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| Scrubs - The Complete Fifth Season | 
 enlarge | Actors: Zach Braff, Donald Faison, John C. Mcginley, Sarah Chalke
Studio: Buena Vista Home Entertainment / Touchstone
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 1941
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Surround Sound
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), Spanish (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), French (Subtitled)
Number Of Items: 3
Running Time: 538
Discs: 3
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.6 x 0.6
MPN: 05315400
UPC: 786936721508
EAN: 0786936721508
ASIN: B000NOKFH6
Theatrical Release Date: October 2, 2001
Release Date: May 22, 2007
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Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: 02/15/2008
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"I'm gonna have a good year, aren't I?" J.D. (Zach Braff), now an attending physician at Sacred Heart Hospital, asks in the fifth season's opening episode. All vital signs are good (the series did receive an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy), but longtime Scrubs fans may be forgiven a sense of deja vu, from J.D.'s whimsical reveries to Dr. Cox's (John C. McGinley) increasingly tiresome rants. The series itself acknowledges the palpable sense of been there, seen that with the clever episode "Deja vu, Deja vu." But don't pronounce Scrubs dead just yet. Directed by Braff, "My Way Home," the series' 100th episode, is a brilliantly conceived homage to The Wizard of Oz with J.D. and company finding their hearts, brains, and courage. Another powerful episode that shows a welcome maturity is "My Lunch," in which J.D. at last has lunch with his reluctant mentor, Dr. Cox, in the wake of a patient's death (happily, the music rights were secured for the DVD release so that the Fray's "How to Save a Life" is playing on the soundtrack when Dr. Cox has his own tragic setback), and the follow-up episode, "My Fallen Idol." While Scrubs has a tendency this season to get "more ridiculous" (in one episode, Neil Flynn's Janitor defies Ken Jenkins' Dr. Kelso to secretly keep a crow in the hospital), the scalpel-sharp writing affords Braff moments that are, in his character's own words, "classic Dorian." In the episode "My Half Acre," he mixes his sports analogies to tell Elliot (Sarah Chalke), "What's waiting for me in my room is what's known, in football terms, as a slam dunk," as he mimes hitting a tennis ball. Mandy Moore, displaying a surprising knack for physical comedy, follows Tara Reid and Heather Graham as a fleeting love interest for J.D. Other character milestones include pregnancies for Carla (Judy Reyes) and two other characters best left a surprise. Good for whatever ails season 5 are this set's extras, including an entertaining series retrospective, featuring interviews with the cast and creators, as well as commentary by Braff for an extended cut of "My Way Home." --Donald Liebenson
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 Everything changes except the quality March 15, 2007
37 out of 43 found this review helpful
With their internships and residencies behind them, this is the first year that Turk, J.D, and Elliot are all full-fledged attending physicians. Since the series had originally been based on how interns and residents cope during these transitional years, it would be a challenge for the show to continue to be funny and fresh, but it did not disappoint. At this point I must warn you there are spoilers ahead, particularly in the last paragraph.
J.D is now an attending, and much of his story has to do with him realizing that with the perks of this position comes certain unexpected drawbacks, such as the group of interns with which he is entrusted laughing at his very unfunny jokes in order to score points. "My Jiggly Ball" was also along these lines, with J.D. given the task of introducing Dr. Kelso at a dinner. If J.D. doesn't compliment Kelso, he knows he'll be fired. However, if he doesn't tell the truth he knows he'll lose the support of his colleagues. There's also a little more insight into Kelso in this episode, and we find out that his gruff exterior may just be a way of him coping with decisions he makes each day that save some lives at the expense of others. Finally, there is the ever-present issue of J.D. and his romance problems. In "My Half Acre", I thought J.D. had met his match in the dangerously uncoordinated Julie, but like so many other times it was not to be. Although, I have to say this time, the reason for J.D.'s collapsed romance didn't make very good sense to me.
As for Turk and Carla, of course their long-running story is their attempt to conceive a child. Turk goes from secretly medicating Carla with birth control pills to understanding that, to Carla, making a baby is the most romantic thing in the world. They both have doubts and difficulties but eventually, and not surprisingly, they are successful. What is surprising is that because of the cheap pregnancy test Turk has bought, it takes an extra bit of time for the stick to turn blue, and thus Turk knows the truth before Carla. In fact, thanks to Turk and J.D. the entire hospital knows before Carla. When they find out Carla has been looking forward to telling everyone herself, J.D. and Turk have to make sure that nobody tells Carla what they already know.
Elliot starts out the season on a bright note, since she has gotten a fellowship in a neighboring hospital. She is determined to make a fresh start there, and that includes claiming she knows things she doesn't, such as the location of the medical supplies. Thus she is constantly driving back and forth between her new job and where she knows she can find the supplies - Sacred Heart. This job doesn't last long, though, when the most irritating guy at her new hospital unexpectedly cures the disease she was hired to work on. She thus finds herself back at Sacred Heart with her own batch of interns. Unfortunately, she gets involved with one of them. He happens to be the most talented, but her handing off the choicest jobs and the highest praise to him appears as favoritism to all of the other interns until J.D. comes to her defense.
Cox is still around handing out advice seasoned with sarcasm, but this season he is a senior peer to J.D. rather than a taskmaster, and the transition is handled well. Particularly good is "My Lunch" and "My Fallen Idol". Here the roles of J.D. and Cox wind up being somewhat reversed. Three patients are in need of organ transplants when an annoying former patient, Jill, is admitted and then dies of what appears to be a cocaine overdose. Under Dr. Cox's directions, her organs are transplanted into the three patients and all is going well. However, the patients start feeling ill, and the final lab report comes back revealing the real cause of Jill's death.
On the lighter side, the janitor is still around making life miserable for J.D. Will he ever get over that penny in the sliding door? During the course of the season he manages to find a way to get J.D. in trouble without ever coming near him through the magic of modern digital photography, invents a new game whose sole purpose is to torment J.D., and tricks J.D. into commiting burglary by making J.D. believe he is helping the janitor move. Last but not least, Ted, the much abused hospital lawyer, finally has the upper hand when Kelso hits him with his car and Kelso fears a lawsuit.
The only problem with this season is the final episode. We've all been expecting Carla's pregnancy and the birth of Turk and Carla's firstborn to be a big part of the storyline, and it was well integrated into the show. Also, enough time has passed since Cox and Jordan had their child that the storyline didn't seem rehashed. However, the final episode sets up a trio of pregnancies, including Carla's, that just seems like a trainwreck waiting to happen in season six. We shall see.
 J.D.'s Season Five, or "Scrubs: Silly and Cruel" May 24, 2007
29 out of 49 found this review helpful
A key character doesn't need to be likeable to be interesting. Plenty of people keep watching reality shows just to see what the character they can't stand will do next. The same holds true for comedy: M*A*S*H needed Frank Burns or Charles Emerson Winchester to provide counterpoint to Trapper and Hawkeye.
I'm an owner of Scrubs' Seasons 1-4, and a long-time fan of the show. But, with Season 5, I find myself far more willing to watch something else. Why? I have lost my empathy for J.D., and I'm betting lots of others have as well.
J.D.'s slide into unlikeability began in earnest when he announced, at Turk and Carla's wedding rehearsal dinner, that he didn't love Elliot. This wasn't the same as the comedy of talking to Amy Smart ("TCW") about their physical relationship in front of her dead husband's parents; it was just cruel. In the first, there's the conscious choice to hurt someone. In the second, the comedy is the lack of knowledge of the setting.
This continues in Season 5. J.D. gets sillier, but not funnier. He goes from being oblivious to the world around him (in the mildly funny, "head in the clouds," sense) to being oblivious of anyone other than himself. His fun with Turk becomes increasingly self-centered, and what the writers would still like us to see as childish hijinks comes off as narcissistic amusement. Sure, we see that J.D. cares about his patients, but it seems more our of a desire to be popular than anything else. Eliot diagnoses this in the first season.
Sadly, Scrubs, a show I've really enjoyed, has "jumped the shark." When? The multiple babies, the second time J.D. and Elliot sleep together, when Turk and Carla get married. Take your pick. They all changed the dynamic. But J.D.'s increasing unlikeability means the next season will almost certainly be the last. At least, I hope it is.
the fun continues May 10, 2007
10 out of 11 found this review helpful
I was genuinely surprised when the 5. season of "Scrubs" came. I had thought that they would only make the four seasons because of the premise of the series was the main characters being interns and all that. When the fifth season then came out, after my initial surprise I became a bit suspicious. Would this be of the same stuff as earlier seasons?
Yes, it would indeed. Scrubs has grown as a comedy series. It is still somewhere in between sitcom, teen drama and Marx Brothers. It is still the funniest thing in American television since Frasier. Yet, it has changed with the growth and development of the characters. There's a history to the characters and their relationships now, and this fact is made full use of, I think, in this season. They are not interns anymore, but the people are the same. In this season we follow their lives outside the hospital more than previous and there are more personal/family stuff going on, but it is as funny as ever.
Season five continues where season four left off and is just as hillarious as its predecessor. In a word, highly recommendable.
 Just not the same any more May 27, 2007
9 out of 27 found this review helpful
If you just started watch scrubs you may like the most resent seasons. People that have been watching since it started may find that season five is a continuation of the downhill slide that started in season four. The show is no longer amusing stories about things that happen to doctors in medicen. It instead has become a soap opera about just the characters lives. So everyone so to add drama almost everyone is pregnant or having children.
In addition the humor is no longer the creative unpredictable. It more like and 80s sitcom where you see every joke coming.
What happened?? May 24, 2007
8 out of 17 found this review helpful
I have been a huge fan of the show, and waited for the release of season 5 on DVD.
Well, I have so far watched the first of three DVD's and have found this season to be almost unwatchable!!
Gone is the funny banter, interesting plots and development of the characters. This season seems to be all flashback "gags" that take up almost half of each episode. Even worse they are all childish and not funny whatsoever.
It seems like the producers and writers ran out of material, so instead of 30 mins of plot they just wrote 10 mins and filled the rest of the episodes with circus material.
Save your money, and rent the season on DVD.
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