This was actually a fairly amusing and well done take on a typical day at Sacred Heart, done up fantasy style. It suffers only because NBC made the extremely poor decision to present it as the "Series Finale" instead of being the 9th episode of the season, as was intended. The actual last episode of the season did a much more satisfying job of addressing the threads of the season. But for what this was, it was a better than average episode with some amusing alternate versions of the characters. The episode was reminiscent of the 100th episode, and had some tight writing, with various references to other episodes, and a poignant ending as Scrubs is known for.
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Off the charts
xredgarnetx17 May 2008
I will admit I have been unhappy with the final season of SCRUBS. The episodes I have seen rarely rose above the mediocre, and used many well-worn gimmicks and plot devices from the previous six seasons. Laughs have been few. Now comes what appears to be the final episode of the series, MY PRINCESS. It starts out ordinarily enough, with the crew trying to save a patient, but takes a turn for the verse when Cox tells his son a bedtime fairy tale that has Janitor playing a 10-foot ogre with a taste for babies, Ted as a hideous hunchback, Turk and Carla as a two-headed something or other, Cox as (what else?) a heroic knight, Kelso as an evil warlock, J.D. as the village idiot and Elliott as a very fetching princess. This fairy tale goes back and forth from Cox's fantastic telling to the actual events in the hospital that parallel Cox's Grimm Brothers version. The laugh meter is on high and the cleverness of the episode helps make up for the debacle of Season 7. If this indeed is the final episode, it is a fitting one. One small plot hole: Kelso apparently is back in charge of the hospital. No explanation. But who cares, really?
Ohhh Brother
mcgyver21216 May 2008
First let me start out by saying that I am huge Scrubs fan. I have enjoyed all of the creative ways that they have done every episode.
The creativity of the show and the writing is what always had me as a huge fan. Then this episode came. What a joke...not sure if this was an attempt to 'jump a shark', but they came very close. I usually can tell myself that 'Hey this is just a television show', but in this one we had Kelso back. They could have done so much more with him being gone. I understand that this was supposed to be the 'new' season finale, but wouldn't it have made more sense to have Kelso quitting on the last episode and having Cox the new director in the first episode of the next season. I know that has been up in the air, but apparently there is now suppose to be at least a few episodes for a season 8.
To me this episode just made the writers strike a joke...I mean they had ALL this time off and THIS is what they came up with...I found it a very disappointing episode.
The creativity of the show and the writing is what always had me as a huge fan. Then this episode came. What a joke...not sure if this was an attempt to 'jump a shark', but they came very close. I usually can tell myself that 'Hey this is just a television show', but in this one we had Kelso back. They could have done so much more with him being gone. I understand that this was supposed to be the 'new' season finale, but wouldn't it have made more sense to have Kelso quitting on the last episode and having Cox the new director in the first episode of the next season. I know that has been up in the air, but apparently there is now suppose to be at least a few episodes for a season 8.
To me this episode just made the writers strike a joke...I mean they had ALL this time off and THIS is what they came up with...I found it a very disappointing episode.
Lots of fun, but wrong for Dr. Cox, makes no sense.
estonegoldfarb29 April 2021
Warning: Spoilers
This episode being set in a fantasy world is fun and all, but the story being told from Dr. Cox's perspective makes no sense. As Dr. Cox retells the story of his day through the fantasy allegory, there are many things that are not in line with Dr. Cox's character, and wouldn't be told to someone hearing about his day in the hospital. Like, for instance, why would he care about J. D. and Elliot discussing their "almost kiss"? He has had several rants throughout the series saying how little he cares about their relationship, or any relationship of JD's. He probably wasn't even listening to JD or Elliot when they discussed this, he certainly wouldn't bother retelling it to Jack. While he often cares about certain things more than he lets on, this particular apathy seems pretty sincere.
He also retells parts of the story that he wasn't around for, things he would have no knowledge of. Some of these parts he may have figured out on his own, as they are essential to his own storyline, but other parts are irrelevant tangents that he wouldn't have known about at all.
And thirdly the prophecy The Knight gives of "you must remember what you heard when you weren't even listening" makes sense in the fantasy version of the story, but why would the attending Dr. Cox ever say something like that to a fellow doctor looking for help with a patient? Did he already know the answer? Did he overhear the interns discussing Wilson's Disease? If so, why wouldn't he just tell JD and Elliot it was Wilson's Disease right away to further the chance of saving the patient? If he, in fact, did not know it was Wilson's Disease, what would even cause his to say this "prophecy" to Elliot and JD in the first place?
All of these things together cause his retelling of the events in the hospital to young Jack pretty confusing and nonsensical.
He also retells parts of the story that he wasn't around for, things he would have no knowledge of. Some of these parts he may have figured out on his own, as they are essential to his own storyline, but other parts are irrelevant tangents that he wouldn't have known about at all.
And thirdly the prophecy The Knight gives of "you must remember what you heard when you weren't even listening" makes sense in the fantasy version of the story, but why would the attending Dr. Cox ever say something like that to a fellow doctor looking for help with a patient? Did he already know the answer? Did he overhear the interns discussing Wilson's Disease? If so, why wouldn't he just tell JD and Elliot it was Wilson's Disease right away to further the chance of saving the patient? If he, in fact, did not know it was Wilson's Disease, what would even cause his to say this "prophecy" to Elliot and JD in the first place?
All of these things together cause his retelling of the events in the hospital to young Jack pretty confusing and nonsensical.
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