There are two prominent hospital television shows that are on primetime television. These, of course, would be Scrubs and Grey's Anatomy. I refuse to count that awful show on ABC and ER has just gotten very weird in the last couple of years. Scrubs and Grey's have many differences. The main difference is that Scrubs is a great television show while Grey's Anatomy is one of the worst shows I have ever seen. There are several reasons why Scrubs is better than Grey's Anatomy. Here are just a few of those reasons.
First Reason Why Scrubs Is Better Than Grey's Anatomy: Scrubs is funny on purpose.
Whether it is Dr. Cox degrading J.D. or just J.D.'s imagination running wild again, Scrubs has laugh-out-loud humor. That is the intention of the show. When I laugh at Grey's Anatomy it is because either the storyline or acting is so poor that one cannot help but snicker. I'll take the one that makes me laugh for entertainment's sake.
Second Reason Why Scrubs Is Better Than Grey's Anatomy: Scrubs is an original television show.
A show based in a hospital that has the main character narrating? I can't imagine where Grey's got the idea for that. If blatantly ripping off Scrubs wasn't bad enough Grey's has even gone into the vault and stolen from old-school episodes of ER. A bomb strapped to a patient? I remember that ER episode. Dr. Benton had to rush out of the trauma room. It was great television. One of the main characters almost dies? I remember Dr. Carter's brush with mortality. I think he became a drug addict because of it. At least Grey's steals good ideas. The show just implements these ideas very poorly.