Synopsis:
When the Scrubs finale originally aired, it was a extra long episode. When the time came to put it on DVD, Blu Ray, and eventually up on streaming, it was split into two parts, and some material was removed to make it flow better as a two-parter. A few weeks back I got a hold of a high quality HDTV rip of the broadcasted version, I extracted the extra material from it, (footage, alternate music cues, a couple of clips for the end credits montage), used it for some masking to remove the credits from the first minutes of the blu ray's Part 2 (I used the Blu Ray as the primary source because of the higher quality, so I had to spend quite a lot of time masking, lol), and that's about it!
Intentions:
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Change List:
2:29 - 2:33: missing footage of sheets and cafeteria restored, along with alternate music cue
3:55 - 3:59: a shot of Carla added + the car scene starts a split second earlier.
9:14 - 9:15: slightly extended the shot of JD standing there
9:17 - 9:19: added shot of JD up close
9:52 - 9:54: extended shot of Dan walking
10:28 - 10:31: commercial fade in and out of black restored, required the use of some TV footage
15:58 - 16:00: extra JD shot and line added
16:04 - 16:09: fades to and from black taken from the HDTV rip, TV audio used for alternate music cue
21:09 - 21:15: no missing footage but the "TO BE CONTINUED" text from the two part version had to be removed using TV footage
21:16 - 21:18: extended fade in restored (this is where "part 2" began)
24:31 - 24:32: extra footage of Janitor walking
24:34 - 26:41: this entire portion I superimposed TV footage over the HD streaming footage to remove the on screen text credits from the two part version
39:24 - 39:26: missing blooper footage restored
40:34 - 40:46: ditto
41:04 - 41:15: ditto
41:32 - 41:33 superimposed TV footage to remove some credits
41:33 - 42:12: lower part of the footage all sourced from the HDTV rip, to restore the on screen text credits to their original spot along with a tiny bit of missing footage
38:50 - 42:08: TV audio had to be used in this entire sequence since the song was significantly extended in this version”
Special Thanks:
All credit for the idea goes out to u/PurpleHairedRaccoon, he’s the one who made me aware of the differences between these versions, and I used his reconstruction as a blueprint.