Keep TV Funny, Too–PLEASE
Keep TV Funny, Too–PLEASE by Roxanne McDonald
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Guilty pleasures include as many re-runs of Scrubs as your TiVo will hold. But how will other comedy and comedy in general hold up for those preferring TV over Internet castings? |
Guilty pleasures include as many re-runs of Scrubs as your TiVo will hold. But how will other comedy and comedy in general hold up for those preferring TV over Internet castings?
My friends and I always confess our latest or longest-running passions for television nobody really admits to being obsessed with. The other day,
I sheepishly commented on having become re-addicted to Scrubs; much to my delight, my buddy said he TiVos every episode, too.
What we agreed makes Scrubs so amazingly witty are a number of elements, such as the unique characterizations, the screwball bits, and the voiceover narrations that deliver tight storyline complete with moralistic tear-jerking observation at the close of each episode.
But what also makes the show stand out and over other comedies (Like Seinfeld) is the remarkably brilliant writing. How the creator(s) know the medicine, cover technique, and bring realism to the many articulate and bright characters (and dialogue) is right up there with the realistic frat boy (and girl) behavior meets uppity prodegy we don’t get to directly witness in a real hospital but are made privy to in this stunning and still fresh behind the scenes setting/comedy.
Bill Lawrence, the brains behind Scrubs, gave an interview to TV Guide, wherein he reminds us that Scrubs—like the few other addictive comedies—is challenged by the networks to the point where they are not scheduled, are cancelled, or are relegated to re-runs on more obscure channels.
“The young folks,” he concedes, now watch their comedy online—if they are so inclined.
But where does that leave those of us who still enjoy climbing in bed, taking with us the Butter Brickle ice cream, and delighting in the thirty minutes of sardonic, silly, so-what antics and attitudes of characters we will only ever get to know this well on our big screens?
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