Scrubs Season 7 Post Writers Strike

This post will appeal to practically nobody but I must say this somewhere because it's annoying the crap out of me.

There is no way in hell that a single episode of Scrubs aired since the writers strike in the US ended was written by any of the same people that wrote it in the past.

It's just not possible. Every character is a shell of their previous self. There is a complete lack of complicated dialogue which the show is so well known for. The scenes, and even the episodes don't end on any kind of a punchline. They shoe-horn in plot reminders with no grace whatsoever.

Despite others protests that this show is past it's best (yawn, it's said constantly about every show that lasts beyond 2 seasons), the writing and humour has been pretty consistent up to and including season 7, all the way up to the strike hiatus. Now, something is definitely wrong.

You can almost detect the embarrassment of the better actors as they read as if from cue cards their out of character sitcom by numbers lines. John C McGinley seems to have hardly any lines at all. He used to dominate every scene he was in, which was most of them.

My only hope is that these are some stock scripts written by cafeteria worker scabs during the strike that NBC insisted were used to fill out the season to it's original length, so that hopefully we can get back to the real Scrubs at some point over the next few weeks. At the moment, it's painful.