After seasons of poor ratings and several cast members moving on, ABC has finally put the Scrubs TV show to rest.
Scrubs follows hospital life as seen through the eyes of Dr. J.D. Dorian (Zach Braff). He left Sacred Heart last season but returns occasionally to help teach a new crop of med students. Others in the cast include Donald Faison, John C. McGinley, Ken Jenkins, Sarah Chalke, Eliza Coupe, Kerry Bishe, Michael Mosley, and Dave Franco.
Last May, despite poor ratings, ABC decided to try to squeeze one more year out of the veteran sitcom. The reason? ABC also produces Scrubs and stood to make big money on additional episodes in syndication.
The network kicked off season nine late last year and registered a low 2.0 rating in the 18-49 demo and only 4.5 million viewers. The numbers dropped even further and ABC decided to burn off most of the remaining episodes in January.
In March, ABC aired the final episode of the season. The network’s website promoted it as the “series finale.” We contacted a representative for ABC who told us that it was a mistake but nobody was in any rush to change it.
Now, it appears that ABC has finally cancelled Scrubs after nine seasons on the air. With more than 180 episodes, the sitcom won’t be coming back.
What do you think? Should Scrubs have returned after last season’s Braff send off? Did you like the “med school” setting and characters?
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I loved seasons 1 – 8 and while watching season 9, at first i was disappointed that people like carla and janitor were missing, but after a little while i warmed up to the new characters like denise and drew, and especially cole. If they had time to develop i think fans would have fallen in love with them and the new scrubs in its own right. Very sad i wont get to see more of them 🙁
Scrubs was awesome. It took me a few episodes to start liking the new cast members but now I’m upset that the show is over. James franco’s little brother is too funny.
am i the only 1 that thinks drew is extremly hot and wen hes angry……he looks EXACTLY like dr. cox?
I was pretty content on the ending of the 8th season. I enjoyed the 9th but the first comment is absoulutely right. they ended it WAY too abruptly. We need closure, that was no ending. I hope some one got fired for that one
Watched it from beginning to end on netflix and enjoyed it a lot. but by the end of season 8 i was tired of Dr. Dorian and his whiny thoughts. I began to like the two new main characters (the angry couple)of the 9th season but going with the same writing and trying to create the same show would not have worked. Maybe they should have matured the writing a bit.. to grow with the audience. oh, and Dr. Cox rules! he would was a great “goto” for the 9th season and not on the screen enough to make it… Read more »
I think that there should be more scrubs or a show like it just a little different but still something like scrubs.
I think scrubs was a funny and well set out television show and was dissapointed when I found out that there were no more seasons being made. In my opinion scrubs didnt have a very good season finale and should have tried to stay on a little longer. alot of the people i know like scrubs and were looking foward to another season. Too bad their not coming back.
it is an amazing show and it shouldn’t have been canceled.
Just watched all 9 seasons on netflix and and seasion 8 had the best ending for the sitcom. Season 9 was disapointing after about the 3rd episode…Mainly because you get to attached to the veteran actors in the first eight seasons…Season 9 would have been great if they would have kept the old cast and brought in the new, then they could have phased out the old slowly Carla and cox could have retired J.D could have came back to sacret heart to be the chief of med turk stay cheif of surgury and elliot could have quit to become… Read more »
Hell yes i think they should have made season 10 and brought back the cast from season 1-8. I wouldve like to have seen J.D and Elliot have the baby because elliot always wanted to have a baby of her own. I wish they had continued it. And also brought back Carla. Id also like to see how medschool would have contined exspecially for denise and #1 work out ( dont member his name). The ending was disapoingting but there was nothing i could do about it
I just watched every single episode of scrubs on netflix over the past couple weeks. i love the show and wished they would have continued it after season 8 alot differently. like jd, carla and elliot actually being in the show. Season 9 ruin the show for me. and it ended so badly. ABC come on get zach braff and sarah chalke back and make another full season…
I meant to say freaking not frequent. Don’t know how the hell that happened. But oh well… Thats weird.
You know… Im a little pissed. I frequent love scrubs and if they were going to end it then it should’ve ended in season 8 with the finale. I mean, season nine was good. But to be honest, I kept waiting for J.D, Carla, or Elliot to pop up at the end, but it never happened. And for that, I’m disappointed. They tried to make Lucy the new J.D in my opinion. Honestly, I rather have J.D narrating the end of the show. Who wants to hear Lucy voice as the season ends. So not cool. Im just not happy.… Read more »
Scrubs was the best tv show that I have ever watched. It has all the elements of a good show or even a movie. It had comedy, action, emotion and love. Maybe not all mixed into one episode but they were all there. The characters we all so diverse. Me and a lot of the guys that I am at college still mess around about how one of us is Turk or another is J.D. Me and one of my best buddies even do the Todd high five evertime that we see eachother. We may have also incorperated some other… Read more »
The nine season did only one thing… It tried to extended Scrubs. The last episode in the 8th season was the greatest series finale i have ever seen. They should have just cut it off there. How can they even think about having Scrubs without imp0rtant characters like J.D. Carla and Elliot. If they were going to continue Scrubs they should have kept with the same old school style. In any case the 9th season isn’t that bad, but it should not end like that. Atleast make one more season of Scrubs Med School to give people closure or the… Read more »
I know what you mean, Scrubs is my favourite series ever, and I would even be happy with a 12 episode season just to wash the dirt that season 9 put in my eyes…