• Guy Ingonito@reddthat.com
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    My favorite scrubs fact is that none of the streaming platforms can get the rights to the indie music Zack Braff shoved into all the final scenes so they replaced them all with generic open source songs which really hurts the quality.

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      Only for the first four seasons. Rights agreements were different then.

      You’ll also find most streaming sites turn the 4:3 into 16:9 by chopping off the top and bottom of the frame.

      This is why I have the show on DVD.

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      Now the question is when you’re going to introduce them to 30 Rock. Are they ready for that level of jokes-per-minute? What about Community?

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      Shameless (original version).
      And Black adder, Allô Allô, House MD… c’mon, put some effort into it.

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    I was like “awesome! It was so funny and would be great to see a modern version of it!” And the I found out that it is a canonical continuation of the story and immediately got disappointed.

    Hollywood, listen. When something old was really good and you want to make more money off of it, take the idea that made it good and stop reviving the dead just to be surprised that it sucks.

    A new scrubs with a completely different set of people and story with just the key idea there would actually be awesome. Just remember how well the last season was accepted 😒

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      Right there with you, after what they did with the season that doesn’t exist (season 9, I refuse to acknowledge it) I don’t trust them with this property. The whole appeal of the show was JD and Turk’s growth, and of course the Cox rants. Also what’s the point without Ted.

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      Elder millenials that don’t care about this generational fuckery represent!

      (oh crap I used elder millenial unironically am I part of the problem AHHHH!)

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          (only barely tangential to your point but) I mean, I also played the Oregon Trail and I’m definitely a younger millennial.

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            I’m not gonna gatekeep, but was it on a floppy drive? We played it in school on 5.24” floppies.

            I recently played a Floppotron video for my 7 year old and he was skeptical that computers sounded like that when games loaded.

            We didn’t even get into the 14.4 modem sounds it took to see a webpage.

            Edit: Oops I meant 5.25”, but TIL apparently actually 5.1”. Fun fact I learned back in college, is that CDRs fit into 5.25” floppies if you cut a slit and remove the disc.

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              Ah; you have a fair point, there. I’ve never used a 5.24". I actually didn’t know it was released on those.

              I recently played a Floppotron video for my 7 year old and he was skeptical that computers sounded like that when games loaded.

              Haha; I know I’m biased since, as a developer and someone interested in computers, I’m also more aware (even if I’ve never used) of older tech. but it is incredible just how much things have changed.

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              We played it in school on 5.24” floppies.

              Tech around that time depended a lot on what was affordable. Like I had 5¼ floppies at home but school had Apple IIGS with 3.5" drives that we used for Oregon Trail.

              Also wikipedia is telling me that 5.25 floppies were actually 130 mm, which would be 5.1". I guess “five and a quarter” rolls of the tongue better so they rounded up.

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    …Meanwhile a whole class of 12 yr olds today even know what Brooklyn 99 and community is…

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      Brooklyn 99 is very recent though, isn’t it? Is it still on the air?

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      If you’d have read Bill Lawrence’s interview on the subject, you’d know that’s this isn’t about money. And I’d trust the guy who created Ted Lasso and shrinking to do what it takes to make this worth watching.

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        And I’d trust the guy who created Ted Lasso and Shrinking to do what it takes to make the worth watching.

        And Scrubs. The original show itself. He created it. He’s not some rando taking over.

        But honestly, Bill Lawrence has single-handedly built up the comedydrama side of Apple TV+. Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Bad Monkey… All great shows. And I don’t even care about football normally.

        I’ll take this one with a grain of salt instead of the usual salt mountain. It’s still a reboot. But it looks like they’re also getting at least some of the other cast members back too. Mostly I’m hoping for Cox and Kelso. Carla and Janitor are apparently semi-confirmed? And I think Jordan is more or less confirmed considering the actress is literally married to Bill Lawrence and actively takes part in his projects.

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          Hadn’t checked out the Apple shows yet but also didn’t know they were Bill Lawrence; that bumps them up the list some

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          Exactly. That’s my point. He created these shows. And so many people have zero faith that he’d create a quality reboot.

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          Carla has a scheduling conflict with another show, but I think they were trying to work something out.

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          Well now you’ve also heard: I thought it an unapologetically heartfelt show, and I really enjoyed it despite expecting saccharine bullshit. It didn’t hold the quality all three seasons, but that’s not because it’s bad, but rather because the first season (and even the second,) is so good. I enjoyed it completely. But hey, it’s not for everyone.

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          No, that’s not all you heard about it and we both know it. You just like stirring the pot with edgy rhetoric.

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      Sometimes the cash in works, Top Gun for example, and that is why they keep trying, ignoring all the times it doesn’t work.

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      No, it actually works VERY OFTEN. See: The financial success of the always garbage live action disney remakes.

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      it never works on you and me maybe, but it seems like the normies eat that shit up

      It makes me feel like I’m better than them. which I’m aware seems to be a character flaw, but not one I care about, I guess! enjoy your shitty fifth superhero movie reboot or whatever

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        I don’t remember specifics but when Kickstarter was in its infancy Zach Braff had a couple kickstarters for his movies. They weren’t themselves offensive. It’s just that using a crowdfunding platform which, at the time at least, were mostly for people who had zero access to capital when you’re a multimillionaire with Hollywood connections to capital is a bit gauche.

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          I threw in $100 for a Zach Braff movie. I got to be an extra (they fed us ribs for lunch), 2 t-shirts, then got 2 tickets for a sneak preview with free drinks and popcorn, and a q&a with Zach and Donald Faison…worth every penny, unlike the poor saps that have $1 million to solar freakin roadways.

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            Genuinely, neat. I wonder how that all financially played out. It was probably mostly a tax deduction. (not that it was bad, but just to point at how the rich have faaaaaar more financial tools to motivate people than those who would ACTUALLY benefit from having access to such things)

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              During the q&a someone asked about it. His first movie, Garden State basically got bankrolled by some rich dentist that he knew… He said the normal way of financing movies lets a bunch of rich people get to take control of the script, who you cast, what scenes make it in… Basically everything.

              He wanted to retain the control he had first time around to make his next movie, so he crowd funded it… And seeing how many movies get made by talented people that end up being garbage because money men think they know everything and fuck it up… Seemed reasonable 😏

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          I feel the same about companies like Anker’s audio branch Soundcore using Kickstarter to prefund/advertise their new tech - safe to say their ‘projects’ are funded about 20,000%

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    Scrubs was a special show. Some times woke and some times a product if it’s times. Meaning gay jokes cause guys hug. Super fun and then they hit you with that real real. Sorry Dr Kelso is so mean because he needs to keep this big ship running. It doesn’t work out good all the time but he tries.

    I liked the later seasons when Dr Cox was in charge and when he went through his alcohol problems. I even like the last season. It was different but it was still a good show.

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      Came here to say something similar. I always have mixed feelings on Scrubs for similar reasons to you. I genuinely can’t go back and rewatch most episodes because they are incredibly dated or insensitive in many respects. The good parts are still good, the great parts are still great, but the bad parts feel really bad IMO, and it really kills a lot of rewatch potential for me, despite having loved watching seasons 1-5 when it was originally airing. It was one of my favorite shows for years.

      I can definitely watch older stuff and understand it’s a product of its time, but Scrubs in particular has me cringing by 5 minutes into the episode; I can’t get through the rest of the episode most of the time. I end up skipping around to watch the scenes I know I like. I ain’t got time to sit around watchin’ The Todd harass people or Kelso make his usual “wife bad” jokes.

      What a soundtrack, though. One of the better soundtracks of any show I’ve watched.

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    The first couple seasons were nice (Why old people assume we, gen z won’t know about shows, like now they gonna assume don’t have ever watched Dr House???)

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      It’s not an assumption. Lots of kids your age don’t know about our stuff and that’s fine! The same was true when we were kids.

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      A large number of gen x and millennials seems to have grown up to have a “this is how the adults acted when I was a kid, so its only fair for me to shit on kids now”, and its disgusting.

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        When people don’t know any better, we’re all very much “monkey see monkey do”.

        A lot of us grew up with examples of the kinds of parents we don’t want to be, not many of us grew up with good examples of the kind of parenting we would like to provide.

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          …gen x were abandoned in playgrounds just for predators to take. And two generations before that parents were selling their kids to pay rent.

          Which followed with generations of helicopter parents. So they tried something different.

          I’ve seen kids grow up without being told they’re loved and then turn around and tell their own kids they are loved every day.

          Ppl figure it out by experimenting.

          Point is: if you’re trying, That is the best you can do. There is no manual.

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          Yeah, I’m also a millenial who had shitty parents. There’s too many of us who will gladly complain about our parents/teachers/coaches, but then get all pissy when you point out they’re treating gen z like the boomers treated us.

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      Yep, a built in marketing base of old farts telling young uns how good it is before it even exists.