The End. Or Is It?

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We're usually not in the business of making sports analogies, but Scrubs is starting to feel like the Brett Favre of medical, magical-realistic comedies. Will this be the season finale or the series finale? Will it change networks again if ABC drops it? If it does return sans Braff, will anyone watch/care? None of these questions are answered tonight.

Scrubs [8 PM, ABC]

Over 50 former guests are supposed to appear in the hour-long episode, but we won't have closure unless Hooch shows up. J.D. (Zach Braff) spends his last day at Sacred Hart trying to learn the janitor's name and Elliot (Sarah Chalke) moves some of her furniture into J.D.'s apartment. If it's back, great. If not, then please bring back In the Motherhood.

Prime Time Feature: Western Icons [8 PM, TCM]

From primetime tonight until the wee hours of Thursday morning, TCM does what they do most of the time: Show classic movies that only film buffs and old people will watch. Gunslingers are the focus here, starting with The Outlaw Josey Wales. Rio Bravo, High Noon, and James Stewart in The Man From Laramie follow Eastwood's post-Western. Unless we mainline some crank, there's little chance we'll still be up for Fritz Lang's Western Union at 4:30 AM.

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CSI: NY [10 PM, CBS]

Sweeps brings out the familiar guest-stars and finally results in Lindsay (Anna Belknap) having her baby. Mare Winningham of St. Elmo's Fire guest-stars as a mother desperately seeking revenge and Charles S. Dutton (remember Roc Live?) appears as an innocent man who is released from prison. Just to remind everyone, someday you'll have to choose between Leno and police/medical procedurals. We're taking Leno five times out of five.

Late Night with Jimmy Fallon [12:35 AM, NBC]

Guests: Amy Poehler, Diego Luna, Gael Garcia Bernal, The National. At some point, Fallon will run out of former SNL cast members to chat with (Colin Quinn was on last night), but those have been the only good interviews so far. Even though Movieline beat them to the Luna-Bernal booking, they might have some more stories in the tank.



Comments

  • Mr. Blume says:

    As much as it pains me to say, Zach Braff is the show. Scrubs without him would be horrible (i.e. the two episodes this season without him were the low points). He's the lynchpin to the lunacy.

  • SunnydaZe says:

    I enjoy Scrubs but let's be honest- EVERY EPISODE HAS THE EXACT SAME STRUCTURE!

  • stretch65 says:

    Thanks a lot Gladys, Wilma (insert girl name here)