Once again, Scrubs sets us up with another broken-cast episode. Elliot and Turk are working the night shift with the new interns. Thus, JD and Carla are missing from the episode altogether. This wouldn’t be much of a problem if it wasn’t for the fact that Scrubs has been pulling this for weeks. Scrubs has been consistently putting the new interns, rather than the traditional cast, in the forefront. So far, its been pretty lame. This week wasn’t much of an improvement.

Its a full moon night at the hospital and the interns have finally begun to get their footing. Unfortunately, this also means they’re getting cocky and are more prone to screw up.

Elliot has a woman who she believes has anorexia but actually is HIV positive. Intern Katie has a unstable homeless person who has to be restrained from chewing his bandages. Intern Sunny has to convince a woman to fart in order to discharge her. Turk’s new surgical intern is egotistical to the point of hubris and almost collapses a patient’s lung during a procedure. The various intern plots revolve around Elliot and Turk discussing their place in the hospital and their careers.

Eventually most of the patient’s problems are handled and we do get some solid acting out of the HIV positive patient. The interns weren’t bad, but in reality, this is not the Scrubs we were promised. It’s Scrubs version two, and like Jaws 2, it just isn’t what it should be.