Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald - 818: My Finale with Sarah Chalke, John C. McGinley, Christa Miller, and Bill Lawrence

Episode Date: March 5, 2024

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It's heartbreaking. I know. I cried. It was a really sad episode yeah I cried I uncontrollably cried It's fucking heartbreaking I didn't think I was gonna cry

And then I cried It really got to me y'all Cause I was like It's the core group it's still together So it was so bizarre to see you guys young hoping for a future together it came true you guys actually have like a whole future to get so beautiful it's so lovely you know you you beg for this as an actor you know what i mean you dream of this one day i'll be on a show and it'll last a really long time and you know i look

back at it now and it's like shit i fucking took that for granted while we were doing the ride i had no idea that this was this is it motherfucker this is it you know what i mean at the end of the day i as much as i love doing this podcast i fucking hate this podcast right now because it made me watch something that i didn't I never watched and never got to experience what the fans got to experience and then fucking watching it watching it right now and finishing it and come to completion let's be honest season eight is the end this yo man this is one of the best endings in television history bro in television yo. And I can fucking say that shit because I'm on it. But it's true, bro.

It's true. Like, look, I've seen a lot of finales. That's my thing. I watch finales. You know what I mean? I don't watch the show. I just watch finales. And we fucking stuck the landing.

Way to go, Bill Lawrence, man. Holy cow, man. Look, I'm going to try my hardest not to get emotional, but this shit was, oh my God. I want the audience to know that he's got tears in his eyes as he's saying all this. This shit was fucking amazing. It was. Wow. I had no idea because I never watched.

You know what I mean? I had no clue. And just this journey alone, this podcast journey, you know, it can, oh my gosh. Wow. What a fucking, what a fucking ending. Wow. Yeah. And I want to echo what you said about, you know, we were young and, you know, you lose context of how lucky you are. We were grateful the whole time, but you lose context of like, were grateful the whole time but you lose context of like i think i think what you're saying and what i'm saying is we thought this level of love and connection with a group of actors and of course a showrunner on the level of bill would happen again and we all work we all do things we love

we all have ups and downs in our career but but this was so lightning in a bottle, this special thing. And it didn't, it hasn't happened again. I've made things I loved. I've worked with people I loved. But in terms of like forming a bond, and another thing that happens is people get on a show and it's just a job. You know, it's like, okay, I got to check and I work with these people, but it isn't like this special thing, this special group of people. And so, yeah, I left with the same feelings, Alan. I was like, God, we are so blessed and lucky as actors,

obviously to have an eight-year run on a show, of course, that goes without saying, but to have it be something we so loved and these people we so love that we're still close with, that we have such a bond with. I mean, every single person on there I still love and it made me miss them so much. That's, yeah, that more than anything. I saw my journey with, like, I saw my journey with everybody too. Like, one of my greatest accomplishments in my, I feel like, is me and Krista's relationship. You know what I mean? Because it started off, maybe not for Krista, but for me, it started off really rocky.

You know what I mean? And me and the boss's wife didn't jive. And when you watch the end of this, you could see our relationship coming full circle. You know what I mean? And you know, the hugs that we give each other, those are all real. That's what it's like when we see each other. You know what I mean? There's nothing, you know, and I just, you know, I am so grateful for everyone in this show. You know what I mean? From cast to crew, crew you know i don't have this type of the type of relationship that i have with with you guys that you know in my real life like i don't have that type i don't have fucking like that's my friendship that's my you know what i mean there's the people i grew up with of course but then there's you guys and that's it. You know what I'm saying? And it's, I don't know, man, you don't get that in Hollywood.

You don't get that in this world. No, you don't. I mean, you work on these projects and you make great friendships. But I mean, when I think of like the people closest to me in my life, you know, obviously I have friends outside of this, but like you and Bill and Krista are the closest people to me. And I've actually newly rekindled this friendship with Johnny that's been great that started this summer where we've gotten close again. Sarah, I just went skiing with Sarah.

I can't find the words. I'll just say that I had the same reaction to Donald. Well, that was very emotional and really made me see how impactful this this has been on my life what the donald sarah chalk well did you surprise us with sarah chalk bring her on i dare you sarah are you there oh god she's not gonna be able to get on it's supposed to be a surprise she ruined it oh my god This is classic Sarah She was supposed to be surprised and now she can't get on the zoom She can't get on the zoom

Look at her she can't figure out Oh there she is Yeah No To be clear I just had to run Can you hear me Oh shit It's so echoey

Of course Right on Holy cow can you hear me oh shit yes it's so echoey it's so echoey of course right on holy cow wait a second i can't tell i'm not it's not a bit you can edit this out daniel no we're not editing it out i'm fucking editing it out it's my it's my first time on this podcast i just want to make sure i'm doing it correctly my dan, Dan, on my AirPods, I'm hitting connect. I don't know if they're connecting. Okay. Um,

well, can you hear us through them? Are you hearing us through your laptop? My laptop. Okay. Um, it's not connecting. Sarah is amazing. I love it.

This is the finale. And this is the finale. And how's she going out? So let me know. Does it say that they're connected in the top, like in the little Bluetooth bar? Does it say they're connected? I'm going to Bluetooth.

It says connect Charlie's AirPods. Do that. You got to put them in your ear though, too. Doing that. What about how she's breaking up, Donald? I don't know. Where are you at that you're breaking up like this? They're in?

Okay. Okay, they're in. How's your signal? Because you're breaking up like this? They're in. Okay. Okay. They're in. How's your signal? Because you're breaking up, which is just deliciously perfect. Exactly. In, in zoom and the bottom left of the window where the little microphone is

click that little up arrow and make sure microphone is set to AirPods and speaker is set to AirPods. Microphone is set to audio settings, speaker, mic test, audio. It should be in the actual zoom window and the bottom left is a little microphone that says mute yeah i'm in there and the arrow so you see there's select a microphone and select a speaker

there's two there should be two options select any of this out please okay so i'm in. I click the microphone. I'm going up. It's saying audio settings, leave computer audio, switch to iPod audio, test microphone,

speaker microphone. And all above that, is there anything above that? Select a microphone. Great. Is Charlie's AirPods one of them? No. Is there anything that's AirPods?

Is that one of them? What about select a speaker? Is AirPods one of them no is or is there anything that's air pods is that one of them what about select a speaker is air pods one of those switch to iphone switch to phone audio leave computer audio audio settings no it wouldn't be one of those so why wouldn't that why wouldn't the air pods be showing up are the air pods connected and the bluetooth in the top doesn't say air pods are connected it just says just has a bluetooth thing and i keep hitting connect it won't connect okay so that's probably why because your your products are not connected yet are they charged are they full they're full of battery is there okay i'm just texting piper to drive hers over right now she's two minutes away um honestly forget it it's okay at this point forget, forget it. You sound fine. You sound fine.

What about like, what about like over your head? If you have those, that's great. Oh, please. Oh my God. So I just want the audience to be reminded that we had Sarah on, I don't know how many times and every single time she cannot figure out how to get on a Zoom call. Do you want to predict what next? Yeah, go ahead this

is going to be a story yeah about why she didn't figure it out no there's going to be another story too oh there'll be a general you're not going to believe what happened to me of course yes yes absolutely i cannot wait she looks really beautiful though she looks gorgeous oh my gosh goodness wow i don't know what's going on with that hair today, but she's looking... It's full of body. Yeah. Full of body. Very voluminous. Volumous. There we go. Okay.

I like the shirt too. She's very hip. Oh my god. As soon as I get this going, we can discuss fashion then because I was just, as I was making breakfast this morning, listening to your fashion conversation from the last... About the Gucci? and i want to hear about the gucci okay wait now i can't okay so now go to go back to the microphone i'm going back and then select a speaker

it should be external headphones are your headphones they do they take battery are they like they're plugged in they're charged going in again select a speaker okay so my headphones weren't quite jammed in far enough now it's working external headphones clicked it you sound great you sound great i can't hear you i can't hear you you can't hear us external headphones can't hear us. Thermal headphones is selected. I've got the headphones on. They're plugged in. You said that for, for that's for speaker, not microphone. She's like,

I can't hear. Ooh, hold on. Let me see if I can ping her. There we go. Oh, you can hear us. Oh my God.

Okay. Let's pretend that never happened. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no no no no no no no no no no no no take two you guys your listeners don't have time for that they don't have time for that no listen if our listeners get bored they can skip 10 seconds forward oh shit 10 seconds they can skip the whole three to five minutes that it took for you okay to get your mic sarah how do you operate in your normal life like how does it go down i i gotta i gotta text piper not to bring the headphones i gotta figure it out don't bring headphones you know it goes down similar to this like i

poor rick and mort, every time we record, it's like they're dealing with a brand newborn baby. I mean, they're like, go to drop. I'm like, you lost me at drop down menu. Do you ever get, do you ever get home at the end of the day and get into bed and go, wow, nothing weird or dramatic happened today? No. Because if I do that, if I do do that i've learned my lesson if i do that then something weird or

dramatic would happen in the night i mean you look very pretty today sarah why are you are you she always looks pretty no but i mean there's just donald so you just look very pretty right now well i sound really gross and stuffed up so i apologize to all of you and to all of your listeners. Are you sick? Yeah, but it's nothing. I mean, it's just like. Did you watch the episode? Oh my, you guys.

Yeah, I know, right? I know, right? Right? I know. I was, I gotta be honest. I was verklempt. It was, it made me so nostalgic for. Right?

The whole thing. Crazy crazy it was crazy i did you have the thing where you're just like there's the montage at the end and it's you know the flash i had this like reverse montage after i stopped watching of our life for eight years just going back yeah just going back just the whole thing just and these weird snippets that would pop up of like you know the dogs on the third floor and at least all the things that made it so special and so unique and so different than anything i ever you know did before or since yeah we were just talking about that before you came on about how you know we were young and naive to think oh this will this is great, but this will happen several times in my life.

And it was such a rare just group, a really special connection between us all. It was, and you see it like, it was so fun, even just at the end of the episode, how they include just like a couple of behind the scenes, little bits of everybody saying goodbye and hugging and then wrapping each of us out and

like i mean i remember i don't remember what i did yesterday but i remember that day that scene in the hallway of zach walking down the hallway and leaving and everyone saying goodbye like it was yesterday i mean it left such a impression there's a funny moment in that in those in those behind the scenes footage and i remember this that you can hear bill go that's a wrap on sarah chalk and donald faze on and then he goes to hug you guys but then you can see in the video i'm gonna say good night first colonel doctor totally cock blocked the hug between you and donald and sarah say goodnight first. Good night, Bill. Colonel Doctor totally

cock-blocked the hug between you and Donald and Sarah. Sorry, between you guys and Bill. Yeah. I'm back. But then Colonel Doctor had to get his handshake in first, and then Bill was like, okay, alright, Colonel Doctor,

I'm going to go hug the cast now. Oh my god, that's so fucking good. He's gone now. he's passed away since you know what i mean oh rest like we get when that's another thing looking at that just like sam seeing sam again you know what i mean like oh man it just you know it all everybody there's a lot of people that aren't with us anymore there no i don't know what's wrong with my headphones you guys i'm so sorry i do think it's funny that you're on a very popular show where you record audio and you have a sound booth and for this you've chosen the

most echoey room in canada she's she's somewhere maybe she's not in canada are you in prison the background looks like it could be a women's prison i am you know but i it's it's it's it's not that bad are you all dolled up for some reason or do you just look naturally beautiful right now oh my god i'm gonna hang out here for a while um i while I'm dolled up for you guys And then I'm gonna go see some friends After Where are you going? So Bo who I did Firefly Lane with she has a

Beautiful little baby and So whenever she comes into town we all get together So I'm gonna see her and then I'm going For dinner with the Jens you know Who you know and love She has two best friends, both named Jen. Yes. Yeah.

Your night is packed, yo. You're going to freaking be wasted when you get home. You're going to be drunk on wine. Sarah's going to be so wined out. So wined out. Like the red wine. You guys ever have a cosmopolitan? They're great.

Sarah. Sarah. And Daniel and Zach. And Daniel and Joelle. I got to start my day with them. Now I'm going to get all emotional. Sarah and I went skiing together. How was that? With a group of friends.

It was so fun. And Sarah, I knew Sarah would be a good skier because she's Canadian, but she's really fucking good skier. See, here's the thing. I knew you guys would all be good skiers cause you're white, but that's just me. I have never had a sporting or sporting adjacent compliment in my entire life. Let me have this.

You know, I remember on scrubs, you guys would all play basketball outside. I remember trying to join once. It did not go well for me. Are you really a good skier like that? You can jump and stuff? She can do anything.

She's great. She undersold how good she was. Is she doing spins and stuff down the hill? No, not doing tricks, but she's flying. I mean, our friend Preston is the best skier I know. And he does jumps and tricks. There's nothing i mean our friend preston is like like the best skier i know and he does jumps and tricks and like he there's nothing he won't ski he's the kind of guy who like hikes up to places where there's no lift and then skis down that shit and i would see him fly by and be like damn and then two seconds later sarah be right behind him like really fast well in canada that's

i mean it's the only i mean i learned when i was five years old and and it's kind of like what you know we did every weekend or we grew up at the bottom of a little ski hill so i would go skiing after school and that was my first job i used to teach skiing at that little mountain we had the best time didn't we sarah we had the best time it was the best group except for except for we missed Donald and Casey so much, so we would FaceTime them and cry. There you go. That is the right answer there, Sarah.

I love that. It's the truth. We got to do it again. I wish I was there, too. But you want to talk about going slow, Zach. You would have looked like Sarah to Casey and I. Neither one of us are skiers. Casey's probably a really good skier, and she's white.

But the thing is, me, not so much. Casey and I, neither one of us are skiers. Casey's probably a really good skier and she's white. But the thing is, me, not so much. You keep saying this, but there are African-American people who ski. I know that you're on this tip. But also, Donald, it's all about the app. I don't ever see them when I watch these movies. When you watch Hot Tub Time Machine, Craig Robinson looked out of place and all of that shit. Like, that shit just doesn't look right. Yet.

We need a Tiger Woods. Jack and Jill's ski group. Donald, that shit just doesn't look right yet. We need a Tiger Woods for skiing. Donald, come on now. Black and blue and people will ski. I know. Joelle, help me out here. I love skiing as a teenager. You used to go skiing, Joelle? Yeah, up in Wisconsin. Do you love it? It's so much fun.

Joelle, you're the only black person in Wisconsin. True. Okay, whatever. Alright. But we have to do it again, Adol, in case you have to come. The fun, I mean, yes, the skiing's fun, but it's like the after stuff. It's the best. We played Codenames. I like

all the connections. I've reamed David Connections. We played this game called Codenames that I learned from the Lawrences because the lawrence family loves it and i brought it skiing and everyone we it's all anyone wanted to do we'd be like okay when are we playing code names it's really addicting it's fun and everyone was so equally competitive like i thought on my flight home i was like i feel like i just played that game with eight of me i'm extremely competitive in gaming and everybody was very competitive. It got heated.

That's what happens when we get together, you guys. We are a very competitive bunch. Like that's, watching this also reminded me of like all the vacations we've taken together and stuff like that. And all the sporting contests that we've had. If you bought a cornhole game out at at freaking scrubs even if we didn't know how to play it once we got the rules it is fucking on yo let's go and there'll be people

upset there'll be people uh i like i oh my gosh i can't take losing. This is, like, I think that's another thing. Do you like cornhole? Have you ever played cornhole? Of course. It's, Bill's obsessed with it. But I just thought you might like it because it's about, like, hitting a swoosh. I love cornhole. I played that.

Oh, I used to, oh my gosh, cornhole is fun. Yeah. We could freaking have a cornhole competition with beer and cornhole and the cast and crew of Scrubs reunited. It feels so good. Reunited and it feels so good. Oh, my God. Joel. Joel. No fucking way, Joel.

Joel. What are you doing? Oh, my God. This is amazing, Joel. You are a good producer. Wait, Johnny, see? I can't see him. Hey! Hey!

I don't have you guys. How do I get my camera going here? Oh, here we go. There he is. Thank god. Johnny C, please. Your headphones aren't working. Just for me. No, everything's working. I just can't see you, Jackie. We can see you.

Oh, Joelle, you did a good job. Hello, Jackie. Hello, Donald. Hello, Sarah. You look great, Johnny. Dude, I'm feeling good. I'm fighting gravity, motherfucker. Go for it. Let's go. Johnny, I'm so happy you're here. I talk about fucking competitive

spirits and all of that shit. Johnny comes on it right away. I feel great, motherfucker. Let's go. I'm fucking healthy as a mountain lion. I want to roar. I'm Randy. Johnny, I'm so glad you're here.

We, uh, Joelle surprises. We talked about it. We said we should get Sarah and Johnny C, um, on. And then I didn't know if Joelle was going to coordinate it all.

So you're beautiful surprises to Donald and I. Anytime Joelle emails us, we say, I'd do anything for you. Sarah, I watched the finale again of the eighth season. Do you have a bad angle? You look so beautiful in every goddamn shot. Even in the handheld, rough 16 millimeter stuff.

Do you have a bad angle? Yeah, she's hot. Oh, man. Can we wind the clock back? It's unbelievable. What are you talking about? Look at now you look even hotter it's unbelievable we we it was crazy watching that episode because you see us like you know however many years ago but then there's also the flashbacks to like the very first day and we were babies like just babies i love that i love that he flashed back to the pilot that was like so extra dramatic to

see how young we all looked i of course forgot that that billy is the last one in the frame with you i know that's when i that's when i cried to be honest when when that's when you cried i might my tears were prepped from the long hallway thing and the projection on the screen but then when bill looked in my eyes and said good night i just started crying and plus he's totally flat it's so great he does it so well he doesn't load it up or anything it's just a fact we should mention for those of you who don't know that last beat with the janitor packing up the the cloth that goodbye, JD, that's Bill playing the janitor saying goodnight to me. And that's when I lost it.

Is that right? I got to tell you, Johnny, we were talking about this. For Zach, Sarah, and I, I've yet to experience this again, before or after. And I thought, you know, I honestly believed that I would experience this camaraderie. You know what I mean? Like, all I did was watch this and be like, I need to be better.

I need to be a better friend to these people, man. Like, these are my family members. You know what I mean? That's what it felt like, you know? And it's just, I don't know about you, but this just, it was, I've yet to experience this type of connection ever again yet to i want to ask you you are you were a veteran coming into this is this the same for you is it different the only thing that comes close is spending all that time in the philippines with those guys on platoon because it was because the the bullshit barometer was around zero because they just had a revolution

and there was a rumored uh uh takeover of the government for seemingly every thursday and it just felt so real uh and so yeah i've stayed tight with a half a dozen of those guys but not not like this though i, we were together for nine, nine years, sometimes 14 hours a day. And just by virtue of arithmetic, that's more time than you can spend with your family. Yeah. Johnny, I was saying, uh, how happy I am before you came on that we've, uh, reconnected of late. And I just, I had so much fun with you this summer. Johnny taught me all the way. Johnny was my Mr. Miyagi for learning how to sauna cold plunge. And in addition to that, we really got to reconnect and just be friends again. And I, not that we weren't

ever friends, but I mean, really just spend time with each other because I was staying out in Malibu. And I really, I really love that, man. I really, I really cherish that we've gotten close again. Have you talked about any rumors about Scrubs reunions? Has that ever come up? Yeah, we don't want to over, we don't want to over promise to the listeners, but we talk about how there's... We're just talking about rumors. The discourse... It's just going to happen gonna happen we just gotta figure it out yeah we we mentioned i think the

listeners know that the discourse has gotten more serious of late right it's just probably a matter of time we gotta figure this out man i i can't i can't not after going i was saying how i hate this podcast now because it made me do something that I didn't do before, and that's watch our show. We fucking had a good show, bro. Dude, straight up. Our shit is good, dude. Look, that's one of the best series finales ever in the history of series finales, bro. Period.

I don't give a fuck what you say. That's up there, yo. That's up there. And you know me. I don't watch television. I only watch series finales that's my jam that's my motherfucking jam he does he doesn't watch tv shows he he occasionally we've mentioned shows we love and he's like oh yeah i just watched the finale of that i know i've heard on the show before donald insinuate that but i always thought

i thought you were fronting donald no no no no no no that's i think the biggest one was watchman right you watched the watchman finale right no i didn't know breaking bad i never yeah he only watched the breaking bad and i just watched the breaking bad finale yeah i fucking love this donald i'm stealing this because i feel like i never have time to get caught up whatever i'm just getting into finales. Just finales, man. It's the best. But we fucking crushed, dude. Holy shit. Wow. You want to talk about sticking the landing? How am I crying at something? Look, OK. Yeah. Granted, I was a part of the show and we're looking back and it's fucking nostalgic and all of that shit. But that's not what started the whole thing. What started the whole thing was that

turn around the motherfucking corner. How many times has this motherfucker turned around a corner at the end of the show? It's one, it's two. And as an actor on the show, I'm recognizing the hall. Okay, he's on the fucking third floor. That's the second floor. Oh shit, here we go. And he turns the corner and he doesn't go out the way that you can't go out also that's another thing you guys the reason why you never see us walk in the front and you always see us walk in the back is because the front is gated so that the freaking nutso's outside can't get in to the hospital because that's an actual real entrance. So you only see us walk in from the inside,

and you always see us walk out the back exit. That's because that's the only way in. And there's a security guard at the end of the motherfucking thing stopping anyone from getting in. And, I mean, because we had problems with urgent care too, right? The joy I have you guys, uh, Johnny and Sarah is that Donald has truly never watched the show scrubs.

And I swear to God, I thought, I swear to D I thought that was a front. No, it's not a bit. And so you're listening to a man who's not only been moved by the show, but who has truly seen the show for the first time. That's so fucked up.

It's good, dude. Look, yo, for real. I didn't know. Look, and that's what triggered, holy shit. I fucking was a part of something that, you know, it doesn't get better than this, man. And I'm searching for it, and I'm chasing it now. And that's, I've been trying to chase this fucking high

for the past, since we wrapped, since season nine. I've been trying to chase this high since season nine. Day one of season nine, I was trying to, let's get that scrubs feeling back. Let's get that fucking scrubs. Man, I can't get it. How's your experience on John Cryer, on you and John Cryer's show?

I love them. I love everybody there, you know, but we're only in season one. If we get eight seasons, I hope that we, I hope. But it's also a different vibe because it's a sitcom and you're not there the amount of hours and you guys are older and you're not like going out and partying and hanging out together and.

Right, absolutely right. We've yet to, we've gone out to dinner and stuff like that and have Right. You're absolutely right. We've yet to... We've gone out to dinner and stuff like that and had drinks and stuff like that. But, yo, like, it's crazy, Coach. So with y'all, I could say anything. And you guys will be like, Donald, you're taking it too far.

You know what I mean? Calm down. You're drunk. You're a little... Like, Zach can call me up the next day and be like Donald you were so fucking drunk last night let's not try not to be

that tonight I'll be like right you know what I mean let's chill you know what I mean these guys can't do that shit if I'm drunk they're like god damn this motherfucker is gone somebody say something I'm not saying nothing. You say something.

I'm not going to say nothing. You know what I mean? Like, I don't have that connection. I don't have that connection. Go ahead, Sarah. We started at 24, and like you were saying, it's 16, 17, and this was before networks had budgets, really. So we were there

like 17, 18 hours. Like when you start to get 25 years old don't even try it 24 25 i was 24 when we started i was 26 i'm 1976 oh shit 74 i thought you were 75 this whole time sarah i'm 75 she's's 74. You remember 74, 75, 76. Don't take a year. Holy shit. I will not do that again. I was trying to catch you in a lie. No, no, no. If I was going to lie about my age, I wouldn't be doing it over a year. It would be like

15. All right, so go back. 74. Okay, so you were 24 years old. 24, 24, 26. I mean, like, everybody was going to the money tree on Friday nights at, you know, 11 p.m. We'd stay there until 2. I mean, like, everybody was going to the Money Tree on Friday nights at, you know, 11 p.m. We'd stay there till 2. Like, I mean, I remember we'd go to Fratter Days and the wine and cheese tray would come out at like 6 p.m.

Fucking wine and cheese. Wine and cheese Fridays. I mean, there was no... So I think we're all saying that it would be fun to do a reboot is what we're saying. It would be fun to do a reboot. what we're saying One of the things like When you watch the finale I feel like It's the stuff Like it moved me so much

But then it's like the tiny little clips Cut to like Donald dancing I mean I could watch Donald dance all day Every day all day long It cuts to you know When Zach and Judy Were doing their goodbye scene and like that just the two of you saying goodbye made me like tear up again like my welling moments were like I cried

the second you know you the hallway's full and then it's empty when you turn back around and the montage obviously with that song but then it was like when everybody was hugging goodbye like it's well broke my heart all right why don't we do a proper count in donald and then we're going to go through the episode now because you haven't we've just been rambling we forgot to uh count into the show but we haven't started the show yet but do you want sarah to do it in German just because we can? Do you want French, German? Do you want French? French, but in a sexy

way. We've done French before. No, but she hasn't turned it up to like a sexy French. And there's no way she could do sexy German because that shit is like... Try me. Femme, sex, sieben, acht. No, I think we're more into sex. Didn't work.

Didn't work. I got no movement. Let me see if I get movement from that. Your face is beautiful, and the way your face looked when you said it was great, but that shit kind of scared me a little. But Sarah, seduce the audience counting from five to one in French, please. Thanks. Cease.

Set. French, please. Thanks, C.S. Sent. Here's some stories about a show we made About a bunch of docs and nurses And a janitor who loved to hate I said here's the stories that we all should know So gather round to hear our Gather round to hear our Scrubs Rewatch Show with Zach and Donald By the way, I should mention, speaking of French, guys, I have a really fun French-Canadian movie coming out

called The French Girl with Vanessa Hudgens. And I think it'll be on streaming or places on the interwebs on March 15th. So please check it out. Sarah, you'll like it. It's half in French. I can't wait to see it. I've seen the trailer. It looks like, it looks like my kind of movie anyways.

It's up my alley and to have it like half French, half English. I'm overly excited. Yeah. You're going to laugh. It's very funny. All right, let's get into the TV show scrubs.

The finale of, of what we believe to be the proper show. Eight seasons of the real show, Scrubs. J.D. and Elliot are in bed together, and we learn that Elliot's been sneak moving in. And J.D., she says he wants morning sex. Elliot says that he can have it only if she just lies there, which I recently learned is a term called a pillow princess.

Ah. Yes, that's if you're just someone who just lies there, which I recently learned is a term called a pillow princess. Ah. Yes, that's if you're just someone who just lies there and doesn't put any work in. Donald, have you heard that? No, I don't get out much. Joelle, have you heard the term pillow princess? Yes, I've heard the term pillow princess.

Okay, that's what Elliot's doing. She's being a pillow princess. Absolutely. We're in the coffee shop Okay. That's what Elliot's doing. She's being a pillow princess. Absolutely. Okay. We're in the coffee shop, and Ted, it turns out he's eating dirt. He's drinking a coffee full of dirt because he's insulted one of the baristas. No, Kelso said he's insulted. Kelso made up a rumor that he insulted the barista and he said that his coffee tastes

like dirt and so the barista to get back at Ted puts dirt in the coffee but it's Kelso who made up the Ted's still trying to drink it he's going to commit and try and drink the dirt it's good dirt that's what he says

at the end and Kelso says that he's not going to be hanging around the coffee shop anymore he too is going to be moving on and he's going to take the table and chairs yeah which is very interesting because that's what everybody tried to do with Rowdy everyone kind of had an attempt like I know I tried to but he wasn't there the last day I think everybody knew that that people had their eyes on Rowdy and the security guards were circling. Did you guys take anything? Like I got scrubs and I got like some of the clothes. Oh, you know what?

I have the antlers. I'm looking at them. The foam antlers that I wore in the pilot when I'm a deer in headlights. I have those. Be careful. Disney's going to come and get that shit. They're going to come and get that. Johnny, did you take any mementos, Johnny?

No, I think it's a jinx. I've always felt like you should leave it on the set. I don't ever take stuff off the set. Interesting. A jinx in what way? Like what would the... That you're taking work home with you. And I think you should do everything you can

to leave it on the set. And so I think when people accumulate too much shit from sets i feel like that they should have gotten it done in the frame and left it there and i've always felt that way and so i don't ever never never interesting it's it's it's completely bullheaded irish bullshit but uh that's what i've done all right i've kept quite a few things from different sets i like that idea though because you're right it accumulates and you look at the shit and you're like damn why do i still have this script why do i have episodes somewhere you know what i mean it like races from clueless some i'm sure I've given them up. I had my Remember the Titans jersey. I gave it up for auction, I think, like that.

I signed it and gave it away. Yeah, that's what you got to do. That's what you got to do. Yeah. I found my audition sides. I don't really keep, I don't save very much, but I found the sides, the highlighted sides from the audition. Yeah, but that's genius.

That's not from the set. That's sweet. that's fantastic and i made my appointment sheet too that has like you know showing up at nbc like for the test at the end that i met and i remember it just brought back all the memories like sitting in your car beforehand just going like doesn't matter what happens in the car it's gotta happen in there and just like the adrenaline when you want i had my i had a series of songs that i would listen to like as a ritual because i kept getting callbacks so i had like a series of songs that i would listen to in my car before i went to each callback um just what were they do you remember i remember one was, uh, I think the, there's a radio head song, stop whispering,

start shouting. And, and I love that song. And to me, it was like, you know, come on motherfucker. Stop being,

don't be shy. Don't be, don't be wimpy. Like stop whispering, start shouting, go get this part, go fucking crush. It was like an anthem.

I love that. I, she was after, go ahead. Well, should was after go ahead well i was gonna say also the outfit became a bit of a superstition because i remember i wore and i wore this thing to the first audition and there were four so once i had a call back and then the next call back and the next call back i remember one was like two in a row and i was like i don't have time to wash it but at this point i'm in i gotta wear the uniform because when i first moved to la i remember wearing like i don't know what I would wear.

Like I had these like plaid bell bottoms, these runners and this t-shirt that I thought was like super cool. And it was for Aaron Spelling. And there were seven of us and all the other girls had a tight black tank top, tight black pants and black high heeled boots. And I was like, yes, there's a uniform. Like, I guess this is just like what you have to do so that's what i wore to the scrubs i wore my i wore the same outfit after every

callback too you did but it was yours it was just a a you know a light blue button-down shirt but i just was like this shit's lucky i'm on like the third callback. This shit's getting worn every single time. I wore it up until the sixth callback. My shit was all about releasing after every audition. You know what I mean? And so my release shit would be like Eminem, I just don't give a fuck. And I would play that shit as loud as fuck and scream that shit with him. I just don't give a fuck. I'll never. was that was it so when you see me on your block saying fuck the world like tupac i just don't give a fuck oh i love it i'm gonna

copy that i'm taking that that was my mantra i used to love that song um Let's talk about the goodbye JD sign. I think, as I recall, Bill came to me, he might deny this now, and said, do you have any cool visual ideas for the end? And I had done some projection on faces, both in Garden State

and in a student film at Northwestern where I had kind of thought that I'd seen that somewhere and I had done that and I thought that looks really cool when you project images in focus on people's faces. And I believe that's where he had the, then he took that and ran with it and came up with this very clever idea

to establish the goodbye JD sheet that hangs that eventually will pay off with being a movie screen, which was. Oh, you know where else we see that, Zachy? In Cinema Paradiso. Yes. We get the, we get the projection on the face and I don't know, have you ever seen that? It's kind of an obscure foreign film. No, no, it's beautiful. I'm sure I'm not the only person to do it, but I think I loved it and I hadn't done it.

No doubt. We hadn't done it on doubt we hadn't done it on scrubs so i i thought like oh this is something i've done and looks cool and it might be it might be perfect and it really was we'll get there we get to the end but those those images projected on jd's face was so pretty um is elliot's brother barry he's transitioned? Well, he has G's. Double D's? Well, JD asks if he says they did a dynamite

job on his breasts. Are they G's? No, are they D's? I thought. She says double D's. She corrects him that they're not G's, they're double D's. But JD's in the ballpark. Well, there's E-F-G. But yeah, sure.

But sure, bro. But you're jumping a bit, Donald, because first we have- I thought that was all in the bed in the morning. That was the beginning. That was the beginning. Oh, sorry. You're right. You're right.

You're right. Then we do a big spinning eagle. Before we did the spinning eagle, I saw those are like the stunt mats in the parking lot. And I was like, did they really not frame out the stunt mats that we used all the time? And then I remembered that in the world of the show, Turk has purchased giant mats so he can do a final giant spinning eagle. This is so good. And find the mat. Yeah, that was funny.

Find the mat. Find the mat yeah that was funny find the mat find the mat follow my voice when Donald's like calling out to those best now Elliot and Carla are trying to make fun of our hugs oh my god

we have another surprise visitor this is incredible Joelle oh my god, Joel. Let's go! Bunderous applause, Daniel. Oh! Oh!

Bill Lawrence and Krista Miller. What the heck? We got ratings, man! This is going to be one of the best podcasts ever in the history of fake doctors real friends

oh my god wow how long how long were you both planning on doing this because you kept the secret from me yeah um for full disclosure I wanted to go to Zach's hey what's up Sarah

hey Jalal I already did the countdown I did the countdown I'm sorry For full disclosure, I wanted to go to Zach's. Hey, what's up, Sarah? Hey, Joelle. I already did the countdown. I did the countdown. I'm sorry. It's okay. Five, six, seven, eight. You know what? I'm not into those jokes anymore. No, I said that I would come for this last one. By the way, we also had a plan, but then Krista's in a horrible mood, so she's been yelling

at me. We were going to be doing a shrinking podcast. And she was so annoying right before you guys let us in. We lost the will. We threw our bits out. I had a Batman mask. He doesn't look cute in it.

Not a good look for him. Krista said that it was stupid. Look what we're wearing. Oh, no, I didn't know. And then Krista said it was stupid. And then she's like, how long do we have to fucking wait for this podcast? I didn't say that. Never say that. It does not sound like Krista. Wait, Bill.

And then by the way, Zach, I agreed to do it. And then I texted you to come over and use your cold plunge. And you said I have a podcast at one. And I was like, Zach, I agreed to do it. And then I texted you to come over and use your cold plunge. And you said, I have a podcast at one. And I was like, oh, right. I forgot. It's funny because I literally, I was working with Bill till late last night. And it was late.

And I was like, I just don't have the balls to ask him if he wants to come on and do the finale. Like, he's so fried. I'm so fried. Like, I'm not going to like even ask him. And then this morning he were like, Hey, do you want to get in the sauna? And I was like, I have to do the scrubs podcast. And you were like, Oh, okay. And then that was, and then I hear you are so funny. I wish it could be me being cute, but I had, if we had not texted Dan on Joel would just know as a flaky person again,

I would just not be here again. I forgot. I'm sorry. Well, in my mind, much like JD and Cox, in my mind, you were excited to participate for weeks. Oh, my God. I've been looking forward to this whole week. Jackie, may I say that it's been so much fun to have you be the director on Shrinking this week, and you're my favorite director.

Thank you. Thank you. You haven't directed yet. Jackie, thank you for being there for me this week and you're my favorite director thank you thank you you haven't directed yet saki thank you for being there for me this week you just made it so great it's so much fun we're having the best time and i love bill i know you don't like sincerity but i i'm just having i have so much fun working with you both and uh and the show's so good this year and and uh it's just an honor let's take a break we'll be right back after these fine words. When you find that bright spot to help you get through your day, it's powerful. That's where the bright side comes in. A new daily podcast from Hello Sunshine that's bringing you a daily dose of

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or wherever you get your podcasts. I love you guys so much. We've been talking about how, you know, watching this finale, just for us, for Zach, Sarah, and Johnny, and myself, you know, I've been chasing this high, chasing this for the longest. Like, I sincerely had never watched Scrubs, and then, like, we watched it. Yeah, that makes me feel good.

No, but listen, we watched it for the whole, we watched it for the rewatch, and I'm crying, I was crying watching it. No, but listen, we watched it for the whole, we watched it for the rewatch. And I'm crying. I was crying watching it. Like, not only was I a part of one of the best shows to be on television, but like, dude, one of the best fucking finales in the history of finales, dude. They're never good. They always suck. They always suck.

There's always a letdown. And we did not fucking do that, Bill. We stuck that shit so hard. We were like fucking Gabby Douglas out this bad boy. Bam! Hands up in the air, man. Like, such an amazing... I know. And then putting the

video screen with Peter King. What, baby? This is not who you were before this started. It's not who you were before this started. It's not who you were before this started. Everyone thinks so. I love you so much.

You're a liar. You're a liar to your friends. You're the love of my life. I'm so talented. I would watch this podcast just the two of you. All day long. It's of you. All day long. It's so annoying. You're the goat, baby.

You guys want some fun? That was lovely. You want some fun finale tribute? First of all, did you guys talk about this? This is the finale of Scrubs. That's always on the internet. I don't know if you guys are even, we haven't decided, you know,

ultimately it's my decision as is my podcast, if we're going to do the ninth season or not. Dale and Joel and I are talking about, but the ninth year of Scrubs was a spinoff and it even have a different title. And I always think it gets a bad rap because a lot of those kids were really good. And anytime you three were on the show, it was awesome.

But this one was such a fun finale. And I'll tell you guys, the one Easter egg that only the writing room knows about is JD's last speech when he walks through the hall is about being a TV writer. And so that's how we did the finale of the show. So we were all, sometimes when you sit in the writer's room, especially when it's really late, you're like, oh, what's the point of this? And so I think it's a speech. It's a little, it was a little rough of a metaphor

for a doctor, but we say, if you, sometimes you make people feel good, I'm going from memory, feel good, even for a couple of minutes, you know you know what I mean that's the best you can hope for and it was barely a thin metaphor to what it would be like to be a doctor and you delivered it quite well Zach and we didn't know if we were going to be able to pull it off I don't know if you remember this

I didn't know how long that monologue was going to be so I just made you walk around the halls in circles for a while because I hadn't written it that monologue was going to be. So I just made you walk around the halls in circles for a while. Because I hadn't written it. That's what that is? Motherfucker. I thought that was like fucking,

I thought it was so poetically. Do you remember? So each of us got one episode with the voiceover and I remember on mine, there wasn't a script that Monday morning. And so you said said we're not sure what it's going to be so just give us some different faces and emotions and so I didn't know

it was going to be half or sides I was like oh my god I can't believe that I thought it was so well done I'm sitting there watching it like that's the freaking second floor oh my god, my God. He's that's the that's the hallway right around where we did the freaking dance. Here comes here. It comes here. It comes. He comes around that corner. Oh, my God. I'm freaking crying like a baby. Casey walks by and my face. It looked like somebody punched me in the face and you know how when you get punched in the nose how you can't stop tears it's like all over i'm sitting there watching scrubs i can't even see it through dude i didn't know we did this i did not know it took us it took me 20 what 50 years old this year it took you 20 years to realize you worked on something good

and i'm never gonna fucking get this again. And that's what fucking kills me, man. It kills me, Bill. He had no idea he was on a good show until today. No, I knew it was a good show because of the way the fans are. But I had no idea we were this fucking good, bro. Like from front to end, from start to finish. It's like the Instagram.

It's like those TikTok things when people go, I was just today years old when I found out. I was just today years old when I found out Scrubs was good. The show that I would love. I knew it was good. No, that's not what I'm saying. I knew it was good. I always, I've known it's good, but it's

perfect. Season 9 is a, I'm sorry, but we should have stopped it at season eight. No, no. We'll talk about that as another point because it wasn't Scrubs anymore. It was a spinoff. Everybody got another year of work. That is true.

If it would be called what it was supposed to be called, which was med school, nobody would have judged it as harshly. I tell you, I've watched those because, you know, it's not Scrubs. But all the writers did a good job. I still remember Eliza Koop and Mike Mosley and Dave Franco was funny. And if it was a spin-off, Carrie Bichet would not have been under as much scrutiny. But this was the end of Scrubs.

My only regrets about the finale were one was Brendan Fraser was off doing a movie and I thought he should have been in that hallway it really bummed me out and um the uh and then he wanted to be you know because he's always been lovely i think you know he came on here you know he's always been lovely about our show and grateful for it and then the weird one was nbc kept their two employees because we had moved to ABC. NBC kept their two employees from doing the show, which was a gift shop girl and Masi.

Remember him? Masi. Okay. I think his name was. They were on shows. And because they were on two NBC shows, like, no,

they can't come be in the final montage. And I, that's so petty. And so, I know. So here's the other things that make me laugh I ran into Tom Cavanaugh in New York and he said even though he was the bad guy on Flash for eight years when people see him in the city they still go hey little brother because that's when it started that's when the tear started right then and there hey little brother oh shit I'm gonna cry that's what it started. That's when the tears started. Right then and there. Hey, little brother. Oh, shit. I'm going to cry.

That's what it was. This was really just about, oh, shit. I'm going to cry. It was like out of nowhere. Dude, oh, my God. Now, what about. Sorry. Go ahead, Bill.

You go. You go. I was going to say, what was the process like? Because, you know, obviously the writing was so good and you nailed all these moments between everyone. But what was the process? Do you remember for organizing, getting all of those people there to be a part of that last moment? I mean, I remember filming it and it was so clever and so moving. Oh, you're nice, man.

Look, I never knew when this show was going to end after the first five years because then it was just weird and bouncing around and stuff. And still successful, but remember, NBC didn't own it. the first five years, because then it was just weird and bouncing around and stuff. It's still successful, but remember, NBC didn't own it, and so they always treated it like a stepchild a little bit. So the one thing I always had locked and loaded, because I knew I had to write the finale, and you guys all know I hate writing. That's why you were always standing around waiting for scenes.

He's hated it. He does. I do. But I knew that the ending of this show was the line who's to say my fantasies couldn't come true just this once right so i knew that and uh i didn't know if we'd be able to pull off the hallway thing but the coolest thing was the sheer volume of people we called that just said they'd show up you know and everybody was super duper cool about it so uh uh it was neat i wish i wish everybody like literally everybody could have been that oh the other person that couldn't make it

because he was uh literally shooting a show was uh foley who's uh oh right and there was some reason that doug wasn't there too johnny castle but doug had a health issue his family his it's why he stopped acting he moved back to connecticut his dad had a or mom had a health issue. His family is... That's why he stopped acting. He moved back to Connecticut. His dad had a... Or mom had a health issue. And he left acting because he went back there to help take care of his family. He couldn't be around.

Scott Foley is my favorite version. The biggest... You must have talked about it on your podcast. I can't believe in the finale episode I called it your podcast. That hurts. Scott Foley still, no matter what he posts or no matter what he says, somebody

writes, nobody cares, Sean. He said that he'll be right. Anytime in my family, anyone, like it comes up most days, nobody cares, Sean. Scott Foley told me that he'll do some Instagram posts on his anniversary talking about how amazing his wife is and how his life couldn't be what it was if it wasn't for her. All the comments are, nobody cares, Sean.

I'm so proud of my kids. Nobody cares, Sean. Sarah, yesterday we were finishing up or the day before for the night and everyone's like I'm getting my mic take off and Jessica's like, I just need one more and I was like, Sarah Sarah She wants one more

when she's had 11 She's had 11 I know there are so many good songs on the show and anytime I'm on another set and nobody gets it so just like in my head, every single time, every time in any scene they say turn around, in my head I'm like, turn around and no jank hair. Turn around and no jank hair. Let's take a break. We'll be right back after these fine words.

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I got a topic for all of us. And hey, a quick timeout out daniel you can edit stuff out if zach wants to edit it out right sure of course yes but we're not going to edit anything out you keep talking just go to the laser quickly because i didn't know i was going to stay that means a nap that means a nap no i'm not saying i'll still come back you know donald was talking about kind of chasing that high again um and you rarely have an opportunity except when we do it for social reasons for um you know the five of us to be together don't you guys all have and you know i don't mean to approach a familiar topic but like uh when we live in a world of people

always going hey you're gonna do that show again or you're gonna reboot it or you're gonna whatever for me the one appealing thing about that on this particular show is uh the people and uh i haven't had a situation yet you try to create all the time that you know i ended up friends with everybody i still spend time with everybody up here not as much as i can with chalky because she is a lives in a different country it's just such an interesting topic because i don't think the coolest thing about how talented you all are is everybody here works when they want to, um, or does two Superbowl commercials whenever they want to,

um, this year, dude, two this year, but four. Um, but, uh,

uh, like for me, the most appealing thing about ever doing that show again is the people in front of and behind the camera. I miss the writers, too, because one of the things that show catapulted so many people's careers, the way writing and TV works, you never get to work with each other again because everybody's off doing and creating their own shows because they're all rock stars. creating their own shows because they were all rock stars. You know? Bill, I feel like if we, I've been talking so much shit on this freaking extended family press tour, which comes on 830s on NBC and also on Peacock the day after on Tuesday nights. The thing is, I've been doing so much shit talking.

Like people are asking me, Kelly Clarkson asked me, yo, so what's up with Scrubs? And I've been going out there saying, oh, we're going to fucking do it. We just got to get everybody together. Is that a mistake, Bill? The greatest honor in television, right? So I wanted to ask you guys how you were all feeling about it. Just, just even as an idea is to be in a position, you get to do something fun creatively. If you want to, I don't know. It's something I still think about a lot. Is it you guys same way, Zach,

Johnny C, Sarah. Yeah. I got to tell you, absolutely. And working with you on, on shrinking and collaborating with you makes me very nostalgic for how fun it was. And then, of course, doing this. I mean, I cried, man. Right before you got on, I was saying my eyes were welling when I was doing the hallway thing. And then I turn around and no one's there and I got goosebumps.

But then when I come outside and you just look at me and totally straight say good night that I just started crying like tears streaming down my face that was so I have just a very very special place in my heart for for this and all these people you know you're young and you do and you leave it and you're like yeah that's a job that's what jobs are like but they're not and you know they're not and then you watch, like, I watched the finale and the montage scene. I mean, I, that song. And I was saying to you guys, it was amazing. And before you guys came on, I was telling them, like, and then it cuts to, like, all the behind the scenes stuff of, like, everyone being wrapped out and saying goodbye and hugging. And I was a mess.

I mean, that's not how it usually is. And I, you know, I remember like it was yesterday that day. I was, Henry was asking me about it because he started to watch my son, Henry, and well, you guys know, but, and, and I said, but you don't understand. We were all, we weren't like going to location you know we had some locations but we were all in a hospital together with dogs with the writers with everybody with everyone was there which is also so unique it's so unique like on any show after that because that was like my first job i there's been shows i've done where you don't meet any of the writers at all and we were all at the lunch truck together every day or going down

to the writer's room or hanging in the hallway and so it was so foreign to me that you know you work on a show where you literally don't ever interact with the whole writing staff. And how about when you saved that girl's life? Who? This girl, we had cake for someone like if it was someone's birthday and she came up the stairs and she was choking and came up to where the actors were and she was choking and Sarah did

the Heimlich and saved her life. Are you guys sure that wasn't like a C story on one of your episodes? No, don't take this from me. the Heimlich and saved her life. Are you guys sure that wasn't like a C story on one of the episodes that happened? Don't take this from me. Do not take this from me. Do you remember the show? I remember that now and I was saying to these guys before you guys came on

watching that montage was like this flash forward of JD's life but for me it was like this montage in my mind after the episode finished the credits rolled of that whole eight years. was these flashes of like the dogs in the hallway and everybody having lunch together in the money tree on friday nights and like just the amount that we laughed yeah i could watch that uh end montage scene of johnny c having to hug uh zach over makes me so

happy. The look on your face, the look on your face. Oh my God. And another one of my favorite moments we haven't talked about yet is Johnny C telling Sonny how much he loved Zach and how, what a spectacular person and doctor he was. And Zach's face.

That was beautiful. And like the inhale, the breath you take. It just killed me. And all of us happy with the song and the montage. Like with the kids and the laughing. But you predicted it, Bill, you predicted it.

It's what we have now. I don't have that with anybody else. You know what I mean? You predicted it at the end of the fucking show. You showed everybody this group of people is special and we're going to be together for the rest of our lives. Our kids are going to meet each other. You know what I mean? All of this stuff,

all of the things that happened at the end of this show happened in real life dude except johnny except johnny c in real life doesn't mind it when we look at right he's the only thing like me offering other people his bounty zach otherwise don't offer other people my bounty that's the best that that context of that is we were bill bill had a friend and come over and bill offered the friend if he wanted an espresso from johnny's espresso machine and johnny was like only only i am allowed to offer that because that is my he goes that johnny c goes that is my bounty why are you offering my bounty to strangers by the way everybody laughs when you hear this

stuff but when it's said to you it's not said like a haha moment because he was depriving me of the right to flourish you're taking that away from me you can't take that away from me in like 30 seconds?

Like 100%. 100%. Yeah. We don't see. Oh, here. I feel like the rules. You want to use the Dodge pickup truck? Would you like to go down and use the golf shack?

I feel like sometimes. You want to bring your kids over and put them on the fucking trampoline? Go ahead. Go ahead. Let me offer. Sometimes it's my bounty to offer. I just love that Johnny

called his Nespresso pods his bounty. I'll tell you, when I was watching, when I was watching, I had a strange reaction to watching the finale. I just,

I regret it not getting to know Sammy better than I did because I knew Sammy casually on the set, but I guess I was selfishly too wrapped up in my own shit and I never got to know Sammy. And when I see him and he's such a comic genius, it always just destroys me. And it fills me with regret, love and all that. But I just, I didn't get to know him. I played whenever I see him, that's how it impacts me.

Yeah. I was lucky to see him in my basketball it impacts me yeah i was lucky season my basketball game for 20 years he's a shockingly good basketball player um and uh but what a lovely you know we show and almost every time we're talking about sam lloyd uh is chris lloyd's nephew since if you notice the familiarity but he played ted the attorney he was on spin city too he was on cougar town um i just he's been a buddy of mine and just always thought he was a comedic genius. And my favorite, if you have a chance to go back and watch it, because I've showed almost every young actor that talks about

physical comedy is Sam in a scene with Donald. He needed on a table for his hand to slip and then to hit his head on the table. And there was a stuck person trying to show him how to do it. He's like, I'm just going to do it. It's one

of the funniest things I've ever seen in my life. It looks so painful, partially because he slams his head after he slips and then mostly because he drifts into Ken Jenkins' lap and then just falls off. Bill, let's talk about a topic that i think the audience will be super interested in is is glenn matthews really the janitor's name uh yeah so i've we've had this argument a lot

because neil flynn by the way uh uh such a lovely dude he wanted to know and then we talked about his name being glenn we said for fun because you guys know we used to do weird easter eggs i do them on one show to another show like you know in i think it's in the finale is in the finale you just watched it when sarah's given up her place and she lives with you yeah yeah and you say uh i feel i should have been told yeah that is uh a line from the pilot of spin city uh that's cute uh mike fox's girlfriend carla gagina uh he said everybody's coming over for work tonight because there's a crisis in the pilot he's like she's probably crash at your own place and she's like i don't have one and he goes he's like what she goes i give up my apartment like three months ago

he's like so we live together. I feel like I should have been told. And then she's like, she's like, all my stuff's here. Who did that picture where there's my parents? Who do you think they were? He's like, I thought they came with the frame. And Mike was so good at it, so we put Easter eggs and everything. the point of that was Neil was like

all you guys nicely Neil did a voice of the janitor on Clone High and the janitor's name on Clone High was Glenn and we decided back then that his name would be Glenn and we came up with Matthews because Neil liked the joke of having a list when he was a kid so his name was

Glenn Maffoof so in the world of Scrubs even when he was a kid. So his name was Ben Maffoosh. Yeah. So in the world of Scrubs, even though he was in The Fugitive, which would make his name Neil Flynn, he clearly lied to whoever created the credits. There were so many people on the internet would say, obviously the janitor's name is Neil Flynn because of what it said. And then in the writer's room, we wasted a day arguing by saying, if he's lied to everyone about his name, about where he's from, and what he does, which is why we did that funny story, then you could never say he didn't lie about his name back then.

So all that it means is the janitor at one point was an actor on The Fugitive who lied and said his name was Neil Flynn. Right. But then when Deontay comes by and he says, hey Tommy, he's lying to Deontay. His wife

only has the pinky and forefinger to sew his... One of the best parts of this whole episode was Neil's fucking only has the pinky and forefinger to sew his... One of the best parts of this whole episode was Neil's fucking run about Manite and Thomas Howell.

Manite and Shyamalan. And I said, There's no Mo? There's no Mo. I think we're standing. My favorite, by the way, the only thing in the finale that we hadn't figured out years before, and I wish I could take credit for it, one of the writers in the writer's room,

was the idea that you did put a penny in the door and the janitor saw you do it. That's why he's been torturing you for nine years. That was such a great moment, man. Because I knew that he put the penny in the door because we've discussed this before. Well, he didn't do it on purpose. We learned it was an accident. I thought there was going to be a malicious story coming.

And then he's like, fine, I put the penny in the door. It fell out of my pocket. And it rolled all the way there. And I fucking, I was nervous. It was my first day. He goes, I know. I saw it. He's like, you knew this whole time?

Oh, it floored me. It floored me. I was like, holy shit. That was great. Oh, man. And they could have been, by the way, they could have been great friends. They could have been awesome friends. This is why we obsess about it in the writer's room.

awesome this is why we obsess about in the writer's room because the only two people that had ludicrous fantasy lives in their brain were jd and the janitor though just said his out loud about manatee and uh weird three-fingered wives and all that other stuff manatee didn't exist no it's just but he's but jd said he saw him I think I saw a manatee. Yeah, but I think JD was just unconscious underwater, dude. Okay. You know, it's funny. We were on Shrinking last night, and Bill was saying something to someone. I'm like, I forgot. What was the tee up, Bill?

You said something like, I don't like things to get too broad. And I was like, really? Because I recall an ostrich stealing Donald's Kango. Kango, yeah. Yeah. The worst, the best broad moment on that show, when I just like the wheels were off, is true because Cabot is so good at what he does.

He's the production designer of all my shows and movies and all this other stuff. We left Friday and we'd written that the janitor was living in a sandcastle. He had built with like construction dirt in the parking lot. And we expect it to be like a kid's playhouse. You know, when you see those, when you come in, I drove into work Monday and then there was like a two story sink. I was like, Oh no.

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living in a two-story sandcastle. One is an ostrich stealing Donald's Kanga and acting as a sentry and closing the gate with his paw or whatever, his claw. And the number one is me fitting in Donald's backpack. You know what Honorable Mention

is? Also known as Fantasy? Honorable Mention is you as a flagpole. Yeah. You as a flag on top of a flagpole. Yeah. He was a flag on top of a flagpole blown in the wind. Yeah. Whatever. You guys, if you guys got emotional at that last line

between me and Zach, did you guys, I got here late, did you talk a little bit about how I'm a very underrated actor and people don't really talk about that. I'm so good. We did. You know what? Johnny c bought it up and said fucking he did dude but that's part of why this is why you stuck that why the show stuck the landing dude because you could have been the cheese factor at the end of it all they got the

writer of the show to say the final line but you fucking delivered dude you don't sorry krista krista you know i love you. But he fucking delivered. Yeah, I think you were better as melancholic janitor than you were as the priest in the Bahamas. Yes, I was doing that. Whoa, whoa, whoa. He was funny as a dude.

He was funny. When they talk about how they don't want anybody to use the corner. That was one of my favorite memories because you guys uh might not remember this but uh uh and probably not good to say this because i was on camera but we were all shmammered i was just loaded on pina coladas and making jokes up yeah and directing and directing yeah and uh and you guys were all in the pool uh watching me riff and i i remember i said some

things of, I don't mean them about marriage, but I said, don't let the other person ever use your car. Cause they get their stink all over. Yeah. They get your stink all over. Other things you can't say now.

I think you said when you're in an argument with your house, your spouse never hit him above the waist or something like that. Never say that. I don't think you never say that now say that now i like how you did the callback bill to the uh the johnny c's line about uh throwing the ibuprofen at the patients and however much sticks in their mouth is the right dosage i was like yeah it's such a good oh man so good so what do you guys i'm not none of us have made any decisions and it's always fun to i think part

of the fun of reliving stuff and thinking about doing it again is you don't ever know if you can recapture that but do you all creatively like in your heads i always think that like the cool thing about scrubs is that if we ever did it again uh i feel like the world could use a little kindness i feel like it could use you could use what you guys all brought was a... I think you all knew from the start that even though it was a funny show, that you were supposed to act like you gave a shit about your job and that you were of service

and kind. And I think it's a world that new young people could come into. I mean, look, one of the most exciting things for me, I don't know if it happens to you all as actors and actresses is a lot of my shows have young writers on them. And, uh, uh, some of them, you know, say, Hey, I got into comedy writings. I watched scrubs when I was,

it makes me feel old, but like when I was in junior high and stuff, um, do you guys ever get that stuff? You, do you, do you run into people that comedically kind of found their way watching you all work i mean i've heard it for johnny c i've heard it for just being around zach sometimes but that's that part of your life at me from everywhere it comes at me from like on every job that i've on every job that i've been on somebody has said you know but Scrubs was my show. I really love Scrubs. And it doesn't just happen once in a while. On any job that I'm on, I'll get it from multiple people. You know what I mean? It's like, you know, we were talking the other day about how shows connect with people and how, you know, when you have a connection with the show, you care about it and you're really passionate about it and you just want to spread that joy with other people.

I think our show is that. I think we had a core audience. I think, and it was a huge audience. I think we're bigger now than we were back then because our core audience has introduced it to their children, to their friends, you know what I mean? And so now, wherever I go, I've been in a lot of stuff, dude. You know what I mean? I've been in a lot of stuff.

Johnny's been in a lot of things. Sarah's been in a lot of stuff. Zach, you're still working. You're still working. You're still working. And me, yes. And Krista, dude, you're on like every hit show that's ever been on television in the last decade. This has been a working record for 65 years.

Oh, my God. Buddy, buddy, buddy. So pretty. Bill. Keep going. I've never been approached as much as I have for Scrubs. More than anything. More than anything. More than anything.

And it's not just like occasionally. It's every day. Every day. Every day. And that's saying something. That means something. That's, you know what I mean? I was saying this earlier.

As an actor, you hope you make a footprint. You hope you have the opportunity to work with such great people and that it carries on after the show is over. Does that happen for the majority of us out there? No, it doesn't. I got fucking lucky, dude. And I got to be a part of something really, really good. And it took a fucking podcast and all of this stuff for me to realize it. And a pandemic.

You know what I mean? Like, dude, for real, I'm 50 years old this year, and I'm fucking looking back at when I was 26 to 33. Like, damn, man. I fucking had some dope shit in my life, and I didn't fucking realize it. And if I could just turn back time. Like, if I could just, if there was a way

to just get in the machine and go back there. People are like, oh my, like my Instagram. They love that you guys all stay. They love that you guys all stay together. They love that we're all so family. Yeah, man. I love that more than anything. I was saying that earlier. I love the fact that it's, dude, it's us, man.

You know what I mean? And it's still us, regardless of what we all do, regardless of where we all go and stuff like that. At the end of the day, it's still us, yo, we're still here. It's still us. It's our time down here. Exactly. Exactly.

I add that to like, it's in terms of, you know, you're saying has people approached you? It's interesting because it happens on a few different levels. Like people approach you so often. Doctors saying like, obviously this is the show that inspired them my little sister is a doctor and and uh when i went to her medical school graduation like all of the doctors were like this is the show this is what inspired me this is what made me want to be a doctor

and then in terms of acting you know the same thing like the little the actress that played me as young kate on fire Lane, she was so sweet. Like she said, all of your, she's like, I had just knew your mannerisms just from growing up with Scrubs. And she's like, that's why I got the part. Cause I just had, you know, watched the show all the time. And then the last part I think is like everybody who comes up to you that just says it's gotten me through. And that's the ones that just kind of like choke you up a little bit, like obviously hugely through the pandemic, but also before that,

just saying like I, or people that reach out to you through Instagram or Twitter or whatever, just saying like, I'm having such a hard time and scrubs is fucking getting me through. And it's just like, it's so lucky and rare and cool to be a part of something that provided that for people. Yeah. People come with kindness.

You want to know the worst version of this? This is going to make you guys laugh and hopefully identify with it. And I got to say it in a way that's nice because he was so nice. So I had to go to the Critics' Choice Awards because I'm very important. If you guys hit on how I saw you there.

That was my favorite moment. Separate from nothing, if you didn't watch the Critics' Choice Awards because I'm very important. Have you guys hit on how important? I saw you there. That was my favorite moment. Separate from nothing, if you didn't watch the Critics' Choice Awards, go back and watch it because Donald was supposed to be presenting and we made eyes with each other and I left my table and he left his presenting and we hugged. I don't know if it did. But it kind of represents the show. It was one of those award shows, mixed movies and TV.

And the DP of my new show, one of my new shows, was with the DP of the show, The Great. And the guy that created The Great and ran it, Anthony McNamara, also wrote the movie Poor Things. And Rami Youssef, who was in Poor Things, said, hey, Anthony McNamara wants to meet you, because he's a big Scrubs guy, you know. And I met him,

and he was so nice, and, you know, he said kind of, I'm paraphrasing, but he was like, yeah, kind of Scrubs, you know, helped me want to be a comedy writer, and, you know, when I was a kid, I was such a fan. And, uh, lovely story, except as I'm looking at him, I'm like, I think he's older than me.

It really bothered me, right? On some level, it's like I literally went back to my table and everybody's like, that's so cool. He's such a talented, good guy. I'm like, yeah, but he kind of said that Scrubs was a big thing for him when he was a kid. And we have the same age. Same age. We're the same age. Allowed to be also 55. It does so.

Bill, you were the youngest showrunner on television at the time, weren't you? You were like 32, 31? 30 days. I ran Spin City when I was 26. That was crazy. I love that you came back from the compliment and promptly Googled his age. Like none of you would if somebody that looked exactly like you said when I was a kid

you made me want to become an actor hold on that dude's crazy talented his movie's going to win a bunch of Oscars I liked The Great, too. I loved The Great and also Poor Things. One thing I wanted to say was, you know, when I was younger making this show, I didn't really have any experience with doctors and hospitals other than, you know, a checkup.

And in the years since, I've had, unfortunately, you know, losing people and people getting sick, since I've had, unfortunately, you know, losing people and people getting sick, having experience with hospitals and doctors and nurses and being so in their, in their debt and loving them for being angels. And it really reframed, you know, I didn't have any experience playing this character with that. And now I, I, I see it totally in a different new light. How grateful you are when you're in the position of having a sick loved one to have great nurses and doctors and how much of an impact they can have on your life. And how great it is to be a part of Scrubs, though, too, that they watched. Because, look, man, that shit has helped me out when I go to the hospital. I was about to say, several times, bro. The B-side, man. How many, I'll the hospital the b-side man how many biologists said it krista how many of you have done this i just did this 48 hours ago um my mom has to get a

surgery and it's uh uh the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville in in Florida and it's hard to get scheduled and uh uh she's like can you get on the zoom when i'm going to talk to the doctor and maybe you could help out and i just had this idea as? I'm going to talk to the doctor and maybe you could help out. And I just had this idea. By the way, I'm going to help with this. But anyways, I go on and he's a lovely young Nigerian surgeon, probably late 30s, early 40s, which mathematically in my head is working out. You know what I mean? And I'm like, they told my mom she might have to wait like four months for this surgery. And I'm like, oh man, you know, I literally was I didn't even slide

it in i'm like i created this show it's called scrubs so i know a little bit about it and he immediately young you great my mother my mom's getting the surgery in two weeks now and i i feel fine about it you know what i mean but he was immediately like oh my gosh man that was one of the shows i watched like in high school And I just kind of decided to be a doctor. Have you all used that? Oh, my gosh. Are you kidding me? Yes.

One time I was at the doctor's office and a nurse was talking about how she'd had a loss in her family of people dying relatively close in time to each other. And I said, well, in the community, we call that tokusugubo cardiomyopathy. And they were like what community i'm like well i suspended my practice about 10 years ago but in the doctor community you actually went into full doctor mode like i'm a doctor i was a doctor but billy wrote the hardest latin in history world tokusubo cardiomyopathy and for some reason that shit's stuck in my brain i'm like might as well throw it out okay but did you guys do you guys find i found when we were

doing scrubs and you know everything comes up and huntington's disease and this and that like i was 24 and whatever now watching it i was like now i 100% think I had every single thing that we discussed in the episode. Oh, my gosh. Well, Will thinks he can help a doctor if anyone is sick. He's like, I ran a medical team. I've done more research than you. I think it seems like Lyme disease to me. Yeah, yeah.

I got it. Well, I think the consensus is that we love each other. Oh, my God. With all my heart. And I love this podcast. Like I know you always say I never listened to it, but I do listen to it. And it was so calming to me weirdly in the pandemic at the beginning when

everything was so uncertain. Thank you. I remember one time I really loved it. Thank you for doing it. So I would, I would literally like, I remember certain times where like when I got COVID the first time. I really loved your podcast. Thank you for doing it. So I would, I would literally like, I remember certain times where like when I got COVID the first time and I remember listening to the podcast and your voices would, I would laugh and your voices would calm me. And now I

listen to it like when I'm hiking and I hate wearing AirPods. And so I'll just listen to it out loud. Like I'm the annoying person that's on the trails with it out loud. And then I walk by this old couple and it's like, any good feedback vaginas joel and they like um or you know this anal bleaching or whatever is you know the discussion of the day waxing not bleaching oh yeah we did discuss bleaching we touched on bleaching i think we touched on bleaching oh my god that's a medical thing it's medical yeah um we were wrong about all the details of bleaching but Oh my God. That's a medical thing. It's medical. Yeah. We were wrong about all the details of bleaching,

but I will do a follow-up episode. No, we weren't. We were right about that. We were wrong about Nair. Okay. What are you guys doing next up? So I think that the general thing is we all love each other. I'll add Judy and Neil and Ken to that pool.

Rob. I like everybody to see each other in real life, and, you know, to that, that cool one. Rob, I like everybody to know, see each other in real life. And I hope we get to, to look, one of the gifts I've had is I've gotten to work with all of you at least a couple of times, you know, on the, whether it was even guesting on a live show or Johnny C doing a, a multi-cam, which he killed in or Zach, not only being in bad monkey, but directing stuff. And my chalk, we even tried to make shows together, not only being in Bad Monkey, but directing stuff.

We even tried to make shows together about your life growing up. Dude, we tried to make a show about going to Mars. I know, by the way. Which is where I met Roy Kent. It all comes around. Where you met Roy Kent? That's right. I love that guy. Brett Goldstein helped me write that show

with Adam Stekiel and stuff. Point is, I always like everybody out there to know that we love each other so much, we constantly find ways to try and work with each other anyway. So if we ever do Scrubs again, it'll be because we want to spend time with each other and we think we can still make it fun and valid and cool. But I hope we get to do it.

What are you going to do next for your podcast, podcast though are you going right into other shows i'm trying to do the next season we're gonna do nine because we genuinely have not either one of us whereas donald didn't watch eight years of scrubs i i did i just never watched nine so we're gonna watch i asked you guys to do something to open mind because uh there's snark out there sometimes on the internet and i've said before snark on the internet bill no i swear hear me out i've said i've said i've said before that uh i thought the first 13 episodes of that you know what they remember that show when they asked me to do it i said we do it as a spin-off and it'll be called either called med school and then they said we at least called scrubs med but

it's a new show and i was like yeah and then they panicked and titled it scrubs because that's how tv works right i i want you guys to if you do it to watch it as if this is a brand new show and uh the bar hadn't been set because it wasn't named scrubs it was named med school because i thought some not only you know do I always like watching U4 work, but I thought some of those young people were super talented. Oh, absolutely. Proof is in the pudding. A lot of them are working and doing their own shows and movies to this day.

I forget the young Asian guy's name. He had a full career on Two Broke Girls. Yeah. Mosley, I never watched his show, but he's a star career on two broke girls yeah uh mosley i never watched this but he's he's a star of of uh some show one afternoon he was one of the leads of the mentalist for a while eliza coop you guys know is everywhere it was in argo no that's bishay okay my bad yeah well i just want obviously, Bill, thank you so much for this experience and for these friendships, because I don't think any of us could have guessed that we'd still all be this close this many years later. And it all came down to you.

Thanks for our careers. I mean, that's what gave us our careers. Well, you were second, Beckyy sarah you were second becky so you i was not doing anybody any favors you are all massively talented and this is not one of those gigs where we're reminiscing because nobody's seen any of your none of you will be in where are they now because everybody works as much as they want to because you're all very very you asked me what i'm really good at, I'm really good at casting and trusting other people's, in my

casting department's opinion about who's awesome. I remember, because Chris and I had just kind of moved into the house that she built for herself. I remember. That's where our pilot table read was. Is that what the read-through was? I'll never forget Chris just standing at the bottom of the stairs, giving you the

dart eyes like, you motherfucker, you woke Charlotte up. I will never forget that. I looked over and you had a sweater on and it was like, what is it when the sweater has the diamonds and stuff like that? What's that called? Argyle? An Argyle sweater on. I remember that. And you were standing at the top, not at the top, at the bottom of the stairs, looking at him like,

motherfucker, you said it was like the look on your eyes. I was like, he's in trouble. You were late because you have, you know, now I know, now I know for sure. You know, I knew the show was good. Besides the fact you guys were all great. Cause Krista was the star of the Drew Carey show at the time. And it was a hit and she sat in and watched your first read. And then that night when we were kind of hanging out talking about it, she's like, I should do some of those. By the way, because that's what you don't want from your wife, man.

It's for me to go, hey, do you want to ever be on it? Oh, no, I wouldn't be good on that show. Right, right. I say this, I say this, and I mean this, and I think this is for real. With everything that has come, if we would have put the same writers together, the same cast together, the experience, the EP that has come from when we wrapped the final season of Scrubs, season eight to now, I think we got a fucking dynamite show. Bringing Tarsus, bringing Neil, bringing, you know what I mean?

Like, this shit would be outrageous. Tim Hover. Hover, all, oh my gosh. Just think about it. All these people are studs at other places, man. Like, everybody's doing their thing someplace else. Gabby's killing that shit. She doesn't listen on Fridays.

She doesn't have to work Fridays. You know what I mean? We bring everybody back together. Holy cow. Like my mouth is watering. All right. Well, audience, stay tuned to see what happens with that. And we will continue with season nine next.

I want to really thank Joelle this was such a fun surprise you really got us thank you guys for coming on especially after watching that episode oh my god I love you guys so much Joelle I love how you like scheduled it so everyone came in on their own you're good

and I came in ready my headphones are working it took a half hour to get Sarah's audio. Look at my sweet wife. Look how much we love each other now after seeing that. She just whispered that we're totally going to hook up when this is over.

I didn't. Oh, Krista. It just takes hanging out. Krista, on behalf of all of us, would you just give him a little action today as a thank you? You always do this to me.

And then he's like, Zach said it. All right. Good luck. By the way, guys, that's not why I love Kristen. I don't even care if it happens. Yes, you do. You're so foolish. I think it's only appropriate, Bill,

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