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Webisode 1: Our Intern Class

Sunny introduces herself and her video diary on-camera. She eventually introduces the other interns and talks about their personalities (with the exception of Ed, she only had a photo of him because he never shows up, which alludes to his laziness, which is addressed in the parent series).

Sunny also shows the intern orientation with Ted talking about avoiding lawsuits (the same orientation he gave to the main characters in the pilot of the parent series), and Dr. Cox talking about how difficult their first year in the hospital will be. When Dr. Cox hears Sunny talking on-camera about how she still thinks her first year will be great, he reprimands her and confiscates her camera. Later, she reveals that the Janitor sold her camera back to her.

The webisode ends with Sunny filming Ted’s band practising in a hospital bathroom and offering to pay them ten dollars to sing a theme song for her video diary. They are singing the song as the other interns are shown working in the hospital.

Webisode 2: Our Meeting with J.D.

This webisode has Sunny and the other interns attending a hospital jargon lecture led by J.D., with Katie and Denise discussing their sex lives before he walks into the room. It ends with Sunny finding a note in her notepad asking her to come to a meeting in the broom closet after the lecture, and asking the other interns if they received the same note.

Webisode 3: Our Meeting in the Broom Closet

This webisode has Sunny and the other interns going to the broom closet where they meet the Janitor. The Janitor tells them he is also filming them and establishes “ground rules”, which includes giving them 17 hours to right a wrong which he notifies them about in writing, not to question him and his ways, and to never enter the Braintrust headquarters unless invited by a member and if their name has been submitted on the waiting list (the wait is up to 15 years). He also asks if anyone has met J.D., Katie says she has and he asks her to leave. Ted then enters the broom closet to let the Janitor know that his next appointment is waiting for him, a man with a raccoon.

Webisode 4: Screw You with Ted and the Gooch

This webisode has Sunny showing footage of Ted and the Gooch singing the song ‘Screw You’, declaring their feelings for each other. This webisode showed this footage as it’s Sunny’s day off.

Webisode 5: The Late Night with Jimmy Show

This webisode has Jimmy, the overly touchy orderly, steal Sunny’s other video camera and host a fake talk show in the hospital. This is after he tried to give Howie, Denise and Katie massages with Howie hating it, Denise asking him to massage her harder, and Katie jumping him. The webisode ends with Sunny confronting Jimmy over stealing her other video camera, and having a dance off with him.

Webisode 6: Our Meeting with the Braintrust

This webisode has Sunny show secret footage she shot of her meeting with the Braintrust. The Janitor invited her as he suspended Doug for giving him a weird look (although he’s not entirely sure if Doug gave him a weird look or if it was actually him at all), to record the meetings on her video camera for posterity, and to record his sitcom Legal Custodians (a sitcom J.D. made up during one of his fantasies in the parent series).

The webisode ends with Sunny and the Braintrust looking at the opening credits they made (which was J.D.’s fantasy of the show), with Sunny asking about the script for the first episode. The Janitor reveals that they haven’t written it yet and asks her to do it.

Webisode 7: Legal Custodians Outtakes

This webisode has Sunny showing outtakes of Legal Custodians, which is being shot in Turk and Carla’s apartment for some unknown reason. Ted is constantly complaining about how hot the apartment is, the Janitor and Ted argue about the television term “jumping the shark”, and the Todd is unable to stay off camera as they’re filming.

Webisode 8: Our Bedside Manner

The webisode kicks off with Sunny explaining that one of the hardest things for interns is how to talk to patients, and that Elliot wants to talk to her and Denise about how to do so.

When Sunny meets up with Elliot and Denise, Elliot asks Denise how she thinks she’s doing with her patient interactions. Denise tells Elliot that she believes she’s improving, despite a flashback showing her being cold with a patient. Elliot asks Sunny if she knows why she’s meeting with her, Sunny believes it’s because Elliot wants to use her as an example on how the interns should interact with patients, however Elliot tells her it’s because she’s too upbeat at times, using the example of her asking a double amputee if it’s the greatest day ever.

Elliot then tells Sunny and Denise that talking to patients can be like walking on a tightrope where you want to empathise with them, but not so much that you lose all professionalism. She tells them that she thinks about her mother being ill as that would make her sad but she also reminds herself that her mother slept with all her high school boyfriends (even the gay one).

Webisode 9: Our Meeting with Turk and the Todd

The webisode kicks off with Sunny explaining that she and the other interns are in a meeting with Turk, who is explaining to them how to navigate the relationship between the medical and surgical staff. Turk brought the Todd to the meeting to demonstrate how navigating the relationship can be done, only for the Todd to make inappropriate comments.

Webisode 10: Our Final Advice

This webisode has Sunny meeting Dr. Kelso in Coffee Bucks (the hospital café) so she can get his advice about working at the hospital. He tells her to wear a skirt, always be on time as other doctors rely on her, always cosy up to a pansy so they can take the fall, and what happens in the on-call room stays in the on-call room. He also tells her that being a doctor is the greatest job in the world and to enjoy it, as it’ll be over before she knows it.

Sunny then reflects on the lessons she’s learnt, such as how hard the work and how little the pay is, and if organs are missing from the morgue freezer it’s best to go to the Janitor first. Sunny then shows footage of the other interns revealing what they’ve learnt (with the exception of Ed who questioned if Dr. Cox was right to fire him).

Katie learnt she can actually do it but it’s a huge mistake to hook up with a fellow intern (Howie), Denise learnt that she can’t make it on her own although she doesn’t like to have friends, but she has been trying to connect with her coworkers. Sunny ends the webisode by telling the viewers that she hopes they enjoyed her video diary.

Webisode 11: Our Meeting with Carla

This webisode and the next one were extra webisodes that were released on the Scrubs Season Eight DVD/Blu-ray.

Sunny kicks it off by saying that this webisode was supposed to be focused on an interview with a pregnant woman on what it’s like to be a patient in the hospital, only for her to discover the patient wasn’t pregnant or female. Sunny then reveals that Carla called an emergency meeting with the interns on their relationship with the nurses.

It’s revealed that Carla called the meeting because Howie called her “nurse chick” (she then ripped off some of his arm hair in retaliation). She then proceeds to tell them how to treat the nurses.

Webisode 12: Legal Custodians Episode

The final webisode kicks off shortly after the interns’ meeting with Carla, with Sunny asking the Janitor and Ted where they’ve been. The Janitor tells them that he and Ted have shot the first episode of Legal Custodians.

The Janitor proceeds to show the episode to Sunny in the broom closet. Sunny tells him the apartment looks dope and asks how he got it on such short notice. He reveals that it’s Turk and Carla’s place and they didn’t ask for their permission.

Overall, I enjoyed this web series as it was a good accompaniment to the eighth season, giving us an insight into the interns. Individually, some webisodes were better than others.

I felt that webisode 1 was a good pilot to the web series and that webisode 2 provided good insights on hospital jargon (even if some of it was made up by J.D. and Turk). I felt that webisodes 8, 9, and 11 provided different perspectives on intern/hospital life with the exploration of professionalism with patients, building a relationship with other doctors, and professionalism with the nurses respectively.

Even though webisodes 11 and 12 were DVD/Blu-Ray extras, I felt that they should have been included earlier in the series as a whole and that webisode 10 should have been the true ending. I appreciated the interns interacting with the secondary characters in webisodes 3 and 6. I honestly felt that there was no point including webisodes 4 and 5, as we saw Ted and the Gooch singing ‘Screw You’ in the parent series (webisode 4) and Jimmy wasn’t all that much of a secondary character in the parent series, and frankly his character and the ending to the webisode (5) was too silly anyway. I also felt that Legal Custodians (webisodes 7 and 12) should have been left alone as one of J.D.’s fantasies.

Stray Observations:

-In “Our Meeting with J.D.”, Sunny says that only three people watched the previous webisode: her mother, her aunt, and Donny from Sarasota who believes Indian chicks are tasty. According to Sunny, they are.

-According to J.D., the geriatric ward is called “the departure lounge”.

-Some of the hospital jargon J.D. teaches the interns include:

• GOMERs (the label given to some elderly patients in the emergency room, hence the term GOMERs – Get Out of My Emergency Room).
• CTD – Circling the drain, referring to patients about to die.
• Turfing a patient means getting rid of them from one ward and into another.
• Bounce – a doctor bouncing a patient back to the ward they were turfed from.
• LGFD – the patient Looks Good From the Door, this is used by surgeons.
• TCW – Tasty Coma Wife (a reference to a second season episode in the parent series which explored this concept)
• Code Brown – refers to a patient who has soiled themselves.
• HFFA – Hot From Far Away

-The Janitor has an office hidden behind a shelf in the broom closet. The Janitor asked for an office when Dr. Cox became the hospital’s Chief of Medicine in the parent series.

-Apparently during her last semester of pre-med, Katie was a “LUG” (lesbian until graduation).

-Apparently Dr. Beardface stole Katie’s sports bra. According to Turk, Dr. Beardface did so as he’s apparently going through a gender identity crisis, which is also why he asked Howie out to dinner.