On this episode of Fake Doctors, Real Friends, Zach Braff and Donald Faison talk about Scrubs episode “My Karma,” but as usual, the two best friends go off on several tangents, discussing restaurants with suspiciously long menus, Adam Sandler, Breaking Bad, male friendships, Bruce Willis, whether or not it matters if your partner is more sexually experienced than you, Jerry Seinfeld, banana hammocks, and Donald tells Zach why golf clubs need socks (“Do they get cold?” Zach wonders). Florence Pugh also comes on to give us more Cooking With Flo tips, they introduce a new segment called Todd Talks, and they speak with a fan named Nicholas and Fix His Life when he asks Donald about sleep training his baby.
Zach says he told someone recently that Donald has only seen one episode of Breaking Bad, the finale, and “they had to sit down, they were so upset.” Donald won’t watch the show, but says the final episode is one of the best things he’s ever seen on television. “Then why don’t you just go back and watch the whole thing?” Zach asks, and Donald replies, “I already know how it ends!” (Similarly, Donald says Jerry Seinfeld is one of the best comedians in the business, but admits, “I don’t watch any of his work.”) Zach saw the finale at Kate Hudson’s viewing party and ended up sitting right next to Dean Norris, who plays Hank on the show. “And right next to him was Bruce Willis!” Donald says he got to see Leonardo DiCaprio, his favorite actor of all time, at one of Kate Hudson’s parties and it’s still up there as one of the best parties he’s ever been to.
They laugh about Nurse Roberts ordering lobster at a diner, which neither of them would ever do: “It’s like saying, ‘How are the scallops at IHOP?’” Zach asks if it matters if your partner is more sexually experienced than you are (“What if you’re doing double black diamond sex and I’m only ready for like, a blue square?”), but Donald says to let it go. “When you’re with someone….that’s your moment together. What came before you, what comes after you, it’s irrelevant.” When Nicholas calls in, he talks about how unique Scrubs was at portraying a healthy male friendship, where they were open with their emotions and not afraid to drink appletinis. Though it wasn’t the show’s initial intent, “we did kind of tiptoe into something cultural about masculinity and what’s acceptable,” Zach says. “I think that’s what we’re all striving for, to be in relationships that allow us to be who we truly are.”
They also ask Robert Maschio, who plays Todd on Scrubs, which of his banana hammocks was the most comfortable (“The banana hammocks are for the people," Robert says. "Comfort is of no importance"), talk about how golf is different from mini-golf (“So they don’t have the loop-de-loops and the windmills?” Zach asks), and design Hug Hazmat Suits for pandemic hugs; hear the whole hilarious conversation on Fake Doctors, Real Friends.
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