NBC’s shaking up its Thursday comedy lineup for the rest of the season. 30 Rock and Scrubs are swapping time slots, with Tina Fey and Co. moving to 9:30 p.m. and the Sacred Heart-ers filling the gap at 8:30.
There are two main reasons for the move: 1) A recent 30 Rock episode featuring the reality show parody MILF Island drew criticism from, I assume, people who haven’t seen prime time comedy since Full House went off the air; and 2) Since Scrubs is in its final season anyway, giving up-and-comer Rock the cherry post-Office slot makes good sense (even though it’s just keeping the 9:30 spot warm for next year’s Office spin-off, which, after last week’s ep, I’m thinking will probably be Life With the Halperts).
Problem is, Scrubs is barely tolerable this season. Before you twitter angrily about me in all caps, you should know I used to love Scrubs. It was a great show. But after sitting there stone-faced, week after pre-strike week, I couldn’t do it anymore. Since then, my Thursdays have been a neat 90 minutes of comedy, ending with a channel change at 9:30. But now, things won’t be so easy. I can try to avoid Scrubs, but it’s gonna be hard. I just know I’ll check in a few weeks to see if The Office has started yet, and there she’ll be:
“Oh,” I’ll say. “Hi… I didn’t know you’d be… well maybe I should…”
“No,” Scrubs will say, “Maybe I should…”
“Well, it’s good to see you again.”
“You, too.”
“You look… funny.”
“Thanks.”
“Um, well, maybe I can watch you sometime, if… if you’re in… you know… syndication or something.”
“Don’t bother.”
And that would be it… Thanks NBC. Thanks a lot.
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Nice post, thanks for the heads up on the time switches. Much like you, I gave up “Scrubs” a while back, as well. I’m getting more than a little concerned about “The Office”, too. Ah well, thank God for “30 Rock”. It’s remarkable, how consistently that show keeps hitting the mark week after week…
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