Marculations

Hi, Mr. Lawrence. You don’t know me, but I’m a huge fan of your work.

More specifically, I’m a huge fan of Scrubs.

You see, for me, television has always been rather useless. The idiotic, repetitive story lines. The canned laughter. The dumbing-down of all material to appeal to the lowest common denominator.

Last month, I discovered Scrubs on DVD.

The DVD purchase was a whim. I was driving around Fort Lauderdale, looking for a hand wash shop to detail my car. I found one. It was packed, completely jam packed, with cars. I decided that I didn’t want to wait. I wandered into the Best Buy next door, hoping that my trip would not be a complete waste. And there sat Scrubs, season one, on DVD.

I figured, what the hell? And the purchase was made.

Sitcoms, to me, are terrible. I don’t know what would possess me to buy an entire season of one on DVD, especially one I’ve never seen before. With great trepidation, I popped disc one into the DVD player.

A week later, I’d seen every episode. And I needed more.

Back to Best Buy I went, and picked up season two. That lasted less than a week. Since then, I’ve snatched up every “quasi-legal” episode of seasons three, four and five that I can find, hoping to get caught up in time to start watching it on NBC when the Olympics are over.

That brings me to the purpose of this appeal.

I would love to work on Scrubs.

Paid or unpaid, useful or merely tolerated, no matter what, I’d love to be able to be a part of the creative team that brings this show together. Now, I’m not sure that Scrubs is still in production, or if it has been renewed for another season. But if production is still active, I beg you to consider the benefit of having a young upstart writer like myself, offering to work in any capacity you see fit for little or no pay. Because, quite frankly, there are few, if any, shows that I’d even consider watching, let alone working for. With any sort of role in the production of this show, I would know that I am contributing to one of the finest examples of what a sitcom should be. And I would be proud.

Think about it.

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