So infuriated by SCRUBS tonight

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Scrubs is one of my favorite shows. I’ve been with them since Season 2.
Tonight they crossed the line. Did anyone watch?

So the big thing about tonight’s episode was Turk and Carla find out they’re pregnant. Long story short, there’s this scene where J.D. and a priest are hiding from Turk and Carla in a bush outside the hospital. One scene earlier, J.D. gets a text message from Turk telling him to abort the plan (hmmmm, wonder where this will go). So J.D. starts yelling ‘Abort the balloons, Abort the surprise, Abort the babies’ - astonished look between him and the priest.

Back to J.D. and the priest in the bushes. J.D. says "Oh, sorry about that line I said earlier, ‘Abort the babies’. The priest quips back, ‘Oh, that’s okay. I’m PRO-CHOICE’.

OH MY GOODNESS. Who do I write? Seriously? NBC? Please tell me someone else saw this and is as infuriated as I am. Scrubs is such a great show. Why did they have to go and ruin it for me like this??? I’m so fired up and infuriated right now that I can’t even go to sleep!

Christina<><

she’s a crafty pumpkin

PS. to add insult to injury… they close the show with a song from Kutless, a Christian band, singing, “all of my words and all of my life… so I lift up my hands and I worship, worship…”
beautiful song. I knew it was a Christian band as soon as I heard it.
 
I watched it tonight. I love the show. I was a bit surprised but not offended by the Priest’s comment. Then I remembered that it’s a comedy. That’s all it is… a comedy.
 
I haven’t seen this episode - of course Australian TV is just a LITTLE behind the states :mad: Personally I found the whole ‘Tasty Coma Wife’ thing more than a little offputting. Apart from that it’s really funny and my sister the doctor just loves it.

Like it or not, there are some priests who are so pigheaded about/ignorant of the Church’s teaching on abortion that they would indeed call themselves ‘pro-choice’. Very few people would assume that the Church as a whole teaches this (after all that would be why JD is apologising, right?)

I wouldn’t worry about it all that much if I were you.
 
Calm down Christina, it was a farcical joke…the humor in it was that a you were not expecting the priest to say he was pro choice…it wasn’t an attack on the RCC. 🙂
There have been more offensive situations on the show in the past.
 
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Calm down Christina, it was a farcical joke…the humor in it was that a you were not expecting the priest to say he was pro choice…it wasn’t an attack on the RCC. 🙂
There have been more offensive situations on the show in the past.
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There are drama’s where I think the burden to be more respectful and realistic is greater (i.e. not presenting the pro-lifers as nuts, hermits, or fascists and the pro-choicers as caring, loving, and rational). When one watches a comedy, we need to accept that disrespect and unrealism is the rule and not the exception. I heard Bob Hope once who said that the secret to a good joke is a punchline nobody expects (meaning it is an exception).

We really don’t want people to compare Catholics to the Muslim’s who took to the streets over a Danish cartoon. When I see a joke about Catholics that is funny, I laugh. If I find it offensive, I groan. But I don’t get upset.
 
okay. good points. there are many other offensive things that they do poke fun at and all.

i’m better today. I guess a little naive b/c I just don’t see how you could be a priest and be pro-choice. it’s a complete oxymoron in my thought process.

I still think it was a low blow- joke or not.
 
I enjoy Scrubs also…some bits are funny and the cast is talented… their singing and dancing; the suburban lot with just a front porch instead of a house… etc… the car/ motor scooter/ parking lot jokes… the German jokes and singing in German… all very clever…

… but gotta keep in mind that a tremendous percentage of the show (possibly excepting their efforts to save life and the inevitability of earthly death)… is in violation of Christian morality. All the bed hopping, the partner swapping, the sexual innuendo (although nothing that overt can be called innuendo)…

An older episode that I recorded, about one doctor’s anguish about his neurosis over switching partners, was so over the top I just stopped and deleted the show…

The whole show not only gives bad example… to use an archaic expression… but also can lead impressionable viewers to adopt some of their flippant attitudes toward life in general.

Sometimes I just enjoy watching the show with the sound “OFF”. That allows me to watch the actors’ facial expressions and body language… sometimes their personal insecurities show through…

… consider that actors get paid well to memorize and deliver lines… and although some may be able to fly airplanes (or drive motor scooters)… some can’t change lightbulbs.

Is that any way to make a living… standing in front of a camera reciting lines written by somebody else…

They’re not really doctors; they get paid well just to play pretend.

End of rant… thank you and have a nice day…
 
I saw it and oddly I thought that line kinda killed the joke. It was much funnier to have the guy be pro-life and JD yell “abort the babies!” in his face.
 
Yes, it was no big deal. It is COMEDY. Did you also happen to catch that he was Father ROSENBERG, and that J.D. wanted to “get the background on that name”?
 
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Bella3502:
I watched it tonight. I love the show. I was a bit surprised but not offended by the Priest’s comment. Then I remembered that it’s a comedy. That’s all it is… a comedy.
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doesn’t sound too funny to me :rolleyes:
 
Let’s not forget that Carla and Turk lived together before they got married. :eek:

And … they were having sex…
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Where is the outrage???😛
 
Maybe I’m prudish, I don’t know. I’m not “outraged”, I just think it’s a sad bit of our times today that the dismemberment and gruesome torture of babies is high comedy on primetime TV. Believe it or not, I do have a sense of humor, I just don’t find that reality a thing worthy of “comedy”.

It would be one thing if these people (the actors, writers, etc.) were ignorant of the fact that these are indeed babies, not “blobs of tissue” and so forth, but the fact that they mentioned they were indeed babies, persons in the womb, whose lives are ended by abortion, well, that makes it much more tragic, really.

It’s okay to call it like it is and not pretend to have to “get it” in order to fit in. :twocents:
 
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Jennifer123:
Maybe I’m prudish, I don’t know. I’m not “outraged”, I just think it’s a sad bit of our times today that the dismemberment and gruesome torture of babies is high comedy on primetime TV. Believe it or not, I do have a sense of humor, I just don’t find that reality a thing worthy of “comedy”.

It would be one thing if these people (the actors, writers, etc.) were ignorant of the fact that these are indeed babies, not “blobs of tissue” and so forth, but the fact that they mentioned they were indeed babies, persons in the womb, whose lives are ended by abortion, well, that makes it much more tragic, really.

It’s okay to call it like it is and not pretend to have to “get it” in order to fit in. :twocents:
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The babies they were referring to were balloons, not babies.
 
I haven’t watched the episode yet, but I’ve been a fan since I first saw it. I agree with the “It’s a comedy” comments.

I think it’s the first hospital or doctor show that is set in a Catholic hospital. I’m glad.

John
 
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Bella3502:
Let’s not forget that Carla and Turk lived together before they got married. :eek:

And … they were having sex…
:eek:

Where is the outrage???😛
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My goodness, if you’re so outraged, there’s a little tool on your remote control you can use: the on-off button.
 
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MercedesBents:
My goodness, if you’re so outraged, there’s a little tool on your remote control you can use: the on-off button.
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Turn it off??? Are you kidding me…??? I can’t wait for the boxed set to come out so that I can buy the entire season!!!

Again, I was just pointing out the absurd…
 
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siamesecat:
I saw it and oddly I thought that line kinda killed the joke.
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Exactly what I thought. I love Scrubs and the episode was, on balance, very good. The comment simply seemed out of place and almost contrived as if the writers realized they couldn’t have someone apologize for saying that!
It was much funnier to have the guy be pro-life and JD yell “abort the babies!” in his face.
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Heh, I agree. I was laughing out loud when JD was yelling that. A simple roll of the priest’s eyes at him later would have been a much better reaction, imho.

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siamesecat:
I saw it and oddly I thought that line kinda killed the joke. It was much funnier to have the guy be pro-life and JD yell “abort the babies!” in his face.
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“Scrubs” is my favorite comedy – and JD yelling “abort the babies” was the only time I ever turned to my husband during that show and said “That’s not funny.” Either way, you’re right, the priest saying he was pro-life was anticlimactic.

The show continues to be my favorite comedy, because at the end of just about each episode, the most mean-spirited characters show their human side.
 
Like all of the other TV comedies there is always going to be jokes that are in bad taste. I also watch scrubs and I was a little shocked myself. But, I am not going to stop watching that show. The priest was an actor and I took it that if he was an actual priest his response I hope would have been different.

I watch many of these comedies with caution. I have young children who watch with me. I tell them that if I hear any remarks against our faith off it goes.
 
I agree, they crossed the line, comedy or not, it’s still offensive, and the sanctity of life is cheapened through it.

There are so many good shows that cross the line, this annoys me. Personally I think that the liberals and leftists seek power and money more than Christians and this is why more of them aim for Hollywood, and liberal bias is why the place is swarming with them, hence the reason why all these shows don’t mind crossing the line.
 
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