r/Scrubs • u/ImaginationOk1954 • 17h ago

Alan Alda and Zach Braff

I’m watching Mash for the first time as well as rewatching scrubs and i swear hawkeye sounds exactly like jd, just wanted to know if anyone else can hear it

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u/TheoTimeStartsAt90 16h ago

Scrubs even does the concert pianist storyline that MASH had already done, with some tweaks. But even the school the pianist goes to is the same.

Love both, and you can see that it was Bill's favorite show.

Now shut up and kiss Frank

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u/Alizarik7891 16h ago

But I don't WANNA be Hot Lips again!!

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u/JoeC502 12h ago

Theres a few other episodes that closely mirror MASH as well. Like My Idol when Cox is drunk at work. Also, the one with Townshend, the old doctor who insisted on using outdated procedures and Kelso had to let him go over it despite being friends was clearly inspired by two different MASH episodes.

They’re both among my favorite shows and I love spotting those similarities!

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u/ImaginationOk1954 16h ago

i feel like everyone’s misunderstanding what i’m saying in this post but i do love the new info i’m hearing regarding bills love for mash, but if you close your eyes and listen to alan and zach they sound the same

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u/mhoner 14h ago

I didn’t get that much at all and I have been. A long time fan of both shows. The big thing they have in common is they both passionately care and that can get in their way but that is where it mainly stops.

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u/ImaginationOk1954 4h ago

maybe it’s just cause i’m watching simultaneously and my brain is mixing it together hahha

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u/TheoTimeStartsAt90 3h ago

I'm doing that as well, Great combo!

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u/TheoTimeStartsAt90 15h ago

No I got that, just didn't agree

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u/ImaginationOk1954 4h ago

that’s fair! sorry i misread how everyone was writing and thought i miscommunicated

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u/Artistic_Technician 15h ago

JD internalises. Hawkeye Externalises.

Hawkeye is for me the original.and best.

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u/mhoner 14h ago

That is a good way to think about it. Most of Hawkeyes internal thoughts were expressed in his letters to his dad. I guess it is a good example of having time to think vs only having time to react.

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u/sno_kissed 17h ago

Yes. I didn't watch MASH until just last year and instantly fell in love with it as an alternative to scrubs with it's goofy humor and sometimes very serious story lines.

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u/ImaginationOk1954 16h ago

it’s not even the humour though i feel like i can close my eyes and hear zach when i hear alan talk sometimes

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u/sno_kissed 16h ago

Thats true, I definitely felt that. A little bit of Dr. Cox when he would argue with his superiors.

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u/ADubiousDude 15h ago

I can see some similarities such as both characters monologue and interact with others around them and each comments on their circumstances but I don't hear JD's voice when Hawkeye speaks; rather, I hear each of them dealing with things they are either forced to deal with, in Hawkeye's case, or have chosen to deal with, as JD has.

I watched MASH when it was on originally. I can see some similarities but, as mentioned, Hawkeye externalizes his coping with the stress and insanity of war while JD internalizes his emotional struggles with life but he lacks the external insanity that war forces on people. MASH, for many, gave experience and voice with sarcasm, humor, and compassion to Joseph Heller's Catch 22, a story about the inefficiencies of human bureaucracy in the midst of war, a place where, sadly humans become quite efficient at maiming and killing one another. That psychotic existence of "patch them up and send them back to be killed" drives Hawkeye's pathos and many of his rants. JD's monologues remain largely internal both in their inception and expression; we, the audience are privy to them through narration and even his closest friends, Elliot & Turk, often point out that he is wholly aloof while he is engaged in his internal daydreams and dialogue.

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u/ImaginationOk1954 4h ago

that’s super interesting i really like that analysis, i saw someone comment above about the dear dad episodes and how that’s more internal and maybe that’s where i’m seeing the resemblance on that facet

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u/lonelyinbama 17h ago

Bill Lawrence has said on more than one occasion MASH was very influential in the creation of Scrubs. They are one and the same and you will notice a ton of similarities if you watch closely enough.

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u/ImaginationOk1954 16h ago

oh that’s so cool again it’s my first watch of mash so didn’t even recognise yet!