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If you are a medical television drama junkie, then there are plenty of shows for you to pick from: Gray’s Anatomy, House, ER, Nurse Jackie, and the list goes on and on. My particular favorite tops the list, however, even though it is one of the least medical hospital dramas I’ve seen in a long time. Even though Scrubs doesn’t have cases of flesh eating bacteria or bubonic plague it does have a cast of stars that keep you laughing. The main characters, a young doctor named JD going through his medical training along with his best friend Turk the surgeon have a stuffed dead dog that’s been with them since college, routine showings as the worlds largest doctor, and a bromance that tops all of the other relationships in the show, even that of Turk and his wife Carla. Even the supporting staff comes with their own oddities that add to the humor of the show: fellow doctor Elliot Reid can’t use a public restroom and constantly yells ‘frick on a stick,’ the janitor constantly sets up traps for JD, and attending Doctor Perry Cox re-he-he-healy likes stretching out his words when he’s annoyed at the interns. While the laughs are getting, it often leads people to ask: why set a comedy in a medical setting? Why not set the show in a university, an office, or another setting? Well, that humor is oddly refreshing in a show that often includes dying patients. By including humor, Scrubs is able to handle difficult hospital events with an air of humanity that is fresh in medical drama. That is why Scrubs is my favorite television show.

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