Fake Doctors, Real Friends: 10 Things We Learned About Scrubs From Episode One
4. The Show Launched Joshua Radin's Career
Next to the goofy gags, hilarious days dreams, and devastating emotional gut punches, the music of Scrubs is one of the most important aspects. It seemed that no matter what was going on at Sacred Heart hospital, there was a song for it.
One of the greatest examples of this is the episode 'My Screw-Up'. After seeing Brendan Frasier's character Ben interact with no one but Dr Cox all episode, it is revealed that he has been a figment of Perry's imagination, having lost his battle with Leukemia.
The song that plays during the touching funeral scene is Winter by Joshua Radin, who you would be forgiven for thinking was a leading singer/songwriter in the industry. The fact is that when this song was made, Radin was living on Zach Braff's couch.
Like he did with Lazlo Bane, Braff pushed the showrunners to utilise his friend's music, and Radin's career took off from there. He had people contact him for any other songs he had, but since Winter was the first and only one he had wrote at the time, he scrambled to put an album together and has been a success ever since.