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Is Scrubs truly a one-camera show?
This is actually fairly common in close-up dialogue scenes and interviews. Even if more than one camera is available it may not be possible to get the angle you want without the second camera being in ...
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How was this glass shattering scene shot without getting any injury to the head?
Very simply - don't use real glass.
Movies have long used sugar glass.
Literally, a substance that looks like glass but is just made from sugar & water, heated until it turns into a kind of hard, ...
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How was this glass shattering scene shot without getting any injury to the head?
There are also commercial silicone and urathane (plastic) products that can be molded into clear glass-looking sheets.
Add in a sound effect and you're done.
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In Scrubs, why is Dr Mickhead first called Dr Carlson?
There's no canonical answer to this that I'm aware of but if you don't mind a bit of speculation..
In-Universe - It's established that Dr. Kelso is bad at remembering the names of the hospital staff (...
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How was Dr. Kevin Casey with severe OCD able/allowed to perform surgeries?
Simply put none of the OCD-induced behaviors he displays would have a negative impact on his ability to do surgery (and FWIW the portrayal of Kevin Casey and his condition was one of the most ...
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Do we ever get to know Jake's (Elliot's boyfriend) "wildest fantasy"?
Alright found it.
So Bill Lawrence himself commented on Twitter that they never thought it up and was left for viewers' imaginations.
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What really happened to Ben Sullivan?
Its implied that Ben died halfway through the episode.
After Dr. Cox comes back, he is the only one that Ben interacts with. Plus Ben is no longer wearing his camera, "Ben is never seen without his ...
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What exactly is shown on the pagers carried around in House MD or Scrubs?
I know this is a little late, but here is what is shown in a pager in S1E9 of House.
MSG RECEIVED...
CODE BLUE: JOHN HENRY
GILES - RM. 324
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What really happened to Ben Sullivan?
JD got a code while he was standing in the window to get prescription medicine, that was not the old guy in the wheelchair. It was Ben during him getting his tests, that's when Ben died.
After Dr. ...
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What really happened to Ben Sullivan?
I agree
JD says "20 minutes after you left he went into cardiac arrest" and Dr. Cox becomes emotionally distressed. Later on when Dr. Cox takes all of JD's patients, the former pt. with heart problems ...
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