Scrubs: the episode where Dr. Cox's friend Ben dies.

[sojourner]

I just watched this episode again the other day. I don't know why but it hit my like a ton of bricks this time around. I came close to full on crying. Which for me is pretty unusual. Maybe it has something to do with Ben's interactions with Dr. Cox right up to the big reveal. I dunno. Has anyone else had a similar reaction to a scene on second viewing?

 

[od0_ital]

Ben was Dr Cox's ex-brother-in-law, so he was family, not just a friend.

And, yeah, the episode packs a punch every time I've watched it.

 

[Snaploud]

Ben: Jordan, you're a big girl. When you got divorced you put people in the awkward position of having to choose between you and Perry.

Jordan: You're my brother!

Ben: Well, admittedly that made it hard—ooh, here's a good one. [holds up a snapshot he just took of Jordan] "Me so cranky! Rrr."

 

[Gaith]

I'm a big Brendan Fraser fan, but wasn't impressed with this ep. The Sixth Sense takeoff just seemed silly and arbitrary. It's one thing to be a ghost and think you're alive; it's another thing to hallucinate a few days' worth of life just because one's heard a friend who one was expecting to die just did so.

 

[Stiletto]

It's a powerful episode

 

[Mark_Nguyen]

To me, it's ALMOST as powerful as the later episode "My Lunch", whence Cox explodes after he loses three patients to rabies-infected transplants. Scrubs was always at its most awesome when it balanced its comedy with hugely poignant scenes like that - and had actors who can successfully pull them off.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxu98rkeXAU

Plus, it made me a fan of that one song from The Fray. And ONLY that song from The Fray. :P

Mark

 

[MyCylon]

I absolutely love this episode. I remember it absolutely floored me the first time I watched it since I didn't see the revelation coming at all, yet it seemed to make perfect sense and was just incredibly sad, really.

I agree that Scrubs was at its best when it balanced comedy with more serious material like in this episode.

 

[TheGodBen]

It's one of my favourites, although I did snag onto the fact that Ben was in Cox's imagination fairly early on. I was almost upset towards the end when I thought there wasn't going to be a surprising reveal and that Ben and Perry were really going to Jack's birthday party, so I was relieved to be right when the truth was revealed. I was probably the only person smiling during the funeral scene.

Still, it was a great episode.

 

[CaptainCanada]

The weirdest thing about that episode is that NCIS originally aired an episode that same night that had the exact same gimmick, and I fell for it both times.

 

[MyCylon]

^
Which episode was that?

 

[sojourner]

Yea, thought I had seen most of NCIS, but I don't recall anything like that.

 

[Jax]

Scrubs was always able to produce great drama despite being a comedy.

 

[CaptainCanada]

Yea, thought I had seen most of NCIS, but I don't recall anything like that.

The one with Terry O'Quinn as Gibbs' old mentor; he spends the whole episode with a supposedly dead former associate who keeps talking about a big conspiracy, but in the climax it's revealed that supposedly-dead guy is still dead, and O'Quinn is just hallucinating.

 

[scnj]

He's a hallucination throughout? I thought he was alive throughout, but only a 'ghost' in the last scene. Maybe I should watch again.

 

[sojourner]

Yea, thought I had seen most of NCIS, but I don't recall anything like that.

The one with Terry O'Quinn as Gibbs' old mentor; he spends the whole episode with a supposedly dead former associate who keeps talking about a big conspiracy, but in the climax it's revealed that supposedly-dead guy is still dead, and O'Quinn is just hallucinating.

Ah, yea, that one. I saw right through that one in the first 5 minutes. that, and they weren't trying to pull the heart strings there.