Scrubs
It's from 2001, before you were born.
- Network
- NBC
- Genre
- Medical comedy
- Premiered
- 2001
- Star
- Zach Braff
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About
As of 2026, it's 25 years old.
Scrubs pulled off a tricky balancing act: a medical comedy goofy enough to feature elaborate daydream fantasy sequences, yet willing to gut-punch you with genuine grief about death and doctoring whenever it pleased. One minute it's slapstick, the next you're crying, and it earned both.
Narrated by an anxious young doctor and powered by a sharp ensemble and a Janitor with a deep personal vendetta, it found real heart inside the hospital silliness.
Funny, surreal, and surprisingly moving, Scrubs is the comedy that could make you laugh at a fantasy daydream and weep at a patient's bedside in the same episode.
Scrubs season by season
Scrubs ran for 9 seasons (2001–2009) across 181 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
