On their Scrubs rewatch podcast Fake Doctors, Real Friends, Zach Braff and Donald Faison relive behind-the-scenes moments, share little-known trivia facts, and chat with special guests or superfans about everything Scrubs. On this episode, they’re watching season one, episode six, “My Bad,” laughing about its multiple cheesy sound effects, admiring the ahead-of-its-time message about therapy, admitting how weird it is to make out with your boss’s wife on camera, and gushing over their favorite ‘80s sitcoms, before they bring on Susan and her husband from Scotland to talk about stuff they stole from the show as souvenirs. But first, an acapella version of the Cheers theme song!
They also debunk a little Scrubs lore: the theory that the janitor is just a figment of JD’s imagination. In this episode, they notice the janitor interacting with Elliott, so that story “doesn’t track,” Zach apologizes. But they perhaps start some new lore when they say that creator Bill Lawrence “is a little kinky” because he made Zach make out with his wife, Christa Miller, though Bill claims he only enjoyed “how uncomfortable Zach was.” They get into the singular challenges that on-screen kissing can present, though there are perks: “I was giddy about Amy Smart,” Zach admits. “If there were tongues flying, I wanted to be a part of it.”
This episode is the first appearance of Manley Henry, who played the Snoop Dogg intern; Zach recalls that many of the background actors were the same every day, and Bill would occasionally pick one of them out because they had an interesting look or some acting chops and give them some lines to say. They picked Manley because they thought he looked like Snoop (“He’s tall, he’s black, he’s gotta look like Snoop Dogg,” Donald jokes). It also featured guest star Jimmy Walker from Good Times, kicking off a discussion about classic sitcoms like Diff’rent Strokes, The Love Boat, and Sanford & Son. Then they talk with Susan from Scotland when Donald confesses to “liberating” several of Chris Turk’s outfits on his last day of shooting. Hear all this Scrubs goodness, including both of the guys’ Christopher Lloyd impressions and Donald’s Stevie Wonder cover song, on this hilarious episode of Fake Doctors, Real Friends.
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