(Season 8, Episodes 1 & 2 – “My Jerks” & “My Last Words” – Season Premiere)

The first words of the shiny new season on ABC are “That’s new,” as JD points to the ABC logo in the bottom right corner. This segueways us into a discussion between him and the janitor about his new “Miami Vice” beard, which he feels makes him look like a new Kenny Loggins. Yep, Scrubs is back and hasn’t lost any of its charm for the switch from NBC to ABC.

Right off the bat we were introduced to three interns: Katie (who is the mother of all kiss-asses), Denise (who completely lacks in bedside manner), and Ed (who pretended to be a woman on a Lost fansite to mess with someone as revenge for their doing that to him). No, I’m not sure what that means about the character, but that’s what we were given. Much has been made of this being possibly the last season of Scrubs, and definitely the last with Zach Braff. So we’re told this new batch of interns could be the future of the franchise, a la ER and the cast of rotating doctors there. We’ll see.

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