Scrubs

The fastest way to lose something is to want it too much.

Every week I watch Scrubs and I laugh and laugh, and a invariably I cry. Each episode lately has had some little tid-bit that is so touching, so overwhelmingly wonderful, that I can’t help but wonder- why in the world did God make me so emotional!!!

Tonights episode Molly Shannon played an Ambulance driver and she drove Dr. Cox crazy with her incessant babble. Eventually he tries to ignore her by riding in the back of the ambulance and Molly Shannon crashes the ambulance and becomes Dr. Cox’s patient. He asks Molly, “What could have happened to you to make you so unable to cope with reality that you have to fill every waking moment with babble” and Molly replies, “Fine, don’t visit me, my son will come.” And then Dr. Cox realizes that her son is dead and he goes back and spends time with her and asks her how her son died. It was so sweet and so real and it makes you wonder why in the world God made us need so much. We need the people we love, and when they are not there we miss them, we miss them so much that life is unbearable and sometimes hardly worth living.

I quoted Zach Braff (JD) at the beginning of this post- “The fastest way to lose something is to want it too much.”

I applaud the writers of Scrubs, they continue to raise the bar for prime time television.