Zach Braff Says the Scrubs Cast Was ‘Exhausted’ and ‘Starting to Repeat Jokes’ by the Final Season: ‘Just Kind of Fried’

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1. > “I miss laughing every day. Belly laughing every day was – that was the job. And when that goes away, by the time nine years were over, we were sort of all exhausted by it,” Braff, 49, said on the Inside of You with Michael Rosenbaum podcast on August 13.

   > “We were starting to repeat jokes. Everyone’s pretty fried,” he recalled of the role, which earned him three Golden Globe nominations and an Emmy nod. “We would do insane hours that people don’t even do anymore. We didn’t really have much of a life outside of it. So we were just kind of fried.”

2. Which final season?

3. Maybe this is the one benefit of two year development cycles that shows all seem to be doing these days.

4. Oh so they were like residents

5. That is fair! GOT actors are complaining about burn out while only having to do 5 minutes per episode. But scrubs each major character was doing double or triple that.

6. They literally had an episode that was about repeating themselves, down to the two coins that equal 30 cents, but one of them isn’t a nickel.

7. Loved that show.

8. Where’s the guy from the Kit Harrington thread complaining they’re not professional?