As some of you who pay attention to the entertainment world know, the WGA declared a strike yesterday. This strike will continue until they can resolve the compensation issue of new media, which I think means streaming video content and other content that is viewed, downloaded, or purchased through the Internet. Currently, the writers (aka the people who actually create the content, since great acting and directing with bad writing is just as bad as great writing with bad acting and directing) get 0% of any income from this type of content.
Whether you support the strike or not (and I definitely do support the writers on this), there is a very pressing concern. The strike will delay the production and creation of new shows for the season, which means that instead of getting a full 24 episodes of The Office, for example, depending on when the strike ends, they may only produce 15 or 20 episodes.
In most situations, this isn't such a big deal. They can reshuffle episodes or cut storylines if necessary. It will suck, but it will be survivable.
But what about Scrubs? This is the last season. They haven't finished shooting all of their episodes. Scrubs isn't coming back next year. They haven't written the series finale yet. If the strike lasts long enough, one of my favorite television shows could possibly end without any resolution.
That, people, is unacceptable. And horrifying!
So, I'd like all those people who have been praying for aborted babies and for fallen soldiers in Iraq and for the war to end and for gays to become straight and for their kids to turn out normal and for a winning lottery ticket to just take a day or two off on that stuff and focus on the strike instead.
I need my fucking Scrubs finale, people.
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That would be a HUGE travesty!!!
Where do I sign the petition???
Comments by NYCWD
Finally! Somebody who has their priorities straight!
Comments by Dave2
Since I don't do television, I probably would have gone on with my day as usual if you hadn't mentioned The Office. I do not want a truncated DVD at the end of the season!
Can't they go on strike, like, later? Or cancel the strike as a public service?
Comments by Girl, Dislocated
Don't worry, I'll write it for you.
Scrubs...? That's the one with Hugh Laurie in yes?
Comments by Dan
Oh, m'gosh! Will this impact NASA TV's coverage of the shuttle landing on Wednesday? I mean, how long can 7 crew members linger in orbit waiting for writers to script the commentator?
This is a catastrophe!
Comments by Aunt Robin
Let me help.
Elliot and JD end up together.
Cox finally tells JD he loves him like a son.
Kelsoe dies.
The end.
Comments by Miss Britt
Would Happily Ever After work?
Comments by RW
I hate unions.
Comments by Wayne
god talks to me.
but unlike many of the others that he talks to, i'm not telling you what he said.
Comments by hellohahanarf
"one of my favorite television shows could possibly end without resolution"
I move that this should be referred to as "VeronicaMarsified".
Comments by Mike
You're doing so well with NaNoWriMo. You could always write the finale in your spare time.
Comments by y not i
This is VERY important to me and I've always stood behind writers above everything because I know they are where it all really begins. It's scary though because this may mean more reality shows...
Comments by Robin
What Britt said. And, btw, if they write ANY more episodes I'm sure the FIRST thing they'll do is get to work on the finale so they have that in the bank.
Comments by Poppy
oh my gosh... I hadn't thought about what this would mean for scrubs. I have to know what happens to my JD...
Comments by Amanda
That sucks! That means that in 5 or 6 years we'll be experiencing this too in Dutchyland!!!
Comments by DutchBitch
I thought Kelso was on That 70s Show??
I suspect JD will feel his whole life suddenly makes sense and they do a montage of all of his past love interests as Willie Nelson guest appears and sings "To All the Girls I've Loved Before." But just as things seem perfect there is a medical emergency, a terrorist attack has released a deadly virus that mutates all blow job hookers into mindless killing (sucking) zombies. Turk and JD are the first to go and only that crabby doctor dude and the old man who looks like the principal on Welcome Back Kotter survive, due to an unexplained shortage of little blue pills. This leads to next years spin-off sensation that will be placed in a Wednesday night power block following the Bionic Woman.
But it's just a guess
Comments by Y2K Survivor
I am still upset that Scrubs is ending. As a Southern Baptist I am qualified to meet your prayer request needs. I tried to pray for the TV shows, as well as for Sarah Chalke to come sit on my face, but God said "stop praying for TV shows, you lazy ass, and focus on the important stuff." So, there you have it. I did the best I could. Maybe you need a Catholic? They have those beads and stuff and apparently get their prayers answered by wearing God down with massive repetition.
Comments by Memphis Steve
Steve brings up a good point.
Another one: we can also be bought.
I'm just sayin'...
Comments by Miss Britt
I will see what I can do. I think I am underqualified, as I don't pray for any of those things you mentioned–BUT perhaps that will make my request seem reasonable. Or something.....
Comments by themuttprincess
ROTFLMAO @ Britt and Steve. Jeeeeeezus.
Uh, you know, I do love Scrubs and I would love to be all supportive, but I just want to know where MY support was when I was flipping out over Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars and you appeared completely ambivalent? Hmmmm???
Comments by Amy
What is that, a TV show?
Comments by Mr. Fabulous
Veronica who?
Comments by Memphis Steve
They will fix it. Hollywood will throw money at the problem and charge someone else more to compensate.
Comments by Brandi
veronica who? my head's going to explode, steve
Comments by Amanda
Steve does bring up a good point. I'd like Sarah Chalke to sit on my face as well.
Comments by y not i
I just want to know why late night was the first to go. I understand having help & all, but shouldn't Leno & Letterman & the others be able to write a MONOLOGUE? And a couple of interview questions?
Or is it just the thought...
asshats.
Comments by Tug
NYCWD, I haven't thought that far ahead.
Dave, exactly. What is more important than TV, huh?
Girl, Dislocated, see? It even affects non-TV watchers, even if that is a blasphemy.
Dan, I think a Scrubs episode with House would be awesome. But Dr. Cox is the original House.
Robin, isn't the whole shuttle thing fictional and staged anyway?
Britt, you are a fucker.
RW, I need details, man!
Wayne, I think they have their place and utility.
Hello, but how will I ever know? I'll show you my balls if you tell me.
Mike, yeah, but that at least had an ending. And we all knew it was doomed anyways.
Y not I, oh, I have, but there's too much nudity.
Robin, reality is also scripted, so they have writers for that, too.
Poppy, yeah, but it deserved a full final run.
Amanda, he's mine, not yours.
DB, it takes that long?
Y not I, you might be right on the money.
Steve, TV shows are the important stuff!
Britt, oh, I know you can.
TMP, any prayer is good.
Amy, Gilmore was ending as planned. And it sucked about Veronica, but it was also on the chopping block for so long I grew numb.
Mr. Fabulous, you're dead to me.
Steve, see above re: Mr. Fabulous.
Brandi, I hope so.
Amanda, exactly!
Y not I, we all would.
Tug, SNL is stopped right now, too, which annoys me.
Comments by Avitable
I used to work with a 50-year-old black guy from Oakland California who would rant about how black people and white people shouldn't date, and then he'd come to work and talk all about how hot Veronica Mars is and shit. I'd ask him, since Halle Berry is half black and half white, would you refuse to do her, or just half of her?
Comments by Memphis Steve
Shuttle thing?
Comments by Robin
so...scrubs is ending huh?
I've never seen a single episode.
Does that make me a bad person?
Comments by bluepaintred
OK. I sent a few up.
Comments by themuttprincess
Scrubs? I never knew anyone who actually watched Scrubs (likely because most people I know are vidiots, they can't even work their TiVo). I thought Scrubs was like Becker, just on the air to fill space.
Seriously, did you ever know anyone who said "I gotta get my ass home and watch Becker?" No. Didn't think so.
Comments by SleepyNita
Oh my god. I've been following the strike, but I hadn't thought about Scrubs. I've been watching this show since I was ten, and if the ending gets messed up I may just swear off TV, I still have open wounds from the loss of Veronica Mars without a real ending.
Comments by Kylah
I don't really watch TV so I don't care, but I promise to say a prayer for you. Maybe.
Comments by Erika
AGREED!
Comments by Sybil Law
this isn't about just TV. its about movies too. all these screenwriters sloppily finished some quick score, easy check before the strike hit. look at all these movies the studios have greenlit for the next year...
http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=38244
Night at the Museum 2
Untitled Wayans Bros Movie
Fast/Furious 4
High School Musical 3
Wolverine
Di Vinci Code Sequel
Thomas Crown Affair 2
and on and on and on....
Comments by Jared
hey great job on Watching scrubs! I have started watching th series now, and have already seen 4 seasons in the last 1 week. Too bad they are bringing it to an end though!
Comments by the boy blunder!
Good god I have to get a television. I don't know anything about anything.
Comments by Nina
Nooooooooooo! Nina, don't do it! Don't give in!
Comments by Girl, Dislocated
Memphis Steve, Veronica transcends race.
Robin, just talking about how people think that the entire space program is a hoax.
BPR, yes. A very, very bad one.
TMP, awesome. I can feel a change coming already!
SleepyNita, it's most definitely not like Becker. It's one of the smarter shows on television, created by the guy behind Spin City. Becker, however, is a piece of shit.
Kylah, you've been watching Scrubs since you were ten? How old are you?
Erika, you don't watch TV? But it's nectar from the gods!
Sybil Law, thank you!
Jared, well, Wolverine and Thomas Crown Affair 2 have been in production for a long time before the strike was even on the radar. The others, though - ugh.
Boy Blunder, all good things must come to an end.
Nina, the best writing is on television now.
Girl Dislocated, don't bring other people to the dark side!
Comments by Avitable
Hey, hey, what's with all the Becker-bigotry? That show was funny, when the reruns came on at 11 pm and there was nothing else to do.
Scrubs is awesome. I can't believe they're ending it. When I'm old one day I'll be telling people horror stories about how I lived to see the end of Seinfeld and Friends and Scrubs and then there was nothing on TV, so the world turned to the internet. And my blog. Yes, that's it, that's the ticket. The world will be forced to turn to MY BLOG!!!! BWA HA HA HA!!!!
Comments by nudememphis
Now that I'm hearing all these stories about Veronica Mars ending without an ending I'm tempted to watch it. I'm sure the reruns are around somewhere. Alternatively, I could just call my old black friend and ask him to repeat what he told me about every single episode while we were at work and I wasn't listening to him.
Comments by nudememphis
I'm sixteen. Wow, I just realized I've spent a lot of my adolescence watching Scrubs, because I just watched like three reruns of it today.
Comments by Kylah
NudeMemphis, I'm sorry, but Becker wasn't funny. Ted Danson hasn't been worth anything since Cheers. And you should watch Veronica Mars.
Kylah, I think growing up watching Scrubs is probably the healthiest thing a kid could do.
Comments by Avitable
I only ever saw it in reruns late at night and I generally watched it for 2 of the women on the show.
They were hotter than anything else on at that hour.
Comments by Memphis Steve
Memphis Steve, it's good for the writing first, beauties second.
Comments by Avitable
I still think Zach Braff should continue Scrubs with another network . . . or something.
Comments by Vulgar Wizard