Scrubs' Forgotten Spinoff Revealed This Intern's Fate After They Were Fired In Season 8

Scrubs season 9 is often viewed as a spinoff despite never being marketed as such, but the sitcom actually had a separate project in 2009, and it provides some additional context to certain pieces of lore – including what happened to one of Scrubs season 8’s new characters in the wake of their dismissal. It’s somewhat of an unexpected reveal given the nature of their departure, but that only makes it even more interesting.

With the Scrubs revival confirmed, the show’s devoted fan base can finally start to get excited about the prospect of new episodes. Thankfully, the wait could be made a little more bearable by watching a short-lived web series that was released alongside Scrubs season 8. It took a very different approach to the other nine seasons of Scrubs, but it’s still recognizably part of the same universe and even featured cameos from the main show – including a relatively heavy presence from Neil Flynn’s Janitor. However, it’s another character’s brief role that answers a big question.

Scrubs: Interns Reveals Aziz Ansari’s Ed Got A Job At Another Hospital After Dr. Cox Fired Him

Ed sends an unapologetic video message in the Scrubs web series

Scrubs: Interns consisted of 12 mockumentary-style episodes. They were released weekly to the ABC website alongside Scrubs season 8, but they were then made available on the season 8 DVD box set. The show revolved around the new crop of interns introduced for season 8, with the notably reduced presence of Aziz Ansari’s Dr. Ed Dhandapani. When Ansari snagged a big role in the Parks & Recreation cast, Ed was written out of the show when Dr. Cox (John C. McGinley) fired him, so it would have been understandable if he never showed up again – but he did.

All 12 episodes of Scrubs: Interns can be found on producer Jesse Schiller’s Vimeo channel.

In Scrubs: Interns episode 10, “Our Final Advice,” Ed can be seen in a video message sent in by Ansari’s character. His attitude in the main show made it seem as though he wouldn’t have thrived in any medical setting, but Interns proves he did find a job at another hospital. However, he doesn’t appear in the least bit regretful about his lack of effort at Sacred Heart. So, it is possible that he was dismissed from his next place of employment – although this is never confirmed or denied.

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Interns built the world of Scrubs in ways other than revealing what happened to Ed. For instance, the web series reveals that Sam Lloyd’s Ted Buckland delivers the same speech to each year’s interns in his capacity as the hospital’s lawyer. Although the spinoff shows him giving the same lecture word-for-word as in the Scrubs pilot, Ted appears to have become even more nervous and less authoritative during the years that pass between the two scenes. Scrubs: Interns also reveals that Sonal Shah’s Dr. Sonja (Sunny) Dey was briefly a member of the Janitor’s Brain Trust.

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During her tenure as part of the Brain Trust, Sunny’s camera becomes pivotal in paying off a gag from Scrubs season 7. The Janitor and Ted star in a self-produced sitcom called Legal Custodians – which debuted in a JD fantasy in season 7. It’s something of a meta moment, as the idea only ever really manifested in the mind of Zach Braff’s Dr. John “JD” Dorian, but it’s a fun set of scenes. There are a few other smaller Scrubs reveals in Interns, but the fact that Ed continued to work in medicine is perhaps the most surprising.

Source: Vimeo