"Nothing ever changes. The Artist Formerly Known as Prince is still just Prince. My ex-wife is pretty much my wife. 'Grey's Anatomy' always wraps up every episode with some cheesy voiceover that ties together all of the storylines, which, incidentally, is my least favorite device in television." - John C. McGinley as Dr. Cox explaining why he doesn't trust that a former drug addict is actually off of drugs
Scrubs: The Complete Sixth Season DVD Review
By Jonathan Boudreaux
Through the years, many TV shows have tried to freshen things up by introducing new babies. Typical of the over-the-top doctors and staff at Sacred Heart Hospital, Scrubs: The Complete Sixth Season includes not one, not two, but three pregnancies. Early in the seaon, Turk (Clueless' Donald Faison) and Carla (Judy Reyes) give birth to Izzie. Carla briefly suffers postpartum depression and considers giving up her job, but soon they are back on track. Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) and his ex-wife Jordan (Christa Miller) learn that toddler son Jack (Andrew Miller) is about to be joined by a sibling. And J.D. (Zach Braff) is horrified to learn that his girlfriend, urologist Dr. Kim Briggs (Elizabeth Banks, The 40 Year-Old Virgin), is also expecting. Elliot (Roseanne's Sarah Chalke) becomes jealous about the new babies, but makes do with having wild sex with her boyfriend Keith (Travis Schuldt, Passions), buying a house, and coming out as a Republican.
The hospital's tactless chief of medicine, Dr. Kelso (Homefront's Ken Jenkins), again shows his human side. In "His Story IV," he befriends an injured Iraq War vet. Of course, he also tells the new interns, "Listen up faces. In order to save time, I will call all the males Daves and all the females Debbies." When one of the interns reveals that her real name is actually Debbie, he decides to call her "Slagathor" out of fairness to the others. He also tries to become more helpful by taking Carla's place for a few shifts. In "My Scrubs," he decides that the staff will now wear scrubs in a hideous brown color because too many scrubs have gone missing. In this same episode, guest star Victoria Tennant plays an uninsured acquaintance of Dr. Kelso for whom he bends the rules so that she can receive life saving treatment.
The hospital's nameless janitor (Neil Flynn) continues to display a fascination with taxidermy, this time carrying around a rabbit named Bingo that dispenses salt from its ear and pepper from its pooper.
One of the highlights of season six is "My Musical," a musical episode with songs co-written by the creators of the Broadway show Avenue Q and featuring Q's Tony nominated star, Stephanie D'Abruzzo, as a patient who, thanks to a brain aneurism, hears the world as a musical. Although a little hit-or-miss, much of this episode is hysterically funny, including a song about the importance of poo, an innuendo-laden duet between J.D. and Turk ("Guy Love"), and a "We Go Together" tribute sure to please fans of the movie Grease.
The twenty-two episodes that make up season six are divided onto three discs. The discs are housed in a foldout case. The three discs attach to two panels-one of the panels holds two discs, one on top of the other in a figure eight pattern. One panel of the foldout case lists the episode titles found on each disc. No plot synopses are included, making it a little more difficult for viewers to choose individual episodes. The case slides into a cardboard outer sleeve.
The unattractive computer animated DVD menus seen in a few previous seasons make a return appearance here. Viewers can play all of a disc's episodes (with or without commentary tracks) or choose them individually. The episodes are divided into chapters, but there are no scene selection menus.
