No Code Blue for 'Scrubs' Yet

So maybe JD's good-bye to Sacred Heart in last season's finale was a little premature.

ABC refused to market the eighth season finale as a series finale, but - with all the old time cast members making cameos, and that extended musical montage that gave us all some closure to the eight-year-long question of whether JD and Elliot would live happily ever after - it sure felt like one.

It has been officially announced by ABC that Scrubs will be returning for a ninth season, although exactly when the new episodes will air, or how many of them there will be, is still unknown.

Zack Braff has confirmed that he will be back for the first six episodes of the new season (he must be taking notes from Brett Favre, because this is the third time Braff has said this is his last season with the show), and seems to indicate that Bill Lawrence will still be working on the show as well, despite the fact that he said multiple times that he was finished after Season Eight.

Apparently Sarah Chalke will be back for at least a few episodes as well. Also, Turk, Dr. Cox, and the Janitor will return as regulars, but I'm interested how they are going to have Turk on the show without Carla.

Most interesting/odd....the show is going to be set in a medical school (instead of at Sacred Heart??), and Turk and Dr. Cox will be professors, while Denise ("Jo" the intern from last season) will be the new chief resident.

So maybe there's going to be some Lost-style time travel going on, because I don't see any other way you can promote an intern to chief resident in the span of one summer. Only time will tell how much of this is true, but it kind of feels like they are grasping a little bit here. I'm afraid that while Scrubs might still be alive, a full recovery is unlikely.

Also, I can't wait for the episode where they reveal Elliot has Dissociative Identity Disorder and has been leading a double life as Dr. Elliot Reed and Dr. Stella Zinman.