TV Sportlight #5 - SCRUBS

Comedy is often lacking in TV shows these days, due to the nature and importance of the events, but after 8 seasons, one show still manages to get some laughs out of sheer brilliance of the humor, or straight up goofy and ridiculous actions, and that show is Scrubs. This latest season is a bigger deviation from the others, as it has some of the original cast members teaching newly inducted medical students in a university instead of a doctor sitcom in the hospital, but still has plenty of entertainment.

This half-hour comedy focuses on the bizarre experiences of fresh-faced medical intern John "J.D." Dorian (Zach Braff) as he embarks on his healing career in a surreal hospital crammed full of unpredictable staffers and patients – where humor and tragedy can merge paths at any time. Joining the… More rumpled J.D. in his exhilarating brave new world are his college buddy, Chris Turk (Donald Faison, " Clueless "), an intern with a more elite surgical group, and J.D.'s fellow medical intern, the beautiful and driven Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke, " Roseanne "). Keeping the new interns on their toes are: The fatherly chief of medicine, Dr. Bob Kelso (Ken Jenkins); the abrasive, worldly Dr. Perry Cox (John McGinley), and the caring but slightly jaded nurse Carla Espinosa (Judy Reyes). The hospital janitor (Neil Flynn) also never seems to miss an opportunity to harass his target. Scrubs is filmed in a real-life hospital. It's the North Hollywood Medical Center, which has gone under severe reconstruction to fit all the equipment and represent Sacred Heart Hospital.