So, I just don't get it. NBC didn't promo the show heavily, so they couldn't have been expecting huge viewership levels, but they aired as the season finale what they must have perceived as a stronger episode out of order, upsetting the only people watching the show. What sense does that make?
I'm not heavily invested enough in the show's continuity to have been distressed by the out of order airing, I just don't understand the logic behind it. And that I find supremely frustrating.
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Article comments
1 - Shannon Shark
It was awful. They never respected the show, but showing the "finale" out if sequence was unforgivable.
2 - ixintro
The episode was aired out of order, it was actually the 9th episode made (Kelso retired in episode 10) so that just shows how much NBC cares. >:(
3 - tiptopcondition
This episode was terrible. Unfortunately Scrubs is being dragged out far too long just for the sake of it. They could, and should have wrapped it up at the end of season 6 or at least at the end of this current Seventh. I think it is actually episode 9. The kelso coming back out of the blue thing really annoyed me, especially as a finale. Thats completely the opposite point to having a finale. A finale is meant to be the final one, in lue of the coming season, not the one before the penultimate episode. Thats just terrible, lazy and incompetent. Hopefully season 8 will be a short season with the better quality script of the early seasons. Once they wrap up the loose ends which now is only the story between JD & Elliott it can finish with what littel dignity is has left.
4 - Neva Umind
Relax kids, the show is not over... only on NBC.
If you didn't already know this, ABC picked up the rights to the show and will have new episodes this fall. Playing the episode up as a "series" finale was just a little misdirection on the part of NBC