Speaker 1: Yeah, Donald, Donald, if you're not recording, I am going
Speaker 1: to squeeze your balls. Well I've been recording since for
Speaker 1: like three minutes in seventeen seconds, so there will be
Speaker 1: no ball squeeze. Here we go, sorry, hello, get to me.
Speaker 1: Hello everyone? Three? Wait three two. Here's some stories about show.
Speaker 1: We made about a bunch of stories. So yead around here,
Speaker 1: yeado around here. Hello everyone. My name is Zach Braff. Hi,
Speaker 1: I'm Donald Fason, and I can't believe it, but guess what, guys,
Speaker 1: We're gonna do a Scrubs rewatch podcast. Yeah, that's exactly
Speaker 1: what we're doing. Dude, your voice change completely all of
Speaker 1: a sudden. We were all talking normal, you know, my
Speaker 1: podcast started be like, hey everyone, it is I. I
Speaker 1: got nervous and I I felt like I should sound
Speaker 1: like a radio broadcaster. But no, okay, I'm back to me.
Speaker 1: There we go. This is pretty exciting. I'm i gotta
Speaker 1: tell you, I'm very excited that we've been talking about
Speaker 1: this for a long time. We've been trying to figure
Speaker 1: it out. I've been teasing social media, as have you been.
Speaker 1: You've been You've been teasing social media a little bit
Speaker 1: more than I have but I know because I wanted
Speaker 1: to get people titilated. Donald, I wanted to titillate the masses. Well,
Speaker 1: let's thank iHeartRadio first of all for putting this helping us.
Speaker 1: We had to figure out who to do it, and
Speaker 1: we found a perfect partner with iHeart, and we want
Speaker 1: to thank them. And also we want to thank the
Speaker 1: fans across the universe, because I just think it's would
Speaker 1: be crazy for us not to start with saying we
Speaker 1: wouldn't be doing this if it weren't for the just
Speaker 1: incredibly loyal, amazing fan base we have around the earth. Right, Donald,
Speaker 1: thank you very much all of you who watched the
Speaker 1: show and who are listening to this podcast right now. Wow,
Speaker 1: we appreciate you so much. Thank you so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: thank you. I mean, this has been so many years
Speaker 1: of love for this show. And you know it's funny.
Speaker 1: I'm sure Donald, you have this experience too, where people
Speaker 1: come up through the street like I'm sure this is
Speaker 1: so annoying, but I just want to say I love
Speaker 1: the show, and I'm like, I'm always like, it's not annoying.
Speaker 1: Are you kidding me? That's like the best comment you
Speaker 1: can give us. So well, it's annoying when you're eating food. Yeah,
Speaker 1: maybe eating food and somebody comes up to you and
Speaker 1: they're like, sorry to bother you. You You know, at first,
Speaker 1: why are you saying sorry to bother you? You're not
Speaker 1: sorry to bother me. You're meant to bother me at
Speaker 1: that moment, you know what I mean. Yeah, Well, just guys,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna see Donald in public, don't do it
Speaker 1: while he's eating. Maybe just with my kids. I don't
Speaker 1: play that. Oh yeah, all right, we'll just wait outside
Speaker 1: the restaurant for him in a dark in a dark alley.
Speaker 1: That's how I prefer people to approach me, in a
Speaker 1: dark galley. I also, my only request is not at
Speaker 1: the not online, at the pharmacy because I'm usually sick
Speaker 1: and I don't want to UM. I once had a
Speaker 1: guy asked me to sign his his box of condoms
Speaker 1: at a pharmacy, and uh I just who No. I
Speaker 1: was like, dude, this is weird. I don't want to
Speaker 1: sign Anyway. We've already digressed. We love our fans and
Speaker 1: we're so glad you're listening. So the rough plan is
Speaker 1: that we're just gonna talk through episodes of Scrubs we're
Speaker 1: gonna start with with season one. Obviously. Today we're gonna
Speaker 1: talk about the pilot and we're going to just kind
Speaker 1: of tell stories and go through it scene by scene
Speaker 1: and just kind of tell anecdotes and stuff, and then
Speaker 1: eventually want to have guests on. We're gonna today we're
Speaker 1: gonna take a very first fan question, which is thrilling.
Speaker 1: Joel figured out how to do that. She's amazing. We're
Speaker 1: really excited about this. We should start. Do you remember
Speaker 1: the name of the pilot what the first episode was? No? Wait,
Speaker 1: I just want to tell them one more thing. So
Speaker 1: we were going to do this in person, but then,
Speaker 1: of course, because of this COVID insanity, the good people
Speaker 1: of iHeart have figured out a way for dollin us
Speaker 1: do it remotely. So we're he's we're looking at each
Speaker 1: other over zoom, and he's in his closet, which is
Speaker 1: frigging hilarious because I guess that's the only place you
Speaker 1: can hide from your kids. Yeah, well, yeah, they're downstairs.
Speaker 1: We put on Captain underpants so they'll be quiet for
Speaker 1: a bit. But if you hear someone yelling or screaming,
Speaker 1: it's probably gonna be my son. Rocco or my daughter Wilder.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a picture of this to post on
Speaker 1: the interwebs because it's very adorable. Right, well, let me
Speaker 1: get my let me get a fresh post. Then, oh
Speaker 1: my god, you're so cute. All right. So Donald has
Speaker 1: children and m and a wife and everyone's in quarantine.
Speaker 1: So he's in his closet recording and we're looking at
Speaker 1: each other. So so we're gonna do it like this, um,
Speaker 1: and for the foreseeable future, every week we'll be coming
Speaker 1: to you talking about the next episode of the show,
Speaker 1: and we'll hope that you'll watch it along with us,
Speaker 1: because that's kind of the idea if you if you
Speaker 1: watched that episode, and then um, we'll shoot the shit
Speaker 1: about that episode. I just watched it. I got very nostalgiic.
Speaker 1: Did you did you feel nostalgia? Well, yeah, just how
Speaker 1: young we were. First of all, we were so young,
Speaker 1: so young. I didn't remember how young I was. I
Speaker 1: was twenty six at the time and I'm forty five
Speaker 1: turning forty six this year, and it was that was
Speaker 1: twenty years ago. So you know, watching the pilot for
Speaker 1: the first time, I'm really felt like it was brand new.
Speaker 1: Like I remembered some things, but other things I was like,
Speaker 1: I don't remember any of this. You know. I remember
Speaker 1: certain poses that John c McGinley made, like when he
Speaker 1: put his hand on the back of his head and
Speaker 1: stuff like that. I remember being like, Wow, that's interesting
Speaker 1: that he chose to do that right now, And as
Speaker 1: the show goes on, it became his doctor Cox stuff.
Speaker 1: But while we while watching it for the first time,
Speaker 1: I was like, Oh my god, this is where it
Speaker 1: all originated. This is where this is where this came from.
Speaker 1: There were so many moments I had while watching it
Speaker 1: too where I was like thinking, first of all, we
Speaker 1: can't start off even even five minutes of this without
Speaker 1: talking about Bill Lawrence, who is the creator of the
Speaker 1: show and the reason we're all here talking. And I
Speaker 1: was just amazed watching it how how much Bill got
Speaker 1: it it's like twenty three minutes long, and how much
Speaker 1: he was able how much storytelling and character introduction. The
Speaker 1: pilots are always hard because you know, you have the
Speaker 1: showrunner creator has such a hard job to introduce so
Speaker 1: many characters and do it in twenty three minutes. And
Speaker 1: it's just amazing how much how many characters are introduced,
Speaker 1: how many storylines and like love interests are introduced, How
Speaker 1: much is packed into one episode? Yeah, that's some of those.
Speaker 1: I have questions for you, as a matter of fact,
Speaker 1: just on you know, how the whole pilot came together
Speaker 1: and everything. Well wait, let's start with let's sorry I
Speaker 1: didn't interrupt you, but let's start with I feel like
Speaker 1: we should tell our stories about auditioning, because that's well, yeah,
Speaker 1: that was my first question for you. So when we
Speaker 1: first started the pilot, I had already done quite a
Speaker 1: few things, Like I was in clueless. I had done
Speaker 1: remember the Titans already waiting to exhale. I was guest
Speaker 1: starring on Felicity at the time, and this was a
Speaker 1: pilot that came up for me, and I was like, yeah, sure,
Speaker 1: I'll go out for it. I'd love to go out
Speaker 1: for it. Anybody wants to be on a show. And
Speaker 1: it wasn't until after I auditioned for it and got
Speaker 1: it that everybody was like, oh my. I remember all
Speaker 1: of my agents being like, this is like the number
Speaker 1: one pilot of this season. Everyone wanted to be a
Speaker 1: part of this, and you booked it, and I remember
Speaker 1: being like, holy cow. I was just looking at it
Speaker 1: as let me get another job. I got kids to feed.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. You were completely different. You
Speaker 1: were like I mean, I know you had been in
Speaker 1: some things and stuff like that, but you hadn't even
Speaker 1: really popped yet. Yeah. I'd done little things, you know.
Speaker 1: I've been in an indie. I was in an indie,
Speaker 1: A couple of indies, one called The Broken Hearts Club
Speaker 1: that went to Sundance, but I was still waiting tables.
Speaker 1: I directed that, by the way, a now superstar famous
Speaker 1: person named Greg Berlani. It was his very first film,
Speaker 1: and he gave me one of my first early big
Speaker 1: breaks being in that movie. And I was a waiter
Speaker 1: at a French Vietnamese restaurant in Beverly Hills combination and
Speaker 1: people who you know, if you saw Garden State in
Speaker 1: my film, I'm kind of spoofing that in the beginning
Speaker 1: when I'm working with a tunic on and waiting on
Speaker 1: horrible people. But anyway, I was waiting there and people
Speaker 1: would come from having Broken Hearts Club was in the theater,
Speaker 1: and people would come from the theater and they'd say
Speaker 1: for dessert to the restaurant, and they'd be like, we
Speaker 1: just saw your movie and I'd be like, oh cool,
Speaker 1: thank you, thank you for going. And they'd be like
Speaker 1: you were you were great, and I go, oh, thank you,
Speaker 1: thank you so much. Let me tell you about our specials.
Speaker 1: And it was like, only in Hollywood can you go
Speaker 1: see a movie and then have the star of the
Speaker 1: movie wait on you for dessert. How did you feel
Speaker 1: about that? Were you ever embarrassed by it? It was
Speaker 1: so embarrassed. I remember I would go to like a
Speaker 1: general meeting in Hollywood of these things called general meetings
Speaker 1: where you kind of go and like you're like bragging that,
Speaker 1: oh my my career is going so well and we
Speaker 1: should really work together, and you're just kind of schmoozing.
Speaker 1: And I remember I did one of those and like
Speaker 1: it really went well, and I came out feeling so good.
Speaker 1: And then that night I looked down at one of
Speaker 1: my tables and the guy was at the table, and
Speaker 1: I didn't I had left out the part how I
Speaker 1: was still, you know, hustling and waiting tables. But so
Speaker 1: you know, I got the audition. I was waiting tables.
Speaker 1: I got the audition. Now that my story is a
Speaker 1: little funny, because I went out first for it in
Speaker 1: New York. I happened to be in New York, and
Speaker 1: I didn't prepare. It went so poorly. I hadn't read
Speaker 1: the script. You know, not every audition do you go
Speaker 1: in killing it. And I didn't do a good job.
Speaker 1: And I when I got back to La, my agent said, look,
Speaker 1: they still can't find this guy for this show. And
Speaker 1: it's really, like you said, everyone's talking about this is
Speaker 1: like one of the hot new shows of the season.
Speaker 1: You I think you could just go back in, like
Speaker 1: they won't even know, like your audition, I don't even
Speaker 1: They were like, I don't even know if your tape
Speaker 1: made it from New York, like because no one was
Speaker 1: no one, no one even responded to whatever the fuck
Speaker 1: you did. So I this time, I took it seriously.
Speaker 1: I memorized that I worked on it. I practiced a lot,
Speaker 1: and then when I went in. I remember the cash
Speaker 1: director Brett Right, I was in. He looked up at
Speaker 1: me like, oh okay, like with a smile. And then
Speaker 1: it was off to the races. And then I met
Speaker 1: Bill and I worked with Bill, and and then you know,
Speaker 1: I literally auditioned six times before I got it, and
Speaker 1: finally my final audition was for the network, and it
Speaker 1: was down between four of us, and I read with
Speaker 1: Sarah and I, you know, I had in six times.
Speaker 1: I wore the exact same outfit every single time because
Speaker 1: I was so superstitious, and I could really tell that
Speaker 1: Bill was rooting for me. He made it known to
Speaker 1: me that that he wanted me to get it. But
Speaker 1: but there were a lot of you know, people that
Speaker 1: were more famous than me that were that were I
Speaker 1: mean that we're famous, that were up for it. So
Speaker 1: I couldn't I couldn't leave. I got it. But anyway,
Speaker 1: so tell me. Tell me about your audition for So
Speaker 1: I auditioned for it. The first time I auditioned for it.
Speaker 1: I don't know who was in the room, to be
Speaker 1: honest with you. I just auditioned and they were like,
Speaker 1: they want to bring you back. And then I came
Speaker 1: back and I auditioned again, and this time Bill was there,
Speaker 1: and I remember being like, oh, okay. You know, at
Speaker 1: this point in my career, it was like I'm just
Speaker 1: going to audition for things as many times as I
Speaker 1: can until they say yes, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: or until they say no. And I remember they were like,
Speaker 1: all right, look you're gonna test for this, but they
Speaker 1: want you to go in for one more audition before that,
Speaker 1: just to run lines with Bill and work on the
Speaker 1: jokes and stuff. And I was like, yeah, absolutely. The
Speaker 1: one thing I remembered to this day he still liked this.
Speaker 1: If Bill wants the joke to work, he'll laugh. Even
Speaker 1: if it fell flat, He'll still laugh to give you
Speaker 1: the confidence of yo, dude, that's the joke. That's where
Speaker 1: the joke lands, right. Yeah. So we went into the
Speaker 1: room and we were working on it and he's laughing
Speaker 1: at everything and I'm like, oh, I'm crushing it. And
Speaker 1: then after every take he'd be like, all right, now,
Speaker 1: let's work on this beat. And I remember it was
Speaker 1: him and Danny Rose at the time. Yeah, Danny Rose
Speaker 1: is another one. At the time, he was Bill's assistant,
Speaker 1: but then then he rose up in the ranks and
Speaker 1: became a producer on the show. Right, And so we
Speaker 1: did it, and then he was like, all right, good
Speaker 1: luck tomorrow. And I was like all right, bet, And
Speaker 1: so I went on the audition and I saw a
Speaker 1: bunch of friends of mine auditioning, and Sarah was there,
Speaker 1: and you know, we were there for about an hour
Speaker 1: and a half, all of us testing in front of
Speaker 1: the network, and I remember at one point, you know,
Speaker 1: we're all sitting out there for a while and they
Speaker 1: hadn't come out in a bit, and Bill comes out.
Speaker 1: It's like, Donald, I need to talk to you real quick.
Speaker 1: And I was like, oh, well, I guess I'm the
Speaker 1: first person to go home. And he says, so, look,
Speaker 1: your audition you probably could tell already, but you kind
Speaker 1: of fucked it up. So and so you know, I
Speaker 1: want to give you another shot because the things that
Speaker 1: I've seen you do, you just didn't do that time
Speaker 1: in the room, and so if you could just bring
Speaker 1: it down a little bit. And because you agree with him,
Speaker 1: did you think did you? Did you agree with him
Speaker 1: and think like, oh shit, I was so nervous, and
Speaker 1: he's right, No, I thought I was crushing it. I
Speaker 1: was doing everything that we I thought I was doing
Speaker 1: everything that we had done in the rehearsal right. So
Speaker 1: finally I go in there and I remember toning everything
Speaker 1: down and him being like perfect and then leaving and
Speaker 1: he sent everybody home except for Sarah, myself and one
Speaker 1: other person. And that night I found out I got
Speaker 1: the job. Wow, you know, what I mean. And you know,
Speaker 1: when I went in all the audition, I expected to
Speaker 1: see the guy that he had kept. You know, it
Speaker 1: was me, Sarah and this one guy, and we were like,
Speaker 1: holy cow, I guess we got it right. And I
Speaker 1: expected to see the guy at the table read and
Speaker 1: you walked in. I was like, that's not the same dude. Wait,
Speaker 1: so I knew who you were obviously, but because I
Speaker 1: loved I had not seen anything you were in. No, No,
Speaker 1: you wouldn't. I'm sure I didn't mean to say that
Speaker 1: you had seen my two little indies. I just mean, like,
Speaker 1: I guess I don't know what my question is. I
Speaker 1: mean like you even seen a picture of me. You
Speaker 1: didn't even know anything about me. You just knew nothing
Speaker 1: about you. You knew what you knew. An unknown guy
Speaker 1: got the part at least right. I feel like I
Speaker 1: remember what you wore at a table read though, I
Speaker 1: feel like you wore corduroy brown pants. I could believe
Speaker 1: that you would remember this and a T shirt. And
Speaker 1: we met at the bar while I remember this, I
Speaker 1: remember I was writing this down in my notes. First
Speaker 1: of all, it was that Christa Miller's all and Bill's
Speaker 1: old house and Charlotte Lawrence had just been born. Charlotte
Speaker 1: Lawrence was a baby, and we walked into I remember
Speaker 1: it was a sunken living room and there was a
Speaker 1: bar in the corner and then you turned around out
Speaker 1: and we're like, gave me this big smile and they
Speaker 1: were like, yeah, buddy, like and I was like, it
Speaker 1: literally was love at first sight, right, I just felt
Speaker 1: I was so nervous. I didnt understand. I mean, I
Speaker 1: knew you were obviously, I knew John McGinley was. I
Speaker 1: had met Sarah and my audition, but like I was,
Speaker 1: you can imagine. I mean, we're all nervous no matter
Speaker 1: who you are. But I was because because also people
Speaker 1: do get fired after table reads, so you know, you're like,
Speaker 1: You're like, I mostly have it, but I really got
Speaker 1: to make sure I keep it. And uh and then
Speaker 1: I saw you and you were so warm and and
Speaker 1: I think we hugged. I think the first time, I know,
Speaker 1: we did hug Yeah, the first time we met, we hugged.
Speaker 1: Well that's that's that was the That was the crazy.
Speaker 1: The craziest thing was I remember not knowing who you
Speaker 1: were and being like, all right, they were and Bill
Speaker 1: was like let's start the table read. And I remember
Speaker 1: being nervous for myself and then you started reading, and
Speaker 1: all of a sudden, the jokes that I didn't see
Speaker 1: in the script when I read it, all of a
Speaker 1: sudden started to appear because you were knocking out, knocking
Speaker 1: it out of the park, and everybody was laughing and
Speaker 1: you know, really excited. So when it was my time
Speaker 1: to come and I was like, yeah, the energy was there,
Speaker 1: and you know what I mean, I just remember being like,
Speaker 1: holy cow, this kid is amazing, and I remember being
Speaker 1: like this could actually turn into something. This is at
Speaker 1: the table read. I remember being like this could be
Speaker 1: something special. My agents weren't lying when they told me
Speaker 1: this was the one. Yeah, yeah, man, I remember that
Speaker 1: special feeling too. I also wanted to say that I
Speaker 1: when I drove home from my test, I had a
Speaker 1: Star Tech. I had the motor role of Startek. You
Speaker 1: remember that, Yeah, yeah, the two ways. No, No, the
Speaker 1: Star Trek was the little flip phone, the little black
Speaker 1: flip phone back in the day. Oh, I don't know. Anyway,
Speaker 1: I had my little I had my little I had
Speaker 1: my little flip phone and I put it on the
Speaker 1: passenger seat as I was driving home from the network
Speaker 1: test and I'm just waiting to see if it was
Speaker 1: gonna ring, and like, is my life about to change
Speaker 1: substantially or not? And the phone rang. It was Bill.
Speaker 1: He told me I got the part, and I was
Speaker 1: just flipping out. I mean, I had no money. I
Speaker 1: didn't have a dollar into my name. I you know,
Speaker 1: I was living, dude, who are you telling man? I
Speaker 1: had kids. I bought a house with all of this
Speaker 1: clueless money that I had. And you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: I thought I was going to be a baller. And
Speaker 1: I remember having to call home and beg my mom
Speaker 1: for money so I could get gas to go on
Speaker 1: these auditions. Oh you know what I mean. Because I
Speaker 1: was broke, my parents loaned me, um, five thousand dollars
Speaker 1: to buy a car out in La So I bought
Speaker 1: a car. I bought a Nissan to forty SX I remember,
Speaker 1: which did me really really well. And um, and then
Speaker 1: I was just, you know, living off my waiters salary.
Speaker 1: But um, I got the call from Bill. I freak out.
Speaker 1: I called my mom, I called my dad, and then
Speaker 1: I called the manager of the restaurant, who was amazingly
Speaker 1: supportive of me, and she was she was an actress herself,
Speaker 1: and she was like, I'm so happy for you. Congratulations.
Speaker 1: And I was like, well, I quit. And she was
Speaker 1: like wait wait, I'll never forget that. She was like,
Speaker 1: work tonight. I was like what now, But she's like
Speaker 1: you have to work tonight. And I was like I do.
Speaker 1: She's like, babe, you can't leave me hanging like that.
Speaker 1: You gotta work tonight. I was like, I was like, oh,
Speaker 1: I'll work tonight. And I just got I like I
Speaker 1: had hammered. People were like waiting on me, like you know,
Speaker 1: because it was one of those restaurant where people were
Speaker 1: like really douche and like sir, and I'd be like,
Speaker 1: just wait your turn. I everybody, everybody calmed down, all right,
Speaker 1: your food is coming right on. I remember after we
Speaker 1: shot the pilot, just to jump ahead and having to
Speaker 1: wait for so long for the show to get picked up,
Speaker 1: right and running into you at a club and you
Speaker 1: being out of your mind blitzed. Yeah, yeah, that's probably
Speaker 1: what happened. I could never get into the club, like
Speaker 1: I went like and the classic thing with like the
Speaker 1: red velvet ropes and like I can't even picture like
Speaker 1: me being online at the club, being like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm going out to a nightclub tonight because I got
Speaker 1: some money in my pocket. And it's like, I picture,
Speaker 1: I see like Donald going in, like the guys, like
Speaker 1: the bouncers, like part the red velvet ropes. Is Donald
Speaker 1: and his posse gets gets led into the club. And
Speaker 1: then I get in and I saw you. I remember,
Speaker 1: I remember the first night I saw you like out
Speaker 1: in the real world, and I like screamed because I
Speaker 1: was like, dude, you was so loud and he was
Speaker 1: so drunk. It was so funny. Well, I had to celebrate.
Speaker 1: So let's get Let's get back to the Let's get back.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about the pilot. Now. The first thing I
Speaker 1: want to see about the pilot. The first thing I
Speaker 1: noticed is, uh that that's not the hospital, right. The
Speaker 1: pilot for Scrubs was filmed um. We filmed technically in
Speaker 1: three spots. The pilot was filmed um in a Burbank
Speaker 1: hospital and this one that they show it in the
Speaker 1: exterior is actually not even that. It's just a different hospital.
Speaker 1: But then we shot the bulk of the series at
Speaker 1: a hospital in Valley Village which is now apartments. And
Speaker 1: then season nine, which We'll have plenty of jokes about
Speaker 1: um was shot actually on a backlot on stages, But
Speaker 1: the bulk of the show, the one that that you
Speaker 1: all know and love, was shot all inside a real hospital.
Speaker 1: I'm sure not everybody knows that it was a real hospital.
Speaker 1: Remember the sound man saying something about, you know, I
Speaker 1: think when we did the pilot, I'm not sure if
Speaker 1: I'm not sure if it was the pilot of the
Speaker 1: actual series, but I think it was the pilot saying,
Speaker 1: you know what, I'm gonna set up in this room
Speaker 1: because this is the room that my father died in
Speaker 1: or something. Really, yeah, that's so dark. Our dressing rooms,
Speaker 1: you know. You know you've seen a lot of times
Speaker 1: on sets the people have trailers that are their dressing rooms. Well,
Speaker 1: our dressing rooms were hospital rooms. For eight and a
Speaker 1: half years that we worked at this hospital, we lived
Speaker 1: and did everything inside this hospital. I mean, our dressing
Speaker 1: rooms were in the hospital, the makeup rooms in the hospital,
Speaker 1: the offices were in this hospital. They editing, the writer's room, everything.
Speaker 1: All the other sets, like you know, whether it was
Speaker 1: the inside of a bar or our apartment, all those
Speaker 1: were built into this really disgusting ancient hospital. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I want to talk about the first scene where you
Speaker 1: wake up and it's time to that. Was that a reshoot? Um? No,
Speaker 1: it was not a reshoot. I think it was done
Speaker 1: like after the fact things, probably one of the last
Speaker 1: things we did. I do remember thinking that I didn't
Speaker 1: think this was funny, this this whole shaving cream thing.
Speaker 1: It turned out to be really funny. Well that's Bill.
Speaker 1: Bill turns it into something. I remember thinking like, what,
Speaker 1: why would I be doing this? Why would I, on
Speaker 1: my first day so nervous be making a shaving cream
Speaker 1: bra or being like a warrior? A warrior? Like how
Speaker 1: young I am. I'm just scrolling through because I like
Speaker 1: to just reference it. But anyway, I didn't think it
Speaker 1: was funny at the time, but then I saw it
Speaker 1: and I remember thinking, yeah, that was that was clever. Okay.
Speaker 1: And then the scene where where you walk into the
Speaker 1: hospital and the lady gives you all of this energy
Speaker 1: about what's going to happen today, et cetera, et cetera,
Speaker 1: and then you not really knowing where to go. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, this was one thing I'll hearing you say
Speaker 1: over and over again was and Bill always said this
Speaker 1: was like there's no person better to play someone young
Speaker 1: and in over their head than me. Because here I
Speaker 1: wasnew anything of I mean, it was all method acting.
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about starring in a TV show.
Speaker 1: I didn't know anything about like I mean, I knew
Speaker 1: I had some experience, but every time I was playing
Speaker 1: the wide eyed guy walking around, I was just being
Speaker 1: me because I couldn't believe that this was happening to me.
Speaker 1: You know, it was the exact same life that I
Speaker 1: was living, you know what, speaking of wide eyed. Before
Speaker 1: we started the pilot, they wanted us to all go
Speaker 1: on rounds with doctors and stuff like that. Right. I
Speaker 1: did that, right? I did not. I opted out. I
Speaker 1: was like, get the funk out of here. I'm not
Speaker 1: doing that shit. I don't want to see any of this.
Speaker 1: But meanwhile, I'm like, I'm like the diligent student who's like,
Speaker 1: all right, send me out right. I remember getting on
Speaker 1: the phone with the young lady who was my contact
Speaker 1: that was going to take me around on rounds, and
Speaker 1: her being like, so you're coming down to night and
Speaker 1: me being like, yeah about that. No, I don't see
Speaker 1: myself ever doing this. If you could just tell me
Speaker 1: some anecdotes that would be great. But yeah, I was
Speaker 1: the exactly. I was like the good student. I was like,
Speaker 1: did you see anything crazy? No, but I remember thinking
Speaker 1: it was really inappropriate actually that she was having me
Speaker 1: like go around, like to visit patients with her, Like
Speaker 1: she she put a stethoscope around my neck, so I
Speaker 1: would look like legit, like I know, it's kind of
Speaker 1: fucked up in hindsight, like I should not have been
Speaker 1: doing that. But did she ever refer to you like no, no,
Speaker 1: because she she was just treating me like I was
Speaker 1: like I was a medical student and she wasn't doing
Speaker 1: what she should have done, which is being like, hey,
Speaker 1: is it okay there's someone who's an actor researching a part.
Speaker 1: She wasn't doing that. I was just going in and
Speaker 1: being like, hey, how's the guy's and she kind of
Speaker 1: like and the people would be like looking at her,
Speaker 1: and then they like they nod to me, and I'm
Speaker 1: like I would just be nodding. I remember, I was
Speaker 1: just I was just kind of had like a serious
Speaker 1: nod on my face, like I was listening and understanding
Speaker 1: what's going on. I want to talk about the title sequence,
Speaker 1: because that's the next thing that comes up. I was
Speaker 1: going to ask you about that too, man, Dude, how
Speaker 1: much did you hate that until you saw it. That's
Speaker 1: one of those things where I was like, this is sucks. Man.
Speaker 1: It took for those of you who don't know, it's
Speaker 1: a motion control camera, and it really took a long
Speaker 1: time to do that, and at the time we didn't
Speaker 1: know how cool it would look, so it was like
Speaker 1: it took like a full day to do it, and
Speaker 1: I remember we were all kind of really over it
Speaker 1: by the end. Then it came out and it was
Speaker 1: really fucking cool. And then we've heard this for many
Speaker 1: times our whole scrubs existence, but the X ray at
Speaker 1: the end is backwards, and every every doctor wanted to
Speaker 1: point that out, and we used to be like, oh, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's on purpose. Get it because they're like med students
Speaker 1: comedy right, yeah, and they're med students. They don't fully
Speaker 1: get it. When we were like, no, it wasn't the
Speaker 1: fucking prop guy fucked up the ship backwards. We did.
Speaker 1: But we got lucky with that too, because that kind
Speaker 1: of set the tone for this offbeat, wacky show of ours.
Speaker 1: You know, I know, I know. But early on in
Speaker 1: like in like commentary. I remember everyone being like the
Speaker 1: X rays backwards and we were like, yeah, we're meant
Speaker 1: to do it, and to do it again when we
Speaker 1: do it next time. Do you remember when we a
Speaker 1: few years in they tried to redo this sequence with
Speaker 1: Neil to add Neil. They wanted to add Neil and
Speaker 1: Neil that played the janitor. Yeah, And and then so
Speaker 1: they aired it a few times and the fan base
Speaker 1: was like, what the fuck is that over? No, they
Speaker 1: weren't having it. They were not having it. They were
Speaker 1: like so like season nine, how they weren't having season
Speaker 1: But anyway, all right, we digree. We have one hundred
Speaker 1: and eighty episodes to get to you before we wait.
Speaker 1: And then I want to say that the song was
Speaker 1: um it was a song I found from a band
Speaker 1: called laslow Bane that I was friends with and I
Speaker 1: because originally we wanted five for fighting. That was yeah,
Speaker 1: that was the original theme song. It was something like, uh,
Speaker 1: I'm more than a bird. We can never use this,
Speaker 1: I'm more than a plane. I think you're allowed to
Speaker 1: sing a few lines Superman beside a train. However it
Speaker 1: goes anyway, so, um, I can't stand my friend. Um right,
Speaker 1: all right, my friend Chad Fisher was in this band,
Speaker 1: and I thought the lyrics were perfect because it's not
Speaker 1: only was it a great song, but it's like what
Speaker 1: the show's about. You know, I'm Superman. Donald, get it, Well,
Speaker 1: that's the same thing the Fight for Fighting song was about.
Speaker 1: You just found somebody who wrote something kind of similar
Speaker 1: to it. I can't do it all, Donald, I couldn't
Speaker 1: do it all on my own. I needed my friend.
Speaker 1: I'm moving, bod. You have such a pretty voice, though.
Speaker 1: I just remember how perfect the song was when they
Speaker 1: sang it, and we didn't really necessarily know that it
Speaker 1: was going to be the theme song until I remember
Speaker 1: you playing it from me and being like dude, and
Speaker 1: and being like, oh yeah, that's cool. But I didn't
Speaker 1: realize it was going to really be the theme song
Speaker 1: until we had that first cookout before we started shooting
Speaker 1: the show, and he sang it with the with the
Speaker 1: bullhorn and his boy playing the guitar next to him,
Speaker 1: and then we made a music video. If any of
Speaker 1: you never saw it, it's kind of cool. I shot
Speaker 1: a music video for the song, and I shot all
Speaker 1: this kind of cool footage of us. I'm sure it's
Speaker 1: on YouTube all right, Okay, so let's talk about the
Speaker 1: first scene with you. I'm gathering my notes because I
Speaker 1: did a lot of I wanted fans to know I
Speaker 1: did a lot of prep for this right on. So
Speaker 1: the first scene with you and I, where we're talking
Speaker 1: and Ted the Lawyer is explaining to us, you know,
Speaker 1: legal procedure in the hospital. Yeah, I remember him making
Speaker 1: up the line and if you pay if your patient's
Speaker 1: dead and you're sure and you're sure and uh, I
Speaker 1: remember that was when I realized, oh wow, Bill's gonna
Speaker 1: let us. He's gonna let us improv a little bit. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and opportunities to be funny. Yeah. I think that's one
Speaker 1: of the things that made Scrubs really special is that
Speaker 1: Bill really let everyone kind of make it their own.
Speaker 1: I mean, his running rule through through the whole series was,
Speaker 1: you know, please get it the way that it's written first,
Speaker 1: make sure we've got it good, and then you guys
Speaker 1: can play around and improvise and if you have some
Speaker 1: wacky idea, you can do it. And that was from
Speaker 1: the get go. And then he had and he hired
Speaker 1: all these amazing people like Sam Lloyd, who plays Lawyer,
Speaker 1: who played Ted the Lawyer, and a little trivia who's
Speaker 1: Christopher Lloyd's nephew? You know, just hilarious character actors like
Speaker 1: that that could that would just bring all their own
Speaker 1: and no matter what the size of the part, you know,
Speaker 1: from from from our size part all the way down
Speaker 1: to people who had you know, would have one line
Speaker 1: an episode. Um, there was so much freedom to just
Speaker 1: kind of riff around and make it funny. Yeah, and
Speaker 1: we should give a shout out to Adam Bernstein who
Speaker 1: directed the pilot. A polo director. Yeah, a pilot director
Speaker 1: for those of you who don't know, really sets the
Speaker 1: look of the show and the style. You know, Scrubs
Speaker 1: has a very specific style with the whip pans and
Speaker 1: the flashing to flashbacks and fantasies, and even the color
Speaker 1: of the show to make how it looks so much
Speaker 1: like a hospital and isn't overly saturated like a lot
Speaker 1: of TV shows that deal with hospital life. They you know,
Speaker 1: they want their actors to pop on screens. So the
Speaker 1: blues or bluer and the eyes and the you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Scrubs it look dingy and dirty in
Speaker 1: the hospital. In that first episode, I noticed a lot.
Speaker 1: I noticed that it was clearly. The thing I noticed
Speaker 1: they you know, the whole idea was that it was
Speaker 1: a it was a hospital that was had very little money.
Speaker 1: And I noticed there's a lot of stuff. I know,
Speaker 1: I haven't watched this pilot how many years, twenty years,
Speaker 1: but I remember I was looking at the ceiling tiles.
Speaker 1: There's all these like missing ceiling tiles, and yeah, and
Speaker 1: it was and Bill and Adam really made it feel
Speaker 1: like a dingy you know, it was not supposed to
Speaker 1: be a nice hospital. Also, the show was shot on film,
Speaker 1: which a lot of people probably don't know. This was
Speaker 1: the entire series was shot on sixteen millimeter film. That's
Speaker 1: why there's no blu ray and there's no if you
Speaker 1: look at it normally, how it's meant to be seen.
Speaker 1: It's a square because it was before high def video
Speaker 1: and sixteen by nine televisions and uh and no one
Speaker 1: ever like upraised it. So this is all we got.
Speaker 1: I watched the iTunes version, which has the original music.
Speaker 1: Do you want to explain to them about the music thing?
Speaker 1: Hulu doesn't have the original music. Well, just you know,
Speaker 1: just because it's a question we get from a lot
Speaker 1: of fans at times on social media, all this music
Speaker 1: that was put on Scrubs and a lot of people
Speaker 1: love was licensed before streaming. So these days, a lot
Speaker 1: of times if you watch it on Hulu where it's
Speaker 1: currently playing, or wherever you're watching it, it might have
Speaker 1: some of those songs that you love replaced because they
Speaker 1: weren't licensed for streaming rights. iTunes is the only place
Speaker 1: or owning the DVD's obviously, is the only place where
Speaker 1: where all of the original music would be there. Let's
Speaker 1: talk about your teeth for a second, because I don't
Speaker 1: think we can just let this go. Ah, I had
Speaker 1: baby teeth when we started shooting the show. I don't
Speaker 1: have baby teeth. And if you spent a lot of
Speaker 1: money on new teeth there it is if you free streams,
Speaker 1: if you freeze frame. There was there was a sage
Speaker 1: of Donald's teeth because he used to have he had
Speaker 1: fake braces famously in Clueless. Yes, because they were trying
Speaker 1: to hide my small teeth. Go on, oh is that
Speaker 1: really why? Absolutely? Oh, we're getting an exclusive here, so
Speaker 1: you're selling they shave my head, and they shaved my
Speaker 1: head and Clueless because my hairline was receding at eighteen
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? By the time I was
Speaker 1: twenty one, I had this hairline right here that you
Speaker 1: that I'm well, you guys can't see it, but I
Speaker 1: had this. Uh. By the way, I feel like we're
Speaker 1: breaking news that you're famous. When I was a kid,
Speaker 1: they called me George Jefferson. Okay, because of my hairline?
Speaker 1: Are you happy? Are you happy? But I never knew
Speaker 1: that the clueless braces were because of your fucked up
Speaker 1: chicklet teeth. Yes, and then the and then the hats
Speaker 1: that I wore and clueless was because of my hairline.
Speaker 1: Oh my god, Like I have a baby face. I
Speaker 1: have a baby face. It's a baby right, Like I
Speaker 1: have a baby face. Yeah, but I don't have a
Speaker 1: baby's hair line, right, I had baby teeth. I had
Speaker 1: baby teeth. Who called you George Jefferson? Your parents? No,
Speaker 1: some like dickhead that I grew up my parents. You're
Speaker 1: an asshole. That'd be hilarious, George, all right, let's go
Speaker 1: forward with your teeth. And then and then well, by
Speaker 1: the way, funny story. So then one season Donald chose up.
Speaker 1: He decided on his own. We could talk about this
Speaker 1: some other time. We don't need to talk about this now. Well,
Speaker 1: kind of just tease it later it tracks, it'll track,
Speaker 1: all right. Donald shut up with braces on the inside
Speaker 1: of his teeth and had a lisp, and Bill was like,
Speaker 1: take your fucking braces off. What the hell you guys?
Speaker 1: All right, let's there's like but there's like six episodes
Speaker 1: where I'm talking like this the whole and Donald chose
Speaker 1: up but he's like, I don't build. I don't think
Speaker 1: anyone's gonna notice. And Bill's like, no one's gonna notice.
Speaker 1: What the fuck are you doing? What'd you do? And
Speaker 1: Donald's like, well, it's a brave but you can't see
Speaker 1: him because they're on the in fife in my mouth. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, I don't even think that's a funny story, dude.
Speaker 1: I think it's hilarious. All right, let's talk about Sarah
Speaker 1: Chalk's entrance into the lounge room. Absolutely done, dune, duh.
Speaker 1: The brilliant and beautiful Sarah Chalk. So I remember at
Speaker 1: the audition saying Sarah and being like that's the girl
Speaker 1: from Roseanne. Holy cow. Yeah second Becky, and thinking she's
Speaker 1: definitely gonna get this part because that was the girl
Speaker 1: from Roseanne, you know what I mean? Yeah, No, I
Speaker 1: didn't know. I knew she was second Becky was as
Speaker 1: as she jokingly called herself, and people called her because
Speaker 1: she had replaced the original Becky, But I wasn't until
Speaker 1: I read with her in front of Bill and then
Speaker 1: I read there at my final Studio Network test that
Speaker 1: I got to meet her, and I was just smitten.
Speaker 1: I just thought she was so funny and so beautiful,
Speaker 1: and that was one of my notes. Actually, you guys
Speaker 1: had such great chemistry in the pilot, and it showed
Speaker 1: on screen that, you know. I think that worked for
Speaker 1: the remainder of the show because of you know, it's
Speaker 1: hard to tell a will they won't they early on
Speaker 1: in a pilot, you know what I mean, Like you
Speaker 1: can say one person has a crush, but you both
Speaker 1: kind of had a chemistry for each other in the pilots,
Speaker 1: and it was undeniable, you know what I mean. So
Speaker 1: like right away, you knew that at some point you
Speaker 1: guys had to get together, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: even if it didn't work, you knew what you guys
Speaker 1: had to get together. And then there was that scene
Speaker 1: where and we're in the staircase and I'm supposed to
Speaker 1: be looking at her butt going up and saying it
Speaker 1: looks I never understood why two pringles, which is what
Speaker 1: I say her, but your butt looks like two pringles hugging.
Speaker 1: I never knew why they curve because it's a little Okay,
Speaker 1: so a pringle isn't I don't know if it's a
Speaker 1: compliment for a butt though, is it? My dude, I
Speaker 1: was trying to tell me you don't appreciate around booty. No,
Speaker 1: I love around booty. But I just don't know what
Speaker 1: the hell are you talking about. But bro, you think
Speaker 1: you think calling I would say like, oh, it looks
Speaker 1: like a juicy peach. I wouldn't say it looks like
Speaker 1: two pringles that are like sharp and breakable. Okay, let
Speaker 1: me ask you a question. Would you how would you
Speaker 1: describe a nice bottom like to a piece of food?
Speaker 1: You would choose pringles? Well, I mean, I'm going, okay,
Speaker 1: do we need to get into this? Well, you can
Speaker 1: get it into this. You can say it in a
Speaker 1: nice um political correct For a really long time, yes,
Speaker 1: people of Caucasian colors, it didn't necessarily like to have
Speaker 1: big round booties, and so a pringle being a tiny
Speaker 1: curved right chip, right, did you put them together, they
Speaker 1: look like a little tiny booty. So you're saying, because
Speaker 1: she had a tiny white girl booty, it was pringly right.
Speaker 1: Nowadays right because of certain actresses and Instagram models or
Speaker 1: whatever it. Yes, everyone in a mama likes a round booty,
Speaker 1: now a big round so is you're starting to put
Speaker 1: fake booties, and that's starting to put fake stuff in
Speaker 1: the buttox area to make the booty round. Now, I've
Speaker 1: heard women really round booties already and decided, you know what,
Speaker 1: it ain't round enough and took more to make it bigger.
Speaker 1: I have a question for you about this. Yes, Now,
Speaker 1: is your theory that certain famous influencers have influenced women
Speaker 1: to to add not just exerc not just women, men too.
Speaker 1: Men too. Now they exercise it. You can choose to
Speaker 1: exercise and build up your booty. But you're saying that
Speaker 1: people really do put put fake implants into their bottoms.
Speaker 1: They not only put it into their bottoms, they put
Speaker 1: it into their chest area, They put it into their abs,
Speaker 1: they put it into their arms. There are so many
Speaker 1: people out there where you're like, Wow, that dude works out,
Speaker 1: or wow, she must really work out, and it's all enhancements.
Speaker 1: Do you think men get ass implants? Absolutely? Could you
Speaker 1: love a number for a doctor who does? That's true
Speaker 1: because you got a little too buffalo behind. That's no,
Speaker 1: it's small, it's it's very small. I was thinking the
Speaker 1: other day that was the other thing that I noticed
Speaker 1: about you that the first time I met you. But
Speaker 1: really small booty. Oh you notice that it's a table
Speaker 1: read Absolutely when you walked away anyway, gone. Now. I
Speaker 1: just wrote down because there was a shot of her
Speaker 1: butt and which I thought it looked beautiful, and then
Speaker 1: I kind of thought about the line pringles and I
Speaker 1: didn't fully understand it. Right, Let's move on from Sarah
Speaker 1: and her glorious Let's talk about John C. McGinley. Yes,
Speaker 1: let's doctor Cox. Wait before you get to Cox, I
Speaker 1: want to talk about just I think Matt Winston is first.
Speaker 1: So Matt Winston is the guy who's saying I'm a tool,
Speaker 1: I'm a tool, I'm a tool. And I always thought
Speaker 1: he was so frigging funny. In fact, I put him
Speaker 1: in my film which I was here and a little
Speaker 1: bit of trivia for the trivia buffs out there. He's
Speaker 1: Stan Winston's son, the late great Stan Winston did you
Speaker 1: know that Donald I did not know that. Yeah. Wow,
Speaker 1: So he wasn't used a ton a Bill sort of
Speaker 1: phased him out, although he did have a hilarious line
Speaker 1: where he goes, it's like a baguette. I think when
Speaker 1: he was talking about Kelsell's penis all right, So Johnny
Speaker 1: c McGinley, I mean, where do we begin the legend?
Speaker 1: The legend that I remember when we after the table read.
Speaker 1: When I saw him at the table read, I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stay clear of that guy. He's a little intimidating. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's a little scary. And then we did the rehearsals
Speaker 1: at the hospital and I remember watching him and I
Speaker 1: was like, I remember telling myself focus on him right
Speaker 1: now because we're all, you know, kind of wide eyed
Speaker 1: and don't necessarily know what it is we want to do.
Speaker 1: He came into the game already with Cox like he
Speaker 1: was like, this is how I'm going to play him.
Speaker 1: This is how he's going to be, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. He knew right away what he was doing.
Speaker 1: And I remember I was like, focus on that guy
Speaker 1: because he seems to be already out the gate, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. He seems to be running already
Speaker 1: where we're you know, getting a slow start, he's already
Speaker 1: off and running. So focus on him and try and
Speaker 1: match that energy that he has, and he nobody works harder.
Speaker 1: I mean, Johnny throughout the course of the season had
Speaker 1: those endless, really hard to do monologues, and he would
Speaker 1: sometimes get him the night before and he would work
Speaker 1: so hard. I mean, this is not a guy who
Speaker 1: ever phoned in. I don't think Johnny ever flubbed a
Speaker 1: line in nine years. I mean not sure he flubbed lines. Well,
Speaker 1: I'm saying most rare, the least often of any of us.
Speaker 1: And he was just so on it and so he
Speaker 1: so made it his. You know, there's a thing in
Speaker 1: acting where you say, like I I don't want to
Speaker 1: just do it a generic way that anyone would do it.
Speaker 1: I want to. I want to I want to make
Speaker 1: it specific to me and make it mine. And a
Speaker 1: lot of actors I think forced that, and so they
Speaker 1: put all this shit onto it that isn't necessary. They're
Speaker 1: just trying to be different, whereas some actors just do
Speaker 1: that and as natural it feels right. And I think
Speaker 1: Johnny's the ultimate example of that. He's someone who all
Speaker 1: these characteristics and all the things, the gestures, that hands
Speaker 1: on the back of his head, the touch in his nose,
Speaker 1: like that's all just Johnny. That's all stuff that's so
Speaker 1: specifically him that he brought to that part, you know, absolutely,
Speaker 1: and he stayed consistent with it the whole time. Everything
Speaker 1: he did, he was considered. Like we all evolved into
Speaker 1: different characters as the show went on. If you watched
Speaker 1: the show, we're very you know, uh you and I
Speaker 1: when you know it's not as broad as the show
Speaker 1: goes on. Johnny stayed consistent from the beginning. He was
Speaker 1: the same level the whole time. And you really see
Speaker 1: it in that first scene where he comes into the
Speaker 1: brake room and is doing his thing, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. It's really interesting, you know, to go back
Speaker 1: and watch now because when making it, you know, I
Speaker 1: paid attention to him specifically because of who he was,
Speaker 1: but to see how I evolved, to see how you evolved,
Speaker 1: to see how Sarah evolved, to see how you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, Judy evolved. Yeah, it really and all
Speaker 1: from this pilot, you know what I mean. It's like
Speaker 1: the pilot is a tame version of what Scrubs became.
Speaker 1: You know what I mean. It's also there's things about it,
Speaker 1: you know. I don't know if you noticed, but there's
Speaker 1: things that are in the pilot that you can see
Speaker 1: both Bill and Adam Burnsteing the director are figuring out
Speaker 1: like that we eventually phased out like all the I
Speaker 1: mean like there's like whip noises when Johnny turns his
Speaker 1: head and there's like there's little there's like way more
Speaker 1: sound effects early on. I think in the show that
Speaker 1: they eventually toned down. But I mean that's a digression
Speaker 1: from Johnny. So Johnny's just amazing and people always ask
Speaker 1: what he's like, and I say, he literally is this
Speaker 1: inten but he's just the most nice person you've ever met.
Speaker 1: It's just like he's like picture that intensity of a
Speaker 1: human being, but he's a super sweet and nice nothing
Speaker 1: but love though that intensity with nothing but love. And
Speaker 1: when he shakes your hand, he puts out his hand
Speaker 1: and goes, there's five good ones for you, meaning his fingers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: there's five good ones for you. Grab it and squeeze. Yeah.
Speaker 1: He's got all sorts of sayings, but I'll never forget
Speaker 1: there's five good ones for you. Yeah, that one and
Speaker 1: the Amo in that Oh yeah, he will. We'd finish it.
Speaker 1: We'd finish a scene in. One of our editor's names
Speaker 1: was Jean Michelle, and he'd go, I think we gave
Speaker 1: Jean Michelle's a mammo. All right, so let's go. The
Speaker 1: next thing I wrote down, don't know if you have
Speaker 1: anything before this, but was the sitcom fantasy I have
Speaker 1: where I where I with Sarah on this? You de man?
Speaker 1: So I don't even know what this was a sitcom
Speaker 1: must have been on on NBC or something, or maybe ABC,
Speaker 1: because but I don't remember. We borrowed some Actually, people
Speaker 1: out there might who know the sitcom might recognize who
Speaker 1: said it is, but we just went to an actual
Speaker 1: set and shot the scene there because we didn't, you know,
Speaker 1: it's the pilot. Was it like good Morning Miami or
Speaker 1: something like that that could have been it. I don't know.
Speaker 1: It probably was a pilot of the same of the
Speaker 1: same season, right or something. And I remember this was
Speaker 1: just surreal. We were in, like on a real sitcom stage.
Speaker 1: And now, granted I have a huge crush on Sarah
Speaker 1: and I'm doing my best to like hold it together,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden, we're doing a scene
Speaker 1: where she rips off her top and mounts me and
Speaker 1: we make out. Yeah, you know what, back in the day,
Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, she ripped off her top. That's
Speaker 1: cutting edge. Now I look at it and I'm like, oh,
Speaker 1: whoa did she have to rip off her top? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I think the show you have to look
Speaker 1: at it in the context of the year. I mean,
Speaker 1: everybody forgets now because we have all this everything streaming
Speaker 1: and cable and everything's so much more risque, and you
Speaker 1: go to you seek out whatever you watch. I mean,
Speaker 1: from the Show Girls, the Crazy show they would do
Speaker 1: on there, to everything and anything that's on Netflix now.
Speaker 1: But back in the day, you know, I think Bill
Speaker 1: was trying to push the envelope. The show was on
Speaker 1: at nine or nine thirty. He was trying to push
Speaker 1: the omblope what you could do on network television. So
Speaker 1: both with being politically incorrected times, both with sex with language.
Speaker 1: I mean, he was trying to say, like, hey, network,
Speaker 1: you can compete and be a little bit, you know, risque,
Speaker 1: and so this for the time was pretty risque. I
Speaker 1: mean it was there's a lot of sex in the show.
Speaker 1: You know, it's funny. I have I'm sure you do.
Speaker 1: You have people who go, hey, I'm I'm I'm showing
Speaker 1: my kids Scrubs and I can't even be in the
Speaker 1: same room. It's so awkward because it's because there was
Speaker 1: a lot of sex in the show. No, I don't
Speaker 1: you know, I don't let my kids watch Scrubs. Well,
Speaker 1: your kids are your kids are too young. But I'm saying,
Speaker 1: like I got a six year old and a four
Speaker 1: year old watching. I didn't mean your kids. I mean,
Speaker 1: like like Matt Tarsus, who was one of the writers,
Speaker 1: he told me that his son, who was a teenager,
Speaker 1: was watching the show and he's like, I had to
Speaker 1: walk out of the room. It was like watching like
Speaker 1: you and Sarah have these sex scenes, like that episode
Speaker 1: where we were eating pizza and we're like, hang, okay,
Speaker 1: you know that's that is true. Sarah did have to
Speaker 1: take her top off. But I'm gonna be honest with you.
Speaker 1: I think the guys on the show, we're way more
Speaker 1: naked than the females were on the show. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean? Between you so much, your body looks fierce.
Speaker 1: Thank you, like Tay Diggs, baby, like Tay Diggs. You know,
Speaker 1: you know funny bit of trivia. Rob Maschio, who was
Speaker 1: often only in his banana hammock and worked very hard
Speaker 1: to maintain that physique do all sorts of push ups
Speaker 1: and stuff. When the show moved from whatever season from
Speaker 1: NBC to ABC, which is owned by Disney, they made
Speaker 1: a rule that we could no longer film him from
Speaker 1: the waist down when he was in his banana hammock.
Speaker 1: Did you know that bit of trivia? I didn't know
Speaker 1: that bit of trivia. I also, I remember, and we'll
Speaker 1: discuss this later on, but there were times where we
Speaker 1: were actually really nai because it had to be that
Speaker 1: way for the camera. Wait, you didn't have like a
Speaker 1: sock on your penis. I did one time. I did
Speaker 1: have a sock on my penis, and I remember having
Speaker 1: to walk into parking lot with a bunch of people
Speaker 1: on my penis. Yeah, I remember. Not only that, Not
Speaker 1: only that I had, I had also a very big leaf,
Speaker 1: very big leaf. It was a big leaf, first of all,
Speaker 1: a large like an over leaf. It was like it
Speaker 1: was like a maple leaf, like a huge maple leaf.
Speaker 1: It wasn't like one of those thin like bamboo. No, no no, no,
Speaker 1: it wasn't like it wasn't like a eucalyptus leaf. It
Speaker 1: was a It was like a maple leaf. To cover
Speaker 1: my job. No one has ever bragged about their sexual
Speaker 1: prowess through leaf side, so that's a first for our podcast.
Speaker 1: I do want to say that. Um I once there's
Speaker 1: a scene where I was dancing in front of Tara
Speaker 1: Reid and I was supposed to be naked and they
Speaker 1: were shooting me from behind, and so I just I
Speaker 1: packed everything I had into a sock and I was
Speaker 1: doing the dance in front of Tara Reid, remember that?
Speaker 1: And then and then the sock came off, and then
Speaker 1: I was like, what is the real experience? There's Tara
Speaker 1: Reid just staring at my junk. Oh my gosh. Yeah, Oh,
Speaker 1: I mean, what am I gonna do? I apologized and
Speaker 1: and all right, So we got a caller on, wait,
Speaker 1: why are you interrupting? I want to I just want
Speaker 1: to say that it was a tube sock. It much
Speaker 1: like your leaf analogy. It was not it wasn't It
Speaker 1: wasn't a dress sock. It was a you know those
Speaker 1: little those little socks people now where they're just like
Speaker 1: go for There wasn't an ankle sock. It was a
Speaker 1: tube sock. What do they call those things that just
Speaker 1: go with socks? It was a tube so it was
Speaker 1: a tube sock. I gotta say, we're basing your boys.
Speaker 1: It was a man a long one, so we got
Speaker 1: a call It was a woman's thigh high. Okay, So
Speaker 1: I don't mean to interrupt you, Zack, but we got
Speaker 1: a caller on. This is exciting because I I daydreamed
Speaker 1: when we said we were going to do this, that
Speaker 1: we should take fan questions from all around the world,
Speaker 1: and it's really happening. So go ahead, Donald, and I'd
Speaker 1: like to introduce Chris to the podcast. Chris, how are
Speaker 1: you hi, Chris? How's it Kellen, Guys, I'm doing well.
Speaker 1: Thank you for having me on very first guest. So
Speaker 1: we really want to nail this. We want to give
Speaker 1: you the best answer to your question. That's that's ever
Speaker 1: been given to any question throughout the history. Okay, got
Speaker 1: you that's here that no pressure exactly. Um, all right,
Speaker 1: I guess the question I'll ask you all This one
Speaker 1: comes from a buddy of mine named Andrew. A question
Speaker 1: about the soundtrack. I think that's something that was such
Speaker 1: like an iconic part of the show. Um, just across
Speaker 1: all the seasons, you introduced so many people to so
Speaker 1: many awesome artists over the years. Was that something was
Speaker 1: there someone that spearheaded that did you guys just have
Speaker 1: great taste? Like, how did you come up with this soundtrack?
Speaker 1: It was all me, It was all Donald had nothing
Speaker 1: to do with it. Let me just I literally had
Speaker 1: nothing to do with it. Yeah, because at that time
Speaker 1: I was here, Did you ever get a song on ever? No?
Speaker 1: Because I was listening to songs like Joda see Uh.
Speaker 1: I was listening to you know uh songs by Wu
Speaker 1: Tang Clan, you know what I mean. Weren't things like that? Yeah,
Speaker 1: so D took the music. A matter of fact, a
Speaker 1: lot of the artists that were on the show I
Speaker 1: was introduced to for the first time while watching the show.
Speaker 1: So who who do we have on a show? Keene?
Speaker 1: All these people I had no idea who they were,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? And some artists that were
Speaker 1: well known. I just didn't listen to that type of
Speaker 1: music at the time. It wasn't until Scrubs that all
Speaker 1: of a sudden started listening to Indian folk rock, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean? Yeah, I think that you know,
Speaker 1: first of all was a lot of people. It was
Speaker 1: definitely Bill Lawrence obviously who created the show, and his
Speaker 1: wife Krista Miller who played Jordan, and and myself. I
Speaker 1: think we were the three probably the main people, but
Speaker 1: also a lot of the writers in the writer's room.
Speaker 1: A lot of times when it was their script, they'd
Speaker 1: go a lot of people. But and of course the
Speaker 1: editors who would who would you know? They the editors
Speaker 1: would get like ten ideas and they'd be the ones
Speaker 1: to try and and shape it to see what would
Speaker 1: work the best. So there was a bunch of us,
Speaker 1: but um, Christi Miller definitely did a lot of song choosing,
Speaker 1: and I got a bunch on myself that I'm excited about.
Speaker 1: Our best friend, Uh, Joshua Ding got his start really
Speaker 1: before Scrubs. What was josh doing? He was sleeping on
Speaker 1: my couch, was he really? Yeah? I mean he didn't
Speaker 1: even have a job. And he had written the song Winter,
Speaker 1: which we played um in the episode where Breton Frasier's
Speaker 1: character dies spoiler and uh and yeah, w Winter was
Speaker 1: so popular that that it launched a career for josh
Speaker 1: and everyone was like, what other songs do you have?
Speaker 1: And He's like, that's the only song I've ever written,
Speaker 1: and so he had to like frantically make an album. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I remember going to watch him at two concerts with
Speaker 1: like me, Zach my girlfriend at the time, Zach's girlfriend
Speaker 1: at the time, and that was it. Yeah, and now
Speaker 1: he sells out, you know, he does. He does really
Speaker 1: really well. Um, so that's it. It was a lot
Speaker 1: of fun, you know it. I think Bill was early
Speaker 1: on in putting music at the you know, now it's
Speaker 1: become very popular and very common to sort of end
Speaker 1: your episode of TV with an emotional piece of music
Speaker 1: and then cut around in a montage and watch how everyone,
Speaker 1: you know, what they learned from the episode. And I
Speaker 1: think Bill was at the forefront of doing that definitely,
Speaker 1: because you know now now it's pretty commonplace. But I
Speaker 1: think Scrubs was kind of one of the first shows
Speaker 1: to do that, you know. I like to think The
Speaker 1: Wonder Years was, Yeah, he would be was a was
Speaker 1: an early version of what single camera comedy. I mean,
Speaker 1: mash obviously, but The Wonder Years really took its the
Speaker 1: time that it was in and use the music of
Speaker 1: that time to help tell the story. And Scrubs I
Speaker 1: feel like it's the next thing to do that. And
Speaker 1: then yeah, and Alan McBeal also Ally mcbell. I think
Speaker 1: Bill would say that. I remember the show, Ally mcbell,
Speaker 1: they cut a way to cut away to wacky shit.
Speaker 1: I mean, I think Scrubs meets Scrubs is sort of
Speaker 1: Ally mcbell meets Mash meets Wonder Years. Right, all right,
Speaker 1: do we answer your question? Yeah? That was awesome, Thank
Speaker 1: you so much. Do you have another one? We'll give
Speaker 1: you another one. Yeah, we'll give you another question. All right,
Speaker 1: I've got a two part question. It's kind of common
Speaker 1: knowledge now that the Janitor wasn't supposed to make a
Speaker 1: past season one. He was supposed to be a figment
Speaker 1: of Jad's imagination. Yeah, so two part or here one,
Speaker 1: how was that supposed to be written in? How is
Speaker 1: it going to come to be known that the janitor was,
Speaker 1: you know, just a figment of the imagination. And then
Speaker 1: the second part of that is is there any plotline
Speaker 1: that didn't come to fruition that you really wish did? Yeah?
Speaker 1: I know that, but wait, I just want to say
Speaker 1: we're gonna have Bill on for everyone. Bill will probably
Speaker 1: our first guest because he can answer all sorts of
Speaker 1: questions about what his plan was for the writing and such.
Speaker 1: But I do remember that Neil Flynn. First of all,
Speaker 1: I was going to talk about this when we got
Speaker 1: to Neil in the pilot. But Neil was supposed to
Speaker 1: just have a small part. He wasn't. Bill wasn't even
Speaker 1: intending that he was going to be in the show
Speaker 1: beyond the pilot or maybe a few episodes. But he
Speaker 1: was so hilarious that Bill just kept adding him and
Speaker 1: adding him and adding him, and to the point where
Speaker 1: he was one became one of the stars of the show.
Speaker 1: And Neil is a hilarious improvisational actor, and so a
Speaker 1: lot of times he would just make up his own
Speaker 1: line throughout the whole run of the show. And in fact,
Speaker 1: it got to a point where and sometimes in the
Speaker 1: script it would just say like and then Neil makes
Speaker 1: up something funny like it wouldn't even have a line
Speaker 1: for him, because Nia was just so gifted and hilarious. Well,
Speaker 1: that whole scene was, that whole scene improved with you
Speaker 1: and him. The penny in the door was all written.
Speaker 1: But I'm saying, like right off the bat, everybody could
Speaker 1: tell like, this guy Neil Flynn is really funny, and
Speaker 1: he's got to be more in the show. And you know,
Speaker 1: Bill would kind of try people out, and when they
Speaker 1: killed it, he'd keep using him, you know, just like
Speaker 1: you like all the people that fans grew to love,
Speaker 1: like you know, Phil Lewis Hooch, Like we'd all thought
Speaker 1: he was so freaking hilarious. We just kept putting him
Speaker 1: in the show whenever we could. So anyway, long story short,
Speaker 1: if you I think throughout season one the janitor only
Speaker 1: addresses me if I'm not mistaken. So so Bill kind
Speaker 1: of had the idea, like, oh my god, if this
Speaker 1: doesn't go too long, it might be funny to do
Speaker 1: a big reveal that the janitor is totally in in
Speaker 1: uh in Jad's imagination. But then how crazy would that
Speaker 1: have made? J d though you would have been like
Speaker 1: a freaking psycho dude. You would have look at look
Speaker 1: at nine years of wacky fantasies, remember when you were
Speaker 1: a goat. Yeah, dude, but it was a fantasy. These
Speaker 1: were fantasies. If if you actually had somebody that you
Speaker 1: an imaginary friend that you talked to and would talk
Speaker 1: back to you, and you're a doctor, I know, I
Speaker 1: think it could have been cool. But but anyway, the
Speaker 1: point was that the show kept going and Bill. I
Speaker 1: remember Bill. I heard Bill say like, I had to,
Speaker 1: I had to have this guy interact with other people
Speaker 1: because it was like, you know, and then it became
Speaker 1: you know, he wanted to. I think fans also wanted
Speaker 1: to see the character of the Janitor interact with people,
Speaker 1: although you never knew his name or did you name
Speaker 1: is Janitor or was it Glenn Matthews? Did we answer
Speaker 1: the second part of the question, Oh, storylines? Um, we did.
Speaker 1: We did a medicinal marijuana um long before it's time.
Speaker 1: We did a medicinal marijuana plot line and start shooting
Speaker 1: it and then the studio told Bill to shut it down. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's funny because of course, now marijuana is legal in
Speaker 1: California and so many other places. Well, it had just
Speaker 1: remember it had just started becoming legal at the time
Speaker 1: when we're fi. Yeah, I remember, I do remember that
Speaker 1: because there were a lot of people that were smoking weed. Wow,
Speaker 1: we probably shouldn't bring that up in the In the
Speaker 1: first episode of this, let's get to how high everybody
Speaker 1: was in future episodes were a tease something I'm just
Speaker 1: saying that was a tease. Okay, in future episodes, Donald
Speaker 1: will out people for who was Big Twin. All right,
Speaker 1: thank you Chris. We're gonna thank you Chris, thanks for
Speaker 1: being our first guest. That would be so funny. That
Speaker 1: would be so funny if that's how we did it.
Speaker 1: In that scene, he's high. I think you need to
Speaker 1: come clean. When we get two scenes where you were baked,
Speaker 1: that'll be like the whole series run. Okay, great? Um,
Speaker 1: how long into the series did you stop memorizing your lines?
Speaker 1: H D. We'll talk about that in future episodes to
Speaker 1: come as well. Oh, I wanted to say, um, the
Speaker 1: scene with Johnny in the in the in the lounge, Um,
Speaker 1: with the with the woman that that was my audition
Speaker 1: scene where Johnny comes in with the woman he says
Speaker 1: is dead and he's telling me to throw tile in
Speaker 1: all her face. That was one of the main I
Speaker 1: think one of the three scenes that I auditioned with.
Speaker 1: What was your audition scenes? Do you remember My audition
Speaker 1: scene was I'm really scared. I'm so happy that I
Speaker 1: get to wear a surgical masks a mask because if
Speaker 1: I didn't have it on, my face would look like this.
Speaker 1: And then I make the scared face. Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: one of my audition scenes. And then and did you
Speaker 1: improv I love you? Or is that in the script? No,
Speaker 1: we improv that. Bill came up to me. It was
Speaker 1: like telling me you love him at the end. That
Speaker 1: was funny and I was like, what he just say
Speaker 1: it and then laugh when you are And then Lonnie,
Speaker 1: by the way, everyone that's Lonnie's playing. Lonnie's playing the
Speaker 1: pizza delivery. I had no idea that was him until
Speaker 1: watching the pilot. So Lonnie Lonnie exists. It's is one
Speaker 1: of the few people that exists as two different characters
Speaker 1: in the Scrubs universe. I feel like it's three different characters.
Speaker 1: But yeah, okay, why there's Lonnie, there's pizza delivery guy?
Speaker 1: And who was a was Lonnie also the guy that
Speaker 1: played basketball? I don't remember. Okay, anyway, scrubstns won't answer
Speaker 1: for us. But yeah, that was very funny. I love
Speaker 1: that when you say I love you, he looks. We
Speaker 1: both look at you, like what UM say it to
Speaker 1: you all the time. And this scene also, the woman
Speaker 1: was supposed to be really dead, and I remember the
Speaker 1: network pushed back against Bill and said, no, you can't
Speaker 1: have her really genuinely pushing around a dead woman. Um,
Speaker 1: you have to have her at the end go I'm
Speaker 1: not really dead. So that was a rewrite forced by
Speaker 1: the network because Bill thought it was funny if he
Speaker 1: really was just pushing around a corpse. Very funny too.
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Ken Jenkins second, Yes, because
Speaker 1: I feel like he was the MVP of our show,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean? Yeah, in so many ways, like, uh,
Speaker 1: it's really difficult to be on a show with such
Speaker 1: a huge ensemble cast where everyone is likable, from the
Speaker 1: lead all the way down to the guest stars. Everyone's likable.
Speaker 1: I think the hardest part, the hardest person to play
Speaker 1: in all of that would be the bad guy, you
Speaker 1: know what I mean. And he made it so that
Speaker 1: the bad guy you didn't like him, but you still
Speaker 1: loved him, you know what I mean. And I felt
Speaker 1: like he was literally the MVP. Him and Judy Rays
Speaker 1: actually were the MVPs of the show because Judy had
Speaker 1: to tackle all of the dramatic stuff, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, Her character felt everything. She was the nurse,
Speaker 1: she was the mother of the hospital. And Ken Jenkins,
Speaker 1: his character was the evil dad or the you know
Speaker 1: what I mean the grandpa who was just over it
Speaker 1: all and was like, I just you know, I want
Speaker 1: this hospital to make money. We're broke, and all that
Speaker 1: matters is if their insurance is going to pay for it.
Speaker 1: If it's if they're not, get them out of here
Speaker 1: because we're I we're broke. We got no dough. And
Speaker 1: I thought to make those two to make that character
Speaker 1: lovable is a really really, really hard thing to do,
Speaker 1: and he did it effortlessly, it seemed like in my eyes.
Speaker 1: And uh, and same thing with Judy, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean. Judy would played the role that uh was
Speaker 1: definitely needed in this band of misfits. She played this
Speaker 1: character that was uh just motherly and UH took care
Speaker 1: of you know, Bamby came from that. That's that that
Speaker 1: stuck throughout the whole show. You being called Bambi. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I noticed that. Her very first line that comes out
Speaker 1: of her mouth is calling me Bamby. I didn't I
Speaker 1: didn't know that. It's I didn't remember that, but that
Speaker 1: stuck for the whole run of the show. And of
Speaker 1: course will still call me that on the street when
Speaker 1: I'm past them. Um, but her very first line is
Speaker 1: calling me Bambi, Yeah, you know what I mean. And
Speaker 1: it was it was just we knew what we were
Speaker 1: there to do. We're here to be funny, and we're
Speaker 1: here to make everybody laugh, and you know, and and
Speaker 1: at times we're going to get dramatic and everything like that.
Speaker 1: But Judy and Ken had the tough roles. In my opinion,
Speaker 1: you knew Judy was supposed to make everybody feel safe.
Speaker 1: Ken was supposed to make everybody feel anger, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean, in this in this crazy world. And
Speaker 1: they did it so perfectly. And and Ken had a
Speaker 1: lot of the you know, social commentary that Bill was
Speaker 1: trying to get in there about how fucked up the
Speaker 1: healthcare system is and how how how fucked up it
Speaker 1: is that hospitals are like no insurance, get him out
Speaker 1: of here, like you know, what do you like right
Speaker 1: away in the pilot. Of course, these issues are so
Speaker 1: relevant today more than ever. But right away in the
Speaker 1: pilot you have them going, look, I don't care that
Speaker 1: you know nothing. Let me tell you a couple of things.
Speaker 1: If they don't have insurance, get them out of here,
Speaker 1: and uh and and and and Bill geniusly found a
Speaker 1: way to make that. Of course, Ken Jenkins as an actor. Together,
Speaker 1: they found a way to make that character so lovable
Speaker 1: even though he was a he was the antagonist. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about thirteen minutes in thirty eight seconds.
Speaker 1: I'm looking at a still of you making out with
Speaker 1: Judy reyes um And and Todd in the frame I
Speaker 1: have up. Todd is watching because it's part of the fantasy.
Speaker 1: Why so, what was it like? You know, I think
Speaker 1: people who aren't actors are always curious what it's like
Speaker 1: when you meet someone. Hey, nice to meet you, and
Speaker 1: then all of a sudden you have to just go
Speaker 1: do a fake makeout scene with that. I feel like
Speaker 1: that was the first day I met Judy too, and really, yeah,
Speaker 1: I feel like that was our first scene together and
Speaker 1: I hadn't you know, I remember me. I don't remember
Speaker 1: Neil at the table read. I don't remember Judy, I
Speaker 1: don't remember Ken at the table read. I remember me, you,
Speaker 1: Johnny and Sarah for some reason. And so when we
Speaker 1: did the makeout scene, I feel like that was my
Speaker 1: I know, it's not the first day I met her,
Speaker 1: but that's my first real memory of Judy, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean? And I remember she smoked cigarettes right
Speaker 1: before the scene, and I was like, Ah, that's a
Speaker 1: power move, that's a power move. That's how you do
Speaker 1: But I realized that's how you do it. If you're
Speaker 1: gonna make out with somebody, make it so they gotta work,
Speaker 1: and not make it so it's them having a great
Speaker 1: time making out. No, this is a job, dude. This isn't.
Speaker 1: This isn't This isn't you getting your rocks off while
Speaker 1: we're doing this scene. It's funny to think about someone smoking,
Speaker 1: like I mean, I don't do you know any I mean,
Speaker 1: it's rare to see anyone smoking cigarettes at all anymore.
Speaker 1: Oh no, there are a lot of people that still
Speaker 1: smoke cigarettes. Not vaping has turned into the worst vaping
Speaker 1: of course. But just the idea that Judy was, I
Speaker 1: guess a smoker when we started, right, I was a
Speaker 1: smoker when we started. I smoke started and Neil was
Speaker 1: always a smoker. Yeah, when we started doing the show,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of us smoked cigarette. I mean
Speaker 1: in the cast maybe you, Sarah and Johnny and Ken didn't,
Speaker 1: but everyone else did. Yeah, I didn't remember that. And
Speaker 1: then us doing the kissing stuff and then watching the
Speaker 1: episode and none of that made the show. Really, all
Speaker 1: it is is me, we're kind of cuddled up together.
Speaker 1: We're kind of cuddled up together, and and Rob's over
Speaker 1: us watching. But I remember doing the scene if feeling
Speaker 1: way more intimate than that, you know what I mean,
Speaker 1: way more you know what I mean, and then watching
Speaker 1: it being like, oh, they didn't use any other other
Speaker 1: good stuff, right, Well it's a really quick moment. And
Speaker 1: I love that she's I love that you're naked, and
Speaker 1: she's like, all right, thanks, I'm out. I thought that
Speaker 1: was a cool like introduction of her character. She was like,
Speaker 1: and I also and I also liked that your imagination
Speaker 1: was me scoring right in reality the real what really
Speaker 1: happened was I got played and then got turned into
Speaker 1: you know, I got you know, I stripped down for someone, right,
Speaker 1: And she was like she got you know, she just
Speaker 1: wanted to make out with someone and be like later
Speaker 1: and she like she was like she kind of like
Speaker 1: used you, whereas in my imagination you were using her
Speaker 1: where right? Yeah? That was clever. Yeah. Um, I wanted
Speaker 1: to quote talk about that it's going backwards, but that
Speaker 1: deer in headlight thing, I still have the foam antlers.
Speaker 1: Uh Um, I'm staring at them right now, um from
Speaker 1: that fantasy where I'm imagine I'm a deer in headlights.
Speaker 1: And and what we had to do was they backed
Speaker 1: the macup, the big semi, right up to my face.
Speaker 1: And the idea was for the truck would floor it
Speaker 1: in reverse and and then we play and then we'd
Speaker 1: play it backwards right so it looked like it was
Speaker 1: hit and then of course it hit a mannequin too,
Speaker 1: but for this one shot. And I remember standing there
Speaker 1: with my face against the grill of a Mac truck
Speaker 1: and being like leaning out to the driver, being like
Speaker 1: you sure it's in reverse? Right, Like like there had
Speaker 1: to be some OSHA rule against that, but I but
Speaker 1: I was like standing there going if this dude, Like
Speaker 1: I don't want to cause any waves or anything, but
Speaker 1: I just want to double check you're in reverse. We
Speaker 1: have finally saving a life. Oh we have a Loma.
Speaker 1: We should about a looma right, the beautiful and talented
Speaker 1: Aloma right who played Nurse Roberts. Nurse Roberts, who who
Speaker 1: whose introduction in the show is you know amazing? Can
Speaker 1: you just call him so I can go home? Please? Yeah?
Speaker 1: Can you just call She's so good? And and Aloma
Speaker 1: was one of the again another example of someone who
Speaker 1: Bill just loved and thought was so talented, and she
Speaker 1: you know, ended up being in the whole show until
Speaker 1: he eventually killed her off, felt bad and brought her
Speaker 1: back as her twin sister, which we'll get to that
Speaker 1: and later after lavernadcast Lavern again, I'm gonna call you
Speaker 1: Laverne again. So we were thinking of like trying to
Speaker 1: summarize what the lesson of the episode was, But I mean,
Speaker 1: I think the episode, the lesson of the of the
Speaker 1: pilot was basically the theme song, which is I can't
Speaker 1: do this all on my own, right. I mean, it's
Speaker 1: the introduction of how difficult it is to be a
Speaker 1: doctor in a hospital and how the medical staff at
Speaker 1: a hospital really depends on each there to work. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I think I think, I mean, I don't think
Speaker 1: it's a big leap to say that a lot of
Speaker 1: people related to the show because they can see that
Speaker 1: on their own lives and how you turn to your
Speaker 1: friends and your family. I mean, I think the show
Speaker 1: can be, as we all know, can be very very heartwarming,
Speaker 1: and that was what builded so geniusly, was how it'd
Speaker 1: be so funny and crazy and silly and fantasies and everything,
Speaker 1: and then all of a sudden you can turn a
Speaker 1: corner and you're losing a patient like I did at
Speaker 1: the end, or or or or you see that our
Speaker 1: friendship is so pure, is still solid, also conquering fear,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean. JD was so afraid to
Speaker 1: do everything. As a matter of fact, him and Elliot
Speaker 1: hide in a closet at one point and U doctor
Speaker 1: Cox catches them doing it and understands why they are afraid.
Speaker 1: But then at the end of the show, still gives
Speaker 1: JD the confidence to perform whatever it is you did
Speaker 1: with the tube and the blood and all of that stuff,
Speaker 1: something that you know, JD was very afraid of, and
Speaker 1: UH made him feel like he was going to be okay,
Speaker 1: and he was, and he had a support group around him. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And I think that's it. That's that's the pilot. I
Speaker 1: think we just we just did it. We did our
Speaker 1: first podcast. I love you and I love you so
Speaker 1: hey listen, if you're a fan and you made it
Speaker 1: to the end, thank you. We want we're gonna keep
Speaker 1: doing this. We want you to watch the show with us.
Speaker 1: We're gonna do this every week and UM, and you
Speaker 1: can just join us, tell your friends, and every week
Speaker 1: we're gonna go through another episode and we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a fan question. If you have a fan question, Donald,
Speaker 1: we have set up a Gmail account the iHeart people have, right,
Speaker 1: and that account is that account is Scrubs. iHeart at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com, So Scrubs and then I heart at
Speaker 1: gmail dot com and so said thank you. We want
Speaker 1: you to submit question and then our our beautiful producers
Speaker 1: here will will work out all logistics and um, and
Speaker 1: we'll have you on. We're gonna take a question each podcast.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have guests on. We're gonna start having fellow
Speaker 1: cast members. We're obviously gonna have our creator of the show,
Speaker 1: Bill Lawrence on. Who else we're gonna have on Donald,
Speaker 1: Some of the goodness we're going after, you know, even
Speaker 1: some of the people that you remember but don't know,
Speaker 1: like Snoop Dogg. In turn, we're gonna reach out to him.
Speaker 1: We're reaching now he's done into my dad did he already?
Speaker 1: Snoop Dogg intern already slid into my dms and I
Speaker 1: Nick had already said he's down. We're gonna even have that.
Speaker 1: We're gonna have the stand ins on the show who
Speaker 1: did a lot of the work that you see before
Speaker 1: we went in and did it set up the shots
Speaker 1: they you know, So it's gonna be a bunch of
Speaker 1: people writers, We're gonna have u directors everything. Hopefully we
Speaker 1: could get some big names too. I'm sure Folly would
Speaker 1: come on and we could just say nobody cares Sean
Speaker 1: over and Sean nobody cares. So um, follow Donald and
Speaker 1: I on Instagram and Twitter and please tell your friends
Speaker 1: because we hope this is a is a big success.
Speaker 1: Because for us this was I don't know about you, Donald,
Speaker 1: but this was a lot of fun. I kind of
Speaker 1: don't want to stop talking, but I feel like, oh,
Speaker 1: absolutely should. This was actually the you know, I talk
Speaker 1: about Clueless as the jump off point in my life
Speaker 1: where I was introduced to the industry and I learned
Speaker 1: a lot of things. But Scrubs was really like the
Speaker 1: you know, that was the thing that took it over
Speaker 1: the top for me as an actor, where I had
Speaker 1: an actual job where I was able to you know,
Speaker 1: pay my rent and I built a family because I
Speaker 1: was able to be a part of this wonderful show.
Speaker 1: So you know, I owe a lot to use Zach,
Speaker 1: I owe a lot to Bill Lawrence. I owe a
Speaker 1: lot to the cast and the crew of this of Scrubs.
Speaker 1: So I'm really excited to talk about it with fans
Speaker 1: who enjoyed the experiences that we had. Yeah, and as always,
Speaker 1: I agree with everything you said, And as always, thank
Speaker 1: you for being our fans, and thank you for supporting
Speaker 1: the show. It was a joy, boy to make it
Speaker 1: for you and Donald. I hate this quarantining. I just
Speaker 1: want to be with you all the time. I want
Speaker 1: to be there will be a day again, Hopefully there
Speaker 1: will be a day again where you and I can eagle.
Speaker 1: I can't wait to ride you. I can't all right,
Speaker 1: I feel like that's what we should end. Should we
Speaker 1: end with that? Now, let's end with that. Don't say,
Speaker 1: don't speak, don't speak. Let's just end with that. Goodbye, everybody.
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