Although it’s exciting to hear about Bill Lawrence’s plans for the Scrubs revival, the showrunner also risks repeating a very big mistake.

The Scrubs revival can only really end one way, and when it does, the sitcom already has a contingency in place for when JD settles into his new role.

Scrubs’ seemingly imminent revival could bring back any number of guest stars, but one in particular would result in a very different experience.

Sitcom tropes are a huge part of what makes the genre so enticing, and Scrubs managed to put a new spin on one of the category’s biggest hallmarks.

Scrubs’ revival will make a little less sense if one side character from the original run doesn’t return, even if their presence was quite brief.

Scrubs has tried to end a total of three times, but the various finales happened for different reasons and weren’t all of the same level of quality.

A Scrubs comeback would give the medical sitcom a brilliant opportunity to rectify a mistake made regarding a main character’s downhill arc.

Scrubs: Med School may have felt like a spinoff, but it wasn’t, and another sanctioned entry into the Scrubs franchise predicted season 9’s failure.