Scrubs “My Princess”
Original Air Date: May 8, 2008
Rachel – TwoCents Staff Writer
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Written and directed by Zack Braff as an homage to The Princess Bride, last night’s series (maybe) finale of Scrubs finds Dr. Cox telling his son Jack a fairytale bedtime story based on his day at the hospital. Complete with witches and giants and fairies, Perry weaves a magical tale with a happily-ever-after ending… although the real story may not end up so blissful.
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Original Air Date: May 8, 2008
Rachel – TwoCents Staff Writer
rachel@thetwocentscorp.com
Written and directed by Zack Braff as an homage to The Princess Bride, last night’s series (maybe) finale of Scrubs finds Dr. Cox telling his son Jack a fairytale bedtime story based on his day at the hospital. Complete with witches and giants and fairies, Perry weaves a magical tale with a happily-ever-after ending… although the real story may not end up so blissful.
In the land of Sacred Heartia [the hospital], a fair princess [Elliot] has a special handmaiden [patient] who is being tormented by a monster [unknown disease]. She asks the village idiot [JD] to help, but, well... he’s the village idiot. All he can do is focus on their “almost kiss” a few months back [in the episode “My Own Worst Enemy”]. He said she tried to kiss him and she says he tried to kiss her, but anyway, it didn’t mean anything!
Back to the monster, the two don’t know what to do. A very ‘Prince Valiant” (in a foppish sort of way) prince [Keith] rides up and offers to help if the princess will be his again, but the princess sends him away. Then, the two-headed witch Turla [Turk and Carla] show up to help. They all decide to go to the Potion Shop [lab] to get a potion [a diagnosis] that will destroy the monster. No go with the potion [the lab still can’t find anything wrong with the patient]. What are they going to do?
They decide to call upon the “bravest, most handsome knight” Sir Percival Cox [Dr. Cox] to slay the monster. Problem is: he can’t do it. But he does leave the group with some advice: they must go into the Forbidden Forest and find the Golden Ring. Also, they need to “Remember what (they) heard when (they) weren’t even listening.” Well, THAT’S cryptic. The princess and the village idiot head into the Forbidden Forest.
Meanwhile, the Dark Lord Oslek [Dr. Kelso… who apparently came out of retirement for this episode] declares that if the villagers [hospital employees] go into the Forbidden Forest [work overtime] they will disappear [get sent home without pay]. Oslek finds the princess and the village idiot in the forest and threatens to makes them disappear. But it seems that he doesn’t really care much about the whole thing and lets them off with a warning as long as it can’t be traced back to him. OK….
Back in the Forbidden Forest, the princess and the village idiot run into some wood nymphs [interns] who give them the Golden Ring [the diagnosis via a game of Diagnosis Jeopardy that JD overheard earlier in the episode]. The Golden Ring defeats the monster and the hand maiden is freed.
Everyone is happy in Sacred Heartia: it’s all kissing and kite-flying and knights riding off into sunsets. And the princess and the village idiot? They decide that the “almost kiss” of so long ago meant nothing. According to Dr. Cox: they’re both idiots.
Back in the real world, Eliot and JD officially diagnose the patient with Wilson’s Disease which presents itself with a golden ring around the patient’s iris. All they can do now is to wait for a liver transplant.
My favorite moment of the episode: Anything with the giant [Janitor] and the Hunchback [Ted]. Those two crazy kids! Oh, and when Turla threatened the village idiot that she/he would make his chin disappear (“Oh, wait… it’s already gone.”). Nice.
What do YOU think? Did the two-headed witch freak you out? What was with the smoke monster from Lost making a cameo? Should the show move to CBS? Give us your Two Cents… we’ll use it to help Zack pay for all those special effects.
Zach Braff wrote this? How disappointing. I thought it was a pretty big letdown for a finale, but I wonder if it was even supposed to be the finale, what with the Kelso discrepancy.
ReplyDeleteI don't think it was supposed to the finale, either. That whole strike thing messed everything up!
ReplyDeleteAlso, I think they are pretty set to switch networks for an eighth season, so they might have decided to not wrap things up so neatly.