Shark Bytes

I had the same experience. i started
watching the show in syndication and i thought it was excellent, one of the funniest shows on tv until the sixth season. Frankly, it sucked. In my opinion it jumped the shark when Laverne was killed off and the season finale in May was the most horrible hour of television i've seen in a long while. I think it should have ended last season but i'm hoping beyond hope that JD and Elliott get together. That is the only reason why i still pay attention. But if my wish comes true then the show should come to an end.

Oh, and also the introduction of the hospital coffee shop. I think that may be the defining moment of jumping for me.

I think Scrubs went from strength-to-strength over the course of the first 5 seasons. Season 5 is, for me, the pinnacle of the show; my favourite season by a long way.

Season 6 was, by comparison, dreadful. The decline in quality was astonishing. I don't know what happened to the writers or to the show, but from episode 1 (of season 6) onwards it was poor viewing. The Kim storyline was especially bad.

I haven't seen any of season 7 or 8 yet. I hope they can pick back up to the heady heights of the early years...

i agree with everyone. The baby hype is just too much. But, I honestly believe that Scrubs jumped the shark once Turk and Carla got married. After that it was all about JD being lonely, Elliot desperately wanting a husband and a baby, and everyone else just being too whiny and emotional. What happened to the fun, loving, comical doctors we fell in love with? I know they had to grow up, but that doesn't mean they have to be completely serious.

What happened? Scrubs went from being in my top three favorite sitcoms to being a show I don't even care if I miss anymore over the course of a single season. Man, the decline in quality was drastic.

Somewhere around season 3-4-ish, Carla changes. She used to be strong and self-respecting, but she became whiny, bitchy, and just plain annoying.

This show jumped after season 1. It used to be a good show. Then it just got goofy, characters exaggerated, gags, etc. Haven't watched since early season 2.

I think this has to the first example of a series jumping because an actor didn't leave the show. All the talk of Zack Braff leaving meant they started looking to the future but then 'The Last Kiss' bombed, he stayed, and the show has been terrible since.

I would say around after Season 2, don't get me wrong there are occassionally funny bits but I think it jumped when it stopped being about JD, and everyone started narrating.

It was a lovely show once upon a time, but i can't help but agree with the "baby crazy" option.

Somewhere along the line this stopped being funny and became a long line of neverending pregnancies. Whether it's Turk & Carla, Perry & Jordan or JD & Kim, there's always someone at sometime talking about having another baby, even if they haven't recovered from the last one.

I'd hoped they would put it out of it's misery this year with a fitting conclusion, but it appears as though we're in for yet another year of babymaking. God help us if it's the Janitor this time.

I Wanna know why JD had to move out of his apartment when Turk and Carla got married. I thought that it was JD's apartment anyway coz in the very 1st epiosde he ask Turk to move in with him.

It was a slow jump but somewhere around season 5. they had been jerked around on the NBC schedule so much that they took whatever was interesting or unusual about the show (the fantasy sequences, JD's "cute" voice, Elliot's insecurity, etc.) and just turned it up to 11. The only consistent player over the course of the show has been Neil Flynn (Janitor)

Too bad it was a great show for almost 5 years.

I think it has jumped awhile ago. Now they are moving the show to ABC from NBC. I can only imagine how ridiculous it is going to be. It should have ended several seasons ago.

jumped when they took an entire season and made it into every other crappy sitcom (the 5th). Thankfully they got it somewhat back on track.

I never watched Scrubs on NBC, but I've watched every single episode about three or four times, each, on syndication, and season 7 off bittorrent. You know what? People saying it jumped during season 7, or season 6, or whenever, are wrong. The shows has always has its good moments (which is why I've watched every episode in syndication/bittorrent) but it was NEVER that great. Maybe it's because I've watched the show too much, but I am really really sick and tired of every single Scrubs episode having something serious followed by a little moral at the end. And that's happened since the first season! Again, maybe I've just watch it too much, but the goofy humor of the show was always tainted by the seriousness in the middle and morals at the end of the episode, in a way it makes every episode feel like A Very Special Episode. The show was at its BEST during the last couple seasons, when the Air Band episode took place, and then the Janitor got The Todd, Ted, Doug and the delivery guy to hang around him as his braintrust. It got more cartoony, but that's exactly what the show needed.