Scrubs has been back on the air for two weeks now (4 episodes) and its doing everything in its power to remain exactly the same. This isn’t a bad thing as it allows their fan’s to enjoy that broken-in slipper feeling a show has after years in syndication. The janitor is wacky, Carla is kind, Turk is goofy, Todd is horny, Elliot is neurotic, Dr. Cox is mean and JD is a borderline pansy. It all just works. The problem is, because of this familiarity, sometimes you can watch a whole episode and have no idea about an actual plot.

Such was the problem with the first of the two episodes this week. The new batch of interns continued to be a theme. I guess their using the new interns as a way of showing the cast’s growth and maturity. In reality it comes off as boring and the new characters are less than compelling. JD chooses an intern with no empathy, Dr Cox chooses one who is brilliant but lazy and Elliot choose one who is conniving and devious.

There really isn’t much to see here and most of the episode was a bust for me except for the addition of the Muppets. Yes, you read that right, the barrel of guest stars for Scrubs has now reached down to the Sesame Street Muppets. I do have to admit that I enjoyed Dr. Cox’s intern Ed (played by Aziz Ansar from Human Giant) and his successful but lazy ways. Aziz is hilarious on Human Giant and I hope he’s given some more screen time as the intern theme lumbers on.

The second of the two episodes was at least slightly more tangible. JD struggles with his heartless intern. Calling her “Jo” in an homage to the Facts of Life, JD tries again and again to show her how to be sympathetic to patients without much success.

The hospital has been without a chief of medicine since Courtney Cox was fired. I was sure they’d find a way to put Bob Kelso back in his grumpy chair, but I was wrong. After much debate, Dr Cox becomes the new chief of medicine.

It seems as though Scrubs is setting up for its ending. Dr Cox replaces Kelso, JD and the crew replace Dr. Cox and the various interns replace JD. Its a pretty satisfying (if unimaginative) way to wrap this series up, I just hope we get some more curve balls to keep things interesting. Plus, we haven’t gotten to a seemingly inevitable meltdown of the Elliot/ JD relationship.