As a rule of thumb I don't attend parties where the guest of honor has no idea what's going on.

Somehow I didn't start watching Scrubs until this past year. People talked about how great it was, but my TV quota was sort of full, there's only so much TV I can watch in a week. TiVo allows me to maximize that time, and spend it watching good stuff, but you look carefully there actually is lots of good tv out there to watch.

Anyway, I started watching Scrubs this year - and I really enjoy it. It's my kind of wacky quick comedy, where there will often be one or two running jokes through an episode that they'll loop back to in clever ways. This show is way smarter then most comedies, and I appreciate that.

But it can also be real. Last week they did a thing where they showed four repeat episodes on Thursday night (mostly as a way for star Zack Braff to promote his new indie movie: Garden State.) Today I watched one of the episodes they played, "My Screwup." This episode was fantastic, and believe it or not actually made me cry (granted, I'm sick and a little loopy right now.) The episode has one of those twist kind of endings, and I went back and watched it a second time to pay more attention. It turns out they weren't even subtle about it, but I just don't expect that kind of intelligence from a 30 minute comedy, so the first time through I wasn't even thinking about that stuff (and I'd even seen this episode before, I'm clearly ill.) Anyway, I won't spoil it, but I consider this to be one of their best episodes, and if you've never seen it and want to really get hooked, track this one down.

Of course, they're almost all good, so just watching it when it's on will probably also get you hooked as well.

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