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OK, I'm deeply disturbed by something in Scrubs - Season 4, Episode 16. "My Quarantine."
Halfway through the episode, the Janitor makes a $5 wager with Chief Medical Officer Doctor Robert Kelso. The wager is whether or not the Janitor can repeat a feat of astounding accuracy (catapulting a cotton ball into a distant empty jar, which the Janitor had already done once successfully). Upon failing to repeat the performance, the Janitor says "double or nothing" and Chief Medical Officer Doctor Robert Kelso assents.
Some time later, another character - The Todd - tells Chief Medical Officer Doctor Robert Kelso that he is "up $600." Later, the Janitor makes a non-sequitur, asking others to give him $700. Later still, the Janitor states to Chief Medical Officer Doctor Robert Kelso that he does not have $700.
Here is the conundrum: Based on the assumption that the Janitor has failed each offscreen attempt at replicating his original feat of accuracy, how could he possibly arrive at either $600 or $700 in debt, considering the terms of the repeated wager was "double or nothing"? Failing the $5 wager, the next would be $10. Then $20. Then $40. Then $80. Then $160. Then $320. Then $640. Then $1,280. At no point can the Janitor's debt ever hit an even $600. Additionally, after failing the $600 bet as the episode implies, the next wager would have been for $1,200 even in that mathematically flawed scenario.
So, what is meant by all this? This question has troubled me for decades. Literal decades.
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The Janitor has $580 on him.
That movie was fucking horrible with zero redeeming qualities. Good Lord. It made me retroactively like Independence Day less. What were you thinking Roland Emmerich!
I really miss the stunt/fight coordinators from Netflix Daredevil
Two thumbs up, for real.
For me it was is this Jack guy the final form of Paul F. Tompkins.
Damn. That would've been good casting.
The solution is very simple
Comedy writers are bad at math
Got into season 3 last night and I would both kill and die for Paul Chowdhry
if I were that hot I'd be the dumbest and most vacuous person you've ever met, instead of just the dumbest
It's not a comedy, at least not intentionally, but this made me think of some of the writing for La Brea that was driving me crazy.
The basic conceit of the show is that a massive sinkhole swallows everything around the La Brea tar pits in LA. And everything that falls through that sinkhole goes through a weird glowing green light thousands of feet down and end up in surprisingly good shape in a strange place, leading to 30 or so people trying to figure out what happened, where they are, how to survive and all that fun stuff. Significantly more mystery and shenanigans get layered on top of that, and it ends up being like Lost if it was written by the writers room for Zoo.
Among the people who fall through you have a mom and her high school aged son, a surgeon who used to be a Navy Seal and his pre-med college aged daughter, a psychiatrist, a cop, a stoner grad student who did research at the tar pits and a bunch of others. Also a city bus, and ambulance, parts of some buildings, and a bunch of cars that don't work including one with a trunk full of heroin with an unknown owner. Drama! Now, the writers seem to have realized that maybe a Navy Seal surgeon is too much of a superman for this group so they immediately sideline him by having him fall of a cliff while being chased by a sabertooth tiger (mystery and shenanigans!), hurting his back pretty badly. When the others find him and bring him back to camp he tells them he needs a procedure done on his lower back to avoid being paralyzed permanently.
And he immediately declares that his daughter, the pre-med college student, is the only person qualified to perform the procedure. I think this is about when we find out that she actually ditched the pre-med track last semester but never told her dad (more drama!), but that's not the part that kills me. What kills me is that they have a psychiatrist there. Who would have done all of the same 4 years of med school that any other doctor has done, and actually spent time in operating rooms and assisting with procedures and all of the other helpful things that a pre-med would have no exposure to at all. But as far as the show is concerned he's just a therapist, and pre-med girl is the only person besides superman with any medical training and in future episodes continues to be the back-up doctor (as they continue to realize that Seal surgeon is too much and find more ways to sideline him).
Anyway, this show is deeply stupid with some really frustrating writing at times and I think I kind of love it.
I had exactly the same thought reading the summary.
Other people watching, please catch up. This twist is so fucking dumb/amazing. It's one of the few I've run into that both makes perfect sense and is stupid as fuck.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4YhsooE5xY
I am told that the show started out as a bit, as an almost sarcastic riff on post-Lost broadcast genre, and then the bit sort of got away from them as people kept taking it seriously and giving them money
That headline has big 'it's not for you' energy. Been a while.
It's not supposed to be good
/ignores fact that the anime js classic because it is very good
And after reading the summation basically is some sort of nihilistic "everything sucks why try " which is the sort of the vibe that I get from modern vice articles
That show gets my wife screaming-at-the-tv mad.
Oh so its a Resident evil game?
Perhaps I am just built different, but I would instead make shows that ARE intended to be good...
The balloon popping that clearly went much more poorly than anticipated was so fucking funny.