Fake Doctors, Real Friends with Zach and Donald - Scrubs Austin Television Experience Panel

Episode Date: June 14, 2022

We took a break so the guys could go to Austin. So sit back and listen to the entire cast and Bill Lawrence discuss the history of our favorite show, Scrubs. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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or wherever you get your favorite podcasts. Seven questions, limitless answers. Hi, guys. Joelle here. We took a break last week, but you don't have to worry because there's still a full episode. Yay! We talked a little bit about how the guys were headed to Austin and they were going to do the Austin Television Festival and a big reunion with all the Scrubs folks. And it happened. And the guys at Austin were kind enough to record the whole panel.

And I'm so excited to share it with you guys because there's a lot of good stuff in here. You're going to hear a classic Sarah tale. It's wild and it's crazy. And she had to call for help. And it's but it's funny because it's Sarah and it's crazy and she had to call for help but it's funny because it's Sarah and it's lovely the guys, everybody, Bill and Zach and Donald all talk about what would a scrub's reunion look like

so you'll get some fun details on how their wheels are spinning on that and you'll get to hear from so many favorites including John C. McGinley and Judy Reyes so I hope that you guys take some time to listen and enjoy. I really love this. So here is the entire cast of Scrubs, minus Ken Jenkins, talking at the Austin Television Film Festival about the history of Scrubs. Enjoy. I can't do this all on my own.

No, I know. I'm no Superman. I'm no Superman. Yeah, that theme right there. So we got some Bambis in the house. We got some Bobos. We got some newbies. We are here to celebrate Scrubs, everyone.

I am Variety TV editor Michael Schneider, and we've got the reunion for you right now, so let me bring them out. First up, you know them as the creator, the executive producer of a little show called Scrubs, the one and only Mr. Bill Lawrence. Bill, you got a one-man standing O over there.

J.D. John Dorian himself, Zach Braff. The other half of J.D. and Chris Turk himself, Donald Faison. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Feeling the energy. Elliot Reid, of course, Sarah Chalk. Of course, Dr. Cox, Perry Cox, the one and only John C. McGinley. Thank you. Of course, Carla Espinoza on of you, Neil Flynn. Neil Flynn.

So real quick housekeeping note, this is actually a reunion for the T-Mobile Home Internet Series. We're going to be talking about that for the next hour, nothing about just Zach and Donald figuring out their internet problems. It's going to be great.

There's going to be a whole lot more of them. Hey, Austin, what's up? Hi! Aloha. Hey, when you come to these things, if the group of people that still love hanging out with each other all come out with coffee, it means

they're tremendously hungover. I think whoever was the fucking genius. Where did you guys go last night? None of your business! None of your business! Let's just say we were over-served. You're okay. You're all looking great.

I'm Austin. There were a couple other people on the streets of Austin who looked over-served last night as well. I feel like some of them are in this audience. Well, good morning, everybody. Good morning. So, nine seasons, 182 episodes, 17 Emmy nominations, two wins,

a Peabody Award, two networks, and now one podcast as well. Scrubs. You guys, wait. Good question. Do you guys like my podcast? Thank you, Bill, for letting us do it. We're going to tag together.

I knew I was going to use Donald, and then Donald and I were talking about who else we would use on that podcast. And we went with Zach. Thank you. So, Bill, when you came up with the idea of the Fake Doctors, Real Friends podcast. So you guys, I mean, in some ways, doing a reunion is a little bit of a misnomer because you're always reuniting.

This is something that's lived on. And just the camaraderie of this group is incredible. And you've had these past two years, especially with the podcast, to really look back now and reminisce and get together. Zach, seriously though, take us back to the impetus, you and Donald, of doing this podcast and what that's meant in sort of getting the band back together

and talking about your... This is going to be the only question about the podcast, right? That's only about Bill. Bill is livid. He didn't get the first question. When the two gals from the office did it, it became so popular. Donald and I were approached to do it. And it actually just,

we started day one of the LA COVID lockdown was the first day we were supposed to record. And we thought, oh, that's too bad. We can't do it now. And they said, oh, don't worry. We figured it out. You can put mics in your house and you can do it over Zoom. And it became like one of the most, for us and a lot of the fans who listened, something to make each other laugh during COVID.

And it was really, we were both so grateful to have it. And then a lot of fans who listen and love the show were so glad to have it. And that was sort of the genesis of it. And then we started having Bill on, and people would be like, when's Bill coming back to the podcast? And this one wasn't as good

because interrupting Bill wasn't there. And then... No, but it's been a blast. And thank you all for... Thanks for listening. Thank you for all who were listening. Truly. Thanks to the rest of the cast for coming on the podcast also

because, you know, they don't get paid to get on there. But anyway, I was just excited that we came up with a way to make Donald watch the show. Right. Donald never seen the show before. I had no idea what the show Scrubs was about.

I was like, I think it has something to do with doctors. He's like, oh, it's about death. I get it. That was my go-to. When we were making the show, I would walk into work every day and be like, so, uh, what's happening? What's this scene about?

On the wall. I'll say because of that podcast, my kids started watching Scrubs. And they like it. Now I'm cool. Judy, was there anything you had to explain to them? Any awkward moments that you sort of left the room as they were watching?

I'm sorry, what was that? I'm still thinking. Anything you had to explain to your kids as they were watching it for the first time? No, no, actually. They would go like, I love that time when he's having the fantasy and the janitor is so cool, never ever anything about me.

I'm going to have to talk to her about that. Not a moment about some of your great dramatic scenes. I mean, we still remember the episode where... No, damn it! Well, that's why we're here, to talk about those great moments. But seriously, you guys, you've continued to work together.

I mean, Zach, you were Emmy-nominated for directing an episode of Ted Lasso, so... Thank you. And then a bunch of you were on Celebrity Family Feud not too long ago. Yes. That was amazing. A life dream. We won. We won.

Neil, how many points did your team get on that? The reason that you won is because we did not score a single point. Neil, what happened, man? Hollow victory. I don't... We failed to reflect America's feelings about what animal might appear in a baby

crib. Whatever the questions were. I don't know. It's really scary when you get there, by the way. I mean, it's been a lifelong dream of mine to be on Family Feud, and when you're there, and you're staring at Steve Harvey and his mustache, it's very intimidating.

Zach, in the final round, you look intense. You look like you were there though I really wanted to not let my team down and then Donald did that with alligator hey man come on now by the way there's this meme that went around

after that of an alligator literally climbing a fence for those of you that didn't see in the rush round it said name an animal that would help you climb over a fence. The answer would be giraffe. Donald went with alligator. He would use it as a ladder. But the fans defended him

because somehow they found an alligator climbing a fence. Several alligators in Florida know how to climb fences apparently. They've adapted and learned from us. Would the human climb onto the back of the alligator? Yeah, the human had... That was the thing. You had to escape... If you were escaping from the zoo... Which animal would most help you escape from the zoo? Yeah, and I said alligator. I went first in giraffe.

Did you even try giraffe first? No, I went straight alligator. The most ill-equipped animal to help you escape. Wouldn't it try and bite you as you climbed it? Sure, but you would get over that fence. Either way, you guys won. And you won the money, too. All for charity, for what it's worth.

Congratulations on that. You gave your money away? Bill kept his. I don't know if you see it in the trades, but he's a little short on cash these days. He's struggled in the years since Scrubs. Going back to the other shows that you guys have all collaborated on,

Sarah, you showed up on Cougar Town. Sarah, what do you make of this? This sort of camaraderie. The fact that no one can quit each other. This is a show, this is a group that has remained close even though the show's been off the air for so long. It's so special, we were all talking about last night,

how you're kind of chasing it forever after that, because it's an experience that is really hard to replicate. I mean, we were living and working in this old abandoned hospital. We had all the writers, the crew, the cast. We had nowhere to go but in this hospital, and it was before the days where you had to have short days. We would be there for a long time

with each other. I think my longest day when we were there was 24 hours. It's not possible. This is how it happened. I'm going to tell you how it happened. I'm not going to let you exaggerate. It was 24 hours and I remember Randall walking The unions would have shut down the show.

This is how it happened. Listen. We had two units. There was A unit and there was a B unit. And I was working on B unit, and then I had night shoots that night into the morning. And so instead of... The AD never showed up to my room to sign me out. So I was like, I guess I'll just stay here and wait.

And I did. And then the check came to my agents and Randall then Randall Winston is uh was one of the producers on the show he's not here more importantly he played Leonard the security Leonard the security guard and he came I remember he came to my room and I will never forget the anger and I and he's one of the happiest people you will ever meet like happiest can be and I will never forget the anger in his face. He was the line producer at the time, and he was like, this will never happen again.

One. And, dude, that check was so big. Like... I put a down payment on a house with that check. They try not to make you work 24 hours straight. It's almost like being on a medical shift, except you guys aren't necessarily saving lives, but you're making everyone fall in love with you.

So I don't know what that means. You got an R. Good work. Why did you say I don't know after that? You did good. Should have owned it, exactly. But what's interesting about listening to the podcast is that we've also learned more of the... Bill's right here. I feel like

all we've talked about so far is the podcast. He's segwaying now. I sense what's happening. Yeah, exactly. I'm very close to a sperm off. We've learned a lot more about the inner workings of the show and even inside jokes. some of the things,

I love you revealing some of John C.'s favorite sayings, which learning more about what he's like on set. There's five good ones for you. And by the way, the whole group, answer right now. How you doing? Better now. Better now. Better now.

That's the Johnny C. answer to your greeting. He loves to do it to strangers too so find him after and say how you doing he'll do it over and over he might even if he really likes you

he'll shorten here's five good ones for you and just say here's five nothing John I don't leave the fucking property. And so,

Billy just put a stake in my sternum. I don't come and talk to me at all. Any of you. Yeah, he means it. Unless you have special needs, I don't want to meet you. You needs, I don't want to meet you. You have special needs, I want to meet you.

Otherwise, I'm window dressing here. Oh, he's becoming more Dr. Cox. What's happening? What's happening, Zach? Well, we all have a little bit of our characters inside of us. Except for Ken Jenkins, who's not here, but is the nicest human being on the planet. But other than that, I think Bill would take a lot of our personalities, in fact, sometimes he would just come

to me and Donald and be like, what did you guys do this weekend? And we'd tell him some insane story, and then a week later, it would be in the show. SARAH LEWISOHN- We're all exactly like her. Zach texted the whole group before we came here and he was like, Sarah's going to have some ridiculous travel story. And I was getting on the elevator to go meet everybody thinking, what an uneventful journey

that was. I did not have a travel story. And I got in the elevator and I got stuck in it. On Friday night here in Austin, and I'd been here for about five minutes, and I didn't know what to do, and so I immediately FaceTimed Zach and Donald, and I said, I'm stuck in an elevator, get me out of here, I do not think I will do well in this situation. So Zach's like, okay, what elevator are you in? And I'm like, I don't know!

So I start pushing the buttons, and all of a sudden, all the buttons are lighting up, and then I find a button to call the front desk, and she says, well, you're stuck on floor 11? The elevator only goes to five. What is happening right now? Tell them all what you did to calm down. Makes me happy. How did to calm down.

Makes me happy. How'd you calm down? I really needed to calm down. I did not understand I was claustrophobic until this moment. And I thought it was another panic attack. And I was like, okay, I just gotta get back onto the podcast. I was listening to Dax Shepard's podcast. And Monica Padman and Ike Barinholtz was on, and I was like, just get back into

that, get back into the mind state you were in five minutes ago that I had just been listening to, and then we were over dinner, and Zach's like, you were listening to my doppelganger's podcast? Of all fucking podcasts in the world. She calms down by listening to Dax Shepard's podcast.

Okay, in all fairness... Okay, because I know Bill wants us to talk more about the podcast. I did have to say that during a few very stressful COVID times, I would put on Fake Doctors, Real Friends, No Joke, and I would laugh, and it would calm me. And that is the truth. All right, well, we'll make it about Bill now. We'll give Bill some attention. Let's talk about Ted Lasso. And that is the truth. All right, well, we'll make it about Bill now.

Give Bill some attention. Let's talk about Ted Lasso. Yeah, let's go. One of my favorite shows of all time. Emmy-winning Ted Lasso. But Bill, yeah, shout out to Ted Lasso. You can give him... Especially director Zach Braff on Ted Lasso. It's fantastic.

But I guess we do have the co-creator here as well. But Bill, what's amazing is you do have the Emmy-winning show, the hottest comedy in TV right now. But I'm sure a lot of people still want to talk to you about Scrubs. You're still on this panel today. Scrubs is forever. And that must be, again, gratifying for a creator, especially when, as you've said over and over again,

this was a show you didn't think was going to last its first year. Look, I'm so grateful. I can speak for all of us. We're all so grateful that any of you still care. It gives us an excuse to hang out together. I'll tell you, it was such a great experience last night walking to dinner through Austin, because the streets were crowded with people that had been drinking and having fun, and then they would glance over and you

would hear, is that the cast of Scrubs? Why is the cast of Scrubs walking down the street? And then, Neil, if you'll help me here, there's one person from a bus that pointed at you and screamed what? Modern family! Neil, tell them the other story. Tell them the other story.

Please. I'll the other story. Please. Come on. About. Yeah, I'll make it fast. The lady, you know, periodically people will see you on the street, and aren't you? And the lady yelled from across the street,

don't you come on TV? Yes. What's the name of that show? Oh, she goes, Malcolm in the Middle? Close. I said, you got it half right. She says, Malcolm? Oh, shit.

So, look, the end of my answer was we are happy to spend time with each other anyways. And, you know, John C. said something earlier today. He said the dinner that we had last night made, you know, we'd do these things forever just for the dinner we had with each other to talk about how great it was. So, you know, thank you guys so much for still giving a hoot.

We really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you. And when you go back and watch the episodes, you remember, too, this was sort of the early days of single-camera comedies really starting to make a difference. It was still, you know, sort of out of the norm, especially in broadcast TV.

There are so many things that you guys sort of broke new ground on. I think the relationship between Turk and Carla is still sort of like relationship goals. Judy, is it? Yeah, for sure. I think, not to mention the podcast again, but we had a guy on the podcast named Shea Serrano.

And he wrote an essay about scrubs also. I encourage you all to get it. It's like an essay of every episode of scrubs. But in it, he talks about how Turk and Carla are the best TV couple in history. And when you think about it they kind of are you know what I mean like you can't find like goals in life in my real life I try to find what Turk and Carla have and I well I found it on you but you know um it's

really interesting because he's all over the place and she's the grounding force as a matter of fact Carla was the grounding force for Scrubs, period. You know what I mean? That's true. That's a lot of pressure, though. I remember going to Bill at some point, I don't know if it was the first or second season, and I had been practicing

the speech to give him, and I was like, why don't I get any jokes? Can I get, like, a fan goes, oh, God, I'm sorry. I mean, you know, your character carries the gravitas of the show. I said, but that's a big responsibility. I just want to be funny. By the way, we're making a joke about it, but we love to give each other props.

You guys must have seen it when you're watching all the shows again. Judy was the emotional backbone and the dramatic spine of the show. We talked from the beginning. She made the whole thing real. You know what I mean? Yeah. Aw, thank you.

But I know I appreciate one of the great things about working with Bill is, of course, he picks from your real life, but he listens to you. He understands that at the end of the day, he and the writers give you an opportunity to realize your needs as an actor. And a lot of it is not only dramatic, but it's funny. And I remember he gave me this great fantasy about me losing my shit when the see when the guys see this woman coming in and I said oh wow that looks like a young Carla

and I remember that and I freaked out it was like it's always one of my favorite moments to see and to share with people you know and the musical and this sitcom those are always really really fun when I think back and think about all the favorite moments that I've had. But thank you. And when you think about the balance that this show did, because I think about some of the really crazy moments.

I think about the stuffed rowdy. Here's little rowdy right here. You know, the silly stuff that you guys did, but then the real emotional stuff too. Like again, going back to Carla and the episode where Nurse Laverne dies and Judy tour de force scene, but also when Brendan Fraser's character dies.

Oh, Brendan. Props to Brendan. What a good actor, huh? But props to John C. McGinley. You know, Dr. Cox and that relationship. And, of course, the relationship between Dr. Cox and Zach Braff. You know, J.D. J.D., J.D. They are two different people, I know.

Are they? We both love musicals. We both went to theater camp. I have a journal, but it doesn't have a unicorn who's there to protect my hopes and dreams. You know, you are equally non-versed in the world of sports. That's true. Zach will call me up sometimes and say,

did the sports team you like win? No, the other day I was so proud to know that there was a Celtics heat game on, and I kept texting Donald being like, I need this tonight, I need it. He watched two minutes of the game, dude. No, no, I watched two minutes of the game, and they were up by, like, ten points.

I go, it's over. It's over. I go, I can't watch anymore because it's over. It's a waste of time from here on out. I also know nothing about sports. It's become a joke in my family, Zach's line in the show of, I love it when he wins at the games that he plays. By the way, Bill, didn't you on Twitter the other day tweet,

it's over, it's over, and people thought you were talking about Ted Lasso? It's the way the internet works. I said, I think it's over because the Celtics won in Golden State, and there's nine million things thinking that I said Ted Lasso was dumb. There was a momentary panic on the internet. So back to your original thing. Watch me bring it back. So it's a cool...

I'll run this. I don't care. He's showrunning the Q&A. Everybody be quiet. Here's how we're doing it. I'm going to talk about the dramatic stuff we did, and then I'm going to probably toss it down to Johnny, okay? All right. Now, one of the coolest things about this show is the freedom of having such a talented

cast that can do comedy and drama and we all thought we were going to be canceled after one year and these guys will tell you that then we decided to show people a different show. The third episode or fourth episode of the show was called My Old Lady and three patients die. And I remember still I I told these guys that when we, you used to have to pitch your outlines to the network, and, you know, we're like, we do this stat that if it's not in pediatrics or having a baby that one out of every three people admitted to the hospital dies, and then Judy and Sarah get a patient, Donald gets a patient,

Zach gets a patient, the audience thinks that one of the three of them will die, and then at the end, spoiler, he's 20 years old, fuck you guys. What are you doing here? There's someone here who's like, I'm finally going to try and watch this fucking show. It's on Hulu. This sounds great, it's on Hulu.

But I had to tell the network, and then at the end, the gut punches, they all die. And the network people, there was silence, and they're like, couldn't just one of them die? And by the way, I'm like, no, they're all going to die. And they're like, could the people that die be really mean, like racist and stuff, so you're kind of happy they died? I'm like, no, they're all going to die. And I always thought the way it was acted by everybody here and uh directed by I think Mark Buckland wasn't it uh kind of set up the whole

show so that's when we started knowing that we could people like you switch from comedy to drama really quickly when I pitched the show they said they didn't think we could do that and being a wise ass this is not smoke and mirrors, but being a wiseass, I said, I think if we just turn down the lights and play an indie song, then it might work. There were times, though, you'd get a script and you'd go, we'd be in the wildest,

most ridiculous, surreal fantasy, and then you'd get a script, and you'd go, we'd be in the wildest, most ridiculous, surreal fantasy, and then we'd come out of it and go to a patient dying, and you'd think, how the hell is Bill going to make this hairpin turn? And to his credit, he masterfully would always pull it off. You did it with a clip show. How the heck could you, like, because of Fake Doctors, we gotta do, we have to watch everything. And we, we,

I remember Zach being like, I don't wanna fucking do a clip show, dude. It's stuff that we've already talked about. And I was like, dude, let's do the clip show. And within the clip show, at the end of it, you're still freaking emotional. It's like, Bill, that's a talent, man. And not a lot of people

can take a half hour comedy and then flip it on its ass at the end. And you do it masterfully. We're going to kiss each other's ass up here for a while. Although, wait. I will tell you. I was going to give one of these guys a huge present if they

asked one. He challenged you at dinner last night. Someone was supposed to call me TV's Mike Nichols. No one's done it. It's not a big deal. It's not a lot. The panel just keeps doing it. It's because... We've got to read the book first.

There's this amazing Mike Nichols biography that everybody here has read except Zach. I was trying to get Zach to read it. I've been telling Bill about this Mike Nichols documentary.

By the way, you should all read it since you clearly love TV. Or the art form of acting and it talks about everything. Anyway, I told Bill like 4,000 times, you gotta read this book, right? You gotta read this book. I see him yesterday, he goes, have you read the new Mike Nichols book? All right, I'm old.

So anyways, the point of this is it wasn't me. Every actor and actress here has the ability to switch from comedy to drama. Because when you do a comedy, the first show I created was called Spin City. It was all jokes. It was a sitcom. And then right before that, I created MASH. And I didn't. But everybody, it's so hard

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tricked Sarah's character into going on a date. But at the end, we just wrote a moment, you know, for the janitor that he said, you're the only one here that, you know, treats me like a person. And, uh, and he says her name and it was so touching. I'm like, fuck, even a janitor can do drama. 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 joy. I'm Danielle Robay.

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We all participated, but I got to give props to, she couldn't be here because our sister-in-law was having a concert. My wife, Krista, who plays Jordan, is the music supervisor of all my shows. There's no music supervisor on my show. And it was cool on this show because everybody would bring music ideas in, and a writer, Neil Goldman and Zach, was huge doing it. But it was the opportunity to kind of pop new bands and tell them about my favorite story.

We all know it. It's with Johnny Seasting, Josh Radin's first song ever. Yeah, so in the episode where Brendan dies and Johnny C gives that masterful class in acting, just that powerful, powerful performance where he says, when I say, where do you think we are? My friend Josh Radin had never, he had written his first song. He always played covers and stuff, but he wrote, he said to me,

I have this song, it's the first song I've written, it's mine. And I'm like, oh boy. And he plays it and it's winter. And I'm like, this is the first song you've ever written? And he goes, yeah. And I gave it to Bill, I go, this is incredible and it might be great for the funeral scene. And it worked out so beautifully

that people started searching for all of his music, and he didn't have any music. He had one song. Search him now, though. Yeah, now go see him, because he tours the world. Well, Bill, real quick, on the musical tip, I know years ago you mentioned that you might eventually stage an actual Scrubs the musical on stage.

Is that still a possibility? Look, we all are... The songs on the musical were written by Big Rest in Peace, Sam Lloyd and his team, and Paul Perry. Yes. And then the other half of the songs was actually written by the dudes that did Book of Mormon and Frozen and all that, Robert Lopez.

So we were always talking about it, but really we just were always talking about an excuse to get back together and work, you know what I mean, and be around each other so I don't know if there'll be a Scrubs the musical unless all this gang comes to me and says we all want to do Scrubs the musical I would like an opportunity to sing in public

no, no, no, no I don't think the audience wants that opportunity Sarah y'all want to hear Sarah sing? no, you don't that's lovely of you, but you don't She wants that opportunity, Sarah. Y'all want to hear Sarah sing? No. No, you don't. No, you don't. That's lovely of you, but you don't.

You don't. Everybody else, Judy, Johnny C, Neil Flynn, Donald, Zach, singing. Sarah, not with the singer. It all starts. There's so many other things. Maybe Sarah can rap. Yeah, she can rap.

What's your favorite rap, Sarah? I will not rap. Ah! But I will do the Poison Dance. No, I was kicked out of the choir by Mrs. McKinnon in grade five, which is Canadian for fifth grade, when she said, chalk girls, my sister and I both, just mouth the words for this performance. It wasn't like a fancy choir, it was like singing Christmas carols in a mall, and I was like, in that moment, I was like, I will never be Eponine in Les Mis.

In Canada, they say grade five, just so you know. Well, before we go, we're going to have some time for some audience. That's it! We flew all the way here! We're not leaving here. We're going to extend this bad boy, guys, for another hour! Alert the affiliates. We're going long. We're going to have time for some audience questions. Oh, good.

But also, under your chairs, there are clipboards. You get a car. You get a car. You get a clipboard. You get a clipboard. Everyone has a clipboard. We've got a lightning round where sort of this is like newlywed game where everyone's going to separately answer a couple of questions

and we'll just see how much they match up to the truth. it's your truth. Yeah, so, alright. The first question, you guys got your sharpies? I'm not a strong stuff. These are all names. What happens if we win? So, The first question. You guys got your Sharpies? I'm out of the short one stuff.

These are all names. What happens if we win? So, Bill will give you a point in Ted Lasso. So, first question. Who was the most likely on the show to forget their lines? Yes.

lines.. . . . . . . .

. . . .. It's a trick. It's hard to forget your lines if you don't look at the script. Who on this stage is most likely to Google themselves? Ooh. No cheating, no peeking. All right, you ready?

And reveal. Reveal. All right, you ready? And reveal. Reveal. You got it? Alligator. I got Bill. Bill, what'd you write? You got...

The Todd. I wrote the Todd because I assume if he's not in the audience, he's lurking backstage as we speak. You said who on the stage, though. The Todd is on Cameo, by the way. The Todd is on Cameo. You can get really inappropriate messages sent to him.

By the way, Bill, I know famously when you got rid of the sound effects, the one sound effect you didn't get rid of was the Todd's high five. The only sound effect that lasted the whole of was the Todd's high five. The only sound effect that lasted the whole series was the Todd's high five. So why did you keep that? Why did that stick around? The people that ran NBC at the time, there were no single camera comedies.

They thought they were flat and unfunny and they wanted it to be loud, raucous audience laughter. And so to try and get the show picked up, we put 9,000 sound effects in. John, do you remember, like, when you would turn your head? It would be like... And every time I see those episodes, I hate myself and I die inside.

But... It stopped pretty quickly, though. Yeah, I stopped it after, like, three or four episodes, but then the Todd's high fives were so funny. No, there is something great about that. All right, so next one. On this stage, who's the one pushing the hardest for a Scrubs reboot? Who is the most eager to get back in front of the cameras

and make this happen? Like the crowd wants, yes? Zach, was you right? Zach? Here's the deal. I think we all kind of want it. Here's the deal. I think we all want it. We all would love to work together again. It's just that it's really hard to... It can't be a full season of a show.

It would have to be like a movie or something like that. A movie. Where you can only get like a couple of months to it because everybody else is doing... This dude is never going to be free again. The problem is, you know, if you went to E.T. after the success of E.T. and said, E.T.,

do you want to do E... Yeah, do you want to do E.T. 2? E.T. would be like, is Spielberg doing E.T. 2? Because if he is, I'll do E.T. 2. And that's, I think, how... I can't speak for all of us, but we can't possibly do anything else

without the Wonder Kid here, and he's a little bit busy. But if he finds time, I would definitely be down to do it. We're going to do it. You guys know we're going to do it. We'll do it. It's too fun, right? He's going to be in the trades tomorrow.

Monday morning, Scrubs reboot happening. I don't care about that stuff, but we're going to do it because we're lucky enough that people care. Top to bottom, we enjoy spending time. If you ever have an excuse to work with people that you would want to spend time with anyways, run

to it. It's the greatest thing about this gig. So Zach in ET2 is Sarah Elliott? Nice pull. Nice pull. Hey now. Nice pull. He had a little bit of time to think about that.

Yeah, he had a solid 30 seconds to put it together. But don't diss him. I'm not dissing him. He came up with it. I'm not dissing him. Yeah, don't. By the way, it's worth it to me just to see, I'm going to say something,

I'm going to see if it makes him mad the way it used to, just to see Neil back in that jumpsuit again. Neil, what was that costume really? It's not a jumpsuit. It's a shirt and a pants. Hey, Neil. Hey, Neil. Last night, hold on.

Last night, everybody was talking about how Judy inspired nurses and some people inspired doctors to be doctors. Tell what you said. Well, guys will creep up to me in public buildings and say, without you, I'd have been a garbage man.

So, I did my bit. you, I'd have been a garbage man. So, I did my bit. They actually put it in the show, Bill put it in the show because Neil would always when people would call the jumpsuit on set like not on the show, he'd be like it's not a fucking jumpsuit. I'm wearing a belt.

Why would you wear a belt with the jumpsuit? And it's eventually in the show. It made you so mad? It made me so mad. It was irritating. And then when I had the line to Sarah, I think it was you that said it,

and I said, I was supposed to say, it's not a jumpsuit, it's a shirt and pants. And instead I said, it's a shirt and pants. And instead I said it's a shirt and a pants. Which is better somehow. At one point they allowed me to switch from drab gray to

kind of dark blue. I liked that. Because I wore the same thing every day. For eight years or whatever. I didn't mind. I was happy to be there. Bill, I still think it would have been hilarious

if in the end, not only was the janitor a figment of JD's imagination, he was a figment of the entire hospital's imagination. And it was just like a gas leak or something. I got to give credit to someone else. My favorite thing about his end was, and I think it was, it might have been Tim Hobert came up with the idea that, you know,

we should say that Zach did put the penny in the door and Neil should be wearing it around his neck. It has been for years. That made me so happy. The writing staff on that show is great as well. And I'm sure you guys see them all over other shows that you love. Yeah, no, the tentacles of the Scrubs universe is pretty amazing these days. 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 joy. I'm Danielle Robay. And I'm Simone Boyce. Listen, both Danielle and I are reporters. We've covered the news and we know the world can feel heavy. But the Bright Side podcast is a space to have a little fun, to learn something new and get into some friendly debates. That's right. Join us five days a week to see how life

can look from the bright side. We'll hear from celebrities, authors, experts, and listeners like you. Whether it's relationships, friend advice, or figuring out how to navigate life's transitions, we'll talk through it all together. Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine every weekday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All that sitting and swiping, our backs hurt, our eyeballs sting. That's our bodies adapting to our technology. But we can do something about it. We saw amazing effects.

I really felt like the cloud in my brain kind of dissipated. There's no turning back for me. Make 2024 the year you put your health before your inbox and take the Body Electric Challenge. Listen to Body Electric from NPR on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Martha Stewart, and we're back with a new season of my podcast. This season will be even more revealing and more personal with more entrepreneurs, more trailblazers, more live events, more Martha, and more questions from you. I'm talking to my cosmetic dermatologist, Dr. Dan Belkin, about the secrets behind my skincare. the secrets behind my skincare. Walter Isaacson about the geniuses who change the world. Encore Jane about creating a billion-dollar startup. Dr. Elisa Pressman about the five basic strategies

to help parents raise good humans. Florence Fabrikant about the authenticity in the world of food writing. Be sure to tune in to season two of the Martha Stewart podcast. Listen and subscribe to the Martha Stewart podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This second season of El Flow is here. Available como a ti te guste, in both English and Spanish. This season, we dive deeper into the vibrant world of reggaeton, featuring interviews with both reggaeton legends and exciting new talents. He's the undisputed king of reggaeton, no doubt, and he's been cited as an inspiration

by multiple Latin stars, including J Balvin, Bad Bunny, Osuna, Antima Tasha. Explore the evolution of this dynamic genre and what makes it resonate globally. How you consume reggaeton, how you share and distribute reggaeton, those are all an important part of the story. It's the way that the people are experiencing trayatong along with the musicians. Listen to El Flow as part of the My Cultura podcast network, available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. We're going to open it up now to some audience questions. I know we've got...

Why are you doing the administration of this? Because people are raising their hands, and this isn't Oprah. I'm not running out to them to hold the mic in front of them. And call her you say what? All right, well, we do have the line is forming. I like it. Why don't we start with you, sir? Hi, everyone.

First of all, thank you so much for coming and spending time with us today. We're so grateful to be here. Thank you. This show means so much to me. This is the show that is the absolute basics of my comedy DNA so it really made a big in your stand-up comic aren't you uh not a stand-up comics no anyways he's got he's got his it will talk with um so actually Michael was nice enough to take the question I submitted about the

musical so I'll ask what my follow-up was gonna be. Um, Zach and Donald, if you happen to still remember some of the lyrics, would you be willing to do a bit of guy love? We won't take up the time for the whole thing, but we can do a little. Let's face the facts about me and you, a love unspecified. Say what? Though I'm proud to call you chocolate bear, the crowd will always stop and stare. You changed keys but I feel exactly those

feelings too and that's why I keep them inside. Cuz this bear can't bear the world's disdain. And sometimes it's easier to hide than explain. Our guy love, that's all it is. Guy love, he's mine, I'm his. There's nothing gay about it in our eyes. All right, that's enough. Thank you so much. Oh, that was awesome.

Nicely done. Thank you so much. Next question. Okay, first of all, I was so happy to support you and wish I was here when I was at that thing. And I must say, these guys are so good when they're off camera to us fans. They're amazing. They're approachable. Thank you so much.

You're amazing. Thank you. That means a lot to me., they're amazing, they're approachable, they're authentic, you're amazing. Thank you. That means a lot to me. Thank you. No, you tell. Now, Bill, how do you, genius man, create a writer's room that does this over and over? What was this writer's room like to create these? I mean... Do you maybe want to, instead of genius man,

do like TV's Mike Nichols really quick? All right, well, listen. Whatever it takes, whatever it takes. Whatever it takes. For now, whatever you want. Mr. Nichols. I'll go quick. The truth is anybody that does a TV show that you guys dig, it doesn't

take the time to say that they attach themselves to other crazy talented people. Not only cast, but the writers on my show extend to every great show you're watching, V, Pac, anything that you're watching right now, there's somebody that worked on that stuff. It's a collaborative effort.

Some of the crew members on my new shows are people that I've worked with for almost 30 years now. So the set designer, Cabot, to the sound people, to the camera people, to the DPs. So the one piece of advice I can give you if you want to do something like this or any aspect is you find other great, talented people,

you empower them to do amazing jobs, you empower the actors and actresses to own their characters and protect them and take care of them, and then at events like this, you take credit for their work. You are a genius. Finally, things are turning up, Bill Lawrence. There we go.

Yes, sir. This is a great show, but I have a question for Bill. What was gonna happen... By the way, this is going exactly the way I dreamed about. This is a great show, comma, but Bill. But on Cougar Town... Go ahead, sorry. Cougar Town, episode six.

I've been waiting two years. What was going to happen in season two of Whiskey Cavalier? Oh, you're right here. Oh, wow. Whiskey Cavalier stands. I will tell you over here on the side after this is a Scrubs thing, and I'm so grateful. I'll tell you over here on the side after this is a Scrubs thing. I'm so grateful. I will tell you guys

the coolest thing about it because he wanted to say congratulations to everybody here, including the actress that plays Grover. And today is Scott Foley's 50th birthday. I mean, it's like four days away. And he was the star of that show and another part of the ensemble on this show. So I'll tell you right after.

But thanks for telling that. Nobody cares. By the way, I'll let Zach tell this story. The weirdest thing on this show, you have to tell this, I'm going to tag it off, is there's so many other actors and actresses that are kind enough to come on this show. Like Tom Cavanaugh, who's doing a Broadway, he played Zach's brother, doing a Broadway show.

And he says still to this day, no matter how long he acts, he'll walk down the street, someone will go, hey, little brother. He goes, yeah, yeah. Now tell what happened, this is my favorite thing, this is what happened to Scott Foley, he's the loveliest guy. Scott Foley is one of the kindest people you'll ever meet, and he says that on his Instagram, no matter what he writes, he'll be like,

he'll be like, to my beloved wife on our 15-year anniversary, you mean the world to me, and then it'll all say nobody cares it's the only thing he's mad about us for like no matter what i could literally say let's save the nobody cares sean yeah it's be like nobody cares national rainforest saving day. Nobody cares, John. It's now part of my family's vernacular. It's the most commonly used phrase. When someone says something, everyone goes,

nobody cares, John. Bill, one other thing that was amazing about Scrubs were all the sort of recurring characters. The character actors who showed up. Phil Lewis as Hooch. Hooch really is crazy, you guys. Legit legitimately crazy. That was the best turn.

When J.D. and Turk finally realized that Hooch was crazy, because it always was, Hooch is crazy. And then at the end of it, it was like, no, Hooch is crazy. Well, when he started bringing out a lighter and being like, burn for a burn. Shout out from all of us.

Neil said it last night. Neil, I'll let you say it again about all the extra characters on the show and stuff. Well, I think it's a mark of great shows, let's say very good shows. Like I put at the top, The Simpsons, that they're able to surround their main cast with secondary characters and then tertiary characters,

and it becomes a world. And someone who was in one episode, season one or something, can reappear two years later and go, hey, that's... Lonnie. ...a pop guy. Snoop Dogg intern, remember? Snoop Dogg intern.

Or, by the way, remember that skin doctor that just loved bad skin so much? Dr. Fashane. Oh, your skin's all messed up. We have at least one in the audience. Beardface, where are you? Shut the fuck up! It's Beardface!

Beardface! It's Beardface, damn it! Beard Fassé, damn it Beard Fassé Oh, it's awesome By the way, our background performers were so diligent and so lovely and so talented on their own that sometimes when we were struggling to write jokes on that show make sure I say this without looking bad because we would literally go talented on their own, that sometimes when we were struggling to write jokes on that show,

make sure I say this without looking bad, because we would literally go, let's go rap with the background actors and see what's going on on there. And then one of the writers, Mike Schwartz, was like, that gentleman looks like the Kentucky Fried Chicken guy, and he became Colonel Doctor. And if you look back at the show, we eventually say his real name, it's Coleman Slosky, which his name is Coleslaw. Amazing. All right, next question, please. Hi. So I was 13 years old when the show started,

and I watched from the beginning all the way through the end. You were 23 when it ended? Yes. Pretty close, huh? Oh, all the way so all the way 22 yeah like when i was in college that was like when so i kind of grew up with scrubs basically you're welcome thank you um so i mean obviously i was not anything like the characters because i was a 13 year old girl i wasn't a medical intern or anything like that. But still I found myself relating to the characters anyway. And so I was wondering if that was ever something you were conscious of in acting or in writing about kind of tapping into your inner child or inner adolescent to kind of...

I'm glad you sensed that. Yes. Especially, yes. I was reaching out. I can tell. I can tell. Girls, everybody. Me. Hey, I'll give a quick real answer because there's another shout-out that these guys were nice enough

to give the other night. The show is based on my best friend from college. He's still a cardiologist and surgeon in L. LA. His name's John Doris, not John Dorian. We call it Sarah. Tell everybody what you, you nicknamed him, I believe, didn't you? I don't know if it was me that nicknamed him, but his, because he's the real JD, his nickname is real. And so we all somehow, I have no idea, got his cell phone number, which is a terrible state to give it to me. And so if anything ever goes wrong, which is very frequently in my life, I call him

up and I'm like, real, real, here's the deal. And... But the thing I think that you're asking is when he started as a heart surgeon in cardiology, he was so young. And as a buddy of his that remembered him as just an absolute idiot in college, and that he was taking care of people who were living or dying when he was still a kid. I think we were really trying to capture that, especially with these three.

A little with Judy, but she was always intentionally a grown-up in the show already, you know what I mean? And so I think that came through that they were just kids way over their head. Yeah. I know I was not the only one who started watching at 13, so I felt like that must have been... That's how old I was when I created the show. I'm the same thing.

I have a question. Did you go on to become a doctor? No. No, and I... I'm just joking. I never even had any aspirations to being a doctor, but still, like... But I love medical shows.

I'm basically a doctor now because I watch a lot of medical shows. I'm basically a doctor now, too. You got it. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much for your question.

Next, sir. My question's for John. John. Yes. Yes. Get him to talk. I'm actually, I'm also a dad of a son with Down syndrome. What's he doing?

He's doing, he's 15, just turned 15. Right on. He has a twin brother that's actually typical. How's his language? Eh, it's okay. Yeah, same. That's our biggest challenge. And I want to thank you for all your advocacy that you do for Down syndrome.

Oh, right on. Right on. My question is, being the parent of someone with special needs while you're on the show, how did that influence your portrayal of Dr. Cox? Well, at the first audition with Bill Lawrence, even though in the pilot script, in parentheses next to Dr. Cox walks in to Judy, and in parentheses it said said a John McGinley type and I had to fucking audition five times and a bullshit is that and I told Bill the first audition I said I think Cox's this is so subversive it's what actors do to

themselves all the time I said I thought Cox was too similar to Kelso. I thought he was too much of a hammer. And to round those edges a little bit, I decided the easiest way to do that would be to bring my son Max in my heart to the set every day. And that's how it rounded Cox. Thank you.

Really nice. Next question, please. Hi, thank you so much. Sweet hat, dude. Thank you very much. It'd be really cool if I could have that. Are you getting a cut on that hat, Bill? No, I don't have any gear, man. I don't have any swag. It's cool. Go ahead, sir.

Well, if you asked for it, yeah, I mean... Can you imagine if Bill walked around in a fucking Scrubs hat? That's like Sam Jack... Remember when Sam Jackson used to do that all the time? We get all this amazing swag and, like, I can't wear it. Yeah, for TVs, Nick, whatever his last name is. Yeah, for TV's Nick, whatever his last name is. Yeah, I'll, yeah.

Wait, what? TV's Mike Nichols. Thank you. Mike Nichols, Mike Nichols. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Almost. You were so close. You were so close.

By the way, we almost had a lifelong relationship and then you just botched Mike Nichols at the last second, man. No, no, I'm joking, I'm joking. I'm sorry about that. Go, go, go. So the question is, so I actually, so I got this hat at a trivia night.

I don't know how they got the hat, but I got it at the trivia night in New York City years back. All of us are super big fans, and so you probably interact with a lot of us who know a ton about the show. So the question is, do you ever feel like super overwhelmed by fans who are like, oh, I know so much about the show, and you're like, oh, it's just interacting with us, you know, like, feeling like, we

just, like... Only if we feel like we're letting you down. There's one, you know, the most asked question of me that I don't know if Sarah gets it. Sarah has one boyfriend on the show that she says, you can tell me your deepest fantasy, darkest fantasy, and then he leans in and whispers, and we cut away, and then she walks out having dumped him. The amount of people that are like, what did he say? And I'm like, that's a joke. We could never figure it out.

So we felt like you could just decide on your own how horrible a person you are when you decide what he could possibly say to make her dump him immediately. But yeah, I can't remember the show like you guys. I'm old and my brain gets addled and I forget that Zach recommended books to me.

It's funny. Watching the show back, it's funny because we don't remember it, but obviously it's our sense of humor. So we're sitting there cracking up at these people and so enjoying it, but it's us. By the way, the best is when I do go on their podcast.

Donald and Zach are watching it like fans, and they'll say things. They'll go like, hey, Judy Reyes is really, really good. I'm like, yeah, I know. I was there. I'm aware. I'm aware. You know, Sarah's funny.

I'm like, yeah, yeah. No. Well, I really have to say, and I keep saying it, but Sarah's comedic timing is so masterful. And I mean, yeah. No. Well, I really have to say, and I keep saying it, but Sarah's comedic timing is so masterful. And, I mean, really. And I think, you know, Donald and I,

we're so in our own world. We both have said numerous times, we just weren't aware of it. But the other day, we watched an episode where Sarah had two reasons why she can no longer go camping. I forgot what the first one is, but this was her timing.

I don't do justice, but this was the timing on what the second reason was. And then of course the wolf... who mounted me. What was the one where she... Oh, the one that was really great and was really weird when she tried to commit suicide and so she walks out into the lake and then bam, bam, bam, bam!

Oars hit me from the row team. Yeah, a rowing team hit her and ruined her suicide attempt. How about you guys did one the other day where Sarah doesn't want the guy in her house and they have box sex. They have sex in a box. No, they each are in their own box

stimulating themselves. Billy, what the fuck was that? I don't know. What the fuck was so much of it? I still get together with a lot of the writers, and they were lovely. I would reach points on this show. It's a lot of show. I stayed the whole show.

It's a lot of episodes of TV. And, you know, some days I would come in, and they'd be like what's dr cox angry about i go who cares i don't care what he's angry about and someone be like could these guys have sex in two different boxes like yeah yeah we've been here forever yeah they can have sex in two different boxes and an ostrich steals donald's tango. Not in a fantasy. Not in a fantasy. He steals the Kango because he snuck into the car

that we drove to the house. And then he's pacing like a sentry and we're in a tree wearing the Kango. And it's not a fantasy. My favorite version of this was also not a fantasy. So we'd been doing it for a long time,

and then we kind of circled back. Neil, do you remember this? In the script, I wrote that the janitor built a sandcastle in the parking lot, and I thought it would be the size of a kid's playhouse, a sandcastle in the parking lot that he pretended to have slept in the night before. And then I drove into work,

and there's a fucking building made of sand. And I was like, uh-oh. It was like standing on the second floor. It was like Spinal Tap in reverse. They built the thing ten times larger than it was supposed to be. But wait, you could have had the option to flash out of it as a fantasy,

and you chose not to. No, I just got to go with it. What about when Donald folds me into the backpack? Not a fantasy. Not a fantasy. Donald puts me in a backpack and takes me to the movie theater so we can get in with one ticket. Sorry, I just realized, Scrubs Hat Guy, did you have a question?

I don't even know anymore. Well, thank you so much. Thank you guys so much. Appreciate it. 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 joy. I'm Danielle Robay. And I'm Simone Boyce.

Listen, both Danielle and I are reporters. We've covered the news and we know the world can feel heavy. But The Bright Side podcast is a space to have a little fun, to learn something new and get into some friendly debates. That's right. Join us five days a week to see how life can look from the bright side. We'll hear from celebrities, authors, experts, and listeners like you. Whether it's relationships, friend advice, or figuring out how to navigate life's transitions, we'll talk through it all together.

Listen to The Bright Side from Hello Sunshine every weekday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. All that sitting and swiping, our backs hurt, our eyeballs sting. That's our bodies adapting to our technology. But we can do something about it. We saw amazing effects. I really felt like the cloud in my brain kind of dissipated.

There's no turning back for me. Make 2024 the year you put your health before your inbox and take the Body Electric Challenge. Listen to Body Electric from NPR on the iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcasts. Hi, I'm Martha Stewart, and we're back with a new season of my podcast. This season will be even more revealing and more personal with more entrepreneurs, more trailblazers, more live events, more Martha, and more questions from you. I'm talking to my cosmetic dermatologist, Dr. Dan Belkin, about the secrets behind my skincare. Walter Isaacson, about the geniuses who change the world. Encore Jane about creating a billion-dollar startup. Dr. Elisa Pressman about

the five basic strategies to help parents raise good humans. Florence Fabrikant about the authenticity in the world of food writing. Be sure to tune in to season two of the Martha Stewart podcast. Listen and subscribe to the Martha Stewart podcast on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. This second season of El Flow is here. Available con guatita y h guste, in both English and Spanish. This season, we dive deeper into the vibrant world of reggaeton, featuring interviews with both reggaeton legends and exciting new talents.

He's the undisputed king of reggaeton, no doubt. And he's been cited as an inspiration by multiple Latin stars, including J Balvin, Bad Bunny, Osuna, Antti Natasha. Explore the evolution of this dynamic genre and what makes it resonate globally. How you consume reggaeton, how you share and distribute reggaeton, those are all an important part of the story. It's the way that the people are experiencing trayatong along with the musicians. Listen to El Flow as part of the My Cultura podcast network.

Available on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Next up. Zach and Donald, hi. Nice to see you again. I was on your podcast in the middle, like right when you fell out of the chair. I don't remember. I'm both sitting. I'm both sitting.

How you doing, brother? Good, good, good. My question, first I want to just thank you for, and we had talked about it on the podcast, this idea of y'all's friendship, how you could finally show you know true love for your best friend and it was just like open and honest and also just how Scrubs kind of was a positive force for people of color like having people lead some of the show and be like positive influence and stuff so uh I just want to say thank you for that my question I guess to Bill would be once again like I'm so nervous sorry I know once again, I'm so nervous, sorry.

Once again, sometimes people kind of fade away after shows and stuff like that, but everybody on stage has had a really awesome career afterwards, and I kind of wanted to see how, did you ever think that was going to happen when you first signed them up to see where they are now? I thought the end of your question was, what have you been up to?

Anything? I'm not sure of your work, Mr. Nichols. I joked about it before. First, by the way, the earlier part, one of the things I'm proudest of in my career, we've talked about it already, is how Donald and Judy portrayed a start-to-finish

relationship with positivity, kindness. I thought it was awesome. It meant a lot to me. I said early on, you know, that these guys could do comedy and drama top to bottom, and one of the main reasons, quite truly, I don't want to be judgmental of anybody that does reboots.

Some of them make me so happy because I'm such a TV fan. I love TV as much as everybody here. One of the things I knew about this show is that these people are all so good. All of us knew they were going to keep working. And so it's very hard to go, we get together anyways because we love each other. Everybody here works every second. You know what I mean? And so the need to kind of do... So I knew they were that hyper-talented from the start, top to bottom. I knew the writers were. I'd made a joke about it already, even with Neil Flynn, when we let him improv, and he improvised so much

on this show. You guys, we were reliving at dinner last night some of our favorite ones. One was I told him to come up with a present that he gave to Sam Lloyd's character, and he riffed this thing about beating up a duck on the side of a highway. My favorite part of that, just so you know, I said it again last night, I've never laughed harder when I was in editing, because I hadn't even seen it,

was he said, next thing you know, me and the duck are on the side of the freeway, both with our shirts off. I'm like, why is the duck wearing a shirt? And he's like showing each other, so he beat a duck to death. But yeah, so I knew I was very, very lucky and blessed early on that all these people, you know, you guys aren't surprised

that everyone up here is continuing to crush it. Neil Flynn has been on, who said it last night? Neil Flynn has had the most insane long run of being on a network. 21 years of network television straight? Something like that? You know, I say this all the time when this sort of thing comes up. One, well, Bill, you put me on the map because we got lucky.

The show was good and it stayed on the air. That's all the difference it is between. There's a thousand people that get a TV show that doesn't stay on the air, so it doesn't get any footing for their career. And then I slid to another TV show that stayed on the air. Malcolm. Malcolm?

Malcolm. Yes. And all my modern family teammates. I don't care if you remember the name of the show. It stayed on the air, and so you seem like... It's luck. Bring your skill with you and be surrounded by skillful people,

but hope for luck. And one of the things that Bill really committed to was creating a true ensemble. Oftentimes, even though it is led through Zach's voice, most of the time as part of a cast, you're supporting your you're number one. But he made, and the writers made space for all of us to contribute and develop the characters

as we did, you know, stealing from our private lives and everything, but also to really, really have your moment in terms of everybody's lives, which helped us, you know, complicate it in terms of being funny and being dramatic and emotional. So Bill is... Yeah. Bill, is now the time that we talk about season 9?

And by the way, I'm not... We didn't all work on season 9. You did not work on season 9. Yeah, I did. I'm telling you right now, if they let me do that just as a spin-off... eight season eight is the finale season nine was called scrubs med they got nervous they retitled it i thought it was funny man i'll watch it again

right now i don't care what anybody says bill's never seen an episode of season yeah i mean i'm gonna check it out when they get there in the podcast, but I'm excited to watch it. I truly, no jokes aside, I've never seen an episode of season nine, so when we do get there in the podcast, it's going to be a blast. Yeah, I think you guys will dig it. Zach, you're in it for a good chunk, though.

Yeah, I'm in there for, but I still never saw any of the ones I was in. Yeah. So it'll be interesting. Wow. Well, we have, unfortunately, time for just one more. Oh, no, no, no. We'll go through them.

We'll go fast. We'll go fast. We'll go fast. We'll go. Oh, I just wanted to start off and say thank you. You can turn that mic to your face a little. We'll go quick. We're going to get, by the way, after this I'll machine gun you guys questions,

and I'll walk around like Phil Donahue, old reference, and we'll all answer them. It's going to be great. We'll go quite fast. Well, I'll just get to my question then. So how do you... Say the nice things. We want to hear the nice things too.

Well, I just wanted to like thank you for everything i think everyone in this room has like a scrub story like my first date with my now fiance we just were snowed in upstate new york watching scrubs and it's just like it was really special oh it's worth it yeah and so but my question is how do you think that your characters would have handled the pandemic? Like, not to answer for Neil Flynn, but in my mind, I think the janitor would have been vaccinating the brain trust with some made-up vaccine he made. Like, how do you think that your characters would have handled the pandemic?

They'll hire her. No, that's funny. That's funny. Look, the coolest thing was, I think they would have been, I'll go quick on this one because we had a huge medical responsibility

and the only rule on the show was that this gang was never allowed to be perceived as not caring, you know, and not so about the patients. I think they would have taken it incredibly seriously.

The weirdest thing for me during the pandemic, if you saw it, was showing how infection went from person to person with that episode in which, I forgot her name, the actress's name, Diane, was it Wilk was her last name? Or was it Wilk? It was Wilk, yeah. Kind of became a thing of showing

how COVID is transmitted and stuff. So I think they would have risen to the challenge and crushed it. I mean, they were all playing those parts with such heart. And I love that your first date was with your fiance. That's awesome. No problem. Wrap it in fire. Let's go. I'm very nervous. I'm very excited.

You guys, I've no idea how much you've affected me. It was one of my first adult comedy, so I made my mom drive me to Target and buy the DVDs, so I brought it. So I'm very nervous right now. Just, I guess, a quick question. I guess, similar to that last one,

where would you see your characters now? By the way, you're asking me to write the reboot in front of you, man. I think... Lulu just greenlit it. No, I know. By the way, find me afterwards if you want me to sign those things, man. Yeah, yeah. I think Turk and JD finally come out.

Yes! I don't know if the rest of Texas is ready for that. Let me just quickly say thank you so much. Especially Zach, you've helped me so much. Growing up, he wasn't the most masculine, and I wasn't either in school. But he always got the girl, and that was really cool to see as a young man that wasn't into sports ball.

I think that's enough for the fucking show. Zach, you should tell them about when you were a youth and how you went to theater camp and how you did all of those things. What was the theme of your bar mitzvah? Musicals. Let's hear it for the boy. I entered till let's hear it for the boy. All right, thank you so much. We love you guys.

Thank you, thank you, thank you. First of all, you guys are a huge inspiration for me. The whole reason I started stand-up comedy, I'm going to get to my questions super, super fast. Bill, the show is super visual, and I was wondering how did you convince the executives to go with you on that journey? Nobody

ever came by. The cool thing about being in the creepy deserted hospital at a time when all those shows were on sound stages was they didn't know what we were doing until we showed it to them. They didn't think it was going to work. If it hadn't worked, we would have been canceled so very fast, but it was still something. I wanted to call my production company Noble Failures Production

because our goal was just to make something that you could show your friends and family and be proud of. And the people that brought the visual sense to it, it's not me, it's the pilot director, Adam Bernstein. Zach directed so many. He's so fucking good at it. Mike Spiller, Gail Mancuso. There's just so many people that want to make sense to it. What's that? Linda Mendoza. Linda Mendoza, DP's Andy Ross and John Inwood. I knew I wanted to have a cool look, but I don't know how to do that

and those people all do. So thanks, man. Thank you. Thank you so much. Next question. Yes, Donald Wu-Tang Forever. Say it again. Wu-Tang Forever. Wu-Tang is forever. There are very few things that are forever. Wu-Tang forever. Say it again. Wu-Tang forever. Wu-Tang is forever. There are very few things that are forever. Wu-Tang is forever. Is forever.

And you know what else is forever? Scrubs is forever, baby. Scrubs is forever. By the way, just so you guys know, we did a Today Show interview this morning where we were all having a competition to see who could come up with the best end line, and Donald's doing it again now, by the way.

By the way, on Scrubs is forever, we should just all walk off. That's it. Thank you. Bill, you've done a lot of things. Oh, I'm sorry. By the way, on Scrubs is Forever, we should just all walk off. That's it. Thank you. Bill, you've done a lot of things. I'm sorry. TV's Mike Nichols. You do a lot of callback

with a lot of the jokes and places inside the show, and I need closure, and I think some of us do need closure. What the hell happened to J.D.'s half acre? Oh.

Oh, shit. By the way, you know what I thought you were going to say? His half acre? know what I thought you were going to say? His half acre? What? I thought you were going to say what went down at Laverne's above ground pool. I know. We know a lot about it on your podcast.

We know a lot about it on your podcast. You know, the funniest thing, for those of you who listen to the podcast, was that we had Aloma right on, and we said, you know, Aloma, tell us about your feelings about what happened in the above ground pool parties. And she goes, do you think I read the rest of the scripts? So Aloma had no idea that there was a whole runner about her above ground

pool party because she would just flip to where her lines were. I don't know why, if you were having a pool party, why would you specify that it was an above ground pool? That half acre's still out there somewhere, man. It became a hangout spot. I know, that spot. I know. That's why we know.

For older gay gentlemen. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks, man. Thank you. Next up. Hello.

So I have a question for Sarah and Judy. Also, my last name is Reyes. So woo-hoo. Jobs. We're family. We're related. We are. Where are you from?

I'm from California. Are you a Dominican? I am not, no. I don't want to talk to you. I'm sorry California. Are you a Dominican? I am not, no. I don't want to talk to you. I'm sorry. I did. That was one of my favorite throw lines, though. It was just like, I'm not Mexican, I'm Dominican. So I read or I heard an interview, I think it was on one of the commentaries, that your guys' friendship mirrored in the show kind of like how it was in real life. Can you talk a little bit about that? Like how you guys kind of become best friends?

We actually decided to have babies at the same time. Actually, no, that was a coincidence, but it was very exciting. It was a psychic connection. She's having a baby, I'm going to have a baby. I don't even remember who got pregnant first. It was probably the same day. Yeah, when's your kid's birthday?

Christmas Eve, December 24th. Thanksgiving. When's your kid's birthday? Christmas Eve. Thanksgiving. But I had an emergency C-section, so... It probably was the same day. This is kind of how it happens. We just kind of bond and chat and talk. You know, like, Sarah talks like 20 miles a minute. And I just feel like I have to share information with her really quickly, you know?

But Sarah's the cutest, funniest thing in the world, you know? And that's one of the things about all of us being together, that we just kind of like really seriously collapse back into the place where we were, where we all met. There's an enormous chemistry there. And I like her. Last night. I'm coming out next year. Oh, shit! Oh, shit! You're not allowed to do that because of COVID.

Next question. I have to say, you know, I can't imagine how lucky I was that Judy was my other lady on the show. We had such a good time together. And it's so true. I think we were two seconds into meeting on the street yesterday. I was like, and Judy, you're not going to believe it.

The last four years were crazy in the pandemic, and this is what happened. My deepest, darkest from the last... Yeah, we were about to do it right now again. You guys got to get your questions. I got sprayed by a skunk. I have to pee soon, so we need to hurry. Cool glasses, get it.

Hi, everyone. Hi, Sarah. So, a lot of people in the medical profession, not me, because I disappointed... Hi, everyone. Hi, Sarah. What the fuck is that? No redundant questions. All right, sorry. Quickly, quickly, quickly. A lot of people in the medical profession, not me, I disappointed my parents,

say that Scrubs is the most medically accurate show, like, really depicting what it's like to work in a hospital. Every hospital has an ass box. True. There you go. What made that happen? Beyond the writing, like what did you all do? Real JD, he wouldn't police us on the actual medical shit,

but he talked hours and hours about it. He going, hey, everybody here, imagine your first day of work as somebody in their early 20s, and then imagine that you're also responsible for people living and dying. And the doctors that worked with us would endlessly tell us the stories of how they're afraid, how they had a hard-as-shit mentor, how they had a nurse that, when they started, knew more about medicine than they did, even though they were the doctors. And we just sucked it in and stole their shit, man.

And we were really conscientious about doing it. And one of the things we're most proud of is that people say this is one of the more realistic medical shows. I remember the first time we had to do an operating room scene, and they put makeup on me, and I was like, oh, yeah, this is about to be the scene. I'm about to cut this dude open. And then when I got in there,

they covered my face with a mask. And I remember thinking, there's no show on television that does this. Every show on television, when they're in the operating room, these cats don't have masks on, they're talking over the patient with spit flying out of their mouths and stuff like that. And I remember when that happened,

I was like, wow, this is going to be real like that. The other joke of that was then Donald on the other hand was like, I don't really need to know my lines. We can just dub them in later. I said that once. I said that once. I did say that once. Thanks, man. And that's where it all began.

Alright, we've got five people. We've got four minutes left. Let's do it. We can do it. I'm visiting from New York, so shout out to the Bronx on Judy's shirt. So my question is, I know you were saying it's based on a real person, a real doctor, but if the show could be based on a different workplace, what do you think would work well or be the funniest?

Brothel. There you go. Perfect one. Next one. Next up. By the way, it's a great question. Thank you. Next one. Next up. By the way, it's a great question. Thank you.

This would have worked any way, anywhere because this show was really about these guys becoming a family. If I may, a lot of shows try to repeat it

and it's not the same. You guys have seen Scrubs in a High School, Scrubs in a... For a while, that used to be how you pitched shows. You would go and go,

I'm going to do Scrubs in a high school with teachers. I'm going to do Scrubs in a high school with teachers I'm going to do Scrubs in a law office and so Scrubs is just Scrubs Scrubs colon brothel I think Zach nailed it thank you I have a question for Bill we have what can you say about the

Clone High reboot it's funny Chris and Phil and I worked on the first six episodes coming out and about we're just now doing the animatics for the second season. You're going to dig it. It's funny. I promise. Thank you so much.

A soundtrack changed the game. Awesome soundtrack. Oh, cool. Thanks, man. Next up. I like your shirt. I like your shirt. Cool shirt.

Look at that. And the Todd. Okay, so I'm super nervous. And one thing I've learned from listening to your podcast and Federal San Antonio and Che Serrano is to shoot my shot. I drove up here from San Antonio early this morning just to see you guys. So I'm going to shoot my shot and ask a really big favor. If I could just stand in front of the stage and take a shot.

Go ahead. Go, go, go, go, go. Quick, quick, quick. No one will even know. Turn the mic towards you while you get ready. We can get the other question. We'll get the other question. Just get it ready. When she's set up, go. go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go, go you go. Yeah! Okay, so obviously as big fans, we've all watched Scrubs a ton. And I'm wondering what is your guys' version of Scrubs as far as TV shows? Like what TV show...

That's a good question. Ted Lasso. ...you guys all rewatched over and over? Ted Lasso. And now, Winning Time. Winning Time's good. I want to say one thing, because there's a lot of talk about kindness in television, which I think matters. I really like TV, where people are kind, and they're lovely to each other.

It's hopefully inspiring. It's hopefully emotionally enriching. But, as a comedy writer, I will say, if a show is open and honest about what it does, the show Veep should just be called Finding New Ways to Be Horrible to Each Other. And by Gabby Allen, who wrote on Scrubs, is one of the executive producers of that show.

It's so funny. And I love that show, Malcolm. Malcolm got me through a lot of hard times. So, Neil's so great in that. Thank you so much. Thank you, thank you. Oh, and finally, in the cosplay character. Oh, by the way, gotta bring it home.

Great outfit. Let's do it. Thank you all, especially Neil, without whom I'd be a garbage man. Sarah, could you please lead us in singing from the theme song of Scrubs? Yes! It's happening! It's happening! It's happening!

Out the door, just in time. Heading down the 405. Heading down the 405. Gotta meet the new boss by 8 a.m. Gotta meet the new boss by 8 a.m. Gotta meet the new boss by 8 a.m. Boom, boom, boom, boom! Phone rings in the car.

The boss is working hard. Donald should take over and do some runs. He's running late at night again. What song is that? Oh, I know what I've been told. Go ahead. You gotta bend and break the mold. Okay.

But I can't do this all on my own. No, I know. I'm no Superman. No, I know. I'm no Superman. Hey, last thing. I'm no Superman. Hey, last thing to everybody, and then we got to split.

This is it. I told you I'd find a way to close. The finale, the speech that JD does when he's walking the hallway is really about what it means to be a TV writer. And he says, if you're lucky enough just to make people feel a little better, get emotional, Donald's going to mock me. It means so much to us that you're here. Thank you.

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