Season Finale Season: Scrubs
Scrubs season five came to an end Tuesday night with the last two episodes of the season. As a finale, the shows were good, but nothing that stood above or beyond the other episodes that had been airing since January. This sounds like a slam on the season, but it’s actually a positive. Season five of Scrubs was incredibly solid. There were few episodes (if any) that ever had me laugh as hard as I would laugh at, say, an Arrested Development or as hard as I would have laughed at Andy Richter Controls the Universe (a show that I will always compare to Scrubs because both came out in 2001 and both got a majority of their humor from crazy dream sequences. Though as I’ve said in the past, Andy Richter… was exponentially funnier because the characters never had to learn a lessson, unlike on Scrubs), but what the series does succeed at, and especially this past season, was keeping the level of funny consistent episode to episode. They may never have had you wet your pants, but you knew you were going to walk away in a positive state of mind– it also didn’t hurt that the wackiness this season was amped up a bit (my favorite running gag being JD’s purchase of a quarter-acre and building a porch on it. No house. Just a porch).
And not to be outdone, they threw in a juicy little cliffhanger for us to hold onto until next January (Scrubs runs nonstop over the latter half of the year, a trend we’ll be seeing much more of in ‘06-’07). It’s a damn good thing they got the green-light for a season six.
Tags: NBC, Scrubs, Season Finale
