Few friendships on tv are as lasting and iconic as J.D. and Turk’s “bromance” on “Scrubs.” However Invoice Lawrence wasn’t simply pulling the characters’ (performed by Zach Braff and Donald Faison) dynamic out of skinny air.
Braff recalled on the “Conan O’Brien Wants a Buddy” podcast Friday that the sequence creator would actually take “insane” tales from the actors’ actual relationship and put them into the present.
“We actually met on the desk learn, and it was love at first sight,” Braff instructed host Conan O’Brien. “We turned these characters. After which it fed itself, as a result of Invoice can be like, ‘What did you guys do that weekend?’ And we’d inform him some insane story, after which every week later, there can be a model of it within the script for the characters.”
Braff went on “Conan O’Brien Wants A Buddy” on Friday, speaking to the previous late-night host about his time on the long-running comedy sequence. On the episode, O’Brien known as the union of Braff and Faison one in all “divine intervention,” and a “present that retains giving” for the comedy sequence.
“You may see it on the present that you simply guys actually clicked,” O’Brien stated. “I hadn’t seen two younger males earlier than on a present [where] you’re always hugging one another and telling one another, ‘I like you.’ It’s so candy.”
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“Scrubs” ran from 2001 to 2008 on NBC earlier than switching to ABC by 2010. The hospital-set sitcom was one of many first sequence with Lawrence credited as a creator, preceded solely by “Spin Metropolis.” He has since had an completed profession, with sequence like “Ted Lasso” and “Shrinking” receiving essential, viewers and awards acclaim.
One of many signature options of “Scrubs” was the friendship between Turk and J.D., which has lasted gone the present’s finale. Braff and Faison have continued their real-life friendship, showing collectively in commercials and launching a 2020 podcast titled “Pretend Docs, Actual Buddies.”
In July of 2025, a “Scrubs” revival received a straight-to-series order from ABC, scheduled for the 2025-2026 TV season. Alongside EP Lawrence and unique sequence co-star Sarah Chalke, each halves of the Braff/Faison bromance are slated to return.
“I believe it was actually, I believe he was additionally doing a commentary on masculinity himself. And I believe Invoice was making an attempt to indicate, you already know, it turned the time period ‘bromance,’ proper? However to indicate two greatest pals who love one another a lot. They occur to be straight, however in all different methods, they’re in love,” Braff stated of J.D. and Turk. “They love one another, they usually simply, all they ever wish to do is spend time with one another. And, um, so I believe Invoice, I believe that’s what was so nice concerning the characters that Invoice created. And naturally Donald and I actually had been that.”
“Properly, you may inform, like, watching the primary season, I used to be like, ‘Oh, they’re additionally screwing round, appearing like idiots off-camera, and possibly annoying individuals’” O’Brien joked.
