Scrubs Austin Television Experience Panel

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. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi, guys, Joel 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

(00:21):
guys that 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
gonna 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 lovely. The guys, everybody,

(00:41):
Bill and Zack and Donald. I'll talk about what would
a Scrubs reunion look like, so you'll get some fun
details on well how their wheels are spinning on that,
and you'll get to hear from so many favorites, including
John C McGinley and Judy Rayes. So I hope that
you guys take some time to listen and enjoy. I

(01:01):
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 song no Superman oman Yeah, that theme right there.

(01:27):
So we got some babies 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 him out first. Up. You know him
as the creator, the executive producer of a little show

(01:48):
called Scrubs, the one and only mister Bill Lawrence, Bill,
you got a one man standy No over there, j D,
John Dorran himself, Zach Brath the other the other hand,

(02:24):
the other half of j D and Turk, Chris Turk himself,
Donald Fins, Oh oh yeah, feeling the energy. Elliott Read

(02:51):
of course, Sarah Shock h m h. Of course, doctor Cox,
Perry Cox, the one on Lily, John C McGinley, of course,

(03:24):
Carla Espinoza on the show, the wonderful Judy Rees. And finally,
as the janitor who's keeping a watchful eye on all
of you, Neil Flynn, so real quick housekeeping. Note this

(03:57):
is actually a reunion for the team Mobile Home Innerne
that series. Uh, we're gonna be talking about that for
the next hour. Nothing about just Zack and Donald figuring
out their Internet problems. It's just there's gonna be a
whole lot more of them. Oh hey, Austin, what's up?
I aloha? Hey? When you when you come to these things,

(04:22):
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's damn was the fu?
Where did you guys go last night? Of your business here?
None of your business. Let's just say we were overserved.
You're okay, you're all looking Graham. There were a couple

(04:44):
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. But good morning, everybody, Good morning.
So nine seasons, one hundred and eighty two episode seventeen
Emmy nominations, two wins, a peep Body Award, two networks,
and now one podcast as well, Scrub. Do you guys wait,

(05:07):
good question? Do you guys like my podcast? Thank you?
Bill for letting us do it. Well, we're putting I
knew I knew I was gonna use Donald, and then
we were talking Donald I, we were talking about who
else we would use on that podcast, and we went
with Zach. Yeah, thank you, Thank you. So Bill, when

(05:32):
you came up with the idea of the uh my guy,
eight Doctors, Real Friends podcast, Um no, but so you guys,
I mean, in some ways, doing the reunions a little
bit of a misnomer because you're always reuniting. This is
this is something that's lived on and you know, just
the camaraderie this group is incredible, and you've had these
past two years, especially with the podcast, to really look

(05:53):
back now and reminisce and get together. Um So, Zach, seriously, though,
what you take us back to the impetus you and
Donald of doing this podcast and what that's meant in
sort of, you know, getting the band back together and
talking about here this is gonna be the question about
the podcast, right, that's only about Bill. Bill is livid

(06:14):
he didn't get the first question. Um um When the
two um, when the two gals from the office did it,
it became so popular. We were Donald and I were
approached to do it, and um, it actually just we
started day one of the la uh COVID Lockdown was
the first day we were supposed to record, and we thought, oh,

(06:36):
that's that's that's too bad. We can't do it now.
And they said, oh, don't worry. We figured it out.
You can put mikes in your house and you could
do it over zoom. And it became like one of
the most for us, and and a lot of the
fans who who who listens something to make each other
laugh during COVID and uh and it was really um
I was we were both so grateful to have it,

(06:58):
and then a lot of fans who listen and love
the show, we're so glad to have it, and um
and that was sort of the genesis of it. And
then we started having Bill on and um and and
and 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

(07:19):
a blast, And thank you all for for listening, Thank
you for all listen truly, thanks to the rest of
the cast for coming on the podcast. Also because uh,
you know, they don't get paid to get on here.
But anyway, Um, I was just excited that we came
up with a way to McDonald watch the show right.
Had no idea what this show Scrubs was about. I'm like,

(07:40):
I think it has something to do with doctor It's
about 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? What? What?
What's the scene about on the on the wall? Because
of that podcast, my kids started watching Scrubs and they

(08:03):
like it now 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
or I'm sorry, what was it? I'm still thinking? And
did anything you had to explain to your kids as
they were watching it for the first No, Actually, um
Day would go like, I love that time when when

(08:24):
he's having the fantasy and the janitor is so cool.
Never ever anything about me. I'm gonna have to talk
to her about that, not a moment about some of
your great dramatic scenes. I mean, we still remember the
episode We're no damn it. Well, that's why we're here
to talk about those great moments. Um. But but seriously,

(08:49):
you guys you continued to work together. I mean, Zach,
you were Emmy nominated for directing an episode of ted Lasso,
so so thank you. And then a bunch of you
were on celebrity Family Feud not Toys Ago. I was
amazing a life dream won. Way we won. Spoiler, Neil,

(09:11):
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? Follow victory? I
don't we failed to reflect America's feelings about what animal

(09:34):
might appear in a baby creat whatever the questions were there,
I don't know. It's really scarry when you get there,
by the way, I mean, it's been a lifelong dream
of mind to be on Family Feud, And when you're
there and you're staring at Steve Harvey and his mustache,
it's very it's very intimidating. Back in the final round,

(09:54):
you look intense, You look like you were wanted. I
really wanted to I really wanted to not let my
team down. And then Donald did that with Alligator. Yeah,
that's hey, man, that's a come on. Now. By the way,
there's this. There's this some 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,

(10:15):
name an animal that would help you climb over a fence.
The answer would be a draft. Donald went with alligator
that would not as a ladder, but but he but
the fans defended him because somehow they found an alligator
climbing a fence. Several alligators in Florida know how to
climb fences out They've they've adapted. I learned from us

(10:41):
withou the human climb out of the back of the alligator. Yeah,
the human eye. That was the thing you had to
escape if you were escaping from the zoo. Which animal
that was? Which animal would which animal would most help
you escape from the zoo? Yeah? And I said, I
went first in giraffe. Did you even try jiraft first? No?
I went straight out Gatoray, the most ill equipped animal

(11:06):
to help you is to try and bite you as
you climbed this shore, but you would get over that.
Then either way, you guys won, and you won the
money too, So I'll for charity for the one it's worth.
So there you go, congratulations on that. But if you
gave your money away, Bill, Bill kept his because he's

(11:27):
I don't know if you've seen them the trades, but
he's a little short on cash these days, all right,
He's he struggled in the years since U sin Se Scrubs.
But yeah, I mean going back to the other shows
that you guys have all collaborated. I mean, Sarah, you
showed up on Cougar Town. So Sarah, what do you
what do you make of this? This? This this sort

(11:47):
of camaraderie, the fact that no one can quit each other.
This is a show, This is a This a group
that has remained close even though the show has 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 for ever after that because it's an experience
that it's really hard to replicate. I mean, we were
living and working in this old, abandoned hospital. We had

(12:09):
all the writers, the crew, the cast um. We had
nowhere to go but in this hospital. And it was
before the days where you had to have short days,
so we would be there for a long time with
each other. And yeah, I think my longest day when
we were there was like twenty four hours, and I remember,
this is how it happened. I'm gonna tell you how
it happened, not gonna let you exactly twenty four hours.

(12:30):
And I remember Randall walking unions would have shut down.
This is how it happened listening. So 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 sign 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,

(12:54):
and then the check came to my agents and Randall
Randall Winston is 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 can't. 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 happy as can be, and

(13:15):
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 guard. And they try not

(13:36):
to make you work twenty four hours straight as it's
it's almost like being on a medical shift, except you,
guys aren't necessarily saving lives, but you're like, you're making
everyone fall in love with you. So I don't know
what that means. You got it all good work? Why
did you say? I don't know? After that? You did good?
Should have owned it exactly. But you know, what's interesting
about listening to the podcast is that we've also learned

(13:58):
more of the pills right here, I feel like all
we've talked about so far as the podcast he's segueing
now I sense what's happens, m Off. We've learned a
lot more about sort of the inner workings of the
show and even like inside jokes, some of the things
like I love like you revealing some of John C's

(14:21):
favorite saynes, which, uh, you're learning more about what he's
like on set. There's five good ones for you. And
by the way, whole group answer right now, how you
doing better? Better now? Better now? It'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

(14:45):
he really likes you, he'll shorten here's five good ones
for you and just say here's five matha, John, I
don't leave the fucking property, and so Billy just put
to the steak in my Sternum. I don't don't come
and talk to me at all, any of you. Yeah,

(15:12):
he means unless unless you have special needs, I don't
want to meet you. You have special needs, I want
to meet you. Otherwise, Um, I'm window dressing here. He's
becoming more doctor Cox. What's happening. What's happening, Zach, Well,
we all have a little bit of our our characters

(15:33):
inside of us, um, except for Ken Jenkins, who's the
who's not with here, um, but is the nicest human
being on the planet. But other than that, I think
um Bill would take a lot of our personalities in fact,
and sometimes you 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 like
a week later it would be in the show. We're

(15:55):
all exactly like her. As Zach texted, the whole group
before we came here, and he was like, Sarah's gonna
have some ridiculous travel story. And I was getting on
the elevator to go and 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 US, and I've

(16:18):
been here for about five minutes, and I didn't know
what to do, and so I immediately FaceTime 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. Yeah. So Zac's like, Okay,
what elevator are you in? And I'm like, I don't know.
So I started pushing the buttons and all of a sudden,

(16:39):
all the buttons are lighting up, and then I find
a button to call the front desk and she says, well,
are you on You're stuck in flor eleven. The elevator
only goes to five. What is happening right now? Tell
them all what you did to calm down makes me happy.

(16:59):
I'm down. I really needed to calm down. I did
not understand that I was claustrophobic until this moment, and
I thought it was another panic attack, and I was like, Okay,
get back onto the podcast. I was listening to um
Dak Shepherd's podcast and Monica Padman and Fahrenholtz was on,
and I was like, just 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

(17:21):
we were up for dinner, and attacks like you were
listening to my doppel gagers of all fucking podcasts in
the world. She calms down by listening to Dak Shepherd's podcast.
Okay in office, Okay, because I know Bill wants us
to talk more about the podcast. I did have to

(17:42):
say that during a few very stressful COVID times, I
would put on Fake Doctor's Real Friends, no joke, and
I would laugh and it would calm me. And that
is his truth. All Right, Well we'll make it about
Bill now, will Let's talk about ted Lasso. Yeah, Yeah,
let's go one of my favorite shows of all time,

(18:06):
Emmy winning Ted Lasso. But Bill, Yeah, shout out to
Ted last night. You can give him. Yeah, especially director
Zach Brath on Ted Lasso. It was 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

(18:27):
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 gonna last
its first year. Well, I'm so grateful. I can speak
for all of us. We're all so grateful that any

(18:50):
of you still care 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

(19:10):
the cast of Scrubs walking down the street? And then, um, Neil,
if you will help me here, there's one person from
a bus that pointed at you and screamed, what modern family? Neil?

(19:33):
Tell him the other story. Please come on about me, Yeah,
I'll make it fast. The lady. You know, periodically people
will see you on the street and aren't you a lady?
Yelled from across the street. Don't you come on TV? Yes?
What's the name of that show? Uh? Oh, she goes.

(19:55):
Malcolm in the middle close said he I did it
half right, She says, Malcolm. H So look, the end

(20:15):
of my answer was we are happy to spend time
with each other anyways. And it 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

(20:36):
you guys so much for still given a hoop. 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 uh, you know,
sort of out of the norm, especially in broadcast TV.

(20:58):
There are so many things that you I sort of
broke new ground on. I think the relationship between Turk
and Carla is still sort of like relationship goals. Judy
is yeah, for sure, I think. Uh. Not to mention
the podcast again, but we had a guy on the
podcast named Shay Serrano and and he wrote an essay

(21:21):
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

(21:43):
real life, I try to find what Turk and Carla
have and I well, I found it, 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. And that's a lot of pressure. Though. I

(22:03):
remember going to Bill at some point, I don't know
if it was the first or second season, and I
was I had been practicing the speech to give him
and h and I was like, why don't I get
any jokes? And I get like a fan goes, oh god,
I'm sorry. I mean, you know, your character carries the
gravitas of the show. It's a big responsibility. I just

(22:26):
I just want to be funny, but she went 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 like the dramatic spine of
the show, and we talked from the beginning. She made
the whole thing real, you know what I mean. So yeah, ah,

(22:48):
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 and give you an opportunity to realize
your needs as an actor. And a lot of it
is not only dramatic, but it's funny. H And I

(23:09):
remember he gave me this great fantasy about me losing
my shit when I 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,

(23:30):
and the musical and the 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 you know, stuffed rawdy, here's like
little Here's little rawdy right here. Um, you know, the

(23:51):
silly stuff that you guys did, But then the real
emotional stuff too, like again the going back to Carla
and the episode where Nurse of Earned dies and Judy
tour a force scene, but also when Brendan Frasier's character dies,
and of course props to Brendan, what a good actor, huh.

(24:12):
But props to John C. McGinley. Uh. You know, the
Doctor Cox and that relationship, and of course the relationship
between Doctor Cox and Zach Braff. You know, JD. There
are two different people I know, Um, I'll tell you
they We love people, both love musicals, We both went
to theater camp. I have a journal, but it doesn't

(24:35):
have a unicorn who's there to protect my hopes and dreams?
You know you you are equally nonversed in the world
of sports. Zach will call me up sometimes say did
the sports team you like when no, the other day,
I was so proud to know that there was a
Celtics heat came on and and I and I kept
texting Donald being like, I need this tonight. I need it.

(24:57):
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. It's over. It's over. I go,
I can't watch anymore because it's it's over. It's a
waste of time from here on out. I also know
nothing about sports has become a joke in my family.
Exact line in the show of I Love It when
he wins at the games that he played. By the way, Bill,

(25:20):
didn't you? On Twitter the other day tweet it's over,
it's over, and people thought why the internet works? I said,
I think it's over because the Celtics won Golden State.
And there's nine million things thinking that. I said, ted
Lasso was done. So there is a momentary panic on
the internet. However, Yeah, so back to your original thing,
watch me bring it back. So it's a cool. Uh,

(25:42):
I'll run this. I don't care the show running the
Q and A. Everybody be quiet. Here's how we're doing it. Um,
I'm gonna talk about the dramatic stuff we did, and
I'm gonna probably toss it down to Johnny. Okay, all
right now, the U is the one of the coolest
things about this show is the freedom of having so
talented casts that can do comedy and drama. And we

(26:02):
all thought we were gonna be canceled after one year,
and these guys will tell you that then we decided
to show People as a different show. The third episode
or fourth episode of the show is called My Old
Lady and three three patients die, and uh, I remember
still I told these guys that when we step to
picture outlines to the network, and uh, you know, we're like,
we do this stat that if you're not in pediatrics

(26:23):
or having a baby, that one out of every three
people admitted to the hospital dies. And then Judy and
and uh Sarah get a patients, 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 it's twenty years old. Fuck you guys, all right,
what are you doing here? If someone here who's like,

(26:43):
I'm finally gonna try and watch this, fuck it's on Hulu.
This sounds great, it's on Hulu, but I had to
tell I had to tell the network and like, and
then at the end the gut Punchers they all die
and U U the network people there's like silence and
they're like, couldn't just one of them die? And then

(27:05):
by the way, I'm like, Noah, they're all gonna die,
and they're like, could the people that die be really mean?
Like racists and stuff? So you're kind of happy they die, Like, Nah,
they're all gonna die. And I always thought the way
it was acted by everybody here and U directed by
I think Mark Buckland, wasn't it h kind of set
up the whole show. So that's when we started knowing
that we could people like you switch from comedy to

(27:29):
drama really quickly. When I picked the show, they said
they didn't think we could do that, and being a
wise ass this is not smoking mirrors, but being a
wise ass, I said, I think if we just turned
down the lights and play an indie song, that it
might work. There there were times though, you'd you'd get

(27:52):
a script and you'd go we'd be in the wildest,
the most ridiculous, surreal fantasy. And then we'd come out
of it and go to a like a patient dying,
and you would think, how the hell is Bill gonna
make this hairpin turn? And to his credit, U he
masterfully would always pull it off. Did it with a
clip show? How the heck could you like? Because because

(28:16):
of fake doctors, we gotta do we have to watch
everything and we we I remember Zach being like, I
don't want to 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 emotion. It's
like Bill, that's that's a talent man. Not a lot

(28:36):
of people can take a half hour comedy and then
flip it on its ass at the end. Um, and
you do it masterfully. Oh it's not me. We're gonna
kiss each other's ass up here for a while. Although wait,
I will tell you, but somebody I was gonna 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's

(28:57):
not a big deal. It's not over the panel. And
that's well, it's because I read the book. First. There's
this amazing Mike Nichols biography that everybody here has read
except Zach. I was trying to get Zach toury and
I've been telling Bill about this Mike and he go
talking about her. By the way, you should all read
it if you since you clearly love TV. It's it's
or the art form of acting, and it talks about everything. Anyway,

(29:21):
I told Bill like four thousand times, you gotta read
this book, right, I gotta read this book. I see
him yesterday. He goes, have you read the new Mikes
this 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 the drama.
Because when you do a comedy, you know, the first
show I created was called spin City. It was all jokes,
was a sitcom. He uh, And then right before that

(29:43):
I created Mash and I didn't all right, So, but everybody,
it's so hard when you get a bunch of comedians
to go, man, I wonder if they can do drama.
And I would assume that if you're fans of this
show that you can mention everybody's favorite dramatic scene. I
tell you, there's a weird moment that I remember people here,
remember I knew like what an unbelievably counted cast we had,

(30:06):
And it was when Neil Flynn's character tricked Sarah's character
into going on a date and at the 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 that janitor can give your drama.

(30:36):
I know. Judy mentioned the musical, which was, yeah, a
landmark episode, but also just the use of music in
general on this show, Uh really became such a key
part of Scrubs and the legacy of Scrubs as well,
because again, sitcoms weren't really using music in the way
that you guys used music, and it remains something that

(30:58):
everyone remembers, as you know, so this this tool that
you were able to use to propel the narratives forward
and uh, you know, really punctuate these emotional scenes. Uh,
these guys could all talk to it. We all participated,
but I gotta give props to she couldn't be here
because our sister in law was having a concert. My
wife Chris, who plays Jordan, as the music supervisor all

(31:18):
my show. And it was cool on this show because
everybody would bring music ideas in and uh and a
writer Neil Goldman and Zach was huge doing it. But
it was the opportunity to kind of pop new bands
and tell him about the my favorite story. We all
know it and with Johnny Ceaston Josh Raiden's first song

(31:40):
yeah so um in that in the episode with Brennan
dies and John and c gives that masterful class and
acting of just that powerful, powerful performance where he says,
when I say, where do you think we are? Um?
My friend Josh Raiden had never h he had written
his song. He always played covers and stuff, but he wrote.

(32:04):
He said to me, I have his song. It's the
first song I've written. It's mine. And I'm like, oh boy,
and uh 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 got this is incredible and it might be great
for the for the funeral scene and um and it

(32:25):
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 yeah, now
now goes see him because he tours the world. Well, Bill,
real quick. On the musical tip, I know years ago

(32:46):
you mentioned that you might eventually stage and actual uh
Scrubs the musical on stage? Is uh? Is that still
a possibility? Look, we we all are the songs on
a musical written by uh big rest in peace, Sam
Lloyd and his team and Paul Perry, Yes, and uh,
and then the other half of the song is actually

(33:08):
written by the dudes did a book A Mormon and
Frozen and all that, Robert Willpez and uh. So we
were always talking about it, but really were you just
are 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 they'll be a
Scrubs the Musical unless all this gang comes to me
and says we all want to do Scrubs the Musical.

(33:30):
But well, I mean, there's would like an opportunity to
sing in public. No, no no, no, no, no. Yeah. By
the way, I don't think the audience wants that opportunity Sarah.
Y'all want to hear Sarah sing No, No, you don't.
I don't. That's lovely of you, but you don't. Everybody
else Judy Johnny c Neil Flynn and Donald Zach singing

(33:51):
Sarah not with the singing Yes, you can rap. What's
your favorite rap? Sarah? I will not. I will do
the poison dense No. I was kicked out of the
choir by Missus McKinnon in grade five, which is Canadian
for fifth grade when she said, chalk girls, my sister

(34:11):
my both just mouth the words for this performance. And
it wasn't like a fancy choir, was like singing Christmas
carols in the mall. And I was like in that moment,
I was like, I will never be epenning and lame
miss And in Canada they take grade five. Just you know, well,
before we go, we're gonna have some time for some audience.
Did we flew all the way here. We're not leaving you.

(34:34):
We're gonna extend this bad boy guys for another hour.
Alert the affiliates. We're going along. Um, we're gonna have
time for some audience questions. 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.

(34:55):
Everyone has a clipboard. We've got a lightning round where
sort of your This is like Newlywed game where everyone's
gonna separately answer a couple of questions and we'll just
see how much they match up to the truth. So
if you're true? Yeah, so all right, the first question,

(35:17):
you guys got your sharpies? These are all names. What
happens if we win? So uh, Bill will give you
a point in ted Lasso. So, first question, who was
the most likely on the show to forget their lines? Yeah? Okay,

(35:49):
Erica take It's hard to forget your lines if you
don't look at the scho Who on this stage is
most likely to google themselves? No cheating, no peeking. All right,

(36:17):
you're ready and reveal you got it? I'm Bill? What
you you got your the Todd? I wrote the Todd

(36:38):
because I assume if he's not in the audience, he's
lurking backstage as we spake. You said who on the stage,
though the Todd is on your cameo. By the way. So,
by the way, Bill, um, the I know famously when
you got rid of the sound effects, the one sound

(36:58):
effect you didn't get rid of was the Todds trivia.
The only sound effect that lasted the whole series was
the Todd's high five, which so why did you keep that?
Why why did that stick? The people, the people that
ran NBC at the time, there were no single camera comedies.
They thought they were flat and unfunny, and they missed,
you know, they wanted to be loud, raucous audience laughter.

(37:18):
And so to try and get the show picked up,
we put nine thousand sound effects in. John. Do you
remember like when you would you would turn your head,
it would be like and every time I see those episodes,
I hate myself on I die inside. But they it
stopped pretty quickly. Yeah, I stopped it after like three
or four episodes. But then, uh, the Todd's high fives

(37:39):
were so funny. No, there's 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, facts, you're right.

(38:21):
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 to It can't be a full season of a show.
It would have to be like a movie or something
like a movie. We can only get like a where
you can only get like a couple of months to

(38:43):
it because everybody else is doing something. This dude is
never gonna be free again again. The problem is the
problem is you know, if you went to ET after
the success of ET and said, ET, do you want
to do EAT? Yeah? Do you want to do ET two?

(39:05):
ET would be like, is Spielberg doing ET two? Because
if he is, I'll do ET two. And that's how
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 when he,
if he finds time, I would definitely be down to
do it. We will, we will. We're gonna do it.

(39:26):
You guys know we're gonna do it. We'll do it.
It's too fun, right, I mean, we're gonna be in
a trade tomorrow, Monday morning, scrubs, scrubs, reboot happening. I'll
I don't care about that stuff, but we're gonna do
it because we're lucky enough that people care. And I
top to bottom, we enjoy spending time. Teach. If you

(39:47):
ever have an excuse to work with people that you
would want to spend time with anyways, run to it.
You know, I mean, it's the it's the the greatest
thing about this kid. So so zach in et two
is Sarah Elliott or Paul and uh I Paul. He
had a little bit of time to think about. Yeah
he had. He had a solid thirty seconds to put

(40:08):
it together. But don't but don't diss him. He diss him.
He came up with it. By the way, it's worth
it to me just to see I'm gonna say something.
I'm gonna see if it makes them mad the way
it used to. Just to see Neil back in that
jumpsuit again. It Neil, what was that costume? Really, It's

(40:30):
not a jumpsuiting. It's a shirt and a pants, hey Nell,
He'll tell. At last night, hold on Hold. Last night,
everybody was talking about how Judy inspired nurses and some
people inspired doctors to be doctors. Tell tell what you said, Well,

(40:51):
guys will creep up to me and public buildings. Without
you would 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 to jump and suit on set, like

(41:12):
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 a jumpsuit? And it's eventually in the show.
It made you so mad. It did make me so mad.
It just it was irritating. And then when I had

(41:34):
the line to Sarah, I think it was you that
said it, and I said, I was supposed to say
it it's not a jumpsuit, it's a shirt and pants,
and instead I said, it's a shirt and a pants.
Just better somehow. But at one point they allowed me
to switch from drab gray to kind of dark blue.
I like that because I wear the same thing every

(41:59):
day for eight years or whatever. I didn't mind. I
was happy to be there. And 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 gotta give

(42:21):
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 around his neck and
has been for years. That made me so happy. But
the writing staff on that show is great as well.

(42:41):
And I'm sure you guys see them all over other
shows that you love. Yeah, no, the tentacles of the
Scrubs universe. It's pretty amazing these things. We're gonna open
it up now to some audience questions. I know we've
got a right there. Why why are you doing the

(43:05):
administration of this? Because people are raising their hands and
this isn't Oprah and call up running out to them
to hold a mic in front of and call her.
You say what all right? When we uh, we do
have thought? Wow, the line is for me and so
I like it. Why don't we start with you, sir hi? Everyone,

(43:27):
First of all, thank you so much for coming and
spending time with us. We're so grateful to be here.
Thank you. This this show means so much to me.
This is this show that is the absolute basics of
my comedy DNA. So it really made a big in there.
A stand up comic, aren't you uh? Not a stand

(43:47):
up comice No, But anyways, he's got he's got his
we'll talk about it. 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 going to be.
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

(44:08):
for the whole thing, but we can do a little.
Let's face the facts about me and you, a love unspecified.
Though I'm proud to call you chocolate bear. The crowd
will always stop and stare you change keys. But I
feel exactly those feelings too, and that's why I keep

(44:30):
them inside, because this bear can't bear the world's disdain
and sometimes it's easy. You're too high, then explain our
guy I love. That's all it is. Guy love mine,
I'm his. There's nothing gay about it. In our All right,

(44:53):
that's enough of you. Thank you so much. Oh that
was awesome nicely, Dodd, thank you so much. Next question. Okay,
So first of all, Um, I was so happy to
support you, and I 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,

(45:15):
they're amazing. Until you're amazing. Thank you. Um, that means
a lot to me. Thank you. No to tell now, Phil,
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 do you
maybe want to instead a genius man? Do like TV's
Mike Nichols really quick? All right, listen, whatever it takes,

(45:39):
whatever it takes, but for now, um, whatever you want,
no man, Lester Nichols, Uh no, 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 attached themselves to other crazy talented people. Not only cast,
but the writers on my show extend into the every

(46:01):
great show, your YV pack, 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
or people that I've worked with for almost thirty years now.
So the set design or cabin you know, to the
sound people, to the camera people, to the DPS. So
the one piece of advice you can give you if
you want to do something like this or any aspect,

(46:24):
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, here we go. Yes, sir,

(46:45):
this is a great show. But I have a question
for Bill, what was going to 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, go ahead, and sorry, sugar Jown episode six,
I've been waiting two years, two years? Yeah, what was

(47:08):
gonna happen? In season two? A whiskey cavalier? Oh you're
a here book? Wow? All right, whiskey Cava, I will
I'll tell you over here on the side after this
is the Scrubs thing, and 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 uh
actress to play his girlving today as Scott Fulway's fiftieth

(47:28):
birthday coming. I mean it's like four days away, and uh,
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 quitting nobody can can I go?
By the way Zach'll let Zach tell this story. The
weirdest thing on this show. You have to tell this.
I'm gonna tag it off is Uh, there's so many
other actors and actors that are kind enough to come
on this show. And um, like Tom Cavanaugh who's doing

(47:51):
a Broadway He wait, 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 fully He's the loveliest guy. Scott Folly
is one of the kindest people you ever meet. And
he says that on his Instagram. No matter what he writes,
it'll be like he'd like to buy beloved wife on

(48:13):
our fifteen year anniversary. You mean the world to me.
And then all say nobody cares jump. It's the only
thing he's mad about is for like, no matter why,
I can literally say let's save the nobody cares Sean. Yeah,
it'd be like nobody cares a National Rainforest Saving Day.

(48:36):
Nobody cares jump. It's now a part of my family's
were not that it's the most commonly used phrase when
someone says something everyones nobody cares. Bill. One other thing
that was amazing about scraps or were all the sort
of recurring characters, the character actors who showed up. But
you know, Phil Lewis is hooch Um Cooch really is crazy,

(48:56):
you guys legitimately crazy. That was the best us turn
when we finally when j D and Turk finally realized
that Hooch was crazy, because it was all it always was,
who is crazy? And then at the end up it
was like no, who who just crazy? Well, when he
started bringing out a lighter and be like burn for
a burn uh shout out from all of us. Neil

(49:17):
said it last night, Neil'll let you say it again
about the all the extra characters on the show and stuff. Well,
I think it's a mark of uh great shows. Let's
see very good shows and like that, Like i'd put
at the top the Simpsons, uh that they're able to
surround their main cast with secondary characters and then tertiary

(49:38):
characters and it becomes a world and someone who was
in one episode of season one or something can reappear
two years later and you go, oh, that's that's pop Guy,
or what that Snoop Dogg? Or or by the way,
I remember that skin doctor that just loved bad skin
so much messed up. We have a least one in

(50:00):
the audience, beard face. Where are you shut the fuck up?
It's Beard. It's beard for say damn it Beard. F

(50:21):
s 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 it's about
looking bad, because we would we would literally go, let's go,

(50:42):
let's go, uh wrap 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. If you
if you look back at the show, we eventually say
his real name, it's Coleman Slavsky. Which is his name
is base? All right? Next question please? Um. So, I

(51:08):
was thirteen years old when the show started, and I
watched from the beginning all the way through the end,
and um, you were twenty three when it ended. Yes,
pretty close all away. Two. Yeah, like when I was
in college. That was like when it so I kind
of grew up with Scrubs. Basically, you're welcome, thank you.
Um So, I mean, obviously I was not anything like

(51:31):
the characters because I was a thirteen year old girl.
I wasn't a medical intern or anything like that. And um,
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,
like you know, kind of tapping into your inner child
or inner adolescent to kind of I'm glad you sensed that, Yes,

(51:54):
especially yes, that's I was reaching out old girls every
h Hey, I'll give a quick real answers. There's another
shout out that these guys were nice enough to give
the other night. The show is based on my best

(52:14):
friend from college. He's still a cardiologist and surgeon in
LA's name's John Doris, not John Dorian. We call it Sarah.
Tell everybody what 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 I
got his cell phone number. Was his terrible stake to
give it to me, And so if anything ever goes wrong,

(52:37):
which is very frequently in my mind, 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 Cardiolo, he was
so young and as a buddy of his that remembered him,
you know, as a just an absolute idiot in college,
you know, and that he was taking care of people

(52:58):
are 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 grown up in the show already, you know
what I mean. And so I think that came through
that you were just kids way over their head. Yeah,
I know. I was not the only one who started
watching at thirteen, so I felt like that must have been.
That's how old I was when I created the show.

(53:18):
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 and I never even had any aspirations
to being a doctor. But it's still like, but I
love medical shows. I'm basically a doctor now because I
watch a lot of medicals. I'm basically a doctor. Natur
You got it. Yeah, yeah, thank you so much for

(53:45):
your question. Next, sir, my questions for John John get
him to talk. I'm actually I'm also a dad of
a of a son with Down syndrome. And you're doing
he's doing. He's fifteen, just turned fifteen, a tiny brow
of its accident, typical houses language. That's okay, yeah, say
that's our biggest challenge. And I want to thank you

(54:05):
for all your advocacy that you do for dnasty. Oh right,
on I don't right. My question is being the parent
of someone with special needs while you're on the show,
how did that influence your portrayal of doctor Cox. Well,
I at the first audition with Bill Lawrence, even though

(54:28):
in the pilot script in parentheses next to doctor Cox
walks in to Judy and uh in parentheses it said
a John McGinley type. Then I had the fucking audition
five times and a bullshit is that? And I told

(54:51):
Bill the first audition, I said, I think Cox is
this is so subversive. It's what actors do to themselves
all the time. I said, I thought Cox was too
similar to to Kelso at the 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

(55:11):
set every day. And that's how it rounded Cox. Thank
you really nice. Next question, please, Hi, thank you so much.
Your hat dude, Thank you very much. Um, it'd be

(55:32):
really cool if I could have that. Are you gonna
cut on that hat? Bill or so? Oh I'm not here,
it's cool, go ahead. Sorry, Well, if you asked her, yeah,
I mean, can you imagine if Bill walked around in
the 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.

(55:56):
Uh yeah for TV's nick um whatever whatever it is
that yeah, yeah, wait what he's Mike Nichols. Thank you,
Mike Nichols. Mike Nichols Yeah yeah yeah almost close by
the way. We we appreciate that lifelong relationship. And then
you just botched Mike Nichols the last second. Man, No,
I'm jugs. We'll go, go go go. So the question is,

(56:17):
so I actually so I got this hat at a
trivia night. Um. I don't know how they got the hat,
but you know I got it um at the trivia
night in New York City years back. Um, all of
us are super big fans, and so you probably interact
with a lot of us who do know a ton
about the show. So the question is do you feel
like super overwhelmed at like fans who are like, oh,
you know, I know so much about the show, and
you're like, oh, you know, like it's it's just interacting

(56:38):
with us, you know, like feeling like we just like
only if we feel like we're letting you down. There's
one you want to most ask 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

(56:58):
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 don't. I can't remember the show like you guys.
I'm old and my brain gets addled and I forget

(57:22):
that Zach recommended books to me. It's funny, and won't
you know, watching the show back, it's funny because we
don't remember it, but obviously it's our sense of humors.
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 like fans, and they'll say a thing.

(57:42):
They'll go like, hey, Judy Rays is really really good.
I'm like, yeah, I know, I was, I'm aware, I'm aware.
You know you know Sarah's funny. I'm like, yeah, yeah, no,
Well I really have to say I keep saying it,
but Sarah's comedic timing is so masterful and and I
mean really, and I think you know, Donald and I

(58:07):
were 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
the on what the second reason was. And then of
course the wolf who mounted me. What was the one

(58:40):
where she oh, the one that was really great was
and it was really weird when she tried to commit
suicide and so she walks out into the lake and
then bam, bam, bam bam. Or hit me from the
row team. Yeah, a rowing team. A rowing team hit
her and and ruined her suicide attempt. How about you guys?

(59:01):
Did one the other day where Sarah's gonna doesn't want
the guy in her house, and they have box sex.
They have a box. No, they eat her in their
own box um stimulating themselves. Billy, what the fuck was that?

(59:21):
What the fuck was so much of it? We I
still I still get together a lot of the writers,
and they were lovely. I would reach points on this show.
There'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 doctor Cox angry about? I go, who cares? I
don't care what he's angry about. And someone be like,

(59:43):
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 titled Tango. No,
not in a fantasy he had in a fantasy. He
steals the can go because he's snuck into the car. Yeah,

(01:00:03):
we drove to the house and then he's pacing like
a century and we're in a tree wearing the can
go and it's not a fantasy. They're my favorite version
of this was also not a fantasy. Just see so
we'd been doing it for a long time, and then
we kind of circled back. Neil, do you remember this
that in the script I wrote that the janitor built

(01:00:26):
a sand castle in a parking lot, and I thought
it'd be the size of a kid's playhouse, a sand
castle on 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 huh. And it was like standing
on the second floor. It was like a spinal tap

(01:00:47):
in reverse. They built the thing ten times larger than
it was supposed to be. By body you did. You
could have had the option to flash out of it
as a fantasy, and you chose not to. Now, I
just gotta go in about Donald folds me into the
backpack not a fan, not a fantasy, not a fantasy.
Donald puts me in the backpacker. It takes me to

(01:01:08):
the movie theaters so we can get into one ticket,
all right. I just I just realized scrubs had Guy,
did you have a question, I don't even I don't
even know anymore. Yeah, Well, thank you so much, Thank
you guys so much appreciated. Backed up, Zach and Donald high.

(01:01:35):
Nice to see you again. I was on your podcast
in the middle like right wind all out of the chair.
I don't remember, brother. My question. First, I want to
just thank you for and we have talked about it
the podcast, just this idea of like y'all's friendship, how
got you could finally show you know, true love for
your best friend, and it was just like open and honest,

(01:01:56):
and also just how Scrubs kind of was a positive
force for people of like having people lead some of
the show and be like positive influences stuff. So I
just want to say thank you for that. My question,
I guess the bill would be once again like I'm
so nervous, sorry, and I sometimes people like kind of

(01:02:17):
fade away after shows and stuff like that, but everybody
on stage has had like a really awesome career afterwards,
and I kind of wanted to see how did you
ever think that was gonna happen when you first signed
them up and to see where they are now after
I thought they ended of your question what have you
been up to anything? And I'm not sure if your works. Uh.
I joked about it before with the well first, by

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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, so
um uh, and it meant a lot to me, you know,
I said early on, you know that these guys could
do comedy and drama top to bottom. And one of

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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 is 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,

(01:03:23):
you know, 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 you know, to
kind of do so. I knew they were that hyper
talented from the start, top to bottom. I knew the
writers were, you know, I'd made a joke about it already,
even with Neil Flynn and when we let him improv
and he improvs so much on this show you guys,

(01:03:43):
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 again last night, I've
never laughed hard when I was in editing because I
hadn't even seen it was he said. Next thing, you know,

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me and the duck are on the side of the freeway,
both with our shirts off. I'm like, why, why, why's
the duck wearing your shirt? And he's like sewing each other.
What's so he beat a duck to death? Uh? But yeah,
So I knew I was very very lucky and blessed
early on that and that all these people, you know,

(01:04:24):
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
with long run of being on the point one years
of network television straight something like that. You know, I
say this all the time when this sort of thing
comes up. One um, well, Bill, you put me on

(01:04:44):
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 to get a
TV show that doesn't stay on the air, so it
doesn't get any footing for their career. And then I
slided to slid to another TV show that stayed on
the air, and ilcome welcome, Yes and all my Modern

(01:05:07):
Family teammates. I don't care if you remember the name
of this 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 has

(01:05:29):
led through Zach's voice or most of the time as
part of a cast, you're supporting your number one. But
he made and the writers made space for all of
us a 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

(01:05:50):
everybody's lives, which helped us you know, complicated in terms
of being funny and being dramatic and emotional. So Bill
is yeah, phillis now the time that we talk about
season nine season And by the way, uh, I'm not.
We didn't all work on season nine. You did not
work one season. I didn't. I didn't. But the the

(01:06:11):
I tell you right now that if they'd let me
do that just as a spin off like eight season eight.
As 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 um excited to watch it.

(01:06:34):
I truly, I no jokes aside, I've never seen an
episode of season nine. So when we do get there
in the podcast, it's gonna be a blast. I think
you guys will dig it. Zach, you're in it for
a good chunk though. Yeah, I mean there, 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 no, through them.
We'll go fast. You can turn that mic to your face.

(01:06:57):
Little can you go quick? We're to get by the way.
I'll after a machine gun. You guys, questions and I'll
walk around like Phil Donahue old reference. We'll all answers
could be great. We'll go quite fast. Um well, I'll
just get to my question then. Um, so, how do
you say the nice things? You want to hear the
nice things too, Questions like thank you for everything. I
think everyone in this room has like a scrub story,

(01:07:18):
like my first date with my now fiance. We just
were snowed in an upstate New York and watching scrubs
and it's just like it was a really special that'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

(01:07:40):
Trust with some made up vaccine he made, Like, how
do you think that your characters would have handled the pandemics?
You'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 role in the show was

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that these this gang was never allowed to be perceived
as not caring, you know, and 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 scene the episode which U I forgot her name,

(01:08:25):
the actress's name, diet was it wilk was her last
name or was it was yet uh, you know, 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
you got. Uh your first date was with your fiance.
That's awesome, No problem, rappid Fire, Let's go. Sorry, I'm

(01:08:48):
very nervous. I'm very excited. Um, you guys have like
no idea how much you've affected me. Like was one
like my first like adult comedy, so like I made
my mom like drive me to target and by the
DVDs I brought it. UM very nervous right now, So um,
just I guess like a quick question. Uh, I guess
similar to the last one. Where would you see your characters? Now? Well,

(01:09:09):
by the way, you're asking me to write the reboot
in front of you, man, I think, uh, oh, I
know they they find us, find me afterwards. If you
want going to sign those things many finally come out. Yes, Well,

(01:09:29):
I don't know if texts the rest of Texas is
ready for that, but well, let me just quickly say
thank you so much. Like especially Zach, you've helped me
so much. Like growing up, he wasn't the most you know, masculine,
and I wasn't either in school so so, but they

(01:09:50):
always he always got the girl and that was really
cool to see as a young you know, young man
that wasn't into sports ball. So I think that's enough
for the fucking show. Thank 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
and how and uh and how was the theme of

(01:10:11):
your barst musicals Let's hear it for the Boy entered
till let's hear it for the boy? All right? Thank you.
First of all, you guys are a huge inspiration for me.
It's the whole reason I started stand up comedy. I'm
gonna get to my question super super fast Bill. The

(01:10:32):
show is super visual, and I was wondering, how did
you convince the executives to go with you on that
journey from nobody ever came by. The cool thing about
being in the creepy deserted hospital the time when all
those shows were on sound stages was they didn't know
what we were doing until we showed it to them. Uh,
they didn't think it was gonna work. If it hadn't worked,
we would have been canceled so very fast. But it

(01:10:52):
was still something. Um. I wanted to call my production
company Noble Failures Production because our goal was just to
make something and that you could show your friends and
family and be proud of. And the people that brought
the visual sense to It's not me, it's the pilot
director Adam Bernstein Zach directed so many he's so fucking
good at it. Um, Mike Spiller, Gale Mancuso. There's just
so many people that A Monadoza do it? What's up?

(01:11:14):
Linda Mendoza Mendoza DPS, Andy Rawson, John in Woods. So
I knew I wanted to have a cool look, but uh,
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, uh, Donald, woutang forever, Wu tang forever.
Woo tang is forever. There's very few things that are forever.
Wotever is forever. And you know what else is forever?

(01:11:38):
Scrubs is forever. Baby's forever. By the way, by the way,
just so you guys know, we did a Today's Show
interview this morning where we're 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, it
should by the way on Scrubs this forever. We should
just all walk off and thank you. Bill. You've done
a lot of things. I'm sorry, TV's my nichols Um.

(01:11:59):
You do a lot of all back with a lot
of the jokes in places inside the show, and I
need closure, and I think some of us do need closure.
What the hell happened to Jay? What the hell happened
to JD's half Acre? Oh? Oh, you know what I
thought you're gonna says half Acre. I thought you're gonna
say what went down at LaVerne's above ground. I know
you know a lot about it on your podcast. We

(01:12:20):
know a lot about it on your podcast. You know.
The funny thing for those of you listen to the
podcast was that we had a looma right on and
we said, you know, Alma, there's what do you know?
Tell us about your feelings about what happened in the
above ground pool parties? And she goes, you think I
read the rest of the script. So Aloma had no
idea that there was a whole runner about her above
ground pool party because she would just flip to where

(01:12:40):
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 at half acres still out
there somewhere. Man, it became a hangout spot. But uh,
that's why we're no older gay gentleman. Okay, thank you,
thank you. Next up, Hello, um, so I have a

(01:13:01):
question for Sarah and Judy. Also, my last name is Reyes.
Where family we are are you from? I'm from California?
For you Dominican, I am not now I don't want
to talk to you. Yeah, I'm sorry I did. That
was one of my favorite thrower lines though. It was
just like I'm not Mexican from Domican. So, um, I

(01:13:23):
read or I heard an interview. I think it was
on one of the commentaries that your guys's 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
that was a quincidence, but it was very exciting. It
was a psychic connection. She's having a baby, I'm gonna

(01:13:44):
have a baby. I don't even remember who got back
in first. It was probably the same day. Yeah, 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. Kind of we
just we just kind of bond and chat and talked like,

(01:14:06):
you know, like Sarah talks like twenty miles a minute,
and I just feel like I have to share information
with with her really quickly, you know. Um, 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

(01:14:26):
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. Think okay, covid um. I
have to say, you know, I can't imagine how lucky

(01:14:48):
I was that Judy is my other lady on the show.
We had such a good time together and it's so true,
Like I think we were two seconds in two meeting
on the street yesterday. I was like, Judy, You're not
gonna believe it. The last four years were crazy in
the demic. This is what happened. If my type is
darkest from the last. Yeah, we were about to do
it right now again. So but you guys got to
get your questions sprayed by a skunk. I have to

(01:15:10):
peece soon, so we say we'll go ass be really quick.
Um hire one high Sarah. So a lot of people
in the medical profession, not me, because ye high Sarah,
what the fuck is that? No redundant questions? All right? Sorry, quickly,
quickly quick. A lot of people in the medical profession, um,
not me. He had disappointed. My parents say that UM
Scrubs is the most medically accurate show, like really depicting

(01:15:32):
what it's like to work in hospital. Every hospital has
an ass box. Yea true go um, what made that happen?
Like beyond the writing like what did you a real
real j d um? He would he wouldn't please us
on the actual medical ship, but he talked hours and
hours about you're going, hey, everybody here, imagine your first
day of work as somebody in the early twenties, and then, um,

(01:15:56):
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 shiit 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 ship man, and we were

(01:16:16):
really 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.
So I remember the first time we had to do
an operating room scene and I put they put makeup
on me and I was like, oh yeah, and it's
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,

(01:16:39):
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 would
spit flying out of their mouths and stuff like that,
and I remember when that happened, I was like, Wow,
this is gonna 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 my mouth. I said that once.

(01:17:02):
I said that once. I said I did say that once.
Thanks Matt. And that's where it all began. All right,
we've got five people, we got four minutes left, so
we could do first I'm visiting from New York, so
show out to the Bronx on Judy's shirt. So my
question is, I know you were saying it's um based
on a real person, a real doctor, but if the
show could be based a different workplace, what do you

(01:17:24):
think would work well or be the funniest brothel? There?
You go? Perfect one x one next up, By the way,
it's a great question, Thank you. This would have worked
anyway anywhere, because the show was really about these guys
becoming a family, laying if I may. A lot of
shows try to repeat it and if it's not the same,

(01:17:45):
we're props in the high school scrubs and a that
For a while, that used to be how you pitched shows.
You would go and go where I'm gonna do scrubs
in a high school, teachers, I'm gonna do scrubs in
a law office, and so scrubs are just scrubs. It
reps Colman Brothel. I think is Zach nailed it? Thank you? Man?
What's up? You don't have a question for Bill hit it?
We have? What can you say about the Clone High reboot?

(01:18:07):
Oh it's it's funny. Christen Phil and I worked on
the first six episodes coming out and about uh, we're
just now doing the animatics for the second season. You're
gonna dig it. It's funny, I promise, Thank you so much.
Say soundtrack changed the game? Awesome soundtrack? Oh cool, thanks man?
Next up? I like your shirt? Like your shirt? Well shirt,
look at that and the time? Um okay, so I'm

(01:18:30):
super nervous. And one thing I've learned from listening to
your podcast and fiddle San Antonio and Shay Saranos to
shoot my shot. I drove up here from San Antonio
early this morning just to see you guys. Gonna 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, if we're no even knows, heading the mike

(01:18:53):
towards you while you get ready, we can get the
other questions. We'll get the other question. Just get it
ready when you set up. Go oh wait, oh yeah, right, perfect,
next up? All right, next up? Turn the mic down
to you. Yeah yeah, there you go. Yeah. Okay. So obviously,

(01:19:15):
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? What's a
good question? Ted Lasso, Ted Lasso, and then now Winning
Time Wait Times Good. I want to stay on think

(01:19:36):
because there's a lot of talk about kindness in television,
which I think matters. Okay, I really like TV where
people are kind and they're loving each other. It's hopefully inspiring,
it's hopefully you know, emotionally and enriches thing. 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 the Gabby Allen, who run

(01:19:57):
on Scrubs is one of the executive producers of that show.
And right, it's so funny, it's so funny, and uh,
I love that show. Malcolm all right, Malcolm got me
through a lot of hard time. So Neil is so
great in that Thank you so much, thank you, thank you.
Oh and finally, oh, by the way, I gotta bring
it home, great outfit, Let's do it. Thank you all,

(01:20:20):
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, happening is happening out the door,
just in time, and down in the car, the boss

(01:20:51):
is working hard. Donald should take over and do do
some runs. You running late at night again? Oh no,
what open tone ahead? You gotta to make them all okay?
But I can't do this song. Oh my no, I
know I'm no superman. Last thing, hey, last thing to everybody,

(01:21:20):
and then we gotta split. This is it, um Uh.
I told you I'd find a way to close the
the finale. The speech that j D does in 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 gonna mock mock me. Uh. It means

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so much to us that you're here. Thank you and
the cast of Here's some stories about show we made
about a bunch of doctor nurses in the janitor who
loved him. I said, he's the stories that all should know.