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0:01 And we're back!

0:03 Welcome to episode 204, episode 4 of season 2 of the Scrubs Revival. This is the Fake Doctors Real Friends podcast. And I am your host, Zach Braff, along with my co-host.

0:18 Oh, you're not going to introduce... I'm Donald Faison.

0:20 Hi, everybody.

0:20 That was going so well, and so you effed it up.

0:23 I didn't eff it up.

0:24 Ahem. Ahem.

0:25 Along with my co-host.

0:26 Donald Faison.

0:27 Yeah, baby. And we have back with us for episode four, Sarah Chalk and Ava Bunn. Thunderous applause.

0:35 Hi, guys.

0:36 Hi.

0:36 And live from Los Angeles in the iHeart Studios, Joelle Monique, our producer, living legend. She is not only our producer, but she is a big mocky mock at iHeart. And she knows everything there is about pop culture. If you guys have any questions, she can answer it. Any topics.

0:53 Well, I think we covered in the last podcast that I probably made a lot of lessons on pop culture. So, Joelle, I will be texting you later.

1:00 Joelle, what show are you watching? What's your new favorite show? Joelle will have a strong opinion.

1:07 Hi, Donald. Are you watching Lanterns?

1:09 I am. It's good. I liked episode three the best.

1:12 You know what I mean?

1:13 Episode three was because it hit.

1:14 It smashed.

1:15 It was really good.

1:15 I'm really enjoying Lanterns. And I was surprised.

1:17 I wasn't sure what to anticipate. But it's really hitting for me. And then I got the old Brit box. I've been enjoying the British.

1:26 What did I just watch?

1:29 Vanity Fair with the girl from Night of the Seven Kingdoms, the other Game of Thrones show.

1:35 Olivia.

1:36 Amazing. Incredible.

1:38 I've been watching Furious, which is really good.

1:41 Ooh!

1:41 Are you loving it? Yeah, very well done.

1:43 Is it about.

1:44 Emmy Rossum, very good actress. I never watched Shameless, so I didn't really know the full extent of how talented Emmy Rossum is, and she's very good.

1:51 She's got range.

1:52 Yeah.

1:53 Yeah.

1:53 Well, let's get into the TV show Scrubs, everybody. This was directed by Randall Winston.

2:00 Yeah, thunderous applause.

2:01 Thunderous applause.

2:02 The best.

2:02 And I want to say this is the first one we're doing. This is kind of a funny thing, audience. You'll have to be patient with us. This cut isn't locked and we're talking about it. So there might be things that come up. that don't make it to the final version you're seeing.

2:16 This is what I was saying was so dangerous, bro.

2:18 Well, what's dangerous? We have to record a podcast. The show isn't quite locked yet. What's dangerous?

2:23 What's dangerous is that we're seeing things that maybe we shouldn't be seeing. Sometimes it's not your favorite take. Sometimes it's not Bill's favorite take.

2:32 Oh, I see. What's happened, audience, just so you know, is because we're doing this podcast, Donald and Sarah, and in this case, our guest, Ava, have been given early access to cuts, and they don't normally see them. And Donald is watching them over and over and over again and analyzing every frame.

2:49 Well, I just love our show so much. And so, you know, in ways that, you know, Ava's learning by hanging out on set. We were talking about that the last podcast. The way I'm learning is how things are cut. That's kind of... It has a lot to do with stop-motion animation, you know, and how... you know, instead of hanging out on set, I can watch the actual cut of things and see, okay, they went master over, over just for my own. So I'm able to use it in my world, in the stop motion world.

3:24 The other, sorry, well, I was going to, I was going to just interject that. The other thing is, is that, You know, unless you're editing the show, you don't really see the evolution of the show starting good, then getting better, then getting better, then getting better, then cut to 21 minutes, and it gets great. It takes a lot of incarnations.

3:44 We have two amazing editors. We have lots of folks that weigh in, including, of course, the studio and network. And by the time the thing is locked lock, it's become something we're all hopefully very proud of. But if you choose to watch, because now that Donald and Sarah have access to the site where we, the encrypted site where we watch these cuts, early cuts, you might go, eh, that scene's not working yet. And then as an actor, sometimes you can go, oh, I don't like this, but we haven't gotten it great yet. So you're taking in watching some of those cuts.

4:16 Absolutely. But it sings when it's locked. That's the crazy thing. It's like you sit there and you're like, ugh. Why did they do that take with me? And then you see it two days later and you're like, holy shit, this is a completely different show. Like jokes that they hung on for a little too long all of a sudden are punched and you're like, whoa, that made me laugh harder than it did the first time. And that's what I'm learning. And it makes you go back. Like, so I'm editing some shit right now in my, you know, from my garage movies and stuff like that. And I did an edit And now I'm like, all right, well, how can I trim it to make it move faster?

4:55 How can I, you know, and that all comes from watching the progression of shows.

5:01 Yeah. It's cool. I haven't had that experience before of like watching stuff that's a bit earlier. And I know we're not seeing the earliest ones, but we're seeing earlier cuts. And like, I haven't found yet that I'm like, oh, I wish this was in or out or this was still in. It's more I find super interesting to go like Donald said, like, oh my God, it got so tight and it got so much better. And I think like, of course, if you had a favorite scene or you work super hard on a model, whatever it is, like we all want the greater, like we just want the best episode out there. And so like, you know, it's like you said last episode, Zach, that there was that whole runner of you and Bilson with the otters that

5:34 was so fucking funny. And you had to let that go in order to like make the time of the show and let other things live and So I feel like it's actually just been a really interesting learning experience to see that.

5:47 I'm going to tell you why you're not seeing things that I'm seeing when you watch this, Sarah, because you're having a fucking amazing season, bro. Thunderous applause, Sarah. Thunderous applause. You are having an amazing season.

5:58 You really are. You're really shining.

6:00 It's like really, it's so fun to watch, yo. And I love your storyline this season and how you're tackling it. And so just putting it out there. That's the reason why when you watch it, you're like, oh, I don't see what, because you're fucking killing it. That's why.

6:16 You are killing it.

6:17 I'm so happy that we have unleashed crazy, neurotic Elliot again.

6:23 It's been super fun to do. The writing's been so good. I mean, we have such a good writer's room. And like we were talking about before, like having writers on set all the time, punching up jokes.

6:32 But I don't just mean the comedy. I'm also talking about the freaking drama and the realism and everything. It's like you're putting together this freaking great, you know, we're very lucky because we know how the story goes and what's coming next and stuff like that. And so after watching the first five and being able to see what you're doing with this season, it's kind of like we're all athletes and stuff and we're all playing on the same team. And, you know, some people, you know, some people are playing in their lane, some people are going above and beyond, some people, you know what I mean?

7:04 But we're all trying to make this... We're trying to all make this show work, right? And Sarah, you are, you know, if this is Michael Jordan, you are Scottie Pippen right now. You know what I'm saying?

7:18 Donald, I've never loved an analogy more because, as you know, I wanted to be an athlete so badly and I've never made a team. Are you going to have to Google who Scottie Pippen is?

7:26 Yes.

7:27 You're so Scottie Pippen.

7:30 But I'm part of a team.

7:31 No, no, I know.

7:31 You're classic Scottie Pippen.

7:32 But I'm part of a team.

7:34 Can we have jerseys?

7:36 Yeah, it's called Scrubs.

7:37 We are getting jerseys. They're called Scrubs. Those are our jerseys. Spoiler alert, our wrap gift this season is going to be hockey jerseys.

7:44 Yes, because they're in Canada.

7:45 With your name on the back.

7:46 Yeah.

7:47 Because we're in Canada.

7:48 Because we're in Canada.

7:48 Wait, who am I?

7:52 Well, who would be a rookie who's killing it?

7:54 We're like Tony Kukoc.

7:56 You're like Larry Bird.

7:58 Larry Bird was a killer his rookie season, but he's older.

8:00 No, but who's like a current rookie killing it?

8:03 A current rookie killing it right now? I was going old school, like 90s basketball. But if you want to go currently- Caitlin Clark. We are the New York Knicks.

8:12 Caitlin Clark.

8:13 You could totally be Caitlin Clark.

8:13 You can be Caitlin Clark. You can be Caitlin Clark.

8:15 That's totally who you could be.

8:16 But I was trying to think, staying in the same analogy of men's NBA- Is there a rookie this year who's fucking shining?

8:24 This year that's shining?

8:26 Yeah.

8:26 Ava Bunn. Let's go.

8:28 Yay.

8:29 Let's go.

8:29 She may be someone else.

8:30 She's been herself.

8:30 I want Keelan Clark on the Knicks playing Ava Bunn.

8:34 Okay.

8:35 She's killing you. I'm just going to put it out there. She's destroying you. That is exactly who you are.

8:40 Yes.

8:40 Thank you.

8:41 All right. Thanks, guys. Let's get into it. Count us in, Donald.

8:43 Five, six, seven, eight.

8:49 About a bunch of docs and nurses in a Canada who love to hate. I said he's got stories that we all should know. So gather round to hear our, gather round to hear our Scrubs Rewatch Show with Zach and Donald.

9:08 Welcome to episode four. We open with Dubois giving JD the sex report.

9:15 This was hilarious.

9:16 Yeah. They bangin'. They bangin'?.

9:19 They bangin'. Oh, wait.

9:21 She bangin'? She bangin'?.

9:22 They bangin'. She bangin'..

9:25 Did I do it correct? Did I read her for filth?

9:29 Go to the library.

9:32 By the way, Joelle, I can't wait for you to meet Michael James Scott. He is one of the funniest, nicest people I've ever met.

9:39 And he's a Broadway legend.

9:41 He's an icon.

9:41 He's an icon. And we're going to hang out in New York. Are you going to have time? Because Donald and I are going to New York to do Press for the launch.

9:49 I would love to hang out with you guys, and I will make time for you.

9:51 Because Michael's already making plans with me, and I wondered if you're going.

9:54 To hang out. I will come through for Sheezy my kneezy.

9:57 But I love acting with Michael. He makes me laugh. Not only is he hilarious on the show, but just he comes on the set with just the most wonderful energy. You know? He's just silly and happy and he never walks on a set like most normal people who've had a shitty day and are like, hey, how are you? I'm just tired. Michael's just like, hello!

10:19 You went real Broadway with that just now.

10:21 He's the Broadway legend. Yeah, he is.

10:23 And then, I mean, as a side note, just starting the dances, like starting the TikTok dances.

10:28 Well, I empowered him to. Ava was the sole wrangler of trying to get people to do social media. And when Michael showed interest, I said, do you want to be Ava's co-captain? And now you've got involved. You have three captains now.

10:44 I'm excited.

10:44 I'm excited for my new job.

10:46 They keep telling us, Joelle, that we need to do more social media. I've got enough on my plate. So I've asked.

10:52 This would be a good opportunity for us to talk about how much Zach is doing and has on his plate.

10:57 He's doing so much. But I just want to say that I appreciate you. Thank you. But I'm not going to take on TikTok. That's you. And Ava and Michael.

11:07 Chanty Beluga videos.

11:09 I think that one's done. You're the one, by the way, you're the 25-year-old. You're supposed to know what the current trend is.

11:15 Chanty Beluga was current.

11:17 That's not current.

11:19 Chanty Beluga just got kidnapped, actually.

11:21 No.

11:21 Is Chanty Beluga still a thing?

11:25 Well, she's going through it right now, but Chanty's... Is Chanty Beluga like AI?

11:29 No. It's her friend.

11:31 She's a comedian.

11:32 It's Courtney O'Donnell, comedian, but there were allegations that she was an AI. But I'm like, that's epic to blow up that much.

11:41 You get AI allegations.

11:42 That's how it goes.

11:43 You know?

11:43 That's how it goes. It used to be when you blow up, you're gay. Everybody's like, you've got to be gay because... It's everywhere. You know what I mean?

11:54 Now it's AI.

11:56 Now it's AI because it's everywhere.

11:58 That's how you know you've made it.

12:02 All right. Elliot wants to find a bigger purpose. Elliot wants to find... It reminds me of in episode one with the Mighty Morphin Power Rangers when we're like, chief of surgery, chief of medicine, not chief of anything.

12:15 But a strong female doctor who has.

12:17 Achieved a lot. And so I think Elliot, understandably, because we know from the lore, the canon of the show, that she's an exceptional doctor. We just saw in episode three that she's got this rare diagnosis. She's really good. And she's looking to do more than just be an attending to. She's looking for her bigger purpose.

12:36 I loved it. I love the storyline. I love when you told me about it. I feel like it's, you know, I feel like a lot of women are going to be able to relate to that to when you're, you know, You have infants and your job, and then your kids reach a certain age. Ollie's 11, and your life is starting to open up with a bit more time to go like, oh, wait a second. I didn't do everything I wanted to do in this lifetime. And then Tosh tells her it's not too late.

12:58 Not too late.

12:59 Yeah, actually, I didn't really put that together, that the Tosh in episode two sort of says it's not too late for anything. That was sort of seeded by Tosh. And then now she's starting to say like, yeah, let me actually take action on that.

13:14 I love that she goes to JD and actually doesn't even have the idea yet.

13:18 That's what's funny that, of course, we discover that she's so passionate because she really wants to be in the swimsuit issue as a powerful woman.

13:28 So she sees the swimsuit issue, the Sports Illustrated issue.

13:30 She's backing in from that.

13:31 But that's the beginning.

13:32 Exactly.

13:33 And then we're going to go backwards from that.

13:34 No, no.

13:35 The end goal is the swimsuit issue.

13:37 That's on the vision board.

13:38 That's on the vision board. Exactly, Ava.

13:39 Which is not sure how we're going to get there.

13:40 She has no plan how to get to the swimsuit issue.

13:45 I love that J.D. is like, yo, you used to wear sweats when we were together, and now you want to pose?

13:50 Yeah, like an Amish woman plowing the fields.

13:52 Yeah, and now you want to pose? In a high-cut, sensible way.

13:56 I don't think J.D. has seen, probably because they weren't in a happy marriage, he probably hadn't seen her in a naughty fit in a while. No, no, no.

14:06 Wait, what are you trying to say? That when you're married, you don't?

14:09 No, they weren't in a happy marriage and they eventually got divorced. I've been in that situation, but I imagine the lingerie wasn't flying around left and right.

14:17 You kept top on.

14:18 Top on sex.

14:20 Winnie the Pooh-ing it.

14:22 Oh, my gosh.

14:24 I've never heard of Winnie the Pooh-ing it. Is that a thing?

14:26 Yes.

14:27 I'm going to Winnie the.

14:30 Pooh that thing.

14:30 Wait, that's an expression? Winnie the Pooh-ing it?

14:32 Winnie the Pooh-ing it.

14:33 When you just have the T-shirt on.

14:34 Yeah, just the T-shirt, no pants.

14:35 Oh, my God.

14:37 Ava, thank you for introducing us to you. Thank you for Winnie the Pooh-ing it.

14:40 You're Winnie the Pooh-ing it.

14:41 Is Winnie the Pooh-ing it a good thing or a bad thing?

14:44 Yeah, I mean, sometimes you just keep the top on, right?

14:46 Sometimes it's kind of chic to Winnie the Pooh-ing.

14:48 Yeah, absolutely. You guys, Ava.

14:51 You've seen it played way, you know.

14:53 Ava, you're ridiculous.

14:55 Ava's teaching me so many things.

14:57 What are some other things Ava saw you? First of all, all of the- Oh, how to eat it down?

15:01 Yeah.

15:01 Eat it down?

15:02 No, no, no. Eat it up?

15:03 Eat it up. No, eat it down.

15:05 Eat it down.

15:06 That's like if you killed a scene, like if you did so good on it.

15:09 You ate that down.

15:09 You ate that down. Low-key. You low-key ate that down. I know low-key.

15:13 Rocco uses that. Low-key.

15:14 Low-key ate that down.

15:15 I'm freaking whatever.

15:16 She has a line in an upcoming episode, sorry, spoiler, where she says, did we just low-key eat that down? And Jacob's character has no, he's like, I have no idea what that means, but I don't think we did.

15:29 And then Layla and Ava were teaching me, speak on it.

15:34 Speak on it.

15:34 Speak on it. And say it to my chest. I kept getting it wrong. I kept being like, Speak to my chest? Speak to my chest.

15:40 Speak it onto my chest.

15:41 Speak it onto my talking chest. What is speak it onto my chest?

15:44 It's not that.

15:45 It's like say it with your chest.

15:47 Oh, say it with your chest.

15:48 Or speak on it.

15:50 Or speak on that.

15:51 Speak on it.

15:51 Speak on it.

15:52 Speak on that. And then Sarah would be like, speak on.

15:54 It to me with my chest.

15:56 You know what you don't do that a lot of your generation does that I don't really like?

16:01 What?

16:01 That part. What?

16:03 That?

16:04 When they go, that part.

16:06 Wait, I don't know this one.

16:07 I don't even know that one.

16:08 So someone says something, and it's the equivalent of saying, like, I totally agree with you. They go, yeah, that part.

16:13 That part.

16:14 Why do you not know that, and I know that?

16:15 I don't know.

16:16 I've seen it on the interwebs.

16:17 I think it's a little bit older than her generation.

16:19 Joelle, have you heard that part?

16:21 Yeah, that might be my generation.

16:23 A little bit older.

16:25 Now, Donald, this was very funny. You were... in surgery, you were listening, you were doing Oprah's monologue from Color Purple.

16:35 Yes. Which is still one of the best monologues ever.

16:38 I agree. And this was not what was written. We made this up on the day.

16:42 Yes.

16:42 I mean, that this is what, this is, because there were versions of you rapping along to a song. And I'm like, God, we just did a whole episode with him and the music in the OR. Is there something else? And then we said, and I thought of you and what you might be doing. And you actually might be distracted by doing Oprah's monologue from The Color Purple.

17:00 It's one of the greatest monologues. You told Harpo to beat me. Ever since I saw that, all my life, I has to fight. Dude, okay, I hear you.

17:12 It's iconic.

17:14 I love that movie. I mean, I couldn't believe, I mean, Oprah obviously went off on a different path.

17:19 She ate that to her face.

17:20 No, I'm saying, I always thought.

17:22 She ate that down to her chest.

17:23 All my life, I have thought that. Oprah went off on a talk show path and became a zillionaire, but man, was she a fantastic actress.

17:33 In The Color Purple, she was amazing. I've seen very little of her acting since The Color Purple.

17:38 No, I'm saying when I saw that movie, I think she won an Oscar, right?

17:42 No, I don't even think she got nominated.

17:44 No, Joelle, look it up. I think she won. She definitely got nominated.

17:47 I don't think she got nominated.

17:49 Joelle, come on, buddy.

17:51 I'm looking. I did not know that was coming because it wasn't in the script. So when I watched the episode, it's so good, Donald.

17:59 And I love that Layla goes, yeah, that's when the blood started splurting. Right around there is when the blood started splurting.

18:09 This is a great episode for Layla, speaking of Layla.

18:12 Yes, Layla has a great episode. Sorry, what's the verdict?

18:15 Oprah got a nomination. She did not win.

18:17 Oh, she should have won. Who beat her?

18:19 Ben Kingsley.

18:20 In 1985?

18:21 Let's find out.

18:23 Look that up, please.

18:23 Glyn Close.

18:25 Okay, so yeah, Layla has a great storyline in this episode, and she does a fantastic job.

18:30 She really does. And this is what I really love about what our show is doing this year. It's like, okay, so Ava's been promoted to series regular, and I was worried, how are we going to service the other characters and stuff like that? And Asim in the writer's room has really found ways to service everyone. And Layla's storyline this year, her finding her voice and her finding her strength and her turning into one of the better surgeons, I think mainly because her and, you know, I should say Amara and Deshana are being taught by Turk. They're becoming really, really good doctors. And this is one of those episodes where it starts to show.

19:15 Yeah.

19:16 Well, she has to assert herself. She has to learn to not get walked all over, which I'm sure is something that a lot of female surgeons have to deal with. It's stereotypically been a boys club, a jockey boys club.

19:30 But she's, yeah, she's, the two of them are turning it into a girls club, if anything, because the boys are falling behind.

19:38 Go ahead, Joelle. Who beat her?

19:40 Angelica Houston for Pritzy's Honor.

19:43 Wow.

19:44 I don't remember. With all due respect, I don't remember Angelica Houston's performance in Pritzy's Honor. I will revisit the movie. But it couldn't have been better than Oprah in Color Purple.

19:53 I mean.

19:53 I'm with you.

19:55 Or than Donald doing Oprah.

19:56 Or better. By the way, even Donald's Oprah impression was better than Angelica Houston. Oh, no.

20:03 Let's stop this, guys.

20:04 Seriously.

20:05 Let's stop this.

20:06 You know, my first scene ever in a movie.

20:09 Whoa.

20:09 It was with Angelica Houston.

20:11 Really?

20:11 Whoa.

20:12 Manhattan murder mystery. Oh, my God. Just a little trivia for you. All right.

20:23 So let's talk about Donald.

20:24 Let's talk about the head vein coming out of Raymond.

20:28 Sorry.

20:28 His name is Raymond. Raymond.

20:30 Yes.

20:30 And as scripted, I just did a funny voice. But I am pretty limited in the impressions or funny voices I can do.

20:39 Right.

20:39 Is that or Chicken Little?

20:40 Yeah, I'm not going to do Chicken Little. My tattoos. Ava, we learned last episode, got a tattoo of my signature, Chicken Little.

20:47 But in the mirror. In the mirror, I haven't.

20:49 And we need to really make sure everyone knows we're kidding, because if you're not watching this, you might.

20:54 Think we're... That's real.

20:55 It's real.

20:55 When we finished, I wouldn't try to rub it off.

20:57 I don't want even people that are listening to this and not watching it might think we're serious.

21:02 What's crazy is that the black and blue marks that are left behind are just.

21:06 So I did my Raymond voice, and it was.

21:09 And then.

21:14 I had been told, if you do Aaron Neville, don't sing it because it's expensive. And so for the most, Donald and I were riffing all this stuff. But as Aaron, and he was like, why does my vein sound like Aaron Neville? Because that's the only impression I can do. And then on the last take, I was like, fuck it, let's just do it. And we started singing, I don't know much, but I know I love you.

21:36 And that may be all I need.

21:40 I don't know.

21:41 It's so good.

21:41 So how did you keep it?

21:43 Well, I think we're going to pay for it. But again, this isn't locked. So if you don't see that on the episode, I'm sorry. It was really funny. But I'm going to fight to try and keep it. But it was funny.

21:52 I thought it was very Turk and JD.

21:54 And it's also very me and you.

21:56 Absolutely.

21:56 Because we both love to harmonize as Aaron Neville.

22:00 I do.

22:00 We do.

22:01 We should talk about James Brown.

22:03 Yes.

22:03 That was crazy.

22:06 That was a great day. That was the day I broke my knee.

22:09 When you jumped into the.

22:11 Splits, I was gassed. They had a double, but you did it.

22:14 I did do it, and it hurt. And for two weeks, my knee was the size of freaking a grapefruit.

22:19 Really?

22:19 Oh, gosh, yeah.

22:20 Because there was a lot of talk in prep, like, yo, I can do everything but the split. And so we got a double. The double looked like he was 21 years old.

22:27 He did. He was so 21 years old that if I would have become the weight that he was, I would look like I was sick. That's how young that brother was.

22:37 Right, but I'm saying from behind, he didn't even have your body type at all.

22:41 No, because he was a 21-year-old man. That's why.

22:45 And he kept cupping his balls.

22:47 And he kept grabbing his ding-a-ling.

22:49 While he was dancing?

22:50 Yeah, so every time he would do a split, he would come up and he would grab his dick like, yeah. And it was like, dude, this is ABC. You can't be grabbing your dick like that.

23:00 And you told him that?

23:01 Yeah, I went in front of, I was like, Randall. Stop this motherfucker from grabbing his dick, yo.

23:06 Randall's like, it's perfect.

23:08 It was so funny because you were in Village just like watching.

23:13 Stop grabbing your dicks.

23:16 I love this.

23:18 Stop grabbing your dick.

23:19 How did I do it?

23:21 Stop grabbing your dick. Well, I don't think we even cut to him in the cut that's currently in.

23:30 No, there's a little bit of a cut.

23:32 Oh, getting up, because you couldn't get up from the spot, right? That's one thing you couldn't do?

23:35 So Randall edited it, or the editors. Who edited that one? Lucky?

23:42 What is this, Ford? This is Sarah Lucky.

23:44 Sarah Lucky edited it to where it's almost like it morphs, but it doesn't. I had to watch it like three or four times to check.

23:52 It might be a mini-morph.

23:53 It's possible, you know, but I had to watch it three or four times to check. It's literally three different takes. Me dropping into a split. Him coming up and then me spinning and holding my hair.

24:03 Well, it looks great.

24:04 Yeah.

24:04 It looks really good.

24:05 Really awesome.

24:05 And you did a great job. And you're such a good dancer. And everyone loves watching. And first of all, you're so funny when you have wigs on. Because we're so used to you bald. But when you play with your hair and you're so feeling yourself with that hair.

24:18 Because I wish I still had hair. That's why.

24:20 But that's a lot of hair that you had.

24:22 Oh, I would love to have hair like that. Hair that blows in the wind. I remember when I was younger, right?

24:27 Yeah.

24:27 Terrence Howard and I grew up together, right? And when we were younger, he would always kind of have his hair permed every now and then, right? And when that thing would blow in the wind.

24:35 I.

24:39 Used to be like, damn.

24:41 Damn. Well, the writers are just always like, can we please just have... I just want Donald dancing in every single episode.

24:48 Like, it's so good.

24:48 I know.

24:49 We can't have it in every episode. I'm noticing that it's happening a lot. It's so good.

24:52 And it's happening a lot in OG Scrubs, too.

24:53 Yeah.

24:53 If you go and watch season one of OG Scrubs, I'm doing Michael Jackson or the Moonwalk or something like that in almost every episode.

24:59 It's because give the people what they want.

25:00 It is.

25:01 Everyone wants Donald dancing.

25:02 It's just what you're talking about, Willis.

25:03 It is not what you're talking about.

25:04 It is.

25:04 It is.

25:04 I don't think there's any... There's no such thing as too much of it.

25:07 So this sprinkler gag was very elaborate because you cannot... let off sprinklers on a real set because they will instantly rot and ruin all of the wood. So what was the answer? There was a lot of debate in prep about how are we going to do this? Are we going to do it as a visual effects gag in post? How the heck are we going to do this?

25:29 And we ended up building a full replica of JD's office in the parking lot outside of And doing it for real and really putting in all those sprinkler pipes and just drenching the set for a one-off.

25:44 You know, it wasn't until just now you sang that that I remembered that that's how that was done. That was so cool. I honestly thought that that was done on the stage.

25:53 No, it would have ruined everything. And it would have rotted the wood and it would have been put mold everywhere. because it was fucking raining hard in there. And the only way we could really do it was to just build a separate replica set in the parking lot.

26:08 It was crazy that day. That is nuts.

26:10 I mean, first of all, I lost my mind when I heard the whole story of a nepo baby janitor, of a nepo janitor.

26:18 It's so funny.

26:18 He's not as gifted as his father. He's not as gifted as his dad. He's a nepo.

26:21 He's a nepo. And the fact that you're calling me a nepo baby, just from the beginning, that's such a brilliant concept. And then obviously having Neil back and him coming in at the end and the mom brings him up.

26:33 Nice to see her back on her foot.

26:35 Yeah. So what was Kit's character that she played?

26:42 Lady.

26:42 Lady. So Lady only has a foot now?

26:44 No, wait, that was, yes, you're right. That would be Lady.

26:47 Well, to kind of speak, this isn't something that may change by the time the audience gets it. There's debate and let's have the debate. There are those who think, Um, her, him saying, it's nice to see your mom back on her foot is hilarious. Yes. And there are others who think it's already broad that he's there and he has a remote clicker that just on his key chain that turns off the hospital's fire system and that he's brought muffins. And, and, and, and that is sort of joke. It's maybe a joke on the joke that all of a sudden the mom has one foot. I mean, it was written. It's nice to see her back on her feet. But I personally laughed out loud when he said foot.

27:28 So was that just like a Neil Flynn improv?

27:29 Yeah, it was Neil Flynn improv.

27:31 I loved it when I heard it.

27:32 I love that.

27:32 It's so funny.

27:33 Joelle, where do you fall on foot?

27:36 We love lore, and I have not gotten an update, and I like this update.

27:39 By the way, so Lady only has one foot.

27:42 They got married and she lost a foot.

27:44 Well, wait a second. I have a question about the lore, canon. Do you remember that he mentioned in an earlier episode that his wife, the good Lord didn't bless my wife with all 10 fingers. She only has pointer and thumb pinky.

27:59 That was him playing with J.D. That was him lying.

28:01 That was a lie.

28:02 That was him lying to J.D.

28:02 And that was before he got actually married.

28:04 Yes.

28:05 But maybe it was a first wife that he got divorced from?

28:07 No.

28:08 She's the one who made me the Scrubs short shorts.

28:12 Maybe that was just to tell you that. Maybe that was not true. Maybe the photo's true because he's saying it to his son.

28:16 So in that world, of that reality, the janitor himself made the Scrubs short shorts.

28:21 Yes. Here are the things that's true, though, about the whole situation. The janitor did make it so that Nepo janitor has the job. That's very clear because the kid's a horrible janitor like his dad. Period.

28:40 Well, but the janitor might not be a great janitor, Neil's character, but he was great, brilliant at torturing JD.

28:49 Absolutely.

28:49 That's where he's a Nepo.

28:50 So it's not his kid. I was thinking Lady had a kid a long time ago when she was a teenager. And this is her kid all grown up. And he took the kid in as his own.

29:02 I think the only thing that makes sense is that he had a previous marriage before Lady.

29:07 Okay.

29:08 Because why would he have a kid as old as Nepo?

29:10 Yeah.

29:12 I feel like he just adopted this guy off the street.

29:15 Yeah, by the way, as we get to later, J.D. says, I think you're bullshitting me. I don't even think it's a real... kid, and then we cut to the Maury Povich DNA test.

29:24 You are not the father.

29:25 And he goes, and this is what we're jumping ahead, but this is so funny. In the case of 514-month-old Chandler... So funny. You are not a father. And then Neil goes, you owe me $ 250, 000. Again, I hope that makes it. Again, this isn't the final cut.

29:48 And tidbit for that, for the audience, this is a bunch of crew members in the audience.

29:53 I saw Kiki.

29:54 Yeah, when we watched it.

29:55 And Randall's in the audience.

29:56 Is Randall in the audience too?

29:57 And Jem?

29:59 I don't know. I just saw Randall in there. All right. Let's keep going here with the janitor, a car alarm fob. We talked about that. Oh, throwing a ball around to get someone to talk. This is based on Bill and Randall are inspired by because Randall always said sometimes Bill Lawrence is overwhelmed and in a cranky mood because, of course, we know he's got a lot on his plate and Randall can gauge his if Bill is in the mood to shoot the shit about something they need to talk about, whether it's work or private life, by coming in and tossing a ball with him. That's how he'll sort of gauge if Bill's in the mood to chat. If Bill just catches the ball and puts it down, Randall's like, I'll find him another time. If he starts throwing it back,

30:43 he's like, oh, we can engage. We can talk about the shit we need to talk about. And that's what I think, I believe, was the impetus for this with J.D. and Turk. But J.D. 's not really great at throwing the sports ball around.

30:55 No, he's good at throwing the sports ball around. He's just not good at.

30:59 J.D.

30:59 's a little too sensitive for a sports ball throw.

31:02 Well, dude, he says... This is how Brady is, and he says that How does Giselle's boyfriend... Yeah, but.

31:07 He's still doing a good job throwing the ball back and forth.

31:10 He knows Giselle. He knows Giselle.

31:13 It's just that he just gets a little too sensitive... For a sports ball throw.

31:18 But dude, he says right away, God, my arm, after like three throws, he's like, my arm already hurts. How does Giselle's boyfriend do this for a whole match?

31:28 I love that he just knows it's a football.

31:29 It's the sports ball I love to throw spirals with.

31:32 By the way, one thing that got cut that you'll laugh at, Joel, he pulls out, I unpacked a candle and I go, ooh, my Gwyneth Paltrow candle. And I smelled it and I went, mmm, Gwyneth.

31:43 Do you get it?

31:45 Because she had a vagina candle.

31:47 Yes. You didn't know that, Ava?

31:50 No, I didn't know that either until she released.

31:52 A vagina-scented candle.

31:54 It smells like her vagina.

31:55 Her vagina, I guess.

31:56 Her vagina.

31:57 It was her vagina specifically.

31:58 What does it smell like?

31:59 Her vagina.

32:00 Well, you have to get the candle to find out.

32:01 Oh my gosh.

32:03 According to her, it smells like her vagina.

32:05 Whoa. I don't know if the candle, I never really learned if the candle, if that was just a bit, a marketing ploy stunt, or if it was really meant to smell like Gwyneth's We should get one for our set. Yeah, seriously. Joel, can you see if there's one I can buy online?

32:22 You just called Gwyneth Paltrow's vagina a vagine.

32:25 Yeah. That's a classy way to say vagina.

32:28 No, that's Borat's way of saying vagina. Oh, sorry.

32:30 I thought it was a fancy way. It's supposed to be bajingo.

32:32 Bajingo.

32:32 Bajingo is a classy way to say it.

32:34 That's a classy way to say it. Okay, when you get the football in your throat.

32:38 Oh, my God.

32:39 I can listen.

32:39 That was so funny.

32:40 I can listen. I can listen.

32:41 It kind of reminds me of Anthony Michael Hall.

32:43 Yeah.

32:44 In freaking Weird Science.

32:45 In Weird Science when he's in the back of the car drunk. That's what Donald and I were laughing about that day. You probably don't get this reference.

32:51 Well, my nuts is halfway up my ass, but better than that, I'm perfect.

32:53 Did you ever see a movie called Weird Science?

32:57 It's in my notes app.

32:58 By the way, you're obsessed with Cat in the Hat. You'll like Weird Science better.

33:05 Because last time we were on the plane, you guys did Weird Science bits for maybe 20 minutes.

33:11 So I wrote it down on my phone.

33:15 I was like, watch this movie.

33:16 Well, guess what's going to happen today when we fly home? Great. We're going to drink mimosas and do more Weird Science bits for you. Anyway, Weird Science was a movie that Don and I both grew up loving. And when I was doing this voice, we both were like, oh my gosh, it sounds like Anthony Michael Hall when he's drunk in the back of the car. Because he goes, well, my nuts.

33:35 Is halfway up my ass.

33:36 But better than that, I'm perfect.

33:39 And I go, I can live. I can live.

33:41 I can live.

33:42 By the way, so we had to figure out how do you nail someone in, especially someone with a giant Adam's apple with a football. Because it wasn't supposed to be Nerf. It was supposed to be a mini real football. And so I was just, we just made it totally in post. And that's not even the final, what you guys saw is not even the final visual effect. Yeah.

33:59 But that's a completely fake football and it looks amazing. It looks amazing.

34:02 It looks really good. I wrote down in my notes, can Zach throw a football?

34:07 Yes, he can. Yeah.

34:08 He can throw a Frisbee better though.

34:10 Yeah, I'm better with a Frisbee. That's, you know, I was, I went to Northwestern and I was in like the stoner Frisbee throwing frat.

34:16 I was in a, I was, I played ultimate Frisbee football in university.

34:21 Whoa.

34:21 On an intramurals team.

34:22 Can you actually, can you throw a forehand? Yeah, totally.

34:26 Can do that.

34:26 You could do this.

34:27 You know, Ultimate Frisbee was invented at my high school. Just a little bit of trivia. Oh, I didn't know that. Ultimate Frisbee was invented at Columbia High School. And a little extra trivia. One of the founding members was Max Weinberg, the famous drummer from Bruce Springsteen's band.

34:40 No way.

34:41 A little trivia for you. You can Google it if you don't believe me. Joelle, I think, is looking it up. As we speak.

34:45 And she's confirming. I see the nod.

34:48 I can throw a football, but not like, you wouldn't probably want me on your team.

34:52 Not as the quarterback.

34:53 Right.

34:54 Yeah. But I could be a center.

34:57 Yeah, you could totally be the center.

34:58 I could be a running back.

34:59 You could be the center.

35:00 I could be a wide load.

35:01 Oh.

35:02 Is that a position?

35:03 I don't think it is.

35:04 Fat load?

35:05 Yeah.

35:06 Big load?

35:07 I get that you're trying to be funny.

35:09 Yeah. But don't say, I'm just not sure how.

35:11 Just not sure how.

35:12 I was just trying to make a load joke. All right.

35:14 Classic load joke.

35:16 In that case, yes, you could be a heavy load.

35:18 Okay. A meaningful load.

35:20 A meaningful load.

35:22 Right, Sarah?

35:24 Classic.

35:31 Classic load joke. All right. Okay.

35:36 Okay.

35:37 Let's talk about Grant into Amara. Yes. He is crushing.

35:42 Juicy.

35:42 He's crushing hardcore. He's crushing so hard that he's freaking kind of goofy around her.

35:48 Yeah, I like this for John Higgins' character. He's a know-it-all. He's clearly a very skilled doctor. He's very smart. He went to the best schools. He's like the head resident, chief resident. But when it comes to ladies, he's very nervous and inexperienced.

36:06 Yes, very.

36:08 Yes.

36:09 And I enjoyed him trying to muster up the courage to ask her out, all for it to backfire in his face.

36:18 Yes. That whole arc is so well done by both of them. I love the scene of them in the supply closet. I thought that was so sweet.

36:26 Yes.

36:27 Yeah, that's the thing. It's such a good turn for him of just being so genuine with her and so genuinely helpful and helping her and building her confidence.

36:36 Not knowing that she has no interest in him. He's already been friend-zoned. And the person that she's really after is Blake.

36:44 But that's, we've all experienced, I mean, I don't know about you, but I experienced that.

36:48 Oh, absolutely.

36:48 In high school, I would be big upping these gals and they would like, oh, thanks for the advice. And then go, well, you know, with the jock. handsome guy.

36:57 Yeah, that all shifted after Clueless, but before Clueless, yeah, that was my life.

37:02 Pre-Clueless. Pre-Clueless.

37:04 Right, right.

37:06 B.C.

37:07 Yeah, B.C.

37:07 B.C. Donald can relate.

37:09 Yeah, B.C.

37:09 Donald can totally relate. I remember having these crushes on these high school girls when I was in high school and they would, and I would like, it was exactly this. I'd be like, you're worth so much more than that and you need to know your worth and you're amazing and you're so funny and they'd be like, thank you, thank you. And then they'd go hook up with the popular dickhead jock guy.

37:28 And I'd be like, Ooh, that shit was, that shit had to hurt too.

37:39 Um, Weird Al intern was actually a camera, um, trainee on our set. And, um, in the spirit of old scrubs, we used to see like some of the background folks or people that were around. We'd sort of the Colonel doctor, as everyone remembers. And Dr. Beard, if I say, uh, They were background people that we would sort of give little parts to. In this case, Weird Al, in turn, was our camera trainee. And I was kind of nervous, like, would he be down? And Ava, you talked to him and he was very down, right?

38:10 He was so down.

38:11 Like, the first day I got there, me and him were talking because he recognized me from a sketch that I did.

38:18 And he's like, I didn't recognize you without the wig and the glasses.

38:20 And then we really hit it off. And then later I was talking to Matt, one of the writers, and he was like, do you think that.

38:27 Guy would be down?

38:28 I was like, he would so be down.

38:30 And then he was talking to me.

38:31 He's like, do you think it'll actually happen?

38:32 I was like, I think it's going to happen. That's so great. I was relieved to know that he was geeked about it.

38:37 He was so excited.

38:38 Yeah.

38:38 And it was funny because you can't go from being a, there's no bigger switch from being a camera trainee to being one of the talking roles on the show. Although here he doesn't talk, but I forget if he's, I forget if he's talking.

38:51 He came back.

38:53 I know, but I'm not sure that that's going to make it, but we'll see. But anyway, he was so fun and he was adorable. He was perfect at it.

38:59 It was just funny to watch the dude have to hang out on set all day as a camera guy.

39:05 And then... Camera trainee.

39:06 As a camera trainee. And then when he got the role as Weird Al intern... He was like, I'm going back to my trailer, guys.

39:12 Yeah, there was a funny moment. There was a funny moment where someone overheard him like, I'm going to go relax in my trailer. And he wasn't doing a bit. He was like, for real. That's so funny.

39:22 Amazing.

39:23 So good.

39:24 I used to do that. by when i was a kid i would you know when i was um you know in my early 20s i would pa you know i was paying in new york and also auditioning and there were there were weeks where i was a pa on like a music video and there were weeks where then i'd you know have a speaking part on a show and sometimes the crew would overlap and they'd all be like doing double takes like why is the PA one of the leads in this show? And for me, it was such a mindfuck because when I went back, I'd be like, okay, I didn't make much money, but I had a part and now I'm back to PAing.

39:55 And it was such a, it was very, very humbling. And, but it was good. It was good training for me, I think. Let's talk about Siobhan Sims. And Sarah, you say that you didn't take an everything shower. What does that mean?

40:09 Oh, that means that you didn't shower twice.

40:11 Everything.

40:13 It's like if you're in a rush, you take a 360.

40:15 What is that? Explain that to me because every time I shower, I do everything.

40:18 So I think for Elliot, I mean, for me personally.

40:21 Well, in life. Is this a woman thing? I don't know.

40:23 For me personally, a 360 is when I'm going to put my hair up, keep it dry, and just quickly 360 my body. But that would be considered, I think, an everything shower. But I think for Elliot.

40:34 I don't do this.

40:35 But I think for Elliot, the joke is that she didn't properly shower her whole self.

40:39 She just spun around, but really quick.

40:41 What do you think, Joelle?

40:42 Does that sound like.

40:43 And everything shower is... You might use an exfoliant and a body butter and a body wash. And then you would do a hair mask, but also the shampoo and the deep condition and then the after products.

40:56 It would require like more than eight products.

40:58 Multiple styles.

41:00 And there's probably some post-shower products as well.

41:02 For you and everything shower involves a candle being lit.

41:04 There's a candle lit. And everything showers a bath. Drain it, shower.

41:08 Really?

41:09 Or shower, have the bath with the hair conditioner in for 20 minutes.

41:13 Yes. Oh, yeah, that's good.

41:14 Women can make like a whole evening of this washing process.

41:18 Yes, and absolutely a shower beverage.

41:22 Oh, what's that?

41:23 Have you guys tried this?

41:25 No.

41:25 What's your shower beverage?

41:26 I always do a bath beverage, but I've never done a shower beverage.

41:28 Do a shower beverage. A shower beer? Great.

41:32 Oh.

41:32 Okay.

41:33 Think about it. You're getting ready for your night. Have a little drink in the shower.

41:37 Oh, and this is when you're going to go out.

41:38 Yeah, you're going out. You're getting ready.

41:40 That's so hashtag 25 because I'm not taking a hot ass shower in a bath.

41:44 And doing a shower.

41:46 I'm going to bed.

41:49 If I said a shower beverage, I'm like, I've done a bath beverage. My bath beverage is obviously hot tea.

41:55 Yeah. I've done tea in the shower. That's nice. Yeah, yeah.

41:58 If it's a hot shower, I don't know that I want to drink anything other than water.

42:03 No, it feels nice, by the way. I've done this in the bath and the shower. You have a chamomile relaxing tea, and the water's falling on you, and you just take sips, and you've got hot in and out. It's really nice.

42:12 Okay.

42:12 And the bath, and you've got the bath salts.

42:14 Bath salts. Do you ever take baths? Of course.

42:17 I love a bath.

42:17 I take a bath every night.

42:19 You take a bath every night?

42:20 Every night.

42:21 What?

42:21 Every night when I get home.

42:22 Every night you take a bath?

42:24 Every night I take a bath.

42:24 On the telephone?

42:26 On the telephone.

42:26 What does a boy talk about on the telephone, man?

42:28 Explain it to him.

42:29 Well, we know there's a telephone involved.

42:31 Weird science, guys. Weird science, guys. Every damn night on the telephone?

42:35 Every night I take a bath. And obviously living in Canada, if I get home from a hike in the wintertime where you go out in the snow, the pouring rain, it's cold, you come back, you're freezing. Then you take a midday bath. So there's definitely days where I'm taking a pair of baths.

42:47 I don't mind a midday bath. I'm going to be honest with you. You know.

42:50 I get tired with a bath. I'm not taking any midday baths.

42:53 Oh, I love a midday bath. Midday bath and a blunt.

42:56 Oh, I see. It all comes back to. Ava, you might not know this, but this is one of our show's theme songs.

43:05 Yeah.

43:12 That's a song that was written for Donald.

43:13 Really good.

43:14 This is Donald's wife saying that she loves me.

43:17 Zach, I love you. Zach, I love you. Zach.

43:20 This is my ex-girlfriend's mom.

43:24 Oh.

43:25 When the podcast began, Donald and I accidentally talked about our penises a lot.

43:30 We didn't accidentally. We consistently do.

43:32 And my ex-girlfriend's mom said, oh, for fuck's sake. She loved the podcast, but she'd go, stop talking about your willies. For fuck's sake, just stop talking about your willies.

43:44 For fuck's sake, just stop talking about your willies.

43:46 That's really good.

43:49 And she said it so often. I love it. But the podcast is absolutely brilliant. Stop talking about your willies. And so I got her to lay that down for us.

43:57 That's really funny.

43:59 That's really good. Shout out to Debs. All right. Let's talk about a poop room for dating. This is a conundrum I've encountered. You take a- You've.

44:08 Met someone that this has happened before with.

44:10 Well, it's happened to me. I'm newly dating someone. Things are going great. You go away for a long weekend. How are you going to handle the poops?

44:18 Okay, so you got a poop room.

44:21 I'm saying I know a lot of my friends go to move in the situation is they go down to the hotel lobby and poop.

44:27 Yeah, you go to the lobby. Yeah.

44:29 And poo in the lobby bathroom?

44:31 Yes, to avoid stinking up the room. You can't have that woman knowing that you could make a poop.

44:36 How do you, like, be like, oh, I'm going to the lobby.

44:40 I'm going to go look in the gift shop alone.

44:41 Don't come with me.

44:43 I'm going to go get us coffees and bring them back home.

44:44 I'm going to go get us— oh, Sarah is experienced. I'm going to go get us coffees. I've never done that. Really?

44:47 Right.

44:48 Why did you just pull that out so quick? I'm going to go get us coffees. I just thought of it. I just thought of it right now.

44:51 I feel like a coffee, whatever.

44:53 We could order room service, babe. No, no, no.

44:55 I want to go to the— No, no, no.

44:57 I want to go to the gift shop. I, um— It's a conundrum. It really is a conundrum, this poop room thing. I felt this in my chest.

45:03 Felt this in your chest. Yeah, talk it to my chest. Speak it to your chest.

45:07 I've never been in a relationship.

45:08 But you've been married for a zillion years.

45:10 Even when I was single, this wasn't a thing.

45:12 So if you took a lady that you were newly dating away, what did you do about your poops?

45:16 I'm going to smell her poop.

45:18 Oh, my God.

45:18 See, Donald, that is an authentic relationship. I've read articles saying that makes an authentic relationship.

45:24 It don't always smell good. And sometimes, you know, right then and then after, okay, this isn't somebody I necessarily want to be in a relationship.

45:31 Because their poop smells? What poop doesn't smell?

45:34 Sometimes it's unbearable.

45:35 So you're saying you've broken up with people because their poop smelled extra bad?

45:39 No, but that was part of it. Like, you know. And your poop stunk. You know what I mean?

45:44 And on top of it, your poop stunk.

45:45 You're a horrible listener. And your poop smelled.

45:48 And your poop stunk.

45:52 You don't make time for me.

45:53 You don't make time for me.

45:54 And when we were in Cabo, your poop smelled extra bad.

45:57 That's crazy.

46:00 I've also sometimes been lucky enough to have those rooms that have a little mini half bath in the foyer. You know, around those rooms? Oh, yeah. When you're walking, there's a little... Sorry, Ava. One day, you'll get there. A foyer? Well, when you... If you have a... What's a foyer? I didn't mean to sound bougie, but there are times you have like a small suite, and when you walk in... There's like a starter bathroom, a little half bath.

46:22 Oh, a little half bath.

46:23 Zach sees that in the bathroom. And he exhales and fist pumps and goes, a.

46:26 Poop room, a poop room. In this scenario, I would have said, oh, it's a new relationship. I'll make sure they have a little half bath poop room.

46:33 Oh.

46:33 But Elliot's advice is get a cheaper hotel room and then get two.

46:38 Yeah, because just the imagination of someone going in to take a poo, like that could turn people off. I'm going to be honest with you. Like if we was hanging out, Right. And I was like, yo, I don't want you to smell my poo.

46:54 Right.

46:55 But I'm going to go take a poo.

46:56 Right.

46:57 That's why you got to go to the lobby.

46:58 But you would be like, well, the lobby works perfectly because you're like, yo, I'm going to go get coffee. But if I'm like, I'm going to just go to the other bathroom at the front door, you might be like, what would you got to do in there?

47:08 Well, then it's kind of known what you're doing, but it's not all up in the bedroom and stuff. Women, I feel like, are ninjas about this.

47:15 One time.

47:16 Okay. I. Threw it. No, go ahead.

47:20 Don't interrupt her story.

47:21 Oh, my goodness.

47:22 Ava, go ahead.

47:23 I pooped through it. It was a boomerang.

47:24 It came back to my face.

47:27 For audience listening, that is one of Ava's favorite bits.

47:29 Boomerang poop. I can't do this.

47:35 Ava's main Scrubs cold open pitch is boomerang poop.

47:38 Ava, stop saying boomerang poop. What is your actual anecdote?

47:41 My story. One time this guy, like he had told me he liked.

47:47 Me, like, and then I didn't know. And then I was like, I like him back. So I was going to go tell him it's going to be a whole romantic moment.

47:56 And I had to pee. I peed in his bathroom. My pee smelled really bad.

48:00 Did you have a lot of coffee that day?

48:01 It was coffee.

48:02 It was a lot of coffee. And then he had to go pee. And we were like friends.

48:07 He's like, damn, your pee stinks.

48:10 That's not cute.

48:11 And don't cut that.

48:12 And don't cut that, Joelle.

48:14 All right, we got to move on. We're not going fast enough.

48:16 But in that same scene, one of my favorite moments. So I love that, like, Siobhan, you know, you've gone out of your way for me for Siobhan, but I still don't have an idea. And you're trying to be like, this is a big deal that I've done this with Siobhan. And you're like, most people are going to Mars and she's going to Venus.

48:32 Venus.

48:33 Venus.

48:34 Venus. Venus, Elliot. Venus.

48:37 Sarah, I did takes where I did this pretty broad. I don't know if they're going to make the final cut, but I was going, Venus, Elliot. Venus. And now every day Sarah comes.

48:46 Up to me and goes, Venus.

48:49 And when I start riffing like weird shit and just making Sarah laugh that probably won't get used, she always goes.

48:55 It got bigger and bigger each time to the point where I was like.

48:59 And then I go, I go, I go, I go, I go, Elliot, Elliot, I go, Elliot, you know how long it's going to take her to get there?

49:06 A thousand years.

49:09 Elliot.

49:09 And then I go, Elliot, you know how long it's going to take her to get there?

49:12 No one knows.

49:14 She doesn't even know.

49:16 But then we.

49:20 Been going on for a while.

49:21 Yeah, but then in any other scene we do. No, this is all in the Siobhan riffing scene.

49:24 I know, but that was three weeks ago, four weeks ago now, five weeks ago?

49:28 I don't know.

49:28 Yeah, but now any line that Zach riffs, like we had some yesterday, that he riffs in that same tone. It turns into Venus.

49:37 All right, so he calls her a Persian baddie with the booty.

49:40 I love that.

49:42 And the janitor doesn't understand cats in the cradle.

49:46 It's a song about cats.

49:47 It's a song about cats.

49:49 Can we talk about how the janitor and Nurse Dubois know each other?

49:53 Yeah, from a pontoon boat.

49:55 Yes.

49:56 This reminds me of Laverne's above ground pool parties.

49:58 J.D. 's like, how the hell did you get invited on the janitor's? pontoon boat in Dubois. I was like, well, you know, I was out.

50:08 I'm not sure if that's going to make it.

50:09 Oh, but that's really funny. Oh, man.

50:12 Sorry, that's another thing. There was a whole scene that, Joelle, I'm not sure if this was in the cut, you saw it, and I'm not sure, audience, I'm sorry if this is going to make 21 minutes and 30 seconds, but right before I go confront Grant and say, hey, one of your interns fucked up, and post the janitor revealing he's on the pontoon boat, me and Michael were just riffing this whole thing. I'm like, I just don't understand, like, how did you end up on his pontoon boat? And he's like, well, I was out and he was out.

50:37 We kind of like ran into each other.

50:38 Oh, you know how it is.

50:39 You know how it is.

50:40 And like, it was amazing.

50:41 Like, why weren't you there? And like, I'm like, I just, we were just like riffing this whole scene. And then he goes, will you just go handle your business? And it's, I don't know if any of that will make it, but.

50:50 It was really funny.

50:50 It's so funny though.

50:52 I love Michael.

50:53 Yeah.

50:54 All right. So the shower shorts are back. JD's shower shorts. The janitor has kept them. He has the fly smell them to try and torture JD. He's been training this fly.

51:06 Yes.

51:07 For three weeks, we later learn.

51:09 Yes.

51:11 And the fly is doing its job. It's following JD.

51:14 It's not successfully annoying him in any way.

51:17 Until the tag. Until the tag.

51:19 And Elliot dresses up in a very sort of, I guess, rich, elitist woman way to try and impress Siobhan.

51:25 Amazing. That was my favorite part. She looked like Lex Luthor's Freaking henchwoman. Yes. That's crazy.

51:32 I just love that she thinks, like, I'm going to go home and put on a power suit, and that's going to, yeah, that's going to seal this deal. And a long ponytail.

51:39 Yeah, and a ponytail. I was going to say. I ain't going to put a shirt on either.

51:43 No shirt. By the way, Elliot still has no effing idea what her idea is. She just knows that she's going to dress the part.

51:51 Really good.

51:52 Yeah.

51:52 She wants to be a power suit, long pony.

51:56 Yeah.

51:56 She knows she's going to close the deal if she has the power suit.

51:59 J.D. tries to cheer up Turk. Sorry, J.D. 's trying to get Turk to talk about his depression in the whole episode, but Turk is avoiding it and gets him to bring back an old prank against Hooch, the League of the Order of the Stethoscopes. And we learn that they still have a joint AOL account. Yes.

52:18 Look, I can't even remember the last time. Do you remember your AOL account?

52:24 I had one. I know you did.

52:26 We all, everybody had one. Well, maybe not you because you weren't.

52:29 And not Ava. I had a, I remember my laptop and Kate, I had, my desktop picture was Kate Moss.

52:36 Oh.

52:37 I met Kate Moss once and I told her that. How'd that go?

52:42 Your desktop. How'd that go?

52:44 Well, I had such a crush on Kate Moss for so many years. And, and when I first got my first laptop, I made a picture of her, the, the, the desktop. I was like, So the desktop was her picture, and I told her that. And what'd she say? I think she thought that was cute.

53:00 Yeah.

53:00 I don't really have an end to the story.

53:01 Okay. That's really good.

53:03 But anyway, those are the days of AOL.

53:05 Yeah, I remember AOL.

53:06 I still remember my name. Do you know anything about dial-up internet, Ava?

53:12 No.

53:13 So you used to have to call up the internet.

53:17 What do you mean?

53:17 It's a dial. It looks like dialing a telephone.

53:19 You had to do a dial.

53:20 Telephone line.

53:21 You had a thing called a modem, right?

53:23 You still got a modem.

53:24 Well, you would hit dial up, and then you couldn't use your landline phone at the same time. It would make a noise, and it would connect to the web.

53:31 Whoa.

53:33 You never even seen this in a movie?

53:34 When was that?

53:35 Like right before you were born.

53:36 Yeah, right before you were born.

53:38 That's crazy.

53:39 Yeah.

53:40 Your parents can tell you all about it.

53:42 That's really awesome.

53:45 All right. So, okay. Higgins doing the dim sum, then some, and then yum yum.

53:50 And then some yum yum.

53:52 I feel like it's Christmas.

53:54 That's another thing we have to pay for. That is not public domain, but I laughed so hard. We got to keep it in. I know we got to pay for it. It's so good.

54:01 It's so good.

54:04 She makes my heart feel like Christmas. It's so good. And then his runaway. The runaway.

54:10 He keeps the run. It calls back.

54:13 We did this very elaborate Star Wars fantasy, which is very funny. And we did it for Donald because he loves Star Wars. And this was hilarious on the page. And you guys have seen it. And it's incredible.

54:26 It kills.

54:27 I know. What's that, Joelle?

54:28 It kills.

54:29 It kills.

54:29 It was so great.

54:30 Just know that we did a very clever fantasy of Donald as Vader force choking her and throwing her. And kudos to Layla, who did an amazing job. She flew across the room and nailed the wall.

54:46 And fell to the floor and everything.

54:47 She did such a wonderful job. All right, so next scene. What do you guys have? Do you guys have anything you want to talk about? We're running out of time.

54:56 Yeah.

54:57 Ava has two of my favorite moments.

55:01 I have been to prison. It was an accident.

55:05 It was a strip mall. How does that happen? How does that happen?

55:10 How did you end up at the Island Mall and thinking it was a prison thinking it was Island Mall? That's funny.

55:15 I know.

55:15 I like that.

55:16 There were like some alts we did too where I forget what I, is something like, like I thought it was a Brandy Melville or something. Cause Brandy Melville, it's like scary in there.

55:25 Brandy Melville? By the way, we improv that thing with that.

55:28 What is Brandy Melville?

55:29 It's a clothing store.

55:30 It's a scary place.

55:31 It's a clothing store. Um, we improv that we couldn't think of the outs of the scenes so on the day that woman who's a very tall strong woman I think she actually had done some pro not pro but some form of wrestling right yes yes yes and we did Ava don't get mad I asked her to carry me like a baby.

55:49 That shit was hilarious that shit was so funny that was so funny Yes, it was my.

55:55 Favorite just because Ava, the way you're like kicking your feet and just so delighted.

55:58 To be out. I was so giddy.

55:59 I was so, so excited.

56:00 By the way, you actually truly loved it.

56:02 I did love it. Well, it was funny because I like asked her to Like, I was like, what if you carried me?

56:08 Sorry, I didn't know it was your idea. Go ahead.

56:11 I was like, what if you carried me?

56:13 And then, but I knew I was like, me saying that isn't going to really, it's going to sound insane.

56:19 And then she was like, let's show them. She picks me up and then brought me into Village.

56:23 And we all started belly laughing. But it was very late. And I was like, how are we going to get to that? Like, it's funny, but how do we even end up in there? And then we somehow all brainstormed and got to like, don't get mad. I asked her to carry me like a baby.

56:36 Carry me like a baby.

56:38 Hilarious.

56:39 Just pretty much exactly what happened in real life. I was like, can you carry me?

56:42 But by the way, it was proof of concept. You guys, you were both smart. You were like, if we pitch this, no one's ever going to like it. Let's just walk in with you carrying me.

56:49 And the visual of that is incredible.

56:50 It was so funny because you're so tiny next to her. It's so crazy. What is she like?

56:54 And you're tall, too.

56:55 Yeah, no, I'm 5'9.

56:56 She's 6'7?

56:56 6'7. 6'7.

56:57 Oh, God.

56:57 6'7.

57:01 Um, yeah, that was so great. And I showed out to Punky.

57:05 Yeah.

57:05 Punky was great. Let's shout out to Punky.

57:08 She did such a good job.

57:09 That's a very hard role to do.

57:11 You know what I mean?

57:12 It's very afterschool, especially, you know what I mean? When you bring in, uh, subjects like that, you know, the, the prison thing, it's very, to me, it feels a little, uh, different strokes. You know, everything happens to Arnold and Willis. You know what I mean? Uh, And this one, I was so nervous about that at first that, okay, here we go. We're going to do a prison episode. We're going to do a, you know, a convict episode. And it turned out to be great.

57:42 Well, I think it's a testament to the acting on all three of them.

57:44 That's what I'm trying to say. You know what I mean? And it really pushes forward Elliot's storyline, too, on how she, you know, the whole episode we're talking about how She has no clue what she wants to do. And it just takes this push from someone very unexpected to say, yo, I want to help women. That's what I want to do.

58:04 That's exactly what I want to do. And the only way we would have gotten there was the way we got there, which is through a very unusual story that worked.

58:17 Yeah.

58:18 And Punky, like, crushed every take. She gave so many different performances. I thought she was fantastic. And the other part of the episode that I loved was, you know, the fact that we brought back around Turk's storyline from season one. And it was so well done. And you guys are both so good in that last scene. And when you come up and say, I won't let this affect my work, and you say the problem is it already is, like, that was so well acted. And I thought just really kind of sets up whatever's coming for Turk.

58:49 Yeah. Thank you. And you did a great job with that, Donald. And I like that we're keeping that storyline alive because he didn't want it to be, you know, you can be depressed and then all of a sudden something joyous happens in your life and it does give you a serotonin hit and you're kind of distracted and then life comes back to life. And all of a sudden those feelings are still there. And I think we wanted to do that with the character Turk where we're not just saying like, oh, all his problems are gone now because JD's back because that's bullshit. That's bullshit. And Turk in this episode is finally realizing that he is taking on work to distract himself from his issues and that he's going to actually proactively find a therapist.

59:28 Mm-hmm.

59:29 Hooch invites Amara to join the Secret Society. I thought that was funny.

59:33 Well, yeah, I mean, because she's just as crazy as he is. We learn that Amara has a little bit, I mean, we sprinkled it in in the first season and everything. She's homeschooled. And so because of that, her upbringing is a little bit different than everyone else's. And so she might have missed some social cues and stuff like that. But as time goes forward, we're starting to learn she misses quite a few social cues. And she might have a little bit of crazy in her too, like Hooch.

1:00:00 Yeah. Not as much as Hooch.

1:00:02 Well, but, you know, in the next episode, not to spoil anything, but in the next episode, I think Amanda has a line where she's like, yo, not to call any woman crazy, but yo, you sound crazy.

1:00:17 That's great. I can't wait to talk about Five because those two are really good in Five together. And then finally, the janitor puts his son in timeout, which I thought was funny, and makes him stand against the wall.

1:00:29 That was wild.

1:00:30 Joelle, you mentioned you had a fan email. I do. We'd love to hear it. We'd love to end on a fan email.

1:00:36 Guys, first of all, I just love that your email never went silent. The whole time you were off in hiatus, constant emails.

1:00:43 Well, that's good.

1:00:44 Thank you, fans. Thank you. Keep emailing Joelle. She reads them all.

1:00:48 This one is from Kyle out in Evansville, Indiana.

1:00:51 Hey, Kyle.

1:00:52 He says, I am writing to share my excitement about the Scrubs revival, but also to express the one thing that is truly missing from the daily life at Sacred Heart, the janitor.

1:01:01 While I am thrilled to hear that Neil Flynn will be.

1:01:03 Making a guest appearance this season, a guest spot isn't enough.

1:01:06 The dynamic between JD and.

1:01:07 The janitor is one of the most iconic rivalries in television history. The show feels safer without him.

1:01:13 Lurking in the hallways. And frankly, we don't want Sacred Heart to be safe.

1:01:16 We want it to be hilarious and unpredictable. If and when you move forward... With season three, which I hope you are, please make it a priority to bring Nathan Black back as a regular series regular. Whether he's Glenn Matthews or just the janitor, the show needs a specific brand of carefully created chaos. I am watching every week and spreading the word, but I'm doing it with the hope that we'll see more of the original cast, especially the man who once put a penny in a door and changed TV forever.

1:01:43 I love the reboot. A hundred percent better than I could have imagined. Love the show. Y'all are amazing.

1:01:49 Sincerely, Kyle.

1:01:50 Oh, Kyle.

1:01:50 Thank you so much. That just warmed my heart. Well, the thing about Neil is we love him too. And we'd love to have him in as much as he's willing to do. You know, we shoot the show up in Vancouver. And I think I heard Neil say something like, if y'all were shooting in the Valley, you wouldn't be able to get rid of me. So we'll see. Won't we, Sarah?

1:02:14 Just kidding.

1:02:14 You're trying to end on a high note, Kyle.

1:02:17 I thought you were trying to beat me.

1:02:19 No, thank you, Kyle. That's really sweet. We're glad you're loving it.

1:02:22 We love you, Kyle. And we love Neil. And we're so glad when Neil comes because he's so funny.

1:02:27 As he was in this episode.

1:02:28 As he was in this episode. He's just such a pleasure to be around. Okay, let's do some final things. Tell your friends about this podcast because it's new. It being on video on Hulu, please share. Spread the word. We're not sure everybody knows that.

1:02:42 The best way to watch the podcast, though, is to watch Scrubs not only on ABC, but watch it on Hulu so you can be as well-versed with the episode as we are when watching this rewatch podcast.

1:02:56 And to clarify, I want Neil in every single episode. The reference Zach was making is because I would like the show to stay in Canada. Yes. And they might like it.

1:03:05 Yes, I think everyone understands the inference there. Ava, how do people find you on Instagram? What's your handle?

1:03:12 Ava Marie Bunn.

1:03:14 Ava Marie Bunn, B-U-N-N?

1:03:16 B-U-N-N.

1:03:17 She's a lot of fun to follow, guys.

1:03:19 She does characters. Ava is an amazing sketch comedian. She's very wacky, and we love her. Follow her on Instagram. Thanks, guys. And I'm going to give one last final shout out. I have a movie that I made called Clean Hands that's coming out.

1:03:33 Oh.

1:03:33 I'm not sure when this airs, but my movie will have come out and be on your, wherever you can buy movies on October 16th. I'm really proud of it. Please check out Clean Hands. And that's it. Donald, count us out.

1:03:48 Five, six, seven, eight.

1:03:50 Here's some stories about a show we made. About a bunch of docs and nurses in a Canada who love to hate. I said here's a story.

1:04:01 That we all should know.

1:04:05 Get around to hear our Scrubs Rewatch Show

1:04:10 With Zach and Donald.