(Star Zach Braff would cop a few of these artists, and this music-heavy approach, to his 2004 indie darling Garden State, which, regardless of its age, won a Grammy for its soundtrack and cemented The Shins in the minds and hearts of angsty white Millennials everywhere.) It’s a trope that would become well-worn by the time Scrubs went off the air, but nobody did it better than Lawrence and the show’s cabal of music supervisors, who would release three official soundtracks during the show’s run. Much of the success of that thematic juggling act was bolstered by the show’s soundtrack, which usually presented itself in an array of end-of-episode montages that put a poignant button on all of our characters’ respective conflicts while some painfully-earnest pop track played in the background.
You could count on Scrubs to make you laugh for twenty minutes, but in the last two before the credits, it was liable to make you cry. Like Lawrence’s later show - the Internet’s current darling/core of shockingly bitter Internet discourse Ted Lasso - Scrubs worked tirelessly to thread its wacky, colorful characters and endearingly cinematic sight gags with an essential core of dramedic sentiment. And yet, it’s easy to forget just how influential Bill Lawrence’s goofy, absurd, heartbreaking show about the residents, staff, and patients of Sacred Heart Hospital was to the fabric of network comedy. For its long (some might say too long) nine-season run on NBC, Scrubs was probably the best sitcom on television.
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