203: My Ex’s Ex (New)

0:00 And welcome everybody. And we're back.

0:03 And we're back.

0:05 We'd like to welcome you to episode of the podcast for episode 203. And welcome to, for the first time, the legendary Ava Bunn. Thunderous applause.

0:16 Thanks, guys.

0:17 Welcome to the podcast, Ava.

0:18 Thank you, Sarah.

0:20 You didn't even know this studio was here, did you?

0:22 No, I didn't know we had an upstairs.

0:24 You didn't know we had an upstairs?

0:25 I didn't either.

0:26 When I came here last night, they were like, yeah, it's upstairs.

0:28 I was like, we have an upstairs.

0:29 Oh, there's another level.

0:30 Before we converted this, it was where I would do the voiceovers. It was just a room with a mic.

0:35 Oh, I see.

0:36 And then Roger Fires and his team, our production designer, built this beautiful studio for us.

0:41 While we're at it, we should say we have Sarah Chalk on the show today.

0:44 I'm the legendary Sarah Chalk. Thunderous applause. Sarah, thank you for coming back.

0:47 Oh, thanks for having me.

0:48 You were so delightful in episodes one and two of the podcast.

0:51 I loved being here.

0:52 And all the way in Los Angeles, California, the one and only Joelle Monique.

0:58 Yes. And Joelle, make sure they play your theme song right here. Joelle also has a theme song. Oh, my God.

1:04 Okay.

1:05 All right. So, welcome, everybody.

1:09 Thanks.

1:10 And we're going to talk about episode 203 today.

1:13 I didn't have my notes.

1:15 Donald, audience, you know, we take copious notes. And Donald left his.

1:20 I left my notes at home.

1:21 At home. Listeners of the podcast from before might not be surprised that you did that.

1:25 This has happened before. Yes.

1:27 But you remember donuts. He brought us donuts.

1:29 I did bring the donuts.

1:30 Which were amazing.

1:31 What was the thought process when you left your notes at home?

1:34 Well, we're leaving after this. So I was packing up all of my stuff to... For the airport.

1:41 Was there any ganja involved this morning?

1:43 There's always ganja involved when we do.

1:48 Do you think that ganja may have played a part?

1:50 I'm sure it's played a part. I'm sure it played a part.

1:52 Kids, not even once. Kids, not even once.

1:55 Can you hit the bong head sound effect?

1:57 Kids, if you're watching this, we need to talk to your parents about the things that you are allowed to watch.

2:02 Well, kids, this is why Donald doesn't have his notes.

2:05 Kids.

2:10 That's not why. I said it's partially. The other part is because I was on the run. I was trying to make it happen. Anyway, let's get into 203.

2:18 Wait, can I tell you guys something?

2:20 Please, be honest.

2:22 So, the other day we were filming outside. Am I allowed to say outside?

2:27 Yes.

2:28 Why would you not be allowed to say outside?

2:32 You said, am I allowed to say I do?

2:34 You're so nervous. You're so nervous you thought we might censor you saying outside?

2:39 Am I allowed to say we were filming outside? We were filming outside.

2:43 So there were like people around and then I made a joke and I was like, chicken little sign my leg.

2:49 I'm going to get it tattooed.

2:51 Right.

2:52 No fricking way.

2:53 No.

2:55 No fricking way.

2:56 Eva!

2:57 But, but.

2:58 Whose tattoo is that?

3:00 They did it in a mirror and they did it backwards.

3:02 They spelled chicken a little backwards. They spelled chicken a little backwards.

3:05 She's doing a joke.

3:06 No.

3:06 This is a bit.

3:07 I'm not joking. I looked into getting it lasered.

3:09 They said I have to wait a month.

3:10 Wait, so.

3:11 Oh, no.

3:16 Wait, so Ava, because I... Wait, for those of you who don't know, for those of you who don't know, I'm Chicken Little. And Ava asked me to sign her ankle as Chicken Little. And you actually got it tattooed and they did it backwards?

3:30 It's backwards, but in a mirror it looks good.

3:32 Oh my gosh. This has got to be a bit.

3:35 It's got to be a bit.

3:36 This is totally a bit. Oh, my God.

3:39 I went to Gastown. Ava, I love your commitment to the bit.

3:47 Look how red and infected it is.

3:49 It is.

3:49 It looks really red and infected.

3:51 You know what Ava actually did?

3:52 I fully thought you did it.

3:53 I know. You really got me for a second. Do you know that Ava, what she also did, we were filming outside and there was like a crowd assembled. And I hear a voice go, Zach, I love you. And I went, oh, I love you so much too. And I go, that's fucking Ava.

4:10 So Ava, when.

4:11 We were, I don't know, like fourth season or something, we did a Scrubs DVD launch party in Vegas and the whole crew came to Vegas and we had to do a set of interviews on a red carpet as part of this launch party. And while we were on the interviews, I said, They said, so anything fun happening tonight?

4:30 And I was like, yeah, Bill Lawrence had made a dare that if any of us get the Scrubs logo tattooed on our bodies that, you know, it's a dare for $ 1, 000. And I just mentioned this to one of the reporters. And then we get to the after party and he comes.

4:44 Up and he's like, so, uh.

4:46 About that dare, and he pulls up his pant leg, and he got the Scrubs logo tattooed. Not small.

4:51 It was very large.

4:54 But it was not a bit.

4:55 It was for real.

4:57 Yeah, we played basketball together quite a few times. We even played basketball at the All-Star game for the celebrity game, and he still had the Scrubs logo. That's crazy. He was a host of like Extra at the time.

5:12 Yeah, he worked at Extra. I remember it got him into the party at work.

5:16 Yeah, it did. And he got $ 2, 000 that night also.

5:17 All right, let's get into the episode. Count us in, Donald.

5:19 Five, six, seven, eight.

5:30 About a bunch of docs and nurses in a Canada who love to hate.

5:34 I said he's got stories that we all should know. So gather round to hear our, gather round.

5:42 To hear our Scrubs Rewatch Show with Zach and Donald.

5:48 Mm-hmm.

5:49 Zach and Donald have a podcast.

5:51 Oh, yeah. Why don't you sing it? Because Ava has revealed, as you hopefully saw, that she doesn't know the theme song to the podcast. But let's hear just one last time your version of what you imagine the theme song to the podcast is.

6:04 It's something like, Zach and Donald have a podcast. They're talking about scraps.

6:10 That's it. I'm glad it's not that.

6:15 Charlie Puth actually produced our theme song.

6:18 Wait, for real?

6:19 Yeah, straight up.

6:20 I didn't know that.

6:21 Straight up.

6:22 Wait, that's crazy.

6:23 Yeah, Donald and I kind of came up with a rough idea. We said we want in the spirit of the Jefferson's theme song. And then we just started to come up.

6:30 Did we come up with the lyrics together? Yeah. Because we were joking around. I mean, if you listen to the lyrics, here's a story about a show we made.

6:39 But we were kind of like scatting it a bit because we didn't have all the lyrics, you know, like real musicians do when they're like, They don't know the lyrics yet, and they're like, da-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba. And then we gave it to Charlie. I asked him because I know him, and I didn't think he would say yes, but he was like, sure. And I told him, like, in the spirit of the Jeffersons, and he was like, oh, I got you. And then he full-on produced our amazing theme song.

7:01 That's crazy. So shout out to Charlie.

7:02 We had to write the lyrics, but he produced the music for it.

7:04 And then we put, like, a choir in there. It was amazing.

7:06 It was awesome.

7:07 All right, so 203, directed by Gail Mancuso.

7:10 We start.

7:11 Thunderous applause.

7:12 Great job. Hold open. And the cold open, I wanted to say it's so cute with me and Rachel and Rachel's laugh when she pantses me is her real laugh because I always think it's so amazing as a director when you can get someone to genuinely laugh. Sarah, you're great at this because you laugh a lot and we sometimes put your real laughs in the show. But Rachel had done a bunch of laughs and they were fine.

7:38 But on that last take, in fact, you can kind of hear someone off camera laughing. I hopefully, maybe we'll be able to fix it up by the time the audience sees it. But that's just Rachel genuinely cracking up and pushing me back. And we put it in the show and it's just so natural.

7:51 Did you catch her off guard when you said, I would like to request the gentle cycle?

7:55 I think I was just doing, I think I was doing funny versions of that. And one just cracked her up. And when she pushes me back, she's like laughing as Rachel. And she has the sweetest laugh and it was so cute. And so I just wanted to say that that's in the show.

8:08 It's a great opening.

8:09 Yes.

8:10 And now Chore Play is from Donald's real life. On the previous podcast, those of you who know the podcast and listened before, we had a sex therapist on. And Donald and his wife came on and they were speaking very openly about their lives. And she recommended Donald try Chore Play. And that's where the writers got this whole storyline.

8:28 Joelle, how did that make you feel when you saw that?

8:30 It.

8:31 blew my mind Donald I was not at all prepared for it but then I was excited because I think that's something you guys have talked about on the pod a lot is how you bring real life scenarios in and I was like the podcast is now a real life scenario it's really cool.

8:44 Well yeah the podcast definitely informed us on a lot of stories and Shoreplay made it and I want to put it be on the record in saying I do not like Shoreplay at all I think Shoreplay is for the birds I think I said that back in the day.

8:59 Too You didn't even give chore play a chance.

9:02 No, I tried. That shit doesn't work, man.

9:04 Did you do a single chore?

9:05 Yeah, I did. Come on, man. Of course. What did you do? I took the trash out. I washed some dishes. I'm the one that cooks in the house.

9:14 Right.

9:14 You know what I mean?

9:14 But did those chores yield any booty?

9:17 I mean, no, the chores didn't. Because, you know, after the chores, I, you know, when you do chore play, you expect after the chores for it to go right into sex. You know what I mean? So like I finished washing the dishes and I was like, all right, let's go.

9:37 I don't think that's, I.

9:38 Don't think when the sex therapist was on, she was saying that you're going to like hit start on the dishwasher and she's going to drop her pants. I think it's like an aggregate of lots of chores.

9:48 I was not aware that that.

9:52 Was what she was saying.

9:53 All right, Scott Foley's back. Sarah? Oh, my God. Your love, Sean.

9:58 Nobody cares, Sean.

10:00 That was very funny at the aquarium. Oh, cool. You have a cool job. Nobody cares. Sean? I wanted so badly for Scott Foley to get in the real aquarium tank at the Vancouver Aquarium. Is that what they call it, Sarah?

10:13 Yeah, that's what they call it.

10:14 And it's very beautiful there. And they said that he would have to... It was a whole ordeal. He'd have to take a course? What was the ordeal?

10:23 He'd have to take a class?

10:24 I think even if he was a skilled scuba diver, just insurance-wise, it had to be a. I don't know if it was, I think it was a stuntman or it may have been there. No, it must have been a stuntman.

10:37 I think it was a stuntman.

10:39 They had to be the scuba diver for that tank, I think, right?

10:43 It was either that or, but the guy was being funny. I believe they allowed a stuntman, just insurance-wise stuntman. They couldn't put Scott Foley in the actual shark tank.

10:51 That's crazy because SeaWorld let us do whatever we wanted back in the day. We were swimming with dolphins.

10:58 He was riding a dolphin as his midnight train going anywhere.

11:03 Not just that. He was playing with the walruses and everything, man. They let us do whatever we wanted.

11:07 Yes, and I think we all, after we saw Blackfish, felt very bad about using SeaWorld. So that's why we tried to buy it back with talking about how Sean, even though he's a marine biologist, is shocked to learn that orcas don't like living in captivity.

11:22 He thought they were smiling, but that's just the way their mouths are.

11:27 I love that he's like, you're not going to believe this. But it turns out the orcas did not like living in captivity.

11:35 That scene where you meet Scott Foley for the first time again with Rachel, and beautiful green eyes, their contacts. No, they're not. Actually, they're not.

11:44 Actually, they are, Sean.

11:46 We made that up on the day and we were just dying laughing because Scott Foley has the most beautiful green eyes. Like you will get lost in them. And I thought it was funny that JD is like telling him that they're contacts. And he's like, no, JD, they're not.

12:01 They are, Sean.

12:01 No, they are.

12:04 Yeah, it was really fun to have Foley back. He fits into the group so well. And, you know, I think Asim.

12:13 Who's our showrunner.

12:14 Who's our showrunner.

12:15 Thought it was a good way to bring Elliot's kind of... quirky, clumsy, disastrous self back into the fold as an adult when she's supposed to be all grown up. It's like the nerves and the feelings she has for him kind of brings it all back.

12:31 So that was so fun to play.

12:32 I gotta say, I'm so happy to see batshit Elliot back. I think that we really were holding the reins too tight on Elliot in season one of the revival. And in these two episodes and also in one, which we just rewatched with the crew, Batshit Elliot is back, and it's very fun to watch.

12:51 It's super fun to do.

12:53 I mean, like, you know, obviously, like, we loved all of the stunty, pratfall-y, slapstick-y stuff in the physical comedy in round one, and it's fun to get to dabble back into it. I mean, Trevor, let's have a shout-out to Trevor. Our stunt guy's so good, and he had, like, Such good notes for that cafeteria scene.

13:13 Is that you hitting your head?

13:14 She did everything. She did everything. It was so fun.

13:18 Oh, my goodness gracious. You are amazing.

13:20 She killed it. And I got a shout out to Sarah because and Ava, I hope you as a young actress take inspiration from Sarah. An older actress.

13:29 Oh, come on, bro.

13:29 Okay, I'll take it. That's fine.

13:30 Well, I worded that perfectly.

13:31 Just a veteran.

13:32 How about a veteran? Could be a couple years older.

13:34 I want the audience to know that Ava was born the year Scrubs premiered.

13:39 Oh, boy.

13:40 Ava was born the year Scrubs premiered.

13:42 So was Joelle. Joelle, how old are you? Never mind.

13:44 Don't ask a lady her age.

13:45 I'm not supposed to ask that.

13:47 I'm not supposed to ask that. I'm not supposed to ask that.

13:49 But anyway, let's go back to my compliment, which was Sarah's choreography of those stunt falls and hits was took A lot of rehearsal and choreography. And she really got with Trevor, our stunt coordinator, and really rehearsed. And you put the time in and you put the time in and it showed and you did it all. And it's fucking hilarious.

14:12 I laugh.

14:13 I've seen it so many times and I belly laugh every single time. It's so funny.

14:18 It was so fun to do, but like, it's so fun when you do things like that and then weird shit ends up happening on the day that you didn't even expect. Like even with the rehearsals and we kind of had, you know, you have to have them out in in the very specific beats, but then stuff's just going to happen. Like everybody kept saying like, did you hurt yourself? And I was like, no, I, I mean, I, I hurt myself as you guys know, like multiple times.

14:40 A week, just living.

14:42 But I didn't, I didn't, that was choreographed and I didn't, but one of the things that happened that actually ended up making the cut that was not part of the planned Elliot things was Was I, you know, dropped my purse. I go to get it, hit my head, hit my head again from under the table. And because we were trying to figure out how to sell that under the table head hit. And we realized if I had one more line to look up to Scott, it'd be a lot easier to sell. So we did that with the Kleenex.

15:06 And while I was down there, I was confused. I was like, why can't I?

15:10 What is happening?

15:11 And it was this amazing moment where I was like, I don't even know what's happening here. And I realized my high heel had gotten caught in the back of my lab coat and I was completely stuck. And then it's kind of slowly like tipped over like a teacup, just kind of like slowly tipping down.

15:25 And then- And we put that all in the show. Your audience will see that. She just all of a sudden just tips forward.

15:32 And like, we were like, If you wrote that in, people would be like, that's too broad.

15:37 Nobody would get their high heels stuck.

15:39 In the back of the lab coat. But I didn't end up, you know, we did all the takes and it was, we had a great time and it was so much fun and we didn't hurt myself at all. And then we walk off and you guys are rehearsing the next scene and I wasn't in it. And I'm walking off with Judy and she's telling me this really interesting story. And I'm like, oh my God, that's crazy.

15:58 And we're walking down the hallway and I'm just looking at Judy and I'm not looking forward and just like, smack into the door like I.

16:04 Literally just walked right into a door.

16:06 And you hear it reverberate and everybody on set was like what and I was like I'm okay.

16:11 It's amazing how much can I tell them what happened when we went to dinner we went to dinner and I'm last time we all went to dinner.

16:19 What happened when you guys went to dinner oh that's right I was working.

16:22 That night no you were there no no this time So, audience, if you listen to the podcast, you know that something weird or bad happens to Sarah every single day.

16:30 She trips.

16:30 She falls. Some catastrophe happens every single day. And we're all going to dinner, and she FaceTimes me. Oh, she calls me on the phone. And I go, what are you calling to tell me? Like, you're at the ER. Something happened. You're not going to make it to dinner. And she's like, ha-ha, no. I just wanted to ask you this random question about something else. And we're talking, and we're hanging up. And I go, okay, well... I'll be shocked if you make it to dinner because something's bound to happen to you. And she's like, ha ha.

16:56 See you in a minute. I sit down to dinner. We're all there. Johnny sees there. We're all hanging out.

17:00 I get it.

17:00 I check my phone. I get a text from Sarah. I'm okay, but I've been in a car accident. A car changed lanes into mine and destroyed my doors and my running boards. Just exchanging info. Be there soon. It wasn't my fault. It was after joking about this.

17:21 It wasn't my fault. Someone changed lanes into me. I had nothing to do with it. I was just in the wrong place.

17:28 Somebody had a dash cam.

17:29 Yes.

17:30 She wrote that in her text. Guy behind him at a dash cam. All good.

17:35 Order me a drink. Totally.

17:38 Don't forget to order a dash cam is what.

17:41 I texted myself.

17:42 Let's talk about Donald's Denzel impression. We did lots of alts of the voice that would turn Carla on.

17:50 That's what I got out of that also. I got that it's not that she's going to fantasize about Denzel. That doesn't make Turk angry, it kind of turns him on. And so he goes right into his King Kong impression, like, yo, King Kong. Because they've done that role-playing.

18:07 Yeah, I think they've role-played Denzel before.

18:12 Donald, there were so many good alts. You were so fucking funny in all of them. And I wish that, like, you know, Hulu would release, like, a clip of just all of the alts together. What were some of the other ones?

18:21 They were so good. The other alts.

18:23 There were a couple, but Denzel was my favorite.

18:25 Denzel was the one that worked. All the other ones were like, you know, I'll never do... We're not going to watch a television show or something like that. King Kong Ain't Got None On Me was the one that I didn't think was going to get used, and it did get used.

18:37 Because it's so funny. And you do a good Denzel.

18:39 I do not do a good Denzel.

18:40 By the way, I wrote down later, when you're in the scene with... Blake later, and he's telling you about weaponizing competence, you slip back into Denzel. You go, true dat, true dat. Every time I hear you go, true dat, true dat, true dat, I'm like, he slips back into Denzel.

19:04 It's Denzel training day. It's a specific Denzel. It's not Denzel much ado about nothing. It's Denzel training day.

19:12 Right. That made me really funny. Sarah, Elliot talks about having to go to CrossFit. And there was a line there we had to cut that I thought was really funny that you go, I'm not going back to CrossFit. They make you flip tires. Where are all these tractors? They have no tires.

19:40 The best part about this season is we have like four writers on like with us on set all the time, which is insanely rare to have like four comedy writers there. jokes as you're going. And that was one that was pitched in the moment. Yeah.

19:53 And it's a shame that the audience doesn't get to see these. We have this daydream audience that that Hulu will one day put up cut scenes or all jokes or at least bloopers as an extras thing on Hulu. It's just hard to get anything.

20:10 They would get like three extra episodes out of the show.

20:12 We have pitches and stuff. It's just so hard for everything to make it through the pipeline. But that would be so fun.

20:18 Maybe we could do it as a bonus podcast episode.

20:21 Just saying.

20:22 I mean, who's going to edit it? Who's going to edit it and all that stuff, though?

20:26 Who wants somebody to edit it?

20:27 We can figure that out. I just think the audience, when we cut funny stuff, I always go, oh, it's a shame no one's ever going to see this. Sometimes we work hard on things. Ava, talk to that. It's probably your first experience being in something like you worked hard on something and then it's never seen by anybody. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

20:42 Yeah. No, I.

20:42 How do you feel about.

20:47 That as an actress?

20:48 I love it.

20:49 I love it.

20:49 It's like a giant monologue.

20:51 It's like fun.

20:52 It's like, oh, my God. It's like not even like I worked on that or anything. It's like literally so chill.

20:58 And I love that. But I think it's. I was expecting when he asked the question.

21:05 Well, I'm a good host, Ava. I make sure all the guests are speaking. Ava's like, I'm not going to talk. I'm just going to do my fake tattoo bit.

21:14 But Ava, you're so like comfortable. And that was what was so incredible about you from the get was like, you are so comfortable and so, like, comfortable in your own skin. And, like, just I feel like roll with it with all of the, like, coming up with your own alts, coming up with your own improv, but also whatever the writers throw at you last second where there's, like, no preparation time. And it's so fun to watch. Thank you.

21:41 You're so natural.

21:42 You really are.

21:43 I got to say, when I watch these cuts and, you know, sometimes– You know, with so many actors, you go, OK, that wasn't the best take or this one's more real. But with you, I just never I always my only thing with actors is like, don't forget that you've never had this thought. This is you're coming up. You may have read it and memorized it and we've rehearsed it five times. But don't ever forget, like your character just coming with this thought. And I never have that thought with you. You always just seem like these thoughts are coming to you in the moment. And I really like that about you.

22:11 Thank you.

22:11 Thank you.

22:12 That's so nice.

22:14 And like, you know, the very first shot of the season was Ava. It was the first shot of the day. And you had this like massive monologue that had to kind of be like run through like a train and you nailed it every time.

22:27 That's so nice.

22:28 I was really nervous for that one because I was like, season two, got to walk in.

22:33 There was like an announcement right in front. This is our first scene of the day, you guys. The first scene of the season.

22:38 Wait, which one was it? I forgot.

22:39 It was the walk and talk in the first episode.

22:42 Oh, yeah.

22:42 And I'm like, oh, my God, he might die.

22:45 Right.

22:45 Not in any kind of like sexual way.

22:47 Not in any sexual way.

22:48 Yeah, not in a sexual way.

22:49 I'm not thinking about sex. My dad said to me when I got my marriage.

22:55 Yeah, right. That one was fun. That was a.

22:58 Fun one to film.

23:00 All right.

23:00 Let's move on.

23:01 Ice matcha lattes. It's so funny that Michael James Scott's character is like, I don't understand how white people procreate. And then I was laughing to myself as I was taking notes is that I've been on many a day date to get ice matcha lattes. I think it's a great day date. And I was like, oh, my God, I'm the person they're making fun of.

23:21 Yes.

23:21 Yes.

23:22 They seem.

23:23 How many matchas do I have in a day?

23:24 Specifically matchas?

23:25 Yeah, because it's kind of like, it's not just coffee. It's like, hey, let's go to like a fun ice matcha latte place and have a chat.

23:32 Right.

23:32 What is a matcha?

23:34 Oh, it's like a green tea.

23:36 Right, Sarah?

23:39 Sarah's a specialist on this.

23:41 I am. I am. I have my whisk and my special matcha bowl in my trailer. I... have tried to reduce the number of matchas.

23:48 That I have a day.

23:48 It's tea with a lot of caffeine.

23:49 Green tea with a lot of caffeine. It gives you a nice high. And the caffeine high isn't just like a coffee spike real quick. It kind of lasts longer.

23:56 It's a slow release.

23:57 It's a slow release.

23:58 Oh.

23:59 It's great.

23:59 Maybe I should be doing matchas.

24:00 You'd love it.

24:01 You'd like matcha.

24:02 And you put vanilla in it.

24:03 Is it a little sweet, though? That's the only thing I would.

24:04 Well, you don't have to have it sweet.

24:05 You don't need to make it sweet.

24:06 I do mine unsweetened.

24:06 I add a little vanilla.

24:08 Oh.

24:09 By the way, we're being the thing right now. The three white people are like, and then I add a little vanilla.

24:13 Sometimes I do.

24:15 Mine half on the milk. And Donald's like, what the hell is a matcha? What is a matcha?

24:19 Anyway, I just laughed to myself because I've definitely been like, hey, do you want to like get a nice matcha latte?

24:26 So weird.

24:28 So was that like, that was a riff of yours on the day, right? The matcha latte?

24:31 I don't remember.

24:32 Also really funny in that scene, the sound effect you have for Sean coming in and you're like.

24:37 Oh, I love that. That was an on the spot situation, actually.

24:43 I came up with that. I was like, it would be funny if I kind of was doing the angel noise. No, you hear the angel noise and then you reveal that it's just JD.

24:50 That's really funny. Which is really funny. That was good.

24:54 And I just love the whole runner of how much JD fucking hates Sean. Like, it's so funny.

25:01 Even though he's done this great thing for Elliot or he assumes that this is this great thing for Elliot and stuff like that. He's still fucking like, I can't stand.

25:09 I don't know why.

25:10 The fun thing about playing JD is he's a very flawed protagonist. He is insecure. He is vengeful. He is a narcissist.

25:19 He's very vengeful.

25:21 He's a little bitch. And he always has been. And I love playing him. But he thinks he gets an idea. He's in love with Charlie or falling for Charlie. He gets an idea to do the right thing for Elliot, which is great. Good job, JD. And then it doesn't take long before he instantly is jealous of him. Him and his beautiful fucking green eyes.

25:44 Totally.

25:45 That comes up later when you're like, but I can go help someone, Sean.

25:49 Yeah. Right, right. He's like, don't mess with me. Do you have feelings for Elliot? Right.

25:54 Oh, thank God.

25:55 Before he can answer, oh, thank God. Then I can help her, Sean. Yeah, yeah. By the way, how cringe is it when you're not sure if the person was going for the handshake or the hug and you go for the hug?

26:08 That's very cringe. I've never really experienced that.

26:11 Really? What, do you just always go handshake?

26:13 It happened once, and that was when you introduced me to Brad Pitt. I'm pretty sure he was going in for the handshake.

26:19 You went for the hug.

26:20 I pulled him in really close.

26:21 Oh, yeah.

26:21 Well, while we were walking to meet Brad Pitt, we were at F1 and we were walking. We knew we were going to meet Brad Pitt in a suite.

26:27 No, you knew we were going to meet Brad Pitt.

26:29 No, I told you on the way. And I was like, listen, we're going to meet Brad Pitt. I need you to hold us together. And he's like, and Donald's like, I'm going to take a selfie for Casey. And I'm like, dude, you cannot take a selfie. You got to act normal. You got to act like this dude is normal.

26:42 No, there was no normal that night.

26:43 And Donald, I was like, it was like a fast walk and talk through the F1 building. And I'm like, and I'm in this pack of people. And as we're walking, I'm like, listen, man, you got to hold it together. No, I don't want you embarrassing us. He's like, Casey's going to need a selfie.

27:02 Dude.

27:03 So you hugged him.

27:04 Yeah, he was like, hey.

27:05 You hugged him tight.

27:06 And I grabbed him and pulled him in. You brought him in for a hug.

27:09 Right.

27:10 And then when we left, that was like, one more hug, please.

27:13 One more hug, please. Well, in real life, non-Brad Pitt life, I've done that where you can't kind of gauge. It might be different for women, but with men, it's so like, you know, masculinity. Like, are we handshaking? Are we hugging? Are we doing this thing? You're going for the wrong one.

27:32 Well, you know what? I take it back. Maybe I didn't think it was awkward, but the person that I was hugging thought it was awkward because I've gotten a lot of where I've gone to hug somebody. And they put the hand. Yeah. Like, yo, hey, doggy. Yo, that's enough, man.

27:44 That's enough.

27:45 I feel like I do that with you, though. I don't know if you're going in for that situation.

27:49 Or the hug.

27:50 Or the hug.

27:51 Or sometimes you'll do that and then snap after. And then I'll do it, like, as I'm walking away. Like, test it out.

27:57 That's what it is.

27:58 I like to keep the guessing.

28:00 Sometimes you don't know which one Donald's doing. Like, you do, and then you snap, and then you snap, and you're like, I don't know. I haven't figured it out in 25 years.

28:07 Well, Donald and I just have to go right into our three-minute handshake every time.

28:10 Dude, our three-minute handshake has taken some hits. It's no longer three minutes. It's now, like, only 15 seconds.

28:18 I know. I know.

28:18 We've got to work on that. Because I can't remember all of that shit.

28:21 I know.

28:21 I saw the old footage, because you know how Scrubs were promoting the show and everything like that. It was long. So they'll promote OG's footage and new... Anyway, I was looking at our old handshake, and it used to be really long, and we did a lot of things to it. Like, there was the new kids dance, there's the running man, there's a bunch of things. Now it's like, click, click, click, see you later. I know, I know.

28:40 All right, we got to keep it moving. That's the 50-year-old version. My job is to keep it moving here.

28:43 We got freaking 30 more minutes, says the clock.

28:46 30 more minutes.

28:46 What about Egan's monologue?

28:47 I know, but I'm on page one of my notes. What page are you on on your notes? My notes are at home, bro. I told you. Yeah, but what page might you be on?

28:55 I'm assuming on page one.

28:56 Okay, so we got lots of comments. Let's talk about Kay Callan, the brilliant Kay Callan, who plays the older lady. We found her because she was on Widow's Bay, and she was so incredible on Widow's Bay. If you haven't watched that show, check it out because she has an amazing role, and she's so lovely in the show. And we're going to get to her and David Gridley's performance at the end, but let's first talk about John Higgins' big monologue. that was so.

29:23 Let's introduce why the monologue comes up. So J.D., sorry, Blake wants to get into... Don't do it. We cut it. So how do you know How do you know?

29:35 The audience will know that we cut something and you need to do longer. That's funnier.

29:45 Blake wants to get into cardiology because of his mom. And J.D. has convinced Turk to allow him to go into the OR. But in doing so, J.D. kind of is overheard by Higgins' character, Grant, and Grant's like, yo, don't do that. I wouldn't do that. And then he goes into this beautiful monologue where when watching, I'm like, where the hell is this going? And then by the end of it, you realize he's just completely exhausted and he's been on call. And let's talk about how great John Higgins is.

30:25 John Higgins is so funny. He's such a great addition to the show. I got to tell you, When I first saw that long model, when we shot the long model, I'm like, this is so funny, but I don't think the whole thing's going to live just because the show is 21, 30 seconds, 20 minutes, 30 seconds. And then in the cut, I just kept leaving it in because every time I watched it, I would laugh. And I was like, well, I'm not going to cut it down until later because I want Bill to see the whole thing.

30:47 I want everyone to see the whole thing. And then the whole thing just lived because everyone just thought it was so funny.

30:51 It has so.

30:52 Many parts to it. Like, he makes every piece of it so fucking interesting so you wouldn't want to cut any of it. Like, and it's so unique to him. Like, when I watched it, I was like, oh, only John Higgins... would do it exactly like that.

31:06 When he fake air punches the air.

31:09 There was so many funny outtakes of that where he was like, I was like, okay, don't try and hit me. Let's get... And then he goes, I go, why don't you just go lie down? He goes, right here? I go, no, no, not in the hallway. Let's get you into the penthouse.

31:22 And he gets emotional on it when he's like, when he said, I'm not sending Blake to Hollywood. I would not do that, sir.

31:28 I will not do that, sir.

31:31 And like only his monologue bested by his run.

31:34 The run is so good.

31:36 And well, and that'll pay dividends. That shit makes me laugh so hard.

31:39 Every time he runs away, I'm giggling.

31:41 Whose idea was that, that he's like, has a really weird run?

31:43 I don't know. But when I saw him, it came from the writer and was in the script. But I thought to myself, gosh, how do you do a funny, bad run that doesn't look like you're trying to do a bad run? Like it's a tricky thing. Like most things you'd look like, oh, he's trying to do something silly. And he found a way to do something like, I believe that's not how he runs.

31:59 It's so good.

32:00 It's so weird. It's so good.

32:03 It's so good.

32:03 He brings so much to the show. And like, it's fun to watch. Like if you, you know, just for the audience members, if they go back and rewatch it, look how he takes one line like, oh no, for example, when he's in the cafeteria with David and he realizes it's going south and the line's oh no, he.

32:19 Adds like a weird M in the middle.

32:20 He's like, oh no. Yes. He does a lot of funny shit like that. That's like not, What I love about John, obviously, Ava, you do this too, is like it's not a choice anybody else would make.

32:32 It's so specific.

32:33 And that's what I love about comic actors, that they don't just go on what's on the page. They find something to make a specificity for their character that nobody else would do. And John does that so much with this character he's created.

32:47 I don't want to skip ahead to the cafeteria yet because there's some really great moments in it that I want to make sure. we hit on, but we got to go back and, and still talk about the, uh, Gridley and, uh, uh, and, uh, myself, uh, talking about, uh, weaponized incompetence. Yes.

33:10 Um, before we didn't reach there. Well, I wanted to say, um, uh, I laughed when, um, cause I was trying to give all these reactions when he goes, when he's talking about his dog and he goes, I told my dog to sick the neighbor and I go, I made me laugh.

33:28 Are these things going to stay in the show? Because in the cuts that we've seen, Puss is in the show. Yeah. Prick is in the show. No, not Prick. Dick is in the show.

33:37 Well, I got to tell you, on this note, figuring out the censor of ABC, with all due respect to our mother company, is very tricky. It's shocking what they'll allow and then it's shocking what they won't allow. Can you see if the audience can see that? Ava, just reach up and bring that white mannequin thing down. That thing.

34:01 If you can grab it.

34:02 So they put a... Oh, there goes the mic. I got you.

34:05 It's going to be worth it.

34:06 It's going to be worth it. I promise. Yeah, bring that guy down. We had to remove this guy from the set. It is an anatomical figure. And Ava, pull off his leaf because this is, yeah, we're allowed to show it on here.

34:19 Oh, God.

34:20 They wouldn't allow this guy on TV.

34:22 Well, he's got bush.

34:23 Pull off his pubes. Pull off his pubes.

34:24 He's got total bush.

34:26 Pull off his pubes. That's Velcro. Let me put him closer to the camera before you pull off his pubes.

34:33 Ew, he has pubes.

34:35 He's not meant to have pubes, everybody. Oh, my God. This looks like Velcro. I'm going to pull off. He's getting waxed. He's getting waxed. Oh, my God. His pubes are on strong.

34:55 Kelly Clarkson.

34:57 So, audience, look. We weren't allowed to show this in the background on ABC.

35:02 Wait, can I see?

35:03 Wait, what?

35:04 How did that even get picked up?

35:06 Because I got a note from Brooke, who is in charge of our post, and she's like, hey, we should probably take that anatomical figure off your back shelf.

35:15 It literally was like this behind you.

35:16 Because ABC is making us blur his penis every episode. And so this anatomical doll's little Ken doll scrotum was not allowed in the background.

35:28 That's so insane. He's got a little bit more than Ken doll, let's be honest. I see bold, I see shaft, and I see bold.

35:34 Well, yeah, it's not a huge peep, but he's got something.

35:39 But on the podcast, he has a leaf over it.

35:40 Well, that's my shot, bro. All right, I'll put him here.

35:44 But anyway, so it's funny that things are allowed, not allowed. He's his, his peep isn't allowed, but we can say dick. You can call someone a dick. You can't say like my dick. You can call someone a dick. You can call someone a puss. Obviously you can't say pussy.

35:59 So interesting.

36:00 Yeah.

36:01 Yeah.

36:01 No, but that was like back in the day too. There was an episode where Judy and I were supposed to help a patient out. We ran, we wanted to go out and get them pot. And that got, um, that was said no to, but we could go out and get them a prostitute.

36:15 Yeah.

36:15 That's crazy. I totally get that. Pretty woman is a fairy tale about a man meeting a prostitute.

36:22 No, but that was crazy. We had actually shot.

36:24 I mean, that's just classic family comedy.

36:28 We had started shooting a, it was like, it was like long before medicinal marijuana was even considered being legal. This was, you know, early two thousands.

36:36 Ava was in the womb.

36:37 Ava was, Ava was, Ava was still breastfeeding. And, uh, And we already started shooting and the network came to Bill and said, you can't do marijuana, medical marijuana. And so he was like, shit, we already started shooting. And they're like, can't do it. And he goes, well, what if instead they go to get a prostitute to cheer the patient up? And I'm like, yep, that's fine.

36:57 That's crazy.

37:00 Oh my gosh.

37:01 I mean, I mean, if we're going to do alcohol, I wonder what it, what it turns into now, now that we're in the 2026, uh, If we can do alcohol, can't we do weed? If weed is legal in certain.

37:15 I don't think so. We're on a family show at 8 o'clock. I don't think we're going to get into ganja. I mean, we can reference it, but I don't think you're going to be.

37:23 But prostitutes.

37:23 Like, what if one of my kids does weed? Like, you know, and it's like a lesson.

37:27 Well, you're not even allowed to inhale... You're not even allowed to inhale a cigarette on camera. Someone can be holding a cigarette, but they're not allowed to inhale it. And if those of you remember watching the thing with Lisa Gilroy last year, the film noir thing... You know, we wanted her classic film noir to smoke a cigarette and then exhale it in J.D.

37:45 's face.

37:46 And if you go back, you'll look that she only exhales in J.D. 's face. We were not allowed to film her inhaling a cigarette.

37:52 Interesting. That's wild, though, that you can show exhale but not inhale.

37:56 Yeah.

37:56 Well, no, I don't think.

37:58 I don't think they showed it coming out of our mouth. They just showed it going into his face.

38:01 Oh, going to your face.

38:02 All right, we got to move on. Let's talk about weaponized incompetence. This is a great.

38:08 Well, you know... I've never been madder at Turk.

38:11 What are you saying, Joelle?

38:13 I've never been more angry at Turk.

38:15 What the hell?

38:16 I mean, the fact that everybody takes this chore play so seriously. I mean, I don't find... But.

38:23 What you did is a real dick move, dude.

38:25 Turk.

38:25 What Turk did is a dick move. I would never do anything like that.

38:29 He purposefully did the chores poorly so she would never ask again.

38:34 That was... You know, when I saw that in the script and did the scene, I was like, why not think of that in real life, man?

38:41 No, because you're a nice person.

38:43 Yes, because you love Casey.

38:45 I do care about my wife. But Turk cares about his relationship with Carla.

38:50 I want to shout out... Your guy's patient, Tosh, and Elliot's patient, Audrey, played by Kiana Madeira.

38:57 Well done, young lady.

38:58 Oh, she was fantastic.

38:59 Kiana, thunderous applause for Kiana. She's fantastic.

39:03 So natural.

39:04 Very natural. Again, the same thing I was talking about. It was a moment where I saw an actress. I saw someone who was coming up with everything they were thinking while I was watching them. I thought she was marvelous.

39:15 And one of my favorite lines of Ava's, when your line read of, Let her cook.

39:20 Oh my God.

39:20 That's so great. That's so Ava. That's very Ava.

39:23 That was also very funny where you're like, you know, I'm going to, you're my priority. And Ava comes in and is like, I'm going to cover you. because you got like a hot date. And then you go into, I'm going to ride your disease like it's a friend.

39:34 I'm going to ride it and bring it home with me. Throw it on my desk.

39:39 And work it work it.

39:40 All night long we did that was fun we did different versions of that on the day of like how dirty can we say it and then pull it back.

39:47 It was pretty dirty it was pretty dirty and.

39:50 Ava had a line that was cut where she goes she's a slut for Tess oh.

39:54 Yeah I like that.

39:57 One I did say.

40:02 That yeah which takes us to the burn her which was awesome. Well, I wasn't there yet, Sarah. Oh, sorry, sorry, sorry. But yes, since you already brought it up.

40:14 No, no, no, we can wait. We can wait.

40:16 We can wait. No, we already got there. Let's talk about that fantasy when we're in sort of the, I don't know, 1600s. And this woman has a, has something I can't figure out and doesn't turn me on. Diagnosis?

40:30 Which?

40:32 Burn her!

40:33 Is it possible that it could require a little more looking into?

40:37 Burn her ass too!

40:40 Another great example of so many departments. Set deck, art department, Roger Fires, just like costumes, hair and makeup, like all of it, just kind of knocking it out of the park for what's going to live for 12 seconds on television.

40:56 And they did so much. They often, this art department does stuff that people don't even see. Like what was outside that window was like a perspective thing of a mountain. And I mean, I walk on sometimes and I'm like, oh no, you guys, that is so incredible. And no one's going to see that. You know, they go so far and above and beyond. And sometimes it's just like, I want to be like, that's sometimes I'm like, we have to shoot that because it's just so incredible what they did.

41:24 You know?

41:25 Yeah.

41:25 Like the set. You know what I mean? Like this is above and beyond. We were like, we just want to do a podcast up here. Dude, there's tchotchkes. There's memorabilia. There's rowdy. You know what I mean? They've gotten deep into our minds. Like the things that you see in here.

41:39 There's things they can't even see. There's a brown bear and a vanilla bear.

41:43 There's feelings police up in the corner.

41:44 There's all these Easter eggs.

41:46 You know what I mean? You know what I mean?

41:48 There's a Superman.

41:48 Yeah, I mean.

41:49 Superman.

41:50 There's our Funko Pops.

41:51 Gumby.

41:52 Yeah, but it's like.

41:53 There's an Appletini.

41:54 We got all of the shows in order right there.

41:58 It's like Roger was saying.

41:59 Have you ever seen a DVD, Ava?

42:00 No.

42:00 I actually have.

42:02 I saw you looking at that. Like, what the hell? So, Ava, those are DVDs. You thought it was a book.

42:06 I have.

42:07 That's not a book, Ava.

42:08 And I think this one.

42:10 Well, I have an orange box set of scrubs on my coffee table. And my friend Cam gave it to me to bring here as a good omen to keep on my coffee table.

42:21 So I've had it.

42:22 Have you ever cracked it open and watched any of it?

42:25 Well, I don't have a DVD player.

42:27 Did you ever have a DVD player?

42:29 When I was a kid.

42:30 Yeah, that's how she watched Cat in the Hat.

42:31 Yeah, that's how I watched Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers.

42:37 Let's get into that.

42:37 No, we don't have time for Ava.

42:40 She's a guest.

42:41 Oh, yeah. Ava audience, her favorite movie is Cat in the Hat with Mike Myers. She brings it up, I think, almost every day.

42:48 I do.

42:49 Watches it every day.

42:50 And she quotes it. I do watch it every day. She was going to bid on the costume that recently went for.

42:56 $ 25, 000.

42:56 $ 25, 000 sold to an OnlyFans model.

42:58 Whatever.

42:59 Whatever.

42:59 Literally whatever. I don't even care.

43:02 She doesn't like it as much as you would have.

43:03 Yeah.

43:03 No, she doesn't.

43:04 An OnlyFans model bought the costume?

43:06 An OnlyFans model bought the costume in a glass box. And my issue is I don't have a home to put it.

43:13 And weren't your parents pretty upset that you were considering buying this?

43:16 I called them and I was like, should I rip it? Like, should I? And I was tracking it, too, to see, like, when it was going up.

43:26 It's not a bit. You were considering buying it.

43:27 I was considering buying it.

43:29 I texted John Higgins and I was like, do you think I should rip this?

43:34 He said yes. And then I called my parents and they're like, don't do that. Do not do that.

43:38 We got to talk to Higgins about giving you bad advice.

43:40 I mean, that's pretty bad advice. So you didn't even have an apartment.

43:42 Where were you going to put this glass case costume?

43:45 I don't know. You could hold it for me.

43:48 Oh, I was going to put it in my house for you. I don't want it.

43:50 I've never seen the movie.

43:52 You can hold it for me.

43:53 Ava made the other interns cast watch this, hung over one day.

43:57 On my birthday.

43:58 On her birthday. And they all gathered in her apartment, including David Gridley's children.

44:02 I believe.

44:02 Yeah, David Gridley's children.

44:04 And everyone was so hung over trying to watch that movie and they all complained that they got headaches.

44:07 Did the kids like it?

44:08 Yeah.

44:09 Yeah.

44:10 David's son, he looked scared, but I knew he loved it.

44:15 Oh, he just had a look of terror on his face.

44:16 He had a look of terror, but I think it was more of like a look of like, He's soaking it in.

44:20 Got it.

44:21 But that's what I really.

44:22 I feel like John Higgins has cat mannerisms on the show as his character Grant.

44:29 Oh, interesting.

44:29 Definitely. Some cat-isms.

44:31 I really am excited to run into Mike Myers and get him to make a video for you.

44:35 I'm like praying for that to happen.

44:37 That would be your dream, right?

44:38 It's my dream.

44:39 Okay.

44:39 Thank you. You guys, we spoke about.

44:43 Thank you so much.

44:44 Let's talk about Mimi, Turk's new sidekick nurse, who's very aggressive. I laughed out loud when she screamed five minutes.

44:51 15 minutes.

44:52 She's so good.

44:53 But then you have her do it through the intercom and she still yells it.

44:55 She still yells to the intercom.

44:57 She's so funny.

44:57 And her loyalty to Turk.

44:59 Oh, my God.

44:59 She loves him. She smelled him.

45:00 The loyalty to the church is non-existent. What are you talking about? She's the biggest snitch ever.

45:05 I know, but she doesn't want to be hierarchies.

45:07 Latina code, nurse code.

45:08 Listen, man, she's a snitch for that.

45:10 She loves you.

45:12 That was so hard for her.

45:14 No, it wasn't. What was hard was that she had to be like, yo, I snitched, yo. I'm a snitch.

45:19 I'm sorry.

45:20 Donald, if somebody came up to you and said black code, does this not override your professional code?

45:25 Against who?

45:27 Another brother?

45:28 I guess actor code?

45:29 Another brother?

45:29 I think it's actor code, maybe?

45:32 If it's black code against another brother, I'm like, look, it's not. What the? What you talking about?

45:38 Willis?

45:38 Willis?

45:40 Wu-Tang forever.

45:43 Wu-Tang forever. Wu-Tang is forever.

45:45 Okay. Okay, so let's talk about, we talked about Sarah in the cafeteria. That was hilarious.

45:52 So what about you and Rachel in the cafeteria?

45:54 I laughed out loud.

45:55 When she says, somebody's really stepped up their performance for the parrot.

46:00 The parrot?

46:00 The parrot. Go, go, go.

46:02 Oh my gosh.

46:02 But that's because he wanted you to leave.

46:05 Oh.

46:05 We made that up on the day.

46:06 Oh, you did?

46:07 Yeah.

46:07 That was really, really funny.

46:09 It played so great.

46:10 And her just being completely baffled that like, this is... How they're up in there.

46:13 This is them flirting?

46:14 Is this going well?

46:15 Charlie being confused by this is how Sean and Elliot flirt.

46:19 But I love the exit line. They have such great chemistry. I know. Really?

46:25 Really?

46:26 Or did she say what? Yeah.

46:28 One of those.

46:30 Lillian is not into JD. And every joke he tries with her.

46:34 Yeah.

46:36 She's just not into it.

46:37 She's like, you remind me of my son. Do I remind you of anyone?

46:41 No one you'd find flattering.

46:43 Amazing. She's so good.

46:45 Incredible lining.

46:47 I love that J.D. goes, I'm worried about her mental acuity because that joke was hilarious.

46:55 She's so good.

46:57 Michael James Scott, also amazing, as always, helping. The scene along, too.

47:02 Yeah.

47:03 Let's talk about Gridley Blake crip-walking and ham-hands. And twerking a little bit.

47:09 Okay. Ham-hands. That was a day because we threw a bunch of different dances at Gridley.

47:15 David can really dance.

47:16 He can move.

47:17 He can dance.

47:18 He can really bust it.

47:20 You guys recently did a TikTok dance trend.

47:22 Yeah.

47:22 And David, he was probably pretty great at it. Oh, you didn't really let him do all the moves.

47:26 What?

47:28 But he just sent me the next one because obviously, as you know, one of my main EP duties is now going to be to keep these dances going. I'm really excited.

47:35 Sarah loves a TikTok dance trend.

47:38 I love any dance choreography. A choreographed dance number I've always loved. But the fact that that turns out that it's some sort of TikTok trend.

47:45 Well, that's the new thing that the kids are doing.

47:48 It's not a new thing that the kids are doing.

47:50 Oh, it's old?

47:51 Yeah, but I like that Sarah has finally found a purpose for her executive producer credit, and she's going to help wrangle everyone to do TikTok dance.

47:59 Yeah, on a very, very regular basis. So, so Gridley sent me one.

48:03 She's got a new one. And I was like, I was like, Donald's going to be able to do that. And, and Gridley's going to be able to do that. You're going to need some rehearsal. And I will rehearse.

48:10 Oh, I'm going to get it.

48:11 You're good.

48:12 You're a good dancer.

48:13 Michael James Scott.

48:13 Yeah. I said, Michael James Scott was like, that's ambitious. And I was like, okay, if Michael James Scott thinks this is ambitious.

48:17 But then I watch it and I was like, Sarah, you can get this. Because they, you know, on YouTube, they have like the slow-mo like practice video.

48:24 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

48:24 What dance is it? Do you know the song?

48:27 It's Jason Derulio.

48:28 Oh, DeRulio?

48:29 DeRulio. Is it Jason DeRulio?

48:32 Jason DeRulio.

48:33 Cut that, cut that, cut.

48:34 That, Joelle.

48:35 No, Joelle.

48:35 Cut that.

48:36 Cut that power.

48:38 Only Donald knows.

48:39 Jason DeRulio.

48:41 Joelle.

48:41 Joelle, you're my favorite.

48:43 I got to say it.

48:44 I got to say it.

48:45 Joelle and I.

48:47 Jason Derulio.

48:48 That's really funny.

48:49 Guys, I'm 50.

48:50 Did she say Jason Derulio?

48:51 No, I didn't.

48:52 Or did she say Jason Derulio?

48:54 No, she said Jason Derulio.

48:56 I didn't.

48:58 It's Jason Derulio.

49:00 Jason. Jason Derulio.

49:03 It's Jason Derulo.

49:05 Oh, Jason.

49:05 Okay, let's take a new take.

49:08 You don't have cut power.

49:09 That was funny.

49:10 Cut power is only for the hosts.

49:12 I'm 50, you guys.

49:14 What does that have to.

49:15 Do with anything?

49:16 You don't look 50. You look 29.

49:18 You're the youngest woman I've ever met.

49:23 Sometimes when we're color correcting, I look at Ava's skin and I'm like, can you make my skin look like Ava's skin?

49:30 Same, please.

49:31 Like when I'm in the same shot as Ava, I look at it and I'm like, Jesus Christ. Is there a way you could like take just a sample of her skin and move it over to my face?

49:41 Same youth.

49:43 You look amazing, Sarah. You do.

49:45 It's impressive.

49:45 Let's talk about ham hands. That was funny.

49:47 Ham hands.

49:49 Very stoner, very stonery.

49:50 Classic scrub stoner joke.

49:52 Joelle, did you like ham hands?

49:54 I was dying at hand.

49:55 Again, sometimes it's striking how similar this is to the original run because it does feel like Hammer Hands could have.

50:01 Been in the original run of the series.

50:03 Yeah, absolutely.

50:04 And then also I was like picturing it and I thought maybe we have like a standard hand like picturing.

50:09 A whole hammer.

50:11 Why would you try to put the needle in it?

50:13 It was ridiculous. It was so funny.

50:14 I loved it. Can't we're virgins?

50:17 When we're cutting his hands where Gridley was like.

50:20 Why are my hands ham? He's so good.

50:24 It's so funny.

50:25 It's so funny.

50:26 We're like more horror movie versions that we cut out. We just made it the making a sandwich version.

50:31 Fantastic.

50:33 Okay, let's talk.

50:34 Honey Blake ham.

50:35 Honey Blake ham.

50:37 So let's talk about that moving ending with Blake.

50:42 Okay, but before we do that, let's go back to the cafeteria with. with John and David. That shit made me laugh so hard. I lost my wallet. Thanks for getting the food. And then to finish it, oh, there it is.

50:56 There it is. Found it.

50:58 There it is. So he was just lying. He was going to give him bad news and then make him pay for coffee.

51:04 And then he felt so bad about the bad news that he gave him when he realized that Blake is, the only reason why he's getting into cardiology is because of his mother. And how he had to watch his mom die. And he, you know, wants to, if he could save people, because he felt like he couldn't save his mom, that would make him feel amazing. And that really sets up the final scene.

51:26 It's so beautiful. The acting between both of them in that final scene when she's dying is so moving. And David just did a, I mean, they both did, but I just want to call out David because he's our cast member. He did such a beautiful job there.

51:40 Her eyes when she sees him. And she's excited because she thinks it's her boy. And his, at first, being, you know.

51:54 He's going to stop it.

51:56 Yeah, he's like, I'm not going to. Actually, I'm. And then realizing, oh, wait a second. This could be her final moment. How would I want my mom to have gone out when she was watching me?

52:09 Or also just a chance to, you know, his mom never saw him as a doctor, never saw all that he'd achieved. And the fact that he got to have a moment, a pretend imaginary moment with his mom seeing him as a doctor, that was so moving to me.

52:27 Absolutely. And her seeing him as her final, you know, that's all she was really holding on for. She even says it, I waited for you. You know, oh my goodness gracious, that scene broke me apart. Every time I watch it, there's like that, you know, that histamine feeling that you get in your face when you're about to cry, you know what I mean?

52:46 I want to say that the song is Monrovia Old Fort Steel Train that's playing there, if you're curious.

52:53 It's perfectly placed.

52:54 It's so good.

52:55 The first time I saw it, the cut, I, you know, we were at work and I watched it and I was like in, you know, full work hair and makeup and we had to go do a scene and I was like, oh shit, this is going to turn into like A real ugly cry. Like it's so moving.

53:10 Sarah was trying to protect her show makeup while she was watching.

53:16 It's so moving. And just like, you know, my favorite part of Scrubs, like you think about that episode and how many laughs we've just talked about. And then that gut punch at the end, like to be able to like have both of those. So crazy.

53:29 Yeah, I watched.

53:31 It in Village when it was happening and I started crying and I was like, wait, I know that that's David and this isn't real but why am I crying?

53:40 Like, it was so good.

53:41 And that hasn't happened for me before where you're like watching it be filmed.

53:45 I really like, by the way, that you're hanging out on set. You know, it's what I used to do and these guys would do sometimes but me more than anyone because I wanted to be a filmmaker and I always say, if you want, aspire to be a director or producer, this is the best grad school ever and A lot of our interns, especially Ava, hang out and are learning and asking questions when they're not shooting. And it's like the greatest opportunity to learn.

54:11 It is.

54:12 I mean, you will learn more than you could have ever in any film school. Just hanging out by the monitor, asking people questions, asking the director questions. And I'm glad that you do that. I saw you were talking to them. One of our first AC camera assistants learning about pulling focus one time.

54:27 He was letting me pull focus on the rehearsals.

54:29 It's so hard. It feels like a video game.

54:32 It's really cool.

54:34 But that's great. I'm happy to do that.

54:36 We have such incredible directors. So it is a crazy opportunity to just go and watch what's unique about each of them.

54:42 And I'll gas you guys up real quick. And watching you guys cook out there.

54:47 But, like, genuinely, I've learned so much from, like.

54:49 From you guys about acting, directing, everything, and just, like, how to carry yourself being, like, leading a show.

54:56 It's very cool to watch.

54:57 Thank you.

54:58 Yeah.

54:58 We have a lot of fun on this show.

55:00 Me too.

55:00 Me too. I want to just end with Turk and JD in a couples counseling session. Which was kind of funny because as I was watching it this morning again, I was like, this kind of is real life, but Casey, Donald's wife, is our couples counselor. Well, remember when we did a podcast once and we got in a huge fight before we even started recording? Because Donald was late.

55:22 Why?

55:22 See?

55:22 Well, anyway, we didn't have to bring it up, but we got in a big fight and like, we almost, I was like, well, let's not do the podcast. Right? So we didn't do it. We didn't do the podcast that day.

55:33 You were like, I don't want to do the podcast because I'm angry. And I was like, all right, nigga, be angry.

55:39 Yeah, well, you can see part of the problem. And Donald's inability to.

55:45 And I'll never forget Joelle and Donald's face. They were sitting there like, what the... And I think we were like, you know, maybe... Two months in, something like that.

55:53 By the way, the whole thing's recorded, and we were joking that we should release the fight. You know, they always say release the Zack Snyder cut. Release the fight. Because it's a big fight, and it's all recorded.

56:03 Would you ever release the fight?

56:05 No, there's no need. But the fans have said, release the fight.

56:09 That's really funny.

56:10 You should release it.

56:11 I'll never forget. Joelle's face was like, what the? We just started.

56:15 And I was like- I thought the podcast had ruined 20 years of friendship. I said, what is happening?

56:18 It was scary.

56:19 I didn't like it.

56:20 And then Casey- Joelle, do you remember what I said to you? I was like, it's going to be fine. We'll just come back tomorrow and do this shit.

56:26 Don't worry about it.

56:27 And then Casey called me. She's like, y'all need to stop this nonsense.

56:33 Why does she sound like a prospector every time? Y'all, we gonna get the gold, y'all.

56:40 Y'all need to stop this nonsense immediately.

56:42 There's gold in this cage. Y'all are best friends. You need to use a when you are feel statement.

56:50 That's not how Casey sounds.

56:51 That's not how he sounds.

56:53 She's like freaking God, there's gold in them caves. All right.

57:00 Yeah, you guys were so funny in that scene. When you're like, where's the room for me in any of this?

57:04 I love that. Yes, Joelle.

57:05 So funny.

57:07 I also cried at the JD telling Elliot how he really feels about their divorce.

57:13 I'm sorry.

57:14 I thought that was so beautiful.

57:16 I was literally, I mean, it's such a hard thing to separate. Nobody knows how painful it was except the two of us. And I think you should, you deserve to be happy. I was like, this is the catharsis as a fan that I need. Like it really, I mean, listen, not to be dramatic. It took me a lot to accept that JD and Elliot were not going to get back together. I was like, I'm not okay with it.

57:36 But this helped me be okay with it. I really appreciated this.

57:39 What I really liked about it was the hint of disappointment from Elliot too, though. You know what I mean? It was like, dude, what the fuck kind of, okay. That's, you know what? You're right.

57:49 We are trying to give her the gift of saying like, don't, you know, I'm starting to feel feelings for someone. I don't, don't, you know, all my feelings for Sean aside, don't not take this opportunity to, to, to maybe get to know someone again, since, especially since JD sabotaged it so many times.

58:07 Well, I feel like the whole episode she was trying to tell him, yo, you don't need to worry about me. Let me do my thing. I'll figure it out. And then you do that to her. And she's like, Okay, maybe he's not listening, but yeah, I guess, you know.

58:21 No, but he's saying, I think that I'm calling you out as someone who loves you. You're not taking the risk because you don't want to get hurt again.

58:32 And then she listens and she goes.

58:33 Yeah.

58:34 And like, it was, I love that she thinks, why are you flirting with Toby? Yeah.

58:39 I love that part.

58:40 And we had to cut out a really funny little mini storyline with Rachel and I and some otters. Rachel gets scratched by an otter. Yes, it was so cute.

58:49 I'm so upset.

58:50 It's so cute. Rachel turns around because Scott's character helped her meet an otter that she loves. And J.D. goes to meet her. And she has the cutest little scratch on her face. And she goes, never meet your heroes. Oscar's a dick. And then I've got an otter stuffed animal. And I go, so you don't want this? And she goes, no, I want it. it was so cute but cut for time this is why we.

59:14 Need the Hulu cut extension please let us show adorable Rachel Bilson deleted scenes wait what about Donald and the last thing Donald and Judy are so fucking cute and when you guys are doing the catch and release And when she fishes.

59:30 For you and you dance into her.

59:32 Yeah, that's cute. It's one of the best moments.

59:33 I do love my chemistry with Judy Reyes.

59:36 You guys are really cute.

59:37 All right.

59:37 Well, that's episode three, everybody. Thank you for tuning in. Check out Scrubs every week on ABC at 8 o'clock Wednesdays and on Hulu the next day.

59:51 Followed by the podcast.

59:53 And also tell your friends about the podcast because they might not know that we're doing a full video. All right. Thank you. Donald, count us out.

1:00:02 Five, six, seven. Mm-hmm.