To Summarise My Feelings In Exuberant Song.

[rionaleonhart]

I just watched 'My Lunch', the latest episode of Scrubs.

Well, the first part was fantastically fun, as it always is. The Todd sidestory was a bit weak, but the main one was brilliant all the way through, even though the way in which it was brilliant had changed completely by the end. I loved JD trying to force Cox to have lunch with him - he is so incredibly ridiculously adorable. I love him so much. (Also, of course: eee! JD/Cox!) And riding on top of Cox's car! "EAGLE!"

And then there was the sudden emotional turnaround, when JD thought that he could have saved Jill if he'd only focused more on her instead of just trying to get away from her, and oh, JD, I love you so much, and I love the fact that Cox was willing to be there for him when it was something so important.

...and then there was the ending, with Cox realising what had happened and breaking down emotionally and oh.

Seriously, it's a sitcom. It shouldn't be able to do things like that to me. So often an episode will be lovely and silly and hilarious and then suddenly it's a complete emotional punch to the gut. It was like that with 'My Screwup', which hit me incredibly hard and made me think about death in entirely new ways, and 'My Lunch' is another of those episodes in which Scrubs affects me far more severely than a sitcom has any right to.

"I was... obsessed with getting us organs." "...he wasn't about to die, was he, Newbie? ...could have waited another month for a kidney." Oh, Cox. JD, give him a hug. Please. And there was the violence, and the desperation, and seriously, that scene absolutely broke my heart.

I have to see the next episode. I have to see the next episode. We almost never see Dr. Cox so broken and vulnerable - 'My Screwup' is the only other episode I can think of that comes close - and so, when something does happen to destroy him, it has so much emotional impact. I really hope he gets through this. I really have to stop caring so much about fictional characters, dammit.

...

Dr. Cox! Please don't destroy yourself! I love you!

In conclusion, Scrubs is three thousand different kinds of amazing, and I'm asking you all to please watch it. For me.

Comments

[guero-iam.livejournal.com]

I couldn't agree with you more! I am obsessed!! and it's the greatest!

add me?

[artic-fox.livejournal.com]

What happened in My Screwup again? A friend borrowed my Season 1&2 DVDs. But I do agree.... this episode was amazing, and it's the only one that came close to the episode when Ben dies.

[detache.livejournal.com]

I think what happenned was that Brendan Fraiser's character died and Cox was blaming JD? I might be wrong.

[rionaleonhart]

Yeah, 'My Screwup' is the episode in which Ben died, and it did horrible things to my heart. I'm seriously amazed by how well Scrubs portrays these things - it's never over-the-top or melodramatic, it just manages to hit the perfect emotional note, and I feel a little silly being this affected by a sitcom, but seriously, I've never seen anything that portrays emotion so well.

[bootnick.livejournal.com]

"Where do you think we are?"

...*sob*

[megaloo13.livejournal.com]

Completely agree with everything you just said. After watching it I was sitting there close to tears going, "How is a sitcom allowed to deliever such emotional punches to the gut? And why is not everyone watching this medical show?"

[fizzko.livejournal.com]

(Here from imnosuperman. Sorry, I'm a stalker.)

I totally agree with you. I was all out sobbing by the end of this episode. Poor JD. And then poor Cox! Poor, poor Cox. I just wanted to hug him mercilessly. Now, I'm relatively new to Scrubs, but was on the edge of the abyss of obsession. This is the episode that made me completely fall for the show, and run out the next day to buy the entire second season.

I know they're only fictional characters, but I've given up on feeling weird about getting deeply involved with fictional characters. I am an anime fan, after all, and well-practiced in such things. ;)

[stars-and-soda.livejournal.com]

I came from Imnosuperman and cow holy-Do I ever know what you mean.

You're laughing and the at the end-you're just crying saying "HUG HIM DAMNIT DON'T LEAVE!" sort of thing. It's really one of the greatest shows of all time says I.

Shows are more enjoyable when you just love the characters.

[mistressofrobin.livejournal.com]

Another Imnosuperman-er as well. ^.^;;

I had exactly the same reaction you did to Dr. Cox in the last scene. I was so heartbroken for him that I had to call my sis at her competition to rant about the ep. and how depressing it was to see Cox break down like that. If it were any other character, I'd been upset, but nowhere to the same extent because it's so...un-Coxlike to see him like that. The thrashing and hitting the equipment and shouting, oh my gosh. But that one line (can't remember it exactly):

JD: You come back here and finish your shift. You told me that once you start blaming yourself for patients' deaths you can't ever go back.
Dr. Cox: ...I know.

And then he leaves anyway. Like, ho-ly fark, he's so broken it's depressing and it makes me want to cry all over again for him. X.x;; I wanna give him a hug, puun...

I wonder what's going to happen next ep. after this. Oh boy. -.-;;