the end of last week’s episode, I didn’t see any other ads about it.
Anyway, I sat down to watch the series finale this week and quickly became extremely confused. The episode was completely out of order with the current story line. In addition, it was a lame alternate-reality plot that made no sense. If this was the way they were going to go out, I was going to be really pissed. Something wasn’t right.
Luckily a little Googling shed more light on the situation. Apparently there’s been a little fight going on between NBC (who airs Scrubs) and ABC (who produces the show). The outcome is that Scrubs is moving to ABC and the rest of the current season’s plot will resume when the show restarts on ABC next season. People are calling it the “worst kept secret in Hollywood”. Well this was the first I’d heard of it.
It seems NBC has decided to act less than gracefully about the loss of Scrubs. They didn’t make any mention of the switch and chose to run an old episode that had never previously been aired (probably for good reason - it sucked). And even though they claimed they would only call it the “season finale”, they ended up calling it the “series finale” since it is technically the end of the series on NBC. That’s bound to confuse people. Hopefully most of the fans will hear about the show in its new home on ABC.
So long story short, Scrubs isn’t over, it’s just moving to a new network. And if you haven’t watched the NBC “series finale”, don’t bother.
To tide you over until Scrubs returns, check out these two classic clips:
Guy Love:
Everything comes down to poo:
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