With every passing week I become increasingly certain that NBC is going to ruin and mistreat Scrubs in much the same way they did Newsradio in the mid-1990s. I am a bit biased here, in that I considered Newsradio far superior to most sitcoms on at the time, much like Scrubs is far superior to anything on right now [with the exception of Arrested Development]. Tonight's episode solidified why this is such a great show. A weighty subject is treated with reverance AND humor. Unfortunately, NBC has totally mismanaged the best sitcom they have. Between the constant time and day changes, along with pairing it now with the horror that is Pride, I fear Scrubs will be underappreciated by TPTB. They did the same thing to Newsradio not that long ago. What is wrong with NBC?

I agree, box. Now that you mention it, I do see the similarities. Scrubs definitely got a raw deal with the time-slot it is in. I have to tape it because I don't watch anything else of NBC on Tuesday nights!

Last night's Scrubs was one of the funniest! I was LMAO!

Though Scrubs got a raw deal with time slots this season, i can see why NBC did it, and i am a big Scrubs fan.

In its first two seasons it was given three of the most protected sitcom slots on Tv, post Frasier, post Friends, and post Will & Grace. If it hadn`t built up an audience by now, after these slots, then you cant blame NBC for that.

Their was no way they would give it the Thursday at 8:30pm slot again, after it failed to keep in a big enough audience of what NEW Friends episodes delivered, especially as they wanted to give Joey a helping hand by following it with popular W&G. The only other slot for it was Tuesday at 9pm, in all likely a more difficult slot that 9.30pm.

actually when Scrubs was moved to thursdays a lot of peeps were saying "finally, a funny show after friends" and it does have some wit, but the constant hiatus and shifting has hurt this show....and then to bury it at 9:30pm is rediculous...it should have anchored the 9pm slot. i think it would of done better then pride.

honestly, if zucker would have left it after frasier and before Special Victims Unit nbc could have been the net to beat but instead they moved Special Victims Unit in frasiers last year (they should of kept it)....morons!

If you remember Scrubs after Frasier Lost alot of its lead in viewers, but maintained a large percentage of its lead in demo score. From this NBC probably thought that the older skewing Frasier was holding the younger show back in the ratings. So they did the sensible thing and moved it after Friends, which looked a more compatible, younger lead in.

Scrubs did not work after Friends. When they were both in New episodes it never retained more than about 75% of Friends audience. NBC at the same time had the threat of CBS overtaking them. It was too valuable a slot to waste, to NBC credit they did give it a season and a half in the slot to find an audience. They then gave it a chance in the post W&G slot, where it was generally easier for comedies to keep their lead in as of the smaller lead in audience, not facing the survivor second half, and having er following it. Remember even Just Shoot me had flurished in this slot. Again it couldn`t maintain its lead in.

Now lets be honest, if you were head of NBC with no crystal ball, and had to fill the 9 to 10pm Tuesday hour. You know that the 8pm hour is usually a desert island for ratings. Do you give the 9pm slot to a comedy that is funny, but has never been able to maintain a decent amount of its lead in, or a new comedy that has a gimmick that it is CGI, has a pedigree of Shrek, and did get alot of buzz before it premiered.

And i just have to repeat that i am a big fan of Scrubs, but at the end of the day i dont think you can blame NBC for its low ratings, you just have to blame the viewing public. NBC has shown a lot of patience with this show.

Scrubs deserves be tossed around and under appreciated by the networks. Why? It is not funny! Erratic scene changes, weird camera angels, and the main characters highly expressive, (and ugly) visage, not to mention his annoying voice overs, are simply not enough to make Scrubs an even slightly funny TV show.Its dialog is incredibly dry,and for a show that takes place mostly in a hospital there is noticeably too little "medical talk"; which in turn causes the show to lack reality. This is not to say that the show show should go all out with its "medical talk", as was the case in TV shows E.R, and Chicago hope, after all they were dramas and Scrubs is suppose to be a comedy. I think there is a way to create a,for lack of a better term, "Hospital Comedy",and Scrubs is a perfect exsample of how not to do it.