I guess it was inevitable SCRUBS would go out with a whimper, especially when it wasn't clear if NBC would pick the show up for its seventh and final season. It did, but with fewer episodes than in previous years. Then came the writers' strike to further mess things up. What it all boils down to is, the last couple of episodes have not been overly funny nor overly sad. If I have the right episode here, Zach questions his manhood in the face of a beatdown by Turk. When he fights back, it becomes out and out war. In a subplot, Cox finds himself the subject of a slanderous article by Janitor in The Janitorial, suggesting he is a softie at heart and needs hugs and reassurance. A patient of Elliott's has cancer. And so on and so on. Nothing new here that hasn't been done to death in previous seasons. Zach is too old to keep acting the way he does and Carla and some other regular characters, including Kelso, are sort of shoved to the back. Perhaps six seasons was enough. About the only laugh I got was watching Zach running through some oddly empty hospital hallways to get away from an enraged Turk. And I wasn't laughing all that hard.
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