When we last left the staff of Sacred Heart, J.D. (Zach Braff) was about to be a father, while Elliot (Sarah Chalke) was about to get married. It finally looks like they are about to have their respective lives all straightened out, that is, until they find themselves alone together and about to kiss. That's how last season ended, and while nothing really comes from this moment, J.D. does soon realize that he doesn't really love his baby's mother, Kim (Elizabeth Banks), but plans to stay with her because of the child, and Elliot decides she can't go through with her marriage to Keith (Travis Schuldt).
So while J.D. does have a kid, the child and Kim only show up in a few episodes this season, and when Elliot breaks up with Keith, besides a few occasions where he shows up to call her names, he too doesn't appear a lot. Thus showing that, in the end, Scrubs tends to fit the "nothing ever changes" principals of sit-coms.
The main theme this season involves J.D. realizing he needs to grow up (a couple of times actually), and trying to be a responsible adult. But that doesn't mean there isn't the normal amount of zany daydreams and comedic moments. In one episode, The Janitor (Neil Flynn) challenges J.D. to learn the names of the workers in the hospital instead of just calling them by their various nicknames. In another, a website that has patients rating their doctors leaves most of the staff unnerved, except for J.D. that is, who is ranked #1. Of course, when Turk (Donald Faison) and Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) pay The Todd (Robert Maschio) to talk to patients as J.D., his rating starts to slip.
Turk and Carla (Jud Reyes) start to think about having a second child, while Chief of Medicine Kelso (Ken Jenkins) gets pushed into retirement by the board because of his age. A lot does seem to happen in this season's eleven episodes, but it is obvious the show was meant to go on a little longer. Oddly enough, the season doesn't have any "His", "Her" or "Their" story episodes where other staff members are followed instead of J.D. Instead, the season ends with "My Princess" (which was obviously intended to be much earlier in the season). In this episode, Cox goes into his son's room to tell him a story, but when he is forced to make it take place in a fantasy land, he has to parallel his medical drama with a monster fight. In this world, Elliot is a maiden looking over the sick woman, J.D. is the town idiot, Carla and Tuck are a two-headed witch, Kelso is the Dark Lord and Cox is, of course, the hero knight.
Scrubs: The Complete Seventh Season comes with deleted scenes, alternate lines (since the actors do a good bit of ad libbing), bloopers and commentary. A couple of interesting features include a making of featurette for "My Princess" and an interview with Jenkins about his time on the show.
Fans of Scrubs will want to pick up this DVD just to keep the collection going, but because of its abrupt ending, it just doesn't feel complete, so people who can might want to wait until the next season airs and gets released so that they can have the whole plotline all at once.
