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Season one of the NBC hospital "dramedy" Scrubs gets underway with Dr. J.D. Dorian's (Zach Braff) first day as an intern at Sacred Heart Hospital, with his best friend and roommate, Dr. Chris Turk (Donald Faison), at his side. Nicknamed "Bambi" by the Sacred Heart nurses because of his wide-eyed naïveté, J.D. takes his orders from the deceptively avuncular chief of medicine, Dr. Robert Kelso (Ken Jenkins), and from the loud, obnoxious, and highly contrary Dr. Perry Cox (John C. McGinley). J.D. is enamored of sexy Dr. Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke), and it is with brassy "mother hen" nurse Carla Espinosa (Judy Reyes) that Turk has a serious hospital romance. The scrubs' first year on the job is festooned with a variety of sobering experiences, ranging from sudden and unexpected death to nuisance lawsuits. Also, J.D. launches his ongoing war of nerves with Sacred Heart's caustic janitor (Neil Flynn), a man of many mysteries and eccentricties. Along the way, J.D. has a brief fling with hospital board member Jordan Sullivan (Christa Miller), who, unfortunately for him, turns out to be the combustible Dr. Cox's ex-wife. And on a happier note, J.D.'s dream of getting Elliott in the sack finally comes true...but be careful what you wish for. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Season three of Scrubs is distinguished by the spectacular fashion makeover undertaken by sexy Dr. Elliott Reid (Sarah Chalke), who, after concluding that she has had nothing but bad luck since signing on at Sacred Heart Hospital, figures she has nothing to lose by changing her appearance. Meanwhile, J.D.'s chronic jealousy of his fellow physicians figures into a story arc featuring Scott Foley as Elliott's old flame Sean Kelly (whom she dated briefly in season one). Also, Turk and nurse Carla's (Judy Reyes) wedding planning makes it difficult for them to work together; bombastic Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) is willing to sell his soul to be residency director; J.D. begins a relationship with Danni (Tara Reid), the sister of his former fling (and Dr. Cox's former wife) Jordan Sullivan (Christa Miller); and Jordan's brother Ben Sullivan (Brendan Fraser), introduced during season one, makes a brief return to the series. Season-three guest stars include Spin City veterans Michael J. Fox, Barry Bostwick, Brady Bunch alumnus Maureen McCormick, and Dayna Devon, co-host of the TV magazine show Extra, whose one-line bit was later expanded into a George Plimpton-like "special feature" on Devon's own series. Sadly, John Ritter passed away just before making his third appearance as J.D.'s father. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Many more trials and many more tribulations await the staff of Sacred Heart Hospital in the fifth season of Scrubs. Carla (Judy Reyes) wants to "make a baby" with husband Turk, who exhibits enormous reluctance but finally gives in. And troubled (and troublesome) Dr. Elliot Reid (Sarah Chalke) begins her fellowship at another local hospital, only to lose her position virtually before it begins, forcing her to take extreme measures to get her old job back. J.D. continues to be tormented by Sacred Heart's taciturn Janitor (Neil Flynn), whose sociopathic behavior this season includes befriending a stray crow at work. Dr. Perry Cox (John C. McGinley) is no happier this season that J.D. insists upon treating him like a mentor and role model. This, however, is not the reason that Dr. Cox shows up to work one day drunk as a skunk, thoroughly disillusioning our hero...for a while, anyway. Standout episodes include "Her Story II" and "His Story III," which break from tradition by being narrated by Carla and The Janitor, respectively; and the Wizard of Oz-inspired 100th episode, which shows up in complete, director's-cut version on the DVD release. Among the guest stars are Cheryl Hines as Cox's born-again Christian sister Paige; Jason Bateman as a strange man with a love for cigarettes and...ostriches; Mandy Moore as the latest of J.D.'s blind dates; and, in a recurring role, Elizabeth Banks as Dr. Kim Briggs, a urologist who captures J.D.'s heart -- and who has a stunning surprise for him in the season's cliffhanger finale. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

With its deft combination of humor and heart, this single-camera sitcom is a both a critical and cult favorite. Scrubs stars Zach Braff as J.D., an eager doctor at Sacred Heart Hospital. With J.D. as its narrator, the show frequently dips into surrealism as it shows his strange thoughts and daydreams. The rest of the characters on Scrubs are equally eccentric: best friend Turk (Donald Faison), bossy nurse Carla (Judy Reyes), J.D.'s reluctant mentor Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley), the anxiety-ridden ex-girlfriend Elliot (Sarah Chalke), and J.D.'s arch nemesis, known simply as 'Janitor' (Neil Flynn). This set contains all episodes from season seven of this popular series.

When Jerry, Kramer, and Newman run into their mutual accountant at Monks, they take note of the fact that he has a habit of sniffling an awful lot and become convinced that he is spending their money on a drug habit. Meanwhile, George interviews for a job as a brassiere salesman and Elaine can't stand her new boyfriend's overuse of exclamation points. Guest starring John Kapelos, Christa Miller, and Patrick Cronin, "The Sniffing Accountant" originally aired October 7, 1993,and was the fourth episode of the show's fifth season. ~ Matthew Tobey, All Movie Guide

Cleveland's favorite son Drew Carey stars as Cleveland's favorite son Drew Carey in the first season of the popular ABC sitcom bearing his name. Of course, Carey does not really play "himself", a successful standup comedian: The TV version of Drew Carey is the long-suffering, overworked and underpaid assistant personnel director at Cleveland's fictional Winfred-Louder department store. Given the choice, Drew would rather spend all his time at home or at the Warsaw Tavern with his lifelong best friends: hoydenish, perennially unemployed Kate O'Brien (Christa Miller), geekish DrugCo janitor and sci-fi aficionado Lewis Kiniski (Ryan Stiles), and erstwhile deejay Oswald Harvey (Diedrich Bader), who in the course of the first season launches a lengthy if unrewarding job at Global Parcel Service. These are the "regulars" in the first episode, soon to be joined by Kathy Kinney as Drew's mortal enemy, the garishly outfitted and cosmetically challenged Mimi Bombeck. Originally, Mimi was to have been a one-shot character, but proved so popular with test audiences that she was signed for a permanent post as a secretary at Winfred-Louder, giving her ample opportunity to make Drew's life Hell. Contributing to Drew's woes is his never-seen boss Mr. Bell (voiced by Kevin Pollak), whose sojourn at Winfred-Louder will last only until the season finale, thanks to the whims of the store founder's barracudalike widow Mrs. Louder (Nan Martin), whose first name is "Dottie" herein but will later be "Fran". Other prominent Season One contributors are Katey Selverstone as store employee Lisa Robbins, with whom Drew has a covert romance; Jane Morris as Nora O'Dougherty, another of Drew's coworkers, whose lawsuit against Drew for creating a "hostile workplace" (translation: for having a typically male sense of humor) provides the show with its first significant story arc; Robert Torti as Drew's old pal Jay Clemens, who has a fling with Kate; Ian Gomez as Larry Almada, Winfred-Louder's laziest employee and Mrs. Louder's current boy-toy; Stanley Anderson) as Drew's irksome dad George; and Susan Saint James as Kate's hyperjudgmental mom Lynn. Generally avoiding the surrealism prevalent in later years, Season One still has a tenuous connection with what passes for "real life", though there are glimmers of the zaniness to come in the season finale, wherein Drew, Oswald and Lewis establish their own micro-brewery for the purposes of creative a coffee-flavored beer, naming their product "Buzz" (what else?) ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The Drew Carey Show continues to abandon reality in favor of surrealism through the series' third season, beginning with a story arc wherein the obstreperous Mimi (Kathy Kinney), eternal enemy of series hero Drew Carey (playing himself), goes into full "Steven King" mode, holding her traumatized boss Mr. Wick (Craig Ferguson) prisoner after a tornado rips through Cleveland and nearly destroys the Winfred-Louder department store. Likewise far removed from "real life" is the first of the series' "What's Wrong with This Episode?" entries, in which the fans at home were offered huge cash prizes to spot the many deliberate errors sprinkled throughout the episode's thirty minutes. And on a less elaborate but no less unrealistic note, Winfred-Louder's barracudalike owner Mrs. Louder (Nan Martin inexplicably changes her first name from Dottie to Fran--which, come to think of it, is no less inexplicable than her torrid affair with the store's most incompetent employee, Larry Almada Ian Gomez, who makes his own distinctive mark on the proceedings by causing the entire cast to be arrested on drug charges! And then there's the oddball romance between Drew's lifelong friends Oswald Harvey (Diedrich Bader and Kate O'Brien (Christa Miller). . . New cast additions this season include John Carroll Lynch as Steve Carey, Drew's transvestite older brother; Kate Walsh as Drew's real-estate-agent girlfriend (and, briefly, fiancee) Nicki Fifer, she of the fluctuating weight and dangerous mood swings; Adrienne Barbeau as Kim Harvey, the mother of Drew's uber-neurotic best friend Oswald; and Ashley Gardner, a professional "guinea pig" at DrugCo and erstwhile sweetheart of the company's janitor Lewis Kiniski (Ryan Stiles). Among those making guest appearances are Rush Limbaugh, Dionne Warwick, Tim Conway, the rock band The Reverend Horton Heat, and the cast of the British film hit The Full Monty. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

All prior vestiges of "real life" on The Drew Carey Show have been ravaged, murdered and buried by the time Season Five rolls around. Typically surrealistic entries this season find Drew (Drew Carey) on trial for trying to murder his longtime bete noire Mimi (Kathy Kinney), and later hosting a "webcam" show from his own home on behalf of his bosses at Winfred-Louder--a show that, in true "life imitates art" fashion, was simultaneously broadcast on the ABC network and streamed on www.abc.com. Plus, we are treated to an exercise in pure fantasy when an ailing Drew has a terse conference with his own stomach (played by Max Wright. Also featured in Season Five is the first of the series' "Drew Live" offerings, originally networkcast live by ABC, with three different versions beamed out to the three major time zones--and, of course, the third annual edition of "What's Wrong With This Episode?", permitting the home viewers to compete for huge cash prizes by spotting the 50 or so deliberate mistakes scattered throughout the episode. In the course of the year's events, Kate (Christa Miller) finally realizes that she is in love with her lifelong friend Drew--just as he is being advised to avoid dating women by the office psychologist. By the time the couple begins dating, a new crimp is put in their relationship when Drew sprains his Most Vital Organ. Elswehere, Winfred-Louder undergoes the first in a long line of corporate takeovers when Mr. Soulard (Mark Curry) assumes command of the store; Mimi is plagued by a new "number one fan", a hero-worshipping little person named Doreen (Debbie Lee Carrington), who subsequently becomes romantically involved with the geekish Lewis (Ryan Stiles); and on a (comparatively!) less creepy note, Mimi is finally married to Drew's transvestite older brother Steve (John Carroll Lynch. Fifth-season highlights include jabs at such contemporary events as the "Y2K" panic and the "second coming" of Drew's beloved Cleveland Browns. And let us not forget the season finale, in which Drew and the rest of the cast, dropping character, vow to grab a surefire Emmy Award by staging the "Very Special Episode" to end all Very Special Episodes--a shameless spectacular replete with disease, death and an Ellen DeGeneres "coming out" moment! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

The cast and crew of The Drew Carey Show entered its seventh season with more security and hubris than ever before. Thanks to the series' past excellent ratings performance, the producers and ABC had entered into an agreement whereby the show was "locked" into the network's schedule until the fall of 2004, with a lofty $3,000,000 budget alotted to each episode. Understandably emboldened by this, Drew Carey opens Season Seven with a radical departure from the show's usual format: "Drew's Back-to-School Rock 'n' Roll Comedy Hour", a special filled to overflowing with quickie comedy sketches and rockin' and rollin' musical numbers, featuring guest appearances by the likes of Jenny McCarthy, SHeDAISY, Smash Mouth, Uncle Cracker, Sugar Ray and Peter Frampton. The rest of the series was relatively conventional (at least by Drew Carey Show standards), with the episode "Married to a Mob" making a major technicological breakthrough as the series' first installment filmed in HDTV. Major developments this season include Drew's "graduation" from a mental institute, whereupon he ends up a reluctant bigamist--not only simultaneously wed to both Kate (Christa Miller) and Nicki (Kate Walsh), but also still legally committed to a "gay" union with his boss Mr. Wick (Craig Ferguson), who in the previous season needed to get married in a hurry lest he be deported to England. Extricating himself from this marital melange by the skin of his teeth, Drew launches a new romance with sharp-tongued efficiency expert Christine Watson (Wanda Sykes). Elsewhere, Drew's brother Steve (John Carroll Lynch) and his worst enemy Mimi (Kathy Kinney), now husband and wife, hunker down to the responsibilities of parenting their baby son Gus; Drew's pals Lewis (Ryan Stiles) and Oswald (Diedrich Bader) blithely ignore all manner of municipal ordinances by building their "dream" house in the middle of a city park; and Mr. Wick goes into alcholic rehab, leaving the Winfred-Louder store in the less-than-capable hands of 19-year-old Milan Mercer (Jessica Cauffiel), the irresponsible daughter of new store owner Lord Mercer (Jim Piddock). Though there is no "What's Wrong With This Episode?" this season, viewers are treated to the wildest "Drew Live" episode thus far, with Drew caught in the middle of sinister scheme concocted by John Ratzenberger and Blue Man Group to take over The Drew Carey Show by force! No less breathtaking is the episode "Curse of the Mummy", with Richard Chamberlain showing up in drag as Mr. Wick's mother--a role he'd repeat in a special "Mother's Day" episode wherein the cast's various mommies and grandmommies are portrayed by such TV icons as Marion Ross, Adrienne Barbeau, June Lockhart and Phyllis Diller. Other Season Eight guest stars include baseball greats Bobby Bonds and Jay Johnstone, and longtime TV favorites Henry Winkler, Adam West and Max Gail--the latter two cast as gay lovers! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Two brothers look for love under unusual circumstances in this independent comedy. Chris Remi (Derek Martini) and his brother Tony (Steven Martini) have an unusual family background: their parents, an Italian-American man and a Native-American woman, met on a tour of a Hollywood studio, and their Grandmother bestowed on them semi-traditional American Indian names, "Goat on Fire" and "Smiling Fish." These days, high-strung Chris and good-natured Tony share the house they grew up in following their parents' death in a traffic accident. Chris is having problems with his girlfriend Alison (Amy Hathaway), who bursts into tears whenever they have sex; meanwhile, Tony's girlfriend Nicole (Heather Jae Marie) is ready to give Tony his walking papers if he can't straighten himself out, though he's already got his eye on Kathy (Christa Miller), who delivers the mail in his neighborhood. Chris, who works for an accounting firm, is asked one day by his boss to pick up his Uncle Clive (Bill Henderson) from the airport. Clive used to work as a soundman for a independent African-American film company in the 1940s; he loves to reminisce about the old days and compares love to capturing "the perfect magnetic wave." Clive proves to be a romantic catalyst when Chris meets Anna (Rosemarie Addeo), an Italian immigrant who trains animals, and a fast friendship looks like it could grow into something more. The feature-film debut for Martin Scorsese protege Kevin Jordan, Smiling Fish and Goat on Fire) won the Film Discovery at the 1999 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide