​Zach Braff Reads A ‘Scrubs’ Monologue Written Entirely By A Robot And It’s Weird But Accurate

Remember Scrubs? Of course you do. There was a time during the first decade of this millennium when you couldn't turn on a television without seeing an episode of the sitcom set in a fictional teaching hospital.

Credit: Zach Braff

Unfortunately for fans of the show, the main characters couldn't spend all of their careers being medical students, and the passage of time meant that viewers' favourite characters were replaced by a new crop that was nowhere near as likeable.

The show was cancelled in 2010 after the cast replacement sent the show into freefall, and despite calls for a reboot with the old cast, nothing materialised, until now.

As part of a festive treat for fans of the show, Zach Braff - who played Dr John 'J.D.' Dorian - revived his character for one final monologue.

Anyone who has seen the show will remember that every single episode featured a speech at the end from J.D. in which he summed up the valuable lesson that we were all supposed to have learnt - as if they hadn't spent the previous 20 minutes slapping you across the face with it.

This time, however, the dialogue has been written by a bot, as seems to be the fashion of late.

You may have seen the Harry Potter chapter written by a bot, or the songs that have been written in the style of The Beatles by artificial intelligence.

After feeding every episode of Scrubs into a computer, it actually managed to capture the show pretty well.

Scrubs JD and Turk

Credit: Scrubs

He begins: "The truth is, every patient suffers from Dementia, I'm not gonna change all of that, after all - the right thing is not always the best thing to do, you'd know that if you ever worked in a hospital."

So far so normal, but then things take an odd turn:

"What is a hospital? A hospital is a lot like a high school - the most amazing man is dying, and you are the only one who wants to steal stuff from his dad.

"Being in a hospital is a lot like being in a sorority, you have greasers and surgeons and even though it sucks about Dr Tapioca, I'm not even that sad."

The robot's stage directions then read:

"He exits, smugly echoing" - which, when you think about it, makes perfect sense.

Perhaps if they had let the whole show be written by robots it wouldn't have been cancelled.

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Chris Ogden

Chris Ogden is a journalist at LADbible. He graduated from the University of East Anglia with degrees in English Literature and Creative Writing before completing his NCTJ Diploma in Multimedia Journalism. Chris has previously written for the independent culture magazine The Skinny, among other publications.

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