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I’ve been rewatching Scrubs, and I noticed that every now and then they use a slightly different regular intro, so I made a comparison. Any idea why they did this?
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I’ve been rewatching Scrubs, and I noticed that every now and then they use a slightly different regular intro, so I made a comparison. Any idea why they did this?
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I’m currently on season 4 of a Scrubs rewatch, and I thought I was going crazy because I could swear every now and then the regular intro changed. I don’t mean the long intro from season 2 or the occasional special intros they did, just the normal one. When I noticed it most recently in episode 4×10, I decided to make a comparison video, and it turns out I was right.
The version on top is the most common one used throughout the series. But every now and then they throw in the bottom version with a different order of characters. Both intros are the same length, so it’s not a time saving thing. Any idea why they did this?
I am super-impressed that you noticed that. I have no idea why they would have created alternate versions.
I never noticed this before, then again, I’m no superman
Every so often they would use a longer version of the intro song as well
I remember on the dvd commentary they mentioned that originally the chest X-ray was backwards and they had to correct it. Maybe it has something to do with that? I don’t want to dig out my DVDs to confirm when it changes, but I’d guess season 2. I do think they said they had to reshoot it. With tech advancements or time, they may have been able to flip the X-ray in the original credits years later, so that’s why there’s 2 versions – one had a backwards X-ray and one didn’t? That’s my guess at least.
I thought it was a seasonal change plus a regular and short version.
When I was watching this when, it actually aired on TV. It seems like they would switch the intros purely to make the episode fit the time constraints of the half an hour with commercials window.
Does it correspond to who the main character of the episode is?
Zach and Donald talk about it on their podcast. I don’t remember the exact reason unfortunately
The version on top is strange because it goes Carla pink straight to Carla red. Why would they transition Carla to Carla?
Sarah Chalke wasn’t available for shooting when they made the original intro, so they used a stand-in. They later reshot it to include her.
I remember one episode Heather Graham’s character buds into the intro to flip the x-ray because the original intro had it the wrong way around. And the two intros you got here, do have the x-ray flipped between them.
Why they would switch them randomly I don’t know, but I suspect that was the reason (or at least explanation) for the reshoot of it.
Good spotting, though I’m convinced half the people that have commented their theories didn’t even watch the linked video.
Seems like the message is, “the people may change but the profession continues all the same.” We’re all in it together.
There are three versions actually. The original with original cast but the x-ray is backwards! One with the janitor, they did not include him in the first version because he was never supposed to be a reoccurring character. And the last one is the new version where someone pointed out to them the x-ray with scrubs logo is backwards to they fix it and re shoot with the x-ray flipped!
There was also that time at the beginning of Season 2 when they used a completely different intro 2 or 3 times.
Great candidate for r/mildlyinteresting
I watched it a couple times and paused at many intervals and audibly said “Huh”
Wow I’ve watched this show so many times and I never noticed this lmao.
The intro changes a couple times. I thought it was a time management thing to adjust the episode length.
…. guess its time to watch scrubs again.
The slower version of the theme song was pretty good too.
I always assumed that the idea was to reinforce the hospital environment—you’re doing slight variations of the same thing, most days, and the treatment team of the patient is *usually* a revolving door. One day, the patient might be returning from surgery, another they might be stabilized and going home.
The most stable-seeming of people go from crisis and back, in remarkably little time, and that’s part of why the show is brilliant. It’s accurate!
Started rewatching for the 5th time and im not ashamed of myself at all.
It wasn’t weird or unusual for shows to slightly alter their intros for a new season of TV back in the day. Pretty common.
They talk about this on the rewatch podcast. I don’t remember which episode off the top of my head though. You can look through the wiki I suppose they might have that info.
I’m just happy you’re watching scrubs 🙂
I’d guess subtle changes to make the episode runtime 100% correct, which often has to be oddly precise