00:00It has been 15 years since we last, well, almost 16 years since we last saw these characters.
00:04My youngest sister was not even alive when the final episode aired.
00:09Have you guys been thinking about these characters for the last 15 years?
00:12Have you wondered what they've been up to?
00:14Have you thought about how they dealt with the pandemic, anti-vaxxers, all of these things?
00:19Wow, those are some really great questions.
00:21Definitely when pandemic happened, when Zach and I started doing the podcast,
00:26that definitely sparked my interest in what would Turk be doing at this time.
00:33Clearly, he would be at the hospital doing his best to save lives and stuff like that,
00:38but he would definitely be worried about Carla.
00:40There's so many stories there. That's a great question.
00:43That's a whole other offset of the show.
00:46That's a time jump. Wow.
00:50I think one of the things I was most excited about this job was figuring out the way back in
00:54and where we would all be, and I loved it when I read the pilot of this.
01:00It felt like reading the original pilot.
01:02I loved where they had all of our characters wind up, and I won't spoil it,
01:06but we're all now, obviously, at such a different stage
01:13and really have become great, confident doctors and leaders,
01:16so to get back into the same characters, but 25 years after we started them,
01:20it was really cool.
01:21Yeah, I think it was exciting to see what are they like now.
01:23You know, we're 50.
01:28Donald and I are 50.
01:29I'm grown.
01:30I'm 35.
01:31Sarah bizarrely remained 35.
01:33And so how do we still maintain the same humor,
01:37which Donald and I, you know, as very silly best friends naturally have,
01:44even still at our age, but also show an evolution,
01:47that they're not 25-year-old kids.
01:49They are great teachers.
01:51They are great leaders, and I was interested in exploring what that would be like.
01:56I also feel like there's a great comedic groundwork for getting to fill in the blanks of what has happened.
02:01Like, I feel you guys are absolutely eating up a pickleball court at some point.
02:06We're going to see a flashback to, like, when pickleball was first picking up.
02:09I'm still trying to play basketball.
02:10Keep it 100 with you.
02:12Pickleball is for, you know, for people who are into that.
02:17I'm still trying to dunk on somebody.
02:19Were there any things that you found surprisingly easy or surprisingly hard slipping back into these roles after a long
02:25time?
02:26I was actually found it surprising how seamless it was.
02:30Like, you read the script, and normally when you start a new job and a new character,
02:33and you're doing all that work to find your way in, this just felt like it never left.
02:38And the one piece of it that was an interesting challenge was figuring out how to bring it into 2026.
02:44Because, like Zach was saying, like, as the show went on, we got broader and broader.
02:48So it was kind of figuring out, okay, how do we ground it and bring it into comedy of this
02:53time?
02:54I feel like we've kind of been playing, Zach and I have been kind of playing these characters since we
02:58started doing the podcast in 2020.
03:01Turk and J.D. are a heightened version of Zach and I on the podcast, and, you know, right?
03:07You're caricatures of what you do.
03:09Yes.
03:10I mean, it really is inspired by, I mean, not inspired because Bill didn't know us when he wrote it,
03:15but I think they all sort of merged into one when we were making the original series.
03:19And I think that was the big challenge was, like, how do we just, you know, find our groove again
03:25and how do we bring it into a comedy that feels current and new and isn't just trying to be
03:31nostalgia?
03:31J.D. and Elliot are not married anymore,
03:33and we see them having gone through the ups and downs of any relationship.
03:39Oh, by the way, our marriage didn't make it.
03:40I have a patient. I'll be gone soon, I promise.
03:43Your promises mean just about as much as...
03:50And I feel like that also lays the comedic groundwork to explore this new, this tensive dynamic.
03:57What was your reaction to finding out that these two characters are divorced,
04:01and how does that relationship get explored as the season progresses?
04:05I thought it was really great because I feel like there's just so much more room for comedy and drama
04:11and all of it as opposed to just having them be happily married.
04:13Be fine. There's not a lot of drama in fine.
04:17Not even a lot of comedy in fine. Totally.
04:21And to just even to get to, like, to watch them discover who they're going to be to each other
04:26now that they're divorced and to find that balance.
04:31And then obviously with them being now in the same workplace as well,
04:36so they're co-parenting, but they're also working together.
04:39And, yeah, I thought it was a great way in.
04:41Yeah, I think it's important to remind the fans that, you know, in the season eight finale,
04:46what you see projected on the screen in the sheet there is all the things J.D. hoped would happen.
04:51It was his wish.
04:53But, you know, in real life, when you end up being 50 years old,
04:56a lot of things don't work out the way you planned.
04:59Some do, some don't.
05:01Some relationships fall apart.
05:03And so it felt for an audience that loved the show and hopefully a new audience that finds it,
05:08it's very relevant to talk about two people that do love each other,
05:12but their marriage didn't work out.
05:14How do they continue?
05:14How do they co-parent?
05:15How do they interact with each other?
05:17And in this extreme case, how do they work together in the same hospital?
05:21And I think you guys are so right.
05:22It's so much more fun to watch them go up against each other at times,
05:25but then still have that love, too.
05:27And they clearly do.
05:28I think a lot of couples can relate to, like, I love you so much.
05:32I don't think that we ended up being the best partners for each other
05:35and we have kids together, but there's still, there will always be love there.
05:40I think there are some couples that can relate.
05:42I don't know about a lot of couples that can relate.
05:44What do you mean?
05:4550% of relationships end in divorce.
05:47Spoiler.
05:48Yeah.
05:4850% of relationships don't end in happy divorce, though.
05:52Oh, I see what you're saying.
05:53But 50% are also Carla and Turk.
05:56I love that we find out that they now have four teenage daughters.
05:59He had four daughters, Izzy, Ellie, Sophia, and Nora.
06:02How are you?
06:03Izzy, Beetle, take care of Bella Bella.
06:05Daddy, why don't I have a nickname?
06:07Oh, you do, sweetness?
06:09You had an accident.
06:10Well, not four teenage daughters.
06:12They have two, they have an adult and they have two teenage daughters
06:16and then they have a...
06:17Accident.
06:17Yeah, an accident.
06:19It really runs the entire spectrum of ages,
06:21but what was your prep to get into the mindset of having four...
06:25My life.
06:26I was like, did you just hand over a credit card?
06:28My life.
06:30Yeah.
06:32That was the best part about it.
06:34When I heard that and that Turk had daughters, too,
06:37I thought that was great.
06:37I have a very young daughter who I'm going through a lot with.
06:41She's 10 years old.
06:43She thinks she's a teenager already.
06:47And it's a lot of fun to live through her
06:50and live through my 12-year-old boy.
06:53And then I have adult children also,
06:55but my younger ones, it's a lot of fun to live through that.
06:58And that was very...
07:00That's...
07:00A lot of that is coming through Turk as well
07:04with his interns and with his kids at home.
07:07Like, my life is a lot of scrubs right now.
07:10Well, on top of the new class of interns that we've got,
07:13we also have Vanessa Bayer coming in,
07:14who is fantabulous.
07:16She is the whole,
07:17I'm not resisting, I'm not resisting.
07:19So good.
07:20Let's just say I wasn't always a saint.
07:22I used to do a lot of...
07:27I'm not resisting!
07:29I'm not resisting!
07:30Anyway, have a great night.
07:32How was it welcoming her?
07:33Have you guys gotten to do any improv with her?
07:35I know that was part of the original.
07:37And then also just talk to me about welcoming this new class in.
07:40Well, Vanessa, every single thing she says makes me laugh.
07:43Everything.
07:43I couldn't get through a take with her.
07:45When she was singing Ave Maria, I couldn't do it.
07:47I mean, I literally...
07:48She is so funny.
07:49And the way she...
07:50There's lines that she delivers that I'll think, like,
07:52nobody else would have delivered it like that.
07:54She has such a unique reading of lines.
07:56You know, it's one of those people that makes really bold, weird choices.
07:59And you're like,
08:00who else would have thought to say that line that way?
08:02But you're giggling because it's just so unique.
08:04Just this, like the...
08:06Yeah.
08:06One of my favorite moments is...
08:09I got to pitch a joke.
08:11And it made the show.
08:12And she delivered it.
08:14And that's just...
08:15Out of the whole nine weeks,
08:18that to this day still is one of my proudest moments...
08:20Of doing the show.
08:22that I got to pitch a joke,
08:23and it worked enough for her to deliver it and crush.
08:26And it's one of the big jokes of the show.
08:28It's one of the big jokes of the show.
08:29No, I mean, I'll say that.
08:30Oh, yeah.
08:30I think it's just of the series.
08:32Maybe of the series.
08:33Donald has decided his...
08:34Maybe of the series ever.
08:36Maybe of all time.
08:38Another thing that always...
08:39That I think about when I think about Scrubs
08:40is how it's always brought up in the conversation
08:42of how realistic, like, doctors and nurses say,
08:45that feels like something I experience.
08:48I'm not going to ask you about the authenticity of the show,
08:50but I think the pit has now given you guys
08:52some competition in the authenticity department.
08:55Who would win in a fight,
08:56the pit or the Sacred Heart doctors?
08:58I don't know about fighting,
08:59but I'll tell you a funny story.
09:00I slid into Noah Wiley's DMs
09:03because I love the pit,
09:05and I've always thought he's a fantastic actor.
09:06And I just said,
09:07hey, man, congrats.
09:08I love the show.
09:09You're such a great actor.
09:10And he wrote back,
09:11thank you, Zach.
09:12We remember hearing that Scrubs was considered
09:15by the American Medical Association
09:16to be the most accurate medical show,
09:18and we aspired to be on that level.
09:21So we were proud to have taken over the mantle,
09:24and I just want to say to Noah,
09:25we'll be taking the mantle back.
09:28I'm about to say a word.
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