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[sholio]

F'list, you've been holding out on me! Why has no one told me about the awesomeness of Scrubs? (Although I swear someone did post about it awhile back -- xparrot maybe?)

I've caught an episode here and there on TV over the years, enough to be vaguely familiar with the two main guys and to get the general idea that it was a fun show, but we just finished up the first disk of season one (most of it tonight) and oh, they are all so impossibly cute! I adore the whole cast, every last one of them! (Though, er, I might have a slight weakness for Dr. Cox. Just a leeeetle bit.) I'm just kind of flailing helplessly at how much character development, affection and sheer adorableness they've managed to pack into eight half-hour episodes, and there's still so much of it to go!

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[xparrot.livejournal.com]

I've never actually seen MASH but I've heard it compared to Scrubs before. And Scrubs can go quite serious once in a while; there's one ep in s3 that made me outright cry, and there's a short arc in, umm, s5 I think, that I rewatched about half a dozen times (as a Cox fan I suspect you'll enjoy it, too ^^)

Yeah, I like Psych but I could use a wee bit more seriousness...(there's so much potential for more, and there's little tiny flashes that make my h/c'ers heart go pitter-pat, but it's frustrating...)

[sholio]

You've never seen MASH? I grew up with it, actually, though I've never really fanned on it, and I do recommend it. I happened to watch a few episodes while I was visiting my sister in December (hotel room, MASH marathon on TV, nothing else to do) and it's one of those shows that's aged very well -- I kept forgetting that the episodes I was watching were written and filmed 30 years ago.

I don't think it reminds me that much of Scrubs except that they both excel at the blend of humor and pathos -- and of course there's the doctors thing, I suppose, though in MASH they were military doctors in a war zone, and the whole feel of the show is utterly different. MASH tended a lot more towards the bleak, black humor, where Scrubs is much more cheerful.

[xparrot.livejournal.com]

Heh, everyone has that reaction when I admit to not knowing MASH! I didn't actually watch much TV when I was younger - I don't like channel-surfing; I prefer to either get into a show all the way, or not watch it at all - so I missed a lot of older shows. And then, the frighteningly high number of episodes makes it a sort of scary show to consider getting "into"...a TV marathon would be useful, give me some highlights, at least!